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| Professor Dave Johnson and Stacey Standridge ’05 examine a vacuum chamber used to create nanocomposite materials. Johnson is the co-principal investigator on an NSF grant aimed at facilitating the transition from student to scientist. |
The University of Oregon has received a five-year, $3.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation to unite Oregon universities with international technology companies. The grant will fund graduate studies in materials sciences to accelerate the transition from student to scientist by building on the University of Oregon Materials Science Institute’s model internship program. This program is responsible for putting the university among the top-ten institutions nationwide for the number of master’s degrees awarded in chemistry.
This grant is funded by the foundation’s Graduate Education Research and Traineeship Program and will increase the number of participating-doctoral students and will extend the internship program to doctoral candidates at Oregon State University and Portland State University.
The new program makes the Oregon universities even stronger by further uniting academia and industry, said David Johnson, chemistry professor at the University of Oregon and the grant’s co-principal investigator.
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