Impact/Purpose:

EPA is co-funding the CEIN Centers through NSF. NSF Funding: $14,000,000 EPA Funding: $1,000,000

The Center for Environmental Implications of NanoTechnology (CEINT) is dedicated to elucidating the relationship between a vast array of nanomaterials — from natural, to manufactured, to those produced incidentally by human activities — and their potential environmental exposure, biological effects, and ecological consequences.

Headquartered at Duke University, CEINT is a collaboration between Duke, Carnegie Mellon University, Howard University, and Virginia Tech and investigators from the University of Kentucky and Standford University. CEINT academic collaborations in the US also include on-going activities coordinated with faculty at Clemson, North Carolina State, Rice, and Purdue universities.

Created in 2008 with funding from the National Science Foundation and the US Environmental Protection Agency, the CEINT performs fundamental research on the behavior of nano-scale materials in ecosystems that will provide guidance in assessing existing and future concerns surrounding the environmental implications of nanomaterials.

Description:

In the future CEIN will collaborate with the NC Museum of Life and Science (NCMLS) in an educational effort spanning G8-12 to adults. Our partnership will leverage NCMLS’s activities in the Nanoscale Informal Science Education Network (NISE Net) program and create materials on environmental implications of nanotechnology.

Record Details:

Record Type:PROJECT( ABSTRACT )

Start Date:09/01/2008

Completion Date:09/01/2013

Record ID: 200645

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Role :OWNER

Organization Name :CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY

Organization Name :CEINT

Mailing Address :103 Allen Bldg

Citation :Durham

State :NC

Zip Code :27708



Role :OWNER

Organization Name :VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY

Organization Name :CEINT

Mailing Address :103 Allen Bldg

Citation :Durham

State :NC

Zip Code :27708



Role :OWNER

Organization Name :UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY

Organization Name :CEINT

Mailing Address :103 Allen Bldg

Citation :Durham

State :NC

Zip Code :27708



Role :OWNER

Organization Name :STANFORD UNIVERSITY

Organization Name :CEINT

Mailing Address :103 Allen Bldg

Citation :Durham

State :NC

Zip Code :27708



Role :OWNER

Organization Name :RICE UNIVERSITY

Organization Name :CEINT

Mailing Address :103 Allen Bldg

Citation :Durham

State :NC

Zip Code :27708



Role :OWNER

Organization Name :PURDUE UNIVERSITY - MAIN CAMPUS

Organization Name :CEINT

Mailing Address :103 Allen Bldg

Citation :Durham

State :NC

Zip Code :27708



Role :OWNER

Organization Name :NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY

Organization Name :CEINT

Mailing Address :103 Allen Bldg

Citation :Durham

State :NC

Zip Code :27708



Role :OWNER

Organization Name :HOWARD UNIVERSITY

Organization Name :CEINT

Mailing Address :103 Allen Bldg

Citation :Durham

State :NC

Zip Code :27708



Role :OWNER

Organization Name :DUKE UNIVERSITY

Organization Name :CEINT

Mailing Address :103 Allen Bldg

Citation :Durham

State :NC

Zip Code :27708



Role :OWNER

Organization Name :CLEMSON UNIVERSITY

Organization Name :CEINT

Mailing Address :103 Allen Bldg

Citation :Durham

State :NC

Zip Code :27708

Project Information:

Approach :

The convergence of scientific disciplines at the quantum and molecular scales creates fertile terrain for a new model of interdisciplinary education. Nowhere is such a model more appropriate than in the environmental arena where discovery and problem-solving draw on principles from multiple disciplines including biology, chemistry, physics, and information science.

CEINT research is organized as team-based, interdisciplinary efforts that expand the academic community  of participating students to include the faculty, facilities, and student colleagues at all the participating universities.

Key elements of our educational program for university students include:

• Curricular development that includes discovery-based laboratory activities for undergraduates, new common core courses for scientists and engineers based on the convergent interdisciplinarity that nanoscience inspires, and a graduate level textbook;
• A CEINT-sponsored seminar series
• REU experiences for undergraduates
• International experiences and service learning opportunities through the Center’s research partners, such as the NSF-funded PIRE Partnership for Education and Research in Membrane Nanotechnologies (PERMEANT), Engineers Without Borders, and Engineering World Health;
• CEIN annual technical workshop and conference to be organized with our sister center UC CEIN based at UCLA.
• Undergraduate Research Assistantships/Fellowships that encourage students to participate in interdisciplinary research and motivate them to pursue advanced degrees and careers in research;
• Graduate Fellowships for MS and PhD candidates will facilitate participation in multidisciplinary, multi-institutional research teams. Graduate Fellows will also be expected to complete an industrial internship, service learning project, or external laboratory rotation with collaborating faculty, interna
  
  Cost :$1,000,000.00
  
  Research Component :Nanotechnology
  
  

  Project IDs:

  ID Code :R830093
  
  Project type :Center