Cancer, Energy and Security Nanotechnology STEM Graduate Education Training Program
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The Energy, Security, and Cancer Nanotechnology STEM Graduate Education Training Program is an example of the type of interdisciplinary experience WVNano is working to create. This graduate training program in Nanotechnology that spans and fosters collaborative research between the basic, engineering and clinical research faculty in conjunction with WVNano. The goals of this program are:
1. to enhance graduate education and training so as to position graduate student trainees to pursue careers in cancer, nanobiotechnology, energy, and security related research, emphasizing the development and use of nanoscale devices
2. to foster basic and translational research training opportunities that focus upon nanobiotechnology research for cancer, energy, or security
3. to create a programmatic bridge between science and education, targeting the way students and faculty think by requiring them to work in a interdisciplinary environment and manage the boundaries between them
4. to improve WVU’s competitiveness to obtain funding in the nanobiosciences, energy, or security. Our program is built on prior experience in developing a interdisciplinary graduate education and training program in nanobioscience at the intersection of cancer and materials science research
The training program provides 11 full and 8 partial stipends to graduate students who participate in collaborative research projects between the basic, engineering and biosciences. Students in the program represent the departments of Chemistry, Physics, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, Basic Pharmaceutical Sciences, Immunology and Toxicology, and Physiology. These departments span all three WVU campuses:
WVU Eberly College of Arts and Science
WVU College of Engineering and Mineral Resources
WVU Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center
This program positions graduate student trainees to pursue a career in cancer research or nanobiotechnology, emphasizing the development and use of nanoscale devices to detect and treat cancer.
Contact Information for Program:
Peter Gannett
pgannett@hsc.wvu.edu
Office: 304-293-1480
WVNano Office: 304-293-8281 WVNano Fax: 304-293-6213
886 Chestnut Ridge Road
P.O. Box 6223
Morgantown, WV 26506-6223
