Teacher requirements: Secondary School science teachersUC San
Diego(PEER)
Contact: peer@ucsd.edu
Research Area: Earthquake Engineering
Teacher Requirements: The program is targeted to primary and
secondary school teachers.
Colorado
University
of Colorado (MRSEC)
Contact: Christine Morrow
Research Areas: Chemistry, chemical engineering and physics.
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District of Columbia
Smithsonian
National Museum of Natural History
Contact: Mary Sangrey
Research Areas: Paleobiology, Molecular Systematics, Entomology
and Marine Biology.
Teacher Requirements: Applicants must be currently employed middle
school or high school teachers returning next year to a classroom setting
as a full-time teacher.
Florida
Florida
State University (National High Magnetic Field Laboratory)
Contact: Pat Dixon
University
of South Florida
Contact: Carlos A. Smith
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Georgia
Georgia
Institute of Technology
Contact: Naresh
Thadhani
Research Areas: Structure Property Correlations Across Nano-to-Micro
Length Scales
Teacher Requirements: Must be a high school teacher from an Atlanta
area school.
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Hawaii
University
of Hawaii (Institute for Astronomy)
Contact: Jim Heasley
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Idaho
University of Idaho
Contact: Arie
Bialostocki
Illinois
Northwestern
University (MRSEC)
Contact: Klara
Mueggenberg
Research Area: Materials science, polymers, nanoscience,
photonics, biomaterials, ceramics, semiconductors. Graduate credit is
available through partnership with National-Louis University.
Teacher Requirements: To be eligible for this program you must
be employed as high school, middle school, or college teacher; have
a bachelors degree in physical sciences, materials science, engineering,
chemistry, mathematics; and be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident.
Northwestern
University (NSEC)
Contact: Denise Dooley
Research Area: Nanotechnology.
Teacher Requirements: To be eligible for this program you must
be a full-time high school science teacher and a U.S. citizen or permanent
resident.
Indiana
Ball State University (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy)
Contact: Ronald
Cosby
Research Areas: The available research projects will be in nanoscience,
observational astronomy, nuclear physics/nuclear astrophysics, and particle
physics.
Notre Dame University (RET@ND)
Contact: Randal
Ruchti, Beth Marchant
Research Areas: Particle Physics, Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics.
Teacher Requirements: Must be high school science teacher, with exceptions
for outstanding middle school teachers.
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Kansas
Kansas
State University
Contact: Mitchell
Neilsen
Research Area: Real-time embedded systems.
Teacher Requirements: Upper elementary and/or middle school teachers
from both urban and rural schools in Kansas or adjacent metropolitan
areas.
University
of Kansas (Chemistry)
Contact: Cynthia Larive
Research Areas: The teachers will be involved in research projects,
with emphasis on those that are interdisciplinary (e.g., biological
- or environmental - chemistry) and generally recognized as both relevant
and important to society.
Teacher Requirements: Secondary chemistry teachers.
Maryland
Johns
Hopkins University (MRSEC)
Contact: Robert C. Cammarata
Teacher Requirements: For high school teachers.
Massachusetts
Amherst University
Contact: Thomas
Russel
Harvard
University
(MRSEC)
Contact: Robert Graham
Teacher Requirements: Must be local area K-12 teacher.
Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (Haystack Observatory)
Contact: Madeleine
Needles
Research Areas: Radio Astronomy, Space Physics
Teacher Requirements: Must be a local high school science teacher
(Westford, MA).
Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (MRET)
Contact: Susan Rosevear
Research Area: Materials research.
Teacher Requirements: For middle, junior high, and high school
science teachers.
Northeastern
University (RET @ CERN)
Contact: Artemis Egloff
Research Areas: Teachers will work at the European Laboratory for
Particle Physics (CERN) located near Geneva, Switzerland.
Teacher Requirements: Program is for physics teachers.
Northeastern
University (CenSISS)
Contact: Claire Duggan
University
of Massachusetts, Amherst (MRSEC)
Contact: Gregory M.
Dabkowski
Research Areas: Materials Science
Teacher Requirements: Middle and high school teachers.
Worcester
Polytechnic Institute
Contact: Bogdan
Vernescu
Michigan
Wayne State University (Dept of Physics and Astronomy)
Contact: Giovanni
Bonvicini
Research Areas: Experimental particle physics, Experimental nuclear
physics, Theoretical particle physics, Theoretical nuclear physics,
Accelerator physics, Microwave superconductivity, Instrumentation for
scientific research, High performance distributed computing, Synchrotron
radiation in scientific research, Nuclear chemistry and Human genome
decoding.
Michigan
State University (ERC)
Contact: Natasha Kobidzie
Research Areas: Training in Microsystems.
Michigan
State University (MRSEC)
Contact: Ann Kirchmeier
Teacher Requirements: High school science teachers are invited
to apply.
Minnesota
University
of Minnesota (MRSEC)
Contact: Dawn
Lippman
Research Areas: Microstructured Polymers, Crystalline Organic
Semiconductors, Magnetic Heterostructures, or or one of the various
Seed groups.
University
of Minnesota (School of Physics and Astronomy)
Contact: info@physics.umn.edu
Research Areas: Biophysics, Condensed Matter Physics, High Energy Particle
Physics, Physics Education, Space Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology.
Teacher Requirements: Program is for physics and physical sciences
teachers.
Mississippi
Mississippi State University
Contact: Judith
Eglin
University of Southern Mississippi
Contact: Lon
Mathias
Montana
Montana State University
Contact: John
Neumeier, Yves
Idzerda
Research Area: Condensed Matter Physics
Teacher Requirements: Must be a high school physical sciences
teacher in K-12, teacher in training or community college system.
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New Jersey
Princeton
University (PCCM)
Contact: Daniel Steinberg
Research Areas: Unusual Phases and Excitations in Low-Dimensional
Electronic Materials, Organic Thin Films and Quantum Structures, Amphiphilic
Polymers: Functional Materials Through Self Assembly and Design and
Processing of Bioinspired Composites.
Teacher Requirements: High school teachers who teach Chemistry,
Physics, Technology, or related subjects
New Mexico
University
of New Mexico (CMEM)
Contact: cmem@unm.edu
Teacher Requirements: This program is applicable for US Citizens
and permanent residents only.
NRAO
Contact: Sue
Ann Heatherly
New York
City
College of New York (CASI)
Comtact: Daniel L. Akins
Columbia
University
Contact: Jay
Dubner
Research Areas: Opportunities are available in astronomy, biological
sciences, chemistry, earth sciences, environmental sciences, genetics,
materials science and engineering, medicine, microbiology, nanotechnology,
physics, physiology, toxicology, and other specialties.
Teacher Requirements: New York metropolitan area middle and high
school science teachers.
Cornell
University (NBTC)
Contact: Anna Waldron
Research Areas: Nanobiotechnology, including a mixture of chemistry,
physics and biology
Cornell
University (CCMR)
Contact: Nev
Singhota, Juliane
Bauer-Huchinson, Kevin
Dilley
Research Areas: Opportunities are available in broad areas of
chemistry, biochemistry, earth sciences, environmental sciences, material
science and engineering, nanotechnology, physics. First year participants
work hands-on with scientific instruments such as electron microscopes
and probes, x-ray diffraction instruments and materials testing equipment.
Teacher Requirements: Program is for middle and high school,
math, science and technology teachers.
SUNY Stonybrook
Contact: Miriam
Rafailovich
University
of Rochester (Dept. of Chemistry)
Contact: Marguerite Weston
Teacher Requirements: For high school teachers.
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Ohio
John
Carroll University
Contact: Michael
Nichols
Oklahoma
University
of Oklahoma/University of Arkansas(CSPIN)
Contact: Susan E. Walden
Research Area: Nanotechnology
Teacher Requirements: Must be a high school teacher.
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Pennsylvania
Drexel
University
Contact: Holly Burnside
Research Areas: Information Technology, Nanotechnology, Biotechnology.
Teacher Requirements: K-12 teacher in science or mathematics.
Pittsburgh
State University
Contact: Christopher
Ibeh
Pennsylvania
State University
Contact: Phi-Oanh Pham
Research Area: Nanofabrication.
Pennsylvania State University (Dept of Physics)
Contact: Qi Li
University
of Pennsylvania (LRSM)
Contact: Andrew R. McGhie
Teacher Requirements: Must teach at a school in the Delaware
Valley.
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Rhode Island
Brown
University
Contact: Clyde
Briant
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South Carolina
University
of South Carolina
Contact: Jed S. Lyons
Research Area: The research objective of the 2003 RET project
is to investigate the use of recycled rubber from car and truck tires
as an impact modifier for composite overlays on concrete.
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Tennessee
East
Tennessee State University
Contact: Anant
Godbole
Research Areas: Mathematics, specifically elementary number theory,
combinatorics and probablity.
Teacher Requirements: Must have a degree in Mathematics.
Texas
Baylor
University (CASPER)
Contact: Truell Hyde
Research Areas: Current theoretical research areas within the
Center include astrophysics, cosmology, hypervelocity impact physics,
protoplanetary development studies, quantum gravity, shock physics,
superstrings and dusty plasma physics. Current experimental research
areas in the Center include hypervelocity impact physics, in-situ sensor
design studies, laser plasma production studies, shock physics and dusty
plasma physics. Current research areas within the Department of Physics
include theoretical surface physics and particle physics and experimental
surface physics.
Teacher Requirements: Current teachers in math or the physical
sciences (or education majors interested in pursuing a career in the
physical sciences) are eligible.
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Utah
Brigham Young University
Contact: R.
Steven Turley
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Virginia
Virginia Commonwealth University (Dept. of Chemistry)
Contact: Sally
Hunnicut
Teacher Requirements: Chemistry teachers from area high schools.
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Washington, D.C.
U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science
The Laboratory Science Teacher Professional Development (LSTPD) Program
(national program)
Contact: Jennifer Coughlin
West Virginia
NRAO
Contact: Sue
Ann Heatherly
Wisconsin
Universtity
of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (Physics Dept.)
Contact: Robert Wood
Research Areas: Fields of experimental work for RET involvement
will include: optics, optical spectroscopy, and laser physics; LEED;
infrared spectroscopy; molecular beam epitaxy and vacuum deposition;
X-ray scattering and other X-ray spectroscopic techniques; UV and X-ray
photoemission: electron microscopy; and acoustic propagation in high
Tc superconductors.
Teacher Requirements: Teachers from the Milwaukee Public School
District are a priority.
University
of Wisconsin-Madison (MRSEC)
Contact: Wendy Crone
Research Areas: Nanotechnology-related science and engineering.
Teacher Requirements: Must be a K-12 teacher.
Wyoming
University of Wyoming
Contact: Ron
Canterna
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