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EPSEM Summer Institute
Application Deadline: Friday, April 25, 2008
The California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) is a science and engineering research center at UC Santa Barbara. Research at CNSI includes faculty, students and postdocs from 11 different academic departments, including chemistry and biochemistry, physics, biology, engineering, materials science, and computer science. CNSI research determines new ways of integrating nanometer-scale building blocks into new materials, devices and systems with capabilities far exceeding those found in nature. The EPSEM program brings science, engineering, and mathematics college students to the UC Santa Barbara campus for the EPSEM Summer Institute, a 2-week science intensive residential program hosted by CNSI. EPSEM will provide university housing and meals on campus. You will have the opportunity to interact with science, engineering, and mathematics researchers through social, academic, and professional development activities such as...
- Team lab projects in a research lab
- Team design and problem solving
- Develop oral presentation skills
- Team work skills
- Discuss career options with professionals
- Networking
- Strategies for academic success
- Mentoring
- Leadership development
- Field trips to industry & the university reserve
Program Details
- The EPSEM SI runs July 13 - July 26, 2008
- University housing is provided at Santa Ynez Apartments
- All meals provided in one of the University dinning halls
- EPSEM Stipend - $400
- Students required to attend and actively participate in the entire period, weekends included