Achievement

During the 2012 spring semester our IGERT program co-coordinated a course, “Environmental Nanotechnology” which was taught via Polycom by Professor Peter Vikesland from Virginia Tech, and beamed to both Howard University and Carnegie Mellon. The course was open to IGERT students and affiliates at both Carnegie Mellon and Howard, as well as, to graduate students at Virginia Tech. This course allowed students to share their work with colleagues at each of the universities, and allowed them to build their personal academic networks. Collaborative courses, such as “Environmental Nanotechnology”, allow us to build cohesion among our IGERT trainees at Carnegie Mellon and Howard and enable the trainees to be exposed to faculty from other universities within the affiliated research Center for Environmental Implications of Nanotechnology (CEINT).