Goals

Strategies

Activities

Outcomes

Individuals Impacted

Expand NIU’s partnership with ANL through InSET

Expand NIU’s curricular offerings in nanoscience and engineering relative to InSET and the STEM disciplines.

Provide graduate and undergraduate students with an education in nanoscience and technology by updating the graduate and undergraduate curricula at NIU to reflect the new ideas and technologies obtained from recent developments in nanoscience

Strengthen scientific programs in nanoscience and technology

Develop connections with ANL and other regional laboratories, universities, and companies to stimulate education and research

Provide and maintain an infrastructure that will make NIU scientists competitive in this field.

• Establish a fellowship program under the umbrella of InSET supports NIU graduate students who work on collaborative projects with scientists at ANL.
• Conduct a national search for the position of InSET review of InSET by a steering committee that included three external advisors

• Established fellowship
• Search failed
• External review of program was completed an alternative organizational structure was proposed and developed
• Restated mission resulting from planning retreat
• Established new priorities

Students

• 23 students obtained graduate degrees between FY06 and FY10
• 348 undergraduates taking courses in nanoscience/technol ogy in FY06-FY10

External

• Groups 12 presentations made to community organizations including K-12