Dear CNF User Community:
#1! The 2024 CNF REU Application is now live! Please let your non-Cornell undergraduate students know.
#2! Registration for the January 2024 CNF TCN short course is now live. Because it's VIRTUAL in January, it's easy for anyone to attend and the price is right. New and returning users should really attend. At this price, even existing users might want to consider taking the short course as a refresher! Plus, no worries about Ithaca weather....
Melanie-Claire
CNF Public Relations
MCM's STANDARD REMINDER AND DISCLAIMER:
REMINDER; If you are no longer a CNF User / PI and or want to update your status with us, send your message to userprogram@cnf.cornell.edu -- not to me! Thank you.
DISCLAIMER; I do not necessarily know the people running the conferences and webinars included below. So, buyer beware! I do know the CNF news of course, and who the job opportunities are coming from, so those are trusted sources.
[REGISTER ASAP]
Subject: Dec 15 travel grant application deadline - TechConnect CHIPS WF program
Dear colleagues,
A friendly reminder that the deadline for community college and undergraduate students and educators to apply for the travel grant to attend the CHIPS workforce development program at the 2024 TechConnect World meeting, June 17-19 in Washington DC, is next Friday December 15th.
Our online program is being constantly updated – please check out confirmed panelists. And a flyer with all the program info is also attached for your convenience.
Please note that posters are welcome, but not required. The submission deadline is January 26th and abstracts can be submitted here.
Please help us spread the word about this important program to your fellow students and educators. Please feel free to contact either me or Sarah Wenning, our conference secretary cc’d above, with questions.
Thanks!
Dalia Yablon, Ph.D.
Technical Program Chair, TechConnect World
dalia.yablon@surfacechar.com
[NEW JOB OP]
CLAWS Job Opportunities at NCSU
The Microelectronics Commons Hub led by NC State is seeking to hire up to 18 new staff members, including in positions focused on technical and engineering, research, leadership, and administrative aspects. Please share these opportunities with anyone who may be interested and qualified.
MCM NOTES: There are two PDF files for these opportunities. Ask and I'll email them to you!
[OVPRI FUNDING]
Ignite Your Venture Journey: Join the Ignire Fellow for New Ventures Program!
Are you ready to turn Cornell's groundbreaking ideas into thriving ventures? The Ignite Fellow for New Ventures program, one of the four signature programs of the Ignite: Cornell Research Lab to Market gap fund series, is your ticket to entrepreneurial success!
Launched by Cornell University's Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation (OVPRI), this program is your gateway to transforming cutting-edge inventions into thriving technology ventures.
Why Ignite Fellow for New Ventures?
- Advance technology commercialization: grow as an entrepreneur scientist or engineer by partnering with a Cornell faculty inventor.
- Funding Package of Up to $120,000: We're here to de-risk your journey with a comprehensive funding package covering your salary for up to two years and essential experiment costs.
- Cornell's Inclusive Ethos: Built on the principle of "...any person...any study," our program encourages you to explore a diverse range of groundbreaking discoveries in Cornell labs.
- Open to aspiring entrepreneurs: We're seeking master graduates, PhDs, and postdocs who dream big, take risks, and envision themselves as a CEO, CSO, or CTO founder.
Applications open until March 1, 2024, at 5 p.m. Apply here.
https://cornell.infoready4.com/#competitionDetail/1922882
[NNCO PROFILE]
"Nanoscience is for Everyone!" For Rachel Miller, the path from aspiring astronaut to nanoscience researcher has been a long and winding road. From her childhood in Los Angeles to completing her Ph.D. at Cornell University in June 2023 (research performed in part at the CNF). Miller says, "I would like to teach science and engineering not just as part of a curriculum, but also as a lens to find solutions to problems..."
[NNCO SYMPOSIUM]
Nanotechnology Symposium - March 5, 2024 - Washington, DC
Enabling the Nanotechnology Revolution: Celebrating the 20th Anniversary of the 21st Century Nanotechnology Research and Development Act
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Washington, DC
Tuesday, March 5, 2024
Representatives from academia, government, and industry will speak to U.S. success in nanotechnology and future directions in this field. Experts will address quantum engineering; optics; advanced polymers; microelectronics; medicine; education; manufacturing; the environmental, health, and societal implications of nanomaterials; diversity, equity, inclusion, and access; and more. This lively discussion will benefit from including diverse perspectives – including yours!
Speakers of particular note include:
Arati Prabhakar, Assistant to President Biden for Science and Technology, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
Neal Lane, Rice University and Former Science Advisor to President Clinton
Ron Wyden, Senior United States Senator from Oregon
Chad Mirkin, Northwestern University
Kathleen Rubins, NASA Astronaut
And many more! See the full list of speakers here
Students and postdoctoral fellows are invited to submit a poster to showcase how they are “enabling the nanotechnology revolution.” Abstract submission deadline is December 15, 2023. Selected applicants will be notified January 5, 2024.
Register for free at the symposium's website
--
Quinn Spadola, PhD
Deputy Director, National Nanotechnology Coordination Office
www.nano.gov
202 517-1050
CNF REMINDERS:
1) If you are no longer a CNF User / PI and or want to update your status with us, send your message to userprogram@cnf.cornell.edu
2) Acknowledging the CNF and including our CORRECT grant number -- NNCI-2025233 -- is CRITICAL to our continuing to be your research facility. We cannot stress this enough.
Just copy & paste the following...
This work was performed in part at the Cornell NanoScale Facility, a member of the National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure (NNCI), which is supported by the National Science Foundation (Grant NNCI-2025233).
OR if space is a concern, copy & paste the following...
This work was performed in part at the Cornell NanoScale Facility, an NNCI member supported by NSF Grant NNCI-2025233.
We THANK YOU for your efforts! The acknowledgement you include today means we will still be here for you tomorrow!