Overview

Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship Program
(IGERT): Nanophotonics

Fundamentals and Applications in Emerging Technologies

The NSF IGERT training program is aimed at providing science and engineering students with educational and research training to develop new tools for generating, controlling and manipulating light at nanoscale dimensions.  This rapidly emerging field spans the traditional disciplines of physics, chemistry, electrical engineering and bioengineering.
 
To broaden and enrich their research IGERT trainees take additional courses outside of their major fields of study.  Two faculty advisers jointly supervise IGERT trainees.  
IGERT Trainees receive generous stipends, and are also awarded funding to purchase laboratory supplies and to travel to national meetings.  In order to learn how research is conducted outside their own academic environment, IGERT trainees participate in internships at other universities or industrial R&D labs.  To facilitate the development of their supervisory and teaching skills, trainees mentor undergraduate interns in the summer.  Trainees attend weekly luncheons during the summer in which they present their work to the group of IGERT faculty, trainees and undergraduate interns. 

The overall objective of the program is to support and facilitate a new generation of scientists who are specialists in multiple disciplines. 

Faculty
Naomi Halas
Jason Hafner
Bruce Johnson
Peter Nordlander
Rebekah Drezek

Funding
National Science Foundation

Website
http://nanoigert.rice.edu/