<p>Quote from the editorial in this month's issue of Smalltimes magazine, a trade publication that covers the burgeoning nanotechnology industry (some of my practice is in nanotechnology).</p>
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Nano has arrived. I have seen it with my own eyes in abstract No. 0406933. That's the National Science Foundation's file number for a $ 100,000 award for an undergraduate nanoscience course prooswed by physicist Frank Peiris for students aat Kenyon College.</p>
<p>Kenyon ... sits in a village in Ohio that is so small it needs no stoplights.... But it also has an atomic force microscope, and the funds awarded in 2004 will let the lit majors as well as the geeks mess with matter on the nanoscale. It's proof that nanotech ology is wiggling into the nooks and crannies of society, one liberal arts student at a time."
<p>I have not heard anything about a nanotech major...but you should be able to make you own if that interests you greatly. I will be using the AFM on Monday for physics lab, it should be cool.</p>
<p>You won't find a nanotech undergraduate major at any school; this is going to be a single course, apparently in the physics department -a good high-level undergrad specialized science course (in a "liberal arts college"). If nanotechnology really interests you, you'll be able to work on it in a number of graduate school science majors.</p>
<p>Mol bio is fairly rigorous here(all science majors are)...although you can pick and choose between a variety of upper level courses along with the required chem and bio. I have been working on my own research projects with a faculty mentor since my 1st year. This summer I will be doing a project with real-time PCR, a brand new gene expression instrument. I am applying to medical school and will go to a PhD prgram if that doesn't work out. I will answer more questions if you have them. My answers may be sporadic, but usually prompt if I have free time.</p>
<p>Hi Molbioace
I was curious about research opportunity that Kenyon offers to us. I would like to do research, that's what i am mostly interested in.
Do u have also summer programs?
Is it also possible to do research for a freshman?</p>
<p>It is fairly easy to find a research position as a first year student. Really all you have to do is be a good student and ask a professor with an opening/show great interest. I was a summer science scholar after my first year and will be again this summer going into my senior year. That means I stay here most of the summer and work on my own project under the guidance of a professor. Let me know if you have more questions.</p>
<p>Thank you.
Do you have to chose a research topic or can you just work on what the professor is working in that period? How difficult is it to get in the summer program? Do you get paid for research work during the school year and in the summer?</p>
<p>You have to create a project; however, the prof will give you advice. It is somewhat difficult to get into the summer program if your prof does not have grant money and you are not a junior. You can get paid for academic year research and do receive a stipend for the summer research.</p>