| Title |
Description |
Funding
Source |
Partner
Institutions |
Director
Name |
| Center for Education in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology |
Funding to build infrastructure and provide teaching laboratory equipment to allow the Center for Education in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (CENN) to become operational. The CENN provides lab-based introductory and intermediate-level nanoscience training to undergraduates (including pre-service science teachers) and high school science teachers.
Project Status: Current |
US Department of Defense, Army Research Office |
|
Cliff Chancey
Professor of Physics
University of Northern Iowa
319-273-2425
|
| Expanding Nanoscience Education in Northern Iowa |
The Departments of Physics, Chemistry, Biology at UNI are jointly developing 1) lecture and lab materials for a nanoscience curriculum at the undergraduate level appropriate to pre-service high school science teachers; 2) a nanoscience outreach program to in-service high school science teachers.
Project Status: Current |
National Science Foundation |
Denver High School (Denver, IA); Holmes Junior High School (Waterloo, IA) |
Cliff Chancey
Professor of Physics
University of Northern Iowa
319-273-2425
|
| Introductory Robotics Outreach Initiative |
The Physics and Computer Science Departments at UNI are
jointly developing an outreach program to introduce robots
and artificial intelligence to elementary and middle school
students, girls in particular.
Project Status: Planned for within a year |
UNI College of Natural Science; UNI Physics; UNI Computer Science |
Iowa Academy of Sciences; UNI Upward Bound Math and Science;
Girl Scouts of Eastern Iowa and Western Illinois |
Cliff Chancey
Professor of Physics
University of Northern Iowa
319-273-2425
|
