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Nanotechnology: where science fiction meets reality
Do you ever wonder about our
future? Do you ever imagine how discoveries could make the impossible a reality?
Do you ever wish you had cures for threatening diseases at hand?
Nanotechnology, while not providing a cure for everything, is defined by the
length scale when scientists and engineers discover new phenomena. It provides
exquisite new tools to engineer novel materials and devices at the nanoscale,
and to study biology. A nanometer, one billionth of a meter, is about 10,000
times narrower than a human hair. Major technological revolutions, including the
industrial revolution and the dawn of the information era, have revealed how new
discoveries can drastically change our lives. There is no doubt that rapid
technological transformations require new paradigms of how to educate the next
generation of leaders in academia and industry.
By virtue of their interdisciplinary nature, rapid advances
in nanoscale science and technology can only thrive in a collaborative
environment in which faculty and students from different disciplines discuss
ideas, work together, and share their expertise.
The Center for Nanotechnology at the
University of Washington was
created in 1997 to address these changing realities. It brings together faculty
members and students from the Colleges of Arts and Sciences, Engineering,
Pharmacy, and the School of Medicine. The Center enjoys major financial support
from the University of Washington Initiatives Fund (UIF) and National Science
Foundation Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (NSF-IGERT)
program.
Learn more about
Nanotechnology at the University of Washington and our programs.
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