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$2 Million for Nanoscience Education
The California Nanosystems Institute (CNSI) at UCSB has been awarded a $2 million education grant from the National Science Foundation.
CNSI, a partnership between UCSB and UCLA, facilitates a multi-disciplinary approach to develop the information, biomedical, and manufacturing technologies that will dominate science and the economy in the 21st century. The UCSB part of CNSI received this grant for a new program called Expanding Pathways to Science, Engineering, and Mathematics (EPSEM).
EPSEM aims to increase the number of high school and community college students who complete undergraduate degrees in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (the STEM disciplines). CNSI will address the broad issues of education, mentorship, and retention for students in the science and engineering disciplines that critically underpin work in nanosystems.
Ofelia Aguirre is the project coordinator. She will collaborate with Fiona Goodchild, education director of CNSI, and Evelyn Hu, director of CNSI at UCSB.
EPSEM represents an extensive, College of Engineering-sponsored partnership within the campus, and between UCSB and local community colleges and high schools. Among the collaborators are Allan Hancock College, Oxnard College, Santa Barbara City College, and Ventura College, as well as eight of their feeder high schools.