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To Contact Us: Center for Functional Nanoscale Materials Clark Atlanta University 223 James Brawley Dr., S.W. Atlanta, Georgia 30314 Phone: (404) 880-6784 E-mail: cfnm@cau.edu Web site: www.cfnm.cau.edu |
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To Contact Us: Center for Functional Nanoscale Materials Clark Atlanta University 223 James Brawley Dr., S.W. Atlanta, Georgia 30314 Phone: (404) 880-6784 E-mail: cfnm@cau.edu Web site: www.cfnm.cau.edu |
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In addition to its domestic educational, service and research programs, the Center conducts research and educational programs with institutions on the African and European continents. The Center has been designated as the North American Node for NANOAfnet. Also, the Center has collaborative research programs with scientists at iThemba LABS, the African Laser Center and the Technical University of Georgia. These collaborations involve, in addition to the exchange of scientific knowledge and expertise, the exchange of senior researchers and students from the Center, who visit and work in the laboratories of the Center's International collaborators. 
The Center is fortunate to have as its international partners NANOAfnet, iThemba LABS, Technical University of Georgia and the African Laser Center. The iThemba Laboratory for Accelerator-Based Science is a multidisciplinary research facility located in Somerset West, Western Cape, South Africa. The laboratory provides facilities for basic and applied research using particle beams, particle radiotherapy and supplies accelerator-produced radioisotopes for nuclear medicine. The Center for Medial Polymers and Biomaterials, Technical University of Georgia, Republic of Georgia is concerned with the synthesis and study of biocompatible and biodegradable polymers for medical applications The African Laser Center, located in Pretoria, South Africa, was established in 2002 in order to help enable African nations to collaborate with each other and to play a major role internationally in the use of light in science and technology.
Description 
The 2009 Nanoscholar Abroad Program begins June 7, 2009, at the CFNM, Atlanta, Georgia, and continues through July 31, 2009, with the return of the participants from Cape Town, South Africa. Participants will spend two weeks at the CFNM in Atlanta before departing for the iTHEMBA LABS in Cape Town, South Africa, for the remaining six weeks of the program. Each participant will work on a personal project, which is concerned with some aspect of an ongoing collaboration between CFNM researchers and iTHEMBA LABS scientists. While in Atlanta each participant will be under the direction of one of the CFNM senior scientists and will have as well a graduate student mentor, both of whom will guide and assist the participant in the various aspects of preparation for their work in laboratories of the Center's South African collaborators. While in South Africa, participants will be supervised by senior scientists at the iTHEMBA LABS and will also have a senior scientist from the CFNM as local counselor.