Best NNIN Facilities

LookingIn
Wed, 23 Nov 2011 08:36:58 +0000

Hmm… I’m not sure if that’s true. Are you talking about the NNIN REU program? Only about 15% of the applicants get an internship. You might have a better shot at an NNIN internship if you attend one of the NNIN schools, but that’s probably not be the easiest path to nanotechnology research.

At this point, most major research universities have many professors doing nanotechnology research, and many of them offer research opportunities for undergraduates that are probably easier to get than the REU internships.

Just to take MIT as an example, here are some highlights of recent nanotechnology work done at MIT (most of it outside the ISN):

[Nanoscience and nanotechnology - MIT News Office](Nanoscience and nanotechnology | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

And here is a link to their undergraduate research program:

[MIT’s Undergraduate Research Opportunties Program (UROP)](http://web.mit.edu/urop/index.html)

Harvard and Stanford are obviously top-notch schools, and you can’t go wrong with either one. But if other research universities interest you, I don’t think the existence of NNIN facilities is going to be a big factor in whether or not you have research opportunities in nanotechnology.