Cornell NanoScale Science and Technology Facility (CNF) REU

Opportunity Description:

The Cornell NanoScale Science & Technology Facility (CNF) is a national user facility that supports a broad range of nanoscale science and technology projects by providing state-of-the-art resources coupled with expert staff support. CNF has been serving the science and engineering community since 1977! Over 700 users per year (50% of whom come from outside Cornell) use the fabrication, synthesis, computation, characterization, and integration resources of CNF to build structures, devices, and systems from atomic to complex length-scales. Our CNF REU research projects encompass chemistry, nanoscale electronics, materials processing, physical sciences, engineering, and life sciences, with a strong inter-disciplinary emphasis.

CNF REU interns interact with researchers from academia and industry, work with Cornell faculty and graduate students, learn hands-on nanofabrication processes, train on a variety of nanofab tools, and become independent nanoscale researchers in their own right. The CNF REU Program runs from approximately the first week of June thru the first week of August and the first two weeks of our ten-week program include intense training, including attending our short course, Technology & Characterization at the Nanoscale (CNF TCN), and attending our three-part New User Training. The summer typically concludes with a Nano-Convocation on Cornell campus so that mentors can attend, and then a three-day National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure (NNCI) REU Convocation . Finally, each CNF REU intern writes a two-page report that is published as part of the CNF Research Accomplishments.

CNF REU interns receive a $6,000 stipend, plus housing and reasonable travel expenses. Full participation in the ten-week program, convocations, final reporting, and program evaluation is mandatory. And of course, the program covers all reasonable research expenses!

Altogether, the CNF REU Program offers an excellent ten-week introduction to nanotechnology and a preview of a scientific research career.

Minimum Qualifications and/or Eligibility Requirements: 

1] Cornell University students are not eligible to apply.
2] If you have already participated in a CNF, CTECH, KEP, NNCI / NNUN / NNIN, or PARADIM REU Program, you are NOT eligible to participate again.
3] You must be a U.S.A. Citizen or a Permanent Resident of the United States.
4] You must be 18 years of age or older.
5] You must be a sophomore CURRENTLY or higher (First Year Students are NOT eligible), and you must not be graduating before the end of the program.
6] You must have valid health insurance coverage for the summer.
7] You must not have already earned a four-year degree of any kind.

Application Process: 

Note that there are TWO DEADLINES: the online application materials have one deadline, and the recommendations are due one week later. 

Learn more about the requirements here.