The Virginia Tech National Center for Earth and Environmental Nanotechnology Infrastructure (NanoEarth) is a node on the NSF’s nanotechnology infrastructure network and adds a unique perspective to support non-traditional research using nanoscience to advance the geosciences, biosciences, chemistry, and environmental sciences through specialized instrumentation and expertise. Accompanying the expert research support are strong focuses on education, outreach, and diversity. With state-of-the-art nano-characterization facilities and expert instrument specialists on site, NanoEarth build research partnerships and advance scientific reserch. Collaborating with the several academic departments including the chemistry department and the Virginia Tech Gradaute School, NanoEarth provides assistantship support and graduate education programs in interdisciplinary research in nanotechnology, as well as opportunities in outreach events to educate the public. NanoEarth is also dedicated in brodening the participation in STEM from underrepresented communities and offer many grants to individuals from those groups to visit and conduct reserach on site. NanoEarth is the first research center in the world exclusively dedicated to these goals, a concept long overdue due to the importance of the scientific conversion of these overlapping fields of study.

NanoEarth: An earth and environmental nanotechnolgy collaborative for research, education, outreach, and diversity

255th National Meeting (2018)

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