| LCI News |
January
17, 2008 |
CPIP Professor Antal Jakli recently received NSF funding to lead a program that will provide nine U.S. KSU graduate and undergraduate students an opportunity to research liquid crystals in a foreign country during the next three summers. The students will be involved in collaborative work in timely and important specific areas of liquid crystal science, including liquid crystal fibers, liquid crystal gels and elastomers, and liquid crystals with biological importance.
This summer’s participants include CPIP students Jake Fontana, Stefanie Taushanoff, and Nick Diorio. Fontana will visit the Research Institute for Solid State Physics and Optics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest, Hungary, hosted by Prof. Istvan Jánossy. Taushanoff will visit the Department of Materials Sciences of the University of New Lisbon in Lisbon, Portugal hosted by Prof. Helena Godinho. Diorio will visit the Institute of Experimental Physics, Otto-von-Guericke University of Magdeburg Germany hosted by Professor Ralf Stanarius.
To learn more, visit: http://www.lci.kent.edu/crelic_ires/index.html.