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NSU Center for Materials Research to Host NanoDays Educational
Outreach Event at the Children’s Museum of Virginia

Norfolk, Va.—Norfolk State University’s Center for Materials Research will host NanoDays, a unique, nanotechnology educational outreach event, on Friday, March 29 at the Children’s Museum of Virginia in Portsmouth.

NanoDays is a community-based event designed to foster public awareness, engagement and understanding of nanoscale science and technology. The event also aims to share the passion of science with the community while informing the public about advances in scientific research. Participants will be able to use their imaginations and hopefully think about choosing careers in nanoscale science and engineering, or pursue careers in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields.

Six hands-on experiments will be held during the NanoDays events. Children will be able to interactively see how small a nano is and what is different about the nano. They will be able to make their own liquid crystal sensor and discover a magnetic material that acts like a liquid.

Additionally, Aswini Pradhan, a renowned expert researcher in materials science and engineering at NSU, will present a talk introducing nanotechnology to the public.

This event is organized in collaboration with the Nanoscale Informal Science Education Network. It is also partially sponsored by the National Science Foundation’s supported Network for Computational Nanotechnology (NCN), which is led by Purdue University.

For more information, call Dr. Messaoud Bahoura at 823-2672 or email mbahoura@nsu.edu .