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NNIN International Winter School for Graduate Students (iWSG)

December 2008

IIT Kanpur

Organic Electronics and Optoelectronics

The international Winter School for Graduate Students (iWSG) are organized jointly by NNIN and institutions in third world countries with the goal of promoting international bridge building and understanding by bringing together students and faculty in an intense teaching and societal experience. Each year, 10 or more graduate students and faculty participate in a rigorous course in an emerging and research-intensive interdisciplinary direction that is not part of US graduate curriculums. This lasts six days and includes laboratory sections. This is followed by travel to a rural part of the country where students spend time observing, experiencing and discussing the societal challenges and the part science and technology can play. A large group of students from the host country participate in the teaching part and a smaller group joins in the rural experience.

The 2008 iWSG took place at Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur starting on Dec. 3 with the societal experience in and around Paralakhemundi at the Orissa-Andhra Pradesh border in southern India. The subject of the course was "Organic Electronics and Optoelectronics". The rural experience focused on tribal living and rural needs.

The second of the winter schools, in 2009, will take place at Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (Mumbai) on the subject of "Nanoelectronics (with an emphasis on Silicon)." The competition for selection of US students takes place in the beginning of August with selections announced in first week of October. US citizens and permanent residents pursuing science and engineering graduate degrees are eligible to participate. The selection strongly encourages participation from across the fields, independent of the subject of the course and particularly strives to assemble a group that resonates, can benefit from the experience, and are have the potential to be future leaders of science and technology. Please look for future announcements at the NNIN website.

2008 Student Participants

Sharon Gerbode, Cornell University John Gregoire, Cornell University
Joy Johnson, MIT
Daren Lipomi, Harvard
Christopher Lombardo, U. Texas
Bradley MacLeod, University of Washington
Vladimer Pozdin, Cornell University
Chris Scilla, U. Mass.
Martin Schubert, RPI
Jennifer Smythe, Harvard
Kaylie Young, Northwestern
Tricia Youngbull, University of Washington

NNIN iWSG 2008 U.S. Faculty

Will Dichtel
Cornell

Richard Hennig
Cornell

John Kymissis
Columbia

Christine
Luscombe
U. of Washington
George Malliaras
Cornell

Robert McGinn
Stanford Sandip Tiwari
Cornell

Jaime Wetmore
ASU