As we approach the end of our two-week summer program, I’d like to recap some of the events that occured. When I came into this program, I felt extremely lost. Especially after the first lecture, my mind started to fly off somewhere else, as I couldn’t grasp concepts of what we were doing or learning. […]
Visiting both the plasma lab and the library of rare books today was an extremely unique experience. In the library, we were exposed to books that were worth up to the thousands of dollars just because of the history they went through. The book may be common, and printed in mass amounts worldwide, but it’s the […]
Today’s theme, I believe, was the magic of silence. This strongly coincides with the fact that not only did we watch Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, but we visited an anechoic chamber as well. The experience of watching the movie was very… unique. I was used to waiting in line for a mid-night […]
Today was, in my opinion, the most entertaining and educational day of the program. As a hands-on learner myself, I prefer to stand up and do something rather than be blasted with facts. I realize that facts are a necessity to learn, but there are different methods of acquiring these facts. And, the way that […]
Today all of the “impossible” grouped up in one auditorium, and shared its ideas. It was interesting, and amazing to listen to these new perspectives others had of the future, where nanotechnology played a large role in society. A couple of these projects included the nandage, a zombie hand-grenade and a bioluminescent nano-gel. The nandage […]
Learning about photovoltaic cells in-depth opened the door of possibilies to me. These photovoltaic cells that can harvest the sun’s energy and convert it into electricity without any form of pollution are fantastic. Other forms of renewable energy, such as nuclear energy carry their own hazards along with them. However, harvesting the sun’s energy carries […]
Today we learned about not only the beneficial, but the possible hazards of nano-particles. These nano-particles may provide benign aspects to living a cleaner, better future. However, these same silver nano-particles may be so hazardous as to be able to disintegrate entire ecosystems putting the Earth at stake. A few of benign aspects of nano-particles […]
In the first two days of being introduced to nanotechnology, as we reviewed, amongst other things, the correlation between the development of microscopes, and their corresponding aid in scientific progress. A couple of the microscopes that we learned of and caught my interest were the atomic force microscope, and the scanning electronic microscope. The atomic […]