Minority Research Opportunities in Interfacial Engineering: A Joint Program Between the Naval Research Laboratory and Atlanta University Center

该项目是一个合作研究和培训项目 在海军研究实验室， 亚特兰大大学中心。 六名本科生将在 被选中在中心工作两个月， 生物/分子工程的小型研究项目 海军研究实验室的一个小组。 该计划将 首先确定研究领域之间的重叠 合作机构。 被选中的学生将工作 在这些研究领域内，从而建立一个连续性， 他们的暑期研究与他们的家乡机构。 大西洋大学中心（AUC）包括四个 本科院校（莫尔豪斯，斯佩尔曼，莫里斯布朗 克拉克-亚特兰大大学（Clark-Atlanta University） 研究生院和莫尔豪斯医学院。 AUC是 最大的黑人高等教育中心， 全国 该计划是最多六名学生和两名 教员将在海军工作两个月 共同感兴趣的项目的研究实验室 界面工程领域的两个中心。 主要 NRL生物/分子中心的研究项目重点 科学和工程学正在走上一条生物学 分子（特别是脂质）自组装成 微观结构 其他项目将涉及分子 建模，大有机物的非线性光学性质 分子、聚合物铁电液晶，以及 液体生物物理学基础研究。 NRL中心拥有 广泛的暑期研究项目经验， 本科生。

This project is a program of cooperative research and training at the Naval Research Laboratory for minority students of the Atlanta University Center. Six undergraduate students will be selected to spend two months working in the Center working on small research projects for the Bio/Molecular Engineering group of the Naval Research Laboratory. The program will first identify areas of research overlap between the cooperating institutions. The students chosen will work within these research areas, thus establishing a continuity of their summer research with that at their home institutions. The Atlantic University Center (AUC) comprises four undergraduate institutions (Morehouse, Spelman, Morris Brown Colleges, and Clark-Atlanta University) and the Clark-Atlanta graduate School and Morehouse School of Medicine. The AUC is the largest center for predominately black higher education in the country. The plan is for up to six students and two faculty members to spend 2 summer months working at the Naval Research Laboratories on projects of mutual interest to the two centers in the area of interfacial engineering. The major focus of research projects at NRL's Center for Bio/Molecular Science and Engineering is on the way in which biological molecules (particularly lipids) self-assemble into microstructures. Other projects will involve molecular modeling, non-linear optical properties of large organic molecules, polymeric ferroelectric liquid crystals, and fundamental studies of liquid biophysics. The NRL Center has wide experience with summer research projects for undergraduate students.