WORLD-CLASS FACILITY: A NORTH CAROLINA RESEARCH GEM ATTRACTS THE BEST AND BRIGHTEST FROM ACADEMIA, GOVERNMENT AND INDUSTRY.

• Position: RESEARCH: NORTH CAROLINA: JOINT SCHOOL OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOENGINEERING

Housed inside the Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering (JSNN), a 105,000-square-foot, LEED Gold Certified research facility, is the Joint School's Institute for Research Technologies (JSIRT). It holds more than 100 state-of-the-art pieces of equipment for use in micro and nanofabrication, imaging, analytical characterization, synthetic biology, advanced materials design, and computational research. JSNN is a unique academic collaboration between North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. It builds on the strengths of both institutions to offer innovative, cross-disciplinary graduate programs in research areas where nanoscience and nanoengineering play a key role, including synthetic biology, materials science, computational nanotechnology, and environmental science and sustainability. JSNN offers masters and doctorate degrees in nanoscience and nanoengineering as well as graduate certificates in advanced materials, micro and nano devices, systems and synthetic biology, STEM entrepreneurship, medical sciences, instrumentation, and nanoscience. In collaboration with Georgia Tech, JSNN is a partner in the Southeastern Nanotechnology Infrastructure Corridor, funded by the National Science Foundation's National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure program.

JSNN has received outstanding research contributions from faculty and students. Under the leadership of Dr. Sherine Obare, who in 2019 took the helm of leading JSNN as its second dean, enrollment at the school has increased by 35%, external funding has grown by 54%, and the school was recognized in 2021 by Insights into Diversity for novel initiatives that increase women's careers in nanotechnology. Talented faculty from various disciplinary backgrounds have fostered significant innovation at JSNN.

The fee-for-use-based resources and equipment are available to academic, government, and industry users. In addition to the equipment, users have access to highly skilled staff and world-class specialized training. JSNN serves academic, industrial, and governmental researchers across the U.S. and around the globe. The advanced microscopy instrumentation includes the only Helium Ion Microscope in the Southeast. A brand-new micro-computed tomography (micro-CT) scanner, installed in March 2022, produces high-resolution 3D images of a variety of artifacts and organisms.

Dr. Shyam Aravamudhan, director of JSNN core...