Nanoscience
General Information
Degree offered: Certificate
Program Description
The mission of the new Graduate Certificate Program in Nanoscience is to educate students in Nanoscience disciplines and applications. This graduate program is designed to address the need for an interdisciplinary graduate education at Duke in Nanoscience that extends beyond the traditional disciplines and skills that are taught within any existing department. In this program, graduate students are educated and mentored in classes, labs and research projects by faculty from many disciplines spanning the physical sciences, engineering, and basic biological-science disciplines relevant to Nanoscience. The program includes faculty from departments within Arts and Sciences, the Pratt School of Engineering, and the Medical School.
The Certificate Program in Nanoscience is designed to augment graduate programs in already existing University departments. Students in the Certificate Program in Nanoscience will be admitted into existing departments or programs of Duke University, and receive their PhD degrees within those degree-granting units (typically but not exclusively a participating department). The graduate student will also be granted a Certificate in Nanoscience upon: 1) satisfying a set of course requirements; 2) completion of an approved project in association with a research group in Nanoscience outside the student's home research group (for example, a rotational training in a Nanoscience laboratory); and, 3) involvement in the seminar series in Nanoscience.