Written by: Shane Collins on June 30, 2008.

Vegas high school teachers get lessons in nanotechnology

Local high schools received hands-on experience with nanotechnology June Tuesday through Friday during UNLVs Nanotechnology Summer Institute in efforts to expose young people to the emerging industry.

Engineering professor Biswajit Das directed the event that provided in-depth overviews of nanotechnology and its real world applications. Programs included hands-on laboratory time in the Nevada Nanotechnology Center.

The programs goal was to give high school teachers ideas for lesson plans based around the growing arena of nanotechnology and to simply educate them about the expanding industry.

During the week-long program, teachers from four valley high schools built a silicone wafer etched with their school emblems and examined integrated circuit technology.

- Shane Collins

UNLV English professor wins prestigious award

Claudia Keenan, English professor and director of the creative writing program at UNLV received the 2008 Jerome J. Shestack Prize for her poem Everybodys Autobiography, from the American Poetry Review. Keenan shares this prize with Robert Hass, professor at University of California, Berkeley.

Everybodys Autobiography is an elegy to Keenans father and a commentary on Americas excessive use of fuel. The poem was originally published in the January 2007 issue of American Poetry Review.

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