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IFN Summer Internship 2016
Dear IFN Researchers: The Institute for Functional Nanomaterials (IFN) is accepting applications for Summer Doctoral Internships and Summer Undergraduate Internships exclusively in the area of Nanotechnology. Below is the information...
IFN Fellowship August 2015-July 2016
2015-2016 Academic IFN Fellowship (Period August 2015-July 2016) Stipend: $27,600 annual ($2,300 monthly)Tuition: $2,500 annualTravel: $2,400 annual (students to present their research)Materials: $2,500 annual Application Requirements: Have a minimum 3.0...
2015 IFN Summer Internships
2015 Graduate IFN Summer Internships (Period June 1 – July 31) Stipend: $2,300 monthly Application Requirements: Evidence of Ph.D. candidacy Have a minimum 3.0 GPA on 4.0 scale Evidence of...
The First IFN Elevator Pitch Competition
Submit Your Video For the 1st IFN Elevator Pitch Competition. Present your research and yourself in a clear and concise manner Competition for students and postdocs Speech time: 2 minutes...
IFN Science-Art Contest
“Art and science are two fields that value life, finding the unknown and experimental action. Undoubtedly the reflective look of the artists to the immediate reality has been tied to...
IFN Fellowship January-December 2015
2015 Academic IFN Fellowship (Period January-December 2015) Stipend $2,300 monthly Application Requirements: Have a minimum 3.0 GPA on 4.0 scale Evidence of Ph.D. candidacy Evidence of satisfactory academic progress according...
IFN Fellowship Summer 2014
2014 Graduate IFN Summer Internships (Period June 2 – July 31) Stipend $2,300 monthly Application Requirements: Have a minimum 3.0 GPA on 4.0 scale Evidence of Ph.D. candidacy Evidence of...
2nd Puerto Rico NSF/RII EPSCoR/IFN Annual Meeting
The 2nd Annual Meeting for EPSCoR/ IFN will be held Thursday, April 16, 2009 at the Mayaguez Resort and Casino Hotel. This agenda is in PDF format. In order to...
Welcome
The Institute for Functional Nanomaterials is a research center in the field of functional nanomaterials.
It is managed by the Resource Center for Science and Engineering and has active participants from four campuses of the University of Puerto Rico (UPR).
The institute was established in 2007 with a $9 USD million NSF grant over 3 years in the reserve round, and an institutional contribution from UPR in the amount of $3.9 USD million over the three-year duration of the grant.
Start-up Funds
The IFN will provide resources for the assignment of up to five start-up awards per year, of up to $200,000 for a 2-year period during the 3-year duration of the project. The awards will be made to new faculty on a competitive basis. The RII will make special efforts to recruit women nanoscientists through this mechanism, and expect to recruit at least 5 new women nano scientists during the duration of the project. Each applicant will be required to prepare a research and professional development proposal to achieve research competitiveness; the proposal will be externally peer-reviewed; then the RII Task Force will make the final award decision, based on the programmatic needs of the research Clusters and the long range objective of developing the IFN Institute. The objective of this program is to bootstrap the number of competitive nanoscientists in Puerto Rico by recruiting up to 15 new members to strengthen the IFN clusters and their evolution toward interdisciplinary research groups.
Fellowships
The IFN will provide funds for twelve Ph.D. and six postdoctoral fellows per year. These fellowships have the dual purpose of advancing the research agenda of the IFN Clusters and increasing the number of people working on Nanoscience and Technology in the IFN Clusters and in PR. The IFN researchers, or the applicants themselves, can apply for the fellowship competition. The IFN is committed to actively search and recruit women to the graduate and postdoctoral fellowship programs. All applicants will submit their academic record and a professional development plan. The postdocs will also have to submit a research plan. The RII Task Force will peer review the submitted documents for academic merit, and will make the final selection from among the most meritorious cases, based on the programmatic needs of the Clusters and the evolving IFN research plan, as well as to ensure the diversity of the selected fellows. In addition to the six postdocs, two postdocs will be selected to work specifically in the testbed initiatives of the IFN projects.