About NRT-MIDAS

Our National Science Foundation Research Traineeship (NRT) program focused on Computing and Data Science Training for Materials Innovation, Discovery, and AnalyticS (MIDAS) is based at the University of Delaware and Delaware State University. Graduate level students from Computer Information Sciences, Electrical and Computing Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Chemistry work together to learn to use high performance computing and data science to discover, innovate, and analyze new synthetic and biologically relevant polymeric materials with tailored properties and function. To learn more about our NRT MIDAS program please visit our website.

About the Community Outreach Activities

Each year a new group or cohort of graduate students are selected for the NRT MIDAS program. During the first summer for each cohort of students, they work together to develop a community outreach activity. This activity is designed for our students to communicate to the community the science behind things we encounter in our everyday lives.

About the Students

To learn more about the students behind the summer of science educational videos from cohort 1 click here.

To learn more about the students behind the educational comics from cohort 2 click here.

To learn more about the students behind the interactive experiments from cohort 3 click here.

Special Acknowledgements

Our outreach activities have been assisted by several talented people!

For our summer of science educational videos we like to acknowledge the videographer and editor Samuel White from Outsider Film Company. Thank you Sam!

For our educational comics we like to acknowledge Dr. Kara Martin who took the narrative and ideas from the students in cohort 2 and designed the incredible illustrations! Thank you Kara!

For our Interactive experiments we like to acknowledge the videographer and editor John-Paul Casella. Thank you JP!