10 th Annual U.S. Department of Energy Small Business Conference

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1 10 th Annual U.S. Department of Energy Small Business Conference The Institution of Choice Annemarie Delgado, MA, MPA, CRA Assistant Director, Office of Sponsored Programs Norfolk State University 700 Park Avenue Norfolk, VA Page 1

2 Overview of Norfolk State University (NSU) Established 1935 The largest HBCU in Virginia Dr. Carolyn W. Meyers, 4 th president of NSU Academics Seven Colleges/Schools: College of Science, Engineering, and Technology College of Liberal Arts School of Business School of Social Work School of Education School of Extended Learning Honors College Ph.D. in Materials Science & Engineering, Social Work, and a joint doctoral program in Psychology with Old Dominion University Only university in the Commonwealth of Virginia with two degree programs in Optical Engineering (B.S. and M.S.) Page 2

3 Overview of Norfolk State University (NSU) 6,300 full & part time students 1,000 faculty & staff 36 Undergraduate Degree Programs 16 Master s Degree Programs 3 Doctoral Degree Programs: Materials Science & Engineering g Clinical Psychology Social Work Carnegie Class Masters Level I University NSU designated as a National Center for Academic Excellence in Information Assurance for by National Security Agency Page 3

4 Advantages to Partnering with NSU Located only miles from Norfolk Naval Base (World s largest naval station) dynamic shipping port serving 95% of world s shipping lines Located in a HUBZone & Empowerment Zone offers federal contracting advantages Large workforce in Hampton Roads Region 90,000 college/university students, 13,000 highly skilled military personnel entering workforce each year Located half hour from NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, VA and DOE s Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility Lab (J Lab) & the Applied Research Center (ARC) in Newport News, VA NSU Teaming Agreements and/or Contracts with Northrop Grumman, SAIC, Lockheed Martin, Deloitte &Touche LLP & CACI Page 4

5 Partnerships NSU Hosted Annual White House Initiative Meeting on HBCUs for 2008 & NSU received largest grant in history of the University for $10,000,000 from DOE for NSU signs licensing agreement with the Harris Corporation to launch the start of a new partnership using Biometric Tool Kit. NSU develops partnering agreement with Dr. Thomas Mensah, CEO of Georgia Aerospace Systems, for the development, design, and dcommercialization c a o of plastic pas csolar cells and green industry exploration. Page 5

6 Research Centers & Institutes at NSU Center for Materials Research (CMR) NASA, DoD, NSF, AFOSR Crystal Growth Nanotechnology Polymer Processing Thin Film Deposition Photonics / Spin Electronics Center for Biotechnology & Biomedical Sciences NIH Center for Strategic & Global Studies Institute for Gaming, Modeling & Simulation DoD & Industry Center for Information Assurance Research Army Intelligence Community Center for Academic Excellence National Geospatial Agency Ernest M. Hodge Center for Entrepreneurship Page 6

7 Research Clusters at NSU Engineering Advanced Information Computational Systems/ Materials Assurance Science Development Energy Sensor Fabrication Sensors Integration Modeling & Nanotechnology Photonic Devices Net-Centric Operations Simulation Spintronics Communications Forensics Biotechnology Image Processing Secured wireless nets Quantum Computing Photonics Grid Computing Page 7

8 Marie V. McDemmond Applied Research Center (RISE) 135,000 sq. ft. of research labs, offices, conference and computer lab space Houses Center for Materials Research (CMR)& new MSE-PhD program since 2007/2008 Class 100/1000 nano and micro fabrication facility (Cleanroom) Page 8

9 Polymer Research & Education at NSU Sam Shajing Sun, Ph.D. Professor of Chemistry and Materials Science Ph.D. Program in Materials Science and dengineering i Norfolk State University, Norfolk, Virginia, USA ssun@nsu.edu Research Areas: Investigate & develop high efficiency Plastic Solar Cells for energy conversion: Light weight Flexible shape Cost effective High efficiency Renewable, Clean & Low Cost Energy Funded by NASA for Development of Polymeric Materials for Solar Cells Investigate & develop supra molecular self assembled Macromolecules (SAM) for efficient Sun light harvesting (such as solar cell) applications. Page 9

10 Published Research by NSU Faculty Dr. Mikhail Noginov, Center for Materials Research Nature Photonics recently highlighted the works of Dr. Mikhail Noginov and research NSU in collaboration with Dr. Shaleev and Purdue University. The research effort was supported by several grants including the recently awarded NSF PREM: Photonic Metamaterials. Optical gain in a dielectric compensates for absorption losses in metallic nanoparticles. Highlights of "Enhancement of surface plasmons in an Ag aggregate by optical gain in a dielectric medium. Page 10

11 Research & Education at NSU Dr. Vina Punjabi, Jefferson Lab, Professor of Physics, Funded by DOE/J Lab Facility since 1989 $1,768,000 Polarization Experiments with Electromagnetic Probes Abstract: Measurements of the Proton Form Factors to Large Q 2 at Jefferson Lab J Lab data has had a significant impact on theoretical models of the nucleon. One of the fundamental goals of nuclear physics is to understand the structure and behavior of strongly interacting matter in terms of its basic constituents, quarks and gluons. To understand the dynamics of bound states of quarks, the study of electromagnetic form factors of nucleons at large Q 2 is a powerful tool. In three experiments at Jefferson Lab (JLab), the ratio of the electromagnetic elastic form factors of the proton, G Ep /G Mp was measured with high precision, up to four momentum transfer Q 2 of 8.5 GeV 2 with the recoil polarization technique. The most important goal of this research project is to involve NSU physics undergraduate students in the frontier nuclear physics research. Page 11

12 Research & Education at NSU Dr. Kang Seo Norfolk State t University it and Applied Research Center Jefferson Avenue, Suite 321 Newport News, VA 23606, (voice) kiseo@nsu.edu Research hareas: Organic Molecular Semiconductors Single Crystals Nanostructures Heteroepitaxial i Growth Project Title: Development and Characterization of Thin Film SRF Surfaces for Accelerator Cavities Project Director: Dr. Charles E. Reece (JLAB) Agency: DOE-OHEP_DE-PS02-09ER09-05 Project Title: Nb thin films grown using energetic condensation for Nb-on-Cu SRF cavities Project Director: Dr. Mahadevan Krishnan (AASC) Agency: DOE-OHEP_DE-PS02-09ER09-05 Collaboration: Jefferson Lab, Alameda Applied Sciences Corporation (AASC) & (NSU) use DOE s funds to develop understanding & improved performance of thin film superconducting rf surfaces for application to particle accelerators. Page 12

13 Research & Education at NSU Dr. Carlos Salgado, Professor of Physics and Astronomy / Director, NSU Astronomical Observatory Norfolk State University, Norfolk, VA23504 tel: (757) /9212 Jefferson Lab, Newport News, VA23606 tel: (757) Fax: (757) , e mail:salgado@jlab.org or carlos@nsu.edu Dr. Mahbub Khandaker, Professor of Physics, Norfolk State University (757) makhandaker@nsu.edu Funded by the NSF for Nuclear & Particle Physics Research at Jefferson Lab Research Areas: Meson Spectroscopy with CLAS Construction of a Calorimeter JLab upgrade at 12 GeV Primex (Primakoff Experiment) JLab Dr. Aftab Ahmad Associate Professor, Dept. of Computer Science (757) aftab@nsu.edu Research Areas: Wireless sensors network design for environment monitoring and data acquisition Co existence of multiple wireless systems Interference in communications signals by power lines Page 13

14 Major Research Initiatives at NSU CREAM Center for Research & Education in Advanced Materials NASA Glenn Research Center University Research Center $6,000,000 Principal Investigator: Dr. Sam Sun Research Objectives: Investigate & develop novel nano structured inorganic, organic, & polymeric opto electronic and photonic materials for future generation cost effective, lighter weight, more compact size, higher efficiency and higher capacity opto electronic & photonic device applications. Investigate electron nuclear spin dynamics in high spin systems. Processing, fabrication, and characterization of organic, polymeric, & inorganic nano structured OE/OE materials & thin film devices via spin Coating MVD, PLD, etc. Train students in chemistry & solid state physics relevant to materials science & engineering. Collaborated with over 20 scientists from other academic institutions/ organizations, government labs, & high tech companies. Page 14

15 Major Research Initiatives at NSU CREST Center for Research Excellence in Science & Technology National Science Foundation 10 $8,000,000 Principal Investigator: Dr. Carl Bonner Center for Photonic Materials Research (CPMR) NSU s CREST Center named by NSF as one of the 2 best models of the program. Collaborators: University of Virginia; Purdue University; Institute of Synthetic Polymer Materials, Moscow, Russia; Moscow Institute of Radio Engineering & Electronics, Moscow, Russia; Stevens Institute of Technology, New Jersey; University of Central Florida Research Areas: Photonics Spintronics Nanomaterials Page 15

16 Major Research Initiatives at NSU PREM Partnership for Research & Education in Metamaterials: Patnership for Photonic Metamaterials National Science Foundation $2,800,000 Partnership with Cornell University & Purdue University Principal Investigator: Dr. Mikhail Noginov NSU s PREM considered a best practice model for other NSF PREM programs. Research Focus: Magnetic Nanoparticles Low loss Metamaterials (ranging from sub diffraction i to imaging to information technology Page 16

17 Research Initiatives at NSU Oakridge National Laboratory Nuclear Regulatory Committee HBCU Research Participation Program Funding to support student based activities Dr. Frances Williams & Dr. Arlene Maclin Page 17

18 For further information contact: Annemarie Delgado, Assistant Director, Office of Sponsored Programs Norfolk State University 700 Park Avenue Norfolk, VA Page 18