Opportunities

Nanoscale Imaging Contest—Submit by Sept. 25!

In celebration of National Nanotechnology Day and National Chemistry Week, three scientific organizations are holding a joint image contest. The American Chemical Society (ACS) is sponsoring the prizes for NanoInFocus. The top three winning images will receive prizes of up to $1,000. The winning images may also be featured in the NNI Supplement to the President’s Budget, which will be sent to Congress, and in Chemical & Engineering News, a weekly news magazine published by ACS.

Submissions due Sept. 25!

MIT.nano job opening: User Services Coordinator

MIT.nano is hiring a user services coordinator! This person will act as the primary point of contact and customer success representative for MIT.nano. A bachelor’s degree and at least two years’ administrative, operations, and/or project/program management experience is required.

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MIT.nano Job Opening: Applications Engineer

The Applications Engineer will play a key role in implementing and maintaining MIT.nano’s lab management system – NanoFab Equipment Management & Operations (NEMO) MIT.nano is a large shared services facility with over 1,000 users and hundreds of tools and instruments. NEMO, developed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, is an open source web application used to schedule reservations, enable/disable tools, track maintenance issues, track tool usage, and more.

#HackDisability: AI for Accessibility—Feb. 23

The Howe Innovation Center and MIT CSAIL are hosting #HackDisability: AI for Accessibility – a hackathon that will bring together diverse teams of software and hardware engineers, students, product managers, MBAs, designers, and people with the lived experience of having a disability, with the shared goal of developing innovative AI solutions to enhance accessibility for people with disabilities.

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Blueprint Program by The Engine; Applications Due Mar. 5

Blueprint, by The Engine is a nonresident program for graduate students, postdocs, and research scientists to explore the commercial opportunities of their scientific breakthroughs. The program is designed to give future Tough Tech leaders a chance to learn the entrepreneurial process from those who are living it, as well as provide a platform to crystallize the commercial potential of participants’ startup concepts. The Spring 2024 program will be held on five Fridays between April 5th to May 10th.

Apply by March 5.

IAP 2024: Make your own chip inside the lab!

Step inside MIT.nano’s fab to create a 1x1 inch chip with your favorite image to take home with you! We will work inside the MIT.nano cleanroom: learn how to gown up, understand the different fab tools, and use the tools to pattern a 50 nm thin layer of aluminum with your design.

Multiple dates and times available.

Register by January 8, 2024