All events take place from 5-7 p.m. at the Strand Union Ballrooms on the MSU campus. Children must be accompanied by an adult.
For the first time ever, this annual event will feature other small-scale – but larger-than-nano – science and engineering projects, including microbiology research in Yellowstone National Park.
Visitors can stop in at any time for activities and demonstrations such as examining hydrogel, extracting DNA, viewing nanogold, and learning about static electricity. Several new activities have been added for 2015.
At MSU, researchers are using nanoscience to develop targeted vaccines, magnetic materials for electronics, and catalysts for producing hydrogen. Nanoscience is an emerging field that blends chemistry, physics, engineering and other areas of science, and is one of the country's top research priorities. Many other students and faculty are involved in small-scale (but not nano) research, including studying the micro-organisms that live in Yellowstone’s hot springs and the bacteria that help plants absorb nitrogen from the soil.
NanoDays / MicroDays is sponsored by MSU Extended University and Montana NSF EPSCoR. For more information, visit http://eu.montana.edu/nanodays