A&T Awarded Grant A&T has been awarded a grant for an Engineering Research Center (ERC) from the National Science Foundation (NSF).

nCoat Signs Technology Development Agreement With North Carolina A&T State University
nCoat will be collaborating with NC A&T's Center for Advanced Materials and Smart Structures (CAMSS) ...

NSF: The Longest Carbon Nanotubes You've Ever Seen
CAMSS faculty S. Yarmolenko and J. Sankar participate in the research on growth of long carbon nanotube arrays which has been recently acknowledged by NSF.
NSF Press Release 07-055, published on May 10, 2007 Additional info: http://www.uc.edu/news/NR.asp?id=5700

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Getting small
Imagine a world where you take smaller doses of pain medication to get rid of that headache. Imagine a world where cancer patients have a safer, more effective alternative to chemotherapy. That world isn't too far down the road, experts say, thanks to developments in nanotechnology.
October 1, 2006 - High Point Enterprise

Bringing science together by Bringing people together:
Jagannathan Sankar had a common mishap. "This morning, I spilled coffee on my tie," he says. But Sankar, a North Carolina A&T State University professor, faults his garment, not his clumsiness, for the stain. "What if I want a material that didn't absorb coffee?"...

"One Team... One Dream..." For many South Asian scholars, HBCUs have long provided a welcoming environment to launch academic careers By B. Denise Hawkins
When Jagannathan Sankar was a newly minted Ph.D. in search of his first teaching post, historically Black North Carolina A&T Suite University made him an offer he couldn't refuse - a chance to be a big fish in a small pond. That was more than 21 years ago. A native of India, the effusive Sankar took A&T up on their offer in 1983. As an engineering professor, he fast became that big fish in the small pond, developing high-profile advanced materials research and education programs at the university at a time when a research infrastructure was almost non-existent there.

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