NUANCE

Career Day For Girls

On Saturday, February 25^th, the NUANCE Center took part in the 46^th annual Career Day for Girls. This program, organized by the McCormick School of Engineering and Northwestern’s Society of Women Engineers, offers female students in 6^th-12^th grade an opportunity to learn more about the different fields of engineering. Undergraduate students led over 300 participants around the university, visiting various labs across campus.

At NUANCE’s EPIC facility, graduate students from the Dravid Group and Lauhon Group offered the young visitors demonstrations on instruments such as an SEM, TEM, and an optical microscope.

Jen DiStefano and Will Kellogg show participants the Mantis Optical Microscope.

Akshay Murthy presenting the Hitachi S3400N-II SEM

Megan Hill shows SEM imagery

Yue Li and Jann Grovogui demonstrate the Hitachi HT-7700 S/TEM (Cryo)

 

More information on the event can be found here.