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The ACS Project SEED program offers economically disadvantaged high school students an opportunity to broaden their education in the field of science as well as thinking about new career paths as they approach critical turning points in their lives. The program representative is professor Chuanbing Tang.
In 2000, Linda Shimizu initiated and developed a K-12 outreach program, the first of its kind at USC. The program representative is professor Linda Shimizu.
South Carolina SAXS Collaborative organizes an annual summer program to introduce SAXS techniques to South Carolina students across the state. This fully guided program introduces the basic concepts and some analytic methods used widely for SAXS experiments all over the world in advanced nanomaterial studies. Students are trained and perform their own measurements on a range of different samples. In small teams, the students work together to infer understandings of the nanoscale structure from the measured data. The program representative is professor Morgan Stefik.
Wi-Sci creates a supportive network for women in science, technology engineering and math (STEM) disciplines that will increase opportunities for women to occupy at least 50% of new positions projected for STEM disciplines in the Carolinas. The program representative is professor Natalia Shustova.