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ONEONTA, N.Y. -- Dr.
Kamala Mahanta, Associate Professor of
Physics at the SUNY
College at Oneonta, will speak on June 15 at the 116th Annual Conference of
the American Society for Engineering Education in Austin, Texas. She will
offer a presentation entitled "A Nanotechnology Research and Education
Effort at SUNY Oneonta."
Dr. Mahanta is highly involved in research on nanotechnology, the science
of building electronic and other devices from extraordinarily small
particles such as single atoms and molecules. She has conducted nano-wire
research through a grant from the New York Nano Bio Molecular Information
Technology Incubator program. Through the program, based at the SUNY
Institute of Technology at Utica/Rome, SUNY Oneonta has collaborated in
nanotechnology research with a number of colleges and universities.
A member of the SUNY Oneonta faculty since 1988, Dr. Mahanta holds a
doctorate and master's from the University of Manchester in England as well
as a master's and bachelor's from Gauhati University in India. She taught
previously at the University of Manchester, Cranfield Institute of
Technology, and the SUNY Institute of Technology. Dr. Mahanta also worked as
a contractor and faculty fellow with NASA for several years in developing
continuous fiber-reinforced ceramic composite materials.
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