Prof. Stadler's educational goals include enhancing undergraduate, graduate and underrepresented student research and developing undergraduate and graduate courses in the area of thin film processing and optoelectronics. This includes:

1) Providing opportunities for student research through programs such as our Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP), our NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) and NSF Research Experience for Teachers (RET) program, supervision of graduate students

2) Improving a senior/graduate level elective in thin film processing by adding hands-on team-competition laboratories. (EE5657)

3)  Developed a university-wide freshman seminar on the physics and chemistry of color ("How Color Works!) which will encompass design of materials and applications. We visited 2 elementary schools to pass along what we learned.

        Explosions  in the Driveway.

4) Prof. Stadler founded the Undergraduate Materials Research Iniative (UMRI) for MRS in which undergraduates experience the full research funding cycle by competing for grants.

5) Grassroots outreach includes science to demonstrations to small  groups ranging in age from 3 to 12 so far.  Here are some pix from some demos.

This is Brianna looking through a prism
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Making Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream!