Spring 1999 Newsletter

The Alphabet Soup

DesCArtES - The NSF-funded Distributed Center for Advanced Electronics Simulations. Its mission is to attack key research and educational challenges for electronic devices and materials by complementing theory and experiment with computation. In addition to its core research efforts, DesCArtES provides outreach and leadership to the electronics research community through intellectual networking, network-based simulation and collaboration, and educational programs.

MARCO - The Microelectronics Advanced Research Corporation (MARCO), a wholly owned subsidiary of SRC, a not-for-profit organization that manages a U.S. university-based pre-competitive Focus Center Research Program (FCRP) in semiconductor technology for its participants and other contributors.

NSF - The National Science Foundation is an independent U.S. government agency responsible for promoting science and engineering through programs that invest over $3.3 billion per year in almost 20,000 research and education projects in science and engineering.

NNUN - The National Nanofabrication Users Network is a network of universities created by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to provide researchers opportunities to turn new ideas for the fabrication of nanoscale structures into experimental reality.

SGF - The Stanford Graduate Fellowships in Science and Engineering are a new, innovative approach to funding graduate studies and research. Students receiving these fellowships are free to choose their research projects and are not dependent on federal funding of a project or on faculty research assistantships.

SRC - The Semiconductor Research Corporation sponsors basic, pre-competitive university research that paves the way for the integrated circuit of the future.

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