AFRL Equipment Donation Helps Prepare Emerging STEM Workforce

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio (AFRL) – The Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, recently signed an Educational Partnership Agreement with Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, to donate an ultra-high vacuum scanning tunneling microscope, or UHV STM, to the Corbett Research Group led by Dr. Joseph Perry Corbett, an assistant professor of physics at Miami University. Prior to joining Miami University, Corbett worked as a research scientist with AFRL’s Agile Electronics Team.  

Jeremy Gratsch, technology transfer and partnerships lead for AFRL's Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, said when a piece of research equipment is retired, they try to find an educational institution that can put it to good use within their own programs.

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