Educational Outreach: Princeton University Materials Academy

Professor Paul Chaikin describes his experiments modeling the packing of M&Ms and couscous in space shuttle microgravity.

Professor Rick Register works with PUMA robotics teams as they learn teamwork to conquer engineering challenges.

Paul Chaikin, Rick Register, Wole Soboyejo, Daniel Steinberg

The Princeton University Materials Academy (PUMA) brings together faculty, students, research staff with local high school teachers and students for a number of challenging and informative summer workshops focused on materials science.

For QuickTime movies of TV news clips describing the PUMA program, click on the following links:

August 18 2003, PUMA - NJNews
August 5 2003, PUMA - WZBN News

For more information on the PUMA program, please visit the PCCM Educational Outreach website.