PREM Quarterly
July 2025, Issue #2
Attendees take a break at the recent, two-day CAMPS conference in San Marcos, Texas. This student-centered conference drew 63 participants from PREM programs and 31 from MRSECs. Photo courtesy of Junair ur Rehman.
CAMPS 2025: A Student-Driven Showcase of Innovation, Community, and Future Leadership in Materials Science
CAMPS 2025 brought nearly 100 students from 26 institutions to San Marcos, Texas for a student-led showcase of cutting-edge materials research, career insights, and community building.
High school chemistry teachers dive into hands-on experiments during the recent PREM teacher-training program at Xavier University of Louisiana. Image courtesy of Xavier University of Louisiana.
Louisiana’s PREM Training Program Equips High School Teachers with Practical Tools

Xavier University of Louisiana recently welcomed high school chemistry teachers for a hands-on, weeklong training through its 2025 PREM Teacher-Training Program.

Image credit: Charlotte Geary/NSF
PREM PI Meeting Brings National Network Together

The recent meeting brought together program leaders and NSF staff in Alexandria, Virginia for a day of collaboration, strategy, and shared vision.

Troie Journigan, a postdoc at Purdue University, is researching quantum dynamics in molecules and developing innovative experimental methods to generate entangled biphotons. A former graduate student at the University of Central Florida’s PREM Center, she was recently named the top emerging researcher of 2024 by the Journal of the Optical Society of America B for her study showing how chemically prepared thin films can improve harmonic spectra—an advance that could benefit future attosecond spectroscopy experiments. Check out the study.

  • ACS Fall 2025: Washington, D.C., August 17-21

  • 248th ECS Meeting: Chicago, Illinois, October 12-16

  • 2025 NDiSTEM Conference: Columbus, Ohio, October 30-November 1

  • 2025 MRS Fall Meeting and Exhibit: Boston, Massachusetts, November 30-December 5

Bionaut Labs—a cutting-edge biotechnology company based in Los Angeles—is seeking an experienced Senior Nanoparticles Researcher to lead efforts in nanoparticle synthesis, coating, bioconjugation, and characterization.