April 15, 2015 – The Surface Science Lab (SSL) recently hosted a group of students from Bishop Kelly High School visiting Boise State who were interested in engineering. The SSL supports research in the Nanoscale Materials and Device Group (NMDG), as well as several other research programs at Boise State and beyond. The primary instruments used in the SSL are three Bruker atomic force microscopes (AFMs), which allow researchers to see surfaces at the nanometer scale. Currently, the SSL employs a team of four undergraduate researchers to assist the SSL Manager, Dr. Paul Davis, in performing research, training, and equipment maintenance. Pictured below are two of those researchers, Kari Livingston and Katie Yocham. Both Katie and Kari are Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering majors partially supported by an NSF STEP grant.