For more than a decade, Ronald Cosby and his colleagues have conducted research in the emerging field of nanotechnology, a field expected to have a major impact on the American economy during the next 20 years.

Accomplishments

• Led a Ball State faculty team that received a $1.5 million grant from the Indiana 21st Century Research and Technology Fund to create the Center for Computational Nanoscience.
• Fellow of the Indiana Academy of Science.
• Member of the American Physical Society.
• Author or co-author of numerous articles and studies, some of which cover ways to better introduce students to nanotechnology and other sciences.

Education

• Bachelor's degree from Eastern Kentucky University.
• Master of Science degree in Physics from the University of Kentucky.
• Master of Arts degree in Computer Science from Ball State University.
• Ph.D. from the University of Kentucky.