The Smalley-Curl Institute supports ground-breaking research and education in the areas of Nanoscale Science and Technology, Quantum Materials, and Quantum Information Science. SCI faculty members represent the spectrum of science and engineering disciplines at Rice, and the Institute fosters collaboration across Rice schools and departments as well as with colleagues in academia, industry, and government institutions around the world. SCI also directs several endowed postdoctoral fellowships and encompasses the Applied Physics Graduate Program, the Rice Quantum Initiative, and the Rice Center for Quantum Materials.