This $250,886 National Science Foundation Office of Integrative Activities award under the Integrative Activities federal grant program (CFDA 47.083) provides funding for a six-month fellowship at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California. The fellowship will allow an assistant professor and graduate student from the University of Southern Mississippi to receive hands-on training in data-driven materials discovery techniques from experts at the Center for Advanced Mathematics for Energy Research Applications facility. Specifically, the recipients will learn to use high-throughput data collection and data science methods involving microscopy and scattering tools to rapidly screen and synthesize new materials for recycling plastic waste collected in Mississippi and along the Gulf Coast. The training aims to introduce a new data-driven methodology to the principal investigator's research group that can be applied to other scientific problems. It is intended to uniquely benefit the recipients' long-term research careers and provide unique research opportunities for Mississippi STEM students.
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