This $431,052 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Office of Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) supports research at Howard University to understand the structural, magnetic, and electronic properties of chromium telluride, a room-temperature magneto-caloric material. The research involves single crystal growth, magnetic, heat capacity, magneto-transport, synchrotron x-ray scattering, and neutron diffraction studies, supplemented by density functional theory simulations. The goals are to determine the material's structural evolution, ground-state electronic structure, and magnetic ordering, as well as explore the parallel anomalous Hall effect. This grant provides research and training opportunities for underrepresented minority students at Howard University, which is the largest research-active Historically Black College or University (HBCU). The project period is from September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2026. No sub-awards are planned under this grant.