The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $700,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.049) to fund the "UPR-UW PREM: Center for Advancing Research and Training for STEM Success." This 6-year award, effective September 1, 2024, brings together researchers from the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) at Mayagüez, UPR Medical Sciences Campus, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison Materials Research Science and Engineering Center...
This $700,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports a research partnership between the University of Central Florida (UCF) and the University of Washington (UW) to provide cutting-edge materials research and educational training for underrepresented minority students. The award establishes a Partnership for Research and Education in Materials (PREM) Center for Quantum Material Innovations and Educational...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $349,998 to the Cal State LA University Auxiliary Services Inc. (UAS) and the University of California, Irvine (UCI) Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) for the Partnership for Research and Education in Materials (PREM) Center for Bioinspired and Architectured Materials (CBAM). The project aims to advance research in bioinspired and...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant under the Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) provides $237,916 to the University of Hawaii at Manoa from February 1, 2023 to January 31, 2025. The funding will support research and training to establish a framework for the hierarchical assembly of battery materials using acoustic fields. Specifically, the awardee will elucidate structure-property relationships of nanoparticle networks in materials fabricated through field-assisted...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $248,670 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to the University of Hawaii at Hilo (UHH) for a research project titled "RUI: REARRANGEMENTS OF RELAXED AND EXCITED CARBENES." The project, led by Professor Matthew Platz, will engage UHH undergraduate students in organic synthesis, photochemistry, chemical analysis, and computational modeling to study the reactivity of carbene intermediates. Key...
This Project Grant award, valued at $479,565.00, was provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Materials Research to the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) to fund an Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site focused on materials and devices for sustainable technology applications. The key objectives of this 3-year REU program are to increase retention and graduation rates of underserved populations, particularly Hispanic students from low socio-economic...
This $228,389 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports the "Collaborative Research and Education in Advanced Materials (CREAM) - The Partnership for Research and Education in Materials (PREM)" between North Carolina Agricultural and Technical (NC A&T) State University and the University of California San Diego (UCSD) Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC). The key activities...
This $5,000,000 Project Grant award from the Department of the Navy's Office of Naval Research (ONR) under the Basic and Applied Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.300) supports the "ASIA PACIFIC RESEARCH INITIATIVE FOR SUSTAINABLE ENERGY SYSTEMS 2024 (APRISES24)" initiative. The award, effective April 1, 2025, will fund fundamental and applied research at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, a land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant institution, through July 31, 2029. The research is...
This $350,000 Project Grant was awarded by the Division of Materials Research of the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.049 - Mathematical and Physical Sciences) to Northern Arizona University (NAU), a Hispanic-Serving Institution. The grant supports the "Materials Interfaces Research and Access (MIRA-PREM)" center, which aims to create focused, high-impact materials research projects with inclusive, supportive teams, and provide culturally responsive, community-reflective...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) Project Grant award of $100,000 provides funding to the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) to host a new 3-year Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site focused on materials science and engineering. The REU site will support 10 undergraduate students per year for 10 weeks of hands-on research and learning experiences related to the structure, processing, properties, and performance of materials and...