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Hispanic-serving institutions partner with CHESS

PREM program helps students from Puerto Rico access Cornell’s experimental resources and expertise.

Rick Ryan/CHESS

Faculty Positions Available at the University of New Mexico

The University's Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering is seeking innovative and collaborative researchers and educators in broad areas of chemical engineering.

NSF Awards New PREM Grants

Awards will help fund eight partnerships between minority-serving institutions and leading research facilities.

Fort Lewis College

NSF Research Fellow Graduates from Princeton with High Honors

Electrical Engineering Student Hans Hanley focused his research on cybersecurity.

Courtesy of Hans Hanley

PREM "Path-to-Professorship" Fellow Discusses Challenging but Gratifying Transition into Academia

Hampton University fellowship program, funded by NSF's Department of Materials Research, helps promote diversity in material science research.

Courtesy of Hampton University

DMR Director Discusses Life as a Materials Researcher

Linda Sapochak shared her experiences at a recent MRS meeting in Boston.

Courtesy of NSF/MRS TV

Recent Program Highlights

Synthetic Materials with Attributes of Neural Tissue

Neural tissue evolved 3.5 billion years after the origin of life, which is a testament to its complexity, and is found in almost all multicellular life, which is a testament to its importance.

Donor-Acceptor Binary Organic Compounds – Charge Transfer (CT) Complexes

Charge transfer materials are important components of organic electronics for applications in OLED, solar batteries and transistors. Researchers studied structure-properties relations for this series of materials.

Machine-Learning Algorithms for Nano-Material Characterization

Researchers at New Mexico Highlands University developed finite difference-time domain models for clusters of known substrate nano-particle distributions as well as additional models utilizing open source finite element analysis software.

Partnership for Research and Education in Materials (PREM)

Partnership for Research and Education in Materials (PREM)

The objective of PREM is to enhance diversity in materials research and education by stimulating the development of formal, long-term, collaborative materials research and education partnerships between minority-serving institutions and the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Materials Research (DMR) supported groups, centers, and facilities. [read more]

NSF's Strategic Goals

  • People - a diverse, internationally competitive and globally-engaged workforce.
  • Ideas - discovery across the frontiers of Science and Engineering, connected to learning, innovation, and service to society.
  • Tools - broadly accessible, state-of-the-art S&E facilities, tools, and other infrastructure that enables discovery, learning, and innovation.
  • Organizational Excellence - an agile, innovative organization that fulfills its mission through leadership in state-of-the-art business practices.