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UF Engineer Among 84 Scientists Selected by Dept. of Energy for Early Career Research Program Funding

Assel Aitkaliyeva, an assistant professor of nuclear engineering at the University of Florida, is among 54 university scientists selected by the U.S. Department of Energy to receive significant funding for research as part of the DOE Office of Science’s Early Career Research Program.

Two scientists Who Will Perform Research at FRIB Earn U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science Early Career Awards

Two scientists – Zach Meisel and Jaideep Singh – who perform research at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory and will perform research at FRIB have received U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science Early Career Research Program awards.

UCLA-led Center Receives $9.75 Million to Improve Rechargeable Batteries

An energy research center led by UCLA has been chosen by the U.S. Department of Energy as one of its Energy Frontier Research Centers and awarded a four-year grant of $9.75 million.

DOE Energy Frontier Research Center at Princeton

Princeton University and collaborators have received funding from the Department of Energy (DOE) to establish an Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC) with a focus on “bioinspired light-escalated chemistry (BioLEC).”

Adding an Inert Polymer to Plastic Solar Cells Enables High Efficiency and Easy Production

Polymer plastic solar cells remain an industry priority because of their light weight, flexibility and cost-effectiveness. Now scientists from Stony Brook University and the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) have demonstrated that these types of solar cells can be more efficient and have more stability based on new research findings.

Engineering Professors Receive Department of Energy Early Career Awards

Two faculty members in the Tickle College of Engineering at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, have received Early Career Awards from the Department of Energy for their work in nuclear fusion and structural materials for nuclear energies, respectively.

NMSU Physics Department Awarded $1.26 Million DOE Grant

The three-year DOE grant will fund New Mexico State University physics faculty, students and post-doctoral researchers for three projects: SeaQuest, MicroBooNE and PHENIX.

DOE Early Career Award for alumna Elizabeth Biddinger

CBE alumna Elizabeth J. Biddinger, assistant professor of chemical engineering in The City College of New York's Grove School of Engineering, is one of 84 recipients nationwide of the U.S. Department of Energy Early Career Awards.

Research Center Receives Additional Department of Energy Funding

The Spins and Heat in Nanoscale Electronic Systems center, known as SHINES, at the University of California, Riverside, has received funding for two more years from the Department of Energy. SHINES received $12 million from the department in 2014.

Tiny Brushes That Make Surfaces Slippery May Not Work as Intended

A type of molecular surface thought to be extremely slippery may not stay that way under all conditions, according to new UChicago and Argonne research in Science.

DOE backs materials study for batteries and beyond

Rice University’s Ming Tang has earned an Office of Science Early Career Award to further examine electrodeposition of metals over the next five years.

With Project, UA Physics Professor ‘Pushing the Limit of Our Understanding’

Dr. Wang-Kong Tse, University of Alabama assistant professor of physics, was recently awarded a grant from the 2018 Early Career Research Program sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy, one of 84 scientists from across the nation to receive funding.