$7.5M NSF Grant Establishes a Materials Research Science and Engineering Center

Front row, left to right: Eric Altman, Chemical Engineering; John Tully, Chemistry, MRSEC Director; Christine Broadbridge, Department of Physics, Southern Connecticut State University, MRSEC Education Director. Back row, left to right: Victor Henrich, Applied Physics, MRSEC Interdisciplinary Research Group Co-Leader; Udo Schwarz, Mechanical Engineering; Charles Ahn, Applied Physics, MRSEC Interdisciplinary Research Group Leader. Missing: Sohrab Ismail-Beigi, Applied Physics; T.P. Ma, Electrical Engineering; Yimei Zhu, Electron Microscopy Facility, Brookhaven National Laboratory. The National Science Foundation has awarded a six-year, $7.5-million grant to establish a Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) at Yale University and Southern Connecticut State University (SCSU), with participation by Brookhaven National Laboratory of Upton, New York.