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Five NSF CAREER Awards a Record for A&S
Professors John Franck, Brett Jakubiak, David Kellen, Davoud Mozhdehi and Minghao Rostami have been awarded five-year CAREER grants to support their innovative research and educational outreach.
Michael Sponsler and Steluta Dinca Awarded NSF EAGER Grant
The grant will support their research with superconducting polyacetylene.

Chemist Timothy Korter Awarded Grant From Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation for Pharmaceutical Research
Korter's grant will support his work to interpret, analyze and model complex pharmaceuticals.

Taking the Guesswork Out of Nanoparticle Design
Professors Davoud Mozhdehi and Shikha Nangia are using machine learning to guide the design of stable nanoparticles.

A&S Chemist Awarded NIH Grant to Develop New Diabetes Drug
$2.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health will explore how to remove the nausea, illness and weight loss associated with a class of Type 2 diabetes treatments.

Resistance is Futile
A team of A&S chemists are working to develop a superconductor that could store vast amounts of energy and make the electrical power grid much more efficient.

Teaching Plastics to “Speak”
Chemist Davoud Mozhdehi is working on an autonomous synthetic material that could create what he calls “smart plastics.”

A New Way to Deliver Therapeutic Drugs to the Brain?
Researchers are investigating a nanoparticle that could 'disguise' itself for entry into the brain.