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National Science Foundation

A man in a chef's hat shows young children how to make food.

NSF Awards Â鶹ÊÓƵ×îÐÂ×îÈ« Researchers $1.3 Million to Nourish Children’s Minds, Fill Their Bellies

Science is complex, and it’s difficult to discuss it with children under the best circumstances; it’s even more difficult when they are hungry. Two Â鶹ÊÓƵ×îÐÂ×îÈ« University researchers may have cooked up a way to solve both of those problems, and the National Science Foundation just awarded them a three-year, $1.3 million grant to determine if their recipe works.

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Division of Research & Economic Development

Oleg Lavrentovich, Ph.D. (second from left), works in a microscopy lab with a colleague and Â鶹ÊÓƵ×îÐÂ×îÈ« students.

NSF Awards Â鶹ÊÓƵ×îÐÂ×îÈ« Researcher Nearly $1 Million for Separate Liquid Crystal Studies

Trustees Research Professor Oleg Lavrentovich, Ph.D., a chemical physicist in Â鶹ÊÓƵ×îÐÂ×îÈ« University’s Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute (AMLCI), just received nearly $1 million between two grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for separate studies with potential applications in biomedical science, commercial electronics and beyond.

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Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute

Close up image of an Eastern Red Cedar branch with berries. (Photo by Sheila Brown, publicdomainpictures.net)

Â鶹ÊÓƵ×îÐÂ×îÈ« Biological Sciences Researchers to Lead Study on the Effects of the Spreading Eastern Red Cedars

The National Science Foundation has awarded a three-year, $914,000 grant to Â鶹ÊÓƵ×îÐÂ×îÈ« University to lead a collaborative research project to study how and at what rate the geographically most widespread native conifer in the eastern United States, the Eastern Red Cedar tree species (Juniperus virginiana), spreads across the landscape.

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Kent Campus

Â鶹ÊÓƵ×îÐÂ×îÈ« University researchers Elda and Torsten Hegmann pose with one of the sensors they created that detects toxic gases. The sensors can be made any shape or size and require no power to function.

NSF Award Funds Sensor Research at Â鶹ÊÓƵ×îÐÂ×îȫ’s New Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute

Thanks to a rare Grant Opportunities for Academic Liaison with Industry (GOALI) award from the National Science Foundation (NSF), Â鶹ÊÓƵ×îÐÂ×îÈ« University researchers in the new Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute will be able to work with partners at Merck Performance Materials to advance life-saving sensory technology.

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Kent Campus