Fourteen external grants were awarded with departmental faculty as PI or co-PI for a total of $4.2 million during the past year

Some of the new projects funded during the past year are: “Multifunctional SiAION Ceramic Coatings for High Temperature Aerospace Applications” [Lad, AFOSR]; “Nanomechanics Studies of Coatings” [Unertl, Paper Surface Science]; “A Model Program to Enhance Mathematics and Science Education” [McKay, Kaback, and Wittmann, U.S. Dept. of Education]; “Effects of Weak Electric Fields on Cells” [Astumian, read more Fourteen external grants were awarded with departmental faculty as PI or co-PI for a total of $4.2 million during the past year