This winter has been an impressive season for awards and research grants at Poly. Below is a quick look at each (click on the title for the full story). If you’d like to add an item to this list or have material for another Kudos post, please send it in via the “submit content” link above.
NSF awards $570k to a Poly-Stevens Partnership for Innovation Program
Co-Principal Investigators: Kurt H. Becker, Associate Provost for Research and Technology Initiatives, and Bruce Niswander, Director of the BEST Center
Funding for: Environmental Entrepreneurship Lab (E2-Lab) which fosters rapid marketplace realization of environmental innovations.
Assistant Professor Porfiri receives prestigious CAREER award from NSF
Awarded to: Maurizio Porfiri, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
About the award: The award includes a five-year/$419,000 grant that will go towards research that “aspires to close the loop between engineering and nature” through a study of engineered guidance and control of fish shoals.
Professor Levon secures grant from New York State for stem cell research
Granted to: Kalle Levon, Professor of Chemical and Biological Science
Funding for: The $100,000/one-year development grant will go towards training and equipment related to Professor Levon’s study of the impact of electrostatic forces on stem cells.
Illuminating Innovation: Professor Jackson wins Hans Sauer Award
Awarded to: Dr. Myles Jackson, Dibner Family Professor of History of Science and Technology, for his book Spectrum of Belief: Joseph von Fraunhofer and the Craft of Precision Optics
About the award: The Hans Sauer Foundation gives the award every two years to two people who have made significant contributions towards raising the awareness of inventors, innovators, inventions and innovations.
$3 million/5-year NSF GK-12 Fellows grant to promote mechatronics at K-12 schools
Research team: Professor Vikram Kapila, Principal Investigator and Director of AMPS; Co-Principal Investigators: Professor Magued G. Iskander and Dr. Noel Kriftcher, Executive Director of Poly’s David Packard Center; Senior Personnel: Professor Dariusz Czarkowski, Professor Rastislav Levicky, and Professor Maurizio Porfiri
Funding for: Applying Mechatronics to Promote Science (AMPS), a collaborative program that engages middle school students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics studies through mechatronics-based science labs and robotics competitions.
Assistant Professor Montclare receives important chemical science grant
Awarded to: Jin Kim Montclare, Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biological Sciences
About the award: The $50,000 award from The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation will support Professor Montclare’s project to develop an outreach program in close collaboration with The Urban Assembly Institute of Math and Science for Young Women that will integrate chemistry and biology.