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UW to host NSF-funded center for innovation, education in materials science

The University of Washington is home to the new Molecular Engineering Materials Center — a national center of excellence for research, education and training in materials science. The center is a partnership among UW faculty from the College of Arts & Sciences, the College of Engineering, the Clean Energy Institute and the Molecular Engineering & Sciences Institute and will reinforce the UW’s record of innovative, collaborative and cross-disciplinary research in the materials sciences.

The center is funded by a $15.6 million, six-year grant from the National Science Foundation as part of its highly competitive Materials Research Science and Engineering Center program. Funding for the UW’s Molecular Engineering Materials Center began Sept. 1. The NSF supports 20 MRSECs across the nation, and the UW’s is one of only two on the West Coast.

Read more about the UW MRSEC from UW News.