MRSEC Seed Grant Opportunities
The Penn State Center for Nanoscale Science, a National Science Foundation Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, will be holding a Seed proposal competition for high-risk, high-reward research ideas that could redirect the efforts of our existing interdisciplinary research groups (IRGs) or even spark new IRGs. In this Cafe I will outline the goals of the Seed program and convey a sense of what constitutes a successful Seed proposal.
MRI Seed Grant Opportunities to Accelerate Research Convergence and Global Reach
Zoubeida Ounaies, Associate Director, MRI
I will discuss the multiple seed grant initiatives in the Materials Research Institute (MRI), that aim at seeding new and multi-unit collaborations. In particular, the special focus of these opportunities is to expand productive research collaborations across OSVPR, by promoting partnerships across the institutes. A second focus is to advance Penn State’s strategic goal in stimulating and enhancing international research collaborations by seeding joint research opportunities with international partnering institutions.
The Millennium Café runs 10-11am in the 3rd floor Café Commons of the MSC Bldg. Join researchers from across campus for a stellar cup of coffee and two <10 min interdisciplinary talks. All Millennium Café events are free and open to the Penn State community, include coffee and breakfast pastries, and are held in the third floor Café Commons of the Millennium Science Complex at University Park.