The DoD introduced at the moment the 2022 class of Laboratory-College Collaboration Initiative (LUCI) Fellows. The LUCI Fellowship program helps collaboration between DoD laboratory scientists and DoD-funded lecturers, reminiscent of recipients of the Vannevar Bush College Fellowship or Principal Investigators (PIs) of a Multi-Disciplinary College Analysis Initiative award.
“The Division’s investments in our science and expertise workforce is foundationally vital to our safety, simply as necessary as creating and transitioning rising applied sciences to our warfighters. To remain forward, we have to excel in fundamental analysis and a powerful collaboration between the DoD and academia makes that attainable,” stated Heidi Shyu, Beneath Secretary of Protection for Analysis and Engineering. “The groundbreaking analysis by our LUCI awardees is supporting, sustaining, and advancing our scientific and technological benefit.”
The evaluate course of for this aggressive fellowship concerned program officers throughout the Tri-Providers (Military, Navy, and Air Power), Workplace of the Secretary of Protection personnel, and technical consultants from supporting Protection contractors. Out of 61 white papers and 20 applicant interviews, 12 Fellows supporting 10 initiatives had been chosen (some initiatives have two co-Fellows supporting them). Beneath is an inventory of chosen Fellows, their initiatives and collaborators. Every challenge will obtain $200,000 later this 12 months.
To study extra in regards to the Laboratory-College Collaboration Fellowship Program, go to https://basicresearch.protection.gov/Pilots/Laboratory-College-Collaboration-Initiative/
PI |
Undertaking Title |
Collaborator |
Sebastian Diaz (Naval Analysis Laboratory [NRL]) |
Hierarchical DNA-Peptide Liquid-Liquid Condensates and Hybrid Nanostructures |
Rein Ulijn (Metropolis College of New York [CUNY]) |
Jesse Frantz (NRL) |
Excessive Velocity Analog Photonic Computing with Spatio-Temporal Metamaterials |
Andrea Alu (CUNY) |
Jennifer Elle (Air Power Analysis Laboratory [AFRL]) |
Atmospheric Propagation of Broadband, Ultrashort-Pulse Lasers within the Mid-IR |
Atmospheric Propagation of Broadband, Ultrashort-Pulse Lasers within the Mid-IR |
Kurt Jacobs (Military Analysis Laboratory [ARL]) |
Utilizing Colour Facilities to Management Microwaves: Quantum-Enhanced Sensing and Microwave Info Processing |
Dirk Englund (Massachusetts Institute of Expertise) |
Mark Roberts (NRL) |
A Purpose-Biased Studying Agenda for Robotics |
Dana Nau (U. Maryland), George Konidaris (Brown College) |
Blake Simpkins (NRL) |
Cavity Modification of Vibrational Modes for Tailor-made Photochemical Catalysis |
Wei Xiong, Joel Yuen-Zhou (College of California San Diego) |
Mark Twigg and Sarah Brittman (NRL) |
Understanding and Controlling Grain Boundary Diffusion in Nanocrystalline Movies |
Marc DeGraef (Carnegie Mellon College) |
Jeffrey Warrender (ARL) |
Novel Group IV Alloys for Optoelectronic Functions |
Shui-Qing Yu (College of Arkansas) |
Charles Kamhoua (ARL) |
Assault Graph – Based mostly Deception Methods utilizing Recreation Principle |
Jon Kleinberg (Cornell College) |
Madeleine Phillips and Stephen Hellberg (NRL) |
Interacting Electrons in Twisted Moiré Chalcogenide Bi-Layers |
Philip Kim (Harvard College) |
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