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DMREF Leadership Discusses Program Impact at DMR's Monthly Open Hour Webinar
4/12/2024 | By Divya Abhat
At this month’s DMR Open Hour, DMREF program director John Schlueter discussed the focus and impact of the DMREF Program. This highly competitive program funds small teams of researchers. Competitions for this program take place on a biannual basis; the next competition is scheduled for January 2025.
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AFRL, National Science Foundation, academia converge in Miami Valley to accelerate materials discovery to deployment
12/22/2023 | By Gail L. Forbes
The Air Force Research Laboratory, the National Science Foundation, and representatives from some of the nation’s leading academic institutions recently joined forces in Ohio, for the NSF’s DMREF and AFRL Kickoff. The two-day event provided a rare opportunity for members of AFRL’s world-class science and technology workforce to share scientific plans with fellow materials researchers from some of the country’s most distinguished universities to accelerate the transition of new materials from design to deployment in support of the nation’s warfighters over the next four years.
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NSF Appoints New DMR Division Director
10/6/2023 | By Divya Abhat
In early 2023, the National Science Foundation (NSF) appointed Germano Iannacchione as the new Division Director of its Division of Materials Research (DMR)—a division with a critical objective to invest in the discovery, development, and design of new materials.
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NSF Invests $72.5 Million to Design Revolutionary Materials
9/18/2023
NSF supports 37 teams to create novel materials to address grand societal challenges and develop the scientific and engineering workforce of tomorrow.
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NSF Announces New Solicitation for its DMREF Program
12/14/2022
Awards could range from $1.5-$2 million over four years.
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How Has DMREF Fared in the Last Decade?
11/18/2022 | By Divya Abhat
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine recently published a report evaluating the goals and accomplishments of NSF’s DMREF Program.
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From Theory to Application: How the DMREF Program Helps Accelerate Advanced Materials Research
10/20/2021 | By Divya Abhat
What began as a small program with roughly 14 projects has now expanded to more than 200 projects. DMREF teams from universities across the U.S. collaborate to discover, develop, and help manufacture new materials.
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NSF Announces New DMREF Awards
10/14/2021 | NSF Press Release
Of the 37 awards, 13 include Air Force Research Laboratory collaborators through the NSF-Air Force Partnership in Advanced Material Sciences.
10/17/2022 - 11/17/2022
Materials Laboratories of the Future: Instrumentation and Infrastructure to Accelerate the Unification of the Materials Innovation Infrastructure.
The NSF Division of Materials Research is sponsoring a series of workshops that will identify critical gaps, essential needs, and emerging opportunities in instrumentation and infrastructure needed to help keep the United States at the forefront of materials research.
6/27/2022 - 6/28/2022
Materials Genome Initiative Accelerating Materials Research, 5th Principal Investigator Meeting
College Park, Maryland
1/1/2021 - 1/31/2021
2021 HybriD3 Theory Training Workshop
This workshop, held virtually in January 2021, introduced students and other early-career scientists to the theory and practical applications of atomistic modeling techniques in materials science, chemistry, and condensed matter physics, particularly first-principles electronic structure calculations. Organizers offered a three-day program of lectures and simple hands-on sessions, designed to provide an entry point to the current most important, density-functional theory based simulation approaches in computational molecular and materials science.
3/26/2018 - 3/27/2018
Materials Genome Initiative Accelerating Materials Research, 4th Principal Investigator Meeting
College Park, Maryland
1/11/2016 - 1/12/2016
Materials Genome Initiative Accelerating Materials Research, 3rd Principal Investigator Meeting
Bethesda, Maryland
1/12/2015 - 1/15/2015
DOE/NSF Materials Genome Initiative, 2nd Annual Principal Investigator Meeting
Bethesda, Maryland