Dec. 9, 2020

Vannever Bush Fellow, Prof. Tresa Pollock Designs New Superalloy for 3D printing

Professor Pollock of UCSB led a team to design novel alloys that are suitable with the unique additive processing conditions while managing to maintain properties of the given material in demanding environments that are encountered in energy, space, and nuclear applications.

Dec. 3, 2020

Analyzing Migration Patterns From Central America

With a grant from the Department of Defense, UArizona researchers will use natural language processing and machine learning to analyze migration patterns.

Dec. 2, 2020

DOD Awards $50 Million in University Research Equipment Awards

The Department of Defense (DOD) has announced awards to 150 university researchers totaling $50 million under the Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP). These grants will be provided to 85 institutions across 33 states in Fiscal Year (FY) 2021.

Nov. 6, 2020

Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship (VBFF) Fellow, Nader Engheta Wins Isaac Newton Medal and Prize

Last week, optical physicist and Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship (VBFF) Fellow, Professor Nader Engheta (class of 2015) was awarded the 2020 Isaac Newton Medal and Prize for “groundbreaking innovation and transformative contributions to electromagnetic complex materials and nanoscale optics, and for pioneering development of the fields of near-zero-index metamaterials, and material-inspired analogue computation and optical nanocircuitry”.

Oct. 7, 2020

DoD Invests $50 million in Minority-Serving Institutions to Conduct Boundary-Pushing Scientific Research

The Department of Defense (DoD), through the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (OUSD(R&E)), is pleased to announce awards totaling $50 million to Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Minority-Serving Institutions (HBCUs/MSIs) to conduct research in defense priority areas.

July 28, 2020

FY21 Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship Funding Opportunity Announcement

The FY21 Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship (VBFF) Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is now available.

July 20, 2020

New Funding Opportunity for Fundamental Research in Socio-Mathematics of Information and Influence

The funding opportunity for Fundamental Research in Socio-Mathematics of Information and Influence (BRO-20-SOMAII) is now available on grants.gov.

July 14, 2020

DoD Announces Recipients of the Newton Award for Transformative Ideas during the COVID-19 Pandemic

The Department of Defense announced $650,000 in funding to 13 recipients of the Newton Award for Transformative Ideas during the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Feb. 23, 2020

Defense Department Launches $2 Million Aerospace Research and Education Center of Excellence at Tuskegee University

The Department of Defense (DOD), through the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (OUSD(R&E)), has launched the DOD Aerospace Education Research and Innovation Center (AERIC) at Tuskegee University in Alabama.

Dec. 18, 2019

2019 Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship Spotlight: Martin Zwierlein

2019 Vannevar Bush Fellow Dr. Martin Zwierlein will develop a new analog quantum computing