July 23, 2018

Team led by Dr. Jian Luo, 2014 Vannevar Bush Fellow, Sheds Insight into What Makes Nickel Brittle

Nickel is essential to the stainless steel industry due to its ability to enable strong, corrosion-resistant alloys for applications ranging from gears and transmission shafts to turbines and cryogenics.  A long-standing issue in making these alloys is contamination with sulfur impurities during the manufacturing process, which cause them to fail

June 25, 2018

White Paper Submission Open for 2019 Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship Class

The Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship is the Department of Defense's most prestigious single-investigator award of up to $3 million over five years. The Fellowship supports bold and ambitious "blue sky" research that may lead to extraordinary outcomes such as revolutionizing entire disciplines, creating entirely new fields, or disrupting accepted

June 22, 2018

Team led by 2017 Vannevar Bush Fellow, Dr.Teri Odom, Develops Tunable Lasers Inspired by Nature

Chameleons are well-known for their ability to change color, a feature driven by nanocrystals embedded in their skin. By controlling how closely these crystals are spaced together, chameleon skin can reflect different wavelengths of light and change the color that we see. In a new study published in Nano Letters, Dr. Teri Odom and her team have

June 4, 2018

2017 Vannevar Bush Fellow, Dr. Shanhui Fan, has Research Highlighted in New York Times

The grand challenges of today won’t be solved by just improving existing technologies with current techniques. We’ll need creative and dynamic new ideas and approaches, fueled by basic research, to change the current paradigm of how we do things.In a recent New York Times article, Dr. Shanhui Fan, a 2017 Vannevar Bush Fellow, discusses his team’s

May 29, 2018

Multidisciplinary University Research Initiatives to Promote US-Australian University Research Partnerships

The Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI), which the Basic Research Office oversees, has long supported collaborative, team-based research that has enabled breakthroughs such as microcontact printing and self-assembled materials. With recent MURI awards granted to research teams in the US and Australia, that mission has now

May 25, 2018

Minerva Research Initiative Funding Opportunity Announcement

The Office of the Secretary of Defense recently announced a new call for proposals for the Minerva Research Initiative, a university-led social sciences program that seeks fundamental understanding of the social and cultural forces that shape regions of the world of US interest. Additional information on the Minerva Initiative can be found on its

May 21, 2018

Bilateral Academic Research Initiative Funding Announcement

The Department of Defense (DoD) is soliciting applications for the Bilateral Academic Research Initiative (BARI) Pilot Program. BARI supports basic collaborative research between U.S. and U.K institutions of higher education to combine unique skillsets and approaches that can provide rapid advances in scientific areas of potential interest to the

May 3, 2018

Three Vannevar Bush Fellows Elected to National Academy of Sciences

Dr. Jennifer Lewis and Dr. Mikhail Lukin, both of Harvard University, and Dr. Umesh Vazirani of the University of California, Berkeley, were recently elected to the National Academy of Sciences for their outstanding scientific achievements.  All three are also Vannevar Bush Fellows.  Dr. Lukin is a Professor of Physics and Scientific Co-Director of

April 25, 2018

Dr. Ivan Schuller, 2015 Vannevar Bush Fellow, inducted into American Academy of Arts and Sciences

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences, founded by John Adams, John Hancock, and James Bowdoin during the American Revolution, is an honorary society dedicated to the advancement of important societal, scientific, and intellectual issues. This year, Dr. Ivan Schuller will join the Academy’s 2018 Class of Fellows. Dr. Schuller is a Professor of

April 25, 2018

2016 Vannevar Bush Fellow Dr. Jennifer Lewis Honored by the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering

Each year, the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) inducts a select group of scientists and engineers into their College of Fellows for significant contributions to medical and biological engineering. Dr. Jennifer Lewis was inducted into this year’s College of Fellows for her pioneering work in materials science and