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Prodan Wins NSF Grant

By On July 26, 2019 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Emil Prodan, professor of physics, has been awarded a three-year grant of $387,000 from the Condensed Matter and Materials Theory Program of the Division of Materials Research at the National Science Foundation (NSF) to support his project in materials science titled “Aperiodic Topological Materials and Meta-Materials.”

“The research is very fundamental,” said Dr. […]

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Dos Santos Receives Major Grant from National Science Foundation

By On July 1, 2017 · Leave a Comment

In January 2017, Dr. Lea Ferreira dos Santos, professor of physics, began work on a project called “Physics of Interacting Quantum Systems with Phase Transitions,” funded by a three-year $190,000 grant from the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Division of Materials Research.

“We are all very well familiar with thermal phase transitions,” explained dos Santos. […]

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