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2024

CSULB-OSU Partnership for Education and Research in Topological Materials

This partnership leverages CSULB's status as an urban Hispanic-serving institution to build educational pathways at the undergraduate and graduate levels, including post-bachelors bridge programming and a research-based Master of Sciences degree.

Center for Bioinspired and Architectured Materials (CBAM)

This seed partnership aims to advance research in bioinspired and architected materials systems for energy, biomedical, and environmental applications while broadening the participation of students.

Center for Interfacial Electrochemistry of Energy Materials (CIE2M)

This partnership aims to retain and support underrepresented students in Puerto Rico pursuing energy materials research, leveraging educational and outreach programs at CHESS.

Collaborative Research and Education in Advanced Materials (CREAM)

CREAM leverages cutting-edge research in advanced materials and a seamlessly integrated education program in a pathway to provide financial support and mentoring for students, while establishing NCAT as a globally recognized hub for materials research and education.

JSU-UCSB Partnership for Research and Education in Materials Science

This partnership will provide opportunities for participants historically underrepresented in STEM to become next generation materials scientists through innovative research and education in emerging research areas.

Seed Project

Materials Interfaces Research and Access (MIRA-PREM)

This seed partnership is designed to create clear, focused, high-impact materials research projects with inclusive, supportive research teams, and culturally responsive, community-reflective education opportunities.

Seed Project

NMSU-UCSB Partnership for Research and Education on Quantum Materials and Processes (PREQ)

This seed partnership will build significant capacity and infrastructure for research and education in materials at NMSU, complementing an existing pathway towards careers in national nuclear security.

PREM Center for Quantum Material Innovations and Educational Excellence (CQ-MIEE)

This partnership will offer materials research opportunities and training for potential and matriculating UCF students at the high school, undergraduate and graduate levels. It integrates innovative recruitment strategies and outreach to regional colleges and organizations.

Partnership for Education and Advancement of Quantum and nano-Sciences (PEAQS)

This initiative aims to advance cutting-edge materials science while leveraging expertise in nanoscale synthesis, characterization, and device integration. PEAQS addresses challenges in nanotherapeutics, nanoelectronics, and thermoelectrics.

Partnership for Research and Education in Functional Materials

This goal of this PREM is to provide a program at the cutting edge of materials research and an educational pathway for URM students by providing unique research and educational opportunities, mentoring and professional development programs.

TSUFI Partnership for Research and Education in Materials

The TSUFI PREM is a collaborative initiative that leverages the unique strengths of TSU, Fisk University, and the MRSEC at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign to advance materials science research and broaden participation in STEM fields.

UPR-UW PREM Center for Advancing Research and Training for STEM Success

This partnership unites researchers from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez, the UPR Medical Sciences Campus, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison MRSEC to advance groundbreaking materials research.

University of Hawaii - University of Washington PREM Materials Research and Education Consortium (MRE-C)

This collaboration will combine UHM’s strengths in materials synthesis and specialized techniques with UW’s advanced resources to advance materials science to address critical challenges in clean energy and sustainability.

Seed Project

Venture for Innovation in Self-assembly and integration of Optoelectronic Nanostructures (VISION)

VISION fosters innovation in quantum and nanomaterials research while broadening participation in STEM, supporting collaborative projects on quantum emitters and light manipulation using colloidal quantum dots.

XULA-UChicago Partnership for Research and Education in Innovative Composite Materials

This partnership address critical challenges in energy storage while fostering educational initiatives, including K-12 teacher training, academic enrichment programs, and outreach through art to spark interest in materials science.

2021

NMHU-BioPACIFIC MIP PREM

The NMHU–BioPACIFIC MIP PREM represents a collaboration between NMHU and BioPACIFIC MIP at UCSB and UCLA in design, synthesis and applications of metal-organic hybrid biomaterials.

NSF PREM for Advanced Interface Materials

This PREM program will establish a long term partnership between Clark Atlanta University, Spelman College, and the Platform for the Accelerated Realization, Analysis, and Discovery of Interface Materials at Cornell University.

NSF PREM for Device Innovation through Inclusive Research and Education

The NSF PREM for Device Innovation through Inclusive Research and Education is a partnership between the University of Puerto Rico (UPR), Humacao, and Cayey, and the University of Pennsylvania (PENN) MRSEC.

NSF PREM for Hybrid Nanoscale Systems

The NSF PREM for Hybrid Nanoscale Systems between NCCU and Penn State aims to boost participation and academic success of underrepresented minority students in material science and related disciplines.

NSF PREM for Innovations in Materials, Processes, and Applications for Quantum Technologies (NSF PREM IMPAQT)

NSF PREM IMPAQT will focus on fundamental and practical aspects of new 2D materials and processes that can be transformative in quantum science.

PREM VENTURES

NSF PREM VENTURES will build pathways for Native American students in STEM, from K-12 to graduate school, and address research areas that are important to the Navajo Nation, such as monitoring of abandoned mines, agriculture, elder care, manufacturing and veterinary care.

Seed Project

SMaRT QD PREM

The SMaRT QD seed award aims to build from machine learning studies using the MGI approach in the ‘bottom-up’ assembly of building blocks to design with specific composition, morphology, and structural properties to hierarchical systems and controlling such systems.

TxState-UT PREM Center for Intelligent Materials Assembly (CIMA)

Texas State University (TxState) has partnered with The University of Texas at Austin (UT) Center for Dynamics and Control of Materials (UT-CDCM) to form the TxState-UT PREM Center for Intelligent Materials Assembly (CIMA).

UTRGV-UMN PREM

The vision of the UTRGV/UMN PREM is to develop human capital and infrastructure by bridging fundamental and engineering research on nanomaterials with innovation in the development of devices and systems for practical applications.