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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The seed partnership between California State University, Long Beach and the NSF MRSEC: Center for Emergent Materials at Ohio State University will focus on frontier research in magnetic, thin film and bio-materials.

This seed PREM, led by Dr. Dhananjay Kumar, a professor of Mechanical Engineering at NC A&T, will develop low-dimensional titanium oxynitride-based materials capable of supporting energy conversion reactions.

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.

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.

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.

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

The PREM Center for Ultrafast Dynamics and Catalysis in Emerging Materials (C-UDCEM) at UCF is an NSF funded Partnerships for Research and Education in Materials (PREM) seed Center.

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.

The PREM to FOSTER-Chem seed partnership will create hybrid semi-synthetic materials using phenolphthalin (PPLn)/phenolphthalein (PPL) monomers and polymers to prepare grafts and blends with glycans such as cellulose and dextran.

The primary research aim of the seed PRES2M partnership is a better understanding of the quantum phenomena within these functional materials through a cyclic interplay between materials synthesis, processing, analysis and theory.

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.

TSUFI PREM is a seed partnership between Tennessee State University (TSU), Fisk University, and the Illinois Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (TSU-Fisk-Illinois, or TSUFI), funded through the NSF PREM program.

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).

This seed partnership is focused on developing advanced nano-to-macroscale defect-bearing and doped materials for emerging energy technologies.

This seed award will establish an interdisciplinary collaborative program at the forefront of functional materials research and provide underrepresented minority students with cutting-edge materials research opportunities.

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.

This PREM seed partnership supports research projects that focus on the development of efficient lithium-based batteries based on solid polymer electrolytes and designing micro- and nanoscale sensors.

The NSF-PREM: Center for Interfacial Electrochemistry of Energy Materials (CIE2M) rests on the partnership of four institutions that complete the PREM pathway, Universidad Metropolitana (UMET) and Universidad del Turabo (UT), the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus and CHESS at Cornell.

This project will build and support a long-term partnership between FSU and NIST. Investigators will collaborate to understand the structure-processing property relationship of nanomaterials.

The Partnerships for Research and Education in Materials (PREM) for functional nanomaterials seeks to leverage the expertise and capabilities at each partner institution to further material science research in nanostructures materials.

The Hampton-Brandeis partnership was formalized in a 2013 Memorandum of Understanding and was initially supported financially by MRSEC funds. The two universities have expanded this partnership to include reciprocal research exchange.

The vision of the proposed JSU-UCSB PREM is to provide opportunities for under-represented minority (URM) participants to become next generation materials scientists through innovative research and education in emerging research areas.

PREM VENTURES is a partnership between Navajo Technical University and Harvard University MRSEC. As the first PREM based at a Tribal University, the partnership will build robust pathways for Native American students in STEM education and careers.

The California State University, Northridge PREM will expand and strengthen its long-term partnership with Princeton Center for Complex Materials by establishing a joint research powerhouse on quantum materials.

Tuskegee University and University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s new PREM partnership will address critical materials issues in research, education and outreach. This specific collaboration will involve faculty and students at these two universities working collaboratively in multiferroic materials.

The PREM partnership between the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) and University of California, Santa Barbara, The UTEP-UCSB PREM will promote scientific excellence through a collective of collaborative research teams following the MRSEC-style Interdisciplinary Research Group model.

The Wisconsin-Puerto Rico PREM will bring together deep and complementary expertise in the synthesis, characterization, modeling and application of multifunctional materials by developing synergies between research and educational outreach at UW and UPR.

The partnership between California State University, Los Angeles and Penn State University has the key goals of establishing a master-of-science degree program in materials science at Cal State L.A. and providing a bridge structure for students to continue on to Ph.D. studies or seek employment.

Part of a new partnership, Hampton University will tap into Brandeis' existing research experience with respect to bioinspired soft materials, focusing on developing more targeted drug delivery systems.

In an area where minority groups make up the majority of the population, NMHU plans to continue its reputation for pioneering new opportunities for its students and researchers. This collaboration will allow NMHU researchers and students to start new research in 2-D graphene.

The partnership between North Carolina Central University and Penn State University's Center for Nanoscale Science is designed to increase the participation of underrepresented minorities in materials science with a peer-to-peer "PENNpal" mentoring program.

Initiated more than a decade ago in a predecessor to the PREM program, this partnership has a renewed award. Already, the collaboration has involved more than 100 students in research with PREM faculty, and additional outreach aimed at K-16 has touched thousands.

With a strong focus on nanofibers, this partnership (which began with UT Pan American) has provided research opportunities for 135 students that included incorporating them as scientific presenters and paper collaborators--and also as partners in submitting 12 patent applications (some licensed).

The research emphasis will be on the development of physical models, numerical algorithms and robust simulation techniques.

The shared goal of Howard University (HU), Cornell University (CU) Gallaudet University (GU), and Prince George's Community College (PGCC) is to systematically identify and support students from under-represented communities while contributing significantly to nanoscience and engineering research.

The mission of our JSU-UCSB PREM program is to foster collaborative, interdisciplinary research and education in polymer self-assembly and biological nano-structured materials that will address the future needs of society & will increase the participation of minorities in material science research.

The Partnership for Photonic Metamaterials aims to achieve excellence and enhance diversity in materials research and education by the development of formal, long-term, collaborative research and education partnership.

The Mission of the Texas State University PREM Center on Interfaces in Materials is to increase participation by underrepresented groups in materials research. The Texas State PREM engages a strong regional demographic by the integration of discovery research into education/outreach activities.

The main goal of our joint NSF PREM program between the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) and the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB) to increase the participation of underrepresented minorities in materials research.

Our goals are to provide the highest quality research and education opportunities in material dynamics, and to use CCNY’s diverse and high-quality student body and research university status to increase participation of under-represented groups in materials science.

The Partnership for Research and Education in Materials (PREM) between three Atlanta University Center (AUC) schools and the Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) at Georgia Institute of Technology (GT) integrates research, education, and student-mentoring.

The NMHU in association with MC established a formal alliance with the STC “Materials and devices for information technology research” – MDITR -  (UW, UA and GIT) in 2009.

The PREM program at University of Puerto Rico at Humacao, a primarily undergraduate institution, involves a successful partnership between the Humacao, Cayey and Río Piedras campuses of the University of Puerto Rico and the MRSEC at University of Pennsylvania.

The UTPA team envisions the PREM program to be a formal venue to “facilitate the development of formal long term materials research and education relationships” with a DMR center and to develop a formal interaction of Materials Science faculty within the College of Science and Engineering.

The University of Texas at San Antonio in collaboration with its MRSEC Partner, Northwestern University are currently involved in studying and developing biological applications of nanoscale materials. The collaboration between UTSA and NU offers state-of-the-art facilities and expertise.

The mission of the Wisconsin - Puerto Rico Partnership for Research and Education in Materials [Wi(PR)2EM] is to strengthen and broaden past collaborations between the University of Wisconsin – Madison (UW) MRSEC and the University of Puerto Rico.

The primary goal of the Partnership for Research and Education in Materials between Xavier University of Louisiana and the New York University MRSEC is to increase the number of underrepresented minority students who pursue graduate degrees in chemistry, physics, and engineering.

The objective of the PREM program is to expand and strengthen the research and educational activities of the multidisciplinary W. M. Keck Computational Materials Theory Center (CMTC) at California State University Northridge (CSUN), a Hispanic-serving institution.

The Howard/Hopkins/PGCC PREM is establishing a pipeline for training great materials scientists and engineers through world-class research and innovative materials education.

The mission of our JSU-UCSB PREM program is to foster collaborative, interdisciplinary research and education in polymer self-assembly and biological nano-structured materials that will address the future needs of society and will increase the participation of minorities in materials science.

PREM-Photonic Metamaterials is working hard towards increasing the number of underrepresented minorities pursuing STEM degrees, particularly in Materials Science, through effective recruitment, mentoring, education, and training of African-American students in cutting-edge research programs.

The mission components of partnership between Tuskegee University’s Center for Advanced Materials (T-CAM) and Cornell University’s MRSEC are to form a long term collaborative research program.

The partnership integrates alliances with local educational institutions, focusing on education and training of minority students, teacher-education, team-based research, and professional development at all levels to result in substantive institutional and infrastructure development.

The program involves undergraduate, graduate and high school students and postdoctoral fellows who participate in cutting-edge interdisciplinary research coupled with educational seminars, workshops, faculty mentoring and advising, and student presentations at scientific conferences.

The program's objectives including To providing opportunities for minority students to participate in Materials Science and Engineering research at FAMU and CMU.

The mission of the PENN-UPRH PREM is to broaden participation and enhance diversity in materials science through a partnership in materials research and education between the University of Puerto Rico and the University of Pennsylvania Materials Research Science & Engineering Center.

This PREM project created a hub for research on advanced materials based on a structured collaboration among a team of thriving UPRM researchers with their high-level UW partners, so as to establish a platform for excellence in education and research.