Building Center Community
PEAQS is a partnership between Fort Lewis College, Norfolk State University, and the NSF Science and Technology Center, STROBE. Woven throughout PEAQS are highly collaborative materials science research and education projects requiring a strong center community and confident, empowered undergraduate researchers. In the first 9 months of PEAQS, an emphasis was made to strengthen the PEAQS community and empower our undergraduate researchers through:
- 6 cross institutional exchanges across all PEAQS nodes, involving >17 faculty, staff, and students leading to numerous collaborative projects
- Week long research experience at CU Boulder for two FLC undergraduate researchers
- Numerous oral and poster presentations given by PEAQS undergraduate researchers
- Peer network building at all institutions through active student groups


Fort Lewis College-Norfolk State University-STROBE
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.