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USC Viterbi Faculty Earn $23.6 Million in Grants
- P. Daniel Dapkus
By Eric Mankin on October 26, 2009 12:48 PM
Faculty researchers at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering have won $23.6 million in funding as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
The act, which was passed by Congress and signed into law in February by President Obama, is designed to fund research projects that will stimulate the economy and create or retain jobs while potentially making significant scientific progress over the next two years.
The success of USC Viterbi investigators in capturing these highly competitive awards “speaks well for the quality of our faculty,” said dean Yannis C. Yortsis.
Large grants include a $12.5 million Energy Frontiers Research Center grant awarded to a group headed by P. Daniel Dapkus of the Ming Hsieh Department to develop better solar cells and light-emitting diodes; $1.6 million to Ewa Deelman for a new interface supporting grid computing; and $1.2 million to Kevin Knight, who will develop tools to decipher unknown scripts.
Other grants will support medical engineering research and work in green nanocrystal manufacturing, among other areas.
“In addition to increasing scientific knowledge,” said Maja Mataric, USC Viterbi senior associate dean of research, “this work has the potential to create valuable new job-creating technology.”
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