On February 4, the Institute for Materials Research submitted a full proposal to the Ohio Department of Development Technology Division in response to its RFP for an Ohio Research Scholars Program (ORSP) in Advanced Materials.
The proposal, “Technology-Enabling and Emergent Materials,” requested a total of $35 million from the state to help fund eight endowed research scholar faculty positions. If this proposal is successful, the university will gain four of those endowed faculty positions in advanced materials in three colleges (Engineering, Mathematical and Physical Sciences, and Food, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences), allowing us to further strengthen our presence in the materials-allied research fields.
The proposal team included Steve Ringel, Jim Lee, Sharell Mikesell, Stephen Myers, Michael Mills, Prabir Dutta, and Layla Manganaro, with contributions from many other OSU faculty, staff, and administrators. The University of Dayton and University of Akron served as collaborating academic institutions, and 49 other collaborators represented industry, research centers, and associations throughout Ohio.
A public meeting will take place downtown on March 5th where state officials will discuss the 23 ORSP proposals. Awards should be announced by late May.
In 2007, IMR coordinated major proposal submissions from OSU to the National Science Foundation ERC, IGERT and MRSEC programs, and last month IMR provided coordination of OSU’s full proposal to the NSF MRSEC program.