Translational Materials and Innovation: Accelerating Global Sustainability, an IMR-led initiative was one of six proposals selected for funding through The Ohio State University’s Discovery Themes Initiative.
In an October 17th email to IMR members, IMR Director Steve Ringel shared the following:
OSU’s Discovery Themes Initiative is a comprehensive plan to target faculty hiring and stimulate interdisciplinary activity to address the grand challenges facing our society in the 21st century, namely, Energy and the Environment; Food Production and Security; and Health and Wellness. The Discovery Themes Initiative’s goal is to accelerate OSU’s rise from excellence to eminence by leveraging Ohio State’s special strengths to address the technological, social, and environmental stresses that define today’s global world. As you may recall, the first round of DTI funding was centered on the focus area of Data Analytics. On August 18, the university announced the results of the second funding opportunity, which included three focus areas: Emerging and Re-Emerging Diseases; Food to Improve Health; and Materials for a Sustainable World. Two projects in each of these 3 areas were selected to move forward, and I am pleased to report that the IMR-led proposal, “Translational Materials and Innovation: Accelerating Global Sustainability,” was one of them! Currently the implementation plans of each Discovery Theme program are being developed and the official announcement by the Executive Vice President and Provost can be found online here.
For more information about this project, visit: http://imr.osu.edu/research/centers/discovery-themes-initiative/