National Science Foundation (NSF)

  • Team of professors posing in front of power plant.
    Empowering Rural Electric Infrastructure Resilience

    Associate Professor Alice Alipour is leading a transdisciplinary team for power infrastructure recovery in natural disasters. After the 2020 derecho, she started working directly with communities and local power plants to address the challenge of preparation and prevention of failure in the future. Read More

  • researchers in lab setting
    Combating Corrosion with 3D-Printed Biofilm

    It is an industry-standard practice to rid structures of these microorganisms with chemicals to slow corrosion progression, often coming with high costs and risks to human and environmental health. However, what Associate Professor Kaoru Ikuma and her researchers found is that other microorganisms, or even the same ones, could actually inhibit corrosion. Read More