Investigators at 4 state universities receive awards

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Eight awards have been made to investigators at four state universities by the Materials Assembly and Design Excellence in South Carolina – Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research — known as Made in SC / EPSCoR — as part of its Scientific Advocate Network program, which aims to increase diversity in materials research and education.

The awards, with a maximum budget of $10,000 each, provide funding for three primary goals: engaging underrepresented students in research for Made in SC; recruiting diverse graduate students; and support of scientific conferences.

The recipients and award areas are:

• Thomas Crawford, University of South Carolina: How recording medium properties affect the self-assembling of magnetic nanoparticles onto recorded nanotemplates.
• Eric Davis, Clemson: Supporting involvement of underrepresented minorities and women in research related to stimuli-responsive polymers.
• Julia Frugoli, Clemson: Stem – All In graduate recruitment support.
• Ming Hu, University of South Carolina: Multiresolution data-based AlphaGo for thermal materials discovery.
• Michael Matthews, University of South Carolina: Hosting a 2019 Getting Ready for Advanced Degrees lab with The National Gem Consortium for the recruitment of a diverse group of STEM graduate students.
• Angela Peters, Claflin University: Two awards for two sessions of 2019 biomaterials research summer internship program for high school students.
• Titus Reaves, Medical University of South Carolina: Ernest Everett Just Symposium supporting diversity in graduate medical education.