Dr. Angela Alexander-Bryant was awarded a grant by the Scientific Advocate Network Program of the SC EPSCoR/IDeA Program. With this funding, Dr. Alexander-Bryant will implement management plans to meet the goals she proposed in two categories: Engaging Underrepresented Students in MADE in SC Research and Recruiting a Diverse Group of Graduate Students.
EPSCoR program funding is offered by five federal agencies: Department of Energy, Department of Agriculture, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the National Science Foundation. The Scientific Advocate Network (SAN) program aims to increase diversity in materials research and education with a goal of increasing diversity of the pipeline of Under Represented Minority (URM) persons, women, and persons with disabilities pursuing and completing STEM degrees. The vision of the NSF EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement grant, Materials Assembly and Design Excellence in South Carolina (MADE in SC), is to discover and establish new and sustainable approaches for the design and assembly of hierarchical materials at multiple relevant length scales that service South Carolina’s STEM research, education, and workforce needs and invigorate economic development. The focus of this initiative is to discover and develop new intelligently designed optical and magnetic materials, stimuli-responsive polymeric materials, and interactive biomaterials.
