The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is one of DMR’s newest MRSECs. This NSF-funded $15.5 million research center is designed to bring eight departments together to study innovative materials. “We work together to understand fundamental materials problems that eventually will help us in society and help us lead better lives,” says Nadya Mason, University of Illinois physics professor and director of the new MRSEC. Hear more from Mason in her interview on WCIA’s “The Morning Show.”