A three-institution partnership of Tennessee State University (TSU), the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Fisk University has just won a $4.2 million, six-year grant under the Partnerships for Research and Education in Materials Research (PREM) program of the National Science Foundation (NSF).
TSU and Fisk are the biggest and the oldest historically Black universities in Nashville, Tennessee, and the new award will support a collaborative research and education partnership among TSU, Fisk and the Illinois Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (I-MRSEC) at Illinois.
The primary goal of the new award is to enhance the recruitment of underrepresented minority students from TSU and Fisk to materials-related graduate degree programs through mentored research and strategic programming.