$6 Million NSF Grant to Support Caltech's Laboratory for Molecular Sciences
PASADENA—The California Institute of Technology has received a $6 million grant from the National Science Foundation to support multidisciplinary research in new emerging fields of the molecular sciences.
According to Caltech's Ahmed Zewail, the funding "provides exciting opportunities for collaboration for the studies of fundamental processes and functions in complex systems." Zewail is Linus Pauling Professor of Chemical Physics and professor of physics, as well as director of the new Laboratory for Molecular Sciences.
Zewail says that collaborations have been established to pursue the lab's objectives in a wide range of complex systems using experimental, theoretical, and computational approaches. These efforts draw upon the active participation of research groups from biological, electrochemical, organic, inorganic, and chemical physics disciplines.
The new LMS laboratory will be equipped with state-of-the-art methods of X-ray diffraction and electron diffraction, ultrafast lasers, high-speed computers, and electrochemical instrumentation. The professiorial members of the laboratory, in addition to Zewail, will include Fred Anson, Jacqueline Barton, Dennis Dougherty, Rudy Marcus, Vincent McKoy, Mitchio Okumura, and Doug Rees.
Peter Dervan, chair of the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, said, "The new LMS lab further strengthens Caltech's standing as one of the world's premier institutions for research in chemistry."
The NSF annually provides $3.3 billion to almost 20,000 research and education projects in science and engineering. Established in 1950, the foundation is a major supporter of the research that will help determine the course of the United States in the 21st century.
According to Caltech's Ahmed Zewail, the funding "provides exciting opportunities for collaboration for the studies of fundamental processes and functions in complex systems." Zewail is Linus Pauling Professor of Chemical Physics and professor of physics, as well as director of the new Laboratory for Molecular Sciences.
Zewail says that collaborations have been established to pursue the lab's objectives in a wide range of complex systems using experimental, theoretical, and computational approaches. These efforts draw upon the active participation of research groups from biological, electrochemical, organic, inorganic, and chemical physics disciplines.
The new LMS laboratory will be equipped with state-of-the-art methods of X-ray diffraction and electron diffraction, ultrafast lasers, high-speed computers, and electrochemical instrumentation. The professiorial members of the laboratory, in addition to Zewail, will include Fred Anson, Jacqueline Barton, Dennis Dougherty, Rudy Marcus, Vincent McKoy, Mitchio Okumura, and Doug Rees.
Peter Dervan, chair of the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, said, "The new LMS lab further strengthens Caltech's standing as one of the world's premier institutions for research in chemistry."
The NSF annually provides $3.3 billion to almost 20,000 research and education projects in science and engineering. Established in 1950, the foundation is a major supporter of the research that will help determine the course of the United States in the 21st century.
