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Melinda Christensen
Issue date: 10/24/07 Section: News
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Bruce Greenwood, AMIS engineer and symposium organizer, said the symposium has created a lot more informal collaboration, and some formal agreements.
"It has been good to see our joint work in organic solar cells become a well-funded research project," Greenwood said. "Continuing to grow our relationship will give more opportunities for future research projects. The next step will be turning these into economic benefits for the region."
Collaborative efforts by the two entities have yielded large dividends, as evidenced by a $440,000 Department of Energy Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (DOE EPSCoR) grant extension ISU received this year. The funding is part of a three-year award that will total about $1.3 million. It continues funding from a previous three-year $1 million EPSCoR grant undertaken by ISU and other Idaho research institutions, including Boise State University and the University of Idaho.
The EPSCoR grant's principle investigator is Rene Rodriguez. The Idaho institutions received the grant in part because of results obtained in a study done at ISU that was funded from a $50,000 grant from AMIS. Researchers from ISU used the results of the AMIS-funded grant when applying for EPSCoR grant and were successful receiving funding.
The AMIS/ISU efforts of collaboration have been fruitful in less obvious ways as well, Holman said. For instance, Holman said he knows of three new chemistry majors at ISU who decided on pursuing their major after participating in an AMIS/ISU Research Symposium.
"Attending the research symposium really swayed the students into choosing their major because the symposium demonstrated what they could accomplish with a chemistry degree," Holman said.
"It has been good to see our joint work in organic solar cells become a well-funded research project," Greenwood said. "Continuing to grow our relationship will give more opportunities for future research projects. The next step will be turning these into economic benefits for the region."
Collaborative efforts by the two entities have yielded large dividends, as evidenced by a $440,000 Department of Energy Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (DOE EPSCoR) grant extension ISU received this year. The funding is part of a three-year award that will total about $1.3 million. It continues funding from a previous three-year $1 million EPSCoR grant undertaken by ISU and other Idaho research institutions, including Boise State University and the University of Idaho.
The EPSCoR grant's principle investigator is Rene Rodriguez. The Idaho institutions received the grant in part because of results obtained in a study done at ISU that was funded from a $50,000 grant from AMIS. Researchers from ISU used the results of the AMIS-funded grant when applying for EPSCoR grant and were successful receiving funding.
The AMIS/ISU efforts of collaboration have been fruitful in less obvious ways as well, Holman said. For instance, Holman said he knows of three new chemistry majors at ISU who decided on pursuing their major after participating in an AMIS/ISU Research Symposium.
"Attending the research symposium really swayed the students into choosing their major because the symposium demonstrated what they could accomplish with a chemistry degree," Holman said.
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