The National Science Foundation
The National Science Foundation of Arlington, Va., has funded
a multimillion-dollar engineering research center at Princeton University in New
Jersey. The goal of the Mid-Infrared Technologies for Health and the Environment
center is to produce sensor technology with the ability to detect minute amounts
of chemicals found in the atmosphere. The proposed devices are intended to monitor
air quality, from factory emissions to human breath. Forty faculty members, 30 graduate
students and 30 undergraduates from six universities will collaborate with industrial
partners to perform fundamental science and to commercialize the findings. The foundation’s
funding in the first year is $2.97 million, and funding from all industrial and
academic sources is expected to total $40 million over 10 years.
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