Register now for SC EPSCoR State Conference
March 11, 2019
Registration is now open for the Annual SC EPSCoR State Conference to be held on Friday, April 12 at the Greenville Marriott Hotel in Greenville, SC. All are invited to learn out about STEM research and the programs offered through SC EPSCoR and South Carolina’s NSF EPSCoR RII Track-1 materials science program, Materials Assembly and Design Excellence in South Carolina (MADE in SC). The public is encouraged to attend.
The one-day free State Conference will feature sessions lead by our NSF RII Track-1 MADE in SC Project leaders and participants. These will include information from the four research clusters: Modeling and Computation Core (MCC), Optical and Magnetic Materials (Thrust 1), Stimuli-Responsive Polymeric Materials (Thrust 2) and Interactive Biomaterials (Thrust 3). Additionally, there will be sessions lead by our Stimulus Research Program recipients with topic areas on Vascular research, Food-Energy Water Nexus, High Performance Li-S Batteries and research on Autism. There will also be other sessions based on abstracts received (deadline to submit is Tuesday, March 19).
The day will conclude with a session on Funding Opportunities which you won’t want to miss!
Deadline to register is Friday, March 29, 5 pm EST. See http://scepscoridea.org/StateConf2019 for more details.
SC EPSCoR (South Carolina Established Program to Stimulate COmpetitive Research) Program’s main goal is to increase South Carolina’s research capacity by assisting STEM faculty to achieve and sustain large scale federal research funding. SC EPSCoR provides seed funding programs and supports faculty career development and the development of the STEM student pipeline.
MADE in SC, Materials Assembly and Design Excellence in South Carolina, is South Carolina’s five-year, $20 million award from the National Science Foundation, managed by the SC EPSCoR office. The focus of this project is materials science broken down into three different research clusters (Thrusts): optical and magnetic materials, stimuli-responsive polymeric materials, and biomaterials. All three are supported by a multi-scale modeling and computation core. This is a multi-faceted project with impacts that will carry far beyond the project’s five years.
MADE in SC is supported by the National Science Foundation Award #OIA-1655740.
