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NSF awards Brandeis $7.8 million grant to establish MRSEC
The National Science Foundation awarded Brandeis University a highly competitive $7.8 million grant to establish a new Materials Research Science and Engineering Center. The Brandeis center will involve physicists, biochemists, chemists, and biologists in a two-pronged approach to research. The researchers will explore how the addition of typical biological constraints, such as crowding and confinement, affects materials and its properties as well as exploring cellular components, such as cilia, the organelles that miraculously move in synchronization to perform their jobs, such as keeping the lungs clear of pollutants.
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Catalyst Highlights MRSEC Research
A significant new MRSEC research project, the "jewel in the crown of biological physics at Brandeis," is highlighted in the Fall 2009 edition of the Catalyst, the Brandeis research magazine. See the article "From Biological Gadgets to Nanomachines" by Laura Gardner.
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