Federal, donor support drives research
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ASU had a strong year in terms of new federal grants and
gifts to develop new research initiatives.
The largest award, came in the form of a $43.7 million,
five-year contract from the U.S. Army to establish the Army Flexible
Display Center. The award is the university’s largest-ever federal
award.
The Center will develop flexible computer displays that
can be carried in the field and continually refreshed. The device will
revolutionize combat strategy.
To carry out the project, ASU purchased the Motorola flat-panel-display
facility, and a team of scientists headed by Frederic Zenhausern formed
the Applied Nano-Bioscience Center.
In other news:
- A founding gift of $15 million from philanthropist
Julie Ann Wrigley enabled ASU to create the International Institute
for Sustainability. The institute will study the ecological, economic
and societal issues that play a vital role in the viability of the
planet.
- Three grants totaling $16.9 million from the National
Science Foundation that will have a direct impact on K-12 education
in Arizona were awarded to the Center for Research on Education in
Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology (CRESMET). Including
four other similar grants, ASU has accumulated $33 million in education
funding since the beginning of the fall semester.
- Ira A. Fulton, a prominent Valley businessman and
philanthropist, made a $3 million gift to the ASU Foundation to establish
the Decision Theater for the New Arizona – an advanced visualization
tool that will enable policy makers and others to see in detailed three-dimensional
representation the environmental consequences of their actions. The
computer-driven visualization tool will be central to the newly established
Decision Center for a Desert City, formed with a $6.9 million federal
grant to ASU, as well as other ASU projects.
- Orin Edson gave ASU $5.4 million to establish the Edson Student
Entrepreneurial Initiative. The gift formed an endowment to provide
seed money to ASU students who pursue entrepreneurial quests.
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