New NSF science and technology centers to address vexing societal problems

NSF has announced six new Science & Technologies Centers to advance ambitious, complex research in fields ranging from mechanobiology to particle physics to climate change. The centers will focus on establishing new scientific disciplines and developing transformative technologies that have the potential for broad impacts on science and society and will shine light on emerging STEM fields to develop a globally competitive STEM infrastructure and conduct outreach to inform the public of breakthrough science.

Of the six centers awarded, the following the only one with NSF EPSCoR jurisdictions:

NSF Center for Oldest Ice Exploration aims to transform the current understanding of Earth’s climate system by both discovering and recovering some of the oldest ice on the planet. The multidisciplinary team will drive this new science and discovery while building climate literacy and action in classrooms and communities across the United States.

The center is led by a team of researchers from Oregon State University; American Meteorological Society; Dartmouth College (New Hampshire); University of California, Berkeley; University of California, Irvine; University of California, San Diego; the University of Kansas; the University of Maine; The University of Texas, the University of Washington; University of Minnesota Duluth; University of Minnesota Twin Cities; Princeton University; Amherst College; and Brown University (Rhode Island).

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