The highly competitive awards support three years of advanced research in defense- relevant science and engineering fields.

Three junior faculty receive campus awards supporting projects that expand how innovation is measured, technologies are designed, and ethics are taught.

Bassam Bamieh seeks to model the dynamics of small disruptions that can trigger big failures in complex systems.

The road to realizing the promise of quantum applications has begun with a deep dive into the fundamental science of quantum phenomena to understand how they manifest — and how they might be made to manifest — in individual platforms.