The U.S. National Science Foundation awarded new seed grants through PREM, Partnerships for Research and Education in Materials, to support ten collaborative research teams across the United States that will lay the groundwork for full-fledged PREM awards at these institutions in the future.

Each seed award provides $800,000—for a total NSF investment of $8,000,000—and will support materials research partnerships between minority-serving institutions and large-scale, NSF-supported research centers and facilities. These seed grants are intended to support these minority-serving institutions over the next three years to begin building partnerships, with the hope that they will be better prepared and ready for a full PREM award in the future. These ten seed awards are in addition to eight PREM awards that were recently announced.

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