(KNOX) – The University of North Dakota is being awarded $1 million from the U.S. Department of Energy that will be for the Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research.
The announcement came from U.S. Sen. Kevin Cramer’s office, and a media release says the funding is from an executive order from President Donald Trump titled “Restoring Gold Standard Science.” The order is designed to have research in areas critical to the nation’s scientific and technological leadership.
The release also says that UND’s research will look at both chemical properties and the stability of advanced materials that are made from graphene and molybdenum disulfide. The project is through the DOE’s National Laboratory Partnerships program, and this project supports collaborative research that happens between DOE national laboratories and universities.
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