Hinkle and fellow scientists from the University of Pittsburgh will share the $550,000 award to examine the potential of adapting acid mine drainage remediation systems to produce critical minerals in economically viable concentrations.
The collaborative grant will be used to build a transformative educational assessment of creative thinking for STEM education and research.
Emma Aldrich ’22, Tanajia Moye-Green ’23 and Jules Seay ’24 have received pre-doctoral graduate research fellowships from the National Science Foundation to support their research.
The grant funds a three-year study in collaboration with Pennsylvania State University and East Tennessee State University.
David Harbor to work on collaborative project to describe and model the erosion process known as “plucking.”
Dan Johnson seeks to develop assessment tools to foster creativity in STEM education.
The grant will help fund a multidisciplinary team from three institutions, including W&L, that will investigate how variation in adhesive-protein components of spider silk relate to differences in the glue’s material properties.
Jeffrey Rahl, professor of geology at Washington and Lee University, has received a grant from the National Science Foundation.
The NSF only funds about 11,000 of the 40,000 proposals it receives annually for research, education and training projects.
