 Professor Ichiro Takeuchi (Department of Materials Science and Engineering [MSE]) and his collaborators have been awarded millions of dollars in funding from the Department of Defense (DoD) and Department of Energy (DoE) to advance the discovery of new materials for use in energy, transportation, defense and industrial applications. The first project, titled "Broad-Based Search for New and Practical Superconductors" and conducted in collaboration with Professor Richard Greene (PI; physics), is funded by a five-year DoD Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative grant of up to $5 million. The second project, titled "Beyond Rare Earth Magnets" and conducted in collaboration with the DOE's Ames Laboratory and PIs across multiple universities, will receive up to $10 million over five years to fund the development of new permanent (non-electro-) magnets that do not contain rare earth elements such as neodymium or samarium.
 Professor G. S. Oehrlein (MSE/Institute for Research in Engineering and Applied Physics, pictured) is co-PI of an $11.5 million Department of Energy Plasma Science Center on "Predictive Control of Plasma Kinetics: Multi-Phase and Bounded Systems” with Professor Mark J. Kushner (PI; University of Michigan).
 Assistant Professor Silvia Muro (Fischell Department of Bioengineering and University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute) has been awarded a $1.72 million, five-year National Institutes of Health Research Project Grant to develop new therapies for the treatment of rare genetic diseases that affect the lungs and brain.
 Professor Sennur Ulukus (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering/Institute for Systems Research [ISR], pictured) is PI for a four-year, $1.1 million National Science Foundation (NSF) grant for her research, titled “Interactive Security.” This is a joint grant with Professor Aylin Yener of Penn State University and Professor Kannan Ramchandran of the University of California, Berkeley.
 Clark School faculty members have won several Department of Defense (DoD) Defense University Research Instrumentation Program Awards. These are grants for research instrumentation. The recipients and areas of research are the Clark School's Professor Inder Chopra (Department of Aerospace Engineering, pictured) for "Fabrication and Testing of Mission-Adaptive Actively Morphing Rotor Systems," and Professor Ichiro Takeuchi (MSE) for "Instrumentation for Research on Nanostructured Devices Based on Transforming Materials." UM Professor Cynthia Moss (psychology/ISR) also won.
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