UNI will receive millions of dollars for research in its physics department, according to KIMT. UNI will receive $20million over a five year period from a National Science Foundation grant aimed at bolstering research capacity and infrastructure for Iowa’s bioscience and advanced manufacturing sectors. The project will be a collaborative effort along with Iowa State, Iowa, Central, and Dordt. UNI will also share in a second NSF grant of over $550,000 over three years to explore how adding small amounts of carbon can produce changes in the electrical and optical properties of materials. UNI is also one of 20 universities to receive an $800,000 NSF grant over three years to study materials vital for quantum information storage and processing. In addition to that the US Department of Energy has awarded a $500,000 grant to UNI to engineer two dimensional materials for quantum computing and future forms of electronics. UNI is the only undergraduate institution to receive that funding.
