Previous Faculty/Research Spotlights

• Caplan awarded the Cottrell Scholar Award of $100,000 to support his research on nuclear astrophysics and nuclear weapons 
• Manna (Dept of Physics), Engelke (School of Biological Sci.) and Kim (Dept of Chemistry) receive $200,000 Advancing Research and Creative Scholarship (ARCS), Illinois State University Grant to Development of an apical TIRF-illumination super-resolution microscope for cell (10/2023)
• Manna and Biswas received $288,202 National Science Foundation grant Unraveling Novel Nanophotonic Effects in Mid-Index Micro-Sized Dielectric Materials (02/2022)
• Harris received $391,078 National Science Foundation grant to Atomic Physics with A Twist (09/2022)
• Caplan receives Next-Generation APS Fellowship to strengthen diversity in Nuclear Weapons Policy Field (10/2021)
• Manna receives University Research Initiative Award (02/2021)
• Harris receives $117,226 National Science Foundation Grant to study path integrals and charged particle dynamics (07/2019)
• Bergfield receives $91,444 National Science Foundation Grant to study quantum enhanced thermoelectric response of molecule-based systems (07/2019)
• Manna receives $135, 550 National Science Foundation Grant to study optical excitation of nonradiating nanosphere for lossless device (06/2018)
• Harris receives Outstanding College Researcher Award (02/2018)