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NSF CAREER Award

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Mar 13, 2026

Wentao Tang Receives NSF CAREER Award

Tang, an assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, will receive a prestigious National Science Foundation Early Career Development (CAREER) award of over $500,000 to perform revolutionary research in process…
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Mar 11, 2026

Dariush Heiranian Receives Prestigious NSF CAREER Award

The five-year award provides $548,900 sin funding for his project, “Atomistic-Scale Investigation of How Chemical and Physical Heterogeneities Govern Ion-Selective Transport in Metal-Organic Framework Membranes.”
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Oct 21, 2025

Four Receive NSF CAREER Awards

The National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development award, also known as the CAREER award, is one of the most prestigious research awards for early-career faculty members.
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Aug 25, 2025

Liu Wins NSF CAREER Award

The NSF CAREER award supports early-career faculty who serve as role models in both research and education. Liu’s continuing grant will support his project, “Robust Machine Learning in the Realistic Open World.”
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Jul 9, 2025

Shah Wins Prestigious NSF CAREER Award

Shah’s continuing grant will support his project, “O-DSM: An Open Dynamic Spectrum Management Framework for Enhanced 6G Coexistence.” 
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Jul 2, 2025

Liu Wins Prestigious NSF CAREER Award

Liu’s continuing grant will support his project, “CatFly: Towards Resilience-Native Wireless Networks through Learning, Twinning, and Reconfiguring Co-Design.”
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Jun 18, 2025

MAE’s Lee Receives NSF CAREER Award

Andrew Lee has received a highly competitive Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation to support groundbreaking research on the behavior of deployable shell structures
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May 7, 2025

Forest Biomaterials Professor Nathalie Lavoine Wins NSF CAREER Award

Lavoine will use the five-year, nearly $750,000 grant to advance her research on cellulose nanocrystals for the creation of sustainable colors and materials for various products.

Apr 7, 2025

Xu Wins NSF CAREER Award

Dr. Ruijuan Xu, an assistant professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at North Carolina State University, has been awarded a prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award.