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The National Science Foundation (NSF) has just awarded Alabama State University's Dr. Vineeth Vijayan -- an assistant professor in the University's engineering department -- a grant of $450,000. He is the principal investigator of the grant project; Dr. Derrick Dean.is the co-principal investigator.
Vijayan explained that the grant is one of the most prestigious research grants from the engineering directorate of the NSF, as part of its "Research at Undergraduate Institutions (RUI)" program within the agency’s chemical, bioengineering, environmental and transport system.
"This NSF-RUI grant is one of the most competitive research grants awarded by the National Science Foundation to undergraduate institutions in an effort to improve the quality of their research and provide research-integrated undergraduate education," said Vijayan. "ASU should be very pleased with this award, in that within the past five years, this is the first NSF-RUI grant awarded to a college or university in the state of Alabama.”
