WWU's Advanced Materials Science and Engineering Center Receives Grant from Murdock Charitable Trust

Contact: Tina Copsey, Western Washington University Advanced Materials Science and Engineering Center, (360) 650-6522. 

BELLINGHAM – Western Washington University’s Advanced Materials Science and Engineering Center (AMSEC) has received a $138,500 grant from M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust with matching funds from WWU for equipment and student summer stipends; as a result of this award, five interdisciplinary materials-science research teams have been awarded eight student stipends this summer. 

With the funds from this grant plus funds from two National Science Foundation grants, AMSEC is purchasing a tunable laser which will be used for further interdisciplinary research such as the development of luminescent solar concentrators for efficient, inexpensive renewable energy, as well as a range of studies of wavelength-dependent optical properties of materials. 

The University’s matching funds in the amount of $150,000 will be used to develop an interdisciplinary microscopy center in its Environmental Studies building.

For more information, contact Tina Copsey, Advanced Materials Science and Engineering Center, at (360) 650-6522.