WASHINGTON - Senator Chuck Grassley today said that Iowa State University and the University of Iowa have received funds totaling $718,844 in two competitive grants from the National Science Foundation.
The National Science Foundation will distribute the funds as shown below.
· Iowa State University will receive $268,844 for a project titled "Development of Scanning Photothermal Microscope for Nanoscale Subsurface Structural Defect Characterization."
· University of Iowa will receive $450,000 for a project titled "Synergistic Computational and Experimental Magnetic Resonance Studies of Nanocrystalline Zeolites."