Renovation of UAB Physical Sciences Building for Chemistry Research

该奖项使之成为可能， 亚拉巴马大学将翻新他们的 化学系，以提高他们的 研究空间，让更多的研究生和 本科生在他们的研究。 这 大学已经开始跨学科 在多个领域的研究，单晶 蛋白质生长和设计药物研究是其中之一 example. 然而，他们也将材料 科学和工程，生物医学工程， 物理、化学、数学和计算机， 信息科学的研究领域， 聚合物合成和评价，分子 生物物理学和计算化学。 他们的许多研究成果 工业参与者的直接支持， 这让他们能够将最有价值的 产品，他们的学生，保持与 工业部门的需求。 本次整治 项目鼓励在国家的一个进步 战略研究领域，材料科学。

This award makes it possible for the University of Alabama birmingham to renovate their Chemistry Department in order to improve their research space and to involve more graduate and undergraduate students in their research. This university had initiated cross-disciplinary research in a number of areas, single crystal protein growth and designer drug research is one example. However, they are also linking materials science and engineering, biomedical engineering, physics, chemistry, mathematics and computer and information science in research areas which focus on polymer synthesis and evaluation, molecular biophysics and computational chemistry. Many of their research efforts are getting direct support from industrial participants and this is allowing them to make their most valuable products, their students, keep in tune with the needs of the industrial sector. This renovation project encourages progress in one of the Nation's strategic research areas, materials science.