Seed funding awarded as part of sustaining Illinois program
The Telegraph
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From left are Nima Lotfi, PhD, assistant professor of mechanical and mechatronics engineering; Carrie Butts-Wilmsmeyer, PhD, associate professor of biological sciences and director of the Center for Predictive Analytics (C-PAN); and Kevin Tucker, PhD, assistant professor of chemistry.
EDWARDSVILLE Southern Illinois University Edwardsville researchers are leading and supporting collaborative projects that aim to develop robotic technologies to support the state of Illinois’ specialty crop industry, and quantify perfluorinated compounds (PFCs), so that groundwater testing can be performed.
They are among eight research teams to have received seed funding, totaling $229,000 from the Illinois Innovation Network’s (IIN) Sustaining Illinois program. The program is designed to increase collaborative research among the state’s public universities, focusing on the economy, health and so