As part of an ambitious effort, funded with an $18.5 million grant, Yale University will work with partners from industry, government and other universities to provide clean water to millions of people and make U.S. energy production more sustainable and cost-effective.
The effort will be based out of the Nanotechnology Enabled Water Treatment Systems center (NEWT) at Rice University in Houston. Funded with a five-year renewable grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), NEWT will be one of the NSF’s prestigious Engineering Research Centers (ERC). The NSF will announce this center and two others today in Washington. These join 16 existing Engineering Research Center still receiving federal support.
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