Padma Gopalan, assistant professor of Materials Science and Engineering at my graduate alma mater, University of Wisconsin has received a coveted NSF Faculty Early Career Development Award.
The awards are granted on the basis of creative career-development plans that effectively integrate research and education. Gopalan will receive a $445,000, five-year grant for research, education and outreach on nanostructured polymer composites with electroactive molecular subunits. [Her] work investigates the structure-property relationship in electro-optic materials, which can control the speed of light through electric-field-induced changes in their index of refraction … As part of the project, Gopalan will create an educational and outreach program that will incorporate her work into the undergraduate instructional laboratories.
Congratulations, Professor Gopalan! This made me think of poor, misinformed Larry Summers. Wait for it, Summers, this is just the tip of the glacier. There’s a lot more coal raking coming your way.
