Collaborative approaches improve materials informatics workforce training

Updates to NSF Research Security Policies

On July 10, 2025, NSF issued an Important Notice providing updates to the agency's research security policies, including a research security training requirement, Malign Foreign Talent Recruitment Program annual certification requirement, prohibition on Confucius institutes and an updated FFDR reporting and submission timeline.

Collaborative approaches improve materials informatics workforce training

As industries recognize the potential of materials informatics (MI) to enhance rapid materials production, researchers funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation Research Traineeship (NRT) program are examining ways to strengthen workforce training at the graduate level to ensure that institutions of higher education are producing highly skilled STEM leaders in this area.

A recent Science Advances article highlights how three NSF NRT projects are focused on improving the quality of MI workforce training programs. Learn more about this collaborative effort.

Learn more about these projects:

University of Illinois-Champaign Urbana

Duke University

University of Chicago