CLEMSON — Clemson University has received $5,049,378 in research grants from the National Science Foundation.
Rep. Gresham Barrett, R-Westminster, announced the awards Thursday.
“I am excited to learn that Clemson University has been awarded these National Science Foundation grants. The fact that Clemson researchers have won these highly competitive grants is a clear acknowledgement of Clemson’s distinguished record of research and innovation,” Barrett said.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent federal agency created by Congress in 1950. Its goals are to promote discovery, learning, research infrastructure and stewardship. It is a funding source for approximately 20 percent of all federally supported basic research conducted by America’s colleges and universities.
Primary areas of interest for the NSF are mathematics, engineering, science, social sciences and computers sciences. In the past few decades, NSF-funded researchers have won more than 170 Nobel Prizes as well as many other awards.
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