Assistant Professor Joshua Schrier, Associate Professor Alexander Norquist, and Assistant Professor of Computer Science Sorelle Friedler (right to left) have been awarded a National Science Foundation grant for their proposal, "The Dark Reaction Project: a machine learning approach to materials discovery."
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