John Rogers Selected as NSSEFF Fellow

John A. Rogers, the Lee J. Flory Founder Chair in Engineering Innovation at Illinois, has been selected as a National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellow (NSSEFF). Rogers, who is professor of materials science and engineering and a professor of chemistry, and an MNTL affiliate, is one of six distinguished university faculty scientists and engineers forming the 2009 class of its National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellows Program. NSSEFF provides grants--$3 million over five years--to top-tier researchers from U.S. universities to conduct long-term, unclassified, basic research involving the most challenging technical issues facing the Department of Defense (DoD).