Three NDSU departments are recipients of the 2010 New Faculty Start-Up Awards, which are funded by the North Dakota Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (ND EPSCoR). A total of $308,000 for two years will be provided in supplemental New Faculty Start-Up funds to the Departments of Chemistry and Molecular Biology, Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, and Psychology.

The New Faculty Start-Up program’s major goal is to staff our research-intensive universities with new faculty who will be nationally competitive for grants from federal agency research programs in science, engineering and mathematics. "The supplemental funding allows the nationally competitive researchers to quickly tool-up their laboratories and hire graduate students,” said Philip Boudjouk, co-chair of ND EPSCoR and vice president for research, creative activities and technology transfer.

ND EPSCoR is a federally and state funded program designed to help university researchers compete more effectively for federal, regional and private research grants in the sciences, engineering and mathematics. For more information, visit www.ndepscor.nodak.edu or direction questions to David R. Givers, ND EPSCoR co-project director, at 1-7516 or david.givers@ndsu.edu.