The Educational and Research Initiative Fund (ERIF) provide seed funding to initiate innovative multi-investigator, multidisciplinary research and education programs that will use the results obtained during the project period for developing proposals seeking external funding. Proposals on new research and education concepts that are multidisciplinary in scope are solicited. Tenured and tenured-track faculty were eligible. Maximum funding is $25,000 of grant funding for a maximum of one year.

Illinois Tech congratulates A. Jean-Luc Ayitou, Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Heng Wang, Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering on their winning proposal, Solar Energy Conversion Using Triplet Excitons: Synthesis & Device Characterization of Dye Sensitized Solar Cell.