At the University of Delaware, a National Science Foundation Research Traineeship (NRT) known as the Computing and Data Science Training for Materials Innovation, Discovery, & Analytics (MIDAS) program is helping students obtain the skills and experiences they need to become fluent in both computational and chemical languages.
The NRT-MIDAS program was launched by DSI Faculty Council member Arthi Jayaraman, the Centennial Term Professor for Excellence in Research and Education who holds joint appointments in the College of Engineering’s departments of chemical and biomolecular engineering and materials science and engineering. Jayaraman, is both the program director and PI of the $3 million grant from NSF that supports the program for its first five years.
DSI Resident Faculty member Austin Brockmeier and DSI Faculty Council member Sunita Chandrasekaran have served as co-instructors of previous iterations of the NRT Hackathon course (Chandrasekaran in 2022 and Brockmeier in 2023).