Crain's Chicago Business reports that Dickinson trustee and alumnus Chad A. Mirkin ’86
has received a major grant.
A professor at Northwestern University and founder of Chicago-based Nanosphere Inc. and NanoInk, Mirkin has been selected to receive up to $3 million to do unclassified research for the U.S. Department of Defense.
Mirkin, the George B. Rathmann Professor of Chemistry at Northwestern’s Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences and director of the International Institute for Nanotechnology at Northwestern, will receive $600,000 a year over the next five years as part of the Defense Department’s new National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellows Program, Crain’s Chicago Business reported. The program encourages research that can be applied to sensors, surveillance, information security and cyber protection.
Mirkin, a chemistry major at Dickinson, returned to his alma mater in 2004 to receive an honorary Doctor of Arts and Sciences degree.
At the 2004 commencement, President William G. Durden hailed Mirkin for his breakthrough business ventures.
“…Y our work promises to revolutionize manufacturing processes and products all over the world and in almost any industry, including medicine, plastics, energy, electronics, and aerospace,” President Durden said. “Nanotechnology is no longer science fiction, but a real story of a true revolution. And you have written much of it - with a very unique pen.”
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