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News Release 15-117
NSF supports new global partnerships in research and education through PIRE program
Seventeen new projects link scientists around the globe
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An eye-tracking experiment at Pennsylvania State University's Center for Language Science. Penn State's Partnerships in International Research and Education (PIRE) award focuses on the science of language learning for education, examining the contexts and consequences of language learning in the classroom. The PIRE involves collaborations with scientists in China, Spain and Germany.
Credit: Courtesy of Judith Kroll, Center for Language Science, Pennsylvania State University
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One of the Partnerships in International Research and Education awards will research a twistable artificial muscle. These muscles will be built with new polymer-metal composites. The technology has the potential to help people with disabilities and can improve the burgeoning field of soft robotics.
Credit: Kwang J. Kim, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Kam K. Leang, University of Utah (both formerly of University of Nevada, Reno)
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Students and teachers analyze rocks in the field during a 2014 Salinia Field Institute in California, held by ExTerra. This broad geosciences consortium is the recipient of a 2015 Partnerships in International Research and Education (PIRE) award to research rocks exhumed from fossil subduction zones, which produce most of Earth's deadly earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.
Credit: Sarah Penniston-Dorland, University of Maryland
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