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The 51��Ʒ��Ƶsburgh Foundation’s Charles E. Kaufman Foundation has named and as recipients of one of its New Initiatives grants for their project “Pollen as the next viral frontier: Unrecognized threat to food security and native biodiversity.” Ashman is a distinguished professor of ecology and evolution, and Pipas is the Herbert W. and Grace Boyer Chair in Molecular Biology; both are faculty members in 51��Ʒ��Ƶ’s Department of Biological Sciences. With their $300,000 grant��payable over two years, Ashman and Pipas will unearth how pollen can transmit viruses between plants. Their research could have implications for the nation's food supply.

and ’s proposed research on “Protecting quantum wires for quantum computing” was also recognized with a $300,000 New Initiatives grant, from the��Charles E. Kaufman Foundation. Hatridge and Mong are assistant professors of condensed matter physics in 51��Ʒ��Ƶ’s Department of Physics and Astronomy. The duo hope their research will help to make a real quantum computer feasible; a quantum computer would process information at a rate even faster than that of a supercomputer.

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