Wayne State professor receives prestigious NSF Early Career award; research to impact public awareness regarding energy and our environment

A Wayne State University professor has been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, the agency's most prestigious award for up-and-coming researchers in science and engineering.

The five-year, nearly $406,000 grant was awarded to Eranda Nikolla, Ph.D., assistant professor of chemical engineering in the College of Engineering, for the project "Tailoring the nature of the active site of Ni electrocatalysts for electrochemical co-reduction of CO2 and H2O".