EWU professor helps secure $11.5 million, five-year federal grant for energy research

Eastern Washington University assistant professor Yao Houndonougbo, from the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, is part of a research team from multiple universities that has received an Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRCs) award from the federal government.

The grant is for $2.3 million a year over five years, and was announced by the White House in conjunction with a speech delivered by President Barack Obama at the annual meeting of the National Academy of Sciences.

The team of researchers, including Houndonougbo, will try to acquire a fundamental understanding and control of nan...