Dr. David Salas de la Cruz (assistant professor, FASC-chemistry) is the principal investigator on a three-year, $344,609 grant, from the National Science Foundation Division of Material Research in support of the Project titled “RUI: Collaborative Research: Understanding the protein-polysaccharide interactions of natural composite materials in one and two dimensions”. The project is collaboration co-PI Dr. Xiao Hu from Rowan University.