Dr. Kelvin Lynn was hired as the Center Director in 1996. Previously he had been a Brookhaven physicist for 23 years and had become world-renowned for his research in positron annihilation. Dr. Lynn holds the WSU Boeing Chair in Advanced Materials Science and is a Fellow of the American Physical Society.

The Center offers the opportunity for researchers in diverse fields at WSU to connect with funding sources in government and industry to find interdisciplinary answers to advanced materials problems. The faculty members at the Center address these research questions with some of today's most sophisticated scientific equipment. For more information, visit our pages about the Center's research and facilities and see the CMR Handbook.

CMR has been granted extramural funding from major government agencies, national labs and industrial partners, some of which are:

• National Science Foundation
• Department of Energy and the National Lab System
• Office of Naval Research
• Dow Chemical Company
• IBM
• The Boeing Company
• The Washington Technology Center
• Applied Materials
• Cermet
• II-VI, Inc.
• VLOC, Inc.
• eV Products
• Honeywell, Inc.
• W.M. Keck Foundation
• Novellus Systems, Inc.

Students in the Materials Science Program receive a strong interdisciplinary education that is enhanced by research supported by the Center. All coursework comes from the College of Engineering and Architecture and the College of Sciences. Departments and schools supporting the Materials Science Program are Chemistry, Physics, Chemical Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Mechanical and Materials Engineering, and Civil and Environmental Engineering. Please visit the program links for more information.