42 U.S.C. § 16535
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§ 16535. Discovery science and engineering innovation institutes
- (a) The Secretary shall establish distributed, multidisciplinary institutes (referred to in this section as “Institutes”) centered at National Laboratories to apply fundamental science and engineering discoveries to technological innovations relating to—
- (1) the missions of the Department; and
- (2) the global competitiveness of the United States.
- (b) The Institutes shall support scientific and engineering research and education activities on critical emerging technologies determined by the Secretary to be essential to global competitiveness, including activities relating to—
- (1) sustainable energy technologies;
- (2) multiscale materials and processes;
- (3) micro- and nano-engineering;
- (4) computational and information engineering; and
- (5) genomics and proteomics.
- (c) In carrying out this section, the Secretary shall establish partnerships between the Institutes and—
- (1) institutions of higher education—
- (A) to train undergraduate and graduate science and engineering students;
- (B) to develop innovative undergraduate and graduate educational curricula; and
- (C) to conduct research within the topical areas described in subsection (b); and
- (2) private industry to develop innovative technologies within the topical areas described in subsection (b).
- (1) institutions of higher education—
- (d)
- (1) For each fiscal year, the Secretary may select not more than 3 Institutes to receive a grant under this section.
- (2) The selection of Institutes under paragraph (1) shall be—
- (A) merit-based; and
- (B) made through an open, competitive selection process.
- (3) An Institute shall receive a grant under this section for not more than 3 fiscal years.
- (e) The Secretary shall offer to enter into an agreement with the National Academy of Sciences under which the Academy shall, by not later than 3 years after August 9, 2007 —
- (1) review the performance of the Institutes under this section; and
- (2) submit to Congress and the Secretary a report describing the results of the review.
- (f) There is authorized to be appropriated to provide grants to each Institute selected under this section $10,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2008 through 2010.
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