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Dhananjay Kumar, Director of CEDARS and PI of the CREAM center, was among the team members honored with the 2025 Interdisciplinary Team of the Year Award at North Carolina A&T

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Dhananjay Kumar presented new findings on conductive ruthenium oxide films at the DOE EFRC Principal Investigators meeting in Bethesda, Maryland. His talk and poster emphasized the importance of orientation-controlled thin films in probing oxygen evolution mechanisms.

North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University has received $4.2 million for six years from the Division of Materials Research (DMR) of the National Science Foundation (NSF) to fund an interdisciplinary program aimed to enhance diversity in materials research. The Partnerships for Research and Education in Materials (PREM) program at N.C. A&T will be led by Dhananjay Kumar, Ph.D., a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering in the College of Engineering (COE).

As the PI responsible for organizing the 2025 PREM Principal Investigators Meeting, Dhananjay Kumar coordinated a full day of programming that brought together PREM teams and NSF staff to share strategies for research, student engagement, and center development. Representing the CREAM PREM at NC A&T, he opened the event with remarks that helped set the stage for panels on SEED-to-PREM transitions, mentoring, and collaborative program growth.