{"id":1374,"date":"2025-11-12T11:43:41","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T19:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news-briefs\/?p=1374"},"modified":"2025-11-12T12:08:53","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T20:08:53","slug":"megan-fieser-scialog-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news-briefs\/faculty-recogntion\/2025\/11\/megan-fieser-scialog-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Megan Fieser"},"content":{"rendered":"  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--article-intro \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--article-intro\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n  \n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <h2><strong>Megan Fieser<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-278 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news-briefs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/182\/2023\/04\/fieser-megan-stack-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of Megan Fieser\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news-briefs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/182\/2023\/04\/fieser-megan-stack-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news-briefs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/182\/2023\/04\/fieser-megan-stack-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news-briefs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/182\/2023\/04\/fieser-megan-stack.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/profile\/megan-fieser\/\">Megan Fieser<\/a>, assistant professor of chemistry, has been awarded a <a href=\"https:\/\/rescorp.org\/2025\/11\/8-projects-funded-in-2nd-year-of-scialog-sustainable-minerals-metals-and-materials\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scialog Collaborative Innovation Award<\/a> from the Research Corporation for Science Advancement (RCSA). The award \u2014 co-sponsored by RCSA, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and The Kavli Foundation \u2014 \u00a0is one of eight projects funded in year two of Scialog\u2019s three-year Sustainable Minerals, Metals, and Materials initiative, which supports basic scientific research addressing the acquisition, use and recycling of materials critical for sustaining technology. Fieser will receive $60,000 to support her work on \u201cSECURE Polymerization \u2013 Selective Encapsulation by Chelation Using Radiation-Enabled Polymerization\u201d with Michael Schulz of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/profile\/megan-fieser\/\"><strong>Megan Fieser<\/strong><\/a>, assistant professor of chemistry, has been awarded a <a href=\" https:\/\/rescorp.org\/2025\/11\/8-projects-funded-in-2nd-year-of-scialog-sustainable-minerals-metals-and-materials\/\" target=\"_blank\">Scialog Collaborative Innovation Award<\/a> from the Research Corporation for Science Advancement. One of eight projects funded in year two of Scialog\u2019s Sustainable Minerals, Metals, and Materials initiative, the award supports basic scientific research on the acquisition, use and recycling of materials used in technology. Fieser will receive $60,000 to support her work on \u201cSECURE Polymerization \u2013 Selective Encapsulation by Chelation Using Radiation-Enabled Polymerization\u201d with Michael Schulz of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":278,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty-recogntion","category-natural-sciences"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Megan Fieser<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Scialog grant for work on sustainable materials supporting high-tech industries goes to USC Dornsife chemistry researcher Megan Fieser\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news-briefs\/faculty-recogntion\/2025\/11\/megan-fieser-scialog-award\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Megan Fieser - 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