Two CICLEC faculty members have been awarded seed funding from the College and Graduate School of Arts and Science's Dean's Office: Professor Huiyuan Zhu has been awarded $50,000 for her project, "Enabling a Circuit Economy from CO2 and Nitrate Wastes: Tailoring Single-Atom and Host Metal Interactions for Electrocatalytic C-N Coupling with Explainable AI." Professor Michelle Personick was awarded $50,000 for her project, "Parallel Screening of Conditions for the Electrodeposition of Multimetallic Nanoparticles; Pilot Data for a Collaborative Proposal on Critical Element Recovery from Waste Streams." Both projects demonstrate a commitment to addressing critical challenges in energy and sustainability through cutting-edge research.