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Coe College will lead universities in Iowa and across the U.S. in research of “high-level physics” with the aid of a seven-figure federal grant.

The Cedar Rapids university announced Thursday in a news release that it received a $1.3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy Office of High Energy Physics to lead collaborative research in partnership with the University of Iowa, California Institute of Technology, University of Notre Dame and more.

According to the release, the “Advanced Calorimetry for High Energy Physics” project being led by Coe will allow undergraduate students to research and develop “next-generation technology for particle physics instrumentation.”

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