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News | March 26, 2020

The Department of Defense Announced Awards Totaling $2 Million for Minerva’s Defense Education Civilian University Research (DECUR) Partnership

By Toni Haynes

The Department of Defense (DoD) announced the selection of faculty teams for awards through Minerva’s FY2019 Defense Education and Civilian University Research (DECUR) Partnership, supporting fundamental research and professional military education. 

This partnership aims to develop collaborative basic research relationships between Defense Professional Military Education (PME) Institutions and Civilian Research Universities and achieve the following: 1) support basic research projects that improve capacities in security-related basic social science; 2) inform Department of Defense policymakers; 3) train future military leaders in social science methods; and 4) enhance scientific cooperation between civilian and military educational institutions. 

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