Hosting C 2 M at Penn State meets the project's multifaceted requirements for academic, industrial, and government collaboration. The University's commitment to fostering student research encourages a generation of new knowledge required to understand and solve problems relating to mineral characteristics and behavior in extractive metallurgy processes. Collaborative faculty and student research will help to prepare graduate students to use critical material technologies in future employment...
The Center for Critical Minerals (C 2 M) combines Penn State's expertise across several colleges in strategic partnership with industrial partners to develop the fundamental science and technology to harness domestic mineral sources. The center builds on Penn State's established interdisciplinary capabilities to make the University the premier technical and research support partner for companies developing commercial critical materials projects.