The Manning group is a member of the “Cracking the Glass” collaboration that just received a grant from the Simons Foundation Mathematics and the Physical Sciences (MPS) division to study the glassy state of matter.

The collaboration website is here: https://scglass.uchicago.edu/

A news story about the collaboration: http://asnews.syr.edu/newsevents_2016/releases/lisa_manning_simons_award.html