MechSE Assistant Professor Gaurav Bahl was recently awarded a Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP) grant from the U.S. Department of Defense and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. Last year, Bahl and his student Yin-Chung Chen proposed theoretically a new method to cool solids using only light, through the Raman scattering mechanism. This DURIP grant helps fund the construction of a fully custom Raman spectrometer, which will allow them to experimentally verify their theoretical predictions.