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This federal Project Grant award from the Corporation for National and Community Service's AmeriCorps Seniors Foster Grandparent Program (CFDA 94.011) provides $348,759 to New Opportunities Inc., a non-profit community action agency based in Waterbury, Connecticut. The funding supports the organization's 2025-2026 Foster Grandparent Program, which engages volunteers aged 55 and older in providing tutoring, mentoring, and supportive services to children and youth with special needs or academic...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program provides $500,000 to develop an advanced computational framework called FASTEST (Framework for Advanced Simulation of Multiphase Electrochemical Systems). The goal is to enable scientists and engineers to effectively model and optimize critical electrochemical processes used in energy production, energy storage, healthcare, and manufacturing. This framework will...

This Project Grant award from the Corporation for National and Community Service's Office of Grants Management provides $275,996 to fund the Overview, Inc.'s 2025-2026 Foster Grandparent Program (CFDA 94.011). The grant supports Overview, Inc., a non-profit organization, in engaging low-income seniors aged 55 and older as volunteers to provide tutoring, mentoring, and supportive services to children and youth with special needs, academic challenges, or who would benefit from individualized...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $575,000 to Iowa State University to develop the FASTEST (Framework for Advanced Simulation of Multiphase Electrochemical Systems) computational framework. This framework aims to enable scientists and engineers to effectively model and optimize complex multiphase electrochemical processes, which are fundamental in critical technologies such as energy storage, hydrogen production, medical...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (CFDA 47.041) awarded a $300,000 Project Grant to Temple University to develop new sparse array design strategies and signal processing techniques for large array apertures and high spatial resolutions using fewer sensors. The 3-year project (9/1/2023 - 8/31/2026) aims to reduce hardware complexity and enhance performance in applications such as wireless communications, automotive radar, and reconfigurable intelligent surfaces....

This Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), supports $300,000.00 in research to enable new theory and algorithms for modeling and control of deformable systems, with an emphasis on soft robots. The project seeks to develop a coarse deterministic finite element model (FEM) where the system state is represented by a multi-modal density model, and to synthesize control methods leveraging multi-modal density steering problems and...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $332,817 to the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) to conduct research on novel gate-stack engineering for 2D materials-based field-effect transistors (FETs). The project aims to develop a comprehensive simulation framework and fabricate test structures to address the design, fabrication, reliability, and performance challenges of 2D semiconductor FETs. This research seeks to...

This federal Project Grant award, with total funding of $2,418,304.00, is provided by the Office of Grants Management (a division of the Corporation for National and Community Service) under the AmeriCorps Seniors Foster Grandparent Program (CFDA 94.011). The grant funds the approved 2025-2026 FGP program, which engages volunteers aged 55 and older to provide tutoring, mentoring, and supportive services to children and youth with special needs or facing academic challenges. The grant period runs...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) aims to prototype and evaluate an intelligent healthcare garment featuring an adaptive splint that clinicians can dynamically control to address the treatment goals of individuals with neurodevelopmental disabilities who engage in self-injurious behavior. The $182,791 award to Emory University, with a project period from September 1, 2025 to August 31, 2028, supports the development of a novel...

The University of Michigan received a $280,260 Project Grant award from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) to assess design trade-offs in an enhanced ankle-foot orthosis (AFO) with improved functionality and customizability. The project aims to develop a decoupled energy storage and return variable stiffness orthosis (DESR-VSO) that can provide both variable stiffness and...