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This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Office of International Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.079) is funding a collaborative research project titled "DMREF: NSF-BSF: MOIRE-ENGINEERED OXIDE MEMBRANE HETEROSTRUCTURES BY DESIGN." The $200,000 project, with a performance period from October 1, 2025 to September 30, 2029, aims to design, create, and understand novel electronic, magnetic, and structural phases emerging in freestanding oxide membranes assembled...

This Project Grant award from the Corporation for National and Community Service's Office of Grants Management provides $280,906 in funding for the AmeriCorps Seniors Foster Grandparent Program (CFDA 94.011) for the 2025-2026 program year. The grant supports a nationwide initiative that engages volunteers aged 55 and older to provide tutoring, mentoring, and other support services to children and youth with special needs or facing academic challenges. This three-year award to United Way of...

This Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070), aims to revolutionize artificial intelligence (AI) training through the development of a novel chip architecture called Co-FABPRO (Concurrent Forward and Backward Propagation). The $200,000 award, with a project period from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2026, seeks to create a disruptive approach that will make AI...

This federal Project Grant award of $396,808 from the Corporation for National and Community Service's (CNCS) AmeriCorps Seniors Foster Grandparent Program (CFDA 94.011) supports Community Counseling Solutions, a non-profit organization located in John Day, Oregon, to engage volunteers aged 55 and older in providing critical community support services, primarily focused on educational assistance and mentoring. The grant funds the organization's 2025-2026 Foster Grandparent Program, which...

This federal Project Grant award from the Corporation for National and Community Service's Office of Grants Management provides $319,258 to Senior Resources Of Guilford, a non-profit organization based in North Carolina, to fund their 2025-2026 Foster Grandparent Program (CFDA 94.011). The Foster Grandparent Program engages volunteers aged 55 and older to provide tutoring, mentoring, and other support services to children and youth with special needs, academic challenges, or who would benefit...

This $286,342.00 federal Project Grant award from the Corporation for National and Community Service's AmeriCorps Seniors Foster Grandparent Program (CFDA 94.011) funds the approved 2025-2026 FGP program delivered by Community Teamwork Inc., a non-profit community action agency in Lowell, Massachusetts. The grant supports the organization's engagement of senior volunteers aged 55 and older to provide tutoring, mentoring, and other supportive services to children and youth with special needs,...

This federal Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), supports the development of an advanced simulation framework called FASTEST (Framework for Advanced Simulation of Multiphase Electrochemical Systems). The $562,467 award to Trustees of Tufts College will create an accessible, scalable computational tool to model and optimize complex electrochemical processes across various applications, including energy storage, manufacturing, and...

This $280,939 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) aims to develop a novel brain-inspired transistor device called the Diffusive Ferroelectric Field-Effect Transistor (DFEFET). The DFEFET integrates interconnected long-term (non-volatile) and short-term (volatile) memory capabilities within a single device to improve energy efficiency, simplify architectures, and enable new capabilities for spiking neural networks, physical...

This $200,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will support the development, implementation, and study of a novel approach to AI education at Boston College. The project, titled "Research Initiation: Human-Centered AI Algorithm Design for Engineering Students' Professional Formation," aims to help engineering students engage with the ethical, social, and human dimensions of AI. The project will design and test teaching...

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....