Cooperative Agreement AIDOAAA1500059

Merco Credit Union was awarded a $1,826,265 Project Grant from the Department of the Treasury's Community Development Financial Institutions Rapid Response Program (CDFI RRP, CFDA 21.024) on June 15, 2021. The grant funding will support Merco Credit Union in providing financial products and services to prepare for and respond to the economic impacts of the coronavirus pandemic through December 31, 2023. As a Community Development Financial Institution, Merco Credit Union will utilize the grant...

Riff Learning Inc. received a $991,417 cooperative agreement award from the National Science Foundation on June 15, 2021 to support work concluding May 31, 2023. The award is provided through the NSF's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to fund the project "SBIR PHASE II: USING INTERVENTION AND FEEDBACK TO IMPROVE GROUP FUNCTION IN ONLINE CONTEXTS." The project aims to develop technologies to provide feedback and interventions to improve group dynamics and functions in online...

The Marine and Environmental Research Institute of Pohnpei, Inc. (Merip) was awarded a $749,761 Project Grant from the United States Department of Agriculture Office of Advocacy and Outreach. The grant funding will support Merip's efforts to expand the number of socially disadvantaged aquaculture farmers and strengthen the capacity and resiliency of existing farmers in the Federated States of Micronesia and Hawaii through training and technical outreach in established aquaculture techniques. The...

This $604,500 project grant, awarded on June 15, 2024 by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program, aims to develop a low-cost precision feeding device for continuous monitoring of broiler feed intake and body weight in commercial broiler houses. The goal is to improve process control of broiler growth in order to produce more meat with less feed and reduced environmental impact. The prime awardee, the...

This three-year, $324,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program will fund the development of a new Multi-Layer Error Detection architecture to improve the reliability of petabyte-scale file transfers. Researchers from Arizona State University and Boston University will design and implement MLED, leveraging features of the Fabric testbed that are unavailable on other networks. MLED aims to eliminate detectable errors during...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) Project Grant award of $275,000 to Laser Graphictronics LLC, a small disadvantaged business located in Columbia, MO, funds the development of "DigitFOAL", an early labor warning system for safe and successful foal delivery in the equine industry. The project leverages dual wearable photoplethysmography (PPG) sensors and a deep learning algorithm to monitor critical physiological signals in...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded a $450,000 Project Grant to the University of Rochester to develop miniaturized metasurface-based devices for ultrafast optical pulse characterization. This 3-year project, under NSF's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), aims to advance the field of ultrafast metrology by creating compact and accurate devices for temporally and spatially characterizing ultrafast optical pulses. Specifically, the...

This Project Grant award, funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Beginning Farmer and Rancher Development Program (CFDA 10.311), provides $749,985 to the Marine and Environmental Research Institute of Pohnpei (MERIP) to increase the number of beginning aquaculture farmers and strengthen the capacity and resiliency of existing beginning aquaculture farmers in the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) and Hawaii. The key products and services to be delivered include: providing technical...

This federal Project Grant award from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) under the Research on Healthcare Costs, Quality and Outcomes (CFDA 93.226) program provides $172,785 to the University of Rochester to develop machine learning (ML)-based clinical decision support (CDS) tools to predict future laboratory values and reduce laboratory overutilization in pediatric intensive care units (PICUs). The project, titled "ML-ROVER: Machine Learning to Reduce Laboratory Test...

The Midwest Control Products Corp was awarded a $166,119 Rural Energy for America Program (REAP) Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural Business Cooperative Services on August 9, 2023. The grant will fund the installation of renewable energy systems and energy efficiency improvements for the company's operations in Illinois over a 2-year performance period ending August 9, 2025. The REAP program provides grants and loan guarantees of up to 25% of eligible project costs...