Cooperative Agreement SNZ95021CA3086

This $320,899 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems, under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), will support the 2022 Underwater Ideas Lab conference organized by the American Society for Engineering Education. The conference aims to foster transformative ideas and interdisciplinary teams to advance sensing, communication, and data transmission technologies for diverse underwater environments, including marine, freshwater,...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program provides $100,000 in funding to the National Collegiate Inventors & Innovators Alliance, Inc. (doing business as Venturewell) to host a conference focused on reimagining science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) innovation and entrepreneurship through the lens of diversity, equity, and inclusion. The conference will bring together a...

This $750,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) supports research at Oregon State University toward developing a circular economy model for mining green hydrogen and critical materials from seawater. The award period is from December 15, 2022 through November 30, 2023. Oregon State University will lead a consortium including Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, Mempro USA LTD, and Espiku LLC to converge...

This $238,855 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports the establishment of the Center for Growing Ocean Energy Technologies and the Blue Economy (GO BLUE) at the Stevens Institute of Technology. This industry-university cooperative research center will conduct faculty-driven, industry-relevant, basic research to create new knowledge and innovations that address critical challenges in the marine energy ecosystem. The center engages...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Integrative Activities program, CFDA 47.083, provides $749,997 to Rutgers, The State University for the project "NSF CONVERGENCE ACCELERATOR TRACK E: REGIONAL CLIMATE CHANGE PROJECTIONS TO ENABLE EQUITABLE OCEAN PLANNING FOR THE BLUE ECONOMY." The funding period is from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2022. Through this award and sub-awards to The Nature Conservancy, the University of Connecticut, the University of...

This $1.5 million Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Office of International Science and Engineering (NSF OISE) will fund the development of a climate-resilient and sustainable food production system utilizing controlled environment hydroponic agriculture with novel wastewater treatment and reuse technologies. Led by Clemson University in collaboration with universities in South Korea, the award will support five key activities over a two-year period from January 2023 to December...

This $400,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program supports a multi-institution collaborative effort to develop a research and innovation ecosystem that leverages external partnerships to shape the STEM talent pipeline and workforce development. The "LIGHT UP" collaborative, comprised of six higher education institutions in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast regions, aims to establish a...

This $300,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program will support a collaborative research project at the University of California, Riverside (UC Riverside). The project aims to develop a user-interactive approach to water management for sustainable data centers. Key objectives include: Designing a fair and accurate water accounting system to track water footprints at both the user and facility levels....

The National Science Foundation (NSF), through its Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083), awarded a $100,000 Project Grant to the University of New Mexico (UNM) to host a two-day conference titled "Improving the Research and Innovation Enterprise Across the Southwest Region". The conference aims to (1) enhance the collective understanding of challenges facing the research enterprise in the Southwest U.S., (2) formulate next steps for individual and collective action to...

This $222,606 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) program aims to drive convergence of ocean wave energy research for empowering remote coastal communities. The 5-year project, beginning September 2024, brings together a multidisciplinary team from Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) to develop a roadmap and screen leading wave energy converter (WEC) design concepts. Through...