The federal Project Grant award SBL40024GR0083, funded by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs under the Public Diplomacy Programs (CFDA 19.040), provides $110,000.00 to the Centro Boliviano Americano De Santa Cruz De La Sierra, a non-profit educational institution in Bolivia, to organize the ABLA 2025 conference in Santa Cruz de la Sierra. The award, with a performance period from October 1, 2024 to July 31, 2025, supports the organization's efforts to...
The Department of Public Health and Social Services (DPHSS) in Guam has been awarded a $13,522,737.00 Formula Grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Social Services Block Grant (SSBG) program (CFDA 93.667). The grant, awarded on October 1, 2024, with a performance period through September 30, 2026, enables DPHSS to deliver a range of critical social services tailored to the unique needs of Guam's vulnerable populations. These services span multiple domains including child...
The National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems awarded a $121,515 Project Grant to The Research Foundation For The State University Of New York to support the collaborative research project "S2OS: Enabling Infrastructure-Wide Programmable Security with SDI" from February 1, 2021 through August 31, 2021. The grant funded research to advance the development of security infrastructure through the "S2OS" project, enabling programmable security...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program, with a total funding of $180,000.00, supports the development of a user-friendly, high-performance, and portable GPU-accelerated data reduction cyberinfrastructure called Scientific GPU Compression Cyberinfrastructure (SGCC). The project aims to mitigate data challenges on GPU-equipped supercomputing systems, improve data analysis efficiency, and accelerate...
This Project Grant award of $200,000 from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) program supports research to optimize the Genotype Representation Graph (GRG) data structure for efficient analysis of whole genome sequencing (WGS) data, particularly on parallel computing architectures like GPUs. The research aims to improve the accuracy and scalability of population genetics studies using large datasets such as the UK Biobank. Key objectives include optimizing the GRG...
This Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service under the Sportfishing and Boating Safety Act (CFDA 15.622) provides $182,538 to the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (RIDEM) to perform administrative support for existing large grants as well as host the annual SOBA symposium in August 2025. Key activities include conducting site visits, providing training, and sharing information about grant program benefits and accomplishments....
The Guam Department of Agriculture received a $326,711.78 Specialty Crop Block Grant from the United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Marketing Service under the Specialty Crop Block Grant Program - Farm Bill (CFDA 10.170) for the period of September 30, 2021 through September 29, 2025. Funding will support efforts to enhance the competitiveness of Guam's specialty crops through activities such as marketing and promotion, research and development, expanding availability and...
This $3,200,000 Project Grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program on September 15, 2024, will fund the development of the BISQUE Deep Learning (BDL) Cyberinfrastructure (CI) at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). The BDL CI is a scalable, user-friendly platform that will enable the management and analysis of vast, complex multimodal datasets across fields such as materials science, environmental...
This $352,990 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) supports further development of the Global Storm-resolving Model (GSAM) and making it available to the worldwide research community. Key deliverables include improving model behavior near poles and radiative transfer calculations using machine learning, enhancing input/output performance, and validating simulations against satellite data. Additional resources developed are full documentation,...
The Department of Human Services, Office of the Commissioner in the U.S. Virgin Islands has been awarded a $20,027,093 Formula Grant under the Social Services Block Grant (SSBG) program (CFDA 93.667) from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families. This two-year grant, with an award date of October 1, 2024 and a completion date of September 30, 2026, enables the department to deliver a comprehensive range of critical social services tailored to the...