Project Grant 80NSSC22K0450

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Astronomical Sciences provides $229,131 to the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) to develop a new research and education partnership in astronomy with Texas Southmost College (TSC). The partnership will engage Hispanic community college students in South Texas in multi-messenger and time domain astronomy research, including observational techniques, data analysis, and machine learning. Key activities...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences awarded a $439,616 Project Grant to the University of Hawaii (UH) Institute for Astronomy (IFA) and the University of California, Riverside (UCR) for the California-Hawaii Astrophysics Mentoring Partnership (CHAMP) program. The 3-year grant aims to build a collaborative research, education, and outreach program focused on addressing recommendations from the 2022 Astronomy and Astrophysics Decadal Survey. Key...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program provides $325,293 to The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) to conduct collaborative exoplanet research. The key objectives are to discover new exoplanets using advanced ground-based telescopes with adaptive optics, as well as measure the masses and orbits of the detected planets. The research will leverage the Subaru Coronagraphic Extreme Adaptive Optics Project (SCExAO)...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $449,190 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to the Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network, Inc. (LCO) to expand access to authentic astronomy research experiences for underrepresented undergraduate students. The "USA SKY Partners" program, managed by LCO, will provide a curriculum, training, and mentoring for faculty as well as access to LCO's global network of 0.4m robotic...

This Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083), aims to establish a collaboration between the University of Hawaii (UH) and Duke University to advance supernova cosmology research. The $277,608 award will support activities to: Leverage UH-led supernova discovery surveys, such as Pan-STARRS and ATLAS, to significantly reduce key systematic uncertainties in cosmological parameters. This will be achieved by...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Astronomical Sciences provides $475,526 to develop a new research and education partnership in astronomy between the University of Colorado at Boulder and Fort Lewis College. Over three years, the award will enable nine Fort Lewis College undergraduates to participate in 10-week summer research internships at CU Boulder's Astrophysics Department and the National Solar Observatory located on campus. The students will develop...

This $160,713 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Astronomical Sciences under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) will fund a comprehensive survey of the Aquila Rift region to further understand star formation within its dark gas clouds. Lowell Observatory will complete the survey using the Dark Energy Camera on the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory telescope, the only facility capable of this search. Principal Investigator Dr. Rector...

Federal Project Grant Award Summary Liberty Science Center, Inc. received a $559,000 Project Grant awarded on June 1, 2026, by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education under CFDA 84.215 (Innovative Approaches to Literacy; Promise Neighborhoods; Full-Service Community Schools; and Congressionally Directed Spending for Elementary and Secondary Education Community Projects). The four-year award, concluding June 28, 2030, supports the "Leveraging...

This three-year project grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Astronomical Sciences, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), provides $446,497 to Rice University to conduct collaborative research on space weather in young stellar systems using the Owens Valley Radio Observatory - Long Wavelength Array (OVRO-LWA). The research team will make radio observations of approximately 2,000 young stellar systems less than one billion years old using the...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Astronomical Sciences, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), provides $367,381 to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) to conduct research on space weather in young stellar systems using the Owens Valley Radio Observatory - Long Wavelength Array (OVRO-LWA). The research team, led by Caltech, will observe approximately 2,000 young stellar systems less than one billion years old with...