Project Grant 00E30601

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 2, under the Brownfields Job Training Cooperative Agreements program (CFDA 66.815), provides $500,000 in funding to ST. Nicks Alliance Corp., a non-profit organization and community development corporation, to recruit, train, and place unemployed and underemployed residents of Brooklyn, New York in environmental careers. The project aims to equip 120 trainees with skills and certifications needed to...

This Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $866,879 to Arizona State University, Kennesaw State University, and Villanova University to transform engineering education by deeply integrating sustainability concepts into the curricula across the three universities. The transformative two-year initiative aims to fundamentally reshape how future engineers are trained, emphasizing the crucial role of sustainability in engineering...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) Project Grant award provides $3,000,000 to the Georgia Institute of Technology to develop a new traineeship program in the sustainable development of smart medical devices. The overarching goal is to train the next generation of designers and engineers to prioritize sustainability and innovation for medical devices, addressing challenges related to environmental impact, material waste, and carbon emissions. The 5-year award,...

This Project Grant award from the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Environmental Education Grants Program (CFDA 66.951) provides $137,600.00 to Teaching Responsible Earth Education (T.R.E.E.) to implement an environmental education initiative in New Orleans and Covington, Louisiana. The key activities under this award include: Providing a 5-day overnight environmental education program on topics such as plant variety, adaptation, and energy flow for 230 fifth-grade...

This $6 million project grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) will fund the Research Foundation of the City University of New York to deliver an interdisciplinary traineeship program in bioinspired nanotechnology. Over five years, the program will provide comprehensive graduate education and research training to 125 students, directly supporting 25 trainees including those from underrepresented groups in STEM fields. Trainees will gain expertise at the...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $6 million project grant to the Regents of the University of Minnesota under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to support an integrated research and education traineeship from July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2027. The traineeship will provide master's and doctoral level training to approximately 300 students, including 20 directly funded trainees, in convergent research areas focused on cultural change, social equity, and the circular use of water and...

This $80,000 federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Environmental Education Grants Program (CFDA 66.951) will fund a comprehensive environmental education initiative led by Learning Endeavors, a woman-owned non-profit organization. The project will design, demonstrate, and disseminate environmental education practices, methods, and techniques to increase environmental literacy and promote pro-environmental behaviors in the Hawaiian Islands and...

This $350,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports a research project to integrate sustainability into the Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE) curriculum at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NC A&T). The key objectives of this 3-year project are to: (1) integrate sustainability concepts and frameworks, particularly environmental and social sustainability, into various ISE courses; (2)...

This $157,667 project grant awarded by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Science to Achieve Results (STAR) Research Program (CFDA 66.509) will develop new models, methods, and software tools to enable greater sustainability and circularity in the U.S. chemicals industry. Key activities include creating an open-access model of the current U.S. chemicals industry, developing innovative methods for discovering novel circular chemical reaction networks, and designing frameworks for...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) Project Grant award of $599,919 to Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) will support a Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) site focused on integrating STEM education around the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. The RET site will provide six-week summer research experiences for four pre-service and four in-service high school STEM teachers from high-needs school districts. Participants will work with WPI...