Project Grant 09CNEGIT005

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering awarded a $399,988 Project Grant to Gordon College to study the propagation of sound waves in nanostructured materials. The project, titled "Collaborative Research: RUI: Wave Engineering in 2D using Hierarchical Nanostructured Dynamical Systems," will develop a tailored two-dimensional medium consisting of a periodic array of nanoscale cavities with single-atom-thick membranes. By vibrating these membranes, the...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences, under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075), provides $533,853 to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for research on the perception and cognition of sound texture. The investigators will develop a computational framework to understand the properties of environmental noises that underlie human perception. This involves assembling a large dataset...

This $369,806 Project Grant from the National Institutes of Health's National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders will fund research into objective screening tests for noise-induced hearing damage. The University of Wisconsin-Madison will investigate short- and long-term changes in cochlear, afferent, and efferent auditory system function due to noise exposure using otoacoustic emission-based assays of the middle ear muscle reflex and medial olivocochlear reflex....

This Project Grant award of $279,959, provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), supports collaborative research to investigate the chemical and biological determinants of indoor air quality. The research aims to explore how building material surface composition influences microbial gene expression and emissions, and to establish connections between environmental pollutant exposures, microbial gene expression, and microbial volatile organic compound...

The Center for Energy and Environment (CEE) was awarded a $812,429 Cooperative Agreement from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy under the Conservation Research and Development program (CFDA 81.086) on October 1, 2023. The award will support CEE's research and development of innovative aerosol sealing techniques for occupied residential buildings to improve energy efficiency. Key activities include assessing the feasibility of air source heat...

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) awarded a $582,778 Cooperative Agreement to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) to conduct a field study on the behavioral and physiological effects of pile driving from offshore renewable energy construction on key Atlantic fisheries species. The three-year project, spanning December 2023 to December 2026, will provide data and analysis to support BOEM's marine environmental assessments and decision-making related to offshore energy...

This $599,988 Project Grant award, funded by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) under the Healthy Homes Weatherization Cooperation Demonstration Grants program (CFDA 14.901), supports the Housing Authority of the City of Bridgeport (Park City Communities) to conduct radon testing and mitigation in public housing units it manages. The key activities under this award include: 1) Radon testing of public housing units, conducted by certified professionals in accordance with...

This five-year, $1.167 million project grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will fund research and educational activities to address gaps in understanding the impacts of downburst windstorms on buildings. Led by Florida International University, the award will support field measurements, physical simulations, and numerical modeling to characterize downburst wind flows and assess building vulnerability. Researchers will leverage domestic and international...

This National Science Foundation Project Grant award of $941,186 provides funding from February 15, 2022 through January 31, 2027 to support research and education activities focused on developing predictive computational models for fiber-reinforced silica aerogel composites used in building insulation components. Funded under the Engineering (47.041) program, the award will allow the awardee, the Research Foundation for the State University of New York on behalf of the State University of New...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $200,000 to Oklahoma State University to develop advanced computational models and artificial intelligence tools to mitigate the spread of airborne viruses like SARS-CoV-2 in school classrooms. The key objectives are to: (1) Determine the distribution of virus-laden aerosols in classrooms using a model combining computational fluid dynamics and host cell dynamics to generate...