The University of Rochester received a $346,437 project grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences on September 15, 2021 to complete work by February 28, 2025. The award falls under the NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), which supports basic research and education in these fields as well as monitoring science resources. Through this funding, the University will conduct collaborative research to...
The University of Rochester received a two-year $162,118 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences under the agency's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The grant funds collaborative research on active vision during natural behavior beyond initial perceptions. The project aims to advance understanding of how the visual system dynamically interacts with behavior in real-world settings. The research is performed...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $209,000 project grant to the University of Rochester for collaborative research titled "Innovation and Information" under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The research aims to contribute to scientific strength and welfare through promotion of basic research and education in the social, behavioral and economic sciences. Specifically, the University of Rochester will conduct collaborative research projects...
This $393,511 National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) Project Grant award to the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) aims to advance the understanding and evaluation of link prediction algorithms for knowledge graphs. The project will develop new methods to interpret the outputs of link prediction models, detect biases in common benchmarking datasets, and create open-source tools to standardize and improve the replicability of link...
Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) received a $248,480 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) to develop an interactive, data-enabled scientific computing platform for characterizing and monitoring cardiac tissue ablation. Through leveraging expertise in heat transfer theory, image computing, biomedical modeling and simulation, and...
The Rochester Institute of Technology received a $120,152 project grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Social and Economic Science on September 1, 2021. The grant supports research titled "The Political and Material Ecology of Horseshoe Crabs in the Biomedical Industry" through August 31, 2022. The grant is part of the NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), which aims to strengthen basic research and education in these fields as...
The University of Rochester will use a $552,068 project grant from the National Science Foundation to study the role of neural oscillations in coordinating competing cognitive processes. Funded through the NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), this three-year award beginning October 1, 2021 will support research examining how the brain coordinates multiple tasks simultaneously. The grant aims to advance understanding of cognitive functions through investigating...
This $376,744 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) will support a Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site focused on advancing research in computational sensing for human-centered artificial intelligence (AI). Over three cohorts, the REU site at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) will promote the development of robust, human-centered AI systems that can excel in noisy...
This $140,140 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program will support a history of technology research project focused on computer automation and data entry. The Rochester Institute of Technology will examine changes in the participation and working conditions of data entry workers from the 1950s to 1970s in banking automation across the United States, West Germany, and East Germany. The project aims to make routine data entry work more...
The Rochester Institute of Technology received a $360,019 project grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Materials Research. The award is for the project "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: DMREF: LIVING BIOTIC-ABIOTIC MATERIALS WITH TEMPORALLY PROGRAMMABLE ACTUATION" under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The project aims to develop living biotic-abiotic materials with temporally programmable actuation capabilities through September 2025. The...