The National Science Foundation awarded Cornell University a $322,617 project grant under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program. The grant will fund research from May 2021 through April 2024 related to actuating and sensing objects on a free surface. Specifically, the funding will support collaborative research to develop techniques for controlling and monitoring the behavior of objects located on liquid surfaces without direct contact. By enabling new types of contactless...
The National Science Foundation awarded Cornell University a $459,414 Project Grant under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) to support research titled "The Fluid Mechanics of Bacterial Swimming in Yield Stress Fluids" from December 1, 2021 through November 30, 2024. The grant funding will enable Cornell researchers to study the swimming behavior of bacteria in non-Newtonian fluids that exhibit a yield stress, providing insight into bacterial locomotion in environments...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $1,049,994 Project Grant to Cornell University under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program. The grant will fund research from January 2022 through December 2026 to develop solvent-free synthesis methods for creating polymeric nanostructures with targeted material properties. Leveraging its expertise in materials engineering and nanotechnology, Cornell University will work to advance environmentally-friendly and cost-effective production...
This three-year, $475,603 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will fund the development of experimental, theoretical, and computational methods to predict the behavior of dense suspensions of frictionless particles, such as those found in landslides, mudslides, and underwater avalanches. Specifically, the awardee Cornell University will use advanced microscopy, rheology,...
Cornell University was awarded a $337,635 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041). The grant will fund research from January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2024 to develop scalable nanomanufacturing techniques for earth-abundant electrochromic materials. As part of its mission to improve engineering innovation and education, the NSF Engineering program supports projects like Cornell's that advance new nanoscale manufacturing processes...
The National Science Foundation awarded Cornell University a three-year Project Grant totaling $430,000 under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to support research titled "Mechanoregulation in the Maintenance of the Bacterial Cell Wall." From May 2021 through April 2024, Cornell researchers will investigate how bacteria sense and respond to mechanical forces during cell growth and division to maintain cell wall integrity. The Engineering program aims to improve quality of life...
The National Science Foundation awarded Cornell University a $775,595 project grant under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) for the period of January 15, 2021 through December 31, 2023. The grant funds basic research exploring the role of boundary layer microbial remineralization in flavivirus-host dynamics. The Geosciences program supports fundamental knowledge and understanding of the integrated Earth system through basic research in atmospheric, earth, and ocean sciences. Cornell...
This $322,052 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) funds collaborative research on hybrid flow-sediment-structure interaction analysis of extreme scour due to coastal flooding. The Research Foundation for the State University of New York, on behalf of Stony Brook University, will analyze the interaction of water flow, sediment transport, and infrastructure to better understand scour hazards during coastal flooding events. As the NSF Engineering...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $306,062 Project Grant to Princeton University under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to conduct collaborative research from April 2022 through March 2025. The research aims to advance understanding of cohesive sediment transport through multiscale experiments and numerical simulations. Specifically, the university will combine nano- to microscale imaging and molecular dynamics simulations, micro- to mesoscale millifluidic experiments and...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $273,237 Project Grant to Cornell University under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to support collaborative research titled "CONCENTRATION - RATIO - DISCHARGE (C-R-Q) RELATIONSHIPS OF TRANSIENT WATER-AGE DISTRIBUTIONS." This two-year award, issued on January 15, 2022 and concluding on December 31, 2024, will fund research examining relationships between concentration, ratio, and discharge metrics related to transient water-age...