The Regents of the University of California, doing business as University of California, Berkeley, received a $545,430 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation to develop a new nanofabrication approach based on self-assembly of nanoscale materials guided by DNA molecules. This Faculty Early Career Development award, made on May 1, 2023 under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program, will support research through...
The University of California, Merced received a $750,000 National Science Foundation Project Grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to support research titled "UNDERSTANDING THE DEFORMABILITY OF BIOLOGICAL FILAMENTS FROM THEIR ATOMISTIC LEVEL DETAILS" from January 1, 2022 through December 31, 2026. The grant will fund research examining the deformability of biological filaments through analysis of their atomic structure to gain a deeper understanding of their material...
The Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley, received a $1,210,245 project grant award from the National Science Foundation to fabricate and study the mechanical behavior of hierarchical architected metamaterials from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2024. This funding supports research under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), which aims to foster innovation in engineering research and education. Specifically, the University...
The Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley, received a $911,030 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation on January 1, 2022. The grant is supporting research under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to synthesize neuroimaging and data-driven approaches to discover inspirational examples in design. Specifically, the university will conduct research...
The Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley, was awarded a $249,563 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program. The grant will fund a three-year collaborative research project from July 2021 to June 2024 to develop graphical modeling techniques for multivariate functional data. The Computer and Information Science and Engineering program supports...
The University of California, Merced was awarded a $420,080 National Science Foundation Project Grant under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to support research titled "CAREER: COLLECTIVE MECHANICS, PARTICLE TRANSPORT AND MORPHOLOGICAL ADAPTATION IN LIVING MULTIPHASE MATTER: FROM MECHANISMS TO THE CONTROL OF MICROBIAL SWARMS AND FILMS" from August 1, 2021 through July 31, 2026. The objectives of this research project are to advance understanding of the collective mechanics,...
The Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley, received a $600,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation to conduct research under the Biological Sciences program. The goal of the grant is to advance understanding of major biological problems through basic research projects such as TRTECH-PGR: NSF BSF - Recombining Allelic Diversity via Genome Editing for Dissecting Complex Plant Traits. This project will utilize genome...
The Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley, received a $750,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry on September 1, 2022 to complete work by August 31, 2025. The grant funds research led by Professor Ke Xu at UC Berkeley to develop ultrahigh-throughput approaches for single-molecule spectroscopy and multidimensional super-resolution microscopy. Specifically, the team aims to expand the...
The Regents of the University of California, doing business as University of California, Berkeley, received a $273,044 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Mathematical Sciences under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (47.049) federal grant program. The award will support the development of a comprehensive multi-scale, multi-physics mathematical and computational model of cell encapsulation for bioartificial organ design over a three year period from May...
The National Science Foundation awarded $905,966 under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program to The Regents of the University of California, Berkeley from June 15, 2022 to May 31, 2027. The award will support the development and validation of a targeted long-read DNA sequencing approach to enable enrichment of antibiotic resistance genes and flanking regions from metagenomic samples. This is intended to facilitate detection of low-abundance antibiotic resistance gene targets and their...