Project Grant 2045308
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $201,974 to Loyola University of Chicago to investigate the progression of dental wear and dental senescence over a 50-year simulated chewing period. The study employs a custom chewing simulator to measure changes in dental function, occlusal topography, microstructure, and elemental composition of extracted third molars. This research aims to advance the...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program will provide $298,025 to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania to investigate the progression of dental wear and dental senescence over a 50-year simulated chewing period. The study will employ a mechanical chewing simulator and analysis techniques to measure changes in dental function, occlusal topography, microstructure, and elemental composition of...
- The National Science Foundation awarded The Pennsylvania State University a $450,000 Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) from May 1, 2023 to April 30, 2028. Penn State will reconstruct ancient human microbiomes and analyze shifts in oral microbial communities that accompanied changes in diet, environment, and human interactions over the past 1,000 years. The university will sequence ancient DNA from calcified dental plaque to identify...
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $139,833 project grant to develop isotopic analyses of human tooth enamel. With a completion date of April 30, 2023, this award will support research under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). Specifically, the grant will enable the recipient to develop isoscapes and test lead isotope ratios in human tooth enamel. Isoscapes are maps that show spatial variations in isotope ratios, while analyzing lead isotopes in teeth...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences awarded Baylor University a $159,211 project grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The grant will fund collaborative research from September 2021 through August 2025 on the geological and paleoecological contexts of early Miocene hominoid evolution. As part of the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program's goals to promote basic research and education in these...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The University of Central Oklahoma received a $196,485 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Earth Sciences (CFDA 47.050) on August 15, 2025, to conduct paleontological research on the evolution of herbivory during the Permian period. The grant supports the EMBRACE-EAR-SEED project, which will utilize 3D scanning technology and advanced analytical methods to examine dental morphology in Permian fossil vertebrates, primarily from...
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $1,551,062 Project Grant to the University of Oklahoma under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) from September 1, 2021 to August 31, 2025. The grant funding will support research services focusing on the cultural resilience and shifting baselines of the North American fur trade. Specifically, the University of Oklahoma will provide data collection, analysis, and documentation of specimen samples to strengthen understanding of the integrated Earth...
- This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program provides $309,983 to Texas A&M University Health Science Center from September 2021 through August 2025 for a paleodemographic and ancient DNA study of a potential epidemic site in Dallas, Texas. A subaward of $100,000 or less is also provided to the University of South Carolina to support related work on the project. The overarching goal of the Social, Behavioral, and Economic...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) provides $102,340 to the University of Oklahoma to investigate the motivations and ecological contexts behind the historical spread of agriculture. The project will reconstruct the environmental conditions and decision-making processes involved as farming practices expanded, shedding light on whether this major economic transition occurred under duress or by choice when...
- This three-year, $392,642 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences, under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), will fund research at the University of Florida to investigate developmental links between teeth and facial growth from birth through adulthood. The principal investigators will use micro computed tomography scanning and Amira software to generate three-dimensional reconstructions of jaws, allowing...
The National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences awarded the University of Oklahoma a $497,304 Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075) on May 15, 2021. The grant supports research services focused on analyzing human dental calculus to study pathogen evolution through May 2024. Specifically, the University of Oklahoma will extract and analyze DNA from dental calculus samples of approximately 55 individuals from archaeological sites in Sudan. The University will also provide training to an Arizona State University laboratory assistant in ancient dental calculus DNA extraction and analysis techniques over a four to five week period. The assistant will then process dental calculus samples from the archaeological sites at the University of Oklahoma and later collaborate with other researchers on data analysis once returning to Arizona State University.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $75.1k | 8/3/22 | ||
| Not listed | $422.2k | 4/26/21 |