This Project Grant award of $398,433 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) will support an REU (Research Experiences for Undergraduates) Site on "Interactive Biomaterials" at Syracuse University. The program will provide undergraduate students nationwide with hands-on research experience in cutting-edge biomaterials science, including areas such as stimulus-responsive polymers, drug delivery systems, and computational...
This Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), will support a Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site at Syracuse University focused on using microscopy to understand form and function across biological scales. The award, worth $409,397 over 3 years (2025-2027), will provide research training for 30 undergraduate students, primarily from minority-serving institutions and community colleges. The program will expose...
Syracuse University was awarded a $579,303 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation on June 15, 2021 to complete work by May 31, 2024. The grant falls under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to promote progress in these fields and enhance understanding of major problems. Specifically, the funding supports an integrated computational and experimental approach to reveal design principles for responsive nanomaterials derived from disordered proteins modified...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $410,440 Project Grant to the University of Virginia under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant funds an Research Experiences for Undergraduates Site focused on advanced materials synthesis from September 2021 through August 2024. As part of the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program's goals to strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise and increase knowledge of major problems, this REU Site will provide research...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $387,231 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) federal grant program to the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) for a Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site focused on experimental and computational materials research. The 3-year project, beginning April 1, 2025, will provide interdisciplinary materials research experiences to undergraduate students in physics, chemistry, applied mathematics, and...
The National Science Foundation (NSF), through its Division of Materials Research, has awarded a $388,404 Project Grant to Georgetown University to operate an Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site focused on materials physics research. Over a 3-year period from September 2024 to August 2027, the program will provide 9 undergraduates from diverse backgrounds and institutions with a 10-week summer research experience. Students will engage in experimental, computational, and...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $465,000 to the University of Pennsylvania's Laboratory for Research on the Structure of Matter (LRSM) to support an undergraduate Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site program. The program will engage 10 undergraduate students annually in hands-on materials science research and develop their scientific communication skills. Students will...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Materials Research award, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), provides $392,000 in funding to Syracuse University from August 1, 2023 to July 31, 2026 to conduct theoretical and computational research on rigidity and shape transitions in living and non-living materials. The key objectives of the research are to: 1) study rigidity and convexity in disordered fiber networks, 2) develop a continuum theory to...
The University of Utah was awarded a $364,500 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences on May 15, 2022 to support an Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site titled "Experimental and Computational Modeling of Materials and Biomolecular Systems." The grant will fund the REU Site program through April 30, 2025. As part of the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to promote...
North Carolina State University was awarded a $284,672 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation to operate an Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site for Integrated Computational and Experimental research from September 2021 through August 2024. As part of the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), the REU Site will promote progress in these fields by increasing the pool of trained scientists through research experiences for undergraduate students....