The National Science Foundation awarded a $507,184 Project Grant to James Madison University under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074) for the period of February 15, 2021 through January 31, 2025. The grant funds an Research Experiences for Undergraduates Site project titled "Biological Data Science for Community College Students: Transition to Academic and Research Independence." The project aims to promote progress in the biological sciences by increasing...
This federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Postsecondary Education, under the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (CFDA 84.116) program, provides $4,990,476.00 to Sam Houston State University to develop an innovative Master's program in Applied Biomedical Sciences. The goal is to advance healthcare research capacity by establishing this new interdisciplinary graduate program. The award period runs from November 1, 2024 to October 31,...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) provides $415,780 in funding to the University of Washington (UW) in Seattle, WA to support a Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site focused on "Novel Genome-Scale Technologies and Big Data Science". The 9-week summer program will train 10 undergraduate students annually from 2025-2027 on cutting-edge genome engineering, sequencing, and computational biology...
The University of North Dakota received a $216,546 National Science Foundation project grant under the Biological Sciences (47.074) federal grant program to support a Research Experiences for Undergraduates Site award from May 1, 2023 to April 30, 2026. The grant will fund research training for 36 undergraduate students, primarily from rural and tribal colleges, over the summers of 2023 through 2025. Students will conduct biological research projects related to genes and the environment...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) has awarded a $511,217 Project Grant to Texas A&M University to support a 3-year Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site program in biochemistry. The program will provide research training for 11 undergraduate students each summer from 2025-2027. Students will work in faculty research labs focused on various biochemistry disciplines, including drug discovery, enzymology, gene regulation, plant...
The University of Hawaii at Manoa received a $468,500 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation on February 15, 2021 to complete the project by January 31, 2024. The grant is part of the NSF's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to promote basic biological research and strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise. Specifically, the grant funds an Research Experiences for Undergraduates Site focused on DNA-based discoveries in Hawaii's biodiversity. The University of...
This $347,015 National Science Foundation project grant under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) supports an Interdisciplinary and Quantitative Biology Research Experience for Undergraduates (IQ-BIO-REU) site award to the University of Puerto Rico Rio Piedras campus. Over three years, the program will train 30 undergraduate students, primarily from schools with limited research opportunities, in a mentored research environment using computational and quantitative tools in biology....
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) program provides funding of $421,425 to Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) in Cold Spring Harbor, NY. The award will support the training of 9 undergraduate students per summer over 3 years (2025-2027) through the REU (Research Experiences for Undergraduates) Site program in Bioinformatics and Computational Neuroscience. The students will conduct hands-on, high-level research in these...
This $420,873 National Science Foundation project grant will support the Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site: Re-Imagine Life, Exploring Function through Adaptation program at the University of Alabama from March 2022 through February 2025. The grant will fund research training for 30 undergraduate students over three summers, with 10 students participating each year. The program aims to provide research opportunities in biology for students from institutions with limited research...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) provides $400,000 to Howard University to enhance computational biology training for undergraduate students. The key objectives are to develop new advanced computational biology courses, integrate big data analytics modules into existing biology courses, and establish a specialized image data analysis platform. These efforts aim to equip students with advanced skills in...