The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $110,482 Project Grant to the University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES), a historically black, 1890 land-grant university. The grant, under the NSF's STEM Education (formerly Education and Human Resources) program (CFDA 47.076), will support a Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) site program in marine and estuarine science. The program will provide research training for 24 undergraduate students, primarily from schools with limited...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) program awarded a $201,553 Project Grant to the University of Delaware's College of Earth, Ocean and Environment (CEOE) to host a 3-year Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) site program in marine science. The program will bring 10 undergraduates to UD's Lewes campus each summer to conduct independent ocean science research with faculty mentors. Key program elements include research skills training, professional...
The University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science received a three-year, $1,097,772 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). The grant will support research examining estuary plumes as drivers of inner continental shelf benthic community structure and function from March 2021 through February 2024. The Geosciences program seeks to expand fundamental knowledge and understanding of Earth's integrated system...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) provides funding of $549,900.00 to the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. The award supports the "REU Site Biological Discovery in Woods Hole" program, which will train a total of 30 undergraduate students over 3 summers (2025-2027) in biological research. The students, who are primarily from schools with limited research opportunities or...
This $150,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) will support Delaware State University's inclusive Research Experiences for Undergraduates site award from 2024 through 2027. The award will provide high-impact interdisciplinary summer research experiences in cellular and molecular biology to 30 undergraduate students, primarily from historically black colleges and universities and other institutions with limited research opportunities....
The University of Delaware was awarded a $516,429 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences under the Geosciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.050). The grant will fund the University's Summer REU Program in Marine Science from April 2021 through March 2024. As part of the Geosciences program's goal of expanding knowledge of the integrated Earth system through basic research, the University will deliver research experiences for undergraduate students in...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $464,935 Project Grant to the University of Massachusetts Boston to support a Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site program in Integrative and Evolutionary Biology. This 3-year program, running from March 2024 to February 2027, will provide research experiences for up to 30 students, primarily from underrepresented groups or schools with limited research opportunities. Students will work on individual research projects applying molecular,...
This $407,491 National Science Foundation project grant under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) funds the Johns Hopkins University to operate an Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site from 2022 through 2025. The REU site will provide research training to 30 undergraduate students over three summers, with 10 students participating each year, in molecular and imaging approaches to biological problems. Students will gain hands-on experience in faculty laboratories...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) program has awarded Colorado State University a $462,342 Project Grant to support an REU (Research Experiences for Undergraduates) Site program in Molecular Biosciences. This 3-year award, effective June 1, 2025 through May 31, 2028, will provide research training to 30 undergraduate students, primarily from schools with limited research opportunities, in areas such as biochemistry, molecular biology, microbiology,...
The University of Maryland Baltimore County was awarded a $293,710 project grant from the National Science Foundation under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070). The grant will fund an online interdisciplinary Research Experiences for Undergraduates site focused on big data analytics in science and engineering from April 1, 2021 through March 31, 2024. As described in the program details, the NSF grant supports investigator-initiated research...