The National Science Foundation awarded a $357,365 Project Grant to the University of Denver under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074) for work titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: CIBR: INCORPORATING CRYSTALLOGRAPHY AND CRYO-EM TOOLS IN FOLDIT." The three-year award running from June 2021 through May 2024 will support research incorporating crystallography and cryo-electron microscopy tools to advance protein structure prediction. The Biological Sciences program...
The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth received a $149,314 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation on March 1, 2022 to support research activities concluding on February 28, 2023. The grant was awarded under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to integrate land and sea approaches for building coastal resilience and ecosystem services within sustainable urban-rural systems. As the prime awardee, UMass Dartmouth will leverage the funding...
The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth (UMass Dartmouth) was awarded a $365,401 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Mathematical Sciences under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant supports research focusing on developing novel computational methods for efficiently solving problems with conserved physical properties or highly oscillatory wave solutions. Specific areas of research include investigating conservative...
The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth was awarded a $404,620 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070) for the period of April 1, 2021 through March 31, 2024. The grant funding supports the Research Experiences for Undergraduates Site: Secure, Robust, and Resilient AI-Enabled System Engineering project being conducted at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth in North Dartmouth,...
The University of Massachusetts in Hadley, MA received a $649,767 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Materials Research. The grant funds collaborative research from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2025 titled "PREDICTING MOLECULAR INTERACTIONS TO STABILIZE VIRAL THERAPIES" under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The research aims to advance understanding of major problems in science through progressing mathematical and...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences awarded a $221,474 Project Grant to the University of Vermont & State Agricultural College (UVM) for the period of August 1, 2023 to July 31, 2026 under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074). The primary objective of this grant is to enable the principal investigator to acquire expertise in utilizing single-particle cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) techniques to elucidate the molecular structures...
This $151,080 Project Grant award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) Biomedical Research and Research Training Program (CFDA 93.859) will be used to acquire a circular dichroism (CD) spectropolarimeter instrument by the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. The instrument will enhance the university's biomedical research and education capabilities in areas such as investigating the structures of chiral nanoparticles and biomolecules. This specialized equipment...
The University of Massachusetts Amherst was awarded a three-year, $359,996 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to conduct research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: CNS CORE: MEDIUM: DYNAMIC DATA-DRIVEN SYSTEMS - THEORY AND APPLICATIONS." The NSF Computer and Information Science and Engineering program supports investigator-initiated research and education across computing, communications, and...
The University of Massachusetts in Amherst, MA received a three-year, $359,998 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to conduct research titled "SUBCELLULAR INTERROGATION OF MUSCLE DYNAMICS WITH INTEGRATED OPTOELECTRONIC ARRAYS." The grant aims to advance understanding of muscle dynamics at the subcellular level through development of integrated optoelectronic arrays for interrogating muscle tissue. The Engineering program seeks to...
The University of Massachusetts was awarded a $600,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems. The grant falls under the official federal Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) and will fund research related to "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: CNS CORE: MEDIUM: MIVIRTUALSEAT: SEMANTICS-AWARE CONTENT DISTRIBUTION FOR IMMERSIVE MEETING ENVIRONMENTS" from October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2024....