North Carolina A&T State University will receive $435,000 under a three-year Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Office of Integrative Activities. The award is part of NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to support research excellence in rationally designed porous metal nanoarchitectures for electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide. The University will conduct research from August 2021 through July 2024 to advance understanding of major...
North Carolina State University received a $320,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) for the period of September 1, 2023 through August 31, 2026. The university will develop Fractional Ridge Regression methodology and associated statistical software to improve both prediction and interpretation of large data set analyses. This will enhance understanding and use of massive data in business, science, and...
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will receive $219,990 from the National Science Foundation under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) for the project "NETWORK TIME SERIES: FROM DYNAMICS TO COEVOLUTION" from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2024. This Project Grant aims to advance understanding of major problems confronting the nation through promoting progress in mathematical and physical sciences. Specifically, the university will analyze...
This $300,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Mathematical Sciences under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) will fund research into spectral methods for single and multiple graph inference networks. The grantee, North Carolina State University, will develop efficient parameter estimation methods for latent position graphs and valid two-sample testing procedures for comparing latent position graphs while ignoring irrelevant features. The...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $228,389 Project Grant under its Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NC A&T), an HBCU, in partnership with the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) Materials Research Science and Engineering Center. The 6-year grant supports collaborative research and education in advanced materials, focusing on three thrust areas: 2D materials, plasmonic materials, and...
North Carolina State University received a $106,893 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Mathematical Sciences on August 15, 2021 to complete the project by July 31, 2024. The grant funds multiscale simulations and imaging of viscoelastic media within a reduced order model framework. This aligns with the goals of the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to advance scientific knowledge and understanding of major problems through mathematical and...
This $243,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.049 - Mathematical and Physical Sciences) will support a collaborative research and education partnership between North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NC A&T), a historically black college/university, and Boston University. The key goals are to enhance astronomy research and education at NC A&T by providing access to research-grade telescopes, raise the visibility of astronomy careers...
The National Science Foundation awarded North Carolina Central University a $307,779 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) for the period of September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2024. The grant funds collaborative research on the rational design and mechanistic understanding of carbon-based hybrid nanostructures for potent microbicidal function. As part of the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program's goal of strengthening the Nation's scientific...
This $275,000 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program will support collaborative research to develop new statistical approaches for comparing and aligning networks. The research will focus on investigating optimal transport-based distances for Markov embeddings of networks, developing new methods for network alignment and comparison, and establishing theoretical results about these approaches. The...
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was awarded a $545,613 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Materials Research under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant will fund research from August 2021 through July 2024 on optical bound states and non-linearity in geometrically-modulated dielectric nanowires. The Mathematical and Physical Sciences program aims to advance scientific knowledge and understanding in these fields...