The University of Oklahoma and its sub-awardees at Oklahoma State University and the University of Oklahoma will provide collaborative research services under a $565,639 National Science Foundation Project Grant in the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program area. Specifically, the awardees will conduct an interdisciplinary study to identify new zeolite catalyst materials where the distribution of isolated, paired, proximate, and synergistic active sites can be controlled. Through a...
The University of Oklahoma was awarded a $300,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation to support research services in the area of dynamics of matter and light-matter systems. The award is part of the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to promote progress in these fields and strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise. Under the grant, the University will provide research services focused on studying the interaction between matter and...
The University of Oklahoma will provide research services under a $119,959 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation awarded on September 1, 2021 through the agency's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). Specifically, the University will conduct research harnessing quantum entanglement for quantum-enhanced sensing through interaction-based readout. The goal of the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program is to promote progress in the mathematical and...
This $183,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) supports a Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site at Oklahoma State University from 2026-2028. The REU site will train 10 undergraduate students each summer for 10 weeks, engaging them in interdisciplinary research projects in areas such as materials chemistry, medicinal/pharmaceutical chemistry, and computational chemistry. The program aims to promote student...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure awarded a $299,798 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to the University of Oklahoma. The grant supports the development of an integrated software platform to simulate polariton photochemical and photophysical processes. Key elements include: Implementation of software modules in open-source electronic structure packages to provide ab initio quantum mechanics...
The University of Oklahoma received a $107,148 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems on July 1, 2021 with a completion date of June 30, 2023. The award falls under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), which seeks to foster innovation and excellence in engineering research and education. Through this funding, the University of Oklahoma will investigate phonon scattering in superlattices to...
The National Science Foundation's Division of Chemistry has awarded a $696,868 Project Grant to Princeton University's Professor Joseph Subotnik to develop new computational methods for modeling the flow of energy between electrons, nuclei, and spin in molecular and material systems. This research under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) aims to improve understanding of efficient energy conversion processes in nature, such as photosynthesis, by accounting for spin...
The University of Oklahoma received a $403,045 project grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences on July 15, 2021 with a completion date of June 30, 2024. The award falls under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), which aims to expand fundamental knowledge of the integrated Earth system through basic research in atmospheric, earth, and ocean sciences. Through this award, the University of Oklahoma will provide research services focused on...
The University of Oklahoma's Office of Research Administration is conducting a $314,958 project grant funded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The project aims to design a microscale device that can extract and quantify nitric oxide (NO) levels in single cells using mass spectrometry. The research seeks to address the challenge of accurately detecting and quantifying the reactive, low-abundance NO molecule in individual cells,...
The University of Oklahoma received a $187,687 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation on May 1, 2021 with a completion date of April 30, 2023. The grant is part of the NSF's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to promote basic biological research and increase scientific understanding. Under the award, the University will conduct research linking species traits, community change, and environmental change across multiple scales to forecast how declines in animal populations...