Project Grant 2104002
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $431,158 Project Grant under the Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) to the University of Memphis. The grant, awarded on June 15, 2024, will support the acquisition of a micro X-ray fluorescence (μ-XRF) spectrometer for research and education in earth and environmental studies at the university. The μ-XRF instrument will be used to measure and map the spatial distribution of plant-essential nutrients, such as phosphorus, calcium, and potassium, in...
- The University of Memphis received a $189,745 National Science Foundation Project Grant under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program. The two-year award, issued January 1, 2022 through December 31, 2023, will support research titled "Compositionally Modulated Ferrimagnets for Spin-Orbtronic Devices." As the NSF's Engineering directorate seeks to improve quality of life and economic strength through innovative engineering research and education, this project aims to advance...
- The University of Memphis received a $299,998 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Undergraduate Education on October 1, 2021 to fund the project "Understanding the Role of Undergraduate Research and Mentoring in the Self-Efficacy, Identity, and Success of Engineering Undergraduate Students." This three-year grant, set to run through September 30, 2024, will support research and activities aimed at exploring how undergraduate research experiences and...
- The University of Memphis received a two-year, $599,164 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program to make available continuous, distributed, and multimode network traffic datasets currently being collected at three research and education networks. The datasets are well-suited for cybersecurity research, anomaly detection, evaluation, and classification tasks such as detecting distributed denial-of-service and other...
- The University of Texas at Austin received a $556,306 project grant award from the National Science Foundation Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure to support the ELEMENTS: COGNITASIUM project. Funded through the NSF's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), this three-year award will enable data-driven discoveries in natural hazards engineering through the development of advanced computing infrastructure and tools. The grant will support...
- This $713,476 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) supports the development of new computational methods to simulate and study the dynamic interplay between Earth's surface and interior processes. The grant enables the coupling of two widely used community software packages - ASPECT for modeling mantle dynamics and long-term tectonics, and LANDLAB for simulating surface processes. The...
- The University of Memphis received a $190,960 two-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program to develop a novel machine learning framework for robust computational healthcare modeling with imbalanced health data. The framework will guide imbalance modeling by metadata such as demographics and location to incorporate varied imbalance patterns across these factors into model training. Key deliverables will include a...
- The University of Memphis received a $299,333 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation on August 1, 2021 to improve the quality of teaching assistant feedback to undergraduate students in introductory computer science courses. Funded through the NSF's STEM Education program (CFDA #47.076), the project aims to provide leadership and ensure the vitality of the nation's science, technology, engineering and mathematics education enterprise. Specifically, the University will develop...
- This $193,783 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program, under CFDA 47.070, supports the development of new computational methods to simulate and advance the understanding of the dynamic interplay between Earth's surface and interior processes. The award enables the coupling of two widely used community codes - ASPECT for modeling mantle dynamics and long-term tectonic processes, and LANDLAB for simulating...
- The University of California, Merced received a three-year $459,899 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The grant funds collaborative research enabling high performance multi-scale simulation on big memory platforms. Specifically, the University aims to advance the development and use of research cyberinfrastructure to accelerate discovery and innovation in...
The University of Memphis received a three-year, $443,830 project grant from the National Science Foundation Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure to develop an integrated modeling platform for tectonics, earthquake cycles and surface processes. Funded through the NSF's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), this project aims to support investigator-initiated research and education in computing, communications, and information science and engineering. Specifically, the University of Memphis will advance the development and use of research cyberinfrastructure to enable and accelerate discovery and innovation in modeling complex earth systems. The integrated modeling platform developed under this award will integrate models of tectonics, earthquake cycles, and surface processes to improve understanding of their interactions and feedbacks.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $443.8k | 4/26/21 |