The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $200,814 Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program to the University of Southern California (USC) for the "SCC-IRG TRACK 2: FOOD ENVIRONMENT DYNAMICS (FED): LEVERAGING AI AND HUMAN MOBILITY DATA TO ADDRESS DISPARITIES IN FOOD ACCESS AND IMPROVE AMERICANS' DIETS" project. This 3-year project, running from Oct 1, 2024 to Sep 30, 2027, will use artificial intelligence and human mobility data from...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $150,000 Project Grant to the Research Foundation of the City University of New York under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070) to support the SCC-PG FOOD ENVIRONMENT EQUITY DASHBOARD NYC (FEED-NYC) project from October 1, 2021 to March 31, 2023. The grant will support the development and delivery of a digital dashboard to analyze equity in neighborhood food environments, applying simulation models to...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070) award of $550,000 to Northeastern University will investigate the design needs of garment designers and hand-knitters for machine-knitting software to enable the creation of complex, interactive smart textiles. The key objectives are: (1) a comprehensive examination of the design space of machine knitting, (2) development of two software systems, KnitScript for...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $744,721 project grant under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) to the University of California, San Francisco on December 15, 2022 with a completion date of November 30, 2023. The grant funds the Network of User-Engaged Researchers Building Interdisciplinary Scientific Infrastructures for Healthy Food (NOURISH) project. NOURISH aims to develop technical solutions to transform "food swamps" saturated with...
The National Science Foundation awarded Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute $745,000 under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships federal grant program (CFDA 47.084) to develop sustainable textiles and materials for the fashion industry. Over the one-year period from December 2022 to November 2023, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute will produce prototypes of silk-enhanced mycelium leather, hemp-silk yarn, and waste-derived chromoprotein dyes. The institution will also develop associated...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Information and Intelligent Systems awarded a $299,962 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA #47.070) to the Regents of the University of Colorado, doing business as the University of Colorado-Denver. The project aims to develop a gamified education platform centered around story-driven educational hacking games to attract Generation Z to the cybersecurity workforce. The platform will utilize...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $256,000 Project Grant to Mealmate Inc. under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) to develop a personalized artificial intelligence chatbot and personalized nutrition recommendations application. The one-year project will advance knowledge in spoken dialogue systems and establish AI-based nutrition as a new research area. Mealmate will create a neural generative chatbot model with memory capabilities to provide more...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) Project Grant award of $275,000 to Funxion Wear Inc. aims to validate the commercial potential of an erasable dye technology for apparel. The project will refine a proprietary, durable color-changing dye system that can provide repeatable color changes, with the goal of developing a sustainable solution for the $8 billion custom domestic t-shirt market. By leveraging advanced functional materials...
This federal Project Grant award, funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (CFDA 10.212 - Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program), provides $175,000 to Graded Gaming, LLC to develop and test a virtual reality (VR) simulation module for advanced foods and nutrition education. The project aims to create an AI-powered, immersive learning platform that teaches healthy nutritional choices and culinary skills to combat diet-related chronic...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Computer and Network Systems, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070), provides $315,214 to the University of Virginia to establish a cloud-based manufacturing framework for embroidered wearable electronics. The framework aims to make electronic design and manufacturing accessible on fabric substrates through embroidery. It will integrate design-to-manufacturing...