The University of Florida was awarded a $297,955 project grant from the National Science Foundation under the Office of International Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.079) to support the EAGER INTERNATIONAL TYPE II: INCLUSIVENESS AND DIVERSITY AS BUILDING BLOCKS OF RESILIENT INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH TEAMS IN THE AGE OF COVID-19 project. The project aims to enable inclusive and diverse international research teams to advance scientific discovery and contribute to the...
This $439,723 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Office of International Science and Engineering (OISE) program (CFDA 47.079) supports a three-year research and education initiative focused on human-wildlife interactions in St. Vincent and the Grenadines. The project, led by Florida International University, engages cohorts of six U.S. graduate and undergraduate students from underrepresented STEM backgrounds in an immersive training and research experience....
The University of Montana was awarded a two-year, $281,266 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Office of International Science and Engineering under the Office of International Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.079). The grant will support the "IRES TRACK II: Multidisciplinary Training on Wildlife and Natural Resource Conservation from an Indigenous Perspective" project. The project aims to enable multidisciplinary training on wildlife and natural resource...
This $396,474 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports research examining the links between food security and access to natural resources, particularly wildlife, in the context of urbanization. The project, led by Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, uses survey methods to investigate how social and economic factors influence people's ability to access wildlife resources and...
The University of Florida was awarded a $292,392 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074) for the period of January 15, 2021 through December 31, 2023. The grant funds a collaborative research effort titled "Leaping the Specimen Digitization Gap: Connecting Novel Tools, Machine Learning and Public Participation to Label Digitization Efforts." The project aims to connect new digitization tools, machine...
The University of Florida was awarded a three-year, $744,637 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Environmental Biology under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074). The grant will fund research from October 2021 through September 2024 on "Allopolyploidization, Niche Evolution, and Systematics of Central African Night Frogs." As described under CFDA 47.074, the Biological Sciences program aims to advance the field and strengthen the...
The University of Florida was awarded a $278,919 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Environmental Biology under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074). The grant will fund a collaborative research project titled "Origins and Drivers of Extinction of Caribbean Avifauna" from February 1, 2021 through January 31, 2024. As described under the Biological Sciences program, the grant aims to advance understanding of major problems confronting...
The University of Florida received a two-year, $158,995 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070). The grant funds collaborative research to solve bait learning problems for large-scale DNA enrichment. Specifically, the award supports investigator-initiated efforts to develop and apply research cyberinfrastructure technologies that enable and accelerate scientific discovery and innovation in...
The University of North Texas was awarded a $396,610 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Office of International Science and Engineering under the Office of International Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.079). The grant will fund the IRES TRACK II - CAPE HORN ASIS: CLIMATE CHANGE AND DISEASE ECOLOGY AT THE SOUTHERN END OF THE AMERICAS project from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2024. The project aims to enable U.S. leadership in global science by...
The National Science Foundation Office of International Science and Engineering awarded Yale University a $300,000 Project Grant under the CFDA 47.079 Office of International Science and Engineering program. The three-year grant will fund IRES TRACK I: BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY, DEMOGRAPHY AND CONSERVATION OF PRIMATES IN THE HUMID CHACO OF ARGENTINA from June 2021 through May 2024. The grant aims to enable U.S. leadership in global science by strengthening international partnerships that advance...