The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will receive $149,934 under a two-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The grant will fund a collaborative research effort titled "School Family Nexus and Educational Differences during the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond." The research aims to contribute insights on the impact of the pandemic on educational disparities by examining the relationship between...
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill received a $200,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation to conduct research titled "Collaborative Research: Optimal Parental Leave Policies in the Presence of Statistical Discrimination and Child Development." The research will be performed from June 2021 through May 2024 under the NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). This program supports basic research and education in the social,...
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-Chapel Hill) was awarded a $549,700 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The five-year grant will support research harnessing interpersonal common sense for social grounding in natural language processing. As described in the NSF program, the goal is to advance the development and use of research cyberinfrastructure to enable and accelerate...
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will provide research and education services under a $161,232 National Science Foundation Project Grant for the "Engineering" federal grant program (CFDA 47.041). Specifically, the University will operate an Research Experiences for Undergraduates Site award titled "Collaborative Research: Nanoscale Detectives -- Elucidating the Structure and Dynamics of Hybrid Perovskite Systems." Over a three-year period from September 2021...
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill received a $800,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation on May 1, 2021 to fund research exploring the interaction of cholinergic and dopaminergic modulation underlying associative learning. The research is being conducted under the NSF's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), which supports basic scientific research to advance understanding of major problems and strengthen the nation's biological research enterprise....
The National Science Foundation awarded a $190,251 project grant to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) for research titled "COLLABORATIVE: ROL: MOLECULAR PATTERNS FOR REDOX SENSING AND SIGNALING IN ORGANISMIC DEFENSE." The grant period runs from August 1, 2021 through July 31, 2025. The research aims to advance understanding of major problems confronting the nation by promoting progress in the biological sciences....
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Social and Economic Science awarded a $117,721 Project Grant to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) to support the "Collaborative Research: Science with the People" project. This two-year grant, funded under the CFDA 47.075 Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program, will enable residents to analyze government health data to document and examine patterns of health and well-being in their...
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-Chapel Hill) was awarded a $366,654 project grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (47.049) federal grant program. The grant will fund research in three key areas of applied mathematics: properties of model operators in condensed matter and topological physics; performance of numerical algorithms for studying wave propagation; and studying how the geometry of a domain or graph impacts...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences awarded a $382,047 Project Grant to the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNCC) under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The grant, running from July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2026, will fund a research project investigating the role of amenities, residential preferences, mortgage lending practices, and real estate advertisements in neighborhood change processes. The project...
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will receive $500,000 from the National Science Foundation under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to conduct the DATA INTEGRATION VIA ANALYSIS OF SUBSPACES (DIVAS) project from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2024. The funding will support the University's integration of data through analysis of subspaces to promote progress in mathematical and physical sciences and enhance understanding of major problems, in...