Project Grant 2120732
- Federal Grant Award Summary The University of Vermont & State Agricultural College received a $1.11M Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Integrative Organismal Systems under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), effective October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2029. This research initiative, titled "LIFE: Tracing the Origins of (Biochemical) Breakthroughs Promoting Repeated Chilling Tolerance Evolution in Warm-Season Grasses," aims to...
- The University of Vermont & State Agricultural College (UVM) received a $298,981 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Environmental Biology under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074). The grant will fund a collaborative research project to investigate how alpine plant communities in the Northeastern United States have responded to climate change over the past 13,000 years. Through a multi-faceted approach integrating paleoecology, community...
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $138,000 Project Grant to support research under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) from August 1, 2021 to July 31, 2023. The grant funds postdoctoral research at Utah State University in Logan, Utah to study the evolution of extended floral phenotypes. The Biological Sciences program aims to advance the field and strengthen the national scientific enterprise through basic research on major problems. This award will further those goals by...
- The University of Vermont received a three-year $152,092 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075). The grant will fund collaborative research between the University of Vermont and other institutions to investigate adaptive strategies in variable environments from September 1, 2021 to August 31, 2024. As part of the Social, Behavioral, and...
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $713,464 project grant to the University of Oregon from May 2021 through January 2025 under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074). The grant will support research examining how climate and competition interact to determine plant and animal species' phenology and coexistence. The Biological Sciences program aims to advance the field and strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise by increasing knowledge of major issues facing the...
- This $2,370,227 five-year Project Grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation's Division of Environmental Biology (CFDA 47.074 - Biological Sciences), is funding research to understand the relationship between temperature variations and disease dynamics, particularly in amphibians. The University of Vermont & State Agricultural College is leading this multidisciplinary project, which combines lab experiments, field data, and modeling to elucidate how host temperature, host behavior,...
- The University of Vermont & State Agricultural College was awarded a $331,979 National Science Foundation (NSF) Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) Project Grant to conduct research on the ecological genomics of adaptation in a rocky shore predator-prey interaction. The research project aims to: 1) determine the level of migration and gene flow among populations of a low dispersing marine snail species, 2) identify genomic patterns of selection using environmental data and detailed...
- This $841,120 Project Grant, awarded January 15, 2026, by the National Science Foundation's Division of Integrative Organismal Systems under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), supports collaborative research to develop mechanistic distribution models for grass species. Conducted by Colorado State University through December 31, 2029, the project will deliver critical research outputs characterizing physiological traits, phenological patterns, and phylogenetic relationships across a...
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $497,581 Project Grant to the University of Tennessee under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074) for the period of April 1, 2021 through March 31, 2026. The grant will support research titled "COLLABORATIVE: BEE: C-EVO: LINKING CARBON CYCLING TO ECO-EVOLUTIONARY RESPONSES OF A FOUNDATIONAL PLANT TO GLOBAL CHANGE." The Biological Sciences program aims to promote advancement in the biological sciences and strengthen the...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation's Division of Environmental Biology awarded a $719,114 Project Grant to the University of Vermont & State Agricultural College (effective August 1, 2026 through July 31, 2031) under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074). This CAREER award supports fundamental research on carbon cycling and storage mechanisms within sugar maple trees (Acer saccharum), with particular emphasis on understanding how trees allocate and...
The University of Vermont was awarded a $621,354 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Integrative Organismal Systems. The grant was awarded under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to support research titled "Evolution of Temperature-Mediated Flowering in Grasses" from January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2025. The grant will fund research into how temperature influences flowering time in grass species. As part of the Biological Sciences program's goal to strengthen the nation's biological research enterprise, this project seeks to advance scientific understanding of how grasses respond to temperature changes, a major environmental factor. The awardee, the University of Vermont & State Agricultural College, will conduct the research over the three-year period using the $621,354 in NSF funding.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $621.4k | 7/26/21 |