The Rochester Institute of Technology received a $120,152 project grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Social and Economic Science on September 1, 2021. The grant supports research titled "The Political and Material Ecology of Horseshoe Crabs in the Biomedical Industry" through August 31, 2022.
The grant is part of the NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), which aims to strengthen basic research and education in these fields as well as monitor science investments. Specifically, the funded research will examine the political and economic factors shaping the horseshoe crab population utilized by the biomedical industry. Insights from this work have the potential to inform sustainable management of this ecologically important species.
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