The National Science Foundation awarded a $247,000 project grant to The Pennsylvania State University under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) for the period of February 15, 2021 through January 31, 2024. The grant funds a collaborative research project titled "Innovation and Information" that will contribute to the program's goals of supporting basic research and education in the social, behavioral and economic sciences. Specifically, the research aims...
The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania received a $247,691 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 four-year project grant, awarded September 1, 2021 and set to be completed by August 31, 2025, will fund research examining infrastructure and subsistence strategies in the context of long-term land use. The Social, Behavioral, and...
The Pennsylvania State University received a three-year $305,533 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Social and Economic Science under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The grant will fund collaborative research on asymptotic approximations for sequential decision problems in econometrics from September 2021 through August 2024. The Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program aims to support basic research and education in these...
The Pennsylvania State University received a three-year, $259,899 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program. The grant will fund collaborative research to develop multi-objective optimization methods for designing resilient structural systems. Specifically, the research aims to converge design methodology approaches to optimize structural spines for withstanding loads in a...
The National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences awarded Kutztown University of Pennsylvania a $245,515 Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The grant will fund research from September 2021 through August 2024 on "RUI: The Process of Rural Industrialization." As part of the SBE Sciences program's goal of supporting basic research in social, behavioral, and economic disciplines, this project aims to...
The Pennsylvania State University received a $400,000 project grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation on January 1, 2022 to develop and validate a framework for measuring resilience in low-income housing through December 31, 2023. This award is funded through NSF's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), which seeks to improve quality of life and economic strength through engineering research and education innovation....
The Pennsylvania State University received a three-year, $269,902 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 a collaborative research project between Penn State University and other institutions to enhance speech science training through investigating perception of variable speech signals. As part of the Social, Behavioral, and...
The Pennsylvania State University received a $364,032 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering (CFDA 47.041) program. The aim of this 3-year award is to derive a rigorous and highly effective discrete structural optimization framework by converging structural optimization principles and sequential decision-making algorithms. The research will explore how to define Markov decision process actions to accommodate discrete design variables representing...
The Pennsylvania State University received a three-year, $372,708 project grant from the National Science Foundation to conduct research on urban goods movements, pricing, and social justice. Funded through the NSF's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), which supports innovation and excellence in engineering research and education, this project will examine how goods delivery pricing structures impact urban communities. Working with researchers at Penn State, the grant will fund analysis of...
The Pennsylvania State University was awarded a $500,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems on March 1, 2021 to support research under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The grant will fund development of two-dimensional straintronic field effect transistor technology from March 2021 through February 2026 at Penn State's University Park campus. As part of its mission to improve engineering innovation and education,...