The University of Rochester received a $346,437 project grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences on September 15, 2021 to complete work by February 28, 2025. The award falls under the NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), which supports basic research and education in these fields as well as monitoring science resources. Through this funding, the University will conduct collaborative research to...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $209,000 project grant to the University of Rochester for collaborative research titled "Innovation and Information" under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The research aims to contribute to scientific strength and welfare through promotion of basic research and education in the social, behavioral and economic sciences. Specifically, the University of Rochester will conduct collaborative research projects...
The University of Rochester will use a $552,068 project grant from the National Science Foundation to study the role of neural oscillations in coordinating competing cognitive processes. Funded through the NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), this three-year award beginning October 1, 2021 will support research examining how the brain coordinates multiple tasks simultaneously. The grant aims to advance understanding of cognitive functions through investigating...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $281,367 Project Grant to the Rochester Institute of Technology under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The three-year award will fund research into visual perception of three-dimensional object shape from patterns of image shading and contours. The researchers will study how the human visual system processes and interprets information about an object's 3D properties. They will incorporate optical effects typically...
The University of Rochester received a $301,042 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Computing and Communication Foundations on October 1, 2021 to complete the project by September 30, 2024. The grant supports collaborative research titled "ENABLING EFFICIENT 3D PERCEPTION: AN ARCHITECTURE-ALGORITHM CO-DESIGN APPROACH" under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). This program aims to advance computing, communications,...
The University of Rochester received a $736,668 project grant from the National Science Foundation to conduct research on the theory and simulation of laser dressed molecules and materials from June 2021 through May 2024. The grant was awarded under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise through advancing knowledge and understanding of major problems in mathematics and the physical sciences. Through this...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $154,048 project grant to the University of Rochester for research titled "Variation in Livelihood, Socioeconomic, and Development Outcomes among Communities with Correctional Facilities." The grant period runs from July 1, 2021 through June 30, 2024. The grant was awarded under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), which aims to support basic research and education in the social, behavioral and economic sciences....
The University of Rochester received a $483,051 project grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences on April 1, 2021 to support the project "CAREER: KINSHIP, COMMUNITY, AND ALTERNATIVE NETWORKS OF CARE IN CONTEXTS OF PRECARITY" through March 31, 2026. The project aims to study kinship, community, and alternative care networks in contexts of economic precarity. It is funded through the NSF's Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences...
The University of Rochester received a $898,039 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Environmental Biology. The grant falls under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) and will fund research from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2024 on neo-sex chromosome evolution and its impact on speciation-with-gene flow in oceanic island birds. The research aims to advance understanding of major problems in the biological sciences by increasing scientific knowledge of how sex...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $174,824 project grant to the University of Rochester under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070) for the period of June 1, 2021 through May 31, 2023. The grant funds research to develop "SMART ACOUSTIC SURFACES AS MULTIMODAL INTERFACES," which will advance the development and use of computing, communications, and information technologies through investigator-initiated research and education in...