The National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems awarded a $2,054,156 project grant to the University of Southern California Department of Contracts and Grants on October 1, 2021 for work to be completed by September 30, 2024. The grant was awarded under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) to support the "S & CC-IRG TRACK 1: SMART AND CONNECTED COMMUNITY FOOD SYSTEMS" project delivering products and services focused on...
The Research Foundation For The State University Of New York (RF) received a $150,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems to support the SCC-PG: A SUSTAINABLE AND CONNECTED COMMUNITY-SCALE FOOD SYSTEM TO EMPOWER CONSUMERS, FARMERS, AND RETAILERS project. Under this award, RF will deliver a sustainable and connected community-scale food system to empower consumers, farmers, and retailers in Buffalo, NY from October 1, 2021 to September...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $200,814 Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program to the University of Southern California (USC) for the "SCC-IRG TRACK 2: FOOD ENVIRONMENT DYNAMICS (FED): LEVERAGING AI AND HUMAN MOBILITY DATA TO ADDRESS DISPARITIES IN FOOD ACCESS AND IMPROVE AMERICANS' DIETS" project. This 3-year project, running from Oct 1, 2024 to Sep 30, 2027, will use artificial intelligence and human mobility data from...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $744,721 project grant under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) to the University of California, San Francisco on December 15, 2022 with a completion date of November 30, 2023. The grant funds the Network of User-Engaged Researchers Building Interdisciplinary Scientific Infrastructures for Healthy Food (NOURISH) project. NOURISH aims to develop technical solutions to transform "food swamps" saturated with...
This $400,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) supports collaborative research on exploiting new degrees of freedom in wireless networks with reprogrammable intelligent metagratings. The Research Foundation of the City University of New York will deliver this research as the awardee from July 2021 to June 2025. The grant aims to advance the development and use of research cyberinfrastructure to enable...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $491,069 Project Grant under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to the Research Foundation of the City University of New York (RFCUNY) - New York City College of Technology. The 3-year award, effective November 1, 2023, aims to create a year-round geoscience workforce preparation, service learning, and career mentoring program for non-geoscience STEM students from underrepresented communities. Key objectives are to broaden the geoscience...
This $750,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) will fund research at the University of California, Los Angeles to address college food insecurity and promote healthy eating among vulnerable student populations. Over the one-year period from December 2022 through November 2023, the grantee and sub-awardee Chico State Enterprises will develop a framework for understanding barriers to and motivators for food...
The Fashion Institute of Technology received a $175,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems on June 1, 2021 to develop a crowdsourced social computing platform with gamification mechanisms for healthy eating. The project aims to deliver a platform that utilizes social networking and game design principles to promote healthy food choices and eating habits among users. The platform will be designed to leverage crowdsourcing to...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $119,987 project grant to Long Island University under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070). The three-year award beginning July 1, 2021 will support the development of BIFROST, a CPU/GPU pipeline framework for high throughput data acquisition and analysis. The framework aims to enable collaborative research through an integrated platform for high-performance computing and big data analytics. By...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $1,399,989 awarded on October 1, 2021 will fund the development of artificial intelligence-based decision support tools to enable more equitable and resilient food distribution during pandemics and extreme weather events through March 31, 2024. The grant was awarded under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA #47.070), which supports research and education activities in all areas of computing, communications, and...