Project Grant 2128545
- The National Science Foundation Division of Integrative Organismal Systems awarded a three-year Project Grant of $333,961 to the University of Southern California Department of Contracts and Grants under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074) beginning April 1, 2022. The grant will support collaborative research to elucidate how nonlinearities within the musculotendon system enable bipedal locomotion in unpredictable environments. Researchers will study kangaroo rat...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Integrative Organismal Systems awarded a $980,000 Project Grant to The Washington University to support research examining neuronal plasticity and the evolvability of behavior through September 2026. Funded under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), this award will allow researchers to test the hypothesis that activity-dependent wiring changes in response to altered sensory feedback drive coordinated modifications between peripheral organs...
- The National Science Foundation awarded a two-year, $138,000 Project Grant to support research linking biomechanics to neurobiology in bird flight. Funded under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), the award will enable study of how coordinated bird flight emerges from visual motion processing. The grant aims to promote progress in the biological sciences and increase understanding of major problems by supporting basic research from September 2021 to August 2023 in Missoula, Montana.
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) Federal Grant Program has awarded $1,040,107 to the University of Idaho to engineer an instrument that uses advances in artificial intelligence to identify small mammal species, discriminate among individuals, and measure body weight and morphological traits in real-time. This project aims to enable automated monitoring of wild animals, which will reduce research costs, enhance research efficiency and scope, and facilitate...
- The National Science Foundation awarded a three-year $629,951 project grant to Georgia Tech Research Corporation under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049) to investigate mechanical intelligence and locomotion in slender organisms navigating complex terrain. The grant aims to discover how active closed-loop control and passive mechanically intelligent control mechanisms interact to enable goal-oriented movement in organisms like rice and nematode roots and...
- Washington State University received a $399,616 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Environmental Biology on September 1, 2021 to conduct collaborative research examining the effects of declines in top scavengers from microbes to ecosystems. The research is being carried out under the NSF's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), which aims to promote advancement in the biological sciences and strengthen the national scientific enterprise through increasing...
- This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Integrative Organismal Systems provides $182,156 to Roger Williams University under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2024. The funding supports collaborative research on the functional design of siphophore propulsion and behavior. The Biological Sciences program aims to promote progress in the biological sciences and strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise through...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) provides $502,981 to Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT to develop and use a low-cost legged robot platform to systematically study the evolution of foot morphology in lizards. The research aims to understand how the physical properties of diverse ground substrates, such as soil, leaf litter, sand, and snow, impact the dynamics of animal locomotion. The project will combine discrete...
- The University of Montana Western received a $185,415 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Integrative Organismal Systems. The grant supports the research project "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: RUI: HOW ENERGY ECONOMY AND MUSCLE PROPERTIES SHAPE FISH SWIMMING STRATEGIES IN THE FIELD" under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074). The one-year project period runs from August 1, 2021 to July 31, 2022. The Biological Sciences program aims to promote...
- This $422,183 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) will fund research by Southern Oregon University to investigate how temperature and nutrition jointly affect the migratory grasshopper, a major rangeland pest in the United States. The project will combine fieldwork, lab experiments, and computer simulations to improve ecological forecasting and inform pest management strategies to support national food security. The research will...
The National Science Foundation Division of Integrative Organismal Systems awarded Washington State University $539,219 under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074) from April 2022 through March 2025. The award will support research to elucidate how nonlinearities within the musculotendon system enable bipedal hopping in kangaroo rats when faced with abrupt changes in slope that can disrupt forward motion or cause unwanted pitching. Investigators will examine ankle extensor coupling to foot mechanics and how this coupling is modulated by tendon nonlinearities. They hypothesize this provides automatic foot compliance on landing and stiffness at takeoff. Researchers will use integrated in vivo, in situ, and in silico methods to obtain behavioral data, test hypotheses, and manipulate component properties. They will also collaborate with local high school teachers to develop STEM modules based on the research. The award reflects NSF's mission to promote biological sciences research and enhance understanding of major problems.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $539.2k | 4/6/22 |