Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia TECH) was awarded a $523,102 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Environmental Biology on March 1, 2022 to fund research under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) through February 28, 2025. The grant will support research investigating the relationship between limits to evolvability and the maximal sustainable niche of generalist species. Specifically, the funding will enable scientists at...
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) received a three-year, $113,763 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Mathematical Sciences. The grant supports research titled "PARAMETERIZATION AND REDUCTION FOR NONLINEAR STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS WITH APPLICATIONS TO FLUID DYNAMICS" from June 1, 2021 to May 31, 2024. The grant funds research into parameterization and reduction techniques for nonlinear stochastic systems, with a focus on...
This $298,375 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program supports a collaborative research project focused on understanding how populations evolve in complex, changing environments. The primary awardee, Virginia Tech, will conduct both experimental and theoretical work to investigate the relationships between an individual's environmental preferences, developmental processes, and patterns of phenotypic plasticity. The researchers aim to develop a...
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) was awarded a three-year, $104,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Mathematical Sciences under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049). The grant will support collaborative research on Bayesian inversion approaches to partial differential equations, including theory development, algorithm design, and application of these methods. The Mathematical and Physical...
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) was awarded a $181,968 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program to conduct collaborative research on quantitative-sequence experiments from August 1, 2023 to July 31, 2026. The grant aims to provide systematic solutions for designing, modeling, quantifying uncertainty, and applying active learning techniques to experiments involving both quantitative and sequence...
The National Science Foundation Division of Environmental Biology awarded a $300,243 Project Grant to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074) to conduct collaborative research from January 2023 through December 2025. The research aims to understand how stochasticity and spatial context impact the dynamics of functional diversity in freshwater ecosystems under global change. Specifically, the grantee will conduct...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $200,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) to fund research on disordered quantum matter. The three-year grant, active from August 1, 2023 to July 31, 2026, will support Virginia Tech's work to develop an underlying mathematical theory to better understand the properties of materials that could play a crucial role in creating...
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) was awarded a $441,459 National Science Foundation Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to conduct research titled "NSF-BSF: TAPERED BOTTLEBRUSH BLOCK COPOLYMERS: SYNTHESIS, SOLUTION SELF-ASSEMBLY, AND SIMULATIONS" from June 1, 2021 to May 31, 2024. Through this funding, Virginia Tech will synthesize tapered bottlebrush block copolymers, study their self-assembly behavior...
The Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) was awarded a $351,670 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to conduct research on multi-scale investigation of SARS-CoV-2 infection from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2024. Under this award, Virginia Tech researchers will examine SARS-CoV-2 infection across multiple scales, from virus-cell interactions to transmission dynamics between...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $152,047 Project Grant to the College of William & Mary (located in Williamsburg, VA) through the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) program (CFDA 47.049). The grant supports the development and application of novel topological methods to analyze and predict population collapse in ecological systems due to climate change and other environmental factors. The investigators will extend their previous work using computational topology to...