The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $206,043 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to William Marsh Rice University in Houston, Texas. The grant funds the Rice Collaborative Object Store, which provides production-level data storage, access, and transfer services to support computationally intensive research across fields like modeling and simulation, AI/machine learning, geospatial analysis, and bioengineering. The new...
Rice University was awarded a $615,994 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program. The three-year award will support collaborative research on thermal computational imaging from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2024. The Computer and Information Science and Engineering program aims to advance computing and communication technologies through investigator-initiated research and education. This project aligns with those goals by...
William Marsh Rice University was awarded a $149,994 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Mathematical Sciences on August 15, 2021 to complete work by July 31, 2024. The grant falls under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to promote progress in these fields and strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise through increasing knowledge and enhancing understanding of major problems. Specifically, Rice University will conduct...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $1,052,165 project grant to Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi under the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Education program (CFDA 47.076) to support undergraduate scholarships and retention services for low-income students pursuing degrees in engineering and computer science. Over the six-year period from October 2022 to September 2028, the project will provide scholarships and co-curricular support services to recruit and retain...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $325,185 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program to the University of Houston System (UHS), a Hispanic Serving Institution, on September 15, 2023. The grant will fund a collaborative research project titled "CyberTraining: Implementation: Small: Train the Trainers as Next Generation Leaders in Data Science for Cybersecurity for Underrepresented Communities." The project aims to enhance the...
William Marsh Rice University was awarded a $269,195 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Mathematical Sciences. The grant funds the CAREER: STABLE AND SCALABLE ESTIMATION OF THE INTRINSIC GEOMETRY OF MULTIWAY DATA project under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The project will develop new statistical methods to analyze multiway data in a stable and scalable manner to promote progress in the mathematical and physical sciences. The funding...
Rice University was awarded a $1,989,933 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Emerging Frontiers under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074) for the period of October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2026. The grant will support research to elucidate the rules of cooperation and resiliency in microbial communities through stochastic graph grammars. This work aligns with the Biological Sciences program's goals of advancing the biological sciences and...
This $672,156 award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports a project by researchers at William Marsh Rice University to study the spin and lattice properties of two-dimensional magnetic materials. The goal is to gain a fundamental understanding of the charge, spin, and lattice interactions in these materials, which have potential applications in energy-efficient spintronic devices. The project leverages the university's...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award for $1,872,594 supports the "Inclusive Mathematical and Physical Sciences Student Success Program" at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, a Hispanic-Serving Institution, over a 6-year period from October 2023 to September 2029. The project aims to increase participation and completion rates of STEM degrees among low-income, high-achieving undergraduate students with demonstrated financial need. It will fund scholarships...
Rice University was awarded a $213,216 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The grant will support research from October 2021 through February 2024 to develop methods for measuring and mitigating biases in generic image representations produced by computational visual recognition models. Specifically, the university will work to disentangle biases introduced during visual representation learning,...