This Project Grant award, totaling $368,174, was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) program. The award will support an REU (Research Experiences for Undergraduates) site at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. Over the 3-year period from 2025-2027, the program will train 24 undergraduate students, primarily from schools with limited research opportunities, in genetic and biochemical analysis of proteins. Students will conduct...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.074 - Biological Sciences) provides $464,957 to Purdue University to support a Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site program called "Purdue Undergraduate Research Experiences for Plant Biology and Data Science (PURE-PD)" over 3 summers from 2025-2027. The program will train approximately 30 students, primarily from schools with limited research opportunities, in data-driven plant biology research...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Biological Infrastructure provides $404,868 to support an Research Experiences for Undergraduates Site program at North Carolina State University from February 2024 to January 2027. The program aims to train 30 undergraduate students, primarily from underrepresented groups, in modeling the dynamics of biological systems using advanced quantitative imaging techniques. Students will conduct research in biology, chemistry,...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) will support the "Training and Experimentation in Computational Biology (TECBIO)" REU site at the University of Pittsburgh from June 2025 to May 2028. The $464,662 award will provide 10 undergraduate students per summer with a 10-week mentored research experience in interdisciplinary areas of computational, quantitative, and systems biology. Students will work on projects...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) Project Grant award to Texas A&M University will provide $511,217 from June 2025 to May 2028 to support a Summer Undergraduate Research Program in Biochemistry. The program will train 11 students per summer over 3 years, exposing them to diverse biochemistry research areas such as drug discovery, enzymology, gene regulation, and structural biology. Students will gain specialized laboratory skills, learn about the...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) program has awarded Colorado State University a $462,342 Project Grant to support an REU (Research Experiences for Undergraduates) Site program in Molecular Biosciences. This 3-year award, effective June 1, 2025 through May 31, 2028, will provide research training to 30 undergraduate students, primarily from schools with limited research opportunities, in areas such as biochemistry, molecular biology, microbiology,...
Purdue University was awarded a three-year, $1,002,041 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074). The grant will support research from August 2021 through July 2024 to elucidate the interplay between two chromatin regulators, HDA8 and ELP3, in dynamically controlling primary and secondary metabolic networks in plants. As part of the Biological Sciences program's goal to...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) provides $2,396,627 to Purdue University from January 1, 2022 through December 31, 2026. The grant supports research titled "MIM: Microbial Division of Labor in Polysaccharide-Degrading Communities." Purdue University will investigate how microbial communities divide labor to degrade complex plant polysaccharides. Baylor University, Washington State University, the University of...
This National Science Foundation project grant of $321,024 awarded on March 1, 2022 supports an Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site at Harvard University under the Biological Sciences (47.074) federal grant program. Over three years, the award will fund research training for 24 undergraduate students from schools with limited research opportunities and underrepresented groups. For 10 weeks each summer through 2024, 8 students will engage in mentored laboratory research experiences...
This Project Grant award of $465,000 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) will support a Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site at the University of North Dakota (UND) in Grand Forks, ND. The REU program will train 10 students per summer over 3 years (2026-2028), for a total of 30 students, primarily from schools with limited research opportunities. The students will participate in research projects advancing knowledge in biosciences,...