The California Institute of Technology (Caltech) was awarded a $315,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program. The three-year grant will support Caltech's collaborative research project titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: FAST SPECTRALLY-ENCODED PHOTOACOUSTIC MICROSCOPY FOR MULTI-PARAMETER BIOENERGETIC CHARACTERIZATION OF HETEROGENEOUS CANCER CELLS." The research aims to develop fast spectrally-encoded photoacoustic...
The California Institute of Technology (Caltech) received a $342,205 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences on May 15, 2021 to complete the project "MICROSWARMS: A LENS INTO FAULT STRUCTURE AND ASEISMIC PROCESSES DEEP IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA'S CRUST" by April 30, 2024. The grant is part of the NSF's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), which supports basic research to expand understanding of the integrated Earth system. Under the award, Caltech...
The National Science Foundation Division of Integrative Organismal Systems awarded a $499,872 Project Grant to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) from August 15, 2021 to July 31, 2025. The grant supports research under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to develop Functional Genomic Tools for Parasitic Nematodes and Their Bacterial Symbionts. The Biological Sciences program aims to advance biological knowledge and understanding of major problems through basic research....
The California Institute of Technology (Caltech) received a $193,590 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences on December 15, 2021 to support research efforts concluding on November 30, 2022. The grant funding will support Caltech's project "Probing the Mechanical Properties of the Crust and Upper Mantle Using Geodetic, Remote Sensing and Seismological Observations" under the Geosciences program (CFDA #47.050). The Geosciences program aims...
The California Institute of Technology (Caltech) received a $154,153 Project Grant award from the Department of the Navy Secretary of the Navy Office of Naval Research to support research titled "In-Situ Nanomechanics of Hierarchical Materials" from June 1, 2022 to May 31, 2023. The grant was awarded under the Basic and Applied Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.300), which aims to stimulate basic and applied research with potential to improve naval operations and train...
The California Institute of Technology (Caltech) was awarded a $139,554 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences. The grant is part of the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), which supports basic research to expand understanding of the integrated Earth system. Under the award, Caltech will conduct a collaborative research project on particle scavenging controls on trace element distributions. The three-year project beginning September 1, 2021 will...
This $1,555,035 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences will fund research into the discovery of novel functional RNA classes through computational integration of massively-parallel RBP binding and structure data. The award was made under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074) to support basic biological research strengthening the nation's scientific enterprise. The California Institute of Technology will use the...
The California Institute of Technology (Caltech) was awarded a $327,228 two-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). The grant will support research titled "Biological Methane Sinks in the Deep Ocean: Linking Genomic Diversity and Ecophysiology in Syntrophic Methane-Oxidizing Consortia." Through October 2023, Caltech researchers will investigate the genomic diversity and functions of microbial...
The California Institute of Technology (Caltech) was awarded a $342,554 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Astronomical Sciences. 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. Specifically, the grant will fund collaborative research titled "Constraining the Uncertain Physics of Galaxy Formation: Cosmic Rays, Black Holes, and...
The California Institute of Technology (Caltech) received a $543,878 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to acquire a multi-use cryostat/magnet physical properties measurement system for studying quantum materials. The award, issued under the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), will fund the purchase of equipment to promote progress in these scientific fields from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2023. The system will allow researchers...