This $450,000 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at the New Jersey Institute of Technology to develop an electrified membrane system for recovering nitrogen from nitrate-contaminated water. Specifically, the grant funds an international collaboration between NJIT and Ben-Gurion University in Israel to employ electrochemical membrane filtration studies, computational chemistry, and numerical simulations. The goal is to explore a sustainable pathway for generating ammonia from nitrate-containing wastewater. This addresses knowledge gaps around recovering nitrogen from waste and converting it into ammonia while treating wastewater. It also aims to alleviate stresses from nitrate pollution and reliance on energy-intensive industrial ammonia production. Key deliverables include examining catalyst-coated membranes to enable efficient nitrate reduction and ammonia transfer, clarifying mass transfer mechanisms, and determining the effects of wastewater matrices on membrane operations. The funding supports this research under the NSF Engineering Sciences program (CFDA 47.041), which seeks to foster innovation in engineering research and education.