This $468,832 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) supports the Southeast Community College Bioindustrial Manufacturing Education (SCC-BIOME) project. The project aims to strengthen partnerships between industry and educators, cultivate interest in bioindustrial manufacturing career pathways, and build capacity for the growing bioindustrial manufacturing ecosystem in the Midwest. Key activities include developing and implementing...
This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) provides $999,691 to the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (Tees) to establish the "BEGINNINGS: DIVERSIFYING TALENT IN ADVANCED BIOLOGICS MANUFACTURING" program. The program will deliver hands-on training in a simulated current good manufacturing practice (cGMP), pilot-scale biomanufacturing facility to build a skilled...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant awarded under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program aims to promote awareness and hands-on experience in biotechnology and biomanufacturing career pathways for diverse, underrepresented community college and high school students. The $649,986 award to MiraCosta Community College District will fund the BIOSCOPE (Bioscience Supply Chain Operations Projects for Education) model, which provides students with project-based activities to learn...
This $395,968 federal Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program aims to enhance STEM education and workforce development across a diverse cohort of academic institutions. The "EPIIC: EMPOWERED -- Building the Future STEM Workforce Together" project brings together Hobart and William Smith College, University of Maine at Farmington, Albany College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences, Montgomery College,...
This $349,999 Project Grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), aims to create a new biomaterial platform that can precisely control the composition and stiffness of the extracellular matrix (ECM) to investigate how these factors influence airway basal stem cell (BC) self-renewal and differentiation. The interdisciplinary research combines expertise in materials science, stem cell biology, and regenerative medicine to develop an advanced...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program provides $399,499 to a collaborative project across six academic institutions, including Hobart and William Smith Colleges. The goal is to address the forecast shortage of STEM talent by improving alignment between STEM curricula and industry needs. The project will facilitate stronger industry partnerships, enhance faculty skills, and create new degree...
This Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.041 - Engineering) supports research into an innovative manufacturing technique for producing thin polymer films. The total award amount is $517,969.00 over the period from January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2027. The research aims to develop a comprehensive framework for the electrospray deposition process by integrating experiments, computational modeling, and artificial intelligence/machine learning methods. This will...
This $2,996,108 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program supports the development of more efficient cell-free biomanufacturing processes. The project aims to introduce membrane-less coacervate droplets that encapsulate enzymes and artificial redox cofactors within spatially organized compartments, enabling efficient cofactor recycling and precise delivery of reducing and oxidizing power....
This $325,044 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research to develop a new "aerodynamic fiber deposition" technology to manufacture biomimetic soft fiber-reinforced composites with spatially varying fiber arrangements. The research aims to enable the production of high-throughput, highly controlled nano/microfiber patterns that mimic the complex fiber structures found in biological tissues like skin, muscle, and...
This $500,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) will support the University of Notre Dame's research exploring the differentiation of stem cells into patterned blood vessel networks using hybrid memristor technology. Over a four-year period from October 2022 to September 2026, the University will engineer the first autonomous hybrid memory resistor and cell culture device to control human pluripotent stem cell differentiation into...