The University of California, Riverside (UC Riverside) has been awarded a $300,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation under the CFDA Program 47.041 - Engineering. The grant, titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: ANALYSIS AND CONTROL OF NONLINEAR OSCILLATORY NETWORKS FOR THE DESIGN OF NOVEL CORTICAL STIMULATION STRATEGIES", aims to develop new theories and tools to predict the onset and spreading of epileptic...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (CFDA 47.041) awarded a $300,000 Project Grant to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) for a collaborative research effort titled "Analysis and Control of Nonlinear Oscillatory Networks for the Design of Novel Cortical Stimulation Strategies." This 3-year project aims to develop new theories and tools to predict the onset and spreading of epileptic seizures, and to inform the use of novel electrical brain...
The Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley, received a $911,030 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation on January 1, 2022. The grant is supporting research under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to synthesize neuroimaging and data-driven approaches to discover inspirational examples in design. Specifically, the university will conduct research...
This $1.5 million Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041), will fund research at the University of California Irvine from October 2022 through September 2026. The university will develop hydrogel-based bioengineering technologies to reproducibly generate distinct spatial organization and cellular diversity within cortical organoids, mimicking the development of different brain regions. Researchers will leverage expertise...
This Project Grant award, totaling $230,079.00, was provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program. The project, titled "IMPACT OF LEARNING ON COGNITION AND BRAIN STRUCTURE IN OLDER ADULTS", aims to examine how changes in learning opportunities related to retirement affect cognitive aging and brain aging in older adults. The research will use behavioral tasks and neuroimaging methods to investigate the relationship...
The University of California, Riverside (UC Riverside) received a $233,452 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to study the behavior of geometric and linear data associated with the solution sets of polynomials. The award will support research on the algebraic geometry and topological properties of moduli spaces of varieties and pairs, with a focus on...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $2,000,000 Project Grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to the University of California, Irvine to develop and assess the feasibility of 3D biological neural networks (3DNNs) for intelligent biomedical motor control systems. The objectives are to establish methods to fabricate robust, reliable, and reproducible 3DNNs, and to develop core principles to program them with intelligent behavior. This research aims to demonstrate...
The University of California Irvine received a $349,551 project grant award from the National Science Foundation Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Directorate to support exploratory and confirmatory neurocognitive modeling with latent variables from June 2021 through May 2024. The grant funds research under the NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), which aims to contribute to scientific strength and welfare through promotion of basic research and...
This $225,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) supports collaborative research to study how astrocytes, a type of brain cell, contribute to neural dynamics and information processing in the brain. The project combines computational modeling and experimental observations to investigate how astrocytes modulate neuronal activity and enable context-dependent neural computations. The research...
The National Science Foundation awarded $150,000 to Regents of the University of California at Riverside under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) from July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2026. The Project Grant funding will support research to develop new statistical methodologies and deep learning techniques for uniformly estimating causal effects of continuous treatments using large observational health data sets. Specifically, the university will design neural network...