This $557,548 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) funds the Smithsonian Institution to deliver their Research Experience for Teachers (RET) program at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center from February 2022 through January 2025. The RET program will provide hands-on research training to middle school teachers from Maryland and Washington, D.C. school districts on topics related to global change ecology. Teachers will study...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) provides $324,987 to the Missouri Botanical Garden to support an Research Experiences for Undergraduates site award. The award will fund research training for 10 undergraduate students per summer over three years (2023-2025) at the Garden, totaling 30 trainees. Students will conduct individual research projects mentored by Garden scientists, focusing on botany and conservation biology. Projects...
The American Museum of Natural History was awarded a $598,311 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to support an Research Experiences for Undergraduates Site award from May 15, 2023 through April 30, 2026. Through this funding, the Museum will provide research training and experiences to 36 undergraduate students over three summers, with 12 students participating each year from 2023 through 2025. The 10-week program, called...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a Project Grant under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) in the amount of $112,078 effective October 1, 2024. The grant will support the training of 27 students, primarily from schools with limited research opportunities or underrepresented groups, over the summers of 2025-2027. Students will conduct individual research projects co-mentored by UC Davis faculty, graduate students, and...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program, CFDA 47.074, provides $472,257 to Miami University in Oxford, Ohio to support an Research Experiences for Undergraduates Site award from March 1, 2022 to February 28, 2025. The award will fund research training for 36 undergraduate students over three summers, with 12 students participating each year. Students will conduct ecology and environmental science research related to urban-rural gradients,...
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 National Science Foundation (NSF) award under the Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) program provides $549,900 to the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole, MA to support a Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site program from 2025-2027. The program will train approximately 30 undergraduate students, primarily from schools with limited research opportunities or underrepresented groups, in biological research over 10-week summer sessions. Students will be immersed in...
This $504,194 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Biological Sciences program will support a 3-year Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Site at Harvard University's Harvard Forest in Petersham, MA. The REU Site program will provide research training for 30 undergraduate students, primarily from schools with limited research opportunities or underrepresented groups, over the summers of 2024-2026. Students will engage in a range of ecological research...
This $152,309 National Science Foundation project grant will support the Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site: How Robustness and Resilience in Response to Biotic and Abiotic Stressors Shape Biological Processes at the University of California, Berkeley. Through the Biological Sciences program, the grant will fund research training for 12 undergraduate students from groups underrepresented in science or with limited research opportunities. For 10 weeks in summer 2023, students will...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) awarded a $464,968 project grant to the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research Inc. This 3-year REU site grant, effective April 15, 2024, will support the training of 30 undergraduate students from underrepresented backgrounds in plant genome research at the Boyce Thompson Institute on the Cornell University campus. The students will develop interdisciplinary skills in data analysis, bioinformatics, experimental...
The Smithsonian Institution received a $377,741 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Biological Infrastructure under the Biological Sciences (47.074) federal grant program.
The award will support the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center's Research Experiences for Undergraduates Site program to train 30 students over three summers between 2023-2025. Students will gain hands-on research experience in ecology and global change biology through independent research projects, lab and field work, data analysis, and professional development sessions. Interns will also communicate their findings to scientific and public audiences.
The program aims to advance understanding of ecosystem responses to human impacts like climate change, habitat loss and altered biodiversity. It also seeks to broaden participation in STEM fields by recruiting from underrepresented groups and schools with limited research opportunities. The training directly supports the Biological Sciences program's goals of strengthening the nation's biological research enterprise and increasing scientific knowledge of major problems confronting the country.