Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) received a $199,955 two-year Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041). The award aims to advance fundamental understanding of reactive transport in porous media through experimental investigation of precipitation processes and their impact on flow distribution and transport properties. RIT will fabricate...
The National Science Foundation Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems awarded Rochester Institute Of Technology a $348,435 project grant under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program. The three-year project grant will support research harnessing nonlinear electrokinetic effects for microparticle identification and separation in microfluidic devices. The grant aims to improve microfluidic techniques for analyzing and sorting microscopic particles...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $199,500 Project Grant to the Rochester Institute of Technology under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041). The grant will fund the acquisition of a micro-transfer printer for heterogeneous integration of electronic/photonic microsystems from August 15, 2021 to July 31, 2023. The micro-transfer printer will allow RIT to integrate dissimilar materials like electronics, photonics, and MEMS at the microscale, enabling continued innovation...
The Rochester Institute of Technology received a $360,019 project grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Materials Research. The award is for the project "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: DMREF: LIVING BIOTIC-ABIOTIC MATERIALS WITH TEMPORALLY PROGRAMMABLE ACTUATION" under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The project aims to develop living biotic-abiotic materials with temporally programmable actuation capabilities through September 2025. The...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $526,633 Project Grant to the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) to acquire a high-speed volumetric particle tracking velocimetric (VTPV) system. This system will enable RIT to track the three-dimensional position and movement of multiple particles within a measurement fluid volume, providing improved quantitative data to support active research projects ranging from blood pumps to microplastics transport. The proposed instrument will...
The Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) was awarded a $100,816 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences on March 15, 2021 to support research titled "Notions of Time and Medical Decision-Making." The grant is part of the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), which aims to promote basic research and education in the social, behavioral and economic sciences. Under the award, RIT researchers will...
This $323,992 National Science Foundation project grant will support an Research Experiences for Undergraduates Site in Extremal Graph Theory and Dynamical Systems at Rochester Institute of Technology from February 2023 through January 2026. Under this award, RIT will engage 30 undergraduate students over three summers in research experiences in areas of graph theory, linear algebra, and dynamical systems. Students will work directly with RIT faculty on applied projects modeling cardiac...
The National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) awarded a $724,640 Project Grant (CFDA 93.859 - Biomedical Research and Research Training) to the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) to conduct research aimed at improving the understanding of cell-substrate interactions on porous membranes and advancing the development of ultrathin membranes for physiologically relevant tissue barrier and co-culture models. This five-year research program, beginning on June 1, 2024 and ending on...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) is supporting a collaborative research effort focused on developing an intelligent lab-on-chip device to monitor and promote the maturation of stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes. The $192,150 award to the New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) aims to create an integrated system that can non-invasively evaluate cardiomyocyte maturity in real-time and adaptively apply electrical and mechanical...
The federal Project Grant award of $500,000.00 from the Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) supports the design and fabrication of analog neuromorphic systems based on active dendrites with non-linear synaptic devices for energy-efficient scientific discovery. The award is for the period from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2025, and is being provided to the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). RIT will collaborate with the University of...
Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) received a $248,480 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) to develop an interactive, data-enabled scientific computing platform for characterizing and monitoring cardiac tissue ablation. Through leveraging expertise in heat transfer theory, image computing, biomedical modeling and simulation, and experimental validation, RIT will model and quantify tissue responses to thermal energy delivery during radiofrequency ablation therapy. The platform aims to help guide and monitor cardiac ablation procedures by rapidly characterizing thermal lesion geometry and quantifying induced thermal damage. Additional objectives include integrating an education and outreach program involving research opportunities for students and innovative workshops to inspire K-12 students from underrepresented groups in biomedical computing and medicine fields. The three-year award period began on August 1, 2023.