The Pennsylvania State University received a $300,000 project grant award from the National Science Foundation Office of International Science and Engineering under the Office of International Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.079). The three-year award, made on September 1, 2021 and concluding on August 31, 2024, will support the IRES TRACK I: Manifestations of Climate Change in Extreme Events project. This project aims to enable the U.S. to maintain leadership in the...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a Project Grant under the Geosciences (CFDA 47.050) program totaling $542,110 to The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2027. The grant will fund an interdisciplinary Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site focused on climate, air quality, and urban systems research. The program will provide 15 students per year with summer-long research internships to work on projects related to climate...
The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) received a $299,044 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Integrative Organismal Systems under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074) to conduct collaborative research from July 2023 through June 2027. The award will support Penn State's efforts to study the molecular mechanisms regulating complex traits like body size and reproduction in natural populations of five reptile species across three...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) awarded a $981,074 project grant to The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) on August 15, 2024. The grant, titled "DISES: Socioecological Outcomes of Restoration in Forest-Grassland Ecosystems," investigates how and why restoration programs impact social and environmental systems in forest-grassland ecosystems. The research employs multiple methods, including remote sensing, field-based ecological...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Office of International Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.079) provides $268,066 from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2027 to support collaborative research on tropical plant-pollinator interactions. The project will engage 15 U.S. students, particularly from underrepresented groups, in an 8-week international research program in Colombia to investigate the impacts of climate and landscape changes on plant-pollinator relationships....
This National Science Foundation Office of International Science and Engineering project grant, awarded September 1, 2022 for $241,760, will fund an international research experience for undergraduate students in freshwater ecosystems in Guyana through August 31, 2025. Under the NSF's Office of International Science and Engineering CFDA 47.079 program, which aims to strengthen international partnerships to advance scientific discovery, Texas A&M Agrilife Research will collaborate with...
The Pennsylvania State University was awarded a $1.13 million Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Environmental Biology to conduct research on "Hotspots of Genome Evolution in a Rapid Vertebrate Radiation" from January 1, 2022 through December 31, 2024. The grant is being administered under the NSF's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), which aims to promote advancement in the biological sciences and strengthen the national scientific enterprise through...
The National Science Foundation awarded The Pennsylvania State University $315,000 under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to develop next-generation, differentiable global hydrologic models. The four-year project grant, awarded September 1, 2022 and concluding August 31, 2026, aims to improve understanding of global low flow dynamics under climate change. Specifically, Penn State will build upon machine learning techniques to create process-based hydrologic models that are learnable and...
The Pennsylvania State University received a $140,941 three-year Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences under the Geosciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.050). The grant will support collaborative research on integrative ecological perspectives of extinction processes through a multi-proxy case study of Hispaniolan subfossil and extant rodents. The research aims to strengthen fundamental knowledge and understanding of the integrated Earth system by...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $146,000 to Pennsylvania State University to conduct collaborative paleontological and geological research to advance understanding of hominoid and hominin evolution. The project focuses on retrieving fossil, paleoenvironmental, and geological data from 6-million-year-old sites relevant to studying the emergence of the human lineage. Key research...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Office of International Science and Engineering, CFDA 47.079, provides $280,388 to The Pennsylvania State University from June 1, 2023 through May 31, 2026. The award supports collaborative research between Penn State, the American Museum of Natural History, and University of Cape Coast in Ghana to study morphological adaptations of dragonflies to environmental gradients. Eighteen U.S. students will conduct fieldwork, museum studies, and lab work in Ghana to document under-represented Odonata species and understand their distributions across climate zones. Students from both countries will gain professional and research experience working with an interdisciplinary, international team. The project aims to further global conservation efforts and build capacity for research on biodiversity impacts of climate change. Findings may help predict insect responses to rapid environmental shifts.