The University of Illinois was awarded a three-year, $355,159 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program. The grant will fund research to uncover the self-sustaining cycle in the outer region of turbulent boundary layers. The University of Illinois will conduct the research from June 2021 through May 2024 in Urbana, Illinois. The goal of the NSF Engineering...
The University of Illinois received a $135,532 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation to support research titled "EAGER: INTEGRATING FRACTURE NUCLEATION AND PROPAGATION INTO OPTIMIZATION: TOWARDS MATERIALS WITH OPTIMAL FRACTURE PROPERTIES." The two-year award beginning August 1, 2021 falls under the NSF Directorate for Engineering's CFDA #47.041 Engineering program, which supports innovation and excellence in...
The University of Illinois was awarded a $250,542 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems to conduct research on the dynamics and stability of multi-component lipid vesicles in flow. The grant falls under the NSF Directorate for Engineering's Engineering program (CFDA #47.041), which supports research and education to improve engineering. The University will use the funding over a two-year period ending...
The University of Illinois was awarded a $500,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems. The grant is part of NSF's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to improve quality of life and economic strength through engineering research and education. The five-year project grant, awarded March 1, 2021, will support research at the University of Illinois exploring the interplay between control theory and machine learning. The university...
The University of Illinois received a $565,222 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 will fund research from June 2023 through May 2026 to explore intercellular adhesion as a design parameter for promoting blood vessel formation in engineered or damaged tissues. Specifically, the University will quantify relationships between...
The University of Illinois, through a USD 315,227 Project Grant award from the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800), will conduct near-wall, three-dimensional fluid measurements to advance the characterization of fluid-structure interactions. The research aims to maintain technological superiority in scientific areas relevant to Air Force needs. The grant award commenced on September 15, 2023 and is...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $277,546 awarded to the University of Illinois will fund collaborative research and broader impact activities related to the evolution of insect wings under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074). Specifically, the award will support an integrative phylogenomic study from January 2023 to December 2025 examining wing repurposing, vestigiality and loss patterns in cockroaches and termites to better understand the value of wings...
The University of Illinois, doing business as The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, received a $280,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Mathematical Sciences under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) Federal Grant Program. The funding will support a 3-year research project titled "Hydrodynamic Theory of Environmental Averaging and Self-Organization" which aims to analyze hydrodynamic collective models in order...
The University of Illinois was awarded a $330,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Mathematical Sciences to support research related to hydrodynamics of collective phenomena and applications under the agency's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The three-year award, issued June 1, 2021 with a completion date of May 31, 2024, will fund research exploring major problems confronting the Nation through advancing the store of scientific knowledge...
The University of Illinois was awarded a $392,408 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation to develop switching control techniques with minimal data from August 1, 2021 to July 31, 2024. The grant is part of NSF's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), which seeks to improve quality of life and economic strength through engineering research and education. Specifically, the University will research switching control methods that...