Jackson State University received a $500,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Office of Integrative Activities to support research examining spontaneous nucleation strategies for producing high-quality perovskite films for solar cells. The three-year award, made under the federal Integrative Activities program (CFDA #47.083), aims to advance fundamental understanding of perovskite precursor preparation and film growth processes without using antisolvent methods....
This $349,998 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) supports advanced materials research conducted by Jackson State University (JSU). The principal investigator and their team at JSU are designing and synthesizing porous, nanoparticle-based metal (poly)sulfides and mixed anionic metal-sulfide-oxide aerogel materials. The project aims to develop a fundamental understanding of the design principles and...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $490,000 Project Grant to Jackson State University (JSU) for the "JSU-UCSB Partnership for Research and Education in Materials Science" program. This 6-year collaborative research and education program, with a start date of September 1, 2024, will support the development of new quantum and biomimetic hierarchical nanomaterials with applications in areas such as optoelectronics, sensing, communication, aerospace, and environmental...
Jackson State University was awarded a $412,380 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Office of Integrative Activities under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant will fund research from June 2021 through May 2024 examining the fine structure of exciton levels in lead chalcogenide nanocrystals. As part of the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program's goal of strengthening the Nation's scientific enterprise through increased understanding of major...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) program provides $960,830 to Jackson State University (JSU) from August 1, 2024 to July 31, 2028. The grant establishes the Mississippi Nano-Bio and Immunoengineering Consortium (NIEC), a collaborative research network among seven institutions in Mississippi focused on developing novel biomaterials, evaluating their interactions with biological systems, and assessing their effectiveness in...
Jackson State University was awarded a $150,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Office of Integrative Activities under the Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) to modernize numerical flow solvers with heterogeneous computing from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2025. The university will create a general-purpose library of optimized parallelization functions and routines for mesh-based numerical solvers. This library will ease the burden of parallelizing such solvers...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) provides $945,926 to Norfolk State University (NSU) and Jackson State University (JSU) to design and fabricate tunable hybrid nanostructures for photonic materials research. The project aims to achieve precise control of light-matter interactions in nanoscale environments, enabling the development of novel photonic technologies. Key activities include experimental studies and...
This $300,000 Research Initiation Award was granted by the National Science Foundation's Division of Human Resource Development under the STEM Education (formerly Education and Human Resources) program (CFDA 47.076). The grant supports research activities at Jackson State University, a Historically Black College and University, to enhance STEM research and undergraduate education. The key products and services to be delivered under this award include: using machine learning to discern which...
Jackson State University was awarded a $314,421 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Office of Integrative Activities under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). The grant aims to increase representation and success of African Americans in the geosciences through the GP-UP: Increasing Representation and Success of African Americans in the Geosciences project. The Geosciences program supports basic research in the atmospheric, earth, and ocean sciences to strengthen and enhance...
Jackson State University was awarded a three-year $600,004 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Office of Integrative Activities under the Integrative Activities federal grant program (CFDA 47.083) to develop an automatic assessment tool for engineering education. The tool will use natural language processing models to identify students' misconceptions and learning deficiencies from free-text responses, enabling just-in-time adjustments by instructors and personalized instruction...