The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $520,553 Project Grant under its Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program to the University of Cincinnati. The grant supports a 3-year research project to establish a community-engaged process and integrated modeling platform to help residents in underserved communities in Cincinnati, Ohio identify, plan, and implement decarbonization retrofits for their homes. The project aims to democratize scientific data on building...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $445,485 Project Grant to the University of Cincinnati (UC) for the "REU SITE: RESEARCH EXPERIENCES FOR AMERICAN LEADERSHIP OF INDUSTRY WITH ZERO EMISSIONS BY 2050 (REALIZE-2050)" program, under the NSF Engineering (CFDA 47.041) grant program. The three-year effort will establish an interdisciplinary research training program at UC to accelerate technology innovations for meeting the U.S. net-zero carbon emissions target by 2050. The...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award, titled "REU SITE: RESEARCH EXPERIENCE FOR UNDERGRADUATES IN BUILT ENVIRONMENT DECARBONIZATION," will fund a three-year Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program focused on built environment decarbonization. The $439,266 award, effective October 1, 2025, will engage 8 undergraduate students per year in conducting applied research to address systems-level challenges in reducing carbon emissions across the lifecycle of...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research to develop an altruistic game theoretic framework for understanding how residential electricity consumers' environmental and financial goals influence their energy use behaviors. The $153,344 award to Purdue University, granted on December 1, 2024, will fund the development of predictive control strategies to unlock residential load flexibility and enable analysis of the impact...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $549,999 to Cleveland State University (CSU) to improve understanding of urban microclimate (UMC) dynamics and their interactions with urban morphology, natural heat sources, and anthropogenic activities. The project aims to characterize and parameterize UMC dynamics, quantify multi-scale interactions between UMC and building characteristics, and advance educational initiatives...
This five-year, $455,004 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will support research and education activities aimed at developing a robust decision-making framework to achieve decarbonized, cost-effective and reliable electric power systems under climate change. The awardee, the Regents of the University of Michigan, will conduct modeling and analysis to understand how power systems can reduce carbon emissions while maintaining reliability as...
This three-year, $444,124 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering Education and Centers Division supports an interdisciplinary research experience for undergraduate students at the University of California, Irvine related to sustainable energy pathways and decarbonization. The Research Experiences for Undergraduates site will expose 10 students per year, primarily from underrepresented groups, to comprehensive decarbonization research topics through experimental and...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $600,000 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program to the Regents of the University of California at Riverside (UC Riverside). The grant, awarded on October 1, 2023, aims to develop novel techniques and design approaches to minimize the carbon footprint of data centers while increasing the utilization of renewable energy sources on the power grid. Key objectives include: Estimating fine-grained...
The University of Oregon was awarded a $549,999 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships federal grant program (CFDA 47.084) to develop new tools for decarbonizing space cooling and heating in buildings. The university will create marketable design software, design services, and system control hardware for dynamic passive building systems that utilize climatic resources like solar heat, cool air, and cold night skies to reduce...
This National Science Foundation project grant of $100,000 supports research at Purdue University from September 2022 to August 2025 under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The research aims to strengthen community resilience to natural hazards like earthquakes by incorporating stakeholder priorities into risk mitigation efforts. Specifically, the university will conduct social and physical experiments to better understand vulnerability of pre-1970s concrete buildings and evaluate community...