Project Grant 2426725
- Federal Grant Award Summary North Carolina State University received a $214,448 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), awarded October 1, 2025, with completion scheduled for September 30, 2028. This collaborative Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site, titled "Nanoscale Detectives," delivers a ten-week summer research program annually hosting cohorts of twelve undergraduate students across three institutions in North...
- Federal Grant Award Summary North Carolina State University received a $615,550 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), effective August 1, 2025 through July 31, 2028. The award supports development of Sterically-Modulated Affinity by RNA Triggers (SMART), an innovative purification toolkit designed to isolate and collect active CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) ribonucleoproteins (RNPs)—complexes of Cas...
- Federal Project Grant Summary North Carolina State University received a $312,589 collaborative research project grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), effective July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2028. The project delivers computational tools and molecular simulation software designed to model solute precipitate nucleation in confined nanopore environments. The primary...
- Federal Grant Award Summary North Carolina State University received a $549,353 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), awarded July 1, 2026, with completion targeted for June 30, 2031. Under this CAREER award, the university will develop a dynamical-systems framework to analyze and optimize global optimization algorithms used across engineering applications, from chemical plant design to molecular drug development. The primary deliverables...
- Federal Grant Award Summary North Carolina State University received a $435,387 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Engineering Education and Centers under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), effective October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2028. This Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site award supports the establishment of the "Textiles of Tomorrow" program at NC State's Textile Engineering, Chemistry and Science (TECS)...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation's Division of Engineering Education and Centers awarded a collaborative Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site grant totaling $185,425 to Duke University (with NC State University and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as collaborative partners) under CFDA 47.041 (Engineering program). The award, effective October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2028, funds the "Nanoscale Detectives" REU Site, which...
- Federal Grant Award Summary North Carolina State University received a $627,705 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Materials Research under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), awarded April 15, 2025, with completion targeted for March 31, 2030. The primary research deliverable involves developing strain-engineering methodologies to create phase boundaries in lead-free ferroelectric oxide heterostructures and membranes. This work...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill received a $186,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Engineering Education and Centers under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), effective October 1, 2025 through September 30, 2028. This collaborative Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site award, titled "Nanoscale Detectives," delivers a ten-week immersive research program hosted annually at three Research...
- Federal Grant Award Summary North Carolina State University received a $920,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Materials Research under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), effective October 1, 2025 through September 30, 2029. This collaborative research initiative supports the development and delivery of distributed self-driving laboratories (SDLs) designed to accelerate the discovery of lead-free metal halide perovskite...
- Summary of Federal Project Grant Award North Carolina State University received a $599,889 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Engineering Education and Centers under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), awarded January 1, 2026, with completion targeted for December 31, 2028. This Research Experience for Teachers (RET) Site grant provides professional development and curriculum development services to secondary education teachers in nanotechnology and nanoscale...
North Carolina State University received a $612,653 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems (CFDA 47.041 Engineering program) effective May 1, 2025, through April 30, 2028. The project develops sustainable bioseparation processes for rare earth element (REE) recovery and purification by leveraging extremophilic microorganisms sourced from Yellowstone National Park hot springs and ocean floor thermal vents. The deliverables include identification and characterization of REE-utilizing thermoacidophilic microorganisms, determination of metabolic roles and associated proteins, and engineering of protein scaffolds and REE-binding proteins to create scalable separation processes. The research specifically addresses liberation of REEs from coal and industrial by-products through bioleaching methods, replacing conventional purification approaches that present environmental and safety concerns. The award incorporates educational and outreach components designed to build workforce capacity in biotechnology. NC State will provide local high school students with facility visits and tours of its biotechnology infrastructure and develop REE case studies for integration into undergraduate engineering curricula. These educational deliverables complement the core research objective of advancing sustainable and environmentally benign technologies for critical mineral processing, positioning the project to contribute to both national resource security and STEM education priorities.Federal Grant Award Summary
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $612.7k | 7/21/25 |