This National Science Foundation project grant of $456,626 will support the Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site: Conservation, Restoration, and Communication program at the University of Central Florida from March 2022 through February 2025. The REU program, funded under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), will provide hands-on training to 30 undergraduate students over three summers in the areas of conservation, restoration, and science communication. Students will...
The Smithsonian Institution received a $377,741 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Biological Infrastructure under the Biological Sciences (47.074) federal grant program. The award will support the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center's Research Experiences for Undergraduates Site program to train 30 students over three summers between 2023-2025. Students will gain hands-on research experience in ecology and global change biology through independent...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded Auburn University a $467,468 Project Grant under the Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) federal grant program. The 3-year award, effective October 1, 2025, will support an REU (Research Experiences for Undergraduates) site focused on applied terrestrial ecology research within the North American Coastal Plain biodiversity hotspot in the Southeastern U.S. The program will train 10 undergraduate students per summer for 10 weeks, providing them...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) provides $324,987 to the Missouri Botanical Garden to support an Research Experiences for Undergraduates site award. The award will fund research training for 10 undergraduate students per summer over three years (2023-2025) at the Garden, totaling 30 trainees. Students will conduct individual research projects mentored by Garden scientists, focusing on botany and conservation biology. Projects...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant under the Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) program will provide $463,568 in funding to the University of Virginia (UVA) from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2027. The grant will support the training of 30 students over 3 summers (2025-2027) in ecological, evolutionary, and behavioral field research at the Mountain Lake Biological Station in Pembroke, Virginia. Students, primarily from schools with limited research opportunities or...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $137,578 Project Grant through its Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) to the Gulf of Maine Research Institute (GMRI) located in Portland, Maine. The grant will fund a 3-year Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program that will bring 6 undergraduate students to the GMRI campus each summer to complete 10-week interdisciplinary research experiences focused on the Gulf of Maine ecosystem. The program aims to train the next...
This $439,723 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Office of International Science and Engineering (OISE) program (CFDA 47.079) supports a three-year research and education initiative focused on human-wildlife interactions in St. Vincent and the Grenadines. The project, led by Florida International University, engages cohorts of six U.S. graduate and undergraduate students from underrepresented STEM backgrounds in an immersive training and research experience....
This National Science Foundation project grant of $321,024 awarded on March 1, 2022 supports an Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site at Harvard University under the Biological Sciences (47.074) federal grant program. Over three years, the award will fund research training for 24 undergraduate students from schools with limited research opportunities and underrepresented groups. For 10 weeks each summer through 2024, 8 students will engage in mentored laboratory research experiences...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program, CFDA 47.074, provides $472,257 to Miami University in Oxford, Ohio to support an Research Experiences for Undergraduates Site award from March 1, 2022 to February 28, 2025. The award will fund research training for 36 undergraduate students over three summers, with 12 students participating each year. Students will conduct ecology and environmental science research related to urban-rural gradients,...
This $393,283 National Science Foundation Biological Sciences project grant will support the Chicago Botanic Garden's Research Experiences for Undergraduates Site program from 2022 to 2025. The program will provide research experiences and professional development to 30 undergraduate students over three summers, with the goal of increasing careers in plant conservation. Students will conduct 10-week research internships at the Garden's Negaunee Institute for Plant Conservation Science and Action...