The University of Pittsburgh was awarded a $601,418 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074) for the period of March 1, 2021 through February 28, 2025. The grant funds the REU SITE: Training and Experimentation in Computational Biology (TECBio) project. As the program description notes, the Biological Sciences program aims to promote progress in the biological sciences and strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) program will provide $464,355 to the University of Kansas Center for Research Inc. over a period from June 1, 2025 to May 31, 2028. The funding will support a Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site program that will train 10 students per summer (2025-2027) in faculty-led research laboratories across the Departments of Molecular Biosciences, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) Project Grant award provides $470,995 to the University of California, Berkeley to support a Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site program from June 2025 to May 2028. The program will train approximately 30 undergraduate students, primarily from institutions with limited research opportunities, in mentored, hands-on independent research projects examining how biotic and abiotic stressors impact biological...
This $407,491 National Science Foundation project grant under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) funds the Johns Hopkins University to operate an Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site from 2022 through 2025. The REU site will provide research training to 30 undergraduate students over three summers, with 10 students participating each year, in molecular and imaging approaches to biological problems. Students will gain hands-on experience in faculty laboratories...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) program provides funding of $421,425 to Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) in Cold Spring Harbor, NY. The award will support the training of 9 undergraduate students per summer over 3 years (2025-2027) through the REU (Research Experiences for Undergraduates) Site program in Bioinformatics and Computational Neuroscience. The students will conduct hands-on, high-level research in these...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) provides $415,780 in funding to the University of Washington (UW) in Seattle, WA to support a Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site focused on "Novel Genome-Scale Technologies and Big Data Science". The 9-week summer program will train 10 undergraduate students annually from 2025-2027 on cutting-edge genome engineering, sequencing, and computational biology...
This $347,015 National Science Foundation project grant under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) supports an Interdisciplinary and Quantitative Biology Research Experience for Undergraduates (IQ-BIO-REU) site award to the University of Puerto Rico Rio Piedras campus. Over three years, the program will train 30 undergraduate students, primarily from schools with limited research opportunities, in a mentored research environment using computational and quantitative tools in biology....
This Project Grant award of $462,342 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) will support a Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site at Colorado State University's Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in Fort Collins, CO. The REU site will train 30 undergraduate students over the summers of 2025-2027 in molecular life sciences fields including biochemistry, molecular biology, microbiology, immunology, and virology. Participants...
This $420,873 National Science Foundation project grant will support the Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site: Re-Imagine Life, Exploring Function through Adaptation program at the University of Alabama from March 2022 through February 2025. The grant will fund research training for 30 undergraduate students over three summers, with 10 students participating each year. The program aims to provide research opportunities in biology for students from institutions with limited research...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) provides $344,754 to the University of Wisconsin-Madison to support a Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site program from 2024-2027. The program will train 30 undergraduate students, primarily from underrepresented groups or schools with limited research opportunities, in cellular and molecular biology research related to understanding how organisms adapt to environmental...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant, under the Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) program, will provide $464,662 in funding to the University of Pittsburgh from June 1, 2025 to May 31, 2028. The grant will support a Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site program called "Training and Experimentation in Computational Biology (TECBIO)". The program will train 10 undergraduate students per summer over 3 years in interdisciplinary computational and systems biology research. Students will gain independence and experience through mentored projects that advance the host institution's research and drive innovation. Training will include scientific communication, professional development, and the responsible conduct of research. Student outcomes will be assessed using a modified Undergraduate Research Student Self-Assessment (URSSA) survey.