Project Grant 2521750
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences awarded a $115,140 Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) to Stony Brook University. The grant supports a 3-year collaborative research project to uncover the adaptive origins of fossil apes through a multidisciplinary approach. The key products and services to be delivered include: Collecting fossil primate and other animal specimens through extensive field...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $135,000 to Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) from October 2024 through September 2026 to conduct research on characterizing the evolution of humans and their ancestors through an ecological approach. The key products of this research project include: 1) surveying for hominin and faunal fossils, including microfauna; 2) reconstructing 3D...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences awarded a $280,789 project grant to the Regents of the University of Minnesota for collaborative research titled "The Geological and Paleoecological Contexts of Early Miocene Hominoid Evolution." The award period is from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2025. Under this award, the University of Minnesota will conduct research to contribute to understanding the resources invested in the Social, Behavioral,...
- The University of Michigan was awarded a $314,399 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Environmental Biology to conduct research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: BEE: BRIDGING THE ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION OF EAST AFRICAN ACACIAS ACROSS TIME AND SPACE: GENOMICS, ECOSYSTEM, AND DIVERSIFICATION." The three-year grant, awarded September 1, 2021 with a completion date of August 31, 2024, will fund research under the NSF's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074)....
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $174,128 to support a collaborative research project investigating the early emergence of tool use in human evolution. The research aims to understand the significance of tool technology in the human lineage, including the taxonomic identity of early toolmakers, the purposes of the tools, and the timeline for the development of this technology. The project...
- The University of Michigan was awarded a two-year, $349,312 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074). The grant aims to enhance capabilities for forecasting tree species population trajectories under changing environments through synthesis. Specifically, the University will conduct research to increase scientific understanding of major problems confronting the nation by promoting progress in the biological sciences....
- The National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences awarded Baylor University a $159,211 project grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The grant will fund collaborative research from September 2021 through August 2025 on the geological and paleoecological contexts of early Miocene hominoid evolution. As part of the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program's goals to promote basic research and education in these...
- This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences provides $142,477 to support collaborative research examining foundations of learning through individual variation, plasticity, and evolution in humans and great apes. Funded under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), this award will support research examining brain organization and its relationship to skill learning in bonobos and chimpanzees. Researchers will...
- This $450,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) will support a collaborative research project led by the Regents of the University of Michigan to study the evolutionary history and ecological changes of cichlid fishes. The project aims to: (i) Leverage computed tomography (CT) scanning to develop a comprehensive morphological database for both modern and fossil cichlid specimens, enabling their integration into a...
- This $244,516 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) supports a research project to document and analyze three languages with unusual grammatical structures. The goal is to expand existing language databases and advance the understanding of language evolution, structure, and function through comparative analyses. Key project outputs will include grammars, lexicons, and transcribed texts, leveraging...
This $287,288 project grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) to the Regents of the University of Michigan. The project will reconstruct the environmental conditions under which the ape and hominin lineages diverged, through field research, laboratory analyses, and the use of AI-generated algorithms and biotechnology methods. Key activities include collecting fossil vertebrates, establishing a chronology, analyzing paleoenvironmental proxies, and examining fossil herbivore dentition. This research aims to advance the scientific understanding of ape and hominin evolution, provide training for students, and develop outreach activities to enhance public education. The project will be conducted over a period of approximately 3 years, from August 2025 to July 2028, at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. No sub-awards are planned for this grant.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $287.3k | 8/7/25 |