Project Grant 2534129
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation's Division of Environmental Biology awarded $901,646 to the University of Florida for a collaborative research project spanning July 1, 2026 through June 30, 2029. The project develops an artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled framework for quantifying mammalian diets with unprecedented precision by combining large language models and natural language processing (NLP) techniques to extract dietary information from extensive...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The University of Chicago received a $1,038,104 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Integrative Organismal Systems (Biological Sciences, CFDA 47.074) effective October 1, 2025, through June 30, 2028. This research award funds an investigation into the evolutionary and neurogenomic mechanisms underlying species discrimination during character displacement and speciation. The project integrates transcriptomic and genomic...
- This National Science Foundation project grant of $478,374 awarded to Lehigh University on January 1, 2023 will fund research exploring the genetic basis of dietary adaptation in mammals through convergent evolution. The research will rigorously define quantitative dietary phenotypes across mammals using multiple data sources. It will then identify genes and gene families underlying selection for different diets by combining genomic and dietary data. Researchers will demonstrate the cellular...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary This collaborative research award of $229,691 from the National Science Foundation's Division of Environmental Biology under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) supports a Long-Term Research in Environmental Biology (LTREB) renewal project at Brown University, effective May 1, 2026 through April 30, 2031. The project generates fundamental scientific knowledge on food web dynamics and energy flows in semiarid ecosystems by drawing on 37+ years of...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation's Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences awarded Midwestern University a $109,086 Project Grant on July 15, 2025, under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) to conduct collaborative paleontological and geological research on human origins. The award, which extends through August 31, 2027, supports intensive paleontological recovery, paleoenvironmental reconstruction, and geological analysis at...
- Federal Grant Award Summary Award Details: The National Science Foundation's Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences awarded a Project Grant of $287,288 under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) to the Regents of the University of Michigan on August 15, 2025, with a completion date of July 31, 2028. This collaborative research initiative produces a comprehensive environmental reconstruction of the landscape and ecological conditions surrounding the...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Environmental Biology awarded $268,850 to the University of California Santa Cruz on May 15, 2025, under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) for a two-year research initiative concluding April 30, 2027. This OPUS (Opportunities for Promoting Understanding through Synthesis) project synthesizes 40 years of bioenergetics, behavioral, and movement data across 23 species of large keystone carnivores to conduct...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The University of Chicago received a $160,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Mathematical Sciences under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) for the period of September 1, 2025, through August 31, 2028. This collaborative research initiative advances weak form scientific machine learning (WSCIML) methodologies to develop interpretable mathematical models that predict insect-killing virus dynamics in forest...
- This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Biological Infrastructure, under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), provides $276,000 to fund research from August 1, 2022 to July 31, 2024. The grant supports a postdoctoral fellowship for Dana Reuter to conduct integrative research on linking mammalian omnivore ecological traits to biogeography and morphology. Specifically, Reuter will develop a new database on North American mammal diets focusing on omnivores, and...
- This $372,195 federal Project Grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050), supports a collaborative research project to study the effects of climate change on mammalian functional diversity using a high-resolution fossil record and novel AI workflows. The key products and services to be delivered under this 3-year award, which began on November 1, 2024, include: Generating 3D datasets from micro-CT scans of mammalian fossils to characterize functional...
Project Grant Summary: Diet Declassified The University of Chicago received a $655,434 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Environmental Biology (CFDA 47.074: Biological Sciences) effective July 1, 2026, through June 30, 2029. This collaborative research initiative develops an AI-enabled framework for quantifying mammalian diets with unprecedented precision and scale. The project leverages large language models and advanced natural language processing (NLP) techniques to extract and synthesize dietary information from historical and contemporary scientific literature spanning over two centuries. Deliverables include a high-dimensional multivariate dietary dataset for more than 1,000 placental mammal species, integration of three-dimensional morphometric tooth measurements using artificial intelligence, and a human-in-the-loop validation workflow to ensure data accuracy and reproducibility. Beyond its core research outputs, the project produces a large publicly accessible database of mammalian dietary and morphological data designed to advance understanding of how dietary diversity has evolved across placental mammal radiation. The award supports expanded AI literacy in the biological sciences and contributes to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education through partnerships with Florida K-12 teachers and undergraduate internship programs at the University of Florida's Florida Museum of Natural History and George A. Smathers Libraries. These research products and educational initiatives address fundamental gaps in the field by replacing oversimplified diet categorizations with nuanced, biologically meaningful classifications that enhance understanding of mammalian evolution.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $655.4k | 5/5/26 |