Project Grant 2540390
- Federal Grant Award Summary The University of Rhode Island received a $698,236 CAREER (Faculty Early Career Development) award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), effective June 1, 2026, through May 31, 2031. This project grant funds fundamental research investigating the transport and antimicrobial effects of magnetic nanoparticles in bacterial biofilms, with particular...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The University of Rhode Island received a $292,384 CAREER award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Physics under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) effective July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2030. This project grant supports research and education in trapped-ion quantum information processing, with the primary objective of advancing quantum computing capabilities through investigation of phonon modulation techniques. The...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The University of Rhode Island received a $848,602 CAREER (Faculty Early-Career Development Program) Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Polar Programs (CFDA 47.078) on June 15, 2025, with a completion date of February 28, 2029. This award funds fundamental research investigating fitness trade-offs associated with female-biased sexual size dimorphism in leopard seals, a large Southern Ocean predator exhibiting extreme size...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The University of Rhode Island Research Office received a $200,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), effective March 1, 2025 through February 28, 2027. This Experimental Research Initiative (ERI) project delivers experimental research investigating the hydrodynamic interactions between mangrove root systems and...
- The National Science Foundation awarded a 5-year, $650,081 CAREER grant to the Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey. The project, titled "CAREER: Non-Local Metamaterials and Metasurfaces for Next Generation Non-Reciprocal Acoustic Devices," will fund research to develop advanced acoustic metamaterials and metasurfaces that can manipulate sound waves in asymmetric, non-reciprocal ways. This work aims to enable new applications in fields such as...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation's Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation awarded $596,099 to the University of Vermont & State Agricultural College through its Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) on September 1, 2026, for a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) project titled "Quantum-Inspired Dynamic Control in Composite Metastructures with Long-Range Coupling." The award funds research and development of an innovative vibration...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The University of Maryland Baltimore County received a $121,578 CAREER (Faculty Early Career Development) award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), effective October 1, 2025, through January 31, 2026. This project grant supports the development of an all-acoustic image-guided implantable microscopic ultrasound neuromodulation system designed to advance...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The University of Rhode Island's Research Office received a $190,893 Project Grant award from the Air Force Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) on June 15, 2025, with a completion date of June 14, 2028. The award funds research on "Ultrafast Vibrational Energy Loss and Dephasing in Energetic Molecular Crystals," a fundamental scientific investigation aligned with the program's mission to maintain...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation's Division of Chemistry, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), awarded $609,539 to the University of Rhode Island on July 1, 2026, for a five-year CAREER project entitled "Low-Valent Metal Qubits for Quantum Information Science." Under the direction of Professor Daniel N. Huh, this project will develop a new class of molecule-based quantum compounds (molecular qubits) utilizing Group 4...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Information and Intelligent Systems awarded the University of Rhode Island a Project Grant of $341,343 under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) on June 15, 2025, with completion targeted for May 31, 2030. This CAREER award supports the development of tools and methodologies to help data scientists anticipate and prevent unintended systemic errors in machine learning...
The University of Rhode Island received a $560,672 CAREER award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), effective May 1, 2026 through April 30, 2031. The award funds research and development of a novel class of acoustic metamaterials utilizing microscopic bubbles trapped within designed microcavity structures to achieve low-frequency sound attenuation. The primary deliverables include advancement of fundamental scientific understanding of acoustic wave-bubble interactions, establishment of physics-based design principles for bubble-based acoustic metamaterials, and development of lightweight, effective acoustic damping solutions that do not require heavy or thick conventional materials. The research outputs are expected to produce technical knowledge applicable to noise pollution reduction and advancement of underwater acoustic technologies across engineered environments. The award integrates research with comprehensive educational and workforce development components. Deliverables include interdisciplinary training programs for undergraduate and graduate students in acoustics, materials science, and microengineering; K-12 outreach activities introducing students and educators to wave physics and emerging materials technologies; and curriculum and educational materials designed to expand the science and engineering workforce. As a CAREER award, this project combines technical innovation with institutional capacity building and human capital development to advance national scientific priorities in acoustic materials engineering.Federal Grant Award Summary
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $560.7k | 4/14/26 |