Project Grant 2550038
- The University of Wisconsin System was awarded a $239,239 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Biological Sciences Division (CFDA 47.074) effective August 1, 2023 through July 31, 2027. The grant funds research to assess the drivers of nitrogen-fixing symbiosis between plants and microbes across North America. Key activities include sampling the soil and root microbiomes, assaying leaf isotopes, and leveraging environmental data from the NSF-sponsored National Ecological...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation's Division of Integrative Organismal Systems awarded University of Wisconsin-Madison a $970,143 Project Grant under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) effective January 1, 2026 through December 31, 2030. This collaborative research initiative, conducted in partnership with the Savanna Institute, a nonprofit organization promoting agroforestry practices in the Midwest, will generate scientific knowledge and methodologies...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $422,039 Project Grant to the University of Wisconsin - Madison under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) on October 1, 2025, with completion scheduled for August 31, 2026. This collaborative research initiative, titled "PhenoBase: Community, Infrastructure, and Data for Global-Scale Analyses of Plant Phenology," develops machine learning methods to extract phenological data—information about plant...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The University of Wisconsin-Madison received a $619,353 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Integrative Organismal Systems under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) on December 1, 2025, with a completion date of November 30, 2028. The award funds research to elucidate mechanisms by which stress-adapted microbial communities enhance tree tolerance to environmental stressors including cold, heat, and drought. The...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The University of Wisconsin-Madison received a $681,897 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Environmental Biology under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), awarded September 1, 2025, with completion targeted for August 31, 2028. This collaborative research initiative will produce comprehensive land cover reconstructions spanning the last 21,000 years across North America by integrating fossil pollen datasets from the...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The University of Wisconsin-Madison received a $876,272 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Integrative Organismal Systems under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), awarded October 15, 2025, with completion targeted for September 30, 2028. This collaborative research initiative develops advanced CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) tools for bacterial functional genomics with application to marine...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The University of Wisconsin–Madison received a $500,000 Project Grant awarded August 1, 2025, through the National Science Foundation's Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074). The award funds development of a machine learning (ML) model designed to enable real-time decision-making during fermentation process scale-up and commercialization. The tool will predict the technical and economic impact of...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Biological Infrastructure awarded a $566,575 Project Grant to the University of Wisconsin - Madison effective August 1, 2026, through July 31, 2028, under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074). The project will modernize the cyberinfrastructure of the Environmental Data Initiative (EDI), one of the nation's principal repositories for environmental and ecological research data. The deliverables include...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation's Division of Environmental Biology awarded $208,552 to the University of Wisconsin-Madison under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) effective August 1, 2026, through July 31, 2030. This collaborative research project will develop the Global Lake Metabolism Repository (GLAMR), a large-scale public data synthesis infrastructure consolidating ecosystem metabolism data from at least 300 globally distributed lakes, representing...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary Princeton University received a $944,832 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Emerging Frontiers under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), effective September 1, 2025, through August 31, 2028. The award supports research investigating how root-associated microbial communities influence plant growth, health, and disease resistance. The primary deliverables include identification of bacterial strains and synthetic microbial...
Federal Project Grant Award Summary The University of Wisconsin-Madison received a $345,312 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Emerging Frontiers under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), awarded June 15, 2025, with completion scheduled for July 31, 2027. This collaborative research initiative will generate a data-intensive framework for understanding nitrogen-fixing plant-bacterial symbiosis across North American continental scales. The primary research deliverables include microbiome characterization data collected from soil and root nodules at 45 National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) sites, integrated environmental and isotopic analysis to assess nitrogen fixation dynamics, and investigation of how plants and bacteria select symbiotic partners in response to environmental variation. Research outputs will combine fieldwork, laboratory analysis, and computational biology methodologies to advance understanding of the nitrogen cycle and agricultural productivity. Additionally, the award supports workforce development as a significant service component, with structured training and mentorship of students from underrepresented groups in STEM disciplines. The educational program will prepare students for data-intensive careers through an innovative mentorship framework that integrates field research, laboratory work, and computational biology training. This dual-focus approach—advancing fundamental biological science while building research capacity in underrepresented populations—aligns with NSF's strategic priorities for strengthening the nation's scientific enterprise and workforce development across biological sciences.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $345.3k | 9/8/25 |