Project Grant 2553511
- Federal Grant Award Summary South Dakota School of Mines & Technology received a $687,304 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Emerging Frontiers under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), effective September 15, 2025, with a completion date of August 31, 2028. The award funds the acquisition and deployment of a Biolector XT microbioreactor system in Rapid City, South Dakota. This equipment enables simultaneous cultivation and real-time...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings awarded South Dakota School of Mines & Technology a $3.025 million Project Grant under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) effective September 1, 2025, through August 31, 2030. This National Research Traineeship (NRT) award supports the development and delivery of graduate-level training programs designed to prepare scientists and engineers to address...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded $318,000 to South Dakota School of Mines & Technology under the NSF EPSCOR Graduate Fellowship Program (CFDA 47.084, Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships) on July 15, 2025, with completion by June 30, 2028. This Project Grant provides three-year stipend and cost-of-education allowance support for twelve graduate fellows who earned honorable mention status in the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)....
- Federal Grant Award Summary South Dakota School of Mines & Technology received a $200,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (CFDA 47.041), awarded on June 1, 2026, with completion expected by May 31, 2028. The project investigates exciton-polaritons—hybrid light-matter quasiparticles formed through strong coupling of excitons with photons—to advance optoelectronic device performance in two-dimensional (2D) semiconductor heterostructures. The...
- Federal Grant Award Summary South Dakota School of Mines & Technology received a $200,000 Engineering Research Initiation (ERI) Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation (CFDA 47.041) effective June 15, 2025, through May 31, 2027. The award supports the development of a scalable, multi-fidelity computational framework for modeling elastic deformation and fracture in heterogeneous materials, particularly metal-ceramic...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) awarded $809,743 to South Dakota School of Mines & Technology on August 15, 2025, for a collaborative research project extending through July 31, 2029. This use-inspired project establishes infrastructure for artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML)-driven discovery of small molecules to address antibiotic resistance, biofilms, and aflatoxin contamination....
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation's Engineering Directorate (CFDA 47.041) awarded $458,070 to South Dakota School of Mines & Technology on September 1, 2025, to establish a Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site titled "Back to the Future—Metallurgical and Materials Engineering Summer Program." The three-year award (completion date August 31, 2028) funds a 10-week annual summer program providing undergraduate students with research...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary South Dakota School of Mines & Technology received a $300,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) for the period January 1, 2026 through December 31, 2026. This Phase I award supports the establishment of an open-source ecosystem for Decision Support in the Design of Engineering Systems (DSIDES), a decision-support tool designed to address complex multi-stage,...
- The South Dakota School of Mines and Technology (SDSM&T) received a $191,995 project grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to conduct research revealing the reconfiguration dynamics of lipid bilayers and hydration structures with nanoscale resolution during electroporation. SDSM&T will use atomic force microscopy with sub-nanometer and high temporal resolution to image molecular-level dynamic responses of lipid bilayers and hydration...
- Federal Grant Award Summary South Dakota State University (SDSU), in collaboration with South Dakota Mines (SDM) and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), received a $2.19M Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) awarded August 15, 2025, to establish infrastructure for artificial intelligence and machine learning-driven discovery of small molecules combating antibiotic resistance, biofilms, and aflatoxin contamination. The...
South Dakota School of Mines & Technology received a $199,994 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems (CFDA 47.041, Engineering) effective July 1, 2026 through June 30, 2028. The award funds research on Engineered Living MetasUrfaces (ELVIS), which addresses biofouling—the unwanted attachment and growth of microorganisms on water-exposed surfaces that costs industries in shipping, agriculture, energy production, and healthcare through equipment clogging, reduced efficiency, and increased maintenance expenses. The research will develop an engineered living meta-surface leveraging preferential microbial attachment and biofilm growth on patterned two-dimensional surfaces composed of graphene and hexagonal boron nitride to guide microbial colonization into predefined regions, creating three-dimensional pillar-like structures that inhibit settlement of larger unwanted organisms. The project will deliver laboratory testing and computational modeling to characterize how living structures form on heterogeneous surfaces and optimize their design for specific applications, with the objective of enabling longer-lasting, lower-maintenance surfaces using environmentally benign approaches rather than harmful chemical treatments. Additionally, the award includes educational and workforce development deliverables: research training for undergraduate and graduate students, development of new course materials, K-12 student outreach activities, creation of publicly available educational resources, and dissemination of research findings to the broader research community.Federal Grant Award Summary
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $200.0k | 6/30/26 |