Project Grant 2614822
- The National Science Foundation Office of Integrative Activities awarded $1,569,867 to the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska, through its University of Nebraska Medical Center division, on August 1, 2026, under the Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) to support collaborative research on engineering lodging-resilient cereal crops. The project combines artificial intelligence, biomechanics, genomics, and plant biology to identify why corn, wheat, and sorghum stalks fail and...
- The National Science Foundation Office of Integrative Activities awarded Clemson University $2 million on August 1, 2026, under the Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) to lead a collaborative research initiative on lodging resilience in cereal crops through convergent artificial intelligence, biomechanics, and genomics. The work addresses crop lodging—the breaking and toppling of corn, wheat, and sorghum before harvest, which destroys 5 to 25 percent of potential yield annually. Clemson...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The University of Idaho received a $695,380 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Integrative Organismal Systems under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) effective August 15, 2025, through July 31, 2028. This research project investigates the molecular mechanisms by which potato plants detect and respond to nematode-associated molecular patterns (NAMPs), specifically ascaroside 18 (ASCR18), to activate immune defenses...
- The University of Idaho received a $1,040,107 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Biological Infrastructure under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), effective September 1, 2025 through August 31, 2028. The primary deliverable is an automated instrument that integrates artificial intelligence to identify small mammal species, discriminate among individual animals, and measure body weight and morphological characteristics in real-time without...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $4,546,903 Project Grant under the Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) program to the Regents of the University of Idaho. The grant, titled "Crossing the Innovation Valley of Death: Democratizing Data and Artificial Intelligence for Research Administration," aims to enhance post-award research administration by developing open-source tools that integrate artificial intelligence (AI) and data science. The project has three main...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The University of Idaho received a $600,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070), effective August 1, 2025 through July 31, 2028. The Collaborative Open Framework for Accessible Interoperable Research (CO-FAIR) project delivers a unified national cyberinfrastructure designed to standardize and integrate data management...
- The Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture awarded the Regents of the University of Idaho $291,606 under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI, CFDA 10.310) on July 1, 2026. The project will develop a free, web-based planning tool that translates agricultural water science into actionable guidance for irrigated farmers in southern and eastern Idaho facing water scarcity due to snowpack deficit and prior-appropriation curtailment. Farmers will input...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation's Division of Emerging Frontiers awarded $584,845 to the University of Idaho under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to acquire an Element Biosciences AVITI24 sequencing platform for the Genomics and Bioinformatics Resources Core (GBRC). The award, announced September 15, 2025, with completion targeted for August 31, 2028, will deliver a high-throughput sequencing and single-cell multi-omics research platform that combines...
- The Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture awarded the Regents of the University of Idaho $613,978 under the Integrated Programs (CFDA 10.303) project grant on September 15, 2025. The Western Rural Development Center (WRDC), administered by the University of Idaho, will connect research and educational outreach capabilities of western land-grant institutions with stakeholders including communities, decision-makers, entrepreneurs, families, farmers, and ranchers....
- The National Science Foundation Office of Integrative Activities awarded the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska $300,000 on May 1, 2026, under the Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) to develop an artificial intelligence test platform for analyzing plant single-cell protein data. The recipient will create user-friendly tools that integrate protein and gene data, allowing plant scientists to query emerging single-cell proteomics and transcriptomics through natural language...
The National Science Foundation Office of Integrative Activities awarded $2.430128 million to the Regents of the University of Idaho on August 1, 2026, under the Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) to develop engineering, genomic, and artificial intelligence tools for breeding lodging-resistant cereal crops including corn, wheat, and sorghum. The University of Idaho will lead a collaborative research effort partnering with Clemson University in South Carolina and the University of Nebraska Medical Center. The project addresses the genome-to-phenome bottleneck in crop breeding by shifting from correlative approaches toward predictive, mechanism-based crop design grounded in engineering physics and biology. Deliverables include automation of high-throughput phenotyping, identification of cellular and subcellular drivers of stalk strength, development of multi-modal genomic foundation models that integrate genomic, imaging, and metabolomic data into validated alleles, and advancement of harvest-integrated sensing toward field deployment. The team will translate results into a breeder-ready toolkit and train students at community colleges and other less research-intensive institutions. Performance occurs at Moscow, Idaho. The period of performance runs through July 31, 2030.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $2.4m | 7/17/26 |