Project Grant 2621258
- Federal Grant Award Summary The University of Virginia received a $2.275 million Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Environmental Biology (CFDA 47.074 – Biological Sciences) awarded June 1, 2025, through May 31, 2031, to conduct long-term ecological research on environmental drivers and ecosystem state change in coastal barrier landscapes. The project, conducted at the Virginia Coast Reserve Long-Term Ecological Research (VCR LTER) site, uses long-term experiments...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The University of Montana received a $635,938 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Integrative Organismal Systems under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), awarded September 1, 2025, with completion targeted for August 31, 2030. The award funds research investigating how increasing environmental variability affects fitness tradeoffs in organisms with complex life cycles, specifically examining a New Hampshire salamander...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant under the Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) program will provide $463,568 in funding to the University of Virginia (UVA) from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2027. The grant will support the training of 30 students over 3 summers (2025-2027) in ecological, evolutionary, and behavioral field research at the Mountain Lake Biological Station in Pembroke, Virginia. Students, primarily from schools with limited research opportunities or...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The University of Virginia received a $377,674 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Information and Intelligent Systems (CISE program, CFDA 47.070) awarded on June 15, 2025, with completion targeted for May 31, 2030. This CAREER award supports research to enhance adaptability in multimodal human-robot interaction by developing advanced algorithms and learning methods that enable robots to understand and respond to both verbal and...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The University of Virginia, under funding from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences through the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), received a $741,544 Project Grant awarded August 1, 2025, with completion targeted for July 31, 2028. Led by Dr. Ahmad Jomaa at the University of Virginia in collaboration with Dr. Simone Mattei at the EMBL Imaging Center in Germany, this research project investigates ribosome...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The University of Virginia received a $665,000 CAREER (Faculty Early Career Development) award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation (CFDA 47.041 - Engineering program) effective June 1, 2025, through May 31, 2030. This project grant supports fundamental research in human-robot interaction (HRI) computational modeling, specifically developing novel frameworks that enable robots to interpret, predict,...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary Villanova University received a $423,192 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Integrative Organismal Systems under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), effective September 1, 2025 through August 31, 2028. The project investigates how arginine vasotocin (AVT), a multifunctional hormone present in all animals, modulates chemical communication in lizards and whether this relationship depends on environmental humidity. Using...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Environmental Biology awarded $739,821 to the University of Florida under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) for a five-year CAREER project commencing June 1, 2025, and concluding May 31, 2030. This Project Grant supports an integrated research and educational initiative investigating heterogeneity in lizard-malaria transmission through the combination of mathematical modeling and ecological experimentation....
- Federal Grant Award Summary Ball State University received a Project Grant of $428,321 from the National Science Foundation's Division of Environmental Biology under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) effective October 15, 2025, with a completion date of July 31, 2026. The award supports a CAREER research initiative investigating mitonuclear conflict and co-evolution in all-female polyploid salamanders. The research project delivers scientific outputs including sequence evolution...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The University of Virginia received a $125,000 Project Grant award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) under the Biomedical Research and Research Training program (CFDA 93.859), effective September 1, 2025, through August 31, 2027. This K99 (Postdoctoral Transition) award funds fundamental research investigating the evolutionary mechanisms and genomic/neural underpinnings of pathogen avoidance behavior in hosts. The research examines two...
The University of Virginia received a $628,049 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Integrative Organismal Systems under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) effective April 1, 2026, through June 30, 2029. This CAREER award supports fundamental research investigating the evolutionary biomechanics and functional morphology of salamander locomotion, examining how habitat preference and developmental strategy influence the relationship between tissue structure and whole-organism performance. The research integrates physiology, engineering, and evolutionary biology to assess biomechanical constraints on terrestrial locomotion across diverse salamander species with varying morphologies and life history strategies, including biphasic metamorphers and direct developers. In addition to research outputs, the award funds workforce development and public engagement activities. Deliverables include a new course-based undergraduate research experience focused on organismal form and function, professional research training for post-baccalaureate biology students, and public outreach through "Salamander Safaris" educational events hosted during Amphibian Week to promote Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) participation among undergraduate students. The research will be conducted at the University of Virginia's Charlottesville, Virginia location and will contribute to fundamental understanding of how tetrapod vertebrates adapted to terrestrial environments during a pivotal period in evolutionary history.Federal Grant Award Summary
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $628.0k | 3/26/26 |