Project Grant 2622601
- The National Science Foundation Division of Integrative Organismal Systems awarded a $2,007,902 Project Grant to the University of Tennessee under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074) on June 15, 2021. The grant supports research testing the adaptive significance of thermally-mediated behavioral responses of tropical and temperate dung beetles in a changing world. The University of Tennessee will conduct this research through May 31, 2026 to advance understanding of how...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Environmental Biology awarded a $766,072 Project Grant under the Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) federal grant program to the University of Tennessee on April 1, 2021 for work completing July 31, 2024. The grant supports research on species conservation and collaborative governance in an era of global change. Key work includes qualitative interviews and workshops with stakeholders in Tennessee to explore institutional responses to environmental...
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $497,581 Project Grant to the University of Tennessee under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074) for the period of April 1, 2021 through March 31, 2026. The grant will support research titled "COLLABORATIVE: BEE: C-EVO: LINKING CARBON CYCLING TO ECO-EVOLUTIONARY RESPONSES OF A FOUNDATIONAL PLANT TO GLOBAL CHANGE." The Biological Sciences program aims to promote advancement in the biological sciences and strengthen the...
- The University of Tennessee received a $600,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Integrative Organismal Systems. The grant falls under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) and will support collaborative research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: EDGE FGT: FUNCTIONAL GENOMIC TOOLS FOR PARASITIC NEMATODES AND THEIR BACTERIAL SYMBIONTS" from August 2021 through July 2025. The research aims to develop functional genomic tools to study parasitic...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The University of Tennessee received a $508,597 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Integrative Organismal Systems under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to conduct a three-year research initiative spanning September 1, 2025, through August 31, 2028. This multidisciplinary research program quantifies the mechanistic role of oxidative stress responses in Microcystis cyanobacteria during episodic environmental events....
- Federal Grant Award Summary The University of Tennessee received a $100,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Mathematical Sciences under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) awarded September 15, 2025, with completion targeted for August 31, 2028. This collaborative research initiative supports fundamental mathematical research into phase-amplitude-based reduced order modeling and analysis of strongly coupled neural oscillators. The...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation's Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences awarded the University of Tennessee a $969,275 Project Grant (CFDA 47.074, Biological Sciences program) effective June 1, 2026, through May 31, 2029, to conduct fundamental research on signaling networks in beneficial soil bacteria. The project will investigate how Azospirillum brasilense—a commercially used bio-inoculant—integrates chemotaxis signaling and general stress response...
- The National Science Foundation awarded a two-year, $138,000 Project Grant to support postdoctoral research on the mechanisms and evolution of decision-making under conflict from the molecular to individual and population levels. The grant falls under the NSF's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), which aims to advance the biological sciences and strengthen the Nation's scientific enterprise through increased knowledge and understanding of major problems. Funding will support the...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The University of Utah received a $611,195 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Environmental Biology under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), awarded September 15, 2025, with completion targeted for August 31, 2029. This collaborative research initiative investigates the neural and behavioral mechanisms underlying speciation in upland chorus frogs, examining how divergence in auditory neural circuits and mating...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) Federal Grant Program awarded a $736,073 Project Grant to the Regents of the University of Minnesota, Office of Sponsored Projects Administration, to examine intraspecific variation in female choosiness for male courtship songs and its genetic basis in crickets. The 3-year research project, running from April 1, 2025 to March 31, 2028, aims to quantify individual differences in female choosiness, explore the heritability...
The National Science Foundation (NSF), Division of Environmental Biology, awarded the University of Tennessee a $1.21 million Project Grant effective October 1, 2026, through September 30, 2029, under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074). The grant supports fundamental research investigating choice overload and its consequences for animal decision-making, specifically examining how cognitive limitations affect foraging decisions in bumblebees and mating decisions in field crickets. Researchers will experimentally manipulate biologically relevant stimuli and measure standardized behavioral responses to identify which features of animal choices—including decision task difficulty, assortment complexity, and preference uncertainty—drive choice overload and subsequent irrational decision-making that negatively impacts organismal fitness. Beyond advancing scientific understanding of animal cognition and decision-making processes, the grant incorporates a public education component requiring researchers to design and develop a video game centered on choice overload concepts. This interactive educational product will serve as the centerpiece of an outreach program supporting science education in East Tennessee high schools, thereby fulfilling the grant's dual objective of promoting scientific progress while strengthening STEM engagement among secondary education students in the region.Federal Project Grant Award Summary
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $1.2m | 6/29/26 |