The National Science Foundation awarded Bowie State University a $200,000 Project Grant under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to support the Catalyst Project: Promoting STEM Career Readiness through Active Learning in Cell Biology from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2023. The grant funding will support the development and delivery of hands-on lab activities and case studies to engage students in active learning approaches for cell and molecular biology. The project aims to promote...
Bowie State University will receive $500,000 from the National Science Foundation under the Integrative Activities federal grant program (CFDA 47.083) for a project grant titled "Building Capacity at an HBCU: Tropical Plants, Their Endosymbionts, and Their Metabolomes." From September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2025, the University will characterize endophyte communities and metabolic profiles of two medicinal plant species, Azadirachta indica (neem) and Melia azedarach (melea), collected...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award to Bowie State University, under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), provides $300,000 in funding from July 15, 2023 to June 30, 2026. The project aims to develop new molecular models and a machine learning approach to rapidly and accurately build 3D structural models of individual inhibitor/G-protein coupled receptor (GPCR) complexes. This research has the potential to identify new drugs using machine learning methods and...
The U.S. Department of Education's Office of Postsecondary Education awarded Bowie State University a $1,358,936 Project Grant under the Higher Education Institutional Aid program (CFDA 84.031) to enhance the university's Historically Black Graduate Institutions programs. The grant funding supports projects in the areas of STEM, academic quality, fiscal and institutional management, and student services. This award aims to strengthen Bowie State's capacity to provide excellent educational...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a $14,136,176.17 Cooperative Agreement under the Measurement and Engineering Research and Standards (CFDA 11.609) federal grant program to the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) on October 1, 2024. The purpose of this award is to support the advancement of bioscience research activities at the Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research (IBBR), a joint institute between UMD, the University of Maryland, Baltimore...
The Department of Education Office of Postsecondary Education has awarded Bowie State University a $638,000 Project Grant under the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (CFDA 84.116) program. The grant will fund the establishment of a Data Science and Data Analytics Center at Bowie State University from June 1, 2023 to May 31, 2026. The Center will provide data science education, cybersecurity workforce development, and other STEM education and research initiatives. Bowie State...
This $445,000 Project Grant award, funded by the Department of Defense (CFDA 12.630 - Basic, Applied, and Advanced Research in Science and Engineering), will support Bowie State University's establishment of a "Multipurpose High-Resolution X-Ray Diffraction Facility: Structural Dynamics of Energy Harvesting Materials under External Perturbations." The project aims to advance research on the structural properties of energy-harvesting materials and their behavior under various external...
This Project Grant award of $788,250.00 was provided by the Department of Defense to Bowie State University's Autonomous Technologies Lab (BSU@LAB) to enhance the university's robotics infrastructure and systems. The funding, awarded on August 26, 2024 under the Basic, Applied, and Advanced Research in Science and Engineering program (CFDA 12.630), supports research, education, and training services focused on advancing autonomous technologies and robotics capabilities. As an HBCU, Bowie State...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a $963,000 Project Grant under the Congressionally-Identified Projects program (CFDA 11.617) to the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) for the period of October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2026. The purpose of this grant is to accelerate structure-based drug and vaccine design programs that benefit human health by implementing state-of-the-art electron detection hardware to determine 3D structures of various biological compounds...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a $2,900,000 Project Grant under the Congressionally-Identified Projects program (CFDA 11.617) to the Research Foundation of the City University of New York, College of Staten Island. The grant funding will be used to upgrade outdated lab equipment in teaching labs that serve six academic departments: Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Engineering and Environmental Science, Mathematics, and Physics and Astronomy. The project...