Project Grant 90TS0027

This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) under the 21st Century Cures Act - Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative (CFDA 93.372) provides $1,413,807.00 to Georgia TECH Research Corp, doing business as the Office of Sponsored Programs, to conduct research on tracking the flow of attention in visual circuits across the brain. The key objectives are to: 1) Establish the neural timing of...

Launch New York, Inc. received a $1.5 million Project Grant award from the Department of Commerce Economic Development Administration under the BUILD TO SCALE federal grant program. The grant will support Launch New York's FAST FORWARD FOR TECH-DRIVEN STARTUPS initiative, which is designed to help seed-stage companies progress to market entry and expansion. As the sole venture development organization serving 27 counties in Western New York, Launch New York will introduce the FAST FORWARD...

This $162,486 federal Project Grant awarded on June 1, 2025 by the National Eye Institute (CFDA 93.867 - Vision Research) supports research to study stimulation of long-range cortical projections involved in visual-spatial behavior in non-human primates using a novel multimodal optoelectronic device. The key products and services to be delivered include: Development of a multimodal optoelectronic device with microLED and transparent microelectrodes to enable colocalized optogenetic stimulation...

Forward Cities Inc. received a $999,818 Project Grant award from the Small Business Administration Office of Entrepreneurial Development under the Community Navigator Pilot Program (CFDA 59.077). Through this funding, Forward Cities and its subrecipients will provide technical assistance and support services to small businesses and entrepreneurs from underserved communities impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, grantees and their contractors will deliver one-on-one counseling and...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $659,877 project grant to the Regents of the University of Michigan under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075) for the period of July 1, 2023 through June 30, 2026. The grant funds research aimed at studying how salient visual distractions impact ongoing task performance and how humans mitigate distractions to remain productive. Researchers will use a novel forced-response method involving eye-tracking...

This Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $671,098 to North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NC A&T) to create a Faculty Learning Community (FLC) that fosters connections between early career STEM scholars at minority-serving, teaching-intensive institutions and faculty mentors at research-intensive universities. The FLC aims to catalyze cutting-edge developmental research by...

This National Science Foundation project grant of $399,894 will fund the development of an augmented reality tool to support STEM learning for students with executive functioning difficulties. Awarded on September 1, 2022 under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), the grant provides funding to Terc, Inc. through August 31, 2025. Specifically, the grantee will create an open-source tool using deep learning algorithms to detect off-task behavior in undergraduate...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.075 - Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences) will provide $604,425.00 to The Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley, from September 1, 2025 to August 31, 2028. The project aims to determine how the brain's memory systems help prevent competition and promote cooperation between memories to guide attention. The research will focus on the hippocampus, a key brain...

This Project Grant award of $246,562 from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173), supports research by Carnegie Mellon University to investigate the neural mechanisms underlying spatial auditory attention in individuals with bilateral cochlear implants. The project aims to explore how magnified interaural level differences (ILDs) can be used to remediate spatial hearing...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering (CFDA 47.041) Project Grant award of $1,999,999.00 will support research at the University of Illinois focused on developing mathematical models and neural computing systems inspired by the human brain's ability to filter out surrounding noise and focus attention. The research aims to address the "Cocktail Party Problem" by understanding the neural computations and brain rhythms that enable this remarkable capability. The project is...