Project Grant 97755501

The Environmental Protection Agency Region 7 awarded a $200,000 cooperative agreement to the Junior College District of St. Louis under the Brownfields Job Training Program (CFDA 66.815) for the period of October 1, 2022 through September 30, 2025. The award will fund training and job placement services for unemployed and underemployed residents in environmental remediation careers. Specifically, St. Louis Community College will provide 174 hours of classroom instruction and hands-on training in...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $270,895 to Saint Louis University (SLU) to establish an REU (Research Experiences for Undergraduates) site focused on computational sustainability in the human-environment nexus. Over a 3-year period from May 2024 to April 2027, the REU site will train 36 undergraduate students, including those from universities with limited research opportunities and...

This $364,060 National Science Foundation project grant will fund research at Wichita State University to develop a Convergent Electrolysis-Electrodialysis System (CEES) to address urban chloride pollution from September 2022 to August 2026. The CEES technology aims to curb chloride pollution in water bodies by upcycling waste salt from water softeners and replacing polluting road salt with a more eco-friendly deicing agent. As part of the Engineering (47.041) program, this research seeks to...

This $2,495,019 project grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), will support the development and deployment of a smart, cloud-connected electrochemical sensor network to monitor drinking water quality in several socioeconomically diverse Massachusetts communities. The University of Massachusetts Lowell will work with community stakeholders and sub-awardees Loyola University Chicago, the Young Women's...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Brownfields Job Training Cooperative Agreements program (CFDA 66.815) provides $500,000 in funding to St. Louis Community College for a 5-year project. The primary objective is to recruit, train, and place unemployed and underemployed residents of St. Louis City, St. Louis County, and East St. Louis, Illinois in environmental careers. The project will train 88 participants, graduate 79, and place at...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program project grant awarded to Saint Louis University will develop an Internet of Things (IoT) sensor network to optimize solid waste management and increase recycling participation in the St. Louis, Missouri area. The $149,791 award, which runs from April 2024 to March 2025, will enable the university to: Design and deploy a sensor network on waste bins to gather data on incoming recyclable and...

This federal Project Grant award from the Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) provides $964,848.00 to Saint Louis University to advance development and climate-resilient adaptation practices via community-driven urban transformation in St. Louis, Missouri. The award, titled "ADVANCING DEVELOPMENT AND CLIMATE-RESILIENT ADAPTATION PRACTICES VIA COMMUNITY-DRIVEN URBAN TRANSFORMATION IN SAINT LOUIS, MO (ADAPT-STL)", runs from Sep 1, 2024 to...

This $5,000,000 cooperative agreement, awarded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Congressionally Mandated Projects program (CFDA 66.202), aims to integrate biophysical, biogeochemical, engineering, and social science research to advance sustainable water resource management in Missouri. Key activities include enhancing the Missouri Water Center's organizational and laboratory infrastructure, conducting high-priority research on water monitoring and flood resiliency...

The University of Missouri System was awarded a $740,014 three-year Project Grant from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of Research and Development under the Science to Achieve Results (STAR) Research Program (CFDA 66.509) to study willingness to pay for water quality improvements in Midwestern reservoirs. The University will measure linkages between water quality and ecosystem services, incorporate choice experiments to determine impacts of water quality restoration scenarios,...

The Environmental Protection Agency Region 9 awarded a $1.73 million Project Grant to the San Francisco Estuary Institute under the Geographic Programs - San Francisco Bay Water Quality Improvement Fund to develop and implement a green stormwater infrastructure curriculum and engagement program. The grant period runs from June 1, 2023 through December 31, 2026. Under the award, SFEI will partner with Urban Tilth, University of California Berkeley, and the San Francisco Estuary Partnership to...