Project Grant DESC0023653

The National Science Foundation awarded a $481,587 three-year Project Grant to the Georgia Tech Research Corporation to support the Broadening Participation and Resiliency in Physics Research Experiences for Undergraduates program at Georgia Institute of Technology. The funding supports the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program. Under the award, Georgia Tech will host a Research Experiences for Undergraduates program providing holistic summer research opportunities to a diverse population...

The National Science Foundation Division of Physics awarded a $300,000 project grant to support "THE FIRST SECOND: DECODING THE NATURE OF THE UNIVERSE WITH A CULTURALLY DIVERSE WORKFORCE" from February 15, 2022 through January 31, 2025. This project aims to promote progress in the mathematical and physical sciences by increasing scientific knowledge and enhancing understanding of major problems, as outlined in the agency's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA #47.049)....

This $225,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Undergraduate Education will support the Research Foundation of the City University of New York and Hostos Community College in developing and implementing a new "Doing Physics" pedagogical approach in General Physics I. The approach aims to improve student outcomes through inquiry-based science, collaborative and game-based learning, course-based undergraduate research experiences, and mentoring students to...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education (formerly Education and Human Resources) program (CFDA 47.076) provides $350,000 to support a 3-year Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site hosted by Old Dominion University (ODU) in partnership with Jefferson Lab. The REU site will provide 10 undergraduate students per summer with 10 weeks of research experience in accelerator and nuclear physics. The students will be housed at Jefferson Lab...

This $166,874 project grant from the National Science Foundation Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences' Mathematical and Physical Sciences program will support a partnership between Northern Arizona University and Coconino Community College in Flagstaff, Arizona to increase participation by underrepresented minority students in astronomy and astrophysics research and education. The funding will create a pathway for CCC students to participate in NAU's astronomy research labs...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program provides $197,966 to CAL Poly Pomona Foundation Inc., a nonprofit organization and foundation, to improve upper division physics education and research opportunities at 14 Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) in California. The key products and services to be delivered include: Developing three online particle physics courses to impact over 300 students Providing 48 students the...

This three-year, $525,000 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at the Large Hadron Collider to address open questions in particle physics beyond the Standard Model. Specifically, the University of Cincinnati will utilize the LHCb detector to study rare decays of heavy quark systems and search for low mass electron and muon pairs where new physics may manifest. The upgraded LHCb detector enables unprecedented data that could reveal dark photons or other new light particles,...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation provides $413,981 to Vanderbilt University to operate a Research Experiences for Undergraduates site through February 2025. The site offers undergraduate physics and astronomy students opportunities to work on forefront research projects with faculty in areas including astronomy, condensed matter physics, nuclear physics, particle physics, and data science. Students gain access to major research facilities and can visit laboratories like...

This Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $736,406 to the Regents of the University of Michigan to study quantum chromodynamics at the Large Hadron Collider Beauty (LHCb) experiment at CERN. The research aims to advance understanding of how strong force bound states like protons are created and how their dynamics evolve. Key activities include: Measurements comparing hadron production from light...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Physics, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), provides $150,000 in funding to Lawrence Technological University from August 15, 2023, through July 31, 2026. The research, led by Professor Bhubanjyoti Bhattacharya, aims to gain further insight into charge-parity (CP) violation in theories beyond the Standard Model of particle physics. This work may help resolve the matter-antimatter...