The Department of Defense (DoD) awarded a $602,166 Project Grant under the Basic, Applied, and Advanced Research in Science and Engineering program (CFDA 12.630) to the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (New Mexico Tech) located in Socorro, New Mexico. The grant, awarded on September 1, 2024 with a completion date of August 31, 2025, will fund the acquisition of a state-of-the-art mixer and micro-CT scanner for advanced manufacturing and energetic materials research. This specialized...
This Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) provides $639,993.46 to the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology to improve the physical realism of snow processes in the Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM). The award, effective January 1, 2025 through December 31, 2025, supports fundamental scientific research to advance U.S. energy, economic, and national security priorities. The project aims to enhance...
This federal Project Grant award from the Department of Defense (CFDA 12.630 - Basic, Applied, and Advanced Research in Science and Engineering) provides $1,547,704.00 to the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (New Mexico Tech) to conduct space plasma research with the New Mexico Tech Space Weather Explorer at the New Mexico Tech Small Spacecraft Laboratory. The award period runs from April 1, 2025 through March 31, 2029. The research aims to advance national defense capabilities...
The Department of Energy's Office of Science awarded a $450,000 Project Grant to the University of New Mexico under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) on September 1, 2024. The funding supports the "FAR-QU: FUNDAMENTAL ALGORITHMIC RESEARCH TOWARDS QUANTUM UTILITY" project, which aims to advance U.S. energy, economic, and national security priorities through transformative scientific discoveries in quantum information science. The University of New...
This $299,807 Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) program to the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (New Mexico Tech). The project aims to advance the understanding of the process-structure-property relationship of multifunctional mechano-luminescence-optoelectronic (MLO) fibers that can serve as self-powered strain sensors and mechanical-to-electrical energy harvesters for applications in health monitoring,...
This Project Grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) provides $360,000.00 to the University of New Mexico to conduct research on "Complementary Innovative Methods for Studying Electron Polarization in Storage Rings" over a 2-year period from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2026. The grant supports fundamental scientific research and technological innovation in areas such as particle physics, computational...
This Project Grant award of $636,000.00 was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (New Mexico Tech). The funding will support six EPSCOR Graduate Fellows over a three-year period from July 2025 to June 2028, which will build capacity in research and graduate education at New Mexico Tech. The fellows' research will focus on different aspects of the energy transition and associated...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) in the amount of $306,110 supports research and workforce development activities at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (New Mexico Tech) focused on light-controlled magnetism in quantum materials. The project combines experimental work at New Mexico Tech and Georgetown University with theoretical modeling at the University of Chile to investigate light-induced...
The University of New Mexico (UNM) was awarded a $200,000 Block Grant from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to support a project titled "QUANTUM DIGITAL TWINS". The award period runs from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2025. The project will deliver advanced research and technical services in the field of quantum information science, a key focus area of the DOE Office of Science's funding priorities. As a Hispanic-Serving...
The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science awarded a $100,275 Project Grant to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049). The grant, awarded on August 1, 2024, supports research to understand the melting dynamics of plasma crystals under varying magnetic field conditions. This one-year project leverages Virginia Tech's expertise in engineering, science, and advanced technologies to advance...