The Department of Energy (DOE) awarded a $300,000 Project Grant under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) to fund a research project titled "Coupling Sensor Networks and HPC Facilities with Advanced Wireless Networks for Near-Real-Time Simulation of Digital Agriculture." The award period runs from Sep 1, 2024 to Aug 31, 2025. The funding will support UCSB's research to advance the integration of sensor...
This federal Project Grant award of $1,000,000.00 from the Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) funds the development of an ULTRASONIC MEMS NEUROMORPHIC SENSOR FOR ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING IN-PROCESS MONITORING. The award, with a performance period from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2025, will be executed by the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska, a public land-grant research university. The University of Nebraska has extensive...
The Department of Energy's Office of Science awarded a $1,000,000 Project Grant under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska. The grant supports fundamental research on "TARGET FABRICATION AND PRE-IMPLOSION DIAGNOSTICS FOR LASER INERTIAL CONFINEMENT FUSION RESEARCH USING TWO-PHOTON POLYMERIZATION AND CRYOGENIC COHERENT ANTI-STOKES RAMAN SCATTERING MICROSCOPY." The research project, with a performance period...
The University of Notre Dame DU Lac has been awarded a $300,000 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to couple sensor networks and high-performance computing facilities with advanced wireless networks for near real-time simulation of digital agriculture. The award, which began on September 1, 2024 and is scheduled for completion by August 31, 2025, will enable the university to leverage its expertise in engineering,...
This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) program, CFDA 81.135, provides $770,141 to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln to conduct the CORN (Crop Optimization Realized through NeuralNets) Demonstration project. The award, effective June 6, 2024 through June 5, 2025, supports research and development of advanced neural network technologies to optimize crop yields and processes. As the prime recipient, the University...
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...
The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science is providing a $630,000 Project Grant under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to the University of Oklahoma (OU) for an experimental-data-informed, machine-learning-enabled benchmarking and development of the land carbon cycle in Earth system models. The award period runs from September 1, 2024 to February 28, 2026. As a state-controlled public research institution, OU will leverage its expertise in atmospheric...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $418,120 Project Grant to the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska from the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) for the period of March 1, 2022 through February 28, 2025. The award will support research exploring the transport dynamics and rheology of hydrophobic particles in confined fluid flow. The University of Nebraska will develop computational models and simulations, validated through microfluidic experiments, to better understand how...
The Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science awarded a $840,000 Project Grant to the University of Illinois to support the research project "TOWARD LATTICE QCD ON QUANTUM COMPUTERS" under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049). The project aims to advance fundamental scientific research in areas such as quantum information science, particle physics simulations, and computational modeling. The funding will enable the University of Illinois, a prominent...
The Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska was awarded a $960,000 Project Grant from the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Open Data Standards federal grant program (CFDA #10.233) to develop a strategic framework for a National Agricultural Producers Data Cooperative. The two-year award, which began on September 30, 2022, will support the University of Nebraska in establishing a public-private cooperative open framework based...