Project Grant DESC0026182
- This federal Project Grant award in the amount of $2,500,000.00 was provided by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska. The grant, titled "EMERGENT INTERFACE PHENOMENA ENABLED BY FERROELECTRIC OXIDE THIN FILMS AND MEMBRANES", will fund fundamental scientific research into advanced ferroelectric materials and interface phenomena from August 15, 2025 through August 14, 2026. As a...
- This $886,000 project grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) is for "Nature-Inspired Ionomer Design and Self-Assembly for Robust, Precise Synthetic Ion Channels" research. The project is being conducted by the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska, a comprehensive public research university. The research aims to advance fundamental scientific understanding and technological innovation in areas such as...
- This Project Grant, awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science (CFDA 81.049 - Office of Science Financial Assistance Program), provides $876,663 to the University of Nebraska to conduct research on "Quantum Photonic-Phononic Transduction Empowered by Van der Waals Layered Crystals." This basic research project, running from August 1, 2025 to July 31, 2026, aims to advance scientific understanding and technological innovation in quantum information science. The...
- This Project Grant award from the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture provides $1.19 million to fund research at the University of Nebraska from March 1, 2022 to February 28, 2026. The award is made under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative competitive grants program (AFRI, CFDA #10.310), which supports fundamental and applied research, extension, and education addressing food and agricultural sciences. Specifically, the University of...
- This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074), provides $794,803 to the University of Nebraska from July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2025. The funding supports research into the "Mechanisms of Small RNA-Mediated Silencing in Chlamydomonas" being conducted by the University of Nebraska. As part of the Biological Sciences program's goal of increasing scientific...
- This $769,792 Project Grant was awarded on August 15, 2025 by the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) Federal Grant Program to the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska. The funding will support research to identify and characterize pathogen effector proteins that suppress host plant defenses during early infection by oomycetes and fungi, including the fungal rice destroyer Magnaporthe oryzae. The goal is to clarify the rules for effector evolution,...
- The Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska received a $649,999 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences on August 15, 2021 to support research titled "Nanoscale Structure and Dynamics of Nucleosome Arrays Assembled on DNA Templates with Physiologically Relevant Sequences." The award is part of the NSF's Biological Sciences program (CFDA #47.074), which aims to promote progress in the biological sciences and...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $953,779 Project Grant under the Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) program to the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska to develop innovative data processing and advanced visualization tools for optimizing maize canopy architecture. The goal is to create a "digital twin" of maize plants that can simulate real plant growth and response to the environment. This will allow researchers to experiment with different plant traits and...
- The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science awarded a $1,652,504 Project Grant to Kansas State University (KSU) under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to develop a high-throughput, regeneration step-free bioenergy crop genome editing system. The project aims to advance scientific discovery and technological innovation in the field of bioenergy. KSU, a comprehensive research institution, will leverage its expertise in areas such as agriculture,...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) provides $192,052 to the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska to investigate the cellular and biomechanical mechanisms of rapid stomatal dynamics in grasses. The project will utilize molecular genetics, cell biology, computer vision, mechanical testing, and computational modeling techniques to gain a better understanding of how...
The U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, awarded a $1,602,854 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, titled "Genome-Wide Identification of Microexons and Their Alternative Splicing to Advance Knowledge on Gene Functions and Regulation in Sorghum Stress Responses," aims to conduct fundamental scientific research on sorghum plant genomics and stress responses. The project will run from September 1, 2025, to August 31, 2026. As a leading research university, the University of Nebraska has extensive expertise in agricultural research, biotechnology, and environmental sciences, which it will leverage to deliver the research objectives of this grant award.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $1.6m | 9/24/25 |