Project Grant DESC0026254
- This federal Project Grant award of $500,000.00 was provided by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049). The grant is funding research at Duke University to develop "Bio-Inspired Generalized Neuronal Circuits with Dendritic Plasticity and Adaptive Firing Thresholds through Hybrid CMOS-Emerging Devices Implementation." This project will leverage Duke University's expertise in neuroscience,...
- This federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) provides $166,667.00 to Duke University to conduct research on "Pathways Toward Energy-Efficient Quantum Computing". The award began on September 15, 2025 and is scheduled for completion on September 14, 2026. The research aims to advance scientific discovery and technological innovation in quantum computing through fundamental investigations across...
- The University of Delaware was awarded a $400,000 Project Grant by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to develop "Bio-Realistic Ferroelectric Neuron Motifs for Analog Neuromorphic Computing". The grant, awarded on September 15, 2025, supports fundamental scientific research aimed at advancing the understanding of complex physical and computational systems, with a focus on analog neuromorphic computing. The research will be...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems awarded Duke University a $500,000 Project Grant under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program. The grant will fund research from June 2022 through May 2027 to map deep brain functions using super-resolution photoacoustic imaging. Specifically, the award supports Duke University's efforts to develop new imaging techniques to noninvasively map neural circuits deep within the brain...
- This $474,942 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program will fund research at Duke University to evaluate the impacts of declining public R&D investment and the pivot away from defense innovation in the U.S. The research aims to (i) examine the effects of federally-funded R&D on the development of complex, science-based "deep tech" innovations, and (ii) assess the impacts of major cuts to...
- This Project Grant award, titled "Accelerating Scientific Discovery via Automatic Discovered State Variables" and funded by the U.S. Department of Defense's Basic Scientific Research Program (CFDA 12.431), was awarded to Duke University's Office of Research Administration in the amount of $400,753.00 on November 1, 2024. The award will support fundamental research across a range of scientific and technological domains critical to national security, with a focus on developing innovative...
- The University of Delaware received a $387,363 Project Grant award from the Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to develop "Neuron Blocks Using HFZRO/GAN Field Effect Transistors for Energy Efficiency Computing". The award period runs from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2025. The project aims to advance U.S. energy, economic, and national security priorities through transformative scientific discoveries in areas such as quantum...
- Duke University was awarded a $500,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Computing and Communication Foundations. The grant is part of the NSF's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), which supports investigator-initiated research and education in computing, communications, and information science and engineering. Under this three-year award beginning November 1, 2021, Duke University will transform computer architecture...
- Duke University was awarded an $840,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation to conduct collaborative research on de novo protein constructs for photosynthetic energy transduction from November 1, 2021 to October 31, 2024. The award is being administered under the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to promote progress in these scientific fields and strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise through increasing knowledge and enhancing...
- The Department of Energy's Office of Science awarded a $300,000 Project Grant to The Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford University) on September 15, 2025. The grant, which has a scheduled completion date of September 14, 2026, is funded under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049). The purpose of the grant is to support research on "Analog Compute-in-Memory with Trainable Nonlinear Devices for Scientific Neural Networks." As a leading research...
This federal Project Grant award of $421,980.00 was provided by the Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to Duke University. The award, with a performance period from June 1, 2025 to May 31, 2026, supports the development of "NEUROMORPHIC COMPUTING CIRCUIT PRIMITIVE TESTBEDS". As a leading research institution, Duke University will leverage its scientific expertise across multiple disciplines to advance research and innovation in the area of neuromorphic computing, which has potential applications in energy, national security, and technological development. The grant funding will enable Duke University to conduct specialized scientific investigations and deliver cutting-edge solutions in this emerging research domain.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $422.0k | 9/30/25 |