Project Grant DESC0026323
- Federal Grant Award Summary Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) received a $300,000 Project Grant award from the Department of Energy's Office of Science (CFDA 81.049) effective September 1, 2025, through August 31, 2026. The award supports the design of charged-particle diagnostic systems operating at moderate repetition rates to advance direct-drive laser fusion energy research. This research initiative aligns with the Office of Science's mission as the nation's largest federal sponsor...
- Federal Grant Award Summary Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) received a $875,000 Project Grant from the Department of Energy Office of Science under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) for the period of September 15, 2025, through September 14, 2026. The award supports fundamental research into hierarchical representations of complex physical systems utilizing Euclidean neural networks. This research will be conducted at MIT's Cambridge, Massachusetts...
- Federal Grant Award Summary Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) received a $699,000 Project Grant award dated August 15, 2025, from the Department of Energy Office of Science under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049). The award supports fundamental scientific research on penetration-capacitance measurements and noise spectroscopies of rhombohedral multilayer and twisted bilayer graphene, with project completion scheduled for February 14, 2027. The research...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary Massachusetts Institute of Technology received a $400,000 Project Grant award dated July 15, 2026, from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Physics under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The award supports MIT researchers conducting fundamental particle physics research at CERN's Large Hadron Collider through the LHCb (Large Hadron Collider beauty) experiment. The primary deliverables include extremely precise...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) received a $975,000 Project Grant award from the Department of Energy Office of Science under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) on September 15, 2025. The award supports a one-year research project titled "ROADMAP: Randomized Optimal Acquisition of Heterogeneous Data in Misspecified Problems," with completion scheduled for September 14, 2026. Research will be conducted at...
- Federal Project Grant Summary Award: NSF Division of Physics, Mathematical and Physical Sciences Program (CFDA 47.049) Awardee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Award Amount: $1.5M | Period: September 1, 2025 – August 31, 2027 MIT provides facility operations, maintenance, and computing support to enable U.S. scientist participation in the Large Hadron Collider Beauty (LHCb) experiment at CERN near Geneva, Switzerland. The LHCb experiment, one of four major experiments at the Large Hadron...
- Federal Grant Award Summary Massachusetts Institute of Technology received a $5.32 million Project Grant from the Department of Energy Office of Science (CFDA 81.049) awarded September 1, 2025, with an ultimate completion date of February 28, 2029. The grant supports studies of fusion pilot plant physics in SPARC (Solenoidal Plasma and Reconnection Facility) early campaigns and plasmas achieving Q (fusion gain factor) greater than one. The work encompasses fundamental research into tokamak and...
- Federal Grant Award Summary Massachusetts Institute of Technology received a $254,401 Project Grant from the Department of Energy's Office of Nuclear Energy under the Nuclear Energy Research, Development and Demonstration program (CFDA 81.121), awarded on March 20, 2026, with an ultimate completion date of March 19, 2027. The award supports scientific infrastructure for consolidated innovative nuclear research, a program component designed to strengthen university-based research capabilities...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The Department of Energy Office of Science (CFDA 81.049) awarded Massachusetts Institute of Technology $1,062,129.34 on August 15, 2025, for a two-year project through August 14, 2027, titled "Laboratory-Driven, Machine-Learned Constitutive Models for Fracture Network Evolution in the Deep Crust, with Applications to Extraction of Thermal and Chemical Resources." This project combines experimental laboratory research with machine learning methodologies to...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) received a $753,918 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Physics under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) for the period of September 1, 2025 through August 31, 2028. The award funds experimental research investigating strongly interacting quantum mixtures of ultracold atoms to discover and characterize novel states of matter at ultralow temperatures. The...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology received a $875,000 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) for the period July 1, 2025 through October 31, 2026. The award supports fundamental scientific research titled "Open Heavy-Flavor Photoproduction at the LHC and EIC for a Scale-Dependent Characterization of Nuclear Matter," to be conducted at MIT's Cambridge, Massachusetts facility. This research project advances understanding of nuclear matter properties through the study of heavy-flavor particle production in photoproduction processes at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and the Electron-Ion Collider (EIC). The work contributes to the Department of Energy's basic research portfolio in high energy physics, generating scientific knowledge with potential applications to fundamental physics investigations and national energy priorities. As a leading research institution, MIT executes this federally-funded research under the Office of Science's peer-reviewed merit-based award process, maintaining compliance with federal financial management and auditable record-keeping requirements.Federal Grant Award Summary
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $875.0k | 9/25/25 |