Project Grant DESC0026458
- Federal Grant Award Summary The University of Chicago received a $575,000 Project Grant from the Department of Energy Office of Science under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) effective August 1, 2025, through July 31, 2027. The project, titled "Metal-Ligand Cooperativity for Base-Metal Alkyne Electrofunctionalization," supports fundamental scientific research aimed at advancing understanding of chemical processes and developing technologies applicable to...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The University of Chicago received a $500,000 Project Grant from the Department of Energy Office of Science under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049), effective September 1, 2025, with a completion date of August 31, 2027. The award supports research on novel entanglement witnesses and their implications for a complexity-reduced approach to quantum simulation of many-body open quantum systems. This research will be conducted at the...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The University of Chicago received a $340,000 collaborative research project grant awarded on September 1, 2025, by the National Science Foundation's Division of Chemistry under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant supports development of the next-generation Python Simulations of Chemistry Framework (PySCF) software platform through August 31, 2030. The primary products and services delivered include GPU-accelerated quantum chemistry...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The University of Chicago received a $148,654 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Mathematical Sciences (CFDA 47.049 - Mathematical and Physical Sciences) effective October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2028. This collaborative research initiative delivers statistical tools and mathematical frameworks designed to enhance the reliability and trustworthiness of artificial intelligence (AI) systems used in critical applications including...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation's Division of Chemistry awarded $800,000 to the University of Chicago under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to support the development of multiconfiguration nonclassical-energy functional theory (MC-NEFT) for advanced electronic structure calculations. Under this three-year project grant (August 1, 2025 – July 31, 2028), principal investigators Laura Gagliardi and Donald G. Truhlar will develop and...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The University of Chicago received a $2.54M Project Grant award (Award Date: October 1, 2026; Completion Date: September 30, 2029) from the National Science Foundation's Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070). This collaborative research project develops an artificial intelligence-based conversational assistant framework designed to configure scientific computing...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The University of Illinois received a $550,000 Project Grant award from the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049), effective August 1, 2025 through July 31, 2026. The project, titled "Importance Learning for Methane Partial Oxidation on Single-Atom V/SiO2: From Preparation to Catalysis," supports fundamental scientific research conducted at the university's Urbana, Illinois...
- The University of Chicago was awarded a $299,957 Project Grant from the Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to conduct research on the "Chemistry of β-Graphyne: Exfoliation, Intercalation, and Pathways to Novel Carbon Phases." The award period runs from September 1, 2024, to August 31, 2025. The Office of Science Financial Assistance Program supports fundamental scientific research across multiple disciplines to advance U.S. energy,...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The University of Chicago received a $300,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), effective October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2027. The award funds research to develop a novel class of dynamic molecules based on intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) that can sense environmental cues and trigger rapid, gated cellular...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The University of Chicago received a $487,525 Project Grant award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) under the Biomedical Research and Research Training program (CFDA 93.859), effective March 1, 2026, through December 31, 2030. The award funds research focused on evolution-based understanding and design of proteins, with the primary deliverables including experimentally validated computational models for protein engineering, novel concepts...
The University of Chicago received a $1.14M Project Grant from the Department of Energy Office of Science (CFDA 81.049: Office of Science Financial Assistance Program) awarded June 1, 2026, with completion targeted for May 31, 2027. The project, "Non-Equilibrium Generative AI for Inferring and Classifying Dissipative Steady States and Chemical Dynamics," represents a fundamental research initiative combining artificial intelligence methodologies with chemical and physical science applications. This award supports the development and application of generative AI (artificial intelligence) models to analyze and classify non-equilibrium chemical systems and their dissipative steady states, advancing understanding of complex chemical dynamics through computational and machine learning approaches. As a leading research institution, the University of Chicago will conduct this research at its Chicago, Illinois campus as part of the Office of Science's broader mission to sponsor basic research across the physical sciences. The project aligns with current Department of Energy priorities in artificial intelligence and machine learning applications to accelerate scientific discovery. The research outcomes are expected to contribute to fundamental understanding of chemical processes with potential applications across energy science and advanced computational methodologies supported through the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program.Federal Grant Award Summary
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $1.1m | 6/25/26 |