Project Grant DESC0026515

The Department of Energy Office of Science awarded The University of Chicago $900,000 on August 1, 2026, under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) for multiscale simulation of energy transduction in biomolecular systems. The project runs through July 31, 2027, with performance at the university's Chicago, Illinois campus. This Project Grant supports basic research in the physical sciences as part of the Office of Science's portfolio, which sponsors nearly 29,000...

The University of Chicago will receive $1.5 million from the National Science Foundation under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049) to conduct neutrino physics research from September 2022 through August 2025. The university will support the Short-Baseline Neutrino Experiment at Fermilab and the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment to investigate neutrino properties and oscillations, probe for new physics beyond the Standard Model, and address anomalies...

Federal Project Grant Award Summary The University of Chicago received a $235,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Physics under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), with an award date of September 1, 2025, and completion date of August 31, 2026. This award supports neutrino physics research aimed at advancing fundamental understanding of neutrino properties and behavior as outlined in the Standard Model of Particle Physics. The research...

The Department of Energy Office of Science awarded the University of Illinois $500,000 on April 15, 2026, under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to investigate intertwined electronic and elastic degrees of freedom in correlated materials. Work is performed in Urbana, Illinois through April 14, 2027. The award is structured as a Project Grant, a form of assistance funding supporting basic research in the physical sciences as part of the Office of Science's...

The University of California Irvine received a $102,000 Project Grant award from the Department of Energy Office of Science on April 1, 2021 to support research efforts concluding on March 31, 2023. The research aims to advance precision neutrino oscillation physics through experiments at the Daya Bay and DUNE facilities. This award is funded through the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049), which supports basic research to deliver scientific discoveries and tools that...

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,...

The Department of Energy Office of Science awarded the University of South Carolina $150,000 on June 1, 2026, to support research elucidating flavor content of nucleons in nuclei under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049). The project runs from June 1, 2026, through May 31, 2027, and is performed in Columbia, South Carolina. This is a project grant, the assistance type used by Office of Science for extramural basic research support across its portfolio of nearly...

The Department of Energy Office of Science awarded the University of California, Los Angeles $480,000 on March 1, 2026, for tokamak research under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049). The award is a Project Grant. Work is performed in San Diego, California, with a period of performance from March 1, 2026, through February 28, 2027. The Office of Science sponsors basic research in the physical sciences, supporting researchers across more than 300 institutions and...

The Department of Energy Office of Science awarded Northwestern University $390,000 on July 1, 2026, under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to support research on the interplay and entanglement of electronic and nuclear motions in light-driven photochemical and photophysical transformations. The award is a project grant with a performance period through June 30, 2027, and work is performed in Chicago, Illinois. Northwestern University's Sponsored Research Division...

The Department of Energy Office of Science awarded Northwestern University a $1,820,286.74 Project Grant under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to support research on antiferromagnetism and superconductivity from September 1, 2005 through June 30, 2022. The Office of Science's mission is to deliver scientific discoveries and tools to transform understanding of nature and advance U.S. energy security and economic competitiveness. This award aimed to further those...