Project Grant DESC0026749

The Department of Energy Office of Science awarded Vanderbilt University $300,000 on August 1, 2026, under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) for the CMS Tier2 Heavy Ion Computing Facility. Work will be performed in Nashville, Tennessee, with a period of performance through July 31, 2027. The award funds a Project Grant assistance type supporting the Office of Science's mission as the nation's largest federal sponsor of basic research in the physical sciences and...

The Department of Energy Office of Science awarded University of Tennessee a $1.998 million Cooperative Agreement on March 1, 2026, for tokamak research conducted under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049). The award supports research at the University of Tennessee's Knoxville campus through February 28, 2027. The Office of Science funds basic research across the physical sciences, supporting nearly 29,000 researchers at more than 300 institutions and 17 DOE...

The Department of Energy Office of Science awarded William Marsh Rice University $600,000 on April 1, 2026, under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) for experimental relativistic heavy-ion physics research. The award covers the period April 1, 2026, through March 31, 2027, with performance at Rice University's Houston, Texas campus. Rice University's Office of Sponsored Projects Division received the funding as a Project Grant, the standard assistance type for basic...

<p>The Department of Energy Office of Science awarded Mississippi State University $999,092 on September 1, 2026, under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to conduct high precision studies of hadron structure functions at the future Electron-Ion Collider. The award is a project grant with a period of performance from September 1, 2026, through August 31, 2027, and work is performed at Mississippi State University in Starkville, Mississippi.</p>

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...

<p>The Department of Energy Office of Science awarded the University of Texas at Austin $180,000 on June 1, 2026, under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) for work in cosmology and astroparticle physics. The award is classified as a Project Grant with a period of performance extending through April 30, 2027, and work is performed in Austin, Texas.</p>

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...

<p>The Department of Energy Office of Science awarded The University of Chicago $500,000 on June 1, 2026, for neutrino physics research under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049). The award funds neutrino physics research at the University of Chicago, with performance in Chicago, Illinois through May 31, 2027. This is a Project Grant assistance type.</p>

The Department of Energy Office of Science awarded the University of Southern California $199,859 on September 15, 2025, under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to support research on leveraging unconventional symmetries for noise-resilient quantum memories. Work is performed in Marina Del Rey, California through September 14, 2027. The Office of Science Financial Assistance Program supports extramural grants and contracts advancing fundamental scientific...

The Department of Energy Office of Science awarded New Mexico State University $350,000 on January 1, 2026, under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to study non-trivial aspects of nuclear structure via electromagnetic probe. The award, a project grant, funds research conducted at the recipient's Las Cruces, New Mexico facility through December 31, 2026. The Office of Science program supports basic research in the physical sciences across nearly 29,000 researchers...