The University of Illinois received a $6.6 million project grant award from the Department of Defense Washington Headquarters Service Office of Economic Adjustment under the Community Investment (CFDA 12.600) federal grant program. The award period is from September 1, 2022 to June 30, 2027 and will support driving resiliency and productivity in the defense sector by leveraging strengths in casting, forging, and energy storage within the Illinois Defense Network region. The University will...
The University of Illinois was awarded a $499,766 project grant from the National Science Foundation under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program. The grant will support research from July 2021 through June 2024 related to algorithmic and market design challenges in cloud computing. As part of this funding, the University of Illinois will conduct investigator-initiated research to advance the development and use of cyberinfrastructure, enabling and accelerating discovery...
The University of Illinois was awarded a $499,959 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070). The three-year award, issued on July 1, 2021 through June 30, 2024, will support research to develop and deploy interoperable and usable authorization tokens to enable scientific collaborations. The University will work with sub-awardees The Morgridge Institute...
The University of Illinois was awarded a $476,544 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Computing and Communication Foundations. The grant is part of the 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 award, the University of Illinois will conduct research from July 2021 to June 2024 to prove user...
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign received a $1,000,000 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Nuclear Energy under the Nuclear Energy Research, Development and Demonstration program (CFDA 81.121). The award, effective August 1, 2024, supports the university's research and development efforts through September 30, 2027. The funding will enable the university to conduct comprehensive research initiatives aimed at maintaining existing nuclear reactor...
This $2,066,556.92 Project Grant from the Department of Commerce Economic Development Administration funds the Upstream Innovation: Accelerator for Digital Utility Transformation project. The project will build a Chicago-based water technology accelerator program over three years to develop a pipeline of water technology companies through specialized training and business development supports. The awardee, Current Innovation NFP, will recruit a range of digital water solutions startups,...
The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science awarded a $885,488 Project Grant to the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to support an adaptive, analytic multiscale modeling project using pseudospectral wavepackets. The project aims to advance U.S. energy, economic, and national security priorities through transformative scientific discoveries in areas like advanced computing and materials research. IIT, a renowned...
The University of Illinois was awarded a $599,680 project grant from the Office of the Secretary of Defense under the Basic, Applied, and Advanced Research in Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 12.630). The grant will support applied research activities from August 1, 2022 to July 31, 2023. As described in the program objectives, the funding will enable the University of Illinois to conduct applied or advanced scientific research projects with potential to contribute...
The Office of the Secretary of Defense awarded a $497,073 Project Grant to the University of Illinois under the Basic, Applied, and Advanced Research in Science and Engineering program (CFDA 12.630). The grant funds the acquisition of an in-situ electro-chemical cell to support multi-modal research and education activities at the university. As the parent organization of the awardee, the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois will oversee delivery of this equipment to enable basic,...
This federal Project Grant award from the Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) provides $653,000.00 to the University of Illinois for a research project titled "REAL-SPACE CHARACTERIZATION OF PHOTO-EXCITED QUANTUM MATERIALS". The award period runs from August 15, 2024 to July 14, 2025. The grant supports fundamental scientific research to advance U.S. energy, economic, and national security priorities through transformative discoveries...