Project Grant F15AP00479

This Cooperative Agreement award, provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Unallied Science Program (CFDA 11.472), will advance the development of new, miniaturized satellite telemetry tags for tracking cetaceans. The $796,400 project, with a completion date of March 31, 2027, aims to: Develop a new generation of consolidated satellite tags with reduced size and potential health impacts; Assess the robustness of these tags in laboratory and field...

This $2,000,000 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Transportation's Strengthening Mobility and Revolutionizing Transportation (SMART) Grants Program (CFDA 20.941) supports the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) in New York City to plan and pilot the Inclusive Wayfinding through NaviLens project across the NYCT subway and bus system. The key activities include analysis of user requirements, design and prototyping of codes for subway cars and buses, fabrication and...

The New York Department of Transportation was awarded a $250,000 Project Grant from the Federal Highway Administration on November 3, 2022 under the Highway Research and Development Program. The grant will fund the implementation of a mobile retro-reflectometer to evaluate various pavement marking materials and procedures across New York State. As part of its Statewide Technology Implementation for Congestion and Safety Incentive program, the New York DOT will use the funding to test...

The Northeast States Emergency Consortium was awarded a $374,168 Project Grant from the Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration under the Meteorologic and Hydrologic Modernization Development program (CFDA 11.467) to conduct the United States East Coast Tsunami Hazard Mitigation Project from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2023. The grant aims to reduce the impact of tsunamis through maintaining cooperative partnerships to conduct meteorological training,...

This $800,000 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research at Rutgers, The State University to develop an affordable, accurate, and near-real-time fabric of backscatter radio tags for multidimensional spectrum situational awareness and interference protection. The key objectives of the 3-year project are to: (1) create a framework for using the backscatter fabric to enable multidimensional spectrum awareness, including...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Unallied Science Program (CFDA 11.472) will advance the development of surface-attached satellite telemetry tags for monitoring North Atlantic right whales. The $679,552 project, running from August 2024 to July 2027, aims to create a bioinspired adhesive mounting tag platform that can provide significantly longer attachment durations than current suction cup tags, enabling the collection...

The Department of Transportation Federal Transit Administration awarded the Connecticut Department of Transportation a $45 million Project Grant under the State of Good Repair Grants Program (CFDA 20.525). The grant will fund two capital programs to maintain the fixed guideway infrastructure on the New Haven rail line through June 2028. The first program ($18 million) continues track maintenance and includes additional scope to the ongoing track program funded through prior grants totaling $64...

The National Cancer Institute (NCI) awarded a $226,704 Project Grant under the Cancer Detection and Diagnosis Research program (CFDA 93.394) to the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic for their project "Heating Magnetic Nanoparticles Using Low Frequency Ferromagnetic Resonance." The project aims to develop a novel nanoparticle heating system that uses a low-frequency alternating magnetic field to efficiently deposit energy into magnetic nanoparticles while minimizing heating of surrounding...

The Department of Transportation Federal Transit Administration awarded the Connecticut Department of Transportation a $110 million Project Grant under the State of Good Repair Grants Program (CFDA 20.525) on August 20, 2021 to fund capital projects that maintain and improve fixed guideway infrastructure. $88 million in federal funds and $22 million in state matching funds will support: track maintenance and upgrades on the New Haven rail line totaling $46 million; installation of ties,...

The Department of the Navy Secretary of the Navy Office of Naval Research awarded the University of Connecticut a $500,000 Project Grant under the Basic and Applied Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.300) to develop lightweight, power-efficient, soft electronic sensor systems for next-generation oceanographic measurements from April 6, 2021 to April 5, 2024. Under the award, the University of Connecticut will focus on designing, fabricating, integrating, and testing soft electronic sensors...