Project Grant OIS0555806000

The Department of State Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs awarded a $120,000 cooperative agreement to Pontificia Universidad Catolica De Chile to raise awareness of the 200-year relationship between the United States and Chile. Under the Public Diplomacy Programs (CFDA 19.040) cooperative agreement, Pontificia Universidad Catolica De Chile will host an academic conference showcasing the U.S.-Chile partnership through seminars, discussion panels, and other activities. The conference aims to...

This federal Cooperative Agreement award, funded by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs under the Public Diplomacy Programs (CFDA 19.040), provides $123,999.00 to the Fundacion Instituto Chileno Norteamericano De Cultura De Santiago, a non-profit organization in Chile, to lead and manage engagement with emerging voices, established opinion leaders, and the American Spaces network in Chile. The funding supports annual strategic planning, public programming...

This $158,481 Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050), supports a collaborative research study on the interaction between changes in the climate system and the behavior of magma reservoirs within Earth's interior. The project, led by Lehigh University, aims to investigate how the rapid retreat of glaciers and topographic changes in the Andes Mountains of Chile over the last 50,000 years have influenced the composition and eruption...

This Project Grant award of $247,233 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) supports collaborative research to advance the understanding of volcanic processes, natural hazards, and landscape evolution at the Puyehue-Cordón Caulle volcanic complex in Chile. The key products and services to be delivered through this 5-year project include: Integrated study of the interplay between surface processes, shallow magmatism, and hydrothermal activity to evaluate...

This $171,096 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) supports the planning and design of an integrated instrument array to observe subduction zone geohazards in Chile. The award to the Carnegie Institution for Science will fund a series of modeling studies and technical planning to design overlapping arrays of seismic, geodetic, sediment transport, and volcano monitoring instrumentation. The goal is to develop an overarching...

The Inter-American Foundation (IAF), under the IAF Assistance for Overseas Programs (CFDA 85.750), awarded a $254,565 Project Grant to Corporacion De Organizaciones Solidarias (COS) to support community philanthropy in Chile. Through this 2-year grant, COS will provide flexible funding, training, and technical assistance to civil society organizations in Chile advancing grassroots social change initiatives. The grant aims to strengthen the infrastructure and enable Chilean civil society...

This National Science Foundation Office of International Science and Engineering Project Grant award to Northwestern University for $250,000 will fund the "GLOBAL CENTERS TRACK 2: SUREMIN: SUSTAINABLE, RESILIENT, RESPONSIBLE GLOBAL MINERALS SUPPLY CHAIN" initiative. The key products and services to be delivered under this 2-year award include: Developing a research agenda and conducting studies on mining waste management, community-engaged life cycle assessment of mineral mining,...

This $4,979,989 cooperative agreement, awarded by the U.S. Department of State's Nonproliferation and Disarmament Fund (CFDA 19.224), aims to strengthen Chile's laboratory network to meet steady-state operational demands and international requirements, while maintaining capacity and agility to surge laboratory operations during a biological event and subsequently scale down as appropriate. The award will support technical assistance, capacity building, and strategic interventions to improve...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) award of $115,696 to Vanderbilt University supports a project exploring developmental diversity in the 1982 Pelotas Birth Cohort Study in Brazil. The project will utilize ethnographic methods to elucidate how developmental norms are reproduced, challenged, and disrupted within scientific and activist communities. It will generate a longitudinal ethnographic database, a white paper on...

This $400,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will support research to better understand and model extreme weather events, such as drought, heavy rainfall, and frost, in the central Andes region of South America. The project aims to improve the predictability of these hydroclimate extremes and their impacts on agricultural systems through an integrated collaboration between institutions in the United States,...