Project Grant P031A230042

Federal Grant Award Summary Wesleyan University received a $203,430 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Earth Sciences (Geosciences program, CFDA 47.050) on August 15, 2025, to acquire a new X-ray diffraction (XRD) instrument. The primary product of this award is the procurement and installation of a benchtop XRD system with advanced analytical capabilities, including automated multi-sample analysis, grazing incidence diffraction, quantitative phase analysis,...

This $610,000 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Education's Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (CFDA 84.116) supports Wesleyan College, a private nonprofit minority-serving institution in Macon, Georgia, in addressing the state's nursing shortage. The grant, awarded on June 1, 2023 for a 3-year period, will enable Wesleyan College to implement initiatives designed to improve postsecondary nursing education and expand access to nursing programs. Key deliverables...

This Project Grant award of $251,835.00 from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) supports the "WES-PATHS: Waterways for Environmental Science - Promoting Advancement and Training for Hands-On Supports" project at North Carolina Wesleyan University (NCWU). The goal of this 3-year project is to increase the diversity of undergraduate students pursuing geoscience careers by: 1) recruiting prospective students from high schools in the Rocky Mount area,...

Federal Project Grant Award Summary Wesleyan University received a $598,500 Project Grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) under the Biomedical Research and Research Training program (CFDA 93.859), effective September 1, 2025, through August 31, 2028. The award supports fundamental research investigating the interactions between linker histone H1 and variant histone H2A.Z in budding yeast, with applications to understanding gene silencing and chromosome segregation...

Federal Project Grant Award Summary Western Connecticut State University received a $272,364 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Postsecondary Education under the TRIO Student Support Services Program (CFDA 84.042) for the period September 25, 2025, through September 24, 2026. The award supports comprehensive student support services designed to enhance retention and graduation rates for disadvantaged student populations, including low-income students,...

This Project Grant award, titled "CAREER: LAND-USE AND LAND-COVER CHANGE IMPACT ON BIODIVERSITY AND INDIGENOUS PEOPLES' LIVELIHOODS", was provided by the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program. The award, totaling $100,972, was granted to Wesleyan University on December 15, 2024, with a completion date of May 31, 2026. The project examines the drivers of fine-scale land-use and land-cover change, and the impacts of these changes on...

Federal Grant Award Summary Washington College received a $249,858 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), effective September 1, 2025 through August 31, 2027. The award supports a research initiative to search for beyond the Standard Model Higgs bosons using data from the ATLAS (A Toroidal LHC ApparatuS) experiment at CERN's Large Hadron Collider. The principal investigator will investigate hypothetical...

This three-year, $599,338 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Undergraduate Education, under the STEM Education (formerly Education and Human Resources) federal grant program (CFDA 47.076), will support the development, implementation, and assessment of an inclusive STEM curriculum centered on the early 20th century data science innovations of W.E.B. Du Bois. The curriculum module aims to engage over 1,600 undergraduate students across 40 courses at partner...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a 3-year, $465,895 Project Grant to Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) for the "REU SITE: CENTER FOR EARLY RESEARCH EXPERIENCES IN FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS" program. This 10-week summer program provides 10 undergraduate students from two- and four-year institutions in Central New England with mentored research opportunities and professional development focused on functional materials for flexible/wearable electronics, sustainable...

Federal Grant Award Summary Yale University received a $400,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Undergraduate Education under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), effective June 15, 2025, through May 31, 2028. This Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site award will support the training of 30 undergraduate students—10 students per summer for three consecutive summers (2025-2027)—in an intensive 10-week interdisciplinary research program focused...