Project Grant P200A240223

The University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) received a $350,000 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) on May 1, 2025. The award, titled "ACHIEVING KILOTON SCALE PIXELATED READOUT FOR LIQUID ARGON TIME PROJECTION CHAMBERS," supports fundamental scientific research to advance U.S. energy, economic, and national security priorities. The project aims to develop advanced computational and experimental...

The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) was awarded $499,191 under a Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program to support the renewal of its Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) and Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) site in physics. Over the three-year period from May 1, 2023 to April 30, 2026, the site will provide research experiences for twelve undergraduates and one teacher annually in areas such as...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $301,810 to Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas to support the mentoring of undergraduate students as researchers and preparing them for graduate school and/or industry. Through this 3-year award, 2-3 undergraduate students per summer will work onsite at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility to assist in hardware and software projects for ongoing...

The University of Texas at Austin was awarded a $700,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Physics. The grant falls under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to advance scientific knowledge and understanding in these fields. The three-year award will support research into diagnosing astrophysical plasmas using laser-driven nucleosynthesis in far-from-equilibrium plasmas. The University of Texas at Austin will utilize $700K in...

The University of Texas at Austin was awarded a $500,000 Project Grant by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) on September 15, 2025. The grant supports fundamental scientific research to advance U.S. energy, economic, and national security priorities, with a focus on reconfigurable and multiplexed photonic networks for distributed superconducting quantum information processing. The project will be completed by September 14, 2026. The...

The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) has been awarded a $299,842 Project Grant by the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences division (CFDA 47.049). The grant is focused on advancing understanding of black holes, gravitational waves, and gravitational lensing, which are key predictions of Einstein's theory of general relativity. Key activities include: Developing new theoretical models to study strong gravitational lensing of gravitational waves, including the...

The National Science Foundation Division of Physics awarded a $157,361 project grant to the University of Texas at Austin from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2023 under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant will support research related to gravity, holography, and spacetime. The Mathematical and Physical Sciences program aims to strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise by promoting progress in mathematical and physical sciences and increasing...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $599,750 Project Grant to the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley through the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to improve the quality of learning among physics students. The University will implement Team-Based Learning approaches in multiple lower-division and advanced physics courses over a three-year period from July 2022 to June 2025. Team-Based Learning is an interactive instructional strategy that replaces passive learning with active...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Physics provides $100,000 to support theoretical atomic physics research involving few-body charged particle systems, with a focus on positronium and positron-helium scattering calculations. The Principal Investigator, a female full professor at the University of North Texas, will use the three-year award ending August 2025 to compute scattering properties and cross sections for positronium-electron and...

This $184,742 National Science Foundation project grant under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) supports research at Texas A&M University to study the role of co-curricular physics outreach activities on undergraduate student persistence and success. The project aims to survey undergraduate physics majors nationwide regarding their participation in informal physics outreach programs for K-12 students and analyze the relationship to student success factors. A subaward of $30,000 to the...