Project Grant R21OH012750

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award, funded under the Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083), provides $168,875 to Oklahoma State University to examine the impact of fire service culture on the mental health and coping strategies of firefighters. The project aims to develop a multilevel model to understand how the organizational culture, specifically the "masculinity contest culture" within fire departments, interacts with individual coping mechanisms to...

This R21 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) program provides $433,950 to the University of California, Davis to study the impact of wildfire smoke exposure on lung injury and disease in pediatric populations. The key objectives are to: 1) Define the contribution of age on the toxicity of wood smoke particles in respiratory and alveolar epithelium, 2) Investigate the effect of early life wood...

This federal Project Grant award of $155,500.00 from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) program will fund research to evaluate the impact of prenatal exposure to wildfire smoke particulate matter (PM2.5) on early life airway health outcomes in a cohort of 10,000 children. The 2-year project aims to: 1) assess the risk of airway symptoms and respiratory hospitalizations associated with average smoke PM2.5 and number of...

This $795,848 Project Grant was awarded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) Federal Grant Program. The grant supports research investigating the molecular and neurodevelopmental impacts of prenatal exposure to wildfire smoke and air pollution on pregnant individuals and their children. The University of California, Davis (UC Davis) is the prime awardee and will conduct...

This Project Grant award, titled "PROJECT FIRESTORM: ASSESSING RESPIRATORY AND MENTAL HEALTH IMPACTS OF WILDLAND-URBAN INTERFACE FIRES AND LONG-TERM TOXIC EXPOSURES", was provided by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) Federal Grant Program. The $456,500 award will support a rapid study to quantify the health effects of catastrophic wildfires that impacted Los Angeles in 2025, including assessing exposure levels...

The Federal Emergency Management Agency awarded a $3.15 million Project Grant to the University of Arizona through September 21, 2025 under the Assistance to Firefighters Grant Program (AFG Program, CFDA 97.044). The grant will fund the University's FIRE PREVENTION AND SAFETY project to enhance public and firefighter safety from fire and fire-related hazards. As part of the project, $150,000 was provided to Tennessee Technological University via a sub-award to conduct the WOMEN FIRE FIGHTERS...

The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) federal grant program, awarded a $567,093 project grant titled "The Impact of Wildfire Exposure on the Human Methylome and Health" to the University of California, Berkeley. The grant, awarded on March 18, 2025 with a completion date of March 17, 2027, will fund research to develop comprehensive wildfire exposure assessments, collect additional health and lifestyle data, and...

This Project Grant award from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), supports research on paternal age effect (PAE) mutations and their impact on spermatogonial stem cell (SSC) clonality and male reproductive aging. The $227,449 award, with an ultimate completion date of June 30, 2029, will enable the principal investigator to: Lineage trace the...

This $427,625 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) federal grant program will support research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to characterize the pulmonary immune response induced by single and multiple exposures to combustion products from military burn pits. The studies will use a controlled furnace to burn various components found in military burn pits, including plastics,...

This $200,000 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (CFDA 10.318 - Women and Minorities in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Fields) aims to inspire young women to pursue careers in wildland fire, prescribed fire, and fire science. The University of California Office of the President's Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources (UCANR) will implement two weeklong Young Women+ in Fire Prescribed Fire Training...