Project Grant R43DA041030

This federal Project Grant award from the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Science to Achieve Results (STAR) Research Program provides $157,667 to Arizona State University (ASU) to develop new models, methods, and software tools for discovering and designing novel chemical reaction networks and processes that can transform the U.S. chemicals industry towards greater sustainability and circularity. The key products and services to be delivered under this award include: (i) an open-access...

The Department of State Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation awarded Dynamis, Inc. a $205,081 cooperative agreement under the Global Threat Reduction program (CFDA 19.033) to strengthen the chemical supply chain in Macaristan. Dynamis will train and equip regulatory, emergency management, and enforcement officials to map and track in-country and transiting chemical assets through December 2023. The Global Threat Reduction program aims to reduce threats from terrorist...

This $157,667 federal Project Grant award from the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Science to Achieve Results (STAR) Research Program (CFDA 66.509) aims to develop a predicted reaction network using experimental and computational data to describe the environmental lifecycle of persistent biological transformation products (TPs) of chemicals. The key activities include integrating new approach methodologies, supplementing experimental data with computational techniques, and selecting...

This $416,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports research to understand the economics of supply chains where complementary suppliers may have market power. The research effort involves three related projects: Using econometric techniques to describe how shocks to electricity demand, generating costs, and the mining/railroad industries impact input prices and quantities through the lens of...

This federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) provides $199,973 to Aptima Inc., a for-profit research and engineering company located in Woburn, Massachusetts. The award supports the "ART-FM: Adversarial Red Teaming Framework to Reason about Foundation Model Behaviors at Scale" research project, which aims to develop innovative techniques for adversarial red teaming of foundation models at scale. The...

This $208,420 Project Grant was awarded by the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences under the Education Research, Development and Dissemination program (CFDA 84.305) to the Georgia State University Research Foundation. The award supports a 4-year research project to understand the challenges that low-skilled adults in the U.S. face when engaging with digital assessments for adaptive problem-solving skills. The project involves developing and piloting think-aloud...

The federal Project Grant award DESC0025072 was provided by the Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to Starfire Industries LLC, a leading manufacturer of neutron generators, plasma sources, and advanced specialty coatings. The $250,000.00 award, made on July 22, 2024, will fund the development of a "Downhole Wireline PGNAA Elemental Analysis Probe Using NGEN" over a 1-year period ending on July 21, 2025. Starfire Industries LLC, an...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) Project Grant award of $225,000 to Michigan State University aims to develop a user-centered platform for digital content integrity. The project, titled "Collaborative Research: REDDDOT Phase 2: A User-Centered Platform for Digital Content Integrity," seeks to protect the integrity of digital content and maintain public trust in the face of threats posed by advanced generative AI...

This $2,316,128 Project Grant award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279) aims to design and assess tailored harm reduction strategies to address the heterogeneous overdose epidemic across six distinct jurisdictions. The project, titled "Reversing Overdose Epidemics through Simulation, Collaboration, and Unified Efforts (RESCUE)", will collaborate with health departments and community partners to evaluate the...

This Project Grant award from the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) provides $125,000.00 in funding to the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT University) in Australia. The award supports research on data-driven reduced order modeling and preliminary experimentation to investigate the combined effects of transonic buffet and freeplay-induced limit cycle oscillations. This research aims to...