The federal Project Grant award R43ES037510 was provided by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) under the Hazardous Waste Worker Health and Safety Training program (CFDA 93.142). This $100,000 grant, awarded on June 4, 2025, supports the development of an AI-driven "Health and Safety Training Copilot" platform to provide personalized pre-training materials for low-literacy and limited-English proficiency workers. The platform aims to enhance comprehension...
This $294,660 project grant from the National Institutes of Health's National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, under the NIEHS Hazardous Waste Worker Health and Safety Training program (CFDA 93.142), will support Radiation Emergency Services LLC to develop a prototype simulation game and training platform. The RadTeamSim-ROUTE simulation aims to address gaps in hands-on radiological field survey training by blending radiological dose modeling with gaming software. This will create...
This $275,765 Project Grant awarded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) federal grant program aims to develop and test prototypes of personal active cooling garments to protect at-risk patients from extreme heat waves. The grant is awarded to General Engineering & Research, L.L.C., a for-profit, economically disadvantaged woman-owned small business located in San Diego, California. The project will leverage the...
This $332,562 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) program, supports the development of a hyperlocal temperature model covering the contiguous United States from 2000-2020. The model will use satellite data, land use features, and elevation to predict daily temperatures at the 30m road segment level. This hyperlocal temperature data will then be used to identify urban heat islands, hot and cold...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) program, provides $313,372 to ITA International LLC, a veteran-owned small business, to develop a holistic methodology for quantifying concentrations of ultrafine particulates (UFPs), microplastics (MNPs), and engineered nanomaterials (ENMs) in production settings. The goal is to reliably measure and compare these airborne particulate exposures to...
The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) awarded a $315,682 Project Grant (CFDA 93.113 - Environmental Health) to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York to develop evaluation and implementation frameworks for heat-health warning systems. The project aims to (1) create a framework to assess the effectiveness of heat alert systems in reducing health risks associated with extreme heat, and (2) develop an implementation framework to inform when and where...
The Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology awarded Nextgen Interactions LLC $199,903.22 through the Science, Technology, Business and/or Education Outreach federal grant program (CFDA 11.620) to build, demonstrate, and evaluate the HAZVR virtual reality air monitoring training module. The project will develop the module in collaboration with hazmat specialists, validate its effectiveness, and test it in classroom settings with hazmat trainees. Upon completion,...
The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) awarded a $306,872 Project Grant (CFDA 93.113 - Environmental Health) to Pico Portal, Inc. to develop and validate advanced AI-driven tools that automate and increase the efficiency of conducting risk-of-bias (ROB) assessments in environmental health systematic reviews (SRs). The project aims to utilize large language models (LLMs) to accurately identify and extract critical text passages from studies related to per- and...
This federal Project Grant award of $1,501,518 from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Investigations and Technical Assistance program (CFDA 93.283) to Charles River Analytics, Inc. is for the development of an "Immersive Modular Preparedness Intelligent Tutor for the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (IMPRINT NIOSH)". The award period runs from Sep 1, 2024 to Aug 31, 2026. This grant supports the creation of an innovative virtual reality-based...
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), a civilian agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, awarded a $599,622 Project Grant to Redde, LLC under the Strengthening Public Health Systems and Services through National Partnerships to Improve and Protect the Nation's Health (CFDA 93.421) program. The grant, which runs from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2027, will fund the expansion of Redde's mobile vessel safety and training service for...
The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) awarded a $100,000 Project Grant (CFDA 93.142 - NIEHS Hazardous Waste Worker Health and Safety Training) to Softworthy LLC, a small disadvantaged business located in Austin, Texas. The grant supports the development of an "innovative simulator that employs 'serious-gaming' techniques to introduce health and safety concepts associated with exposure to extreme ambient temperatures, within the context of a real-time, virtual environment." The goal is to create an interactive, customizable training platform that leverages gaming technology to improve comprehension of health risks and safety practices for emergency responders working in hazardous thermal environments. The project, named "SWIVEL-HASTE", is scheduled for completion by May 31, 2026.