The Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs awarded the Portland Art Museum a $4,917,308.34 Project Grant under the Professional and Cultural Exchange Programs - Citizen Exchanges (CFDA 19.415) program. The grant funding will support the museum's presentation of the exhibition "The Space in Which to Place Me" featuring artist Jeffrey Gibson at the 60th International Art Exhibition in Venice, Italy from July 2023 to November 2024. The Portland Art Museum has...
The U.S. Department of the Army awarded a $100,000 Project Grant to Universita' Degli Studi DI Siena, a non-profit educational institution in Italy, under the Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431). The funding supports research and analytical services focused on data analytics, media forensics, and semantic analysis. This includes developing verification systems and integrity analytics solutions for overhead imagery, such as the DISCOVER project in collaboration with Purdue University,...
This federal Project Grant award of $148,075 was provided by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs under the Public Diplomacy Programs (CFDA 19.040). The grant is intended to strengthen people-to-people and cultural ties among the United States, Australia, New Zealand, and Pacific Island nations through a "Museum to Museum Initiative." The award was made on August 12, 2024, with a projected completion date of June 30, 2025. The primary awardee is...
The University of Arkansas was awarded a $997,558.00 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to advance high voltage wide bandgap power module packaging for transportation electrification. The grant, awarded on September 1, 2024, will support research and development efforts to enable critical technological innovations in power electronics to drive the transition to electric vehicles. This grant aligns with the Office of...
This $182,361.85 Project Grant was awarded on February 16, 2024 by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs under the Educational and Cultural Exchange Programs Appropriation Overseas Grants (CFDA 19.022) program. The grant is funding a regional summit in Slovenia for up to 90 Ukrainian refugees who have joined the AWE (Alumni Worldwide Exchange) Ukraine program over the past year or who are alumni of the AWE Ukraine program. The purpose is to host this summit to...
This federal Project Grant award, with an obligated amount of $732,233.00, was provided by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs under the Professional and Cultural Exchange Programs - Citizen Exchanges (CFDA 19.415) program. The award is to support Partners of the Americas for the FY24 Traditional Public Private Partnership Program (TPPP), which aims to promote mutual understanding between the United States and other countries through various international...
The University of Arkansas was awarded a $249,999 Project Grant under the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Space Technology (CFDA 43.012) program. The award, effective January 27, 2025 through January 26, 2028, will fund the development of unique, disruptive, or transformational space technologies that have the potential to lead to dramatic improvements in spaceflight hardware or mission performance, weight, cost, reliability, or operational simplicity. The projected...
The University of Iowa was awarded a $1,268,514 Cooperative Agreement grant by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs under the Professional and Cultural Exchange Programs - Citizen Exchanges (CFDA 19.415) program. The grant will fund a Freedom of Expression Creative Writing Program with four components focused on advancing diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA), strengthening civil societies, elevating emerging voices, and facilitating conflict...
This $329,512 federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Intelligence and Research under the Program for Study of Eastern Europe and the Independent States of the Former Soviet Union (CFDA 19.300) is intended to enhance American knowledge and expertise related to the former U.S.S.R. and Eastern/Central Europe. The award, with a period of performance from September 30, 2024 to September 30, 2025, will support advanced research, language training, and academic...
This federal Project Grant award of $125,000.00 from the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs under the Public Diplomacy Programs (CFDA 19.040) will support a collaboration between the awardee, Associacao Do Laboratorio De Sistemas Integraveis Tecnologico Lsi-Tec (Lsitec), and the University of Sao Paulo's FEBRACE (Brazilian Science and Engineering Fair), Brazil's largest and most important STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics) education...