The University of California, Merced was awarded a $884,696 Project Grant by the Department of Defense under the Basic, Applied, and Advanced Research in Science and Engineering (CFDA 12.630) program. The grant supports electronic materials research for integrated nanophotonics, with a performance period from April 2025 to April 2029. As a Hispanic-serving institution, UC Merced will leverage its expertise in advanced technological research and development to contribute to national defense and...
This Project Grant award from the Department of Defense's Basic, Applied, and Advanced Research in Science and Engineering program (CFDA 12.630) provides $317,569.00 to the University of California, Merced to acquire a mask aligner/nanoimprinter lithography system for multi-disciplinary research and training. The award period runs from September 1, 2024 to June 30, 2026. This equipment will enable UC Merced to conduct advanced research and provide training across various scientific and...
This $275,000 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Army's Basic Scientific Research Program (CFDA 12.431) supports fundamental research at the University of California, Merced to investigate and model the behavior of advanced materials designed by nature that are tailored to resist extreme loading. The 5-year award, starting on September 30, 2024, will fund high-risk, high-payoff basic research aimed at expanding scientific knowledge and understanding in areas such as materials...
The University of California, Merced, a minority-serving and Hispanic-serving educational institution, received a $539,978.00 Block Grant award under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) on September 18, 2023. The grant funds instrumentation to investigate relation-based trust in anthropomorphic robots. UC Merced, with its expertise in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, will utilize this funding to conduct research in this area. The award supports the Air...
This Project Grant award of $125,000.00 was provided by the U.S. Army Research Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM) under the Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431). The award will fund research conducted by the Regents of the University of California at Riverside (UC Riverside) to investigate "Synthetic Data Driven Robustness Through Latent Structure Discovery" over a 3-year period from Sep 2024 to Sep 2027. The research aims to expand fundamental scientific knowledge...
This federal Project Grant award of $120,000.00, awarded by the Department of the Army Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Command under the Department of Defense Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431), will fund "Interpretable and Symbolic Data Fusion in Hyperspace" research at the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine) from September 30, 2024 to September 29, 2027. UC Irvine is a premier public research university with extensive capabilities in...
The U.S. Department of Defense has awarded a $351,770 federal Project Grant to the University of California, Santa Cruz under the Basic, Applied, and Advanced Research in Science and Engineering program (CFDA 12.630). The grant, with a performance period from September 16, 2024 to September 15, 2025, will support advanced research and technological development initiatives across multiple scientific domains aligned with national defense missions. As a Hispanic-Serving Institution and land-grant...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $198,308 Project Grant to the University of California, Merced under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070) to support research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: SHF: SMALL: TOWARDS ROBUST DEEP LEARNING COMPUTING ON GPUS" from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2024. The grant funding will support investigator-initiated research and education activities to advance the development and use of robust...
The University of California, Merced received a $571,556 project grant from the Department of Defense Washington Headquarters Service to upgrade end-of-life cryogenic components of an NMR spectrometer. The grant was awarded on May 15, 2021 with a completion date of May 14, 2022 under the Basic, Applied, and Advanced Research in Science and Engineering program (CFDA 12.630). This program supports basic, applied, or advanced scientific research with potential to contribute to Department of Defense...
The University of California, Santa Barbara was awarded a $222,448 Cooperative Agreement by the U.S. Department of the Army Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Command under the Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431). The award, effective August 1, 2025 through July 31, 2028, will support research to enhance the interpretability of deep neural networks through topological analysis using Reeb graphs. This fundamental research aligns with the program's goals of...