The University of California, Merced received a $317,569 Project Grant award from the Department of Defense's Basic, Applied, and Advanced Research in Science and Engineering program (CFDA 12.630) to acquire a mask aligner/nanoimprinter lithography system. The grant, awarded on September 1, 2024 with a completion date of December 31, 2025, will support multi-disciplinary research and training initiatives at the university across scientific domains such as climate science, quantum computing,...
The Department of Defense awarded a $212,991.80 Project Grant to the University of California, Merced under the Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431) on September 30, 2024. This grant will fund a 5-year research project focused on advancing fundamental scientific knowledge and technological capabilities relevant to national security. The research will span multiple scientific and technical domains, including quantum computing, artificial intelligence, materials science, robotics, and...
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 federal Project Grant award from the Department of Defense's Basic, Applied, and Advanced Research in Science and Engineering program (CFDA 12.630) provides $798,960.00 to the University of California, Merced to support a research project titled "Learning to See by Learning to Synthesize Images". The award term runs from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2025. The University of California, Merced, a Hispanic-serving research institution, will conduct advanced research into...
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, Merced (UC Merced) was awarded a $826,615 Project Grant from the Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) on February 1, 2025. The grant will fund a research project titled "Quantum Computation of Chemistry and Material on Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum Hardware" with a completion date of January 31, 2026. The project aims to advance U.S. energy, economic, and national security priorities through...
The University of California, Merced was awarded a $799,996 project grant from the Office of the Secretary of Defense under the Basic, Applied, and Advanced Research in Science and Engineering program (CFDA 12.630) to conduct research titled "Elucidating the Timekeeping Mechanism of a Circadian Clock" from June 1, 2023 to May 31, 2027. This funding will support the university's work to advance understanding of circadian rhythms, which have applications for the Department of Defense...
This federal Project Grant award from the Department of Defense, under the Basic, Applied, and Advanced Research in Science and Engineering program (CFDA 12.630), provides $1,000,000.00 to the Regents of the University of California at Riverside to conduct research on "HARNESSING ELECTRON DYNAMICS CALCULATIONS AND EXPERIMENTS TO PROBE TIME-RESOLVED PHENOMENA IN COMPLEX PLASMONIC SYSTEMS". The research aims to advance scientific knowledge and technological development in the fields of...
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 federal Project Grant award in the amount of $999,990.00 was provided by the Department of Defense under the Basic, Applied, and Advanced Research in Science and Engineering program (CFDA 12.630) to The University Corporation, a non-profit research organization affiliated with California State University, Northridge. The award, effective from April 1, 2025 to March 31, 2029, supports research on "EXCITONS IN TWO-DIMENSIONAL MAGNETIC HETEROSTRUCTURES". The funding will enable The...