Interest: Detroit-based startup biodiesel technology developer NextCAT Inc. has received $498,830 in funding from a National Science Foundation Phase II Small Business Innovation Research award.
Interest: Lee-Ann Jaykus has come a long way since she joined N.C. State in 1994, a time when she was nervous about grants, thinking she would be extremely lucky to land one. But with a $25 million grant from the USDA in her pocket, she can certainly stop worrying about that now.
Interest: The USDA’s Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education program (SARE) offers competitive grants for on-farm research, demonstration and education projects, said Debi Kelly, University of Missouri Extension SARE state co-coordinator.
Interest: Duke administrators and research leaders have been talking recently about an Aug. 19 report in Science Magazine that showed African-American scientists being significantly less successful at winning career-starting RO1 grants from the National Institutes of Health.
Interest: USC faculty earned $226.9 million in research dollars during fiscal year 2011, shattering its previous record for research funding, according to a university announcement Tuesday.
Interest: FAA is awarding grants to projects at three spaceports. These grants will go a long way toward meeting President Obama's National Space Policy and its greater emphasis on using the commercial space industry to meet our current and future space transportation needs.
Interest: Boston-based Locately, a consumer-focused location analytics firm, has been collecting and analyzing GPS data to address this very concern and now can ramp up its efforts in helping companies better understand consumer trends after receiving a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II grant from the National Science Foundation for approximately $500k.
Interest: HemoShear, LLC, a biotechnology research company and leading developer of human and animal cell-based surrogate systems for discovery and assessment of new drug compounds, today announced that it has been awarded up to $4.3 million in a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant award from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Interest: Two ASU Biodesign Institute researchers have been awarded more than $5 million in funds from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to pursue the development of a revolutionary, next-generation DNA sequencing device to rapidly sequence a person’s complete DNA information, or genome, for $1000 or less
Interest: Nuclear engineering professors and TEES researchers Marvin Adams and Paul Nelson were awarded three research grants of more than $2.2 million from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).
Interest: The Cullen College of Engineering of the University of Houston has received a $429,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to finance ‘Innovations in Nanotechnology’, a research experience for teachers (RET) program
Interest: The U.S. House of Representatives is preparing to take up House Bill 1425 in early September, a bill that proposes detrimental changes to SBIR.
Interest: A proposal for a 2-megawatt solar farm that would provide renewable energy for the University of Massachusetts aroused opposition Tuesday from neighbors concerned about its visual impact.
Interest: AMES, Iowa -- Effective memory is a key ability for independent living in later life, and a new Iowa State University study is among the first to report that social partners can help extend memory.
Interest: Seven Oregon universities have combined to break ground on a massive solar photovoltaic project which will generate clean energy for multiple campuses.
Interest: Here are the changes the NIH proposed:
Expanding the scope of the regulations to include SBIR/STTR [Small Business Technology Transfer Program/Small Business Innovation Research Program] Phase I applications.
Interest: The research has yielded an experimental substance that fellow professor Sarah Morgan said researchers hope to push into commercial stages in the next year or so.
Interest: Arizona State University will host the new Quantum Energy and Sustainable Solar Technologies (QESST) energy research center at ASU’s Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering.
Interest: UGA scientists will use their share of a $25 million U.S. Department of Agriculture grant to search for ways to reduce the number of virus-caused foodborne illnesses in the United States.
Interest: The USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) is investing nearly $22.5 million into innovative conservation technologies and approaches that address a broad array of existing and emerging natural resource issues, according to a news release from the USDA.
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