Interest: New research aimed at controlling the transmission of diseases among humans, other animals and the environment is being made possible by grants from a collaboration among U.S. and U.K. funding agencies.
Interest: LSU's Barry Dellinger, Patrick F. Taylor Chair for the Environmental Impact of Hazardous Waste in the LSU Department of Chemistry, recently received more than $11 million from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, or NIEHS, to continue the LSU Superfund Research Center and focus its research on Environmentally-Persistent Free Radicals, or EPFRs.
Interest: The National Science Foundation has awarded a $13 million grant to Yale University and Southern Connecticut State University to establish a Center of Excellence for Materials Research and Innovation also known as a Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC).
Interest: Imagine trying to convince a Yankees star pitcher to join a new, unproven Major League Baseball franchise. An impossible task? Not necessarily. Corey Reese, co-founder and CEO of Ness Computing, took on the tech-world equivalent of the challenge--and succeeded.
Interest: EAST LANSING, Mich. — Michigan State University has licensed cutting-edge software that detects altered fingerprints to Morpho, part of the Safran group, one of the world’s leading suppliers of identification and detection solutions.
Interest: A new compound being developed at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center could be the link to preventing blindness in diabetic retinothropy patients. It has already received $1.1 million in research grants from the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation and the National Institutes of Health.
Interest: The Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary has landed an $11 million award from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, part of the National Institutes of Health, to develop antibiotics for highly resistant staph and bacterial infections.
Interest: The Office of Naval Research funds research and development for new technologies for the military. An associate director details the agency's criteria.
Interest: A day after President Obama laid out his plan to stimulate jobs, the director of the National Institutes of Health made the case that funding biomedical research reverberates beyond the laboratory -- stimulating innovation and also having a significant economic impact, with each dollar of an NIH grant providing more than two dollars of benefit to the economy.
Interest: A University of Louisville researcher has been awarded a grant renewal to allow him to continue work to develop a gene therapy that would minimize muscle damage from a heart attack.
Interest: The University of Delaware has won $9.1 million for solar energy research and development -- the highest funding awarded to a university -- through the SunShot Initiative sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).
Interest: Thostenson is leading a team that recently received a $200,000 grant from the National Science Foundation's Nanotechnology Undergraduate Education (NUE) in Engineering program.
Interest: The America Invents Act, which the Senate began considering this week after a cloture vote, will most likely be heralded as historic for updating patent laws and as a boon for innovators and job creators.
Interest: SBIR funds the critical startup and developmental stages and encourages the commercialization of the technology, product or service, which in turn stimulates the economy and creates jobs.
Interest: The National Science Foundation recently gave Texas State University’s Department of Engineering Technology a $486,599 grant for equipment upgrades to facilitate advanced research.
Interest: Undeterred by the bankruptcy filing of a California solar company that got $535 million in federal loan guarantees, the Energy Department is issuing two more large loan guarantees, albeit to companies that look like safer bets.
Interest: The National Institutes of Health this month awarded more than $500,000 in grants to help researchers study the use of microRNAs as biomarkers for various diseases, including obstructive neuropathy and liver and prostate cancers.
Interest: Dr Joseph Jankowski, associate VP at Case Western Reserve University in Ohio explains what the university's venture capital fund has achieved.
Interest: - As part of the U.S. Department of Energy's SunShot initiative, Dow Solar, a business unit of The Dow Chemical Company DOW -3.22% , has been awarded a $12.8 million, 3-year grant to fund a program to dramatically reduce the cost of building integrated (BIPV) solar products.
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