Congresswoman Debbie Dingell (MI-06) today announced that the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor will receive $8,509,452 in grant funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for projects including ocean wave energy, mathematical patterns and algorithms, hippocampal microcircuit dynamics, quantum photonic integration, and more.
"The development of new materials to advance technology is critical to keeping America competitive," said Dingell. "This funding for the University of Michigan will drive innovation across diverse fields, from understanding the cosmos and brain function to advancing technology and sustainable energy, supporting a number of industries that matter to Michigan and ultimately shaping a smarter, healthier, and more sustainable future."
Projects receiving funding include:
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$598,575 for Collaborative Research: Multi-wavelength Imaging of Planet-Forming Disks: The inner AU of Herbig and T Tauri Stars
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$2,491,769 for Collaborative Research: GCR: Engineering, SocioEconomic and Environmental Convergence of Ocean Wave Energy Research for Remote Coastal Communities
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$1,200,000 for CRCNS Research Proposal: Hippocampal microcircuit dynamics inferred from finely-timed spike trains
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$450,000 for CBET-EPSRC chiroptical second-harmonic scattering of nanostructures and their biocomplexes
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$496,138 for Collaborative Research: Towards Intelligent Scan Sequence Generation to Reduce Local Overheating, Distortion, and Residual Stress in LPBF Additive Manufacturing
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$600,000 for CISE-ANR: SHF: Small: CAFEE: Control Algorithms Formal End-to-End Verification
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$49,950 for Conference: COMPLEX SYSTEMS OF SMALL GEOPARTICLES conference will be held from December 14-15, 2024, in Kigali, Rwanda
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$361,736 for Collaborative Research: ENG-SEMICON: Acoustophoretic condensation and boiling for thermal management of microelectronics devices
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$1,000,000 for NQVL:QSTD:Pilot: Quantum Photonic Integration and Deployment (QuPID)
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$646,284 for GOALI: Exploring advanced strategies for controlling the distribution of nanoparticles during solidification of metal matrix nanocomposites
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$600,000 for AF:Small: Extremal Combinatorics and Analysis of Algorithms
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$15,000 for Travel: NSF Student Travel Grant for the 2025 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT 2025)
The National Science Foundation (NSF) supports research, innovation, and discovery that provides the foundation for economic growth in this country. By advancing the frontiers of science and engineering, our nation can develop the knowledge and cutting-edge technologies needed to address the challenges we face today and will face in the future.