Grants

The new Center for Materials for Water and Energy Systems aims to find more creative approaches and new materials to use and reuse existing water and improve upon existing water purification methods.

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced $218 million in funding for 85 research awards in the important emerging field of Quantum Information Science (QIS).

In a major new initiative to help diabetics, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded a $2.8 million grant to the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), an affiliate of City of Hope, and to the University of New Mexico (UNM) in a groundbreaking effort to discover new treatments for diabetic blindness. Known as diabetic retinopathy, this disease is one of the nation's leading causes of blindness, afflicting as many as 24,000 Americans each year.

In a coordinated national strategy to fund quantum-related research and education, the National Science Foundation has awarded two of eight nationwide RAISE-EQuIP grants to physicists Yuping Huang and Stefan Strauf at Stevens Institute of Technology for their proposed research on technologies that could become the safest and most secure information networks ever seen.

Morris Animal Foundation is funding three new pilot studies in horse health, with a focus on equine parasitic worms and equine metabolic syndrome. The studies, collectively awarded more than $30,000 in grants, are in addition to eight large-animal research projects the Foundation announced in April.

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) today announced $40 million in awards over five years to 11 institutions to support the training of researchers to conduct patient-centered outcomes research (PCOR) within learning health systems (LHS).

Developing the next generation of dynamic science leaders from diverse student populations is the goal of a three-year, $500,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) award to The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA). An interdisciplinary UTSA project led by Janis Bush, a professor of environmental science and ecology, was one of 12 new projects funded by NSF's Innovations in Graduate Education (IGE).