Grant and Award Announcement

Two new federally funded studies will recruit more than 300 patients with colon cancer to determine whether aerobic exercise can make chemotherapy more tolerable and less toxic and prevent fat from invading muscle tissue, a predictor of cancer recurrence, heart disease, and death.

David M. Greer, MD, MA, FCCM, FAHA, FNCS, FAAN, FANA, Chair of the Department of Neurology at Boston University School of Medicine and Chief of Neurology at Boston Medical Center, will serve as Secretary of the Neurocritical Care Society (NCS) beginning October 2022. In accepting the position, Greer’s responsibilities will incrementally increase over the next four years, as he will then serve as Treasurer, Vice president and finally President of the Society.

Five Ontario-based research projects will take the next step toward advancing cancer care in the province thanks to funding from the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR).

Argonne nuclear engineer Yung Liu was honored by RFID Journal for his work creating RFID technologies to track nuclear material shipments.

The Center for Advancing Sustainable and Distributed Fertilizer Production is a collaborative effort between the National Science Foundation and five institutions of higher learning.

Columbia Engineering, with Florida Atlantic University, Rutgers University, University of Central Florida, and Lehman College, has won an NSF $26 million ERC grant to develop a center for smart streetscapes, focused on making cities more livable, safe, and inclusive. The underlying technologies of the new center will integrate advances in wireless/optical communications, edge/cloud computing, situational awareness, and privacy and security. Critical to its approach, CS3 will balance public data collection with community-defined benefits.

The Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Science will sponsor the participation of 133 undergraduate students from across the nation in two STEM-focused workforce development programs at 13 DOE national laboratories and facilities during fall 2022. Collectively, these programs help ensure that DOE and our nation have a strong, sustained workforce trained in the skills needed to address the energy, environmental, and national security challenges of today and tomorrow.