Grant and Award Announcement

18-Apr-2025

NPS Applied Math Professor Wei Kang named 2025 SIAM Fellow

Naval Postgraduate School
Grant and Award Announcement

Professor Wei Kang of the Naval Postgraduate School Department of Applied Mathematics has been named a 2025 Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) for his fundamental theoretical and computational contributions to the analysis, control, and estimation of nonlinear dynamical systems and their applications.

18-Apr-2025

Lehigh University water scientist Arup K. SenGupta honored with ASCE Freese Award and Lecture

Lehigh University
Grant and Award Announcement

Lehigh University Senior Research Scientist Arup K. SenGupta, a professor emeritus in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, is the 2025 recipient of the Simon W. Freese Environmental Engineering Award and Lecture, presented by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). SenGupta, an ASCE Fellow, is an internationally recognized water scientist whose research has led to sustainable solutions for removing arsenic, fluoride, and other contaminants from drinking water around the world. His pioneering work in ion exchange science has also advanced technologies for desalination, wastewater reclamation, and carbon capture.

18-Apr-2025

AACR: MD Anderson’s John Weinstein elected Fellow of the AACR Academy

University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
Grant and Award Announcement

John N. Weinstein, M.D., Ph.D., chair of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology and professor of Systems Biology at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, has been elected to the 2025 class of Fellows of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Academy in recognition of decades of combined laboratory and computational work pioneering multi-omic molecular profiling, including the introduction of new laboratory techniques, clustered heat maps, and early innovations in artificial intelligence for cancer drug discovery.

18-Apr-2025

AERA announces winners of the 2025 Palmer O. Johnson Memorial Award

American Educational Research Association
Grant and Award Announcement

The American Educational Research Association (AERA) has announced the winners of the 2025 Palmer O. Johnson Memorial Award.

17-Apr-2025

Wesley Sundquist named to TIME’s annual TIME100 list of the 100 most influential people in the world

University of Utah Health
Grant and Award Announcement

Research in the Sundquist lab laid the foundations for the development of lenacapavir, a drug that prevents HIV infection with 99.9% to 100% efficacy and could dramatically lower infection rates worldwide.

17-Apr-2025

Global innovation takes center stage at Rice as undergraduate teams tackle health inequities

Rice University
Grant and Award Announcement

At the Rice360 Institute for Global Health Technologies’ 15th annual Undergraduate Design Competition, the future of global health innovation was on full display. Rice University welcomed 22 student teams from 18 universities across eight countries, both in-person and virtually, to present affordable, practical solutions designed to improve health care in low-resource settings at the April 11 event. Far from just another student competition, the event serves as a global stage where future engineers, scientists and public health leaders come together to address some of the world’s most urgent health care challenges.

17-Apr-2025

Swim Across America grants $900,000 toward first-of-its-kind gene editing innovation

Swim Across America
Grant and Award Announcement

Swim Across America has funded more than $100 million in cancer research throughout the years. The nonprofit organization has also supported previous FDA-approved immunotherapy breakthroughs Keytruda, Opdivo, Yervoy and Tecentriq. Today, the nonprofit organization is announcing two innovative first-of-its-kind gene editing innovation grants given to Alliance for Cancer Gene Therapy and Joseph Fraietta, PhD, at University of Pennsylvania, and Pietro Genovese, PhD, at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

Funder: Swim Across America

17-Apr-2025

UMass Amherst physicist Robert B. Hallock wins one of physics’ top awards

University of Massachusetts Amherst
Grant and Award Announcement

Robert B. Hallock, distinguished professor emeritus of physics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and pioneer in working with superfluid and solid helium, was recently awarded the top international honor in low-temperature physics: the Fritz London Memorial Prize.

17-Apr-2025

AGS honors Dr. Marie Bernard with prestigious Nascher/Manning award in geriatrics

American Geriatrics Society
Grant and Award Announcement

@AmerGeriatrics names Marie Bernard, MD as the 2025 recipient of the Nascher/Manning Award in Geriatrics #AGS25 https://ow.ly/O22l50VCmvl

17-Apr-2025

EU awards €8 million to advance solar fuel technologies through SUN-PERFORM and Solar to Butanol – S2B Projects

INsociety
Grant and Award Announcement

The European Commission has awarded a combined €8 million in Horizon Europe funding to two groundbreaking projects that could transform how we capture and convert solar energy into liquid fuels. SUN-PERFORM and Solar to Butanol - S2B aim to develop highly efficient bio-inspired technologies that could significantly reduce Europe's carbon emissions while creating new green industry opportunities. These innovative approaches specifically target hard-to-electrify sectors like aviation and shipping, where traditional renewable solutions have struggled to make significant inroads.

Funder: Horizon Europe

16-Apr-2025

USA Center for Rural Public Health Preparedness selected to lead national emergency response project

Texas A&M University
Grant and Award Announcement

Triage — when first responders assess the severity of patient injuries to determine the need for treatment and what treatment to provide — is critical to saving lives at the scene of a car crash, fire or other emergency. The updated guidelines could benefit emergency responders and patients alike once the issues are addressed. The project was awarded through a cooperative effort between the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the National Center for Disaster Medicine and Public Health, which is administered under the Uniformed Services University.

Funder: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, National Center for Disaster Medicine and Public Health

16-Apr-2025

Dr. Sabine Ehrt named Chair of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Weill Cornell Medicine

Weill Cornell Medicine
Grant and Award Announcement

Dr. Sabine Ehrt, an internationally renowned leader in tuberculosis research, has been appointed chair of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Weill Cornell Medicine, effective July 1.