News & Updates
NSF announces $77.8M investment to build climate resilience capacity across 21 EPSCoR jurisdictions
Today, the U.S. National Science Foundation announced a $77.8 million investment in 14 projects through the Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR). Spanning 50 institutions across 21 jurisdictions, this investment aims to build research and development capacity and strengthen STEM education opportunities in states that have traditionally received lower levels of funding.
Twelve American Companies Will Help Expand Distributed Wind Across the Rural United States
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) announced plans to award $3.15 million to 12 American component suppliers and manufacturers of small- and medium-sized wind turbines as a part of the 2024 Competitiveness Improvement Project (CIP). These selections will advance distributed wind turbine technology through testing and commercialization, providing more certified technology options for clean energy deployment.
Announcement of E-RISE RII Award
The U.S. National Science Foundation has awarded $35 million through the Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) Research Incubators for STEM Excellence Research Infrastructure Improvement (E-RISE RII) to boost research competitiveness, build partnerships across academic institutions and non-academic sectors and create workforce development opportunities.
New Report: Engineers Have a Generational Opportunity to Harness AI for Good
May 23, 2024 – “AI Engineering,” defined as the accelerating convergence of the artificial intelligence and engineering fields, can play a crucial role shaping AI to deliver benefits to society. A new report released today by the Engineering Research Visioning Alliance (ERVA), an initiative funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), identifies research priorities and underscores the role the engineering research community can and must play to get there. Read more
NSF and NIH partner on internship opportunity in biomedical engineeringNSF and the NIH’s National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) have initiated a joint research training opportunity through the NSF Non-Academic Research Internships for Graduate Students (NSF INTERN) program. 
DOE’s FACES Program Announces First-Ever CohortThe DOE has announced the selection of the first faculty cohort for the groundbreaking Faculty-Applied Clean Energy Sciences (FACES) Program. This program aims to bridge the gap between DOE laboratories and the academic community, enhance STEM education, and promote clean energy responsibility in social and environmental sciences. The FACES program, with a focus on providing real-world clean energy research opportunities, has made its final selections from minority-serving institutions (MSI) across the country, including Tribal colleges and universities (TCUs), Hispanic-serving institutions (HSIs), historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian-serving institutions (ANNHSIs), and Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-serving institution (AANAPISIs). The MSIs representing the EPSCoR and IDeA jurisdictions in this FACES Program cohort include: 
Spring 2024 NSF Grants ConferenceSpring 2024 NSF Grants Conference – Registration now open. The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Grants Conference is making an eagerly anticipated transition to a hybrid event. Join NSF for the Spring 2024 Grants Conference from June 3 to 5, in historic Philadelphia, PA. 
United for Medical Research FY23 Report on NIH’s Role in Sustaining the US EconomyCommissioned by UMR, “NIH’s Role in Sustaining the U.S. Economy” is an annual analysis of jobs and economic activity supported by National Institutes of Health (NIH) research funding distributed to all 50 states and the District of Columbia. 
ERVA Open Call and Upcoming Visioning EventsFunded by the NSF Directorate for Engineering, the Engineering Research Visioning Alliance’s (ERVA) call to action for you is to share Big Ideas — research problems for ERVA visioning. They greatly appreciate your insight on ideas that can shape exciting future engineering research with impacts that affect our entire ecosystem. Please help ERVA identify bold new engineering research challenges. Ideas received by May 31 will receive priority consideration. More/submit 
Senator Capito hosts NIH Director in West VirginiaUS Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), Ranking Member of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies (Labor-HHS), hosted Dr. Monica Bertagnolli, Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), in Morgantown, WV, for a series of visits at West Virginia University (WVU) to highlight the work being done at the university through NIH funding. |