Research Highlights

NSF EPSCoR-supported research at UW finds that climate change is reducing snow security at ski resorts across the western United States, though the severity varies widely by location.

Yongjian Qiu, associate professor of biology at Ole Miss, has received funding from the National Science Foundation through the EPSCoR Research Fellows program. The two-year project will examine how calcium channels contribute to temperature sensing and signaling in plants.

Ole Miss biomedical engineer Yi Hua has received an NSF EPSCoR Research Fellows award to study molecular processes involved in outer-eye health and disease.

UVM researchers have received $950,000 through a $7.9 million NSF EPSCoR initiative studying PFAS contamination, exposure and environmental movement across Vermont.

University of Nebraska–Lincoln graduate students supported by NSF EPSCoR’s EQUATE project helped discover a promising material for long-lasting, room-temperature single-photon emitters, leading the research team to pursue patent protection.

A big CONGRATULATIONS to Drs. Kimberly Shorter from USC Upstate and Walden Ai from Benedict College. Both Shorter and Ai have been promoted to Department Chair at their institutions and both have received SC-INBRE funding.

Darci Fink, a researcher in South Dakota State University's Biosystems Networks and Transformative Research-Insight into Inflammation Center of Biomedical Research Excellence (BioSNTR-II COBRE) received a flagship grant from the National Institutes of Health to explore the underlying causes of lymphedema, a disfiguring disease that affects 10 million people in the U.S.

Researchers with Kentucky’s NSF EPSCoR-supported CLIMBS project have launched a new real-time monitoring network designed to improve landslide forecasting and help communities prepare for hazardous slope conditions.

Read about Alaska INBRE-funded researcher Micah Hahn's work on Alaska's rural air quality in this online edition of Alaska Native News.

To learn more about Dr. Hahn, read her UAA bio.

This spring, the University of Vermont Water Research Institute Faculty Collaborative Grant-writing Fund has been awarded to an interdisciplinary team of Raju Badireddy (CEMS), Tian Xia (CEMS), Hao Chen (CALS), and Eric Roy (RSENR). The proposed project will explore how emerging contaminants are mobilized, transported, and exported through runoff systems. The team will target development of a proposal to the National Science Foundation Translation to Practice program.