Success Stories

A Kansas NSF EPSCoR-supported project is using animated storytelling to introduce children to artificial intelligence and data science. “A Data Science Tale: When Data and Pixel Met,” developed by Kansas State University faculty, premiered to nearly 200 community members in Manhattan, Kansas, and introduces young learners to concepts including extreme weather, rural resilience and crop protection.

Kansas NSF EPSCoR has welcomed two new leaders, with Dr. Michael Branicky serving as program director and Dr. Elaina Sutley becoming principal investigator for the state’s NSF EPSCoR Track-1 ARISE project.

NSF awarded $8 million through the NSF EPSCoR E-RISE program to support a statewide University of New Hampshire initiative studying ticks, disease transmission and environmental factors. The project will also provide students with research experience in genomics, bioinformatics, artificial intelligence, ecology and data science.

Ellyn Enderlin, an associate professor in Boise State University’s Department of Geosciences, has been appointed Boise State’s representative to the Idaho NASA EPSCoR Technical Advisory Committee (TAC).

South Dakota Mines has been awarded a $3.1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) to lead a new research effort aimed at developing advanced technologies that could locate and map rare earth elements (REE) and critical minerals with greater speed and at a reduced cost.

Arkansas INBRE, led by the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, has received a five-year, $19.6 million renewal from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences.

The award will extend the program through 2031 and raise its total NIH support since 2001 to approximately $107.7 million.

Four New Mexico institutions are collaborating on a statewide research center focused on intelligent additive manufacturing, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence and networked systems.

Nek Sharan, assistant professor of aerospace engineering at Auburn University, has received a NSF EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement Program fellowship to develop computational tools for predicting and reducing shock-induced vibrations in high-speed aerospace systems.

Combined funding provided by NIH & the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education supported 6 RPI, 4 Collaborative, and 3 Mini research grants, along with 4 Equipment grants, Supplemental Research Awards, Curriculum Development, Travel awards, and STEM educational initiatives across our state.

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