Success Stories

The University of Nebraska’s NSF EPSCoR program received a four-year, $10 million award to launch Nebraska Strengthening Partnerships for Innovation, Research and Education. The project will expand research capacity, STEM workforce development and collaboration among universities, students and communities across Nebraska.

The three-year project, led by Assistant Professor Bo-Han Wu in UH Mānoa’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the College of Engineering, will focus on building smarter quantum sensor networks.

The University of Kentucky has received an $11.3 million NIH Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) Phase 2 award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences. The five-year grant will support continued development of the Center for Translational Chemical Biology and its efforts to advance research at the intersection of chemical biology and pharmaceutical science.

Shelley Lusetti, New Mexico State University professor and department head of chemistry and biochemistry, is the principal investigator of the New Mexico IDeA Networks of Biomedical Research Excellence (NM-INBRE). This year, Lusetti was elected vice president of the National Association of IDeA Principal Investigators (NAIPI).

Farooq, an assistant professor in the Division of Computer Science and Engineering, has won a five-year, $506,020 National Science Foundation CAREER Award to manage quantum security risk.

CAREER Awards are among America’s most prestigious grants for early-career scientists.

Belhaven University has received a $25,000 Office of Sponsored Programs Seed Grant from Mississippi INBRE to support continued growth in faculty research and external funding initiatives.

The project is led by Dr. Brandon Magers, in collaboration with Dr. John Estes. The work will be completed over the summer and focuses on strengthening the university’s administrative infrastructure to better pursue and manage externally funded research opportunities.

92% of awards from NIH to SC in FY25 were to SC INBRE institutions (SC INBRE program was the largest grant).

Sponsored by Mississippi INBRE, the 2026 Mississippi Academy of Sciences meeting featured over 1,400 attendees and 550 research abstract submissions, once again demonstrating the strength and continued growth of Mississippi’s scientific community.

EPSCoR, INBRE funding serve vital role in Delaware STEM research workforce and biomedical research

What began as a vision to strengthen biomedical research capacity in Delaware has grown into a thriving, collaborative network that has shaped careers, advanced discovery, and built a foundation for the First State’s research future.