Success Stories

Misty Riddle, an assistant professor in the Department of Biology, was awarded over $1.3 million from a National Science Foundation CAREER Award to study host-microbiome interactions.

University of Idaho researchers are tackling some of the toughest wildfire challenges with support from a new $1.4 million National Science Foundation (NSF) grant, which will fund nine additional doctoral-level researchers.

LSU Computer Science & Engineering Assistant Professor Umar Farooq recently received a nearly $300,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) SaTC CORE award for his groundbreaking research project that tackles a critical challenge in today’s digital age—helping users find mobile apps that meet their needswithout compromising their privacy. This competitive award will allow Farooq and his team to develop a novel genre of privacy-aware recommender systems to guide safer app choices.

The North Dakota Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (ND EPSCoR) is pleased to announce that its partnering institutions have been approved for a National Science Foundation (NSF) E-CORE award for their Sustainable Programs Advancing Research and Knowledge across North Dakota (SPARK-ND) proposal. NSF has awarded the project for an anticipated total amount of $7,963,804 over four years.

Big congrats to Morehead State University and Kentucky EPSCoR CLIMBS Project 2 senior investigator Jen O'Keefe — the youngest-ever recipient of the 2025 John Castaño Honorary Membership Award, the highest honor from The Society for Organic Petrology!

University of Rhode Island associate professor of chemical, biomolecular, and materials engineering, Daniel Roxbury and his team have been awarded a $7 million grant through the NSF EPSCoR E-RISE Program.

A regional innovation consortium led by West Virginia University along with the University of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon University and the United States Research Impact Alliance has been selected as a semifinalist for the prestigious National Science Foundation Regional Innovation Engines $160 million funding opportunity aimed at driving economic transformation through technological innovation.

The University of Kansas Medical Center has been awarded a five-year, $31 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) IDeA program to coordinate clinical trials for infants and children in rural and underserved areas. The grant, awarded earlier this month, is the largest five-year award in the history of KU Medical Center and one of the largest such awards ever received at the University of Kansas.

In April, DE-INBRE hosted our EAC and network members at the University of Delaware. Our network highlighted IDeA programing and collaboration in DE along with providing updates on the DRPP, Data Science and other DE-INBRE initiatives. We rounded out day 1 of the meeting with a tour of the newly opened Building X, an interdisciplinary hub of collaboration and discovery for the sciences.

In 2024, Guam NSF EPSCoR senior researcher Christopher Lobban, Ph.D., received an award from the Japanese Society of Diatomology for his paper “Disymmetria reticulata, gen. nov., sp. nov. (Mediophyceae: Thalassiosirales), a new genus in Lauderiaceae emend., and transfer of Lauderia excentrica.” Lobban, a UOG professor emeritus of biology, is the first non-Japanese member of the organization to receive an award.