Success Stories

Ever since former Montana State University microbiologist and Regents Professor Mark Jutila acquired a rare flow cytometer in 1990, MSU researchers have benefited from on-site access to high-level instruments needed to conduct comprehensive tissue and cell profiling.

Arkansas INBRE is pleased to announce that we have received a one-year supplement to add a sixth year to our current cycle of funding from NIH. The Notice of Award, received on July 25, was in the amount of $4,290,727 and will cover AR INBRE projects, programs and initiatives from May 1, 2025 through April 30, 2026.

This month, the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) announced six awards through its EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement (RII) Program: Focused EPSCoR Collaborations (FEC), investing $29.2 million across 11 EPSCoR jurisdictions to strengthen research capacity and drive translational research across the nation.

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.