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Public Release: 30-Nov-2012
Cornell receives $25.2M in funding for next generation cassava breeding
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Department for International Development of the United Kingdom are investing $25.2 million to improve the staple crop's productivity and build human and technical capacity for plant breeding in sub-Saharan Africa. The five-year project is hosted by Cornell University with five partner institutions.

Contact: John Carberry
johncarberry@cornell.edu
607-255-5353
Cornell University

Public Release: 30-Nov-2012
Wayne State part of international effort to understand chemical movement, processes in oceans
From the middle of the country, a Wayne State University researcher is working to advance understanding of the movement of chemical compounds through the world's oceans.
National Science Foundation

Contact: Julie O'Connor
julie.oconnor@gmail.com
313-577-8845
Wayne State University - Office of the Vice President for Research

Public Release: 30-Nov-2012
Team led by Argonne National Lab selected as DOE's Batteries and Energy Storage Hub
Energy Secretary Steven Chu joined Illinois dignitaries in announcing that a team led by Argonne National Laboratory was selected for an award of up to $120 million over five years to establish a new Batteries and Energy Storage Hub. The Hub -- the Joint Center for Energy Storage Research -- will combine the R&D firepower of five DOE national laboratories, five universities, and four private firms in an effort toward achieving revolutionary advances in battery performance.
US Department of Energy

Contact: Jeff Sherwood
202-586-4940
DOE/US Department of Energy

Public Release: 30-Nov-2012
CWRU awarded grant to build battery for smart grid, renewables
ARPA-E has granted Case Western Reserve University funding to develop a "rustbelt" battery with unprecedented flexibility and utility. By replacing the standard solid electrode in the negative half of the cell with a slurry, the battery would enable greater energy storage capacity while permitting greater power density.
Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy

Contact: Kevin Mayhood
kevin.mayhood@case.edu
216-368-4442
Case Western Reserve University

Public Release: 30-Nov-2012
DKK 60 million for research center devoted to well-being among children and young people
With a grant of DKK 60 million, the TrygFonden foundation has taken the initiative to establish a new research center at Aarhus University. The center is to lead the way in proving that it is possible to build up a solid base of knowledge about what does and does not work with regard to improving the well-being of children and young people. The project has the backing of a Nobel laureate, who believes that Denmark can become a pioneer in the area.

Contact: Merete Konnerup
mek@trygfonden.dk
(45) 21-68-52-18
Aarhus University

Public Release: 29-Nov-2012
Study focuses on returning wounded soldiers to meaningful civilian lives
Record numbers of soldiers are returning from Iraq and Afghanistan with serious spinal cord injuries. Medical advancements can help heal their physical wounds, but little is known about how these veterans re-engage with their communities and rebuild meaningful lives. A study at Wayne State University and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, will study how service members and veterans with SCI reintegrate into society.
US Department of Defense

Contact: Julie O'Connor
julie.oconnor@wayne.edu
313-577-8845
Wayne State University - Office of the Vice President for Research

Public Release: 29-Nov-2012
Notre Dame researchers to lead new science data preservation effort
A new project led by University of Notre Dame researchers will explore solutions to the problems of preserving data, analysis software and computational workflows, and how these relate to results obtained from the analysis of large datasets.
National Science Foundation

Contact: Mike Hildreth
hildreth.2@nd.edu
574-631-6458
University of Notre Dame

Public Release: 29-Nov-2012
Feeding the world fairly
An $800,000 grant from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation will fund collaborative work by three divisions of Johns Hopkins University to develop ethical guidelines to help meet the challenge of fair access to good food.
Stavros Niarchos Foundation

Contact: Leah Ramsay
lramsay@jhu.edu
202-642-9640
Johns Hopkins Medicine

Public Release: 29-Nov-2012
New grant funds autism research at SDSU
San Diego State University psychology research professor Inna Fishman is embarking on a study to identify the differences in brain networks of children and adolescents with autism and those who are typically developing.
NIH/National Institute of Mental Health

Contact: Natalia Van Stralen
Natalia.vanstralen@sdsu.edu
619-594-2585
San Diego State University

Public Release: 29-Nov-2012
Adolescent girls focus of New University of Houston study
As a young clinical social worker, Danielle Parrish, an assistant professor at the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work, frequently noticed that at least a third of the girls were visibly pregnant on the girl's unit in a juvenile detention center.
National Institutes of Health

Contact: Melissa Carroll
mcarroll@uh.edu
713-743-8153
University of Houston

Public Release: 29-Nov-2012
Greener storage for green energy
Renewable energy solutions like wind and solar operate on nature's timetable. Power is plentiful -- but not necessarily at the moments when consumers need it. To give renewables a fighting chance, a team led by engineers and chemists at Harvard will use a one-year, $600,000 innovation grant from the US Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy program to develop a new type of storage battery.
US Department of Energy

Contact: Michael Patrick Rutter
mrutter@seas.harvard.edu
617-496-3815
Harvard University

Public Release: 28-Nov-2012
ARPA-e awards $130 million for transformation energy technology projects
Sixty six cutting-edge research projects have been selected by the Energy Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy to receive a total of $130 million in funding.
US Department of Energy

Contact: Jeff Sherwood
202-586-4940
DOE/US Department of Energy

Public Release: 28-Nov-2012
AHA awards Loyola more than $60,000 for cardiac research
The American Heart Association has awarded Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine $60,666 for cardiac research in 2012, bringing the lifetime total the AHA has awarded to Loyola to more than $10 million.
American Heart Association

Contact: Jim Ritter
jritter@lumc.edu
708-216-2445
Loyola University Health System

Public Release: 28-Nov-2012
Grant creates science demilitarized zone at SDSU
The National Science Foundation has awarded funding of nearly $500,000 for the construction of a network designed to support data-intensive research in engineering and sciences at San Diego State University. With the funding, faculty and staff will design and build a science demilitarized zone separate from the campus network with an independent connection to the Internet for maximum speed of data exchange.
National Science Foundation

Contact: Greg Block
gblock@mail.sdsu.edu
619-594-2176
San Diego State University

Public Release: 28-Nov-2012
U of Minn. receives $1.8 million grant for improving efficiencies in fuel and plastics production
The University of Minnesota has been awarded a $1.8 million grant over three years from the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy to develop revolutionary membrane technology that will enable energy-efficient separations in the chemical, petrochemical, water, fossil fuel, and renewable energy industries. When fully implemented, the technology could reduce US energy consumption by as much as 3 percent. Science magazine named initial research as one of the biggest breakthroughs of 2011.

Contact: Rhonda Zurn
rzurn@umn.edu
612-626-7959
University of Minnesota

Public Release: 28-Nov-2012
DFG funds new Collaborative Research Center at the Mainz University Medical Center
On Jan. 1, 2013, the German Research Foundation will establish a new Collaborative Research Center at the University Medical Center of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. The research team of scientists from Mainz and Frankfurt, coordinated by Professor Dr. Robert Nitsch, Director of the Institute of Microscopic Anatomy and Neurobiology at the Mainz University Medical Center, has been awarded funding of approximately EUR 9.3 million for an initial period of four years.

Contact: Oliver Kreft
kreft@um-mainz.de
49-613-117-9716
Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz

Public Release: 28-Nov-2012
U of T Engineers awarded $2.2 million grant for toilet research
A University of Toronto engineering team has received a major grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to continue work on designing for a waterless, hygienic toilet that is safe and affordable for people in the developing world.
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Contact: Terry Lavender
terry.lavender@utoronto.ca
416-978-4498
University of Toronto Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering

Public Release: 27-Nov-2012
New computerized approach could revolutionize design and manufacturing
Engineers have made important advances that may dramatically change how machines get built, with a concept that could turn the approaches used by modern industry into a historic relic.
US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

Contact: Irem Tumer
irem.tumer@oregonstate.edu
541-737-6627
Oregon State University

Public Release: 27-Nov-2012
Man and nature 3200 BC to the Middle Ages
New postgraduate research group to study early concepts of Man and Nature from 3200 BC to the Middle Ages.

Contact: Tanja Pommerening
tpommere@uni-mainz.de
49-613-139-38348
Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz

Public Release: 27-Nov-2012
Clinician-scientists at The Neuro receive funding for Parkinson's and HIV research
Two clinician-scientists at The Neuro have been awarded grants today to further research on Parkinson's disease and HIV/AIDS.

Contact: Anita Kar
anita.kar@mcgill.ca
514-398-3376
McGill University

Public Release: 27-Nov-2012
Developing 'second skin' military fabric to repel chemical and biological agents
The researchers say the fabric will be able to switch reversibly from a highly breathable state to a protective one in response to the presence of the environmental threat without the need for an external control system. In the protective state, the uniform material will block the chemical threat while maintaining a good breathability level.
US Defense Threat Reduction Agency

Contact: Janet Lathrop
jlathrop@admin.umass.edu
413-545-0444
University of Massachusetts at Amherst

Public Release: 27-Nov-2012
Binghamton University Decker School receives $757,000 grant
The Decker School of Nursing has received a two-year, $757,000 traineeship grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration to provide financial support for graduate students.
US Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration

Contact: Ryan Yarosh
ryarosh@binghamton.edu
607-777-2174
Binghamton University

Public Release: 26-Nov-2012
GW professor to examine infections in HIV patients with federal grant
Imtiaz A. Khan, M.D., professor of microbiology, immunology, and tropical medicine at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, received a $1.6 million federal grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to study the effects of microsporidia--opportunistic inter-cellular pathogens--that cause morbidity and mortality in HIV patients.
NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Contact: Lisa Anderson
lisama2@gwu.edu
202-994-3121
George Washington University

Public Release: 26-Nov-2012
Grove Professor receives $1.5MM to study breast cancer therapies
For some time, researchers have known about disparities in diagnoses and outcomes among breast cancer patients based on race and age. However, they have been challenged to develop a set of criteria that can be used to reliably target drug delivery mechanisms based on an individual patient's tumor.
National Institutes of Health

Contact: Ellis Simon
esimon@ccny.cuny.edu
212-650-6460
City College of New York

Public Release: 26-Nov-2012
Clemson University researchers to monitor, restore historic campus creek
A Clemson University Experiment Station grant of more than $100,000 will enable researchers to monitor and restore part of an historic creek that flows through and around the campus.
Clemson University Experiment Station

Contact: Cal Sawyer
calvins@clemson.edu
864-656-4072
Clemson University

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