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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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