Grants

The University of Illinois at Chicago will continue its work as one of only 25 academic institutions in the CDC's Prevention Research Center network and will test a health intervention -- the addition of a dedicated health care specialist -- in Chicago Public Schools.

Peg Nopoulos, MD, chair of psychiatry and professor of psychiatry, neurology, and pediatrics in the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, has received a 5-year, $18 million grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke to continue and expand a decade-long study on brain development in children at risk for developing Huntington's Disease (HD).

SwRI has received an additional $500,000 in NASA funding to evaluate a device designed to deliver liquid propellant to a rocket engine from fuel tanks. The tapered liquid acquisition device (LAD) is designed to prevent potentially dangerous vapor bubbles from being transferred to the rocket engine. Developed by SwRI engineers and NASA's Glenn Research Center in Ohio, the new design was tested in a suborbital flight aboard Blue Origin's New Shepard vehicle on Dec. 10.

A Professor of Physics at the University of Strathclyde has been awarded more than €2 million by the European Research Council (ERC), for a project aiming to develop next-generation plasma-based electron beam sources for photon science and high-energy physics.

While it's well established that Type 2 diabetes significantly boosts the risk of cognitive decline, Nathan A. Smith, MS, Ph.D., a principal investigator in the Children's National Research Institute, says it remains unclear whether this process might be halted or even reversed.

A pioneering cloud and global gateway for nanotechnology research and education has received a National Science Foundation grant renewal, completing its 20-year mission while looking to the future to create new technologies. The grant renewal of $13.5 million will fund the center through November 2023.

A new 15-month research project will seek to dispel the mysteries of the black box problem and to discover a new way of creating deep-learning AI computing models that make decisions that are transparent and explainable.

Akanmu and an interdisciplinary team of researchers at Virginia Tech recently received a National Science Foundation grant to expand educators' understanding of how trainees learn the transferable skills necessary to thrive in expensive -- and dangerous -- concrete and steel environments.