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A new cycle of seed grants from the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies will help faculty from six colleges across Cornell tackle issues ranging from the health of endangered wild dogs to t...
NSF awards $5.3 million in 59 grants to study effects of recent hurricanes
NSF awards $5.3 million 59 grants recent hurricanes
2017/10/25
It was August 25, and Hurricane Harvey's intensifying winds were moving onshore in South Texas, bringing torrential rains. No one yet knew that Harvey would eventually swamp Houston in flood waters. N...
NSF awards $36.6 million in new food-energy-water system grants（图）
NSF awards $36.6 million new food-energy-water system grants
2017/9/20
The number of humans alive on our planet today is some 7.5 billion. By 2087, projections show, 11 billion people will be living on Earth.How will we continue to have a sustainable supply of food, ener...
In wake of hurricanes,floods and wildfires,NSF awards $18.7 million in natural hazards research grants（图）
hurricanes floods wildfires NSF awards $18.7 million natural hazards research
2017/9/20
Hurricane Harvey: It dropped a record-breaking 50-plus inches of rain across parts of Texas and left behind widespread, devastating floods. Following in Harvey's wake, Hurricane Irma has spun another ...
A little fluorine turns an insulating ceramic known as white graphene into a wide-bandgap semiconductor with magnetic properties. Rice University scientists said that could make the unique material su...
NSF awards $13 million in third set of coastal sustainability grants
NSF $13 million third set coastal sustainability grants
2016/9/29
At a time when sea-level rise is flooding cities in the U.S. Southeast, harmful algae blooms are threatening seashore communities, and climate change is affecting fisheries just offshore, how do we co...
National Science Foundation awards $1.7 million in rapid response grants to study Zika virus
National Science Foundation awards $1.7 million rapid response grants Zika virus
2016/5/19
To find new ways of halting the spread of Zika -- fast becoming a major public health threat -- the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Environmental Biology's Ecology and Evolutio...
NSF awards rapid response grants to study current El Nino,one of the strongest on record
NSF awards grants El Nino strongest on record
2016/2/23
El Nino: What effect will it have on weather, on flooding and landslides, and on economically important coastal ecosystems?To find answers to these and other questions about the El Niño now under...
Opportunities for Promoting Understanding through Synthesis program awards $1.5 million in new grants
Synthesis program awards $1.5 million new grants
2015/11/13
Synthesis: the combination of ideas that forms a theory or system.For the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Environmental Biology (DEB), synthesis translates into a larger understanding ...
In year of U.S.wildfires,Nepal earthquake,NSF awards $27.5 million in hazards research grants
year of U.S.wildfires Nepal earthquake NSF awards $27.5 million hazards research grants
2015/9/18
Wildfires raged through Idaho, Washington, Oregon and California this summer, taking the lives of firefighters and forcing thousands to flee their homes. Months earlier and half a world away, another ...
NSF awards fifth round of grants to enhance America's biodiversity collections
NSF fifth round of grants America's biodiversity collections
2015/9/9
Slime molds, smut fungi, powdery mildew: These are some of the millions of microfungi documented in biological institutions across America.These ubiquitous microscopic organisms play important ecologi...
New grants foster research on food,energy and water: a linked system
New grants foster research food energy water linked system
2015/9/9
In a world where a growing number of people lack food, water and sources of energy, providing these resources has become a challenge.To find new answers, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has fund...
The Himalayas: These forbidding peaks in South Asia, which reach more than 29,000 feet and include Mount Everest, mark one of Earth's youngest mountain ranges. They also signal the location of an acti...
Exploring Home Rule Authority: An Assessment of the Impetuses Behind Broad Grants of Local Power
home rule
2015/1/7
This study is a comparative examination of factors related to a state’s likelihood of granting its local governments broad home rule authority or broad local governing discretion. Six factors are asse...
Racing ahead of disease outbreaks: $12 million in new research grants
disease outbreaks new research grants
2014/9/12
Ebola, MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome), malaria, antibiotic-resistant infections: Is our interaction with the environment somehow responsible for their increased incidence?