National Science Foundation

Viganò awarded grant to study turbulence at hypersonic speeds 

Posted by on August 6, 2024

Dr. Davide Viganò, an assistant professor of aerospace engineering, has been awarded $200,000 from the National Science Foundation to study how turbulence behaves at high speeds and how it could be used to make hypersonic vehicles more effective. 

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DisMEIRP team wins NSF’s Spirit of I-Corps Award and $50,000

Posted by on July 2, 2024

A team of researchers recently completed the National Science Foundation I-Corps program, earning the Spirit of I-Corps award and $50,000. The team, named DisMEIRP (Disaster Management Enterprise Information Resource Planning), participated in the second cohort of the program, which spanned Monday, April 15, to Friday, May 31.

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S&T announces new faculty fellows for ADVANCE program

Posted by on May 9, 2024

In 2022, Missouri S&T was awarded a $1 million grant through the National Science Foundation’s ADVANCE program to work toward increasing the representation of women — especially those from underrepresented racial or ethnic groups — in faculty and leadership positions at the university. The fellows work to complete projects that will help the university reach this goal.

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Psychology student receives honorable mention in NSF program

Posted by on May 7, 2024

Jessica Frame, a senior in psychology, received an honorable mention for the National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program. She will continue her training in the neuroscience Ph.D. program at the University of Iowa next fall.

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Learn about the future of AI in manufacturing March 11

Posted by on March 4, 2024

The Intelligent Systems Center and the vice chancellor for research and innovation will host a seminar at noon Monday, March 11, featuring Dr. Bruce Kramer, the senior advisor in the Division of Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation of the National Science Foundation. 

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Mochalin leads research on 2D materials with $2 million grant

Posted by on November 7, 2023

Dr. Vadym Mochalin, associate professor of chemistry, is leading a project supported by a $2 million grant from the National Science Foundation’s Designing Materials to Revolutionize and Engineer our Future program.

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Yan wins $14 million NSF Mid-scale RI-1 grant

Posted by on October 13, 2023

Dr. Grace Yan, associate professor of structural engineering and director of the Center for Hazard Mitigation and Community Resilience, is a co-principal investigator (co-PI) on a $14 million NSF Mid-scale Research Infrastructure-1 grant (Mid-scale RI-1). The project, led by Iowa State University, is titled “National Testing Facility for Enhancing Wind Resiliency of Infrastructure in Tornado-Downburst-Gust Front […]

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Rezaei awarded grant to advance nanoporous materials research

Posted by on October 3, 2023

Dr. Fateme Rezaei, the Linda and Bipin Doshi Professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, has been granted a Major Research Instrument (MRI) award of approximately $600,000 from the National Science Foundation.

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S&T hosts workshop to explore cosmology with machine learning

Posted by on September 5, 2023

The S&T Institute for Multi-Messenger Astrophysics and Cosmology (IMAC) held a workshop titled “Exploring Cosmology with Machine Learning” Wednesday, Aug. 2, through Friday, Aug. 4.

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Paige wins NSF grant to study statistics

Posted by on September 5, 2023

Dr. Robert L. Paige, professor of mathematics and statistics, was awarded a $100,000 National Science Foundation grant for a collaborative project with Dr. Vic Patrangenaru, professor of statistics at Florida State University.

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