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The project will bring together experimental and theoretical physicists, chemists and electrical engineers from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln (UNL), the Kansas State University (KSU), and the University of Kansas (KU) as well as the facilities for AMO research at the James R. Macdonald Laboratory (JRML) at KSU, Extreme Light Laboratory at UNL, Physics and Chemistry departments at KU, and the computing resources at the partner institutions to explore novel states of matter. The project team plans to engage in synergistic activities to expand and diversify the STEM workforce by engaging students, teachers, and researchers at broad ranging educational levels. Research and educational collaborations among the consortium partners as well as at national and international levels and the preparation of a diverse, globally engaged STEM workforce training are expected to be sustained beyond the award period. \n\nTechnical Description \nThe projects will use femto to atto second pulses of light to trigger different types of reactions in matter and use pump-probe measurements, high harmonic generation, and ultrafast electron diffraction methods to study and image atomic and molecular motions. Detailed experimental and theoretical studies will be carried out to understand the molecular ionization processes caused by the interaction of strong laser fields and molecules. Participating researchers will build an electron spectrometer with angular resolution, improve the accuracy of extracting the molecular structure parameters, and establish an improved ionization theory for polyatomic molecules. Another aspect of the project will focus on experimental and theoretical studies to investigate the interaction of nanostructures to ultrashort pulses of extreme ultraviolet and infrared radiation. Applications such as ultrafast optical free electron beam switches will also be explored. The project will leverage the infrastructure and education, diversity, and outreach programs established by Kansas and Nebraska Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) to engage and inspire students at all levels. During the three years of this Research Infrastructure Improvement Track-2 project, the program expects to provide 19 person-years of postdoctoral training and support 48 graduate students, 18 undergraduates and 18 faculty members from two-and four-year colleges, 18 high school students, and 30 high school teachers in research.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "5359", "attributes": { "award_id": "0642025", "title": "Conference: Twenty-Fourth Fungal Genetics Conference to be held in Pacific Grove, California from March 20 -25, 2007.", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Unknown", "EUKARYOTIC GENETICS" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [], "start_date": "2007-03-15", "end_date": "2008-02-29", "award_amount": 4000, "principal_investigator": { "id": 18802, "first_name": "Marc", "last_name": "Orbach", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [ { "id": 438, "ror": "https://ror.org/03m2x1q45", "name": "University of Arizona", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "AZ", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 438, "ror": "https://ror.org/03m2x1q45", "name": "University of Arizona", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "AZ", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "The Twenty Fourth Fungal Genetics Conference will be held at the Asilomar Conference Center from March 20-25, 2007. Approximately 750-800 scientists and students from around the world will attend. The conference focuses on the molecular biology, genetics, genomics, biochemistry and cell biology of filamentous fungi.\n\nThis biennial conference promotes interaction between researchers interested in plant pathogens, medical pathogens, saprophytic fungi, and symbiotic fungi. All participants stay on the conference grounds, a fact that facilitates informal discussions among them and in the past has led to the development of new collaborations and research directions. The formal meeting will consist of four plenary sessions, four sets of concurrent sessions devoted to specialized areas, and three poster sessions. Topics to be covered in the plenary sessions include the following: 1) Genome structures and dynamics, 2) Host-pathogen and symbiotic interactions, 3) Development and metabolism, and 4) Sex, time, and evolution. Topics for the concurrent sessions will cover the following areas: 1)Whole genome comparative analysis, 2) Fungal-plant interactions, 3) Zygomycete and Chytrid genomics, biotechnology and evolutionary biology, 4)Teaching fungal biology and genetics, 5) Evolutionary genetics and genomics, 6) Associations between fungi and humans, 7)Regulation of primary and secondary metabolism, 8) Epigenetics and genome dynamics, 9) Population genetics, 10) Biological applications of genomic sequence data, 11) Biofilms, quorum sensing, and thigmotropism, 12) Dimorphic transitions, 13) Symbiotic and parasitic (viruses, nematodes, other fungi and insects) interactions, 14) Mating and sexual development, 15) RNA functions, 16) Circadian rhythms and photobiology, 17) Industrial mycology in the post-genomics era, 18) Proteome and postgenomic approaches to protein secretion, 19) Small molecules and signaling, 20) Apoptosis and vegetative incompatibility, 21) Evolution of gene clusters, 22) Cellular morphogenesis and development, 23) Signal transduction and cell surface receptors, 24) Cool tools for fungal biology: gene disruption and imaging, and 25) Advances in oomycete research and Basidiomycete biology.\n\nBeginning in the 1940s with the work of Beadle and Tatum, who first demonstrated the relationship between genetics and biochemistry, fungi have served as model eukaryotes, aiding in understanding of basic biological processes. This meeting places a strong emphasis on the participation of young scientists and students, particularly those from underrepresented groups. It provides many with their first opportunity to attend a major international conference and present their research findings, an important part of their training and professional development. Funds will be distributed on the basis of need and will be used to defray the travel and participation expenses of students, postdoctoral researchers, and some young scientists who would otherwise be unable to attend the meeting.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "3603", "attributes": { "award_id": "1656736", "title": "Evolution of Dimorphic Morphogenesis in Rhabditid Nematodes", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Unknown", "Evolution of Develp Mechanism" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [], "start_date": "2017-02-01", "end_date": "2021-01-31", "award_amount": 945000, "principal_investigator": { "id": 11701, "first_name": "David", "last_name": "Fitch", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [ { "id": 167, "ror": "https://ror.org/0190ak572", "name": "New York University", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "NY", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 167, "ror": "https://ror.org/0190ak572", "name": "New York University", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "NY", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "Gender dimorphism is the difference between genders in features such as coloration, shapes and sizes of body parts (morphology), or even behavior. The primary objective of this research project is to understand how morphological diversity in dimorphic structures has evolved. This objective addresses two fundamentally important but largely unanswered questions in developmental and evolutionary biology: (1) How do changes in gene regulatory networks (GRNs) result in morphological diversity? and (2) How might GRNs bias such evolutionary change? A major hypothesis is that some genes, called \"hot-spot\" genes, are involved repeatedly in morphological evolution, perhaps due to their central positions in GRNs. The research project will test this \"hot-spot\" hypothesis using a model structure, the nematode tail tip, which has repeatedly evolved dimorphism. This research will not only add to the understanding of fundamental evolutionary mechanisms, but will aid in the understanding of morphogenesis, a fundamental process in development, cancer metastasis and wound healing. New knowledge is also expected regarding genes that govern gender differences and control the timing of developmental events. Broader impacts include the training of new graduate and undergraduate students in developmental genetics, genomics and evolution. Because such students will be recruited from diverse pools, the participation of women and underrepresented minorities is likely to be enriched in this scientific discipline. In the course of this research, new resources (gene constructs, strains and databases) and novel methods (tissue-specific analysis of gene expression) will be generated and shared, likely to be useful to others researching morphogenesis and cell biology. Finally, a unique living, curated collection of diverse nematode species will be maintained as a valuable resource for comparative biology, genomics and education.\n\nThe tail tips of both males and females of many rhabditid nematode species (as well as the rhabditid ancestor) have a pointed morphology, but male-specific tail tip morphogenesis (TTM) producing a rounded shape has been repeatedly gained and lost during evolution. Two different approaches will be used to test the \"hot-spot\" gene hypothesis for the evolution of TTM dimorphism: a candidate-gene approach and an unbiased genomics-level approach. First, DMD-3, the \"master-regulator\" of TTM in Caenorhabditis elegans, will be tested as a candidate \"hot-spot\" gene. smFISH will be used to determine if DMD-3 is expressed in males from phylogenetic lineages that independently evolved TTM. Bayesian methods will be used to test for any phylogenetic correlation between changes in DMD-3 expression and TTM dimorphism. If such correlation exists, the functional requirement for DMD-3 will be tested by CRISPR/Cas9 knockout or RNAi. The second approach will use phylogenetic analysis of tail-tip-specific transcriptome profiles to identify any other genes that changed expression in concert with TTM evolution. RNA-seq profiles will be obtained for tail tips that have been laser-dissected from males and females at several stages from L3 through L4. For each species, these profiles will identify tail tip genes that are dynamically expressed between L3 and L4 stages, differentially expressed between the different genders, and correlate with the gain or loss of TTM in the phylogeny.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "4031", "attributes": { "award_id": "1556931", "title": "Collaborative Research: The genetic basis, biosynthetic pathways and evolution of chemical defense in carabid beetles", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Unknown", "EVOLUTIONARY GENETICS" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [], "start_date": "2016-07-01", "end_date": "2018-02-28", "award_amount": 284175, "principal_investigator": { "id": 13512, "first_name": "Tanya", "last_name": "Renner", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 448, "ror": "", "name": "San Diego State University Foundation", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "CA", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "The main goal of this project is to understand, at the molecular level, one of the most remarkable chemical defense systems found in nature - the explosive, extremely hot spray of the bombardier beetles. Insects make up much of the animal life that has evolved on Earth. Understanding why there are so many different kinds of insects and why they are so successful is fundamental to understanding how the wide diversity of life evolved. Insects are well known for producing many different chemical compounds that are required for their communication. Some chemicals help them to locate mates and food resources, others help them to organize activities within the nest or hive, and many others are used to warn off and defend against predators. This project focuses on this last aspect and is specifically testing the idea that the genes responsible for production of the hot chemical spray of the bombardier beetles are closely related to the genes responsible for producing similar chemicals in the insect's outer shell or exoskeleton. A main strength of the project is that it tackles this question by using multiple complementary approaches and by comparing eight different beetle species that are related to varying degrees. Half of these species have evolved a chemical defense system, the other half have not evolved this ability. Many college students and young scientists will receive scientific training in conjunction with the project. People of all ages are highly captivated by these beetles, particularly school age children. With the bombardier beetle as a model, the project will help develop elementary school level hands-on activities and lesson plans on topics in chemical ecology and biological chemical defense evolution that will reinforce the Next Generation Science.\n\nGround beetles and their relatives form the largest clade of organisms that use a single homologous gland system to produce no less than 19 distinct classes of chemical compounds for defense. This project will develop a detailed functional and evolutionary understanding of defensive chemistry evolution by focusing on species from the four lineages of quinone producing carabid beetles, including species commonly known as the bombardier beetles, which chemically blast their defensive quinones at extremely hot temperatures (up to 100 °C). Using a multidisciplinary approach, this project will identify genes involved in quinone production, elucidate chemical biosynthetic pathways, and describe the genetic architecture of quinone evolution. From gland-specific transcripts, candidate genes related to the production of defensive secretions will be identified and gene function will be validated experimentally by blocking gene transcription and looking at phenotypic changes in the compounds produced. The researchers will test the hypothesis that the genes up-regulated in secretory cells during quinone synthesis are closely related to those involved in quinone production in arthropod cuticle. Thus the project will empirically address the well-known, but untested, scenario of how the bombardier beetle evolved its explosive defense abilities. Ultimately, this project will explore how genetics and chemistry can interact over time and will reveal insights into the fundamental process of evolution.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "10461", "attributes": { "award_id": "2129076", "title": "Co-Development of Telehealth, Remote Patient Monitoring, and AI-based Tools for Inclusive Technology-Facilitated Healthcare Work of the Future", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Unknown", "FW-HTF Futr Wrk Hum-Tech Frntr" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 1223, "first_name": "Alexandra", "last_name": "Medina-Borja", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2021-10-15", "end_date": "2026-09-30", "award_amount": 2499999, "principal_investigator": { "id": 7243, "first_name": "Oded", "last_name": "Nov", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [ { "id": 167, "ror": "https://ror.org/0190ak572", "name": "New York University", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "NY", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [ { "id": 8912, "first_name": "Batia M", "last_name": "Wiesenfeld", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, { "id": 26465, "first_name": "Devin", "last_name": "Mann", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, { "id": 26466, "first_name": "Rumi", "last_name": "Chunara", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, { "id": 26467, "first_name": "Olugbenga", "last_name": "Ogedegbe", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "awardee_organization": { "id": 167, "ror": "https://ror.org/0190ak572", "name": "New York University", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "NY", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "As the use of digital health technologies grows, gaps between the potential of new technologies, existing healthcare practices, and workers’ preparedness for new technologies limit the potential of digital health to achieve acceptance and effective utilization at scale. This transition to scale research project views inclusion as a key driver of scale in future technology-facilitated healthcare work. Inclusive technology for healthcare work will enable workers in diverse roles and skills to leverage increasing access to data-driven technologies. The project focuses on the growth of Data-Intensive Technologies (DIT), which include telehealth and AI-based tools. The project’s approach to transition to scale centers on alleviating existing misalignment between current healthcare work and data-intensive technologies in three ways. First is through the co-development of tools and generalizable design principles with users that lower the barrier to technology integration for healthcare workers. Second is by empowering individuals within healthcare systems who have diverse roles to adopt and use the tools and improve their skills. Third is to enable patient-centered healthcare that promotes autonomy and strengthens clinician-patient concordance. The project represents a multi-institutional commitment to transitioning innovative healthcare to scale, through DIT facilitated inclusion of diverse workers in healthcare systems across the U.S., which together encompass over 1000 care sites in U.S. 24 states, multiple work roles, and different levels of training and hierarchy.\n\nThis project brings together several scientific fields, including human-computer interaction, health informatics, artificial intelligence (AI), sensing, medicine, organizational behavior, and research on diversity and inclusion. The investigator team is structured to achieve multiple convergent goals such as quantifying the impacts of scaling DIT on inclusive healthcare work and modelling prescription and adoption of DIT towards inclusive deployment at scale. Additionally, the investigators seek to identify generalizable DIT design principles for inclusive healthcare work at scale, and to develop theory and tools to facilitate at-scale inclusion through DIT-based patient-provider concordance. Finally, the project expects to develop tools and practices for lowering barriers to comprehension of and engagement with DIT by diverse healthcare workers; to create AI-based team-focused tools; and to analyze the opportunities and challenges in using AI for diverse healthcare teams’ work. This project has been funded by the NSF Future of Work at the Human-Technology Frontier cross-directorate program to promote deeper basic understanding of the interdependent human-technology partnership in work contexts by advancing design of intelligent work technologies that operate in harmony with human workers.\n\nThis award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "5207", "attributes": { "award_id": "0923383", "title": "Galactic Center Workshop 2009: A Window Into the Nuclear Environment of Galaxies; October 2009; Shanghai, China", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Unknown", "GALACTIC ASTRONOMY PROGRAM" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [], "start_date": "2009-09-01", "end_date": "2011-08-31", "award_amount": 50000, "principal_investigator": { "id": 18437, "first_name": "Cornelia", "last_name": "Lang", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [ { "id": 220, "ror": "https://ror.org/036jqmy94", "name": "University of Iowa", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "IA", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 220, "ror": "https://ror.org/036jqmy94", "name": "University of Iowa", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "IA", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "This award will support travel and local expenses for United States students and early career scientists to attend the international workshop \"Galactic Center Workshop 2009: A Window into the Nuclear Environment of Galaxies\", to be held on October 19-23, 2009 in Shanghai, China. The purpose of the workshop is to highlight the recent research results on the center of the Milky Way and the nuclear regions of nearby galaxies. This conference is the latest in a series of scientific workshops held every 3-4 years on this topical area. Recent highlights include the high-resolution and sensitive new surveys of the Galactic Center interstellar medium at wavelengths from X-ray through radio, new constraints on the size and structure of the super massive black hole source, Sgr A*, and the most recent results from coordinated monitoring campaigns of this source. The workshop will also emphasize the relationship between the physical processes occurring in our own Galactic Center and those happening in the nuclei of the nearest galaxies. The format of the meetings will include substantial time for discussion in addition to the scheduled talks. These discussions, moderated by leading researchers in the field, will focus on the implications of the current results presented in the sessions and future directions for inquiry.\n\nThis workshop serves to promote Galactic Center astronomy in wider academic circles and on an international effort. The funding from this award will support the travel costs of as many as 20 junior researchers - graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, and junior faculty members - to attend this international scientific workshop. Travel support will give young and active members of the scientific community the opportunity to attend what will certainly be a very interesting and informative workshop at an early stage in their scientific careers. In addition, the participants will be exposed to the breadth of astronomical activities occurring in China. A diverse group of speakers and participants will be recruited for this workshop in order to represent the diversity of research currently being carried out on this topic.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "5431", "attributes": { "award_id": "0739830", "title": "Conference: 2007 Rustbelt RNA Meeting being held October 19-20, 2007 in Mt. Sterling, Ohio", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Unknown", "GENE EXPRESSION" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [], "start_date": "2007-10-15", "end_date": "2008-09-30", "award_amount": 5000, "principal_investigator": { "id": 18969, "first_name": "Ralf", "last_name": "Bundschuh", "orcid": null, "emails": "[email protected]", "private_emails": null, "keywords": "[]", "approved": true, "websites": "[]", "desired_collaboration": "", "comments": "", "affiliations": [ { "id": 1375, "ror": "", "name": "Ohio State University Research Foundation -DO NOT USE", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "OH", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 1375, "ror": "", "name": "Ohio State University Research Foundation -DO NOT USE", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "OH", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "The 2007 Rustbelt RNA Meeting will be held October 19-20, 2007 in the Lodge at Deer Creek State Park & Resort in Mt. Sterling, OH. The intellectual objective of the meeting is to provide an inexpensive, high caliber, interdisciplinary meeting for RNA researchers in the Midwest. The field of RNA structure, function, and processing is growing at a rapid pace and RNA has been shown to be intimately involved in many important biological phenomena beyond its obvious prominent role in transcription and translation. At the same time the methods used to study RNA are becoming more and more diverse ranging from synthetic and physical chemistry over biochemistry, genetics, and biophysical approaches all the way to computational methods. Consequently, research groups need a forum where they can hear and discuss new results and techniques in all areas of RNA research that can result in furthering an individual lab's aims. The size and organization of the meeting has proven to be an excellent environment for active discussions between research groups, including those between PIs, between PIs and trainees as well as between trainees themselves. Such interactions are more difficult at larger national meetings. The Rustbelt RNA meeting was established in 1999 and is the major Midwest regional meeting of RNA researchers, attended by participants including principal investigators (PIs), postdoctoral fellows, graduate, and undergraduate students from both research intensive and primarily undergraduate institutions in Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, and Pennsylvania, as well as farther away (Delaware). Based on attendance in previous years, approximately 170 participants are expected in 2007.\n\nBroader Impact. The main broader impact of the rustbelt RNA meeting is in trainee and junior faculty development. The conference traditionally emphasizes trainee participation and features graduate and undergraduate student participation, from institutions ranging from large research intensive universities to small, primarily undergraduate colleges. In addition to offering opportunities for interactions with PIs and other trainees, the RRM provides invaluable experience presenting research in an educational and supportive atmosphere. Importantly, trainees account for the vast majority (about 90%) of both poster and oral presentations. Such presentations instill confidence in the trainees and inspire trainees in the audience to present their results orally in the future. To encourage the speakers further, prizes are awarded for outstanding trainee presentations. Finally, the meeting is an excellent forum for junior PIs to showcase their emerging research programs.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "3725", "attributes": { "award_id": "1743086", "title": "Graduate Student Travel Support Program for the 2017 V.M. Goldschmidt Conference in Paris, France, August 13-18, 2017", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Unknown", "Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 12166, "first_name": "Enriqueta", "last_name": "Barrera", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2017-06-15", "end_date": "2018-05-31", "award_amount": 30000, "principal_investigator": { "id": 12167, "first_name": "Munir", "last_name": "Humayun", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [ { "id": 1178, "ror": "", "name": "The Geochemical Society", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "DC", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 1178, "ror": "", "name": "The Geochemical Society", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "DC", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "This award will support participation by graduate students in the 2017 V.M. Goldschmidt Conference in Paris, France, during August 13-18, 2017. This travel grant will enable the best and brightest students from the US and US Territories, students who might otherwise be unable to attend due to financial constraints at their home institutions, to benefit from all the advantages this meeting has to offer at this turning point in their respective careers. The Goldschmidt conference is the premier venue for geochemistry and the chosen students will be exposed to the latest advances in the field of geochemistry. The conference offers an excellent opportunity for networking of students who are close to graduation and will be entering the workforce. In addition to oral and poster presentation in 19 theme sessions, students can participate in field trips and workshops associated with the conference. \n\nApplications will be collected from the students, then reviewed and ranked by a volunteer committee of scientists. Twenty-four students, who are presenting their work at the conference, will receive $1,250 each toward travel expenses. Considerations for the award are the preparation of the application package, the demonstrated need for the funds, the selection of a diverse pool of applicants based on gender,representation and geographical distribution. 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The workshop will bring together an international group of about 50 isotope geochemists and biomedical researchers to explore the use of high precision isotope analysis, particularly of the heavy metals or metallomics, as disease biomarkers. \n \nIt is known that disruptions in the metabolism of inorganic elements can be the cause or result from some diseases, such as Alzheimer, osteoporosis, and cancer. The aim of the workshop is to identify medical questions where sophisticated technologies, methodologies, and concepts that have been used in the geological and environmental sciences can be applied to combat disease. Results of the workshop will be published in a report that will serve as the founding document of the new field of isotope metallomic biomarkers and will be available to researchers and the public.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "4506", "attributes": { "award_id": "1539833", "title": "The Impact of Value Chain Approaches on Gender and Food Security", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Unknown", "Geography and Spatial Sciences" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [], "start_date": "2015-09-01", "end_date": "2021-08-31", "award_amount": 479808, "principal_investigator": { "id": 15466, "first_name": "Rachel", "last_name": "Schurman", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [ { "id": 227, "ror": "", "name": "University of Minnesota-Twin Cities", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "MN", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [ { "id": 15462, "first_name": "Thomas J", "last_name": "Bassett", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, { "id": 15463, "first_name": "William G", "last_name": "Moseley", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, { "id": 15464, "first_name": "Heidi", "last_name": "Gengenbach", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, { "id": 15465, "first_name": "William", "last_name": "Munro", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "awardee_organization": { "id": 227, "ror": "", "name": "University of Minnesota-Twin Cities", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "MN", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "Food insecurity remains one of the most serious challenges facing humankind. This research project will investigate dietary diversity as an indicator of household food security, and it will generate evidence of the food security consequences of agricultural value chain development. The project's comparative approach will explore variation across national contexts, agrarian settings, and sociocultural conditions. It will provide new insights regarding the restructuring of the global agricultural system that has occurred over the last 20 years. Furthermore, it will reconceptualize agricultural value chains as co-produced assemblages of diverse actors, processes, and practices in which farmers are active participants rather than passive recipients of top-down policy processes. The investigators will work with U.S. philanthropic foundations and government agencies. They also will interact with international organizations and policy makers to contribute to capacity-building, education, and training in new methodologies to study the impacts of value chain participation on families and communities.\n\nThrough a comparative study of three value chain initiatives, this project will focus on two core questions: (1) How has gender been incorporated by a wide range of development actors into efforts to promote a new green revolution for Africa? (2) What has been the impact of green revolution projects on household food security? The investigators will conduct surveys, semi-structured interviews, and focus groups with key actors in a variety of value chain organizations to determine how they articulate and advance their interests in interactions with each other. With these data, the investigators will perform a comparative analysis of policy directives, gender compositions, and organizational project and investment plans. Through an assessment of how the state, development agencies, and markets interact with rural actors to co-produce local livelihoods, the findings will shed new light on the efficacy of such programs on poverty reduction, hunger mitigation, and human security, all of which will benefit the United States as it interacts with governments and other organizations in Africa and elsewhere.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } } ], "meta": { "pagination": { "page": 1385, "pages": 1397, "count": 13961 } } }