Grants

Society significantly benefits from scientific research, but it wouldn’t be possible without generous contributions from public and private sources.

This page is a testament to that support. With it, Northeastern’s College of Science has cultivated a dynamic landscape of research activity. Through a culture that emphasizes entrepreneurship, our exceptional faculty, staff, and student researchers are able to maximize the impact of their work.

The grants listed below are a preview of the science and scientists of tomorrow, who probe single cells, the outer limit of particle physics, and everything in between.

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  • 01/18/2023

    Rebecca Shansky

    Sponsor: NIH
    Sex-dependent pain processing circuitry in classical Pavlovian fear conditioning Traumatic experiences create powerful memories by linking information about the trauma itself with environmental cues associated with the event. Our lab has found evidence that males and females may form these memories using different brain regions, and this grant will allow us to probe this question more […]
  • 01/11/2023

    Justin Reis

    Sponsor: NOAA
    Polymorph mineralogy & fraction of calcium carbonate (CaCO3) sediments across the western North Atlantic shelf (Gulf of Maine to Chesapeake Bay) Prof. Justin Ries was funded to collect and analyze sediments from the western Atlantic shelf (Maine to Maryland) as part NOAA’s third East Coast Ocean Acidification (ECOA-3) cruise aboard the NOAAS Ronald H. Brown […]
  • 11/21/2022

    Laurel Gabard-Durnam

    Sponsor: Gates Foundation
    The goals of this award are first to design and validate a scalable, affordable hardware-software package that reliably measures brain function via EEG in babies over the first two years of life. Second, in multi-country studies using this EEG system, we will establish which measures of early brain function track healthy developmental changes associated with […]
  • 11/02/2022

    Sam Munoz

    Sponsor: US Geo
    Riverine flooding is a perennial hazard in the heavily populated Northeastern United States, and improving near- and long-term forecasts of flooding in this region is of critical importance for regional water resource management, infrastructure planning, and fisheries. In this project, we will harness advances in climate reanalysis and modeling to (i) identify the ocean-atmosphere patterns […]
  • 10/05/2022

    Gabor Lippner

    Sponsor: Simons Foundation
    Graph theory – the mathematical study of networks has originally developed as a part of discrete mathematics and combinatorics. This has changed significantly in the past 20 years following discoveries of connections to Linear Algebra and later to Geometry and even to Real Analysis. The goal of this project is to find new applications to, […]
  • 10/05/2022

    Michele Di Pierro

    Sponsor: NIH
    The aim of the project is to gain mechanistic understanding of the relationships among non-coding genomic variation, phenotype, and disease. To achieve this aim, researchers will combine data from DNA-DNA proximity ligation assays and multiple genome alignments to extract coevolutionary information about DNA elements and to infer the network of functional interactions among them.
  • 09/01/2022

    Aaron Seitz

    Sponsor: National Institute of Mental Health
    Visual remediation for schizophrenia This R61/R33 study examines the relative effectiveness of two novel visual remediation approaches to schizophrenia that focus on the low-level mechanism of contrast sensitivity and the mid-level mechanism of contour integration. There is no overlap between the interventions used in this study and the ones in the proposed study. Specific Aim […]
  • 09/01/2022

    Aaron Seitz

    Sponsor: National Institute of Aging
    How LC Integrity in Older Adults Mediates Perceptual and Memory Processes This project aims to use behavioral and fMRI studies to understand how the Locus Coeruleus (LC) impacts perceptual and memory processes in older adults. Specific Aim (s): Aim 1: Characterize relationships between LC and perceptual processing. Aim 2: Characterize relationships between LC and visual […]
  • 08/23/2022

    Fabian Ruehle

    Sponsor: NSF
    String theory has evolved into one of the most complex theories devised by mankind to date. Its goal is to describe our Universe from the smallest to the largest scales. In my research proposal, I suggest to use latest advances in mathematics and artificial intelligence to uncover answers to fundamental questions hidden within this theory.
  • 08/18/2022

    Pran Nath

    Sponsor: NSF
    This research will investigate the laws of physics at short length and time scales not yet understood using symmetry principles and mathematical and machine learning tools. Analyses of data expected from the Large Hadron Collider, in Geneva, Switzerland to detect possible evidence of strings and new physics will be undertaken.
  • 08/17/2022

    Clemens Bauer Hoss

    Sponsor: NIH
    Auditory hallucinations are one of the five cardinal symptoms of schizophrenia and one of the most distressing. Almost a third of patients experiencing auditory hallucinations are not responsive to gold-standard pharmacological and psychotherapeutic treatment. We have pioneered a new non-invasive treatment candidate, computational neuroscience-based approach, also known as network-based real-time functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) Neurofeedback that is a […]
  • 08/02/2022

    Jennifer Bowen

    Sponsor: NSF
    Salt marshes provide an important line of defense against nutrient pollution by intercepting watershed nitrogen before it enters estuaries. This nitrogen can enhance the growth of marsh plants, however some forms of nitrogen can also be used by microbes, who use it to decompose organic matter in low-oxygen sediments. Understanding which of these two outcomes […]

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