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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  • 05/13/2025

    Neel Joshi

    Sponsor: DTRA
    Color-changing coatings for selective detection of vesicants This project deals with the development of surface coatings that can act as sensors for vesicants (mustard gasses). It represents a collaboration between NU and KRI. 
  • 05/05/2025

    Jonathan Blazek

    Sponsor: National Science Foundation CAREER
    CAREER: Exploring the dark sector with state-of-the-art galaxy surveys The Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) and the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will map cosmic structure to incredible depth, shedding light on dark energy and dark matter, perhaps the most compelling mysteries in modern physics. This CAREER award will […]
  • 04/08/2025

    Cristina Schultz and Wally Fulweiler (BU)

    Sponsor: NSF Chemical Oceanography
    Collaborative Research: ULTRA-Data: Synthesizing the role of shallow benthic fluxes in coastal carbon cycle along the East Coast of the United States Coastal ecosystems provide numerous benefits to humanity. While much research has been focused on the coastal water column, the seafloor has received less attention. The sediments, however, can recycle nutrients to the water […]
  • 04/01/2025

    Juliet Davidow

    Sponsor: National Science Foundation
    Neurocognitive development of adolescent learning Adolescence is an important developmental period marked by increases in independence, changes in motivations, and new experiences. As adolescents engage in new behaviors, they may experience good or bad outcomes, learn from the experience, and use what is learned when faced with a new situation. The goal of this project […]
  • 03/30/2025

    Paul Stevenson

    Sponsor: Air Force Office of Scientific Research
    Probing spin-dependent electron transport in biomolecules This three-year grant will fund Stevenson’s research on quantum sensing techniques to detect spin-dependent electron transfer in proteins, helping to advance our understanding of these processes.
  • 01/30/2025

    Leila Deravi and Diego Alzate-Sanchez

    Sponsor: Beckman Scholars Program
    The mission of the Beckman Scholars Program at Northeastern is to enable and empower exceptionally talented, full-time undergraduate students with financial support and mentorship to gain and sustain a meaningful research career in STEM. Future Beckman Scholars at Northeastern must be willing to commit to 15 months of continuous research (one summer , academic year […]
  • 01/21/2025

    Adrian Feiguin

    Sponsor: Department of Energy, Basic Energy Sciences
    Artificial intelligence and data enabled predictive modeling of collective phenomena in strongly correlated quantum materials Our ultimate goal is to accelerate discovery in quantum materials at DOE-supported user facilities. We will meet this goal through three specific aims. Aim 1 — generating and confirming novel low-energy effective many-body models for quantum materials — will provide […]
  • 01/21/2025

    Rebecca Shansky

    Sponsor: National Institute of Mental Health
    The path to the parous brain: allopregnanolone-mediated mechanisms at GABAA receptors. Pregnancy is characterized by marked changes in circulating hormones that can induce long-lasting changes in the brain. The goal of this project is to determine how the hormone allopregnanolone may induce a robust neural inhibition in the medial prefrontal cortex during pregnancy, resulting in […]
  • 01/15/2025

    Mingzhong Wu

    Sponsor: National Science Foundations
    EAGER: Erbium-Doped Yttrium Iron Garnets for Efficient Quantum Transduction This project aims to develop thin films of erbium-doped yttrium iron garnets and experimentally demonstrate efficient microwave photon-to-optical photon conversion. If successful, this project will lead to a new material for efficient quantum transduction. Such transduction materials can be used to entangle distant superconducting qubits and […]
  • 01/15/2025

    Mingzhong Wu

    Sponsor: Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy
    Harnessing Topological Surface States in Dirac Semimetal alpha-Sn Thin Films This project will take advantage of topological surface states in Dirac semimetal α-Sn thin films to explore new fundamental physics and develop novel materials and devices. In particular, we will expand the current α-Sn program in terms of four focus topics: (1) new strategies for […]
  • 01/08/2025

    Alexander Ivanov

    Sponsor: NIH, NIGMS
    Next-generation nanoflow LC column technology to enable high sensitivity proteomics of limited samples.  Deep proteomic profiling of scarce biological and clinical samples is still a major challenge since no amplification techniques are available for proteins and proteoforms, and current state-of-the-art proteomic techniques based on conventional chromatography columns coupled with mass spectrometry provide suboptimal performance and […]
  • 12/05/2024

    Toyoko Orimoto

    Sponsor: Heising-Simons Foundation
    Addressing the challenges faced by mid-career physics women in collaborations This grant supports the organization of Mid-Act 2024 – a workshop that addresses the unique challenges faced by mid-career women physicists in large collaborations and subfields in particle physics, nuclear physics, and astronomy.

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