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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  • 09/12/2024

    Erin Cram

    Sponsor: NSF
    NSF-BSF: Molecular and biophysical mechanisms underlying contractile valve assembly and function Many of the organs in our body are built of tubes. They include the digestive, reproductive, and cardiovascular systems. Critical components of these tubular systems are contractile valves and sphincters that regulate passage of solid or liquid contents between tissue compartments. Sphincters in large […]
  • 09/12/2024

    Alexandra Rodman

    Sponsor: Templeton Foundation
    Coming of age in a digital world The pervasive use of smartphones for social interaction has changed the landscape of adolescent social life in ways that have not been adequately characterized. Despite this rapid rise in digital social activity (DSA; calls, messaging, and social media app usage), it remains unclear how this dramatic shift has […]
  • 06/17/2024

    Adrian Feiguin

    Sponsor: NSF-DMR (Division of Materials Research: Condensed Matter and Materials Theory) Grant
    The many-body problem in the age of quantum machine learning The study of exotic phases of matter of quantum origin is one of the cornerstones of modern condensed matter physics, motivating a quest for materials and models that could exhibit novel unconventional properties that can find application beyond the semiconductor paradigm. However, understanding correlated quantum […]
  • 06/17/2024

    Katie E. Lotterhos

    Sponsor: National Science Foundation
    Collaborative Research: ORCC: Climate change responses in a globally invasive insect: Quantifying the roles of local adaptation, seasonal adaptation, and phenotypic plasticity Spotted wing fruit flies are an invasive insect that threatens berry crops. We are studying this species adapts to temperature at the genetic level. The results will predict how the fly’s distribution will […]
  • 06/01/2024

    Aaron Seitz (NU Site PI)

    Sponsor: Department of Defense
    Precision Brain Mapping and Deep Phenotyping in Pediatric Brain Tumor Patients To utilize resting state functional MRI to evaluate cognitive outcomes in pediatric brain tumor patients and also to inform optimization of radiation therapy treatment plans to decrease cognitive side effects. Additionally, our goal is to establish the role of sleep quality and cognitive performance […]
  • 06/01/2024

    Aaron Seitz and Susanne Jaeggi

    Sponsor: National Institute of Mental Health
    Understanding Mediating and Moderating Factors that Determine Transfer of Working Memory Training This project aims to understand individual differences in working memory training, how they interact with different training procedures, and how this leads to differences in near and far transfer of learning in adolescents with ADHD.
  • 05/22/2024

    John Coley (PI), Brian Helmuth (CoPI), Catie Nielson (CoPI)

    Sponsor: National Science Foundation, STEM Education Directorate (EDU), Education Core Research Program, #2400411 (ECR)
    Cognitive Foundations of Environmental Science Education: Exploring Impacts of Human Exceptionalism on Marine Social-Ecological Systems Thinking Environmental issues are among the most pressing facing humankind. As such, understanding how students learn about environmental science is of supreme importance. Students entering the science classroom bring well-developed intuitive frameworks that help to understand, explain, and predict the […]
  • 05/22/2024

    Javier Apfeld

    Sponsor: National Institute of Aging
    Genome-Wide CRISPR Activation: A Novel Strategy for Identifying Anti-Aging Targets This project will characterize and optimize a novel time and cost saving toolkit that allows simple, rapid, and robust activation of gene expression in the widely used model organism C. elegans, bringing new capabilities to systematically test the effect of gene activation in a broad […]
  • 05/22/2024

    Randall Hughes and Jon Grabowski

    Sponsor: The Nature Conservancy
    Coastal Sustainability Institute and Nature Conservancy Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Coastal Sustainability This grant funds a 2-year postdoctoral researcher who works in collaboration with PIs Hughes and Grabowski in the NU Coastal Sustainability Institute and with colleagues at The Nature Conservancy to address major challenges facing the sustainability and resilience of coastal communities and ecosystems. […]
  • 04/19/2024

    Esteban Moro-Egido

    Sponsor: NSF
    Mobility Data for Communities (MD4C): Uncovering Segregation, Climate Resilience, and Economic Development from Cell-Phone Records In this project, we plan to build a public mobility data platform for the Boston area that will help neighborhoods and communities use cellphone-generated data to address issues of social equity, racial and socioeconomic segregation, economic development, and climate resilience.
  • 04/19/2024

    Jing-Ke Weng

    Sponsor: The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
    A Plant Small-Molecule Discovery Platform to Study Neurodegeneration (CP2-Weng)  The proposed research aims to develop a plant-based drug screening platform to identify small molecules that can disrupt protein and RNA aggregation associated with neurodegenerative diseases such as Huntington’s, Alzheimer’s, and Parkinson’s. The project will utilize the unique lyciumin peptide biosynthesis pathway in plants to generate […]
  • 04/19/2024

    Paul Whitford

    Sponsor: NIH
    Elucidating the mechanisms that enable translation in bacterial and eukaryotic ribosomes This award will use theoretical models and high-performance computing to study the ribosome, a massive molecular assembly composed of hundreds of thousands of atoms. The ribosome is responsible for translating our genes into proteins, making its function central to all life. In this study, […]

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