National Science Foundation

NSF Launches Water Quality Testing Protocol

ANN ARBOR - NSF, the public health and safety organization, announces the launch of a new protocol, NSF P524: Water Quality Test Devices for Drinking Water. This is the first-ever protocol that provides a standard third-party validation of the performance of water quality testing devices (WQTD) used in drinking water, ensuring public health protection by providing

By |2023-03-07T12:29:12-05:00March 7th, 2023|Life Sciences, Life Sciences/Biotech|

MCity To Invest $5.1 Million To Enable Remote Autonomous Vehicle Testing

ANN ARBOR—Mcity, which operates the world's first purpose-built test environment for connected and autonomous vehicles, will invest $5.1 million from the National Science Foundation to supercharge the facility's evolution into a test track unlike any other. By enhancing its physical testing environment, adding virtual reality software and generating real-world datasets, Mcity can provide tailor-made simulation

By |2022-09-20T10:55:41-04:00September 20th, 2022|Auto Tech, ESD|

NSF International Taps Cadillac Executive As New CIO

ANN ARBOR – NSF International has named Lesley Ma to lead its global information technology and continuous improvement efforts. Ma, who most recently served as Global Chief Information Officer for Cadillac, is now CIO and Continuous Improvement Officer for the global public health organization. “While our mission to protect and improve human health around the

By |2020-01-19T09:22:27-05:00January 19th, 2020|New Products / Contracts|

Davenport U Gets $4 Million Federal Grant For Cybersecurity Scholarships

GRAND RAPIDS–Davenport University has received a five-year, $4 milliongrant from the National Science Foundation to train and educate the nation’s next generation of cybersecurity experts as part of their CyberCorps Scholarship for Service program. Led by Lonnie Decker and Mark McKinnon of Davenport University, and Andrew Rozema of Grand Rapids Community College, the program will

By |2019-09-22T12:59:07-04:00September 22nd, 2019|Cyber Defense|

NSF Grant To Let U-M Teleport Museum Specimens To Internet

ANN ARBOR - A $2.5 million National Science Foundation grant will launch oVert, a new initiative to "teleport" museum specimens from their shelves to the Internet by CT scanning 20,000 vertebrates and making these data-rich, 3-D images available to researchers, educators, students and the public. The University of Michigan is one of 16 research institutions

By |2017-08-25T03:24:49-04:00August 25th, 2017|Life Sciences|

Baker College Receives NSF Grant To Boost Michigan’s Photonics Education

FLINT TOWNSHIP – Baker College has been awarded a National Science Foundation grant of nearly $512,000 to advance photonics and laser education at Baker College and in Michigan through June 2020. The goal, according to Anca Sala, Ph.D., Baker College dean of the College of Engineering, is to educate more students to become qualified photonics,

By |2017-08-22T03:57:25-04:00August 22nd, 2017|Featured, New Products / Contracts|

U-M’s Dawn Tilbury To Head NSF Engineering Directorate

ANN ARBOR - The National Science Foundation has selected a University of Michigan mechanical engineering professor to serve as head of its Directorate for Engineering. Dawn Tilbury is a professor of mechanical engineering and former associate dean for research at U-M's College Engineering. NSF's Directorate for Engineering is charged with supporting engineering research and education

By |2017-03-29T12:16:14-04:00March 29th, 2017|STEM|

Detecting, Correcting Factory Faults, Deflecting Cyberattacks All In Real Time

ANN ARBOR - Spotting a glitch on the factory floor in real time - and reconfiguring around it - are the goals of a new $4 million project led by University of Michigan engineering researchers that aims to increase factory productivity and American competitiveness - and fend off cyberattacks. Modern advanced manufacturing plants hold hundreds

By |2016-09-06T21:16:30-04:00September 6th, 2016|Featured, News|

I-Corps Energy And Transportation Training Program Accepting Applications

DETROIT - Researchers and entrepreneurs are invited to apply for the I-Corps Energy and Transportation training program developed by NextEnergy in partnership with the University of Michigan Center for Entrepreneurship. Applications will be accepted through April 3. The 2016 I-Corps program will kick-off at NextEnergy May 18-20 and come to a close on June 23-24.

By |2016-02-08T21:42:39-05:00February 8th, 2016|Clean Update, Entrepreneurs|

MSU Makes Smart Material Even Smarter

EAST LANSING - A team of researchers, including some from Michigan State University, is making a smart material smarter in order to make a better antenna. Using a series of grants from the National Science Foundation, the team is manipulating a material known as vanadium dioxide, or VO2, making it useable in a size that

By |2015-09-20T10:14:04-04:00September 20th, 2015|Science|