Iowa State University’s College and Grants Hub pre-award support units urge investigators preparing proposals for the National Science Foundation (NSF) to pay close attention to the new requirements regarding the formatting of biographical sketches and current and pending support documents. Effective October 5, 2020, NSF began enforcing the Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide (PAPPG) (NSF…

A new federal grant will support an Iowa State University-led effort to spur development of a “genome to phenome” infrastructure for scientific collaboration across crops and livestock. The three-year, $960,000 project will provide guidance and lay the groundwork for a larger federal Agricultural Genome to Phenome Initiative (AG2PI) sponsored by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute…

The Iowa State University Office of the Vice President for Research has announced two awardees for the 2020 Presidential Interdisciplinary Research Initiative (PIRI), distributing a total of $1.2 million in institutional funding to advance progress in the methodology behind STEM education and the development of personal protective equipment. Established in 2012 and sponsored by the Office of…

Six tropical storms have blown over the Atlantic Ocean already this year – Arthur and Bertha in May, Cristobal and Dolly in June, and Edouard and Fay so far in July. That’s an unusually busy start to the tropical cyclone season. “In terms of Accumulated Cyclone Energy (ACE), which measures the strength and duration of tropical…

Ten Iowa State University researchers were selected to receive Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) awards from the National Science Foundation during the 2020 fiscal year, ending June 30, 2020. This is the largest number of Iowa State CAREER award recipients in the past five years. Considered to be the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) most…

A team of Iowa State University researchers has been selected to receive the 2020 Margaret B. Barry Cancer Research Program award to advance the efficacy of bladder cancer treatments. Administered by the Iowa State University Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR), the Barry award is given each year to faculty or professional and…

The strict regulations that govern medical research with human subjects often slow down the study of the human immune system. So generations of researchers have used models of various designs to simulate human systems. Scientists at Iowa State University are poised to take a significant step forward in this arena by transferring a human immune…

A new grant will help Iowa State University researchers develop innovative gene editing technology to better understand how human genetics affect susceptibility to disease. The four-year, $2.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health allows Maura McGrail, an associate professor of genetics, development and cell biology and principal investigator, and her collaborators to continue their efforts…

The Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust of Muscatine, Iowa, has committed $492,088 to provide advanced microscopy technology that will aid Iowa State University researchers in their work to improve human and animal health and sustain the agricultural crop yields that feed the world. The Carver Trust’s support will help the university acquire a light-sheet fluorescence…

Iowa State University’s Center for Statistics and Applications in Forensic Evidence (CSAFE) has received a five-year, $20 million cooperative agreement extension from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to continue its work building statistical foundations within the realm of forensic science. Since its inception in 2015, with an initial five-year NIST cooperative agreement…