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SEAS research expenditures reach record $107 million
Research expenditures across the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences increased 5% over the previous year. SEAS faculty have served as the principal investigator on over 130 projects awarded during the previous fiscal year, including on 10 grants of more than $1 million.
The rise in research funding has helped to fuel unprecedented growth in the school, which has also experienced record levels of faculty hiring.
The grants and contracts are provided to SEAS by a range of institutions, including the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the United States Department of Energy (DOE), the National Security Agency, the U.S. Department of Defense, and more.
Recent Research Awards
- $3.4 million from the NSF to continue CyberCorps: Scholarship for Service, a program that is aims to train the next generation of cybersecurity experts.
- $3 million from the NIH for a project to develop AI technologies that could allow patients to monitor chronic wounds on their smartphones.
- $2.9 million from the NIH to continue investigating the practice of injecting shear-thinning hydrogels into the brain to protect stem cells in the treatment of multiple sclerosis.
- $2.8 million from the DOE to advance semiconductor technology that will help to modernize the nation’s power grid.
- $2 million from the DOE to make farming biofuel more efficient and affordable.
- $2 million from the NSF to assess the risk to buildings that have been corroded by saltwater in areas with frequent seismic activity.
- $1.7 million from the NIH to create a tool set for oxygen metabolism mapping that can help doctors to identify healthy brain tissue when treating neurological disorders.
- $1.25 million from the National Institute of Standards and Technology to establish The Center for Accelerated Innovation through Materials at UB and promote clean energy research in upstate New York.
