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Congresswoman Debbie Dingell (MI-06) today announced that the University of Michigan will receive $27,976,133 in grant funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for project areas including engineering education, social and economic sciences, computer network systems, information and intelligent systems, and more. 

“This funding for the University of Michigan will be used to further our understanding of important science and research that has the potential to benefit our environment, health care, technological infrastructure, and more," said Dingell. "I am proud that UM continues to lead in the advancement of knowledge and understanding, keeping our state at the forefront of the transition to a more advanced society."

Projects receiving funding include:

• $10,999,998 for PSID 2025: Continuity and Change in American Economic and Social Life
• $74,999 for CIVIC-PG Track B:Data-Driven Analytics for Scaling Up Community Carshare:Advancing Efficiency, Access, Sustainability, and Equity (EASE)
• $566,666 for Collaborative Research: ECO-CBET: A Photocapacitive/Electrolytic Reactor for Carbon Neutral Production of Clean Water and Value-added Products from Nitrate Contaminated Waters
• $75,000 for SCC-CIVIC-PG Track A: BioEnergy and Fertilizer Production from Food Waste Enabled by Community Partnerships and Anaerobic Biotechnologies
• $2,000,000 for FuSe2 Topic 2: Heterogeneous In-Package Photonics with Reconfigurable Optical Switching for AI Clusters (HEROIC-AI)
• $559,831 for Collaborative Research: Supporting Student Well-being with a Community of Transformation
• $440,320 for Online Convex Optimization for Robust, High Precision Control
• $1,200,000 for BSM-PM: Precision Measurements and Fundamental Symmetries: Muon g-2, Electric Dipole Moments, and Optical Magnetometry
• $499,988 for Uncovering the Patterns, Drivers, and Experiences of Population Mobility Due to Low-Attention Flooding
• $240,000 for ENG-EAM: Collaborative Research: Embedding Stoppage-free Resilience to Stealthy Cyberphysical Attacks in Digital Manufacturing Systems
• $1,215,305 for Hardware and Control Co-Design of Compliant Actuators for Energy-Efficient Humanoid Robots
• $18,706 for Collaborative Research: Conference: A Planning Workshop for the Advocacy Building Campaign for EER (ABC for EER)
• $600,000 for BRITE Pivot: Breaking Down Plastic with Biology: A Multi-Scale Framework For Mechanics-Driven Plastic Biodegradation Modeling
• $300,000 for EAGER: RDSV: Visioning Design Evolution for Human-Robot Interaction
• $1,500,000 for SCC-IRG Track 2: Smart Watersheds for Conservation and Resilience
• $274,703 for Collaborative Research: Ideas Lab: PEL Meaningful Failure: Transforming Academic Structures and Incentives through Personalization in Engineering Education
• $34,909 for Conference: Brain Frontiers: Bridging Biology, roBotics, Brains, and Behavior (B5)
• $300,000 for ReDDDoT Phase 1: Planning Grant - Bridging Past and Future: Fostering Community-Researcher Synergy through Planning
• $750,000 for SAI: Creating Infrastructure to Support Digital Capacity Building for Under-resourced Microbusinesses
• $288,693 for Collaborative Research: NSF-NSERC: Data-enabled Model Order Reduction for 2D Quantum Materials
• $38,459 for Conference: Formal and Experimental Advances in Sign Language Theory
• $124,631 for Collaborative Research: Time Domain Studies of Supermassive Black Holes
• $519,577 for CAREER: Scalable and Reliable Coordination in Embodied Intelligent Networks: A Submodular Optimization and Online Learning Perspective
• $447,259 for Collaborative Research: Spherical Sailing Omnidirectional Rovers (SSailORs) for Sustainable, Persistent, and Autonomous Characterization of Remote Environments
• $750,000 for Ponderomotive Optical Traps and Site-Selective Addressing for Rydberg-Atom Quantum Information Science
• $400,000 for URSoRo/Collaborative Research: Untethered Reconfigurable Soft Robots with Multimodal Locomotion for Amphibious Unstructured Environments by Soft Electromagnetic Actuator
• $399,993 for Engineering Wellness: Curricular Strategies and Interventions to Promote a Thriving Mindset for Engineering Students
• $431,480 for Mitigating AI Bias Through Astronomical User-inspired Science
• $119,770 for Collaborative Research: Planning: CHIRRP: Integrating Participatory Urban Modeling and Climate Projections for Community-Driven Flooding Resilience
• $490,521 for NSF-DFG MISSION: Operando Surface X-ray Scattering Studies of Quasi-epitaxial Growth and Electrocatalysis at Liquid Gallium Electrodes
• $315,325 for BPE-Track 2: Collaborative: Supporting Engineering Faculty Gender Equity by Understanding the Experiences and Career Trajectories of Women in Non-tenure Track Faculty Roles
• $1,999,997 for Integrated Human Brain Organoid Systems for Adaptive Reservoir Computing

The National Science Foundation (NSF) supports research, innovation, and discovery that provides the foundation for economic growth in this country. By advancing the frontiers of science and engineering, our nation can develop the knowledge and cutting-edge technologies needed to address the challenges we face today and will face in the future.