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Congresswoman Debbie Dingell (MI-06) today announced that the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor will receive $20,539,108 in grant funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to support a wide range of research initiatives. The funding will advance work in critical areas including artificial intelligence, quantum photonics, neuroscience, wildfire and flood response, social science, advanced manufacturing, cyber-physical systems, and more.

“The University of Michigan continues to lead in innovation that addresses real-world challenges and drives economic growth,” said Dingell. “These investments will support breakthrough research across diverse fields, from improving public safety and infrastructure to exploring new materials and technologies to strengthening Michigan’s role as a national leader in science and innovation while building a smarter, healthier, and more sustainable future.”

Projects receiving funding include:  

• $31,443.00 for Doctoral Dissertation Research: The fitness impact of female social resource competition

• $20,000.00 for Broadening Student Participation to the 7th Annual Learning for Dynamics and Control Conference (L4DC25); Ann Arbor, Michigan; 4-6 June 2025

• $20,000.00 for A Conference on the Geometry, Topology, and Dynamics of Infinite-Type Surfaces

• $66,962.00 for Bootcamp for the 2025 Algebraic Geometry Summer Research Institute

• $70,007.00 for RAPID: 2025 Southern California Fires Embers Project: Crowdsourcing Data on the Distribution and Transport of Firebrands

• $302,965.00 for SBIR Phase I: Turmeric Assisted Pressure Sterilization

• $499,742.00 for ACED: GRAM-CAROLINE: Grammar-Reinforced AI Modeling with Conditional Autoencoder and Relevance-Oriented Learning for Interpretable knowledge Extraction

• $20,000.00 for IUCRC Planning Grant University of Michigan: Cyber and Terrorism Insurance Studies (CATIS) Center

• $500,000.00 for CPS: Small: Lifted Hybridization: A New Representation for Efficient Control and Verification of Cyber-Physical Systems

• $31,500.00 for Doctoral Dissertation Research: Craft Specialization and Economic Organization

• $35,000.00 for Conference: CBMS Conference: Strong Matrix Properties and the Inverse Eigenvalue Problem

• $1,000,000.00 for IUCRC Phase I University of Michigan: Center for Digital Twins in Manufacturing (CDTM)

• $750,000.00 for Collaborative Research: CS2: A Comprehensive Pipeline for Formal Verification of Floating-Point Errors and Compilation for Scientific Computing

• $500,000.00 for ACED: A Unified Framework of Physics-informed and Domain-Adapted Generative Diffusion Model for Efficient and Reliable Nanophotonics Inverse Design

• $599,998.00 for CAREER: Topography-mediated Immunomodulation for Implant-associated Infections

• $640,000.00 for High-Intensity Tunable Light by Frequency Upshifting in Plasma Waves

• $690,000.00 for CAREER: Empowering People Who are Blind to Create Personal Assistive Technology

• $600,000.00 for CAREER: Bringing Structure to the Unstructured: Robust Causal and Statistical Modeling of High-dimensional Unstructured Data

• $599,491.00 for CAREER: Data-Driven Extrusion-Based Robotic Three-Dimensional Printing of Reinforced Concrete

• $1,753,908.00 for Research Infrastructure: Leveraging the Research Data Ecosystem for ICPSR's Comprehensive Data Archive

• $25,000.00 for Conference: Modern Perspectives in Representation Theory

• $9,250.00 for Conference: Travel support for trainees to attend Dynein 2025; Ann Arbor, Michigan; 22-24 July 2025

• $1,244,153.00 for SBIR Phase II: Ubiquitous Flood Forecasting using Sensors and Analytics

• $10,024,230.00 for Expanding the Industries of Ideas: Understanding the link between research investments, jobs, and skills

• $205,596.00 for Collaborative Research: NERC-NSFGEO--Constraining Longwave Energy Flows in Cold Climates (CLEFCC)

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.