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  • Grant Awarded for Device to Help Stroke Victims Speak

    An engineering professor at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg is developing an electronic device to help bring back the voice of stroke patients and others who have suffered paralysis of the vocal folds, through electrical stimulation. National Science Foundation awarded Alexander Leonessa (right) awarded a $480,000 Faculty Early Career Development award for his research. Leonessa’s work…

  • New Process Being Developed to Keep Berries Fresh Longer

    A new way of improving the shelf life of soft fruit like strawberries and raspberries is being developed by researchers at universities and industry in the U.K. Food scientists at University of Nottingham are teaming with engineers at Loughborough University and British fruit grower Berryworld to test an anti-bacterial process called cold plasma as a…

  • Federal, Corporate Grants to Fund Manufacturing Technology

    A new public-private partnership will deliver $4.5 million in grant funding to help small- and medium-sized manufacturers in the U.S. Midwest make better use of advanced digital technology. The grants include $2 million from the U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA) and $2.5 million from private-sector, state, and institutional partners. The partners providing the $2.5 million…

  • EUREKA Network to Fund €33 Million in New European R&D

    EUREKA, a network of research officials from 40 countries in Europe and Israel, approved a series of new R&D projects in clean technology and related fields. Meeting in Eilat, Israel, the €33 million ($45.7 million) approved by EUREKA will fund 25 projects in renewable energy, agrofood technology, biotechnology, physical sciences, IT and electronics, and industrial…

  • Small Business Grant Awarded for Tuberculosis Test

    Chembio Diagnostics Inc. in Medford, New York has received a three-year $2.9 million Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to continue development of a simple, rapid, inexpensive, and accurate blood serum test for tuberculosis. The grant funds further development of the test, following an earlier SBIR grant to…

  • DuPont Expanding Agricultural Research in Delaware

    The chemical company DuPont plans to expand its biotech research on soybeans at its Delaware facilities. The $50 million expansion is expected to create 75 new, full-time positions in Delaware by the end of 2015. The proposed investment will include expanding biotech research facilities at DuPont’s research and development headquarters, the Experimental Station, in Wilmington…

  • USDA Funding Research on Climate Change, Agr Production

    USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) awarded three grants to study the effects of climate change on agriculture and forest production. NIFA Director Roger Beachy made the announcement today at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington, D.C. A research team led by Dr. Tim Martin,…

  • Grants Awarded for Robotics, Cyber-Vision and Child Health

    A research team at University of Minnesota in Minneapolis received two grants totaling more than $3 million from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for technology to help diagnose children’s mental health disorders. The grants, totaling more than $3 million, were awarded by NSF’s Cyber-Enabled Discovery and Major Research Instrumentation programs. The Minnesota team led by…

  • Kauffman Grant Supports Seed Accelerator Network

    The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation in Kansas City, Missouri was awarded a $200,000 grant to TechStars, a network of regional start-up business accelerator programs, based in Boulder, Colorado. The TechStars network began on 31 January as part of a White House initiative encouraging entrepreneurship. The Kauffman funding will be used by the TechStars network to…

  • Grant Awarded for Medical Test Results Follow Up Technology

    Martin Chieng Were, assistant professor at the Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis, has received a grant to support his research on health information technology to improve post-hospital management of patients. The $420,000 grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation will fund Were’s work focusing on medical test results that are still pending when…