We are excited to announce the 2025–26 Faculty XR Awards and are actively seeking proposals! We encourage researchers interested in AR and VR technology to submit their ideas. This initiative will pair faculty with a team of XR developers to design, develop, or prototype an XR application that enhances teaching, research, or creative scholarship. Read more “CALL FOR PROPOSALS! Faculty XR Awards Offering 10 Grants for AR + VR Tech Ideas”
WLRN Public Media reported on a series of National Oceanographic Administration (NOAA) grants aimed at the creation of a “new service—not unlike the National Weather Service —[that will provide] more specific projections to help planners and emergency managers.” Read more “UM to Receive $8.6 M to Create National Climate Forecasting Service”
An INFO SESSION for your questions on the IDSC “Expanding the Use of Collaborative Data Science at UM” Grants Program CALL FOR PROPOSALS will be held on Monday, September 9, 2024, at 4:00 PM (:30 minutes) via Zoom. The submission deadline is Friday, September 27, 2024 by 5:00 PM. Read more “IDSC Grants Program Call for Proposals INFO SESSION Monday 9/9 4PM via ZOOM”
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Computer and Network Systems (CISE/CNS) has awarded (Abstract # 2332834) Mingzhe Chen (IDSC Core Faculty Member/joint hire with the College of Engineering’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering) a $300K 3-year grant for groundbreaking research in the wireless coexistence of aerial network elements (ANEs). Read more “Mingzhe Chen Receives NSF Grant to Address ANE Co-Spectrum Existence Problems”
Frost Institute for Data Science and Computing (IDSC) is pleased to announce a new funding opportunity in generative AI for UM Faculty. We envision up to four awards, each with $35K in funding and 2M SUs. Read more “NOW CLOSED: Call for Proposals in Generative AI”
Congratulations to IDSC core faculty member Dr. Mingzhe Chen on his award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for his proposal ‘‘Collaborative Research: NeTS: Small: Digital Network Twins: Mapping Next Generation Wireless into Digital Reality’’ (Award Abstract #2312139)! Read more “Mingzhe Chen Receives NSF Grant for NextG Wireless Network Project”
While kidney disease affects one in seven adults in the United States, it impacts Black patients much more. They are four times more likely to suffer from kidney failure than white U.S. residents, and a 2021 study indicates that computer algorithms that determine eligibility for a kidney transplant often put Black people at a disadvantage, widening the gap for a successful recovery. Read more “Azizi Seixas and Nick Tsinoremas to Lead NIH AIM-AHEAD Health Disparities Project”
Researchers from Florida Atlantic University’s Schmidt College of Medicine, in collaboration with the Caridad Health Center, Inc., and the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, have received a $500,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for a project to tackle chronic health disparities through the use of electronic health records (EHR), artificial intelligence, machine learning (AI/ML) and the Internet of Things (IoT). Read more “NIH Grant to FAU, Caridad Center, and UM MSOM will Tackle Disease Disparities”
The IDSC “Expanding the Use of Collaborative Data Science at UM” grants program is designed to increase the use of data science to foster breakthroughs in disciplinary pursuits making the research team more competitive for external funding. Applications are required to include at least one data scientist (from IDSC) and one researcher from a specific discipline. Read more “CATCH THE REPLAY: Information Session for IDSC Grants Programs Call for Proposals”
The IDSC “Expanding the Use of Collaborative Data Science at UM” grants program is designed to increase the use of data science to foster breakthroughs in disciplinary pursuits making the research team more competitive for external funding. Applications are required to include at least one data scientist (from IDSC) and one researcher from a specific discipline. Read more “IDSC Grants Programs Call for Proposals Due 9/23”