Research NewsletterIssue: ORN-2023-20

National Academy of Inventors (NAI) Chapter at NJIT

Selected for the Chapter of Excellence Award

We are delighted to share the good news that the NAI Chapter at NJIT has been selected to receive the inaugural CHAPTER OF EXCELLENCE AWARD on the evening of June 27, 2023 during the Signature Gala at the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) 12TH Annual Meeting, taking place at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington D.C. Also, Dr. Tara Alvarez, Distinguished Professor, Bio-Medical Engineering will be inducted to the College of Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors at the annual meeting.

Congratulations to all members of the NAI Chapter at NJIT and NJIT Fellows of the NAI!

NSF: BioFoundries to Enable Access to Infrastructure and Resources for Advancing Modern Biology and Biotechnology (BioFoundries); Infrastructure Capacity for Biological Research (Capacity); Infrastructure Innovation for Biological Research (Innovation)

NIH: BRAIN Initiative: Development and Validation of Novel Tools to Probe Cell-Specific and Circuit-Specific Processes in the Brain (R01); NINDS Postdoctoral Mentored Career Development Award (K01); BRAIN Initiative: Targeted BRAIN Circuits Planning Projects – TargetedBCPP (R34); Small Research Grant Program for the Next Generation of Researchers in AD/ADRD Research (R03)

Department of Defense/US Army/DARPA/ONR: DoD Vision Translational Research Award; Air Force FY24 Young Investigator Program (YIP); Parkinson's Investigator-Initiated Research Award; DOD Peer Reviewed Orthopaedic, Applied Research Award

Department of Energy: WETO Offshore Wind 2023 Centers of Excellence; Inertial Fusion Energy Science & Technology Accelerated Research (IFE-STAR)

NASA: ROSES 2023: A.39 Early Career Investigator Program in Earth Science; Early Stage Innovations

National Endowment of Humanities: Public Humanities Projects; Climate Smart Humanities Organizations

Energy Department Invests $26 Million to Support Clean Electric Grid: The Biden Administration Wednesday announced $26 million in funding to demonstrate how solar, wind, storage and other clean energy resources can support a modern, resilient and clean energy grid. Through the Energy Department, the funding will be distributed to eight selected projects across 15 sites, including 13 states and Puerto Rico, and build on numerous Energy Department-led efforts to combat climate change and promote clean energy. The funding will flow through the Solar and Wind Grid Services and Reliability program to research teams consisting of “utilities, laboratories, universities and industry” to test how wind and solar power plants can more reliably transmit clean energy across power networks. According to the Energy Department, wind and solar energy could provide up to 80% of power generation on a clean electric grid. More information is posted on the NextGov website.

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Energy Eyes Industry Partnerships to Further Biofuel Development: Engineers working to develop sustainable biofuels within the Department of Energy are turning to industry to play a major role in advancing the broad economic shift away from petroleum. Reyhaneh Shenassa, the chief engineer at the agency’s Bioenergy Technologies’ Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, discussed where the department wants to drive its bioenergy technologies research and development at an OurEnergyPolicy panel Wednesday. A key ingredient in biofuel development will be cellulosic materials—a naturally occurring polymer found largely in wood and other plant matter. “We at the Department of Energy, at BTOB, are hoping to [collaborate] with industry to have technologies that are using cellulosic material to make a ton [of biofuel],” she said. Shenassa explained that cellulosic biomasses could serve as a foundational ingredient in next-generation biofuels. One example she cited of where private sector partnerships can work is in the use of cellulosic biomass algae, as well as other natural and “waste” materials, to create hydrocarbon fuels. Research teams within Energy are aiming to scale these technologies to potentially serve as a petroleum-based fuel substitutes, particularly within the transportation sectors. More information is posted on the NextGov website.

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Public-Private Partnerships will be Key in National Quantum Initiative Reauthorization: Ongoing federal funding will be crucial to continued research efforts in the critical and burgeoning quantum information technologies field, as funding established by foundational legislation mandating government investment—2018 National Quantum Initiative Act—is set to expire at the end of this fiscal year. Speaking during an event hosted by the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, federal officials working closely within the government’s quantum information sciences programs discussed what the QIST field will need from a reauthorized bill.  Catherine Johnson, the staff director of the Research and Technology Subcommittee within the House Science, Space and Technology Committee—which initially introduced the bill that former President Donald Trump signed five years ago—said reauthorization was a “top priority” for this Congress to accomplish. More information is posted on the NextGov website.

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