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News – Northwest Nanotechnology Infrastructure The Institute for Nano-engineered Systems (NanoES) announced the award of four seed grants in support of the use of nanotechnology tools to develop new, innovative technologies and devices.
Awardees will receive up to $10,000 to carry out work in the UW’s Washington Nanofabrication Facility (WNF) and the Molecular Analysis Facility (MAF), key nanotechnology facilities in the Northwest Nanotechnology Infrastructure, which is one of 16 sites in the NSF’s National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure (NNCI) program.
Continue reading UW NanoES announces awardees of Northwest Nanotechnology Infrastructure seed grants The NSF-funded US National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure (NNCI) announces its 2022 Nanotechnology Entrepreneurship Challenge (NTEC). NTEC fosters student-led entrepreneurship at NNCI-affiliated sites with an emphasis on developing nano-enabled solutions to global sustainability challenges.
Winning teams will receive cash or in-kind support and mentorship to help develop their concept. Teams can also participate in the Virtual NTEC Accelerator Program to learn more about translating their nano-enabled innovation from the lab to society. Students interested in applying should return their completed applications by email to Matthew Hull ( mahull@vt.
edu ) by NOON on February 11 th , 2022 (National Inventor’s Day) . Questions can be routed to this same address. We expect to notify awardees by March 7 th .
This summary provides additional details and the application template. To support the use of nanotechnology tools to develop innovative, new technologies, the Northwest Nanotechnology Infrastructure (NNI) is offering seed grants to new, first-time users for work to be conducted in our fabrication or characterization facilities.
These grants are designed to help users build and characterize prototypes, obtain preliminary results and conduct proof of concept studies. NNI is one of 16 sites in the National Science Foundation’s National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure (NNCI) program.
As the Pacific Northwest node in NSF’s NNCI network, NNI includes world-class facilities at the University of Washington including the Washington Nanofabrication Facility and the Molecular Analysis Facility . The deadline to apply is March 1, 2022. Additional details regarding eligibility, guidelines, and selection, as well as the link to apply, can be found here .
Inipria, a major user of OSU NNI facilities, makes metal oxide photoresists, key materials for extreme ultraviolet exposure processes that allow semiconductor manufacturers to make smaller processing chips.
Continue reading OSU startup Inpria nets $514M acquisition for trailblazing chemical manufacturing The University of Washington’s Molecular Analysis Facility (an NNCI facility) and Washington Clean Energy Testbeds in conjunction with Oxford Instruments Asylum Research are hosting a two-day atomic force microscopy (AFM) virtual workshop (September 23-24) on applications of AFM characterization for 2D materials, semiconductors, clean energy materials and dynamic biological processes such as protein assembly.
Each day features talks from expert applications scientists at Asylum Research and UW researchers as well as a hands-on demonstration of Asylum Research AFMs. Continue reading Atomic Force Microscopy Virtual Workshop Sept 23-24 The MAF will be offering a webinar through AVS on ‘surface characterization of biomaterials with x-rays & ion guns’ on September 16, 2020.
Continue reading AVS Webinar: Surface Characterization of Biomaterials with X-rays & Ion Guns The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded the University of Washington and Oregon State University a five-year, $5 million grant to advance nanoscale science, engineering, and technology research in the Pacific Northwest.
Known as the Northwest Nanotechnology Infrastructure (NNI), the UW and OSU partnership is one of 16 sites in the NSF’s National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure (NNCI) program providing researchers from academia and industry access to leading-edge fabrication and characterization tools at university facilities.
Continue reading UW nanotechnology infrastructure gets a boost from National Science Foundation The NNCI Diversity Subcommittee will host an online Town Hall to help draw out concerns, stories, best practices, and successes related to combating racism in shared nanotechnology user facilities. Register for the event here.
Continue reading NNCI Anti-Racism Town Hall NCI-Southwest is co-hosting a webinar on Integrated Nanophotonics: The Transition to High-Volume Manufacturing and Implications for Workforce Education. Presented by Professor Robert Geer, SUNY Polytechnic on October 17 at 1 PM ET. Register!
Continue reading NCI-Southwest WEBINAR – Integrated Nanophotonics: The Transition to High-Volume Manufacturing and Implications for Workforce Education It’s National Nanotechnology Day!
Celebrate by listening to our very own Dan Ratner, UW Professor of Bioengineering, on this week’s podcast from the National Nanotechnology Initiative as he talks about his passion for sharing the awesome power of nanotechnology with the next generation of scientists and engaged citizens. Continue reading Celebrating National Nanotechnology Day: A Conversation with Dan Ratner
According to the current listing, eligibility includes: Eligibility varies by individual NNCI site, but generally includes new facility users, external users, researchers from academic institutions (including Primarily Undergraduate Institutions), and startup companies. Confirm the full requirements in the official notice before applying.
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NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship Program is a grant from NVIDIA providing up to $60,000 per award to PhD students conducting research that advances accelerated computing and its applications. Now in its 25th year, the program invites nominations from doctoral students pushing the boundaries of artificial intelligence, robotics, autonomous vehicles, and related fields. Recipients receive not only research funding but also access to NVIDIA technology, products, and engineering expertise, along with a mandatory in-person summer internship. Students are nominated by their faculty advisors and selected based on academic achievement and research area alignment.
CalSEED Concept Award is a grant from the California Energy Commission that provides $150,000 in funding to early-stage clean energy innovators in California. The program targets individuals, businesses, and nonprofits developing hardware, software, or integrated solutions at Technology Readiness Levels 2-4. Eligible technology areas rotate each cycle and have included battery recycling and reuse, long-duration energy storage, medium- and heavy-duty vehicle electrification, industrial electrification, and advanced EV charging. Applicants must be located in California, have under $1 million in private funding, and propose innovations that benefit California ratepayers. Concept Award winners also receive professional development resources and access to accelerator programs, and may compete for a subsequent $450,000 Prototype Award.
NASA STRIDE (Science Transport and Robotic Innovation for Deployment and Exploration) is a grant program from NASA that solicits proposals from U.S. industry to conduct design studies of advanced robotic surface and aerial mobility systems with payload transportation and deployment capability for Mars surface operations. The program supports innovation in robotic mobility systems that could enable future Mars science missions. U.S.-based universities and nonprofit research organizations may also be eligible per the grant record. The application deadline for this cycle was March 31, 2026.
The May 29 OMB rewrite of 2 CFR Part 200 quietly rebuilds the pass-through entity compliance architecture. Proposed §200.332 strengthens subrecipient risk assessment, monitoring documentation, and remediation triggers. A new requirement mandates that every subaward be reported to SAM.gov with the reported records confirmed in performance reports — converting subaward administration from a back-office accounting function into a public-record certification regime. For the universities, state agencies, and national nonprofits that pass through more than half of their federal awards as subawards, the operational implication is a new compliance operating model that needs to be standing up by the October 1 effective date.
Read articleThe 400-page rewrite of 2 CFR 200 published May 29 contains specific provisions — political pre-issuance review, peer-review demotion, fixed-amount award elimination — that have drawn most of the analytical attention. The deeper structural change is a philosophical pivot from a framework where federal agencies supported recipients to "correct course and accomplish intended grant objectives" to one organized around "penalties for noncompliance." The pivot reframes the recipient relationship from partner to defendant, and it requires grantee compliance departments to rebuild documentation, internal-controls, and audit-response infrastructure that most have allowed to atrophy over the past decade.
Read articleThe National Institute on Aging's FY 2026 AD/ADRD portfolio consolidates the dementia research infrastructure layer — NCRAD, NACC, the new AI and Technology Collaboratory Coordinating Center — into a small number of large, often single-source cooperative agreements. The $113M new-research increment goes elsewhere. For investigators submitting in FY 2026, the structural change matters more than the headline dollar number.
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