WASHINGTON, Oct. 16 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration announced that it expects to award up to six grants for the enhancement of research and education at minority serving institutions. The agency description of the grant states: "The Department of Energy's (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has a vital national security mission to protect the American people by maintaining a safe, secure, and effective nuclear weapons stockpile. This more ST

WASHINGTON, Oct. 14 -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' National Institutes of Health announced that it expects to award a grant for the utilization of in vitro functional genomics advances for gene-environment discovery and validation. The agency description of the grant states: "The purpose of this initiative is to fully integrate recent innovative advances of in vitro functional genomics tools/technologies and approaches for environmental health and toxicology applications.  more ST

WASHINGTON, Oct. 13 -- The National Science Foundation announced that it expects to award a grant for the Principles and Practice of Scalable Systems Program. The agency description of the grant states: "A key focus of the design of modern computing systems is performance and scalability, particularly in light of the limits of Moore's Law and Dennard scaling. To this end, systems are increasingly being implemented by composing heterogeneous computing components and continually changing memory s more ST