Grand Challenges Individual Project Grants

Grand Challenges Individual Project Grants support projects by individual investigators that are targeted toward a specific component of a grand challenge.

Individual Project Grant awards provide up to $50,000 per year for 3 years, which includes a 1:1 match of resources from the PI's college and/or department.

A total of 25 Individual Project Grants were awarded:

Climate Change and the Environment:

Visualizing Urban Flooding Due To Climate Change: An Urgent Problem In Low Income Areas

Climate Mitigation and Land-Use Detection and Monitoring of Second-Generation Biofuel Crops in the USA

Bridging the Gaps in Satellite Observations of Earth Systems to Support Climate and Environmental Products

An Innovative Approach to Remove Emerging Organic Contaminants from the Environment

Energy and Sustainability:

Market Design, Energy Storage, and Interconnection to the U.S. Power Grid

On-board Energy Harvesting for Long-endurance Earth Observation UAVs

Understanding the Impact of Wind on Fire Dynamics in Mass-Timber Compartment

Increasing Sustainability, Accessibility, and Equity in Urban Mobility with A Self-driving E-Scooter

Global Health:

Genetic and Lifestyle Risk Factors of Accelerated Brain Aging in Severe Mental Illness

Fetal Mammary Stem Cell Programming and Hormone Dysfunction

Establishing a Role for Psilocybin in Frontal Lobe Function

Promoting Youth Mental Wellbeing in Rural Honduras by Engaging Teachers as Catalysts

Role of Mitochondria Dynamics in Opioid Addiction

Forecasting Acute Malnutrition for Anticipatory Action

Towards an Early Warning System for Increased Probability of Community Infection by SARS-Cov-2 Variants

Social Justice:

An Innovative Intervention to Help Asian American Families Cope with Racism and Mental Health Difficulties

AFTER: A Hospital Violence Intervention Program For Youth Victims of Gunshot Injury

Advancing Environmental Justice By Evaluating Climate-Ready Urban Street Trees In Historically Redlined Neighborhoods

How Does Socioeconomic Status Interact with Statistical Learning to Shape Reading Development?

Increasing Participation of Minorities and Women In STEM Through Sports Performance Analytics Research

Accurate, Equitable, and Transparent Genetic Ancestry Inference

Digital Equity Mapping Research and Training Program

Threats to Democracy:

Human Rights Politics and Policies: Lessons from Latin America

Relating Attitudes on Democracy to Attitudes on Race and Ethnicity

Climate Change and Political Conflict: The Impact of Rising Sea Temperature on the Security of 109 Coastal Nations