| 6656 | Chen, Yanan Ye, Hui[Biology]; | Modulating IRE1/XBP1s and ATF6 Signaling to Promote Oligodendrocyte Resilience and Myelin Repair in Multiple Sclerosis Models | National Multiple Sclerosis Society | 08/18/2025 | $473,978 | | 6685 | Delgado, Jary | Conformational changes in PSD-95 regulating NMDA-LTD | National Institutes of Health | 10/16/2025 | $145,500 | | 6593 | Mierisch, Jennifer | Signal integration in somatic support cells during spermatogenesis | National Institutes of Health | 10/24/2025 | $536,092 | | 6724 | Milanovich, Joseph Dr. Sara Ruane[The Field Museum] | Quantitative Survey of Herpetofauna at Nachusa Grasslands using Adapted-Hunt Drift Fence Technique (AHDriFT) Camera Trap Arrays | Friends of Nachusa Grasslands | 11/21/2025 | $19,351 | | 6630 | Putonti, Catherine | A multidisciplinary approach to define the boundaries of bacterial strains | National Institutes of Health | 07/01/2025 | $538,547 | | 6638 | Turner, Caroline | CAREER: Impact of elemental limitation on the evolution and composition of bacteria | National Science Foundation (NSF) | 07/23/2025 | $899,797 | | 6683 | Wheeler, Heather | Predicting Gene Regulation Across Populations to Understand Mechanisms Underlying Complex Traits | National Institutes of Health | 10/24/2025 | $511,340 | | 6714 | Wheeler, Heather | Imputation of gene expression in admixed populations using C-GEM | National Institutes of Health
Northwestern University | 10/31/2025 | $44,421 | | 6580 | Whitney, Megan | CAREER: Unraveling the Evolutionary History and Trajectories of Synapsid Dentitions | National Science Foundation (NSF) | 07/21/2025 | $914,494 | | 6696 | Ye, Hui | Mechanistic Investigation of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Effects on Feeding Behavior Using Aplysia californica | National Institute of Mental Health | 10/23/2025 | $541,302 |
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| 6642 | Jacobi, Julie Stoelinga, Timothy[Center for Science and Math Education]; | Big Shoulders Fund School Partnership 2025-2026 | Big Shoulders Fund | 10/25/2025 | $40,854 | | 6727 | Jacobi, Julie | Fresh Air Futures: Engaging Students in Community Air Quality Science | National Geographic Society | 11/01/2025 | $98,590 |
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| 6621 | Banerjee, Progna | CAREER: Autonomous Synthesis and Electrochemical Discovery of Colloidal Solid Electrolytes for Next-Generation Batteries | National Science Foundation (NSF) | 08/01/2025 | $1,537,706 | | 6651 | Banerjee, Progna | Atomic-Scale Understanding of Structure–Ionic Conductivity Relationships in Earth-Abundant Solid Electrolytes via Advanced TEM Techniques | American Chemical Society | 09/12/2025 | $163,936 | | 6708 | Banerjee, Progna | Metastable Nanochemistry of Defect-Driven Ionic Transport | National Science Foundation (NSF) | 11/01/2025 | $699,568 | | 6658 | Devery, James | Expanding the Limits of Lewis Acid-Catalyzed Carbonyl-Olefin Metathesis Catalysts and Methods | National Science Foundation (NSF) | 09/26/2025 | $697,280 | | 6669 | Esipova, Tatiana | Molecular Photoredox Catalysts without Heavy Atoms: Harnessing Visible and Near-Infrared Light. | National Science Foundation (NSF) | 09/30/2025 | $345,989 | | 6552 | Gates, Colin | CAREER: Regulation and Distribution of Photosystem II-cyclic electron flow | National Science Foundation (NSF) | 07/23/2025 | $649,261 | | 6604 | Gates, Colin | Controlled Investigation of Membrane Damage Sensing and Repair In Vivo. | National Institutes of Health
National Institute of General Medical Sciences | 09/15/2025 | $324,409 | | 6641 | Gates, Colin Banerjee, Progna[Chemistry & Biochemistry]; | REU: Chemistry for Energy Technologies at Loyola University Chicago | National Science Foundation (NSF) | 09/01/2025 | $355,542 | | 6657 | Gates, Colin | Photophysiological Modifications for Drought Tolerance | U.S. Department of Agriculture | 10/23/2025 | $342,209 | | 6633 | Moran, Graham | The Chemistry of Class 3 F2-dehydrogenases | National Science Foundation (NSF) | 09/17/2025 | $624,225 |
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| 6636 | Abuhamad, Mohammed | CAREER: Toward Secure and Robust Robotic Foundation Models | National Science Foundation (NSF) | 07/23/2025 | $555,172 | | 6653 | Chan-Tin, David | Cybersecurity Experiential Scholars Program | Motorola Solutions Foundation | 08/05/2025 | $30,000 | | 6681 | Chan-Tin, David Stalans, Loretta[Criminal Justice and Criminology]; | SaTC 2.0: RES: Preventing Victimization from Phishing Scams | National Science Foundation (NSF) | 09/29/2025 | $591,970 | | 6661 | Dligach, Dmitriy | Using artificial intelligence to augment clinical decision support in critical care (P01) | National Institutes of Health
University of Wisconsin | 09/02/2025 | $224,579 | | 6662 | Dligach, Dmitriy | Augmenting diagnostic decision support systems for critically ill patients with large language models (R01) | National Institutes of Health
University of Wisconsin | 09/02/2025 | $250,464 | | 6620 | Thiruvathukal, George | RoRS-EAGER: Securing the Research Supply Chain for Deep Neural Networks | National Science Foundation (NSF) | 07/03/2025 | $150,001 |
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| 6598 | Olson, David Ward, Amanda[Criminal Justice and Criminology]; | Evaluation of the Women's Dignity of Choice Pilot Program | Cara Collective | 07/11/2025 | $165,993 |
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| 6598 | Olson, David Ward, Amanda[Criminal Justice and Criminology]; | Evaluation of the Women's Dignity of Choice Pilot Program | Cara Collective | 07/11/2025 | $165,993 |
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| 6668 | Spitz, Gina Coleman, Brett[CURL]; Van Zytveld, David[CURL]; | RISE Up Respectful Workplace Training Study | Chicago Women in Trades | 10/30/2025 | $80,000 |
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| 6673 | Friar, Tobyn | Westlake Scholarship 2025 | Westlake Health Foundation | 09/15/2025 | $300,000 |
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| 6631 | Minami, Noritaka Browning, April[Fine and Performing Arts]; Hunt, Gina[Fine and Performing Arts]; | Illinois Arts Council Creative Project Grant | Illinois Arts Council Agency | 07/24/2025 | $8,114 |
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| 6590 | Henfield, Malik | Black Student Educational Experiences in Illinois | University of Illinois, Urbana/Champaign | 07/23/2025 | $86,000 | | 6591 | Henfield, Malik | Research and Policy Support for the Chicago Urban League | Chicago Urban League | 07/24/2025 | $137,500 |
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| 6545 | Jones, Peter Canaris, Michael[Institute of Pastoral Studies]; | CENTERS: Catholic Education Network To Enact and Resource Synodality | Lilly Endowment, Inc. | 09/08/2025 | $7,646,736 |
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| 6676 | Gonzalez de Leon, Rafael Santiago | Partially Ordered Sets from Algebra and Geometry | National Science Foundation (NSF) | 09/23/2025 | $288,406 | | 6686 | Lou, Shuwen | Dirichlet Form and Their Applications | Simons Foundation | 09/30/2025 | $96,938 | | 6628 | Rovi, Carmen | CAREER: Shapes that Matter: Manifold Scissors Congruences, Cobordisms, and Topology of Data | National Science Foundation (NSF) | 07/23/2025 | $670,070 |
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| 6693 | Kim, Richard | Ritual and Human Flourishing in Confucianism | Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange (CCKF) | 10/15/2025 | $35,000 | | 6511 | Vukov, Joseph Burns, Michael[Biology]; Howes, Shannon[Student Development]; Flavin, James[Provost]; Murphy, Michael[Hank Center for the Catholic Intellectual Heritage]; | Jesuit Character Education at Loyola University Chicago | Lilly Endowment, Inc.
Wake Forest University | 07/07/2025 | $0 |
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| 6705 | Abbasi, Rasha | WoU-MMA: Cosmic-Ray Physics with IceCube 2026 - 2029 | National Science Foundation (NSF)
University of Delaware | 11/07/2025 | $177,321 |
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| 6592 | Grigorescu, Alexandru | Controlling Bureaucracies in International Organizations | National Science Foundation (NSF) | 08/21/2025 | $135,250 | | 6637 | Melin, Molly Tricia Olsen[University of Minnesota-Twin Cities] | Collaborative Research: "The Business of Politics: Implications of Corporate Behavior for Political Violence and Democracy" | National Science Foundation (NSF) | 08/13/2025 | $131,234 |
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| 6684 | Baker, Nicholas | Combining artificial intelligence and human perception to advance radiologist image interpretation | National Science Foundation (NSF)
University of California, Los Angeles | 10/03/2025 | $257,000 | | 6643 | Beischel, William Riley Henry[Psychology] | Gender Fantasies: The Use of Speculative Fiction as a Tool for Future Orientation, Gender Pleasure, and Identity Exploration | Uplifting Trans Fund | 08/01/2025 | $2,400 | | 6609 | Guy, Margaret Abigail Hogan[University of South Carolina/Arnold School of Public Health] | Multisensory Integration in Infants at Elevated Likelihood for Autism Spectrum Disorder | National Institutes of Health | 07/01/2025 | $539,110 | | 6632 | Haden, Catherine | Co-designing a Participatory, Inclusive STEAM Center at a Midwest Children’s Museum | National Science Foundation (NSF)
Kidzeum of Health and Science | 07/01/2025 | $87,511 | | 6574 | Kang, Sungha Holmbeck, Grayson[Psychology]; Victoria Grant[Psychology] | Developmental Trauma Disorder F31 | National Institute of Child Health and Human Development | 08/05/2025 | $153,609 |
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| 6613 | Sengul Orgut, Irem | SCC: Serving Households in AReas with food Insecurity with a Network for Good: SHARING | National Science Foundation (NSF)
University of Alabama | 07/17/2025 | $87,413 | | 6640 | Stanton, Madeline | Schreiber Baumhart Scholars and Programming Costs for Annual Stakeholder Convening | Schreiber Philanthropy | 07/07/2025 | $700,000 |
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| 6711 | Parenti, James | Developing Leadership Propensity of Catholic Leaders | GHR (Gerald and Henrietta Rauenhorst) Foundation | 11/03/2025 | $700,000 |
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| 6644 | Hendrickson, Mitchell | FY26 CSI - Tilton Instructional | Chicago Public Schools | 07/17/2025 | $60,842 | | 6645 | Hendrickson, Mitchell | FY26 CSI - Tilton Non-Instructional | Chicago Public Schools | 07/17/2025 | $64,000 | | 6646 | Hendrickson, Mitchell | FY26 CSI - Tilton Adult | Chicago Public Schools | 07/18/2025 | $3,158 | | 6678 | Hendrickson, Mitchell | FY26 FSCS/CSI - Sullivan Instructional | Chicago Public Schools | 10/01/2025 | $63,600 | | 6679 | Hendrickson, Mitchell | FY26 FSCS/CSI - Sullivan Non-Instructional | Chicago Public Schools | 10/01/2025 | $45,000 | | 6680 | Hendrickson, Mitchell | FY26 FSCS/CSI - Sullivan Adult | Chicago Public Schools | 10/01/2025 | $3,940 | | 6698 | Hendrickson, Mitchell | FY26 ISBE After-School, Non-District | Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) | 10/13/2025 | $499,692 | | 6717 | Hendrickson, Mitchell | FY26 - Sustainable Community Schools - Gale Adult | Chicago Public Schools | 11/19/2025 | $97,114 | | 6718 | Hendrickson, Mitchell | FY26 Sustainable Community Schools - Gale Instructional | Chicago Public Schools | 11/11/2025 | $164,716 | | 6719 | Hendrickson, Mitchell | FY26 Sustainable Community Schools - Gale Non-Instructional | Chicago Public Schools | 11/11/2025 | $63,170 | | 6720 | Hendrickson, Mitchell | FY26 Sustainable Community Schools - McCutcheon Adult | Chicago Public Schools | 11/11/2025 | $48,635 | | 6721 | Hendrickson, Mitchell | FY26 Sustainable Community Schools - McCutcheon Instructional | Chicago Public Schools | 11/11/2025 | $137,273 | | 6722 | Hendrickson, Mitchell | FY26 Sustainable Community Schools - McCutcheon Non-Instructional | Chicago Public Schools | 11/19/2025 | $59,183 |
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| 6659 | Dybzinski, Ray Hayden, Daniel[School of Environmental Sustainability]; | Understanding the Determinants of Plant Community Nitrogen Uptake Rate, a Poorly-Understood Flux of Comparable Importance to Photosynthesis | National Science Foundation (NSF) | 10/14/2025 | $912,252 | | 6695 | Dybzinski, Ray Hayden, Daniel[School of Environmental Sustainability]; | Partnering with Urban Growers on Indigenous-Led Cover Crop Experiments to Promote Biodiversity and Soil Health in Chicago Agroecosystems | Walder Foundation | 10/31/2025 | $262,843 | | 6672 | Getzinger, Gordon Keller, Reuben[School of Environmental Sustainability]; Cory Suski[University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign] | Identifying Causative Agents Limiting Spread of Aquatic Invasive Species within the Chicago Area Waterways System Using Toxicity Identification Evaluation | U.S. Geological Survey
University of Illinois, Urbana/Champaign | 09/29/2025 | $199,707 | | 6558 | Keller, Reuben | Addressing Invasive Species Risks in The Great Lakes Portion of Illinois | U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
Illinois Department of Natural Resources | 08/15/2025 | $220,614 | | 6564 | Lishawa, Shane | Modeling Wild Rice Habitat for Cultural and Ecological Restoration in Michigan Wetlands | Michigan Sea Grant
University of Michigan | 08/18/2025 | $80,464 | | 6615 | Michaud, Gilbert | The Workforce Challenge: Reducing Administrative Burdens to Accelerate Decarbonization | Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Georgia Institute of Technology | 07/14/2025 | $93,058 |
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| 6650 | Johnson, Miranda | Loyola Educational Advocacy Program | State of Illinois
Illinois Equal Justice Foundation | 07/28/2025 | $82,056 |
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| 6654 | Northcut, Terry | Increasing impact of mental health services in Northern Lake County through Social Work Supervisory Training SW-Step | Healthcare Foundation of Northern Lake County | 07/29/2025 | $45,000 | | 6704 | Pryce, Julia Malcome, Marion[School of Social Work]; | Building University-Public School Partnerships to Change the Long-Term Trajectory of Youth Exposed to Violence | Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention | 10/21/2025 | $276,667 | | 6736 | Pryce, Julia Malcome, Marion[School of Social Work]; | Building University-Public School Partnerships to Prevent and Heal the Mental Health Effects of Trauma | City of Chicago
DePaul University | 11/24/2025 | $233,322 | | 6648 | Vidal de Haymes, Maria Celeste Sanchez[School of Social Work] | Evaluation of the Parent Mentor School and Community Engagement Component of the Parent Engagement Institute Study: Tracing Transformation - Understanding Programmatic Change in the Parent Mentor and Ladders of Opportunity Programs Through Participant Narratives: A Case Study | Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE)
Southwest Organizing Project | 08/15/2025 | $47,267 | | 6649 | Vidal de Haymes, Maria Sanchez, Celeste[School of Social Work] | Evaluation of the Ladders of Opportunity Component of the Parent Engagement Institute Study: Building Pathways, Bridging Gaps: a Developmental Evaluation of the Ladders of Opportunity Initiative | Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE)
Southwest Organizing Project | 08/15/2025 | $57,366 | | 6664 | Wilroy, Marcy Dunn, Shannon[School of Social Work]; | CADC Workforce Expansion Grant | Illinois Department of Human Services
Illinois Certification Board | 09/08/2025 | $452,000 |
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| 6702 | Gonzales, Teresa | The Games Men Play: Loving Community & Public Parks in Lawrence, MA | Princeton University | 10/17/2025 | $50,000 | | 6709 | Gonzales, Teresa | The Games Men Play: Loving Community & Public Parks in Lawrence, MA | Stanford University | 10/31/2025 | $50,000 | | 6710 | Gonzales, Teresa | The Games Men Play: Loving Community & Public Parks in Lawrence, MA | Institute for Advanced Study | 10/15/2025 | $50,000 |
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| 6690 | Cheng, Jocelyn | FY26 Hoellen Family Foundation | Hoellen Family Foundation | 09/26/2025 | $3,500 |
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