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$82MResearch Expenditures during Fiscal Year 2019
Support from the National Science Foundation (NSF), through competitively-awarded grants and
fellowships, is a primary driver of the United States economy, enhances the nation’s security and advances knowledge to sustain global leadership. As one of the largest external supporters of research and scholarship at the University of Michigan, NSF funding allows researchers to address emerging opportunities and challenges in areas of broad potential impact. NSF grants also support science, technology, engineering and mathematics education, training the next generation of researchers.
National Science FoundationSupporting U-M Research to Serve the World
854 Faculty77 Postdoctoral Fellows118 Graduate Students
9% of Overall
U-M Federal
Support
For more information about U-M research, visit research.umich.edu
1,010 Active Projects
NSF grants annually support U-M researchers in a wide variety of roles:
NSF-Funded Research Highlights
University of Michigan Office of Research 503 Thompson St. | Ann Arbor, MI 48109
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Open-source Bionic Leg
A new open-source, artificially intelligent prosthetic leg designed by researchers at U-M and Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, and supported by NSF, is now available to the scientific community.
The leg’s free-to-copy design and programming are intended to improve the quality of life of patients and accelerate scientific advances by offering a unified platform to fragmented research efforts across the field of bionics.
Precision Medicine
A new 3D structure for growing cell cultures could enable doctors to test medications on model tumors grown from a patient’s own cells, according to results from a team of U-M engineers and cancer researchers.
Unlike previous devices, the new structure, developed with support from NSF, is made from protein fibers that cells know how to modify. Scientists can potentially use the cultures to do things like drug testing or single cell analysis, which may help identify the best treatments for a patient’s cancer.
Ice-proof Coating
A new class of coatings that sheds ice effortlessly from even large surfaces has moved researchers closer to their decades-long goal of ice-proofing cargo ships, airplanes, power lines and other large structures.
The spray-on coatings, developed at U-M with support from NSF, cause ice to fall away from structures — regardless of their size — with just the force of a light breeze, or often the weight of the ice itself.