Research By the Numbers & Research Magazines
FY2024
FY2024 by the Numbers: Top Sponsors (~$1M)
FY2024 Top Sponsors (~>$1M)
- $11,813,633 - U.S. Department of Education
- $4,803,610 - National Science Foundation
- $3,188,778 - MA Department of Early Education & Care
- $2,487,608 - University of Massachusetts Foundation
- $2,377,030 - NIH-National Cancer Institute
- $2,343,921 - Administration for Community Living
- $1,686,275 - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
- $1,491,610 - NIH-National Institutes of Health
- $1,284,583 - MA Executive Office of Elder Affairs
- $1,232,607 - MA Department of Developmental Services
- $1,169,884 - James & Cathleen Stone Family Foundation
- $1,116,892 - City of Boston
- $1,063,848 - Wipro Limited
FY2024 by the Numbers: Top Units with Research Expenditures (~$1M)
FY2024 Top Units with Research Expenditures (~>$1M)
- $18,532,974 - Institute for Community Inclusion
- $5,073,822 - Institute for Early Education
- $4,986,967 - School for the Environment - Dean's Office
- $3,918,657 - Biology
- $3,134,665 - Gerontology Institute
- $2,912,366 - Counseling & School Psychology
- $2,872,445 - Collins Center for Public Management
- $1,623,202 - Center for Personalized Cancer Therapy
- $1,411,369 - Engineering
- $1,344,191 - Physics
- $1,327,371 - Exercise & Health Sciences
- $1,198,643 - Psychology
- $1,188,908 – Manning College of Nursing & Health Sciences - Dean's Office
- $1,116,388 - Institute for New England Native American Studies
- $1,102,258 - Chemistry
FY2024 Funding Highlights: $1M and up
MassGeneralBrigham Clinical Leadership Collaborative for Diversity in Nursing Expansion
PI: Jessica Whiteley
Department: Manning College of Nursing and Health Sciences
Sponsor: University Of Massachusetts Foundation (Sub From Massachusetts General Hospital)
Award: $10,000,000
Center on Scaling Up Progressive Employment (PE): Promoting Competitive Integrated Employment for Jobseekers with Disabilities and Meeting Needs of Businesses in the Community
PI: Kelly Ann Haines
Department: Institute for Community Inclusion
Sponsor: Administration For Community Living
Award: $4,499,998
State of California Project
PI: Marc Cohen
Department: Gerontology Institute
Sponsor: Community Catalyst, Inc.
Award: $4,367,065
Autistic Children: A Randomized Controlled Trial
PI: Abbey Eisenhower
Department: Psychology
Sponsor: U.S. Department of Education (ED)
Award: $3,600,000
Project CIRCLE: Cultivating Interdisciplinary and Responsive Cultural research, practice, and policy Leaders in Early Childhood Profession
PI: Serra Acar
Department: Curriculum & Instruction
Sponsor: U.S. Department Of Education
Award: $3,523,849
Home Care Digital and Simulation Lab
PI: Joseph Berger
Department: Office of the Provost
Sponsor: Community Project Funding/ Congressionally Directed Spending - Construction, Health Resources Service Administration
Award: $3,000,000
Louis Stokes New STEM Pathways and Research Alliance: Urban Massachusetts LSAMP
PI: Joseph Berger
Department: College of Sciences & Mathematics
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Award: $3,000,000
PI: Jean Winsor
Department: Institute for Community Inclusion
Sponsor: Administration For Community Living
Award: $2,250,000
Arts to Competitive Integrated Employment (ArtCIE) - Subminimum Wage to Competitive Integrated Employment (SWTCIE)
PI: Jean Winsor
Department: Institute for Community Inclusion
Sponsor: Florida Department of Education (Sub from U.S. Department of Education)
Award: $2,000,000
PI: Lindsay Fallon
Department: Counseling & School Psychology
Sponsor: U.S. Department of Education
Award: $1,999,991
Diverse Personnel Preparation for Related Services in Orientation and Mobility
PI: Callie Brusegaard
Department: Global Inclusion & Social Development
Sponsor: Department of Education
Award: $1,249,995
FY2024 Funding Highlights: $300k to $1M
Center for Environmental Justice Media
PI: Robert Chen
Department: School for the Environment
Sponsor: University of Massachusetts Foundation
Awards: $982,800
Missouri Vocational Rehabilitation Customized Employment
PI: David Hoff
Department: Institute for Community Inclusion
Sponsor: Missouri Dept Elementary Secondary Education
Award: $923,646
Data-driven learning of dissipation from microscopy of chemically active materials
PI: Jason Green
Department: Chemistry
Sponsor: U.S. Department Of Energy
Award: $749,999
Statewide Professional Development Academy
PI: Anne Douglass
Department: Institute for Early Education Leadership and Innovation
Sponsor: MA Department of Early Education and Care
Awards: $650,000
Overcoming the Barriers to Effective Transcranial Temporal Interference Stimulation in Human
PI: Sumientra Rampersad
Department: Physics
Sponsor: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
Award: $624,795
FY23 Professional Fellows Program
PI: Heike Boeltzig-Brown
Department: Institute Community Inclusion
Sponsor: U.S. Department of State
Award: $618,928
A comprehensive platform for low-cost screening and image-guided photodynamic therapy (PDT) of pre-malignant and malignant oral lesions in low resource settings
PI: Jonathan Celli
Department: Physics
Sponsor: The General Hospital Corporation (Sub From NIH - National Cancer Institute)
Award: $608,236
Employment First Expansion and Employment Data
PI: John Butterworth Jr.
Department: Institute for Community Inclusion
Sponsor: Maryland Dept of Health & Mental Hygiene
Award: $499,702
UMass Asian American Leadership, Education, Access, and Data (AA LEAD)
PI: Liya Escalera
Department: Student Equity Access & Success
Sponsor: University Of Massachusetts - Lowell (Sub from U.S. Department of Education)
Award: $495,984
Mitochondria-targeting Novel Cationic Hydrazone Antioxidants for the Treatment of Preeclampsia
PI: Marianna Torok
Department: Chemistry
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Award: $485,925
REU Site: Research Experience in Integrative & Evolutionary Biology
PI: Rachel Skvirsky
Department: Biology
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Award: $464,935
The development of the trade-off between sampling and remembering the visual world
PI: Zsuzsa Kaldy
Department: Psychology
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Award: $457,294
Translating Findings on Supports for Community Life Engagement
PI: Jaimie Timmons
Department: Global Inclusion & Social Development
Sponsor: University of New Hampshire (Sub from Administration for Community Living)
Award: $400,000
A Community-Based Early Warning and Early Response Mechanism to Prevent and Address Hate in Boston
PI: Darren Kew
Department: Conflict Resolution
Sponsor: U.S. Department of Justice
Award: $399,432
Climate Resilient Newburyport: Community Action Project - Community Forums for Action
PI: Allison Novelly
Department: Urban Harbors Institute
Sponsor: City of Newburyport
Award: $ 393,470
Metro Boston Professional Development Centers (PDCs)
PI: Anne Douglass
Department: Institute for Early Education Leadership and Innovation
Sponsor: MA Department of Early Education & Care
Award: $350,000
COLLAB: Deciphering the Subantarctic South Pacific Ocean's Role in Pleistocene Climate Evolution with IODP Expedition 383 Sediments
PI: Jesse Farmer
Unit: School for the Environment
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Award: $342,538
From Climate Crisis to Climate Resilience
PI: Marcelo Suarez-Orozco
Department: Chancellor's Office
Sponsor: University of Massachusetts Foundation
Award: $300,000
FY2024 Funding Highlights: $100k to $300k
Toward Racial Equity and Justice in Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Vaccination: An Exploratory Study with Cape Verdean Parents
PI: Ana Cristina Lindsay
Department: Exercise & Health Sciences
Sponsor: National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities
Award: $228,750
PI: Ana Cristina Lindsay
Department: Exercise & Health Sciences
Sponsor: National Institute Of Dental & Craniofacial Research
Award: $242,837
Improving Writing Instruction Across Disciplines through the University WAC Program
PI: Lauren Bowen
Department: English
Sponsor: Davis Educational Foundation
Award: $223,987
Engaging Brazilian and Central American Young Adults (18-26 years) in the United States to Assess Factors Influencing HPV Vaccination Uptake
PI: Ana Lindsay
Department: Exercise and Health Sciences
Sponsor: Merck Sharp & Dohme
Award: $216,723
Feminist Roadmap for Sustainable Peace
PI: Carol Cohn
Unit: Liberal Arts
Sponsor: University Of Massachusetts Foundation (Sub From Rockefeller Brothers Fund)
Award: $210,000
Collaborative Research: SWIFT: Data Driven Learning and Optimization in Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Enabled Industrial Wireless Network for Advanced Manufacturing
PI: Abdullah Eroglu
Department: Engineering
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Award: $200,000
PI: Joanna Dahl
Department: Engineering
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Award: $199,952
PI: John Steinberg
Department: Fiske Center for Archaeological Research
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Award: $198,250
PI: Heather Trigg
Department: Anthropology
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Award: $185,270
PI: Joyce Morgan
Department: Student Equity Access & Success
Sponsor: University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School (Sub from Administration for Community Living)
Award: $184,733
PI: Oleg Lazarev
Department: Mathematics
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Award: $170,443
PI: Prassede Vella Foote
Department: MassBays
Sponsor: MA Department of Environmental Protection
Award: $158,600
Human Services Study for the Town of Natick
PI: Caitlin Coyle
Unit: Manning College
Sponsor: Town of Natick
Award: $148,000
Nantucket and Madaket Harbors Action Plan Update
PI: Kristin Uiterwyk
Unit: School for the Environment
Sponsor: Town Of Nantucket
Award: $141,408
Collaborative Research: A revised Plio-Pleistocene view of the effect of climate on North Pacific oxygenation from foraminifera-bound nitrogen isotopes
PI: Jesse Farmer
Unit: School for the Environment
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Award: $141,024
Defining the shared transcriptional network underlying Toxoplasma extracellular stress and stage transition
PI: Kouros Zarringhalam
Department: Mathematics
Sponsor: Boston College (Sub from NIH - National Institutes of Health)
Award: $138,488
PI: Meredith Reiches
Department: Anthropology
Sponsor: Harvard University
Award: $135,000
PI: Ping Chen
Department: Engineering
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Award: $124,997
Vanadium speciation in sulfidic environments: Inferring the origin of metalliferous source rocks and petroleum
PI: Karen Johannesson
Department: School for the Environment
Sponsor: American Chemical Society
Award: $110,000
Leading by Example Clean Energy Feasibility Study Grant
PI: James O'Day
Department: Facilities
Sponsor: MA Department of Energy Resources
Award: $100,000
Y10 Cellular and molecular mediators of fibrosis in the development of urinary tract dysfunction
PI: Jill Macoska
Department: Biology
Sponsor: University of Wisconsin Madison (Sub from NIH - National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)
Award: $100,000
Expanding Boston's Pipeline for Youth of Color in Resiliency Planning
PI: Kenneth Reardon
Department: Urban Planning and Community Development
Sponsor: University of North Texas
Award: $100,000
Manchester by the Sea Harbor Plan
PI: Kristin Uiterwyk
Department: Urban Harbors Institute
Sponsor: Town of Manchester-By-The-Sea
Award: $100,000
FY2024 Funding Highlights: Up to $100k
National Environmental Information Exchange Network Grant Program
PI: Pamela DiBona
Department: MassBays
Sponsor: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Award: $94,984
SBIR Phase I: Development of an Adjustable Gene Therapy Platform Technology
PI: Kai Zou
Department: Exercise & Health Science
Sponsor: Remedium Bio (Sub from National Science Foundation)
Award: $90,709
PI: Nina Silverstein
Department: Gerontology
Sponsor: The Retirement Research Foundation
Awards: $79,980
Leading for Change Pennsylvania
PI: Anne Douglass
Unit: Education & Human Development
Sponsor: Berks County Intermediate Unit Education
Award: $76,260
Exploration of the Equity of Access Gap in Stem Research and Education Opportunities Funded By the National Science Foundation
PI: Hannah Sevian
Department: Chemistry
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Award: $75,000
PI: John Butterworth Jr.
Department: Institute for Community Inclusion
Sponsor: University of Minnesota (Sub from Administration for Community Living)
Awards: $75,000
Leading for Change New York
PI: Anne Douglass
Department: Curriculum & Instruction
Sponsor: Early Childhood Associates, Inc. (Sub from United Way of Central New York)
Award: $71,970
Deep Reinforcement Learning for Collaborative Multi-Robot Systems with Low-Latency Wireless Networking
PI: Michael Rahaim
Department: Engineering
Sponsor: Tiami LLC (Sub From U.S. Department of Defense
Award: $67,289
Convening on Elder Fraud, Scam Prevention, and Financial Educational Advocacy for the Aging Population and Those Who Serve Them
PI: Tyler Compton
Department: Gerontology Institute
Sponsor: Investor Protection Trust
Award: $65,000
Education for Healthcare Workers
PI: Tyler Compton
Department: Gerontology Institute
Sponsor: Investor Protection Trust
Award: $65,000
Disentangling Sources of Bias: Evidence from Advanced Placement Course Recommendations
PI: Dania Francis
Department: Economics
Sponsor: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Award: $55,273
Mooring Study - Town of Marshfield, MA
PI: Kristin Uiterwyk
Unit: School for the Environment
Sponsor: Town of Marshfield
Award: $53,856
Drug Response Signatures in Rare Adrenocortical Carcinoma & Patient-Patient Similarity Networks
PI: Ozgun Babur
Department: Computer Science
Sponsor: Fidelity Foundations
Award: $50,000
PI: Fabian Torres-Ardila
Department: Gaston Institute
Sponsor: University 0f Massachusetts Foundation (Sub from Boston Foundation)
Awards: $50,000
Development of Innovative Technology Tools or Approaches to Improve Outcomes for Individual with Disabilities
PI: Lori Cooney
Department: Institute for Community Inclusion
Sponsor: ReSOURCE (resourcevt.org)
Award: $49,768
Muni Listening Tour
PI: Michael Ward
Department: Collins Center for Public Management
Sponsor: MA Executive Office of Administration and Finance
Award: $46,600
The Circadian time of food intake and its effect on reproductive health
PI: Jin Ho Park
Department: Psychology
Sponsor: Oregon Health And Science University (Sub from NIH - National Institute of Child Health & Human Development)
Award: $46,340
Student Loan Repayment Research and Curriculum Development
PI: Monnica Chan
Department: Leadership in Education
Sponsor: uAspire Inc (Sub from ECMC Foundation)
Award: $43,321
Justice in Aging Data for Equity Research Fellowship at the LeadingAge LTSS Center at UMASS Boston
PI: Jeffrey Stokes
Department: Gerontology Institute
Sponsor: Justice In Aging
Award: $42,000
SCS 8th Workshop on Harvest Control Rules in a Changing Environment
PI: Kristin Uiterwyk
Department: School for the Environment
Sponsor: New England Fishery Management Council
Award: $41,619
Distributed Consensus for Coherent Spectrum Sensing
PI: Michael Rahaim
Department: Engineering
Sponsor: Tiami LLC (Sub From Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division)
Award: $39,252
San Antonio One Call One Click Transportation Planning System
PI: Sowmya Balachandran
Department: Urban Planning & Community Development
Sponsor: University of North Texas
Award: $33,465
Planning Office for Urban Affairs Gerontology Assistantship
PI: Edward Miller
Department: Gerontology
Sponsor: Planning Office For Urban Affairs Inc
Award: $33,352
PI: Fabian Torres-Ardila
Department: Gaston Institute
Sponsor: University of Massachusetts Foundation (Sub from Boston Foundation)
Awards: $31,800
Global Ecology Education Initiative
PI: Jean Rhodes
Department: Psychology
Sponsor: Step Up Womens Network
Award: $30,000
Gateway-In Project Graduate Student Assistantship
PI: Edward Miller
Department: Gerontology
Sponsor: LeadingAge
Award: $29,974
Imaging the Microbiome and Nanoparticle Vaccines in Live Amphibians Toward Regeneration, Vaccination, and Probiotic Treatments Targeting Drug Resistant Pathogens
PI: Douglas Woodhams
Department: Biology
Sponsor: Eppley Foundation for Research Inc
Award: $28,000
Evaluating the effects of virtual support groups for intersectional autistic individuals: A community engaged study
PI: Meredith Maroney
Department: Counseling & School Psychology
Sponsor: Organization for Autism Research
Award: $25,257
Continuing to Unravel the Nantucket Plastic Story
PI: Juanita Urban-Rich
Unit: School for the Environment
Sponsor: University Of Massachusetts Foundation (Sub From Community Foundation for Nantucket Inc.)
Award: $20,000
Multi-Parameter Aerosol Scattering Sensor (LEW-TOPS-19)
PI: Tomas Materdey
Department: Engineering
Sponsor: NASA
Award: $15,000
Play Sports Coalition - Camp Shriver
PI: Barbara Gildea
Department: Center for Social Development & Education
Sponsor: UMass Foundation
Award: $15,000
PI: Huimin Yan
Department: Exercise & Health Science
Sponsor: California State University Long Beach (Sub from NIH - National Institute of General Medical Science)
Awards: $15,000
UMass Boston Urban Scholars STEM Education
PI: Liya Escalera
Department: Student Equity Access & Success
Sponsor: Boston Scientific Corporation
Award: $15,000
PI: Lara Enein-Donovan
Department: Institute for Community Inclusion
Sponsor: State of Maine
Award: $13,150
EEA Management Trainings
PI: Michael Ward
Department: Edward J. Collins, Jr. Center for Public Management
Sponsor: Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs (EEA)
Award: $13,500
Fisheries Science Work within the Fisheries Science and Emerging Technologies Program
PI: Robert Chen
Department: School for the Environment
Sponsor: New England Aquarium
Award: $12,821
Promoting Seasonal and Migrant Head Start Children's Development: Program Practices That Matter
PI: Serra Acar
Department: Curriculum & Instruction
Sponsor: University of North Carolina (Sub from Administration for Children & Families)
Award: $12,500
Global Ecology Education Initiative
PI: Robert Chen
Department: School for the Environment
Sponsor: University of Massachusetts Foundation (Sub from Samueli Foundation)
Award: $12,500
Non-Standard Work Arrangements and Occupational Requirements on the Risk of Ambulatory Disability: Examining Population-Level Heterogeneity by Age, Race/Ethnicity, and Nativity
PI: Sung Park
Department: Gerontology
Sponsor: University Of California Regents (Sub From National Institute for Occupational Safety & Health)
Award: $10,000
Customization of SELN course and addition of E1MN training
PI: Amy Huppi
Department: Institute Community Inclusion
Sponsor: SE Minnesota Center Independent Living
Award: $6,874
Greater Boston Migrant Service Providers: Challenges and Connections
PI: Darren Kew
Unit: Liberal Arts
Sponsor: Northeastern University (Sub From Herman and Frieda L Miller Foundation)
Award: $5,000
PI: Michael Ward
Department: Edward J. Collins, Jr. Center for Public Management
Sponsor: MA Office of Campaign and Political Finance
Awards: $5,000
PI: Tyler Compton
Department: Gerontology
Sponsor: University of Massachusetts Foundation (Sub from Illinois State Bar Association)
Award: $5,000
Health Policy Research Scholars Dissertation Award
PI: Elliot Marrow (Advisor: David Pantalone)
Department: Psychology
Sponsor: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Award: $4,000
Identification of conserved factors that protect the eye in response to environmental stresses
PI: Jens Rister
Department: Biology
Sponsor: Sigma Xi
Award: $2,500
FY2023
FY2023 by the Numbers: Top Sponsors (~$1M)
FY2023 Top Sponsors (~>$1M)
- $11,369,577 - U.S. Department of Education
- $6,278,555 - NIH-National Institutes of Health
- $5,192,779 - NSF-National Science Foundation
- $3,791,144 - Massachusetts Department of Early Education & Care
- $2,339,571 - Administration for Community Living
- $1,485,165 - Massachusetts Life Sciences Center
- $1,234,843 - James & Cathleen Stone Family Foundation
- $1,220,887 - Massachusetts Department of Developmental Services
- $1,143,018 - Wipro Limited
- $1,077,200 - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
- $992,976 - U.S. Department of State
- $991,671 - Massachusetts Technology Collaborative
FY2023 by the Numbers: Top Units with Research Expenditures (~$1M)
FY2023 Top Units with Research Expenditures (~>$1M)
- $17,075,610 - Institute for Community Inclusion
- $4,820,633 - School for the Environment Dean's Office
- $4,532,235 - Institute for Early Education
- $4,016,919 - Biology
- $2,817,855 - Chemistry
- $1,988,979 - Collins Center for Public Management
- $1,832,105 - Psychology
- $1,795,245 - Gerontology Institute
- $1,751,897 - Counseling & School Psychology
- $1,374,664 - Vice Provost for Research
- $1,313,120 - Engineering
- $1,309,203 - College of Sciences & Mathematics Dean's Office
- $1,053,551 - Exercise & Health Sciences
- $973,191 - Physics