National Science Foundation RII Track-1 Project:Expanding Research, Education and Innovation in South Dakota
South Dakota EPSCoR Awards — NSF
SD EPSCoR expands South Dakota’s research, workforce development, and STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) educational outreach through National Science Foundation (NSF) EPSCoR projects that address our state’s priorities.
These multi-institutional, interdisciplinary, statewide projects are funded through competitive grant awards of various NSF Research Infrastructure Improvement (RII) Tracks.
- Track-1 Provides up to $4 million per year (for up to five years) for projects critical to the jurisdiction’s science and technology initiative or plan
- Track-2 Focused EPSCoR collaborations involving two or three EPSCoR jurisdictions partnering together
- Track-4 EPSCoR Research Fellows program supporting researchers early in their career
Track-1
NSF EPSCoR RII Track-1 Awards from 1989-2024 = $90,041,774
- 2019-2024: Building on the 2020 Vision: Expanding Research, Education and Innovation in South Dakota ($20,000,000)
- 2014-2019: The 2020 Vision: Building Research, Education and Innovation Partnerships in South Dakota ($20,000,000)
- 2009-2014: Beyond the 2010 Initiative: Partnerships for Competitiveness ($20,000,000)
- 2006-2009: The 2010 Initiative: Science Based Leadership in South Dakota ($7,292,143)
- 2004-2006: South Dakota Planning Grant ($208,494)
- 2001-2004: Rushmore Initiative for Excellence in Research ($9,307,237)
- 1998-2001: South Dakota EPSCoR Cooperative Agreement ($3,072,434)
- 1995-1998: South Dakota EPSCoR Improvement Plan ($4,500,000)
- 1992-1995: SD EPSCoR Advanced Development Program ($3,850,000)
- 1989-1992: EPSCoR In South Dakota ($1,811,466)
Track-2
NSF EPSCoR RII Track-2 Awards from 2013-2023 = $24,499,999
- 2023: Center for Climate-Conscious Agricultural Technologies (CCAT) ($4,000,000) Srinivas Janaswamy, SDSU
- 2020: The IceCube EPSCoR Initiative (IEI) — IceCube and the Data Revolution ($5,099,999) Xinhua Bai, SDSMT
- 2019: Data Driven Material Discovery Center for Bioengineering Innovation ($6,400,000) Robb Winter, SDSMT
- 2017: Building Genome-to-Phenome Infrastructure for Regulating Methane in Deep and Extreme Environments (BuG ReMeDEE) ($6,000,000) Rajesh Sani, SDSMT
- 2013: ($3,000,000) Jim Rice, SDSU
Track-4
NSF EPSCoR RII Track-4 Awards from 2017-2023 = $1,828,327
- 2023: The Monitoring of Invasive Yellow Sweet Clover Using Landsat/Sentinel-2, UAV Imagery and Machine Learning ($100,607) Ranjeet John, USD
- 2022: Novel Structure and Properties of Hybrid Electrolytes for Lithium Metal Batteries ($229,612) Yue Zhou, SDSU
- 2022: Research and Development of Ring-Contact Germanium Detectors ($200,812) Wenzhao Wei, USD
- 2022: Exploring the Potential of ANNIE Physics Phase and Beyond ($169,803) Jingbo Wang, SDSMT
- 2019: Form Finding and Optimization of the Structural Foundations of Mega-Flora ($242,123) Bret Lingwall, SDSMT
- 2019: Operating High Purity Germanium Detectors in Liquid Scintillator ($207,462) Wenqin Xu, USD
- 2018: Inverse Methods of Hydraulic Fracturing for Enhanced Geothermal Systems in a Deep Mine ($211,356) Liangping Li, SDSMT
- 2018: ($50,899) Zhen Ni, SDSU
- 2018: ($184,689) Ryan MacLellan, USD
- 2017: ($153,309) Jing Liu, USD
- 2017: ($69,655) Guojian Wang, USD