BURLINGTON, VT – U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), a member of the Senate Commerce Committee, today recognized Vermont’s esteemed research institutions for receiving an accumulative $8,603,831 in investments from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF). The awards were granted by the NSF this fiscal cycle to a variety of research projects conducted at Vermont institutes of higher learning.  

“Vermont has always had a proud tradition of supporting education and student research, and these grants from the National Science Foundation will advance that mission. The work done today in the Green Mountain State could lead to scientific innovations that better the lives of folks around the world – but it requires robust funding to make it happen. I’ll continue to fight for more research and development funding as a member of the Senate Commerce Committee, and will keep advocating for science funding to support our state’s world-class research institutions,” said Sen. Peter Welch. 

The following NSF grants have been awarded to Vermont this fiscal cycle, so far:  

• Norwich University 
  • $2,000,000 – “Supporting a Seamless Transition from High School through College to Boost Participation in the STEM Workforce” 
• University of Vermont 
  • $2,725,914 – “Collaborative Research: RII FEC: Advancing Quality and Climate-Resilient Water Management with Community Partnerships and Enhanced Sensor Network” 
  • $1,344,200 – “MPOPHC: Integrating human risk perception and social processes into policy responses in an epidemiological model” 
  • $599,994 – “SaTC: CORE: Small: A Novel Mechanism for Effective and Accountable Communication of Differential Privacy through Multi-Stakeholder Research” 
  • $575,000 – “Design and Development of the Allyl Cyanamide Rearrangement” 
  • $385,643 – “Collaborative Research with University of Vermont & State Agricultural College: Is it MASH or MUSH? Testing Conflicting Models for Magma Diversification and Mobilization in Lower-Arc Crust” 
  • $114,810 – “Collaborative Research: HNDS-R: Altruistic stress, economic networks, and endogenous organizational change” 
  • $86,096 – “Collaborative Research: Planning: CHIRRP: Science to Advance Freshwater Ecosystem and Community Resilience in the Appalachians (SAFER Apps)” 
  • $56,278 – “Collaborative Research: RAPID: The Role and Effectiveness of Instructional Risk and Crisis Biosecurity Recommendation Messages during the H5N1 Dairy Crisis” 
  • $30,000 – “Conference: Interagency Analysis and Modeling Group/Multiscale Modeling Consortium (IMAG/MSM) Meeting on Operationalizing the NASEM Report on Digital Twins” 
• Middlebury College 
  • $398,374 – “Urban-based Domestic Land Investors and Rural Tree Cover Gain” 
  • $287,522 – “RUI: Network Evolution with Unobserved Mechanisms” 

In Fiscal Year 2023, the National Science Foundation funded more than $15 million in awards to Vermont, invested more than $14 million in fundamental research in Vermont, and $889,000 in STEM education in the state. The NSF promotes the progress of science and advances research across America. In 2023, the NSF awarded more than 11,000 grants to 1,900 institutions and 353,000 people. Learn more here. 

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