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Washington, D.C. | September 29, 2025 | Accelerating Research Translation (25-548) | The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) seeks to increase the scale and pace of advancing discoveries resulting from academic research into tan...

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Washington, D.C. | August 1 2025 | Agriculture and Food Research Initiative Competitive Grants Program Foundational and Applied Science Program (USDA-NIFA-AFRI-011134) | The AFRI Foundational and Applied Science Program supports gr...

| To AI or not to AI: That is the question | 

I recently built a new “AI” computer (which basically means an expensive gaming machine!) in order to take advantage of new Large Language Models (LLMs) that allow users to interact with prompts run locally (supposedly) on one’s own computer. 

I installed a program called LM Studio that offers many different options of LLMs to load. One of the models I selected was Gemma-3-27b from Google. I ran a few tes...

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Washington, D.C. | June 30 2025 | Lead Hazard Reduction Grant Program (FR-6900-N-13) | The purpose of the Lead Hazard Reduction (LHR) Grant Program is to maximize the number of children under the age of six protected from lead pois...

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Washington, D.C. | June 4 2025 |  EDA FY25 Disaster Supplemental (EDA-DISASTER-2025) | Through this Disaster NOFO, EDA will award investments in regions experiencing severe economic distress or other economic harm resulting from hu...

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Washington, D.C. | May 8 2025 | Regional Infrastructure Accelerator Program – NOFO Reissuance (DOTBAB01062025) | The Build America Bureau (Bureau) is issuing this NOFO to solicit applications from eligible U.S. public entities for ...

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Washington D.C. | April 18 2025 | Responsible Design, Development, and Deployment of Technologies (25-536) | The Responsible Design, Development, and Deployment of Technologies (ReDDDoT) program invites proposals from multidiscipli...

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Washington D.C. | April 17 2024 | NSF Regional Innovation Engines (24-565) | The NSF Regional Innovation Engines (NSF Engines) program creates regional-scale, technology-driven, inclusive innovation ecosystems throughout the United States by acc...

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Washington, D.C. | March 4 2024 | Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL): Resilient and Efficient Codes Implementation (RECI) (DE-FOA-0003225) | The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) Building ...