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The U.S. National Science Foundation announced $45 million to fund 15 new awards through the NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) program, with projects focusing on artificial intelligence, quantum, biotechnology and translational science.

These represent NRT’s most significant annual investment in institutions located in NSF Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) jurisdictions and extend the program’s reach to science, technology, engineering and math graduate students in 47 states, D.C. and the U.S. Virgin Islands, including two new states, Idaho and North Dakota.

“Students are the foundation for a strong STEM enterprise,” said NSF Assistant Director for STEM Education James L. Moore III. “Through effective, evidence-based graduate education closely aligned with the nation’s workforce priorities and research needs, NRT ensures that today’s STEM graduate students are prepared and equipped to become tomorrow’s STEM leaders and innovators.”

The NSF-sponsored projects will use critical and emerging technologies to develop the AI and quantum workforce to meet regional economic needs, strengthen health care systems, support rural agricultural and economic development, improve infrastructure, prepare bioengineers and much more.

This investment also marks the first time NSF has made awards through the NRT Institutional Partnership Pilot (NRT-IPP) program. NRT-IPP supports graduate student projects with high industry relevance through partnerships between non-R1 institutions, institutions with existing or completed NRT projects, and industry partners, including Apple, Clark Construction and Draper.

Below is the list of the 2025

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Job ID: 260721

Postdoctoral Scientist – Civil and Environmental Engineering
Stevens Institute of Technology

The Postdoctoral Scientist will engage in advanced research in the field of infrastructure systems and disaster resilience within the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Ocean Engineering. The candidate will contribute to federally funded projects focused on data-driven decision-making, artificial intelligence applications in infrastructure assessment, and risk-informed planning under the supervision of Dr. Mohammad Ilbeigi. Responsibilities include designing and conducting experiments, developing analytical and computational models, publishing peer-reviewed journal articles, mentoring graduate students, and contributing to proposal development and collaborative research efforts.

Key Responsibilities:

Conduct independent and collaborative research on infrastructure systems, AI integration, or resilience modeling

Analyze large datasets and develop computational tools or machine learning models

Prepare high-impact publications and conference

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Job ID: 260720

Postdoctoral Researcher – Civil, Environmental, and Ocean Engineering
Stevens Institute of Technology

The Department of Civil, Environmental, and Ocean Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology invites applications for a Postdoctoral Researcher to join the iSMART (Intelligent Systems for Monitoring and Assessment of Riverine and Terrestrial Environments) Lab.

This position offers an exciting opportunity to contribute to cutting-edge research in cold regions hydrology, with an emphasis on river ice processes and hydrodynamic modeling in northern U.S. watersheds. The successful candidate will engage in interdisciplinary work involving remote sensing, hydraulic modeling, and environmental forecasting to better understand and predict ice-related river dynamics and flooding. The postdoctoral researcher will also play a key role in collaborative proposal development, scientific publishing, and mentoring graduate students within the lab.

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In-brief analysis

August 4, 2025

In our recently published Annual Energy Outlook 2025 (AEO2025), we introduced our new Hydrogen Market Module (HMM), which allows us to model the market for hydrogen in the coming decades.

In most AEO2025 cases, we project hydrogen production will increase by around 80% in 2050 compared with 2024 and most hydrogen (H2) will be produced from natural gas in a process known as steam methane reforming (SMR). In most cases, we project less than 1% of hydrogen will be produced via electrolyzers, which use electricity to produce hydrogen from water, regardless of supportive policies.

In most of the cases we ran, we considered laws and regulations in place as of December 2024, which meant including tax credits implemented under the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), such as the Section 45V Clean Hydrogen

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