Federal grants to Bucknell University
Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania received $17.8 million in federal grants from fiscal 2021 to 2025, across 45 awards. Its largest program was Education Stabilization Fund, with $7.6 million. In fiscal 2025 it was awarded $2.4 million.
From USAspending.gov award records, updated October 31, 2026.
- Grants, FY 2021 to 2025$17.8 million
- Awards45
- Awarded in FY 2025$2.4 million
- Largest award$4.2 million
By year
| Fiscal year | Awards | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| FY 2021 | 14 | $9.6 million |
| FY 2022 | 11 | $1.6 million |
| FY 2023 | 15 | $2.8 million |
| FY 2024 | 9 | $1.3 million |
| FY 2025 | 11 | $2.4 million |
Programs that fund Bucknell University
| Program | Awards | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Education Stabilization Fund | 2 | $7.6 million |
| Allergy and Infectious Diseases Research | 1 | $3.0 million |
| Biological Sciences | 3 | $1.4 million |
| Mathematical and Physical Sciences | 8 | $1.2 million |
| Engineering | 7 | $1.1 million |
| Computer and Information Science and Engineering | 7 | $753,537 |
| Biomedical Research and Research Training | 2 | $620,037 |
| STEM Education (formerly Education and Human Resources) | 3 | $353,615 |
| Integrative Activities | 1 | $349,909 |
| Geosciences | 2 | $307,305 |
Awarding agencies
| Agency | Awards | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Department of Education | 2 | $7.6 million |
| National Science Foundation | 31 | $5.5 million |
| Department of Health and Human Services | 3 | $3.7 million |
| Department of Defense | 3 | $377,411 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | 3 | $281,325 |
Largest awards
| Award | Program | First action | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Higher education emergency relief fund – ihes - institutional | Education Stabilization Fund | January 17, 2021 | $4.2 million |
| Higher education emergency relief fund – ihes | Education Stabilization Fund | January 17, 2021 | $3.4 million |
| Tolerance and resistance responses of african bats to viral antigens: immunological tradeoffs in zoonotic reservoir hosts. - abstract this project focuses on understanding the role that the unique physiology of bats plays in their ability to act as host reservoirs for diseases that can spill over to | Allergy and Infectious Diseases Research | February 26, 2021 | $3.0 million |
| Collaborative research: rui: from molecules to mating: an integrative approach to understanding chemical signal evolution in fireflies | Biological Sciences | January 21, 2021 | $642,473 |
| Collaborative research: rui: life history strategies within a population depend on cellular and organismal traits that underlie differences in resource acquisition and allocation -all organisms need energy to fuel the biological processes of life. In general, this energy can be allocated to three br | Biological Sciences | July 24, 2023 | $582,438 |
| Bioorthogonal chemical probe for live cell imaging of lactylation - project summary protein lactylation is a recently discovered posttranslational modification (PTM), biochemically coupled to l- lactate and methylglyoxal cellular levels. Although our understanding of this ptm is still in its infancy | Biomedical Research and Research Training | August 14, 2025 | $378,672 |
| Mri: acquisition of a frequency quadrupled titanium sapphire laser for ion, atom and molecule spectroscopy -high quality laser systems make possible the control and investigation of atoms and molecules with exquisite precision. This major research instrumentation (MRI) award supports the acquisition | Integrative Activities | August 12, 2022 | $349,909 |
| Career: it's not sorcery, it's skill: shedding light on how professional and personal experiences shape the use of intuition in engineering practice -expert engineering practitioners frequently rely on their intuition ? The ability to subconsciously use their past experiences to navigate a present p | Engineering | January 13, 2025 | $327,348 |
| Advance - catalyst: agree: self-assessment of gender, racial, and ethnic equity in stem faculty at bucknell | STEM Education (formerly Education and Human Resources) | July 13, 2021 | $271,594 |
| Research studying the process-property-microstructure relationship | Basic and Applied Scientific Research | August 13, 2024 | $263,107 |
Questions people ask
How much federal grant money does Bucknell University get?
$17.8 million in 45 grant awards from fiscal 2021 to 2025, as obligations reported to USAspending.gov.
Which agency gives Bucknell University the most?
The Department of Education, with $7.6 million in 2 awards. The National Science Foundation and the Department of Health and Human Services follow.
What is Bucknell University's largest federal grant?
$4.2 million under Education Stabilization Fund, with its first action in the period on January 17, 2021. That counts only the money obligated in fiscal 2021 to 2025.
Which federal programs fund Bucknell University?
Its largest are Education Stabilization Fund, Allergy and Infectious Diseases Research and Biological Sciences.
Other grant recipients in Lewisburg
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