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Alpha Foundation Announces $2.85 Million for Technology Development and Exploratory Research Projects

Warren Hunt General News, Uncategorized

The Alpha Foundation for the Improvement of Mine Safety and Health has announced approximately $2.85 million in new awards in two areas — technology development and exploratory research focused on mining-related health problems. The research projects are directed towards fulfilling the Foundation’s mission to improve mine safety and health through funding research and development projects by qualified academic institutions and other not-for-profit organizations. For the first time, the Foundation issued two contemporaneous solicitations in February 2017. Both focused on shorter term efforts using new approaches to meet targeted goals and encourage broader participation. Additional information on these new awards can be found here.

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Since it began grantmaking activities in 2013, the Alpha Foundation has committed over $18 million to support mining safety and health research.

Impact

Men and women who mine the materials that make our modern lives comfortable and productive, do their work in environments that must be made as safe and healthy as possible. The Alpha Foundation vision is to support research that develops state-of-the-art scientific knowledge to achieve this end. We must leverage the creative energy of scientists everywhere to discover previously hidden risks, to determine the extent of known risks and to develop effective preventive solutions so that our miners can also lead comfortable, healthy and productive lives.”

David H Wegman, MD, MSc, Professor Emeritus
Department of Work Environment, UMass Lowell, Lowell, MA