Congratulations to the following faculty and staff members who received grants and awards in August 2023: Doug Clements and Julie Sarama, faculty at the Morgridge College of Education Grant from the National Science Foundation Abstract: The Learning Strand project will create a scalable, accessible and viable resource for early math. The project will make a substantive contribution to the advancement of knowledge in three fields: cognition, curriculum and the scale-up of educational innovations through technology. Brian Michel, faculty at the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Grant from the National Institutes of Health Abstract: While ethylene has long been known as an important plant hormone, it has also been demonstrated to be produced in mammals as a result of oxidative stress that is hallmark to numerous diseases. Important questions remain for broad applications in the detection of endogenous ethylene related to modifications that further improve sensitivity while retai