WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) announced today the National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded $476,889 to North Dakota State University (NDSU) Fargo with an intended total of $1,162,262.

The funds will go toward biodiversity research for a project entitled, “CAREER: Coffee fungi below and aboveground: agroecological experiments for teaching and learning about fungal diversity and ecosystem function.”