Recovery Tracker

How Much Stimulus Funding is Going to Your County?

Listing all stimulus spending by amount, in descending order. Return to National Science Foundation page

Amount refers to both the amount of stimulus funding going toward the project and the face value of the loan.

Recipient Amount Type Description Federal Dept./Agency Date
FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE $15,000,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: We are proceeding with FSU's 'Invitation to Negotiate' process for soliciting vendor responses for design, construction and delivery of the 21 tesla magnet. We have completed Step 1: Solicitation and evaluation of written responses to selection of a G?sho National Science Foundation 12/17/2009
UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA $405,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Metal nanoclusters exhibit intriguing electronic and atomic vibrational phenomena that deviate dramatically from the corresponding bulk properties. Metal nanoclusters are used in optics (nanophotonics), magnetism (recording media), medicine (targeted drug National Science Foundation 5/27/2009
NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN, THE $212,163 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: A DNA Bank Catalog for The New York Botanical Garden The New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) has been awarded a National Science Foundation grant to database and curate its DNA Bank. This project will address unprocessed specimens that have amassed due to u National Science Foundation 8/13/2009
SAVANNAH STATE UNIVERSITY $1,030,442 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Collaborative Research: Enhancing Diversity in Geoscience Education through Coastal Research in a Port City (EDGE) - Track 2 Through the Enhancing Diversity in Geoscience Education through Coastal Research Program (EDGE) Savannah State University (SSU) a National Science Foundation 8/02/2009
NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN, THE $189,818 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The sister plant lineages Anacardiaceae and Burseraceae are ecologically and economically important, taxonomically problematic, and evolutionarily fascinating. The sister families each contain approximately 750 species and are of the same age, but exhibit National Science Foundation 6/22/2009
WOODS HOLE RESEARCH CENTER, INC., THE $221,838 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Collaborative Research: Shifting seasonality of northern forest response to arctic environmental change National Science Foundation 6/10/2009
FLORIDA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, INC. $178,904 Grant Basic Scientific Research: Collaborative Proposal: Resolved Mid-IR Observations and Modeling of AGN and their Hosts National Science Foundation 9/15/2009
ITHACA COLLEGE $140,836 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: We propose to continue our multi-wavelength observational campaign of X/M/E class asteroids using the Arecibo radar and NASA Infrared Telescope Facilities (IRTF). Our research objectives are to (1) physically characterize the M and E asteroids, (2) search National Science Foundation 9/18/2009
NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY $287,379 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project is motivated by our lack of knowledge of the physical properties of the very smallest Near-Earth Asteroids (NEAs) now being discovered. This is particularly true for rotation periods, which can provide information about an asteroid's interna National Science Foundation 9/17/2009
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE $742,051 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The primary goal of the proposed project is to use the WAIS Divide deep core to investigate the Last Deglaciation (LD) at sub?\annual resolution through an integrated set of chemical and biological analyses. These analyses ?C combined with others ?C will National Science Foundation 6/10/2009
HELIO RESEARCH $294,969 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: SHINE: How New Active Regions Trigger Erupting Filaments and Associated Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) National Science Foundation 6/19/2009
SRI INTERNATIONAL $221,088 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project focuses on gaining new insights into upper atmospheric processes, and consists of two phases. In year 1, one of the key variables, mesospheric temperature, will be re-investigated in light of the clear signature of OH vibrational-level-depend National Science Foundation 9/01/2009
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS $865,729 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Intellectual merit. Our objective is to acquire the most recent generation of stable isotope mass spectrometer and supporting peripherals to provide analyses that are not available to faculty and students at UMass Boston and ultimately to facilitate rese National Science Foundation 12/23/2009
UNIVERSITY OF INDIANAPOLIS $214,519 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The award is to purchase a Sensofar White Light Confocal Imaging Profiler. The device is used to create 3D models of dental occlusal facets at magnifications suitable for dietary reconstruction via dental texture analysis; it includes true 3D surface rec National Science Foundation 8/24/2009
PROVIDENCE COLLEGE $266,261 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Acquisition of a laser scanning confocal microscope for research and training in the biology department at Providence College. National Science Foundation 12/10/2009
LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM $27,288 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Enhancement of Freshwater Mussell Collection National Science Foundation 8/15/2009
MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY $248,350 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Award is for the purpose of purchasing a spinning confocal microscope to advance research. National Science Foundation 8/13/2009
COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY $644,370 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Establish an undergraduate research and mentoring (URM) program that provides an intensive, sustained research mentoring program for underrepresented students in order to motivate and prepare them for graduate school in Biology. National Science Foundation 8/25/2009
TRUSTEES OF HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE,THE $119,908 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Acquisition of a 213 nm UV Laser Ablation System to Advance Micro Spatial Trace Element Research and Research Training Across Fields. National Science Foundation 12/10/2009
AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, INC. $127,172 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Acquisition of Quantitative Instrumentation for Research in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry National Science Foundation 12/08/2009
UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL ARKANSAS $82,452 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Acquisition of an Analytical Flow Cytometer for Sciences and Teaching National Science Foundation 12/10/2009
TEXAS A&M INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION, INC. $58,511 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Support from the NSF MRI-R2 program will allow Texas A&M International University to acquire a High Performance Refrigerated Centrifuge and a Benchtop Freeze Dry systems. The new equipment enables the efficient isolation and purification of plant lectins National Science Foundation 12/10/2009
RICHARD STOCKTON COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY $120,126 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: MRI-R2:Acquisition of a Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV)for Coastal Underwater Research National Science Foundation 12/10/2009
TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY-CORPUS CHRISTI $547,905 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Major Research Instrumentation-Recovery and Reinvestment award funds the acquisition of an integrated research system for the evaluation of biochemical and culture properties of local species of microalgae at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. National Science Foundation 12/23/2009
ASHLAND UNIVERSITY $319,340 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Ashland University Dept. of Chemistry request funding for the purchase of a 400 MHz Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectrometer with pulsed field gradient capabilty and variable temperature control. The instrumentation will be used for undergraduate re National Science Foundation 7/29/2009
CONNECTICUT AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION, THE $224,986 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Advanced Solid-State NMR Characterization of Non-Covalent Interactions of Organic in Soil and Sediment Organic Matter. National Science Foundation 7/07/2009
UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL ARKANSAS $577,986 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: MRI: Acquisition of UPLC-TOMS and MALDI-TOFMS National Science Foundation 7/29/2009
SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY $410,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Faculty Early Career Development Program National Science Foundation 7/22/2009
FIVE COLLEGES INCORPORATED $450,010 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This proposal seeks to acquire an RFID testbed. The instrumentation in the proposed testbed consists of several parts including conventional UHF RFID readers, conventional RFID tags, mounting assemblies to attach B33RFID readers, biological instrumentati National Science Foundation 9/22/2009
SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSTIY FOUNDATION $709,200 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This proposal to the NSF MRI-R2 Program requests fund for the purchase of a Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope (FESEM) equipped with variable pressure capability, digital image capture and 3D measurement software, X-ray microanalysis detector an National Science Foundation 12/22/2009
OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE $106,205 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Within the last decade, technology in the biological sciences, allowing for the measure of gene expression, enzyme activity, and compound synthesis in response to the environment, has advanced a great deal. These biological parameters play a central National Science Foundation 12/09/2009
FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY $100,240 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 'The PI will concentrate her attention on characterizing local Noetherian rings in terms of the behavior of certain subcategories of modules, extending her research to methods from homological algebra and representation theory. The idea stems from a succe National Science Foundation 7/23/2009
RANDOLPH-MACON COLLEGE $107,951 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The CS decomposition is a matrix decomposition related to the eigenvalue and singular value decompositions. It applies to any unitary matrix partitioned into a 2-by-2 block structure, and the effect is to simultaneously diagonalize all four blocks. By ort National Science Foundation 8/17/2009
VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY IN THE STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA $283,589 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Investigating the affects of sea level rise and salt water mixing with tidal freshwater environments. National Science Foundation 7/27/2009
CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES $1,908,517 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Assessing phylogenetic diversity and biogeographic linkage across the Mozambique Channel National Science Foundation 8/13/2009
HUMBOLDT STATE UNIVERSITY SPONSORED PROGRAMS FOUNDATION $320,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Project Summary: Ectomycorrhizal fungal diversity of the central Guiana Shield. Intellectual Merit. Neotropical forests harbor high biodiversity, inclu National Science Foundation 8/17/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ST. THOMAS $446,655 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). There is worldwide concern over increasing concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and its influence on global climate. Managing atmospheric con National Science Foundation 7/17/2009
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE $204,482 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: While the factors that determine the distribution of species in natural ecosystems are relatively well understood. we are lacking a strong conceptual framework for the spatial distribution and diversity of urban plants. Climatic variables affect the occur National Science Foundation 8/12/2009
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE $251,057 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: A major goal of developmental biology is to understand how the precise locations of structures and cell types in the embryo are specified. This usually comes down to interpreting a common set of genetic instructions differently at different locations in s National Science Foundation 9/14/2009
WEST VIRGINIA HIGHER EDUCATION POLICY COMMISSION $2,629,049 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: West Virginia will receive $2,629,049 over three years to upgrade networks and enhance immersive visualization capabilities for researchers at West Virginia University, Marshall University and West Virginia State University in collaboration with the Unive National Science Foundation 8/27/2009
MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY (INC) $198,829 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The primary goal of the project is to increase the participation of underrepresented students in the geosciences through Environmental Sciences related outreach activities at the Morgan state University estuarine Researchh Center (ERC). It will also provi National Science Foundation 7/01/2009
KURT J. LESKER COMPANY $500,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: At successful completion of the project KJLC intends to introduce a turn key, sputter deposition tool, for low temperature TCOG??s. A key component of the tool will be a fully integrated deposition process. The sales price of these tools will range betwee National Science Foundation 7/31/2009
LC VISION, LLC $499,981 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: STTR:Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal (FLC) Gels for Facile Processing and High Yield Manufacture of Hardened FLC Displays. This goal of this project is to develop a new class of polymer materials that dramatically improve the properties of the liquidf cryst National Science Foundation 8/15/2009
INFRAMAT CORPORATION $150,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Spray-on Nanostructured Metal Oxide Films for Efficient Solar Energy Conversion. National Science Foundation 7/01/2009
METAMATERIA PARTNERS, LLC $150,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Phase I STTR for development of high power, high energy density , nanostructured materials for use in bulk, rechargeable lithium ion batteries. Successful development of high performance materials is expected to attract commercial battery companies inter National Science Foundation 7/01/2009
GOKNOW, INC $99,970 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Develop a series of lightweight, low-cost science simulations for K-12. National Science Foundation 6/05/2009
SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL $311,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The long-term goal of this project is to understand the functional circuitry of the cerebellum of mormyrid electric fish and to use this understanding to gain insight into cerebellar function in general. This proposal focuses on the posterior caudal lobe National Science Foundation 12/02/2009
RANDOLPH-MACON COLLEGE $883,365 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Intellectual Merit. Organization of cells into tissues and organs during development is a highly regulated process that requires coordinated cell shape changes and cell migration. These cell behaviors are directed by rearrangements of the actin cytoskel National Science Foundation 7/16/2009
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND $510,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: We and others have shown that many co-expressed tissue-specific genes are organized in large clusters on chromosomes of diverse species (Boutanaev et al., 2002; Kosak & Groudine 2004; Hurst et al. 2004). Emerging evidence suggests that regulation of the h National Science Foundation 10/28/2009
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS $274,525 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Intellectual Merit: Although ocean margins cover only 5% of the ocean surface, as much as 50% of integrated oceanic new production occurs over continental shelves and slopes. Even with their significance in the global carbon cycle, it is still not clear National Science Foundation 7/31/2009
UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT MONROE $149,985 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: US-Chile IRES: Instraspecific variation in the social behavior of Chilean rodents - Ecology, mechanism, and fitness National Science Foundation 5/29/2009
SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY AND ANM COLLEGE SYSTEM $149,745 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: A US-Cameroon Collaboration for Information Technology in Healthcare (E-Medicine) Research in Resouce-Poor Contexts National Science Foundation 9/06/2009
CAYUGA COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE (INC) $299,853 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 'The Climate 1-Stop: A Geoportal for Climate Change Science, Analysis, Assessment, and Information for Decision Making' As understanding climate change and the associated impacts becomes an everincreasing global priority, and as related mitigation and ada National Science Foundation 9/04/2009
COLBY COLLEGE $125,980 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: RUI- Theoretical Investigations of Lorentz Symmetry National Science Foundation 6/04/2009
DRAKE UNIVERSITY $196,764 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: A general and effective program for electron and photon interactions with atoms, ions, and molecules is being developed by extending a highly successful B-spline R-matrix (BSR) approach produced during previous funding periods. Specifally, the work involv National Science Foundation 8/20/2009
BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF WITTENBERG COLLEGE, THE $264,699 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Acquisition of MRI system for plasma research National Science Foundation 9/07/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS $1,999,999 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: MRI-R2: Acquisition of an Aberration-Corrected Scanning Transmission Electron Miscroscope for Multidisciplinary Research and Education at UIC National Science Foundation 3/11/2010
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY $755,415 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: National ?User Facilities? form a vital infrastructure supporting US competitiveness in science, engineering and technology. By providing researchers access to cutting edge experimental capabilities, such facilities also contribute materially to the educa National Science Foundation 1/25/2010
UNIVERSITY CORPORATION, THE $216,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Technical Summary: This proposal requests support for expanding and strengthening the computational facilities of the W.M. Keck Computational Materials Theory Center (CMTC) at California State University Northridge, a minority-serving institution. The pr National Science Foundation 2/24/2010
PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE $188,333 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Conflicts continue to rage in the Levant, South Asia, and elsewhere. Governmental, nongovernmental, and intergovernmental organizations are seeking a technology that will help them anticipate the outbreak of violence. Some progress has been made predicti National Science Foundation 12/11/2009
THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA $85,366 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Cauchy-Riemann complex is a system of partial differential equations describing the behavior of holomorphic functions, which are fundamental objects of study in many areas of pure and applied mathematics. The PI will investigate the properties of var National Science Foundation 8/10/2009
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, THE $703,312 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The primary goal of this project is to develop a better understanding of secondary organic aerosols (SOA), which are aerosols that are formed from volatile organic carbon compound (VOC) precursors in the atmosphere. Until very recently, it was not possibl National Science Foundation 7/19/2009
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY $3,267,586 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: With this award from the Major Research and Instrumentation (MRI) program, Peter Williams, Ariel D. Anbar, James R. Anderson, Richard L. Hervig and Willem F. Vermaas will acquire an imaging secondary ion mass spectrometer (SIMS) instrument. This novel and National Science Foundation 2/11/2010
Y-CARBON INC. $100,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: See Attached pdf file National Science Foundation 6/05/2009
OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY $294,031 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The major objective of this project is to develop the fundamental theoretical framework and algorithms that realize human context awareness in an infrastruc National Science Foundation 7/28/2009
WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY $1,497,205 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Major Research Instrumentation-Recovery and Reinvestment (MRI-R2) award funds the acquisition of high throughput crystallization and collection devices at the Biomolecular X-ray Crystallography (BXC) Center at Washington State University (WSU). Resea National Science Foundation 2/04/2010
UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA $167,950 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Acquisition of a Hyperspectral Imaging System (HIS) for Multidisciplinary Research National Science Foundation 2/25/2010
VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY IN THE STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA $568,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Acquisition of advanced antennae measuring facilities. National Science Foundation 5/24/2010
SAGINAW VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY $308,954 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Major Research Instrumentation Program (MRI-R2)to upgrade and enhance the instrumentation capabilities at SVSU. National Science Foundation 2/12/2010
UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE $2,171,500 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Award title: ' MRI-R2: Acquisition of an 850 MHz NMR Spectrometer for Interdisciplinary Research at the University of Delaware' Award description: With this award, the PI (Polenova) and the Co-PI's (Dybowski and Rozovsky) at the University of Delaware wil National Science Foundation 2/03/2010
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO $841,848 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Of particular use in airborne remote sensing is LIDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) along with hyperspectral (including infrared) imagery. Simple LIDARs measure the first returns of laser pulses from the surface and in the absence of complications, due to National Science Foundation 2/25/2010
EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY $207,275 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Funding will allow the Chemistry Department to acquire a high-resolution time-of-flight mass spectrometer with direct acquisition in real time (DART) and electrospray ionization (ESI) sources. One of the benefits of this machine is the possible research National Science Foundation 1/12/2010
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY (THE) $197,547 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The instrument will be used to support research activities such as: 1) study of lanthanide chalcogenides for use in magnetic conductors; 2) analysis of clay minerals in soil samples; 3) coordination polymers and framework materials; 4) template directed c National Science Foundation 1/13/2010
UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON SYSTEM $800,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Objective: The objective of this grant application is to acquire an electron beam lithography (EBL) system to support nanofabrication research in the Houston metropolitan area. Houston is home to numerous research-intensive universities, the Texas Medical National Science Foundation 3/03/2010
OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION $420,723 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is for a collaborative effort of researchers from Christopher Newport University (CNU), Old Dominion University (ODU), and the University of Virginia (UVA) to develop and construct a longitudinally polarized proton and deuteron target. This ta National Science Foundation 3/16/2010
BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY $198,500 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). With this award from the Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) program Professor Brian F. Woodfield and colleagues Juliana Boerio-Goates, Branton J. Campbell National Science Foundation 1/14/2010
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM $435,013 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Problems of overlapping spectra, photobleaching, low signal to noise and light scatter pose serious limitations on what can be achieved in practice in imaging tissues by fluorescence. Over the last 10-15 years nonlinear optical microscopy techniques have National Science Foundation 3/02/2010
CLEMSON UNIVERSITY $1,648,901 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Acquisition of a highly charged ion (HCI) beamline dedicated to the exploration of HCI-materials interactions. The intrinsic high energy density present in an HCI-solid impact, where a reproducible quantum mechanical state of a highly ionized atom transfe National Science Foundation 3/11/2010
HYPRES, INC. $149,998 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (public Law 111-5) This Small Business Technology Transfer Phase I project, a collaborative effort between HYRPES, and the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE) o National Science Foundation 7/01/2009
OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY $300,001 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This magnetic resonance imaging R2 award will provide National Science Foundation funding over 24 months to develop a instrumentation to support a National Geoelectromagnetic Facility (NGF). The facility will allow researchers to image Earth's near-surfac National Science Foundation 3/23/2010
NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY $2,375,052 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The measurements of the seeing profile above Big Bear will use two instruments as a cross-check. The first is a long baseline (10 m) SHABAR system. A 0.5 m system was the backbone of the ATST site survey, but the results were limited to near the ground National Science Foundation 3/11/2010
UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA $239,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The proposal seeks funding to investigate quantitatively the lightning-induced electron precipitation (LEP) using the ELF/VLF (~5 Hz?32 kHz) observations on National Science Foundation 2/16/2010
UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA $506,800 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This proposal describes acquisition of a broadly tunable femtosecond laser system, which includes an optical parametric oscillator pumped by a titanium-sapphire laser and associated instrumentation. It will enable a broad range of experimental work on the National Science Foundation 3/16/2010
UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS SYSTEM $1,491,136 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: An equipment grant for the purchase of state-of-the-art electron microscopy sample preparation equipment and the purchase of an electron microscope. The emphasis is on biological sample preparation and three dimensional imaging through tilt series with t National Science Foundation 1/20/2010
EMORY UNIVERSITY $258,770 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Cherry L. Emerson Center for Scientific Computation (i) provides high-end, cyber-enabled computational resources to chemistry, chemical physics, biochemistry, biophysics, biology, mathematics and other scientific research communities at Emory Universi National Science Foundation 1/19/2010
THE COLLEGE OF WOOSTER $295,961 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The College of Wooster, an independent liberal arts college in northeast Ohio, has been a leader in undergraduate research since 1948 with the establishment of the College?s Independent Study (I.S.) Program. For 62 years, all students in all majors have c National Science Foundation 3/23/2010
LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO $355,703 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: We acquired funds for the purchase of a triple quadruple mass spectrometer from the National Science Foundation's MRI-R2 program (major research instrumentation). There are two relevant outcomes. The first is that the acquisition will increase the numbe National Science Foundation 2/09/2010
SYNTOUCH $100,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This grant is to support development of a tactile sensor that is robust and suitable for advanced robotic systems. National Science Foundation 6/04/2009
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA $390,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). TECHNICAL SUMMARY: The recent discovery of the existence of a stable L12 phase field in the ternary Co-Al-W system suggests a path for development of a new National Science Foundation 1/20/2010
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, THE $5,044,023 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Throughout history and all cultures mankind has wondered about the beginnings of our universe. Today's scientific understanding of those beginnings still leaves many unanswered questions: Why is the geometry of the universe so flat? Why is the univer National Science Foundation 3/08/2010
NORTH CAROLINA AGRICULTURAL AND TECHNICAL STATE UNIVERSITY $682,890 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: MRI-R2: Acquisition of a Nanotom Computed Tomography System for Revolutionizing Metallic Biomaterials NSF ARI-R2 program funding is being used to modernize the existing research facility by acquiring nanotomography equipment, critical to NCATG??s biomater National Science Foundation 1/31/2010
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY $2,293,183 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This award is for an equipment acquisition program to establish the LAMP Facility at MIT, to provide intense, ultra-stable, optical sources from the near ul National Science Foundation 3/11/2010
BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE $267,762 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The goal of this project is investigate the generation of collision avoidance behaviors in an integrated manner, by taking into account the neural, biomechanical and physical constraints imposed by the environment on the animal generating these behaviors. National Science Foundation 7/13/2009
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA $807,720 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The objective of this Major Research Instrumentation (MRI-R2) award is to develop a state-of-the-art, precise and highly flexible instrument for testing and measuring the fuel efficiency, emissions and performance of automotive propulsion systems. The cen National Science Foundation 1/14/2010
TEXAS A & M RESEARCH FOUNDATION $150,791 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award will fund the acquisition of a gas chromatography triple quadrupole mass spectrometer (CG-TQ-MS/MS), an electron multiplier, and an oxidation system. These instruments will support research on 2 major topics, 1) the transfer of terrigenous orga National Science Foundation 2/26/2010
RICHARD STOCKTON COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY $98,600 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: MRI-R2 Consortium: Acquisition of Hardware for Visualization and Exploratory Analysis National Science Foundation 3/05/2010
RECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA $1,345,087 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: With this award from the Major Research and Instrumentation (MRI) program, Professor Brooks H. Pate of the University of Virginia, David W. Pratt of the University of Pittsburgh and Steven T. Shipman of New College of Florida have submitted a proposal in National Science Foundation 2/04/2010
THE TRUSTEES OF DAVIDSON COLLEGE $168,432 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Sol-gel materials have interesting uses in a surprisingly broad range of disciplines - from coatings on aircraft to hosts for biologically active enzymes. The sol-gel glass process uses readily available starting materials and relatively low temperatures National Science Foundation 2/22/2010
TECHNOVA CORPORATION $150,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Elastmor Matrix Nanocomposites reinforce with pseudoelastic metal nanowires National Science Foundation 1/01/2010
WASHINGTON & JEFFERSON COLLEGE $143,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The overall purpose of this award is to purchase a scanning probe microscopy system (SPM) for W&J College, a private 4 year undergraduate institution. SPM allows us to image surfaces at the nanoscopic level, and would play an integral role in both our re National Science Foundation 2/22/2010
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL $1,795,854 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: ARRA - MRI-R2 Consortium Acquisition: Targeted Expansions of the Skynet Robotic Telescope Network We are going (1) to build a 32-inch diameter, optical/LN2-cooled NIR telescope at CTIO, Chile; (2) to build four 16-inch diameter optical telescopes at SSO National Science Foundation 3/04/2010
LOUISIANA TECH UNIVERSITY $384,960 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Acquisition of a Laboratory for Innovations in Microwave Applications for Damage Prevention, Condition Assessment and Rehabilitation of Buried Structures. National Science Foundation 1/14/2010
SISTEMA UNIVERSITARIO ANA G. MENDEZ, INC. $173,242 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: With the solicited instrumentation is possible to accurately measure the parameters that characterize the structure of metal organic frameworks, nitroprussides, proton conducting perovskites and other materials which are essential for the development of n National Science Foundation 1/01/2010
TRUSTEES OF WHEATON COLLEGE, THE $400,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Purchase a cluster of instruments for interrogating soft interfaces, with an emphasis on measurements involving the structure and dynamics of polyelectrolyte thin films, model lipid bilayers, and the membranes of living cells. National Science Foundation 1/15/2010
DREXEL UNIVERSITY $443,768 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: We will construct a high-performance computer cluster accelerated by Graphics Processing Units. With 64 multi-core compute nodes, each accelerated by 2 NVidia GPUs, the cluster will have peak performance substantially exceeding 100 Tflop/s and total mem National Science Foundation 1/25/2010
CHRISTOPHER NEWPORT UNIVERSITY $253,030 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The acquisition of a non-destructive, high-resolution, wavelength dispersive, X-ray fluorescence spectrometer (WDXRF) will support the creation of a new research Center for Coastal, Environmental, and Atmospheric Studies (C-squaredEAS) at Christopher Newp National Science Foundation 1/12/2010
MISSOURI SYSTEM, UNIVERSITY OF $614,500 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: MRI-R2 Acquisition of a 600 MHz NMR Spectrometer.Intellectual Merit. The proposed spectrometer will be primarily used to investigate the structures and dynamics of protein, DNA and other biological macromolecules. Several of the new research projects invo National Science Foundation 1/14/2010
TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY $444,857 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award provides funds to renovate three shared research spaces within Northside Hall on the campus of Indiana University South Bend. The current IU South Bend research facilites cannot support the increasing need for undergraduate research training t National Science Foundation 2/16/2010
CENTRAL WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY INC $187,413 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This MR1-R2 award will fund the purchase of a particle soot photometer (SP2) for black carbon analysis. The SP2 system allows measuring mass, mixing state, and optical size of black carbon particles. It does so with lower detection limits and less sampl National Science Foundation 3/22/2010
ASSOCIATED UNIVERSITIES, INC. $507,258 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). In order for astronomers to have the highest possible resolution to detect objects of the smallest angular size, they require large telescopes, or they comb National Science Foundation 3/16/2010
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND $1,894,381 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Large-scale genome sequence analysis has become an integral part of nearly all research areas in biology. Genome sequencing costs have dropped sharply but there has not been a commensurate increase in computational resources to support large-scale data pr National Science Foundation 1/15/2010
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, THE $1,639,639 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The PIs are awarded a Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) program to develop a new time-resolved ultraviolet spectroscopy laboratory at the University of Colorado. The heart of the system will be a high power laser system which will create extremely shor National Science Foundation 3/16/2010
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY EAST BAY FOUNDATION $393,388 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The proposed project aims to bring state-of-the-art spectroscopic instrumentation to California State University - East Bay for research in the fields of atomic physics, condensed matter physics, material science, and physical chemistry. The interdiscipl National Science Foundation 3/03/2010
CALVIN COLLEGE $208,645 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: With this award from the Major Research and Instrumentation (MRI) program, Professor Kumar Sinniah and his colleagues David E Benson and Amy Wilstermann from Calvin College, and Brad Wallar from Grand Valley State University will acquire an atomic force m National Science Foundation 1/15/2010
ROWAN UNIVERSITY $296,650 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: MRI-R2: Acquisition of an X-Ray Computed Tomography System with loading capabilities National Science Foundation 1/04/2010
BOSTON COLLEGE, TRUSTEES OF $123,120 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The principal investigator will probe the connection between Heegaard Floer homology and Khovanov homology, two theories, inspired by ideas in physics, that have transformed the landscape of low-dimensional topology during the past decade. The research c National Science Foundation 8/20/2009
CHICAGO STATE UNIVERSITY $537,383 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Segmental Recombination in the Mouse t Complex: Tools for Mapping and Evolutionary Analysis National Science Foundation 7/27/2009
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON $515,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Scanning Probe Microscopy is a diverse family of imaging techniques that have proven to be invaluable in investigations of fundamental properties of nanoscale materials. A Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM) is one such example, an instrument capable of i National Science Foundation 2/24/2010
SKIDMORE COLLEGE $547,755 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The award supports the acquisition of a suite of instruments suitable for elemental analysis (atomic absorption and x-ray fluorescence), ion analysis (ion chromatography), molecular analysis (infrared spectroscopy and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry) National Science Foundation 1/06/2010
MACALESTER COLLEGE $290,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Technical Summary: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). It is increasingly important to understand carrier transport phenomena in electronic materials on picosecond and femtosecond time-scales. National Science Foundation 2/24/2010
TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY-CORPUS CHRISTI $524,171 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The award description is Development of Hyperspectral Optical Property Instrumentation (HOPI)for Biomedical and Environmental Research. National Science Foundation 1/20/2010
NORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL UNIVERSITY $489,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Funding for a high resolution environmental field emission scanning electron microscope (FESEM) to support nanoscence research and education across science departments and research institutes at NCCU. National Science Foundation 1/22/2010
SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY AND ANM COLLEGE SYSTEM $1,000,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: In recent years, conventional Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) has evolved into an exquisite technique capable of providing direct information on the structure of materials not adequately handled by x-ray analysis or, more important, on local struct National Science Foundation 3/01/2010
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY LONG BEACH FOUNDATION $310,092 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Of all the possible measurements that one can make in the archaeological record, recording attributes that allow one to relate a set of attributes for an object in time is perhaps the most important. Given that the archaeological record is a contemporary National Science Foundation 3/23/2010
UNIVERISTY OF MISSISSIPPI MEDICAL CENTER $438,784 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Funds from the NSF MRI-R2 program were awarded to the University of Mississippi Medical Center to support the purchase of an Aviv AU-FDS Fluorescence Detection System. The new system is used to perform hydrodynamic, thermodynamic and macromolecular intera National Science Foundation 1/12/2010
WESTERN NEW ENGLAND COLLEGE $293,450 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: MRI-R2: Acquisition of instrumentation for a biomedical materials research laboratory. National Science Foundation 1/21/2010
UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND $300,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This proposal requests $458,993 from the NSF-MRI program to expand and support undergraduate research and teaching opportunities in computational chemistry for students and faculty at the University of Richmond (UR); and, to cyber-enable similar groups fr National Science Foundation 1/14/2010
HOPE COLLEGE $215,180 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award will provide instrumentation for use in the forensic identification of the origin of non-point source sedimentation and pollution in the Macatawa Watershed, Michigan. A suite of methods developed using this instrumentation and other facilities National Science Foundation 1/14/2010
OHIO UNIVERSITY $234,231 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The West Antarctic Peninsula (WAP) is the one region of the Antarctic continent that is unequivocally warming, and as such is associated with the mobilizatio National Science Foundation 3/11/2010
CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY $1,050,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 'The award enables the acquisition of a computer cluster to allow the simulation of groundbreaking models of astronomical systems to yield high-fidelity, robust, quantitative predictions for multi-messenger astronomy in the form of gravitational waveform National Science Foundation 3/16/2010
NORTHWEST INDIAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION $151,828 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Incorporate traditional ecological knowledge of Marine Geo sciences into Native Environmental Science Program for Native Americans. National Science Foundation 9/15/2009
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY $499,355 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: MRI-R2 Development of a Second-Generation Application-Driven Wireless Sensor Networking Instrument National Science Foundation 3/11/2010
THE CORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITY $172,449 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Gonzaga University is a primarily undergraduate institution in Spokane, Washington with an undergraduate enrollment of approximately 4600 and a freshmen retention rate of 92 percent and a freshman to graduate rate of 80 percent. In the Spring of 2009, the National Science Foundation 1/12/2010
OHIO UNIVERSITY $170,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The objective of this Major Research Instrumentation (MRI-R2) award is to acquire a driving simulator for collaborative research focusing on the relationship National Science Foundation 1/19/2010
TEXAS A & M RESEARCH FOUNDATION $383,127 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Identification of key environmental parameters that affect the survival and/or production of marine organisms is needed to maintain biodiversity and ensure the preservation of marine ecosystems. The links between ecological and biogeochemical processes ar National Science Foundation 2/26/2010
UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO $371,800 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Acquisition of a Scanning Electron Microscope for Research and Research Training at UNC. National Science Foundation 2/09/2010
TRUSTEES OF THE COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES $589,036 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Materials processing research is key to enable advancing and new technologies required to support the nation's needs for infrastructure and energy develo National Science Foundation 2/24/2010
DUKE UNIVERSITY $473,370 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Intellectual Merit: Understanding the abundance, diversity and activity of microbes over various time and space scales in terrestrial, freshwater and marine ecosystems is essential to understanding and addressing critical issues such as climate change, wa National Science Foundation 2/04/2010
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM $469,692 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Acquisition of a high resolution mass spectrometer to support undergraduate research efforts. Vendor payments include payments over $25,000. National Science Foundation 1/12/2010
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM $524,145 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: MRI-R2: Acquisition of a Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) and Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) for a Multidisciplinary Core Imaging Facility National Science Foundation 2/09/2010
CHRISTOPHER NEWPORT UNIVERSITY $245,360 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is a collaborative effort of researchers from Christopher Newport University, Old Dominion University and the University of Virginia to develop and construct a longitudinally polarized proton and deuteron target. This target is intended to be National Science Foundation 3/16/2010
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE $449,362 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The objective of this award is the acquisition of a state-of-the-art fully-integrated Micro Systems Analyzer (Polytec MSA-500). This tool allows quantitative three-dimensional measurements of the vibration modes of structures and devices ranging from cent National Science Foundation 1/15/2010
UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA $533,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The University of Oklahoma's acquisition of a state-of-the-art Field-Emission Scanning Electron Microscope (FE-SEM) will allow researchers access to the nanoworld, allowing easy and versatile imaging of conductors, insulators, nanoelectronic and biologica National Science Foundation 2/24/2010
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY $548,834 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The increasing miniaturization of electronic circuitry that allows the development of fast computers and slim cell phones is also accompanied by a desire to make these devices work even smaller and faster. Reducing the size of device elements to the scale National Science Foundation 2/22/2010
TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY $609,678 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: MRI-R^2 Consortium: Development of VISION: The Next Generation Science Camera for The Navy Prototype Optical Interferometer National Science Foundation 2/18/2010
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, THE $1,259,490 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This proposal requests support for the development of a state-of-the-art polarization-sensitive receiver SPT-POL that will be used to conduct a program of cosmological research with the 10-meter South Pole Telescope (SPT). The SPT-POL will be installed on National Science Foundation 2/04/2010
FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY $328,334 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This is a major research instrument (MRI) grant, and we are processing the main equipment orders through the university system. It is anticipated that two major pieces of equipment will be ordered within 30 days. National Science Foundation 2/26/2010
JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY $299,810 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: With this award from the Major Research and Instrumentation (MRI) program, Kevin P. Minbiole and colleagues Daniel M. Downey, Reid N. Harris, Gina M. MacDonald and Debra L. Mohler of James Madison University will acquire a liquid chromatograph interfaced National Science Foundation 1/19/2010
MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY $3,280,782 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The NSCL at MSU proposes to develop a new and unique device to capture short-lived isotopes produced in nuclear reactions that will facilitate a wide range of new nuclear science. The NSCL is the forefront facility in the US for nuclear science using fast National Science Foundation 3/25/2010
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA $397,727 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Major Research Instrumentation-Recovery and Reinvestment (MRI-R2) award funds the acquisition of an integrated set of instruments to enable medium to high-throughput analysis of DNA, RNA, and protein at the University of North Dakota (UND). A high ca National Science Foundation 1/01/2010
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN $544,314 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This proposal requests the purchase of a Quanta 250 FEG environmental scanning electron microscope (ESEM) from FEI for nanometer-scale imaging and analysis of biological samples under near-biological environmental conditions. The proposed instrument is to National Science Foundation 1/21/2010
BRYN MAWR COLLEGE $263,900 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: With this award from the Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) program Professor William P. Malachowski and colleagues Sharon N. Burgmayer, Jonas I. Goldsmith and Frank B. Mallory from the Department of Chemistry at Bryn Mawr College will acquire a 400 MHz National Science Foundation 1/12/2010
NORTHEAST OHIO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY $583,523 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: With support from the National Science Foundation, the Skeletal Biology Research Focus Area (SBRFA) centered at the Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine and Pharmacy (NEOUCOM) will acquire three major research instruments: 1) a high-resolu National Science Foundation 3/23/2010
ELIZABETHTOWN COLLEGE $332,553 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: MRI-R2: Acquisition of a 400 MHz NMR Spectrometer for Undergraduate Research and Training at Elizabethtown College National Science Foundation 2/09/2010
BROWN UNIVERSITY IN PROVIDENCE IN STATE OF RI AND PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS $450,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 'This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5)' Objective: The objective of this research is to enable development of nanopatterned conformal oxides for device applications. The approach is to acquire a National Science Foundation 2/19/2010
MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY $132,002 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This research aims to find properties of the most symmetric spaces and dynamical systems that uniquely characterize these spaces. The projects related to this goal emphasize the following: > understanding the bounded cohomology groups of locally symmetri National Science Foundation 2/03/2010
LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY, THE $4,029,600 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This proposal is for the acquisition of a high performance, Hybrid CPU/GPU and Visualization Cluster (HPVC) that is designed to serve the needs of 7 working groups where each is involved in HPC research to solve problems of large global and national impac National Science Foundation 3/23/2010
NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY $1,675,244 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project develops an innovative reduced-gravity (reduced-G) simulator which can passively compensate from 0% to 100% of the gravity forces exerted on a human body that is both attached to and exercises via the simulator. The objectives of this instru National Science Foundation 1/14/2010
UNIVERSITY OF UTAH, THE $563,115 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Spin is a fundamental property of electrons and some nuclei, which causes them to act like tiny bar magnets. Techniques allowing the observation of spins h National Science Foundation 1/21/2010
TRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY $210,960 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Microfocus x-ray computed tomography is a versatile and multidisciplinary tool for studying the internal structure of opaque materials. It will be used by the faculty to investigate heterogeneous materials including packing of spherical and non-spherical National Science Foundation 2/22/2010
SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY $572,417 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Major Research Instrumentation Program (MRI) serves to increase access to shared scientific and engineering instruments for research and research training in our Nation's institutions of higher education, museums, science centers, and not-for-profit o National Science Foundation 2/18/2010
PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE $299,584 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Major Research Instrumentation Recovery and Reinvestment (MRI-R2) Program grant supports acquisition of x-ray diffractometer (XRD) and a wavelength dispersive spectrometer (WDS) that will be mated to an existing scanning electron microscope at Middle National Science Foundation 3/23/2010
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION $1,107,627 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: There are at least four ways to detect a planet orbiting a star. By far the most successful means to date has been to very carefully monitor the velocity of the star. If the velocity tends to vary regularly about its average value, then it is possible tha National Science Foundation 3/11/2010
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY, THE $390,423 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Graphics processing unit (GPU) computing has emerged as a viable approach for performing computations at an unprecedented speed compared to the most modern hardware. Moreover these advances can be realized at a fraction of the energy cost and equipment c National Science Foundation 3/05/2010
RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, THE $1,001,046 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Support from the MRI-R2 program has been awarded to SUNY at Buffalo to develop two complimentary instruments: Spectral Terahertz Imaging Microscopy (STIM) a National Science Foundation 2/04/2010
UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY $418,251 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Award title: Acquisition of Multi-Scalar Spatial Data Collection, Analysis and Visualization Instruments NSF-MRI funds were awarded to purchase a system of instruments that share a common and specific anthropological research focus: the collection, anal National Science Foundation 2/26/2010
HAMILTON COLLEGE $177,950 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Acquisition of a High Performance Computing cluster with a feast interconnect to enable shared-used, college wide computational investigations at Hamilton College. National Science Foundation 1/13/2010
TOWSON UNIVERSITY $257,546 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The multi-disciplinary group of collaborators identified in this proposal seeks funding for the purchase of a new Inductively Coupled Plasma-Time of Flight-Mass Spectrometer (ICP-TOF-MS) to increase access to, and expand the analytical capabilities of, th National Science Foundation 1/07/2010
DUKE UNIVERSITY $450,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This proposal presents a plan to acquire a silicon deep reactive ion etching (DRIE) system to be installed and operated within the Shared Materials Instrumentation Facility (SMIF) at Duke University. The proposed system represents industry-leading DRIE pr National Science Foundation 3/08/2010
HANS TECH $100,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Develop innovative technologies for grain refining of aluminum alloys National Science Foundation 5/29/2009
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY $600,152 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The proposed instrument will allow cellular imaging at the nanoscale with resolution and sensitivity that are much higher than what is currently possible with optical microscopy. The instrument will combine the state-of-the-art confocal microscope and a p National Science Foundation 1/13/2010
RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK $125,747 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: ARRA - TRANS-NSF RECOVERY ACT RESEARCH SUPPORT National Science Foundation 2/24/2010
RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, THE $4,600,351 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Major Research Instrumentation-Recovery and Reinvestment (MRI-R2) award funds the acquisition of Data Intensive Supercomputer (DISC) at the University of Buffalo. The supercomputer provides transformative computing and data processing capability to a National Science Foundation 2/19/2010
ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND, THE $1,300,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The proposal addresses Tulane University's request for a high resolution field-emission transmission electron microscope (FE-TEM) to complement its existing capabilities in electron microscopy and bring these capabilities to address the research needs of National Science Foundation 1/29/2010
MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY $601,079 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Major Research Instrumentation-Recovery and Reinvestment (MRI-R2) award funds the acquisition of an X-ray diffractometer to support basic research programs through the departments of Biological Sciences and Chemistry at Marquette University. The inst National Science Foundation 1/06/2010
TRUSTEES OF UNION COLLEGE IN THE TOWN OF SCHENECTADY IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK $270,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Technical Summary: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Micro-FTIR and micro-Raman spectrometers will enhance a state-of-the-art Materials and Molecular Characterization Facility at Union Coll National Science Foundation 2/04/2010
AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, THE $888,860 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The award supported the purchase of a High Resolution X-ray Computed Tomography (HRCT) scanner at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) servicing a multidisciplinary community including 20 curators in five divisions at the AMNH, graduate stude National Science Foundation 3/09/2010
KEAN UNIVERSITY $593,820 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: MRI-R2 CONSORTIUM: ACQUISITION OF HARDWARE FOR DATE VISUALIZATION AND EXPLORATORY ANALYSIS National Science Foundation 3/05/2010
SOUTHERN OREGON UNIVERSITY $490,737 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Support will provide funds for the acquisition of a stable isotope ratio mass spectrometer with an elemental analyzer interface to perform on-line analysis of carbon, oxygen, hydrogen and nitrogen stable isotopes in organic and inorganic compounds. Stable National Science Foundation 1/20/2010
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM $255,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Acquisition of a nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer to support growth and revitalization of research efforts. Includes vendor payments more than $25,000. National Science Foundation 1/12/2010
RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK $390,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: ARRA - TRANS-NSF RECOVERY ACT RESEARCH SUPPORT for the purchase of a spectrometer National Science Foundation 1/19/2010
LAMAR UNIVERSITY $119,342 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Triboloby teaches that the lateral force required to slide two surfcaes against each other (friction force) is in fact proportional to the contact area. Tha Amonton law, therefore, is a special case in which the contact area of a rough surface happens to National Science Foundation 1/14/2010
LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY, THE $165,023 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Mathematical models taking both deterministic and stochastic factors into account are becoming increasingly important in science and technology. These models, as a rule, are rather complicated. Oftentimes, they include many parameters characterizing the s National Science Foundation 1/14/2010
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO $1,976,777 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Development of an 8kx8k pixel direct detection CMOS camera with single electron counting for cryoEM. The goal is to develop and characterize a radiation hardened, 8kx8k pixel CMOS sensor and associated camera technology for very high-resolution single pa National Science Foundation 3/11/2010
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION $526,291 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The research project involves a comprehensive study of galactic foreground emission for removal from sensitive maps of the Cosmic Microwave background (CMB), necessary to produce useful images of the CMB. Polarized and unpolarized galactic emission from 1 National Science Foundation 2/23/2010
O F M RESEARCH INC $136,277 Contract : Collaborative Research - Solution Thermodynamics of Igneous Pyroxenes and Garnets National Science Foundation 6/04/2009
CARLETON COLLEGE $305,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Acquisition of an X-Ray Diffractometer for Powder and Thin Film Materials Characterization National Science Foundation 2/24/2010
BRIDGER PHOTONICS, INC. $26,500 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Small Business Innovative Research Phase IB research project will continue the research initiated in the Phase I award, demonstrating the feasibility of a high-precision optical metrology system that meets a current market need for extremely precise National Science Foundation 12/29/2009
SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY $464,075 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This proposal funded the purchase of a high resolution, field emission scanning electron microscope (SEM) with microanalytical capabilities. The equipment will be housed in a specially designed, stand-alone building serving the imaging and microanalytical National Science Foundation 1/06/2010
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY (INC) $295,919 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: MRI-R2: Acquisition of a MALDI-TOF Mass Spectrometer National Science Foundation 1/07/2010
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE $165,436 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: With this award from the Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) program Professor Vartkess A. Apkarian and colleagues Rachel Martin, Reginald M. Penner and Eric Potma from the Department of Chemistry at the University of California-Irvine (UCI) will acquire National Science Foundation 1/12/2010
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO $807,971 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Major Research Instrumentation-Recovery and Reinvestment proposal will create a real-time infrasound array whose sensing elements are co-located with the 400 seismic stations in the USArray Transportable Array component of the NSF EarthScope program. National Science Foundation 2/25/2010
THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK $1,200,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Major Research Instrumentation Recovery and Reinvestment (MRI-R2) Program grant supports a thermal ionization mass spectrometer (TIMS) and a multi-collector, inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer (MC-ICP-MS) equipped with a laser ablation (LA) National Science Foundation 3/23/2010
DREXEL UNIVERSITY $1,125,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The awarded shared XPS facility is expected to enhance training of postdoctoral fellow and graduate students and provide them with a specialized skill in surface analysis not widely attainable in the U.S. The proposal specifically identified 17 senior pe National Science Foundation 2/02/2010
VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE & STATE UNIVERSITY $661,240 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: To develop an instrument that measures the forces acting during the natural motion of molecules and fluids, with capabilities that exceed all current instruments. This objective will be achieved by measuring the correlated motion of two antiparallel cant National Science Foundation 3/03/2010
MIAMI UNIVERSITY $222,750 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: How neural activity in the brain translates into the 'mind' is a critical question facing psychology and cognitive science. With support from the National Science Foundation, the Center for Psychophysiology at Miami University will acquire two high densit National Science Foundation 2/26/2010
NORTH CAROLINA AGRICULTURAL AND TECHNICAL STATE UNIVERSITY $231,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: MRI-R2: Acquisition of Smart X2S Automated Bench Top Single Crystal X-ray Diffractometer. The purpose of the single crystal X-ray crystallographic instrument is to support materials synthesis and characterization activities at North Carolina A & T State National Science Foundation 1/12/2010
LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY, THE $1,966,178 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) observations hold a remarkable wealth of information about the early Universe and they recently transformed cosmology i National Science Foundation 3/17/2010
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI SYSTEM $1,255,008 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The University of Missouri, Columbia, proposes to acquire a 300 kV transmission electron microscope (TEM). To meet the needs of a large user group, this microscope will be equipped with the following features: scanning transmission accessory, energy-dispe National Science Foundation 2/01/2010
APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY $88,810 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: A donated telescope will be installed in an unused dome at ASU's Dark Sky Observatory and implemented on the Skynet Internet observing system. This will provide a telescope useable by ASU astronomers as well as others worldwide, and advance the science o National Science Foundation 2/22/2010
GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS COLLEGE $310,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This project will acquire a scanning vibrometer for a multi-disciplinary research program. A vibrometer uses the Doppler shift of a reflected laser beam to National Science Foundation 12/18/2009
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN $1,163,026 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This Major Research Instrumentation-Recovery and Reinvestment (MRI-R2) award funds the development of two versatile, modular fluorescence microscopy platfo National Science Foundation 2/19/2010
RECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA $900,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is for development of a photon-number-resolving detector for universal quantum computing. This is a collaboration between Prof. Olivier Pfster at the University of Virginia, Prof. Aaron Miller at Albion College, and Dr. Sae Woo Nam at the Natio National Science Foundation 2/22/2010
ROWAN UNIVERSITY $263,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: MRI-R2: Acquisition of a Four Circle X-Ray Diffractometer for Use in Undergraduate Materials Research and Education National Science Foundation 3/01/2010
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, THE $1,158,677 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Liquids and glasses are probably the least understood phases of matter. Our understanding of how they crystallize and, in some cases, become glasses with cooling is incomplete. Furthermore, novel liquid/liquid phase transitions at temperatures below their National Science Foundation 3/16/2010
BELLARMINE UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED $200,273 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Bellarmine University will acquire a 64-node Supercomputing Cluster with approximately 22TB of RAID6 disk storage space to conduct grid-enabled computation National Science Foundation 2/23/2010
CONNECTICUT COLLEGE $54,070 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Research PI Stanton Ching continues to use AA for elemental characterization of nanostructured manganese oxides with porous spherical and hollow spherical morphologies. They are highly active oxidation catalysts for converting carbon monoxide into carbon National Science Foundation 2/04/2010
TITAN OPTICS & ENGINEERING $150,000 Contract : Small Business Technology Transfer National Science Foundation 7/01/2009
CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY $1,200,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 'This NSF Major Research Instrumentation (MRI-R2) Award will enable a three-year grant to purchase an upgrade for a single piece of equipment for imaging the human brain at the California Institute of Technology. The upgrade, a 32-channel Total Imaging M National Science Foundation 2/26/2010
NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY $351,764 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This collaborative proposal from the North Dakota State University and the University of South Dakota requests funds to purchase an automatic isothermal titration microcalorimeter (auto-ITC200 from Microcal/GE Healthcare Biosciences) for Biomaterials rese National Science Foundation 3/03/2010
AUGUSTANA COLLEGE $286,152 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. This project continues research on Triassic and Jurassic faunas from the Beardmore Glacier region of Antarctica. Research will be supported for one field season by helicopter National Science Foundation 8/17/2009
UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT & STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE $287,204 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The purpose of this project is to construct a new thin film deposition instrument with in-situ x-ray analysis capabilities. When complete, the system will reside at the National Synchrotron Light Source at Brookhaven National laboratory, and it will be u National Science Foundation 1/25/2010
AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT $45,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The focus of the project is to study the classification of supersymmetic gravitational backgrounds in various spacetime dimensions and to understand better the AdS/CFT correspondence and the intricate relation between geometry and supersymmetry, and to de National Science Foundation 8/11/2009
CENTER FOR REMOTE SENSING, INC $119,669 Grant Science, Recovery Act: The overall objective of the project is to provide a proof of concept demonstration of measuring the flow vector of irregularities using multiple specialized GPS receivers. The project involved acquisition and adaptations of four specialized ionospheric National Science Foundation 6/10/2009
TRINITY UNIVERSITY $498,500 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: With this award from the Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) program Professor Nancy S. Mills and colleagues Jessica Hollenbeck, Laura Hunsicker-Wang and Adam R. Urbach from the Department of Chemistry at Trinity University will acquire a 500 MHz NMR spe National Science Foundation 1/12/2010
ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITIES FOR RESEARCH IN ASTRONOMY INC $146,000,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The construction of an Advanced Technology Solar Telescope (ATST) is consistent with this mission and was a specific or tacit recommendation of three National Academy of Sciences reports. The ATST would be the world's flagship facility for the study of ma National Science Foundation 1/15/2010
FLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY $230,822 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award will fund the acquisition of a 5 meter Armfield Laboratory Research and Teaching Flume with sediment recirculation and wave making features. The flume will be used to estimate the critical shear stresses of sediment in the variety of biomediate National Science Foundation 2/23/2010
INQUUS CORPORATION $469,346 Grant Education Technology State Grants, Recovery Act: This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project seeks to create the first on-line social studying platform that allows students to connect, share and learn together. The application is focused on high school and college students. The pr... Show more National Science Foundation 8/15/2009
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FRESNO FOUNDATION INC $620,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: MRI-M2 Consortium: Development of the US ATLAS Physics Analysis Instrument (APAI) for the Analysis of Data from the ATLAS Experiment at the Large Hadron Collider National Science Foundation 3/03/2010
WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY, THE $119,678 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This was an NSF MRI grant to obtain a portable XRF spectrometer, a boom-mounted stereomicroscope with camera, and an InGaAs IR digital camera as well as ancillary support pieces of equipment. The three main instruments were all purchased within one month National Science Foundation 1/14/2010
COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND ART, THE $152,827 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 'This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).' An endoscopic particle image velocimetry (PIV) system and multiprocessor computer will be acquired for mechanical and biomedical engineering fluid mechani National Science Foundation 1/21/2010
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS $350,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The objective of this Major Research Instrumentation (MRI-R2) award is to acquire a high resolution x-ray tomography apparatus. A parallel computing cluster with associated software is acquired as part of the system for fast three-dimensional structure re National Science Foundation 1/15/2010
BANYAN ENVIRONMENTAL $150,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: STTR Phase I: Nanoselenium for Simultaneous Detection and Capture of Mercury Vapor in Fluorescent Lighting Technology Intellectual Merit This Small Business Technology Transfer Phase I project is focused on the development of new technologies for reducin National Science Foundation 7/01/2009
RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, THE $390,524 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: With this award from the Major Research and Instrumentation (MRI) program, Professor Diana Aga, Tracy Bank, Eliza S. Calder, Alan J. Rabideau and David F. Watson will acquire an Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer (ICP/MS) to be used for environm National Science Foundation 1/14/2010
UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE $610,879 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project will develop a novel electrostatic high energy focused ion beam (HEFIB) nanoprobe system specifically designed for modifying and characterizing materials at nanoscale dimensions using heavy high energy ions. Among the expected outcomes is th National Science Foundation 2/04/2010
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA $464,703 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: TECHNICAL ABSTRACT: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). A rapidly expanding field of research concerns the development of new techniques for optical imaging of nanometer to micron scale struc National Science Foundation 3/04/2010
UNAVCO, INC $323,814 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Major Research Instrumentation Recovery and Reinvestment (MRI-R2) Program grant supports acquisition of 20 dual-frequency GPS receivers and automatic weather stations (Met stations) that measure wind speed and direction, liquid precipitation, barome National Science Foundation 3/23/2010
UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO-MEDICAL SCIENCES CAMPUS $365,240 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Instrumentation grant for the purchase of an electron microscope for the Institute of Neurobiology. National Science Foundation 1/06/2010
HAMPTON UNIVERSITY $216,381 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: With the requested funding from this proposal, Dr. Michael Kohl, a new assistant professor in the experimental nuclear physics group of Hampton University, will be able to pursue two fundamental and exciting new precision experiments, OLYMPUS and TREK, an National Science Foundation 2/16/2010
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY, THE $304,583 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The deposition system consists of two +?mod Flexible Base System deposition chambers integrated into connected three port glove boxes. A third, connected two port glove box is included to accommodate spin coating and additional sample processing and testi National Science Foundation 2/18/2010
AMHERST COLLEGE, TRUSTEES OF $626,024 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award supports acquisition of a state-of-the-art high-resolution proton-transfer time-of-flight mass spectrometer (PTR-ToF-MS) that will be used to further understanding of the atmospheric chemistry of biogenic volatile organic compounds (BVOCs). Thi National Science Foundation 4/27/2010
ARKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY $1,070,851 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This interdisciplinary effort integrates faculty, post-doctoral and student researchers in the disciplines of biochemistry, immunology, physiology, molecular cell biology, neurobiology, and plant biology. National Science Foundation 1/20/2010
AMHERST COLLEGE, TRUSTEES OF $350,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The deposition of high-quality metallic films is indispensable for a variety of research purposes, including superconducting-device physics, the production of research-grade specialized optics and in many aspects of materials science and nanoscience. This National Science Foundation 2/22/2010
SOUTH DAKOTA SCHOOL OF MINES & TECHNOLOGY $163,438 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The specific objective of this MRI-R2 project is to add fabrication capability for organic electronic and photovoltaic devices to the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology campus. National Science Foundation 3/02/2010
LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY, THE $111,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The proposal seeks funding to investigate quantitatively the lightning-induced electron precipitation (LEP) using the ELF/VLF (~5 Hz?32 kHz) observations on National Science Foundation 2/16/2010
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS CENTER FOR RESEARCH, INC. $1,694,428 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: We request support for a three year period for research and development activities that will aid in the design of the phase 1 upgraded silicon pixel detector for the CMS experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC). We propose to undertake R&D activ National Science Foundation 4/15/2010
NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY $698,733 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This new Science Master's Program in Climate Science and Solutions provides interdisciplinary and focused training to prepare students for careers in emergin National Science Foundation 5/07/2010
TAYLOR UNIVERSITY, INC. $90,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Theoretical Investigation of CP Violation in Extensions of the Standard Model National Science Foundation 6/18/2009
PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE $675,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Layman Summary: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Advances in nanoscience and nanotechnology are creating entirely new research and development opportunities in diverse fields such as elect National Science Foundation 2/22/2010
COASTAL CAROLINA UNIVERSITY $104,604 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Purchase of a 24-node computing cluster system to advance two research projects in geophysics. The first project requires the cluster to operate the Advanced Regional Prediction System (ARPS) to simulate wintertime atmospheric disturbance (called 'gravit National Science Foundation 5/01/2010
PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE $724,002 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The multiple-collector inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer (MC-ICP-MS) funded by this award allows Penn State University (PSU) geoscientists and bi National Science Foundation 3/09/2010
NORTHERN TECHNOLOGIES INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION $150,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This NSF/SBIR Phase I project is designed to prepare and evaluate novel biobased corrosion protection coatings derived from modified soy oil that quickly cu National Science Foundation 9/22/2009
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO $5,000,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) will create the Center on Simulation, Visualization and Real-Time Prediction (SiViRT Center) to integrate the simulation-based research activities in the Colleges of Engineering and Sciences at UTSA, provide c National Science Foundation 8/15/2009
POMONA COLLEGE $637,138 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: We have proposed to develop and deploy a low-cost, remote-access, natural guide star adaptive optics system for the Pomona College Table Mountain Observatory (TMO) 1-m telescope. The system, which we are calling CCAO-CAM, will offer simultaneous dual-band National Science Foundation 3/02/2010
BERKELEY GEOCHRONOLOGY CENTER $482,030 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Funds will be used to acquire a single-collector, magnetic-sector, inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer (ICP-MS) for the Berkeley Geochronology Cente National Science Foundation 8/24/2009
SEASHELL TECHNOLOGY LLC $455,854 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: STTR Phase II: Abrasion Resistant Ultrahydrophobic Coattings for Corrosion, Erosion and Wear National Science Foundation 7/22/2009
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, THE $319,335 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Development of a pediatric intensive care unit resource demand forecasting model. National Science Foundation 8/03/2009
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH THE $141,355 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Research is a collaboration with Northern Arizona University and proposes analyze lakes from Washington State to the interior of Alaska. By using consistent methods on a network of similar lakes we will be able to make direct comparisons between sites an National Science Foundation 7/23/2009
MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL, THE $992,310 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Support from the National Science Foundation will enable Drs. Ellen Grant and Yoshio Okada at Children's Hospital Boston (CHB) and Dr Matti H+?m+?l+?inen at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) to develop a novel magnetoencephalography (MEG) system, babyM National Science Foundation 5/17/2010
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH THE $225,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The ongoing project focuses on the study of keV sterile neutrinos as possible warm dark matter candidates, assessing their small scale clustering properties as possible alternatives to the cold dark matter paradigm. We have considered simple extensions be National Science Foundation 8/11/2009
THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK $697,039 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Professional Applied and Computational Mathematics program is a collaborative Science Masters Program offered by Buffalo State College and its business partners. The program is educating graduate students for careers in emerging fields that demand a n National Science Foundation 5/07/2010
UNIVERSITY OF ST. THOMAS $246,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). With this award from the Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) program Professor J. Thomas Ippoliti and colleagues Bartholomew Dahl, Thomas C. Marsh and Will National Science Foundation 4/19/2010
BARNARD COLLEGE (INC) $166,668 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This NSF Major Research Instrumentation award has funded the purchase of a cluster of spectroscopic research instrumentation for the Barnard College Chemistry Department: a high-resolution ultraviolet-visible-near-infrared (UV-Vis-NIR), a high-resolution National Science Foundation 4/19/2010
TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY $775,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This research develops a solid state, frequency-agile, imaging spectrometer based on an electronically tunable optical filter. The instrument--referred to as the Liquid-Crystal (LC) Hyperspectral Imager (LCHSI)--solves the difficult problem of imaging tra National Science Foundation 5/26/2010
HAMLINE UNIVERSITY $55,411 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Aquisition of a Gene Expression Monitoring System to Enhance Faculty-Student Collaborative Research National Science Foundation 1/06/2010
DREW UNIVERSITY $129,854 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Major Research Instrumentation Program National Science Foundation 3/23/2010
FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY $2,939,515 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project, developing an instrument for information processing and computing that enables cohesive study of the brain, involves the new concept of a 5-D brain processing platform while addressing the challenge of finding the best way to put together fi National Science Foundation 6/18/2010
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA $665,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 'This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).' Proposal #: 09-60316 PI(s): Brown, Frank, L.; Fredrickson, Glenn, H.; Garcia-Cervera, Carlos; Gilbert, John, R.; Van de Walle, Christian, G. Institution: National Science Foundation 4/23/2010
TRUSTEES OF UNION COLLEGE IN THE TOWN OF SCHENECTADY IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK $309,950 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). With this award from the Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) program Professor Joanne D. Kehlbeck and colleagues Susan Kohler, Laura A. MacManus-Spencer an National Science Foundation 4/30/2010
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON $535,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The objective of this research is integration of optical, electrical and mechanical systems at nano- and micro-meter scale, thus enabling novel biomedical, energy harvesting and structural health monitoring devices and systems, otherwise not possible. The National Science Foundation 4/28/2010
SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY $418,485 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Acquisition of a mobile atmospheric boundary layer profiling system.- National Science Foundation 5/06/2010
ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (INC) $662,816 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This Science Masters Program focuses on environmental forecasting and disaster preparedness and response. This interdisciplinary program is producing STEM gr National Science Foundation 5/07/2010
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA $1,389,500 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Objective: The ability to control and manipulate matter at a few tens of atoms allows researchers to investigate a regime between the atomic-scale where quantum mechanics dominate and the bulk-scale. The availability of this capability is critical to the National Science Foundation 5/10/2010
NEW YORK STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY CENTER, INC., THE $3,500,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Understanding of biochemical and cellular functions of biological macromolecules has been advanced greatly by x-ray crystallographic analyses of structure at an atomic level. Synchrotron radiation has been essential for these advances. The increasing com National Science Foundation 5/10/2010
RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY $700,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Science Masters Program (SMP) award aims to develop several well-defined ?green-themed? science concentrations, including biotechnology (especially biofuels), sustainability, urban environmental analysis and management, and industrial mathematics acr National Science Foundation 5/07/2010
UNIVERSITY SYSTEM OF NEW HAMPSHIRE $288,364 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The objective of this three-year cross-disciplinary team effort is to build and operate a set of tiny, so-called CubeSat, spacecraft. Each satellite will carry a single large-geometry-factor, solid-state detector, sensitive to electrons precipitating from National Science Foundation 5/06/2010
UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS $699,998 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Sustainable Ecosystem-Based Management of Living Marine Resources (SELMR) at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) supports the education of future leader National Science Foundation 5/07/2010
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA $699,997 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The University of Georgia's Science Master's Program in Biomanufacturing and Bioprocessing will train science and technology graduates for leadership roles in the rapidly expanding and vitally important biomanufacturing field, impacting areas such as biof National Science Foundation 5/07/2010
NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY $664,603 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: For live cell imaging experiments, the following equipment will be acquired and temporarily transferred to the EML: a Leitz Labovert inverted microscope equipped with Hoffman Modulation optics, a Leica micromanipulator, a Parker Hannifin pressure injectio National Science Foundation 4/09/2010
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL CORPORATION, THE $2,995,639 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This is a grant to develop and evaluate a state-of-the art pediatric magnetoencephalography (MEG) system (babyMEG) for studying electrophysiological functions in human babies from the preterm newborns to preschool children approximately 3 years of age. Th National Science Foundation 5/17/2010
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA $327,334 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The PI's request funding to acquire an up-to-date liquid chromatograph mass spectrometer (LC/MS). Specifically, we request a triple quadrupole LC/MS system with electrospray ionization (ESI), atmospheric pressure chemical ionization (APCI) sources, thus a National Science Foundation 4/05/2010
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH THE $550,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This CAREER Award funds a combined research and education program that will explore methods to control quantum coherence and entanglement of quantum systems in complex environments. The research program will study the fundamental properties of quantum ent National Science Foundation 7/26/2009
MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY, INC $401,086 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Award supports research and development of adaptive digital beam forming antennas and related digital signal processing techniques to enable reliable high-speed wireless communications in ad hoc and mesh networks. The goal is to develop a compact, low cos National Science Foundation 4/22/2010
DE PAUL UNIVERSITY $2,000,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project will develop a software traceability instrument designed to empower future traceability research, through facilitating innovation and creativity, increasing collaboration between traceability researchers, decreasing the startup costs and effo National Science Foundation 5/25/2010
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM $1,317,885 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). One of the most outstanding questions in astronomy and astrophysics addresses the origin and evolution of the cosmic accelerators that produce the highest en National Science Foundation 4/20/2010
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY $1,035,845 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Nitrous oxide (N2O) is both a significant greenhouse gas (radiative forcing in 2009 is approximately 0.17 W/m2) and a large contributor to the catalytic des National Science Foundation 5/19/2010
SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY $700,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Science Master's Program prepares graduate students for careers in business, industry, nonprofit organizations, and government agencies by providing them not only with a strong foundation in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disc National Science Foundation 5/07/2010
THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC $4,140,323 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The icePod system will consist of a suite of imaging sensors mounted in an external pod installed and operated on New York Air National Guard LC-130 aircraft during routine and targeted missions across Antarctica and Greenland. This system will be operate National Science Foundation 5/01/2010
CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC $699,999 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Biotechnology is widely recognized as one of the key enabling technologies of the 21st century with potential applications in numerous diverse industries including health and medicine (diagnosing, treating and preventing disease), agriculture (genetic eng National Science Foundation 5/07/2010
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH THE $196,354 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). In this proposal, the investigator describes three projects on association analysis of multivariate competing risks data which arise frequently in genetic f National Science Foundation 7/02/2009
ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY $179,336 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project, (NSF Award #0959713), acquiring a microarray scanner and a high-end computer server, enables the research programs of twelve faculty members from the departments of Computer Science, Biology, Statistics, and Psychology. Projects include imag National Science Foundation 4/23/2010
TRINITY COLLEGE $117,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: award id:0959526 PI: C Geiss National Science Foundation 1/14/2010
LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM $154,901 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: provide high performance computing and storage infrastructure to support large image databases National Science Foundation 4/23/2010
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH THE $183,623 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: To prepare future scientists and engineers for the demands of the high-tech workplace with its growing dependence on quantum phenomena, continued development, assessment, and dissemination of Quantum Interactive Learning Tutorials (QuILT) for the advanced National Science Foundation 8/11/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA $501,680 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: MRI-R2: Acquisition of a Volumetric 3-Component Velocimetry (V3V) System National Science Foundation 5/13/2010
UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS SYSTEM $900,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project, acquiring an integrated supercomputing platform for distributed and shared memory parallel applications that are computationally, data, and storage intensive, aims to service a broad range of projects in computational science and engineering National Science Foundation 4/23/2010
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, THE $917,124 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Scaling Up is a program of research and development that will enable virtual organizations in the Earth sciences to scale to massive interdisciplinary 'communities of communities.' A key element is commodity governance, which encodes social and technical National Science Foundation 6/11/2010
WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION $1,527,934 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: MRI-R2: Development of the New Generation of Long-Period Seafloor MT Instrumentation National Science Foundation 6/07/2010
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY $700,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: More rapid development of solar energy is stymied by the high (but declining) costs of solar energy systems, the relatively low efficiencies of such systems, regulatory hurdles that impede development, and uncoordinated governmental policies. Overcoming s National Science Foundation 5/13/2010
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM $102,690 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: These grant funds will significantly enhance the subsurface investigation capabilities of the Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey (WGNHS) through the acquisition of borehole imaging equipment. These state-of-the-art geophysical tools collect National Science Foundation 4/26/2010
PURDUE UNIVERSITY $691,495 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Northeast Indiana is home to several major defense/aerospace contractors and a number of smaller suppliers that collectively have the potential to hire thousands of new and replacement workers in the next five years. To support this growth it is important National Science Foundation 5/07/2010
UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH, THE $350,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award supported the acquisition of a high performance liquid chromatography/ tandem mass spectrometry system. National Science Foundation 4/19/2010
WILLIAM MARSH RICE UNIVERSITY $2,928,889 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: We will acquire and operate a new facility, Data Analysis and Visualization Cyber-Infrastructure for Computational Science and Engineering Applications (DAVinCI), that will use hybrid a design that integrates high-throughput serial and tightly-coupled par National Science Foundation 4/23/2010
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND $1,477,750 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). One of the most outstanding questions in astronomy and astrophysics addresses the origin and evolution of the cosmic accelerators that produce the highest en National Science Foundation 4/20/2010
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON $1,971,109 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: An interdisciplinary group of computer scientists, psychologists, biologists, chemists, and physicists at the University of Oregon (UO) is creating a large-scale computational and storage resource to support next-generation scientific research in these ar National Science Foundation 4/27/2010
UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI $1,631,937 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: We propose to develop instrumentation needed to explore the feasibility of 'cooling' an intense beam of muons for uses such as neutrino factories, muon colliders, muon-to-electron conversion searches, and thin-film muon spin rotation. Small ('cold') bunc National Science Foundation 5/19/2010
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT RIVERSIDE $1,000,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This proposal requests funds for the purchase of a new analytical X-ray photoelectron spectrometer (XPS) for the University of California, Riverside (UCR). This will be the first instrument of its type at UCR. The new XPS will be maintained and operated b National Science Foundation 4/15/2010
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN $226,810 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This innovative project seeks to recruit a diverse group of scholars into the fields of ecology and evolutionary biology by recruiting undergraduates primarily from minority-serving institutions into a summer long research experience with faculty and doct National Science Foundation 5/11/2010
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH THE $750,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Experimental and Theoretical Investigations of Electrostatic Interactions and Ordering in Highly Charged Colloidal Assemblies We aim to unveil the form of the fundamental electrostatic interactions by direct measurements of electrostatic interactions usi National Science Foundation 7/02/2009
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA $273,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project, acquiring a networked instrument composed of two complementary Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs), supports an extensive program of research in robotics, underwater acoustic communication and networking, marine biology, oceanography, and National Science Foundation 5/05/2010
THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN $97,033 Grant Basic Scientific Research: An award of $97,033 was made by NSF MRI-R2 to the Missouri Botanical Garden to purchase a compact tabletop Nikon/JEOL Neoscope scanning electron microscope, an all digital Nikon Coolscope II Low-Mag microscope, and associated accessory equipment. The SEM National Science Foundation 1/20/2010
BERKELEY GEOCHRONOLOGY CENTER $782,221 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This project will develop a facility to use nuclear fusion of deuterium atoms and ions to create a large concentration of neutrons with uniform energy of 2.4 National Science Foundation 4/26/2010
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO $699,626 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) is developing a Science Masters Program (SMP) in Systems and Software Engineering to meet the regional workforce needs for employees who can build advanced, complex, robust, and reliable computer software systems National Science Foundation 5/13/2010
UNIVERSITY OF UTAH, THE $1,633,490 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). It will provide funds to improve the capabilities of the VERITAS Gamma-Ray Observatory. Located at the F.L Whipple Observatory near Amado, AZ, the VERITAS Ob National Science Foundation 4/14/2010
SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION $446,894 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Experimental research in boundary layer meteorology requires information both on direct surface-atmosphere exchanges of energy and moisture as well as profiles of meteorological parameters extending into the lower part of the atmosphere. By combining expe National Science Foundation 5/06/2010
WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION $1,934,178 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: MRI-R2 Consortuim: Acquisition of Multiple Environmental Sample Processors (ESPs) and Supporting Mooring and Communications Hardware National Science Foundation 6/23/2010
J PAUL GETTY TRUST, THE $137,300 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The scientific study of works of art and other cultural heritage materials offers insight into past cultures, provides a means to rediscover historic technologies, and improves our ability to preserve precious objects for future generations. Funds from th National Science Foundation 3/15/2010
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM $454,282 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The award (NSF0960232) is for acquiring an advanced atomic force microscope (AFM) system, an Asylum Research MFP-3D-BIO on an inverted optical microscope platform for the University of Wisconsin-Platteville (UWP). The multifunctional capacity provided by National Science Foundation 3/04/2010
MESA STATE COLLEGE $23,055 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Major Research Instrumentation-Recovery and Reinvestment (MRI-R2) award funds the acquisition of a stereomicroscopy system for use at Mesa State College. The primary users of the requested equipment are members of the Biology Department at Mesa State National Science Foundation 5/01/2010
NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY $699,998 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This SMP will create the first U.S. cross-disciplinary master?s degree in Biomanufacturing. The Biomanufacturing SMP (SMPB) will leverage existing State and industry resources and programs of the new Golden LEAF Biomanufacturing Training and Education Ce National Science Foundation 5/07/2010
JACKSONVILLE STATE UNIVERSITY (INC) $415,600 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: For the support of MRI-R2: Acquisition for the Critical Infrastructure Security and Assessment Laboratory (CISNAL). NSF Award 0959687 Project source TAS code 490101. National Science Foundation 4/26/2010
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS $701,815 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: MRI - R2 Development of the Next-Generation CAVE Virtual Environment (NG-CAVE) The Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) of the Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago will develop the Next-Generation CAVE Virtual Environmen National Science Foundation 4/19/2010
WILKES UNIVERSITY $210,880 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Award will support the purchase of a set of plant growth chambers that can be set for different temperatures, humidity, photoperiods, and CO2 levels. Aquisition of this instrumentation will have a direct impact on the research of three faculty and will ai National Science Foundation 4/07/2010
G. A. TYLER ASSOCIATES, INC. $99,936 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project is a Small Business Innovative Research grant. National Science Foundation 7/01/2009
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS $199,480 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project, acquiring a heterogeneous terascale parallel computer cluster incorporating graphics processing units (GPUs), services an inter- and multi-disciplinary group of mathematicians and computational scientists and engineers, and their undergradua National Science Foundation 4/26/2010
UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE $151,938 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: With this award from the Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) Program Professor Gregory J. Grant and colleagues Jisook Kim and Kyle Knight from the University of Tennessee Chattanooga will acquire an automated benchtop X-ray diffractometer. The instrumen National Science Foundation 4/19/2010
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY-OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION $839,221 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project, acquiring a hybrid high-performance GPU (graphics processing unit)/CPU system, enables broader heterogeneous computing by deploying multiple types of computing nodes and allowing each to perform the tasks to which it is best suited in tradit National Science Foundation 4/22/2010
WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE $391,582 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: There is a need for a new network measurement approach centered where users live and on their specific interactions with the Internet. Our proposed measurement instrumentation will be accessible to all users via two integrated measurement approaches. Th National Science Foundation 5/04/2010
HUMBOLDT STATE UNIVERSITY SPONSORED PROGRAMS FOUNDATION $699,015 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Environmental Resources Engineering Professional Master of Science (PERE-MS) at Humboldt State University (HSU) will address the nation critical need for professional engineers technically trained in the areas of renewable energy and water resources. National Science Foundation 5/07/2010
UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE $446,388 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Soil, sediment and subsurface environments harbor a tremendous diversity of microbes, and a major research goal is to better understand how such complex systems evolve, function, and respond to environmental changes. Reductionist approaches that focused National Science Foundation 6/08/2010
UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS $75,129 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The focus of this RAPID proposal is the opportunity to make time-critical measurements in the spatially undersampled medium-field (a distance equivalent to several fault depths). These observations have implications for earthquake-process studies, mantle National Science Foundation 5/14/2010
MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY (INC) $199,594 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The goal of the project is to develop and instrument tha exploits magneto-optics Kerr effect (MOKE) for in-situ dynamic studies of film growth. This instrumentation will be used to characterize thin films, ultra-thin films, and multilayers for applicatio National Science Foundation 4/15/2010
RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY $1,972,867 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy (EELS) in the Scanning Transmission Electron Microscope (STEM) is a bedrock quantitative analytical technique for modern materials development. This partnership between Rutgers University and Nion, Co., a small US busines National Science Foundation 4/14/2010
THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC $811,868 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award funds the acquisition of one Picarro L1102-ia analyzer (for wavelength-scanned cavity ring-down spectroscopy), two Thermo Delata V+ mass spectrometers, and one Elementar Isoprime with Dual Inlet and Multiprep systems to replace aging analytical National Science Foundation 5/01/2010
OSU-UNIVERSITY MULTISPECTRAL LABORATORIES, L.L.C. $234,100 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Lead based IV-VI semiconductor alloys are unique as a multifunctional material due to its unique and tunable optical, electronic, magnetic and thermoelectri National Science Foundation 4/15/2010
IUP RESEARCH INSTITUTE $87,971 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This instrumentation, acquired through the MRI-R2 program, provides automated analysis of complex mixtures of organic substances, to support research in biom National Science Foundation 4/19/2010
UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY $580,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The objective of this Major Research Instrumentation (MRI-R2) award is to acquire several complementary instruments to establish a strong capability in micro National Science Foundation 4/20/2010
UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING $257,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The award was to purchase a state of the art field emission electron microscope for the electron microscopy center at the University of Wyoming. National Science Foundation 4/19/2010
NORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC. $81,101 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award allows for the purchase of an Agilent 7890A Gas Chromatograph to provide on-site capabilities for research projects in ecosystem and restoration ecology, microbiology, and chemistry. This system will allow an expansion of research capabillities National Science Foundation 4/01/2010
UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA $699,686 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Master's-level trained scientists are needed within academic institutions and America's growing biotechnology industry. There are many attractive and well paying job opportunities that are integral in supporting product discovery, product development, man National Science Foundation 5/07/2010
CLEMSON UNIVERSITY $700,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Science Master's Program prepares graduate students for careers in business, industry, nonprofit organizations, and government agencies by providing them not only with a strong foundation in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disc National Science Foundation 5/07/2010
NORTHEASTERN STATE UNIVERSITY $623,791 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Funds to be used in the renovation of the Natural Science Research Facility thus increasing space available for research. National Science Foundation 9/14/2010
THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK $1,400,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project, developing a next generation of immersive display instrument (called 'Reality Deck'), aims to explore and visualize data from many fields. To satisfy the need driven by the explosive growth of data size and environments already at the instit National Science Foundation 4/23/2010
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH THE $64,536 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This US-Ukraine project provides US undergraduate and graduate students opportunities to conduct research at the Glushkov Institute of Cybernetics in Kyiv, Ukraine. The research activities are focused in the areas of discrete and nondifferentiable optimiz National Science Foundation 6/01/2009
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY $298,736 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Project Proposed: This project, acquiring a shared, state-of-the-art, mid-sized super-computing cluster and database server, supports intensive research computing and corresponding initiatives at the institution. The current central facilities are no long National Science Foundation 4/23/2010
COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY $1,500,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: During the last quarter, the construction of the pulse forming network for powering the laser amplifier continued. Components for the construction of the laser amplifier head were purchased. All the components for the chilling units necessary to cool th National Science Foundation 2/19/2010
UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII SYSTEMS $716,368 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).This award provides funds to purchase a Delta V Advantage and a MAT 253 gas-ratio IRMS, and a Picarro L1102-i Wavelength- Scanned Cavity Ring Down Spectromete National Science Foundation 5/06/2010
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND $699,998 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The goal of the project is to enhance the training and graduation of students, including underrepresented minority groups, in fish population dynamics and resource economics, two areas where there is a critical need for experts in the U.S. to manage our f National Science Foundation 5/07/2010
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA $104,047 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Correlated electron systems form a very important family of compounds. In these materials electrons are equally affected by interaction between each other and interaction between surrounding ions. The balance between these interactions is fragile and can National Science Foundation 1/22/2010
GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY $699,997 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project, entitled 'Science Master's Program: Biomedical Engineering,' is under the direction of Samhita Rhodes, John P. Farris. National Science Foundation 5/07/2010
NEVADA SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION $587,767 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Atmospheric research has been conducted at the Desert Research Institute's Storm Peak Laboratory (SPL) at 3220 m ASL in northwestern Colorado for nearly 30 y National Science Foundation 9/14/2010
ORGANIZATION FOR TROPICAL STUDIES, INC $250,943 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Organization for Tropical Studies (OTS), a 501(c)(3) consortium of universities and research institutions based in the United States, is the recipient of ARI funds to renovate and upgrade its La Selva Biological research facilities and laboratory infr National Science Foundation 8/10/2010
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY $700,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The SMP Program in Engineering with a Certificate in Global Health Technologies is training engineering students at Northwestern University to design medical devices for underserved populations throughout the world, including poor communities in the Unite National Science Foundation 5/07/2010
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH THE $299,842 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: A three year study is proposed to reconstruct the Holocene Paleomagnetic records of the Arctic and investigate linkages with regional climate using lake core studies. At present, there are no terrestrial Arctic paleomagnetic data to the west of the histo National Science Foundation 8/14/2009
RAYTHEON BBN TECHNOLOGIES CORP. $10,453,855 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This funding enables three types of network infrastructure to handle large-scale experiments. One type uses the OpenFlow protocol developed by Stanford University to allow deep programming of Ethernet switches. Another type of GENI-enabled infrastructure National Science Foundation 9/09/2009
UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO $560,760 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project involves the acquisition of a powder x-ray diffractometer that will be used for advancing research and education in nano-bio materials and in earth and planetary sciences. This research grade instrument adds several new capabilities not curre National Science Foundation 4/08/2010
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY $473,434 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Major Research Instrumentation award funds the acquisition of high quality video production and post-production equipment to support research at Syracuse University. Several research projects at Syracuse University currently collect and analyze large National Science Foundation 5/05/2010
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH THE $125,658 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The goal of this project is to implement a new computational method to study the properties of gravitational waves generated by black holes. The approach uses techniques for solving Einstein's equations which have been recently developed in collaboration National Science Foundation 7/07/2009
MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY STUDENT GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION SCHOLAR, THE $129,372 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Acquisition of a computer cluster to support a number of computationally intensive research projects in the College of Science and Mathematics of Montclair State University. National Science Foundation 4/22/2010
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA $1,300,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project will enable a transmission electron microscope, well-equipped for characterization of nanomaterials G?? in small-probe, scanning, energy-loss spectroscopy and mapping, tomography and other modes G?? to be installed in the Central Facility for National Science Foundation 4/15/2010
SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSTIY FOUNDATION $700,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: There are 23 Science Master's Programs (SMPs) in the California State University, 17 of which are related to BioScience industry sectors governed by pharmaceutical, medical device, and diagnostics regulations. The proposed project addresses the most signi National Science Foundation 5/07/2010
OGLALA LAKOTA COLLEGE $500,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Oglala Lakota College (OLC) is a tribal college on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. Yuowanca Okiya (Helping Science and Education Come Toge National Science Foundation 10/01/2010
UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO $691,716 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The new Professional Science Master's (PSM) degree program at the University of Idaho provides professional training in interdisciplinary science in the environmental and natural resource sciences. The Intermountain West has a high potential for job grow National Science Foundation 5/07/2010
TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT TRAINING GROUP, INC. $359,888 Contract : The purpose of the contract award is to conduct a Program Evaluation of the National Science Foundation's Science Master's Program. The program supports 21 projects and the evaluation requirements are 1) assist the program in developing the program theory National Science Foundation 9/14/2010
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS $1,046,053 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This award supports the renovation and modernization of approximately 2,900 square feet of space within the University of North Texas' (UNT) Center for Adva National Science Foundation 8/30/2010
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA $1,725,740 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This project is to replace a cluster of greenhouse bays on the UCSB campus. The current greenhouse has four bays, is old and decrepit, and is scheduled for National Science Foundation 9/18/2010
DELAWARE VALLEY COLLEGE $707,569 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Renovation of Interdisciplinary Labs. National Science Foundation 8/27/2010
UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO, THE $992,690 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The objective of this proposal is to acquire a system of analytical instruments that are essential for green synthesis of chemicals, fuels and materials from biomass feed-stocks. Two feed-stocks with potential to replace petro-refineries with sustainable National Science Foundation 4/02/2010
CHICAGO STATE UNIVERSITY $279,990 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: MRI-R2: Acquisition of a 400 MHz NMR Spectrometer at CSU. National Science Foundation 1/13/2010
VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY IN THE STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA $61,739 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Examines proposals for Islamic law in western societies. National Science Foundation 6/15/2009
UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO $699,999 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This is a new 18-month Science Master's degree in NanoScience and MicroSystems. The program curriculum is providing students with the knowledge and skill to turn breakthroughs in nanoscience into innovative commercial technology. It uses project-based l National Science Foundation 5/10/2010
LAB 21 INC. $150,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This Small Business Technology Transfer Phase I project is to develop a novel technology for the large-scale sorting of single walled carbon nanotubes (SWNT National Science Foundation 6/18/2009
CLEMSON UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION $1,431,340 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project will renovate the existing regional optical research and education network infrastructure in South Carolina, the South Carolina Light Rail and C-Light. The project will lead to a higher bandwidth connection between South Carolina campuses and National Science Foundation 7/12/2010
PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE $1,731,377 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project replaces the R/V Baldwin, a floating research laboratory used by Middlebury College in Vermont for hands-on, experiential, research training of students on Lake Champlain. The R/V Baldwin has reached the end of its useful life and will be rep National Science Foundation 7/26/2010
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN $140,456 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Auroux-Donaldson-Katzarkov discovered a startlingly simple picture of smooth non-negative-definite 4-manifolds, generalizing Donaldson's interpretation of symplectic 4-manifolds as Lefschetz pencils. They view a 4-manifold, after blowing it up, as the tot National Science Foundation 8/20/2010
LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY, THE $4,203,254 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The project is to renovate the Stanford Nanofabrication Facility (SNF), which is an open-use, shared facility and a participating site in the NSF-funded National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network (NNIN). Since the nanofabrication facility opened in 19 National Science Foundation 9/13/2010
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY, THE $569,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The renovation and refurbishment of Class 10000 Cleanroom at Vanderbilt Institute of Nanoscale Science and Engineering Core Laboratories will have the following scientific impacts: 1. Investigation of methods solar pwer generation via electron emission f National Science Foundation 9/16/2010
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE $1,257,826 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Renovation of the Greenhouse Research Facility at the University of California, Irvine. Intellectual merit of the proposed research. In the past two decades the state of the greenhouse research facility at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) has de National Science Foundation 9/11/2010
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES $1,782,780 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Acquisition of a GPU-based cluster for plasma, high-energy density, and computational science at UCLA National Science Foundation 7/13/2010
UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON SYSTEM $245,527 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) - The Principle Investigator (PI) will acquire a liquid chromatography time-of-flight mass spectrometer, equipped with an electrospray ionization source (ESI). Because of this equipment, the PI and his two Co-Pis will National Science Foundation 8/17/2010
RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE $390,050 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project is to renovate the backbone networking infrastructure of NYSERNet, the New York State Education and Research Network. NYSERNet operates a state-wide optical and Internet Protocol (IP) network serving more than thirty research and education in National Science Foundation 9/16/2010
RAMAPO COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY $1,587,155 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Biology Research Suite: renovation of 35 year old spaces into well equipped biology research laboratories for faculty members working with undergraduates on multiple research projects. National Science Foundation 9/13/2010
UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE $1,354,827 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: CITADel: CyberInfrastructure Technology Advancement for Delaware This project will provide a critical, transformative upgrade to UDs cyberinfrastructure. The current network is used by both administrative and research traffic and while it is adequate the National Science Foundation 9/17/2010
CORPORATION OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY ATGO $1,865,381 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The project involves the renovation of an existing biological field station through the construction of a new laboratory building to replace the facilities currently provided by two existing buildings, the Murray Lab, a pre-fabricated log structure, and t National Science Foundation 9/18/2010
NEVADA SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION $1,176,475 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The goal of this EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement inter-Campus and intra-Campus Cyber Connectivity project is to enhance connectivity within the Nevada System of Higher Education to achieve higher network speeds and capacity to advance educaton National Science Foundation 8/18/2010
FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY $196,647 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Previous research has primarily been concerned with objects viewed in isolation or with the role of context in indirectly 'facilitating' recognition of target objects that are easily identifiable without context. The proposed research will be the first of National Science Foundation 9/14/2010
MISSOURI SYSTEM, UNIVERSITY OF $1,829,800 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This proposal describes a request for $1.99M to support renovation of the heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) system in the Graduate Center for Materials Research (MRC) at Missouri S&T. MRC's core mission is to foster research collaborations, National Science Foundation 9/09/2010
SOUTHEASTERN OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY $475,458 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The funding will renovate three Biotechnology and Chemistry research wet laboratories in the Science building of the Chemistry, Computer and Physical Sciences Department at Southeastern Oklahoma State University (SEOSU), Durant, OK. The renovations will National Science Foundation 9/10/2010
POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE OF NEW YORK UNIVERSITY $3,000,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 'Laboratories for Institute for Engineered Interfaces' National Science Foundation 9/08/2010
NORTHWEST INDIAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION $1,572,381 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Construction of a new research laboratory building, due to the unrepairable state of the existing laboratory. National Science Foundation 9/20/2010
TRINITY COLLEGE $746,231 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: AWARD ID:0963165 Renovation of Chemistry Research Laboratories at Trinity College National Science Foundation 9/14/2010
UNIVERSITY ENTERPRISES, INC. $755,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Center for Interdisciplinary Molecular Biology Education, Research and Advancement (CIMERA) is a research equipment facility shared among faculty from the departments of Biological Sciences and Chemistry at California State University, Sacramento. CIM National Science Foundation 9/13/2010
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, THE $1,337,272 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This infrastructure project will renovate a data center in the Bloomberg Center on the Homewood Campus of Johns Hopkins University. The data center space wil National Science Foundation 8/24/2010
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS $1,150,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 'University of Massachusetts at Lowell (UML) requests support for the acquisition of a state-of-the-art Auriga CrossBeam Focused Ion Beam -Scanning Electron Microscope (FIB-SEM) workstation from Carl Zeiss for research and research training that are criti National Science Foundation 7/27/2010
SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSTIY FOUNDATION $315,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The intellectual merit of this project rests on the fact that neutron stars contain matter in one of the densest forms found in the Universe which, together with the unprecedented progress in observational astrophysics, makes such stars superb astrophysic National Science Foundation 6/12/2009
IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY $1,763,769 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The overall goal of this proposal is to renovate a 7695 sq. ft. wet laboratory research facility in the Chemical and Biological Engineering (CBE) department at Iowa State University (ISU) focused on G?Biological Materials and ProcessesG? (BioMaP). The Bio National Science Foundation 9/16/2010
VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE & STATE UNIVERSITY $1,992,527 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This engineering education research award to George Mason University will study the development of engineering design thinking in undergraduate engineering students using innovations in cognitive science and new methods of analysis. The study will take pl National Science Foundation 6/18/2010
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION $1,690,423 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project involves the renovation of the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center's (SERC's) field monitoring network and environmental data acquisition system, an integrated, distributed facility designed for long-term environmental research on the R National Science Foundation 9/18/2010
MARIST COLLEGE $696,931 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The new Marist College technology research lab provides students and faculty access to cutting edge technologies for research and research training projects. It supports allied research projects with industry and academic partners and also provides a res National Science Foundation 7/12/2010
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA $1,825,345 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award supports a renovation project to provide infrastructure improvements needed to expand the existing Extreme Light Laboratory into a multi-disciplinary shared core facility, the High Power Laser Science Collaboratory (HPLSC). It will house a new National Science Foundation 9/14/2010
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS CENTER FOR RESEARCH, INC. $1,176,470 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This proposal seeks to upgrade shared network infrastructure connecting Kansas institutions of higher education. The proposed upgrades will increase the backbone bandwidth of the Kansas Research and Education Network (KanREN) to 10Gbps and will provide ad National Science Foundation 8/18/2010
URSINUS COLLEGE $1,293,801 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Building for the future: The renovation of Thomas Hall at Ursinus College. National Science Foundation 8/19/2010
CENTRE COLLEGE OF KENTUCKY $1,080,892 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Summary. Centre College has received support to renovate student/faculty research spaces in three disciplines ( synthetic chemistry, psychology, and psychobiology) in one of its primary science facilities, Young Hall. Young is a 56,000-square-foot build National Science Foundation 9/10/2010
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL $1,841,124 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: ARRA - ARI-R2: Partial Renovation of Kenan Chemistry Laboratories National Science Foundation 8/30/2010
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES $7,500,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science (HSSEAS) proposes to renovate existing research space within Boelter Hall (BH) to support the existing and planned research in sustainability that demand modern experimental facilities, spec National Science Foundation 7/19/2010
THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK $1,470,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award provides funds for State University of New York, College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY-ESF) to modernize The Center for Integrated Research and Teaching in Aquatic Science (CIRTAS) facility and Thousand Islands Biological (TIBS) f National Science Foundation 9/10/2010
UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO, THE $3,639,152 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The University of Toledo (UT) proposes to renovate the laboratories in the south wing of the Bowman-Oddy Laboratories Building, which currently serves as the research facility for faculty from the Department of Environmental Sciences whose research effort National Science Foundation 7/09/2010
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY $1,837,421 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This award will provide support for the renovation of laboratory space for the establishment of the Nanostructured Materials Growth and Metrology Laboratori National Science Foundation 8/27/2010
UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO $1,176,470 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This C2 proposal is envisioned to improve bandwidth and cyber connectivity for three rural higher education institutions in New Mexico - two Hispanic Serving Institutions and one Tribal College. The improved CI will enable the institutions to enhance edu National Science Foundation 8/18/2010
SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSTIY FOUNDATION $89,472 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Goal is to develop new and efficient statistical estimation, inference methods and computational algorithms for the deterministic dynamic models containing both constant and time-varying parameters. Implications for understanding pathogenesis of disease National Science Foundation 6/05/2009
UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA $1,176,470 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This OK Inter-campus and Intra-campus Cyber Connectivity (RII C2) project would be led by the University of Oklahoma Norman Campus to benefit the entire state. Intellectual Merit: Through the Oklahoma Optical Initiative (OOI), the OK RII C2 project plans National Science Foundation 8/18/2010
HOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES $1,087,832 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project will extend an existing chilled water loop to the Eaton/Lansing science complex at Hobart and William Smith (HWS) Colleges. The complex serves 35 research laboratories, 5 research and teaching laboratories, and related support space. Air hand National Science Foundation 9/14/2010
HOPE COLLEGE $347,069 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The award supports the renovation of the research infrastructure of VanderWerf Hall on the campus of Hope College. VanderWerf Hall was constructed in 1964, h National Science Foundation 9/17/2010
UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE $1,176,470 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Inter-campus and Intra-campus Cyber Connectivity (RII C2) project would further the goals of ConnectingAlabama and would support upgrades to existing networks as well as the development of new cyber connectivity components to better realize research National Science Foundation 8/18/2010
FAYETTEVILLE STATE UNIVERSITY $175,092 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This grant will establish a robotics lab for the purpose of conducting research in mobile reactive and hybrid robots. The areas of research include spatial and temporal representation and reasoning using cognitive maps, stereo vision, object regognition, National Science Foundation 4/27/2010
THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA $710,115 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Addressing specific research needs in ecological studies, a unique research facility of distributed field research stations has been developed by the University of California. Of the 36 sites in the UC Natural Reserve System (NRS), 17 have been selected f National Science Foundation 9/18/2010
EAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY $1,999,364 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: We are requesting funding from the National Science Foundation to carry out renovations of research space in the science building at East Tennessee State University. With the proposed renovations we will increase safety, security, and energy efficiency in National Science Foundation 9/08/2010
UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA $1,834,243 Grant Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support: Revitalizatoin of University of Florida Helium Liqufaction and Recovery System National Science Foundation 8/30/2010
DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT $1,692,880 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This project will renovate and upgrade specific existing research laboratories and facilities in the Richard King Mellon Hall of Science at Duquesne Univers National Science Foundation 9/09/2010
SOUTH CAROLINA RESEARCH AUTHORITY $1,176,470 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The proposed activities will enhance South Carolina's cyberinfrastructure in support of two active EPSCoR RII programs (RII Track-1: Tissue Biofabrication and RII Track-2: Cyberinfrastructure) and further develop capacity for inter-institutional collabora National Science Foundation 8/18/2010
UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII SYSTEMS $9,838,151 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Research has become progressively more data-intensive, highlighting a need for higher bandwidth network connections between Hawaii and the mainland to support the transfer of input and output datasets of increasing size, as well as the use of interactive National Science Foundation 8/18/2010
COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON $1,000,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: With the Center for Social Science Research, programs in psychology, anthropology, and sociology at the College of Charleston will have the infrastructure to become more collaborative and provide a coherent social science research and research training pr National Science Foundation 8/17/2010
BROWN UNIVERSITY IN PROVIDENCE IN STATE OF RI AND PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS $651,372 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award will provide funds to renovate the research greenhouse portion of the Brown University Plant Environmental Center with new temperature control, ventilation, and lighting systems. Funds will allow replacement of the outdated environmental contro National Science Foundation 9/13/2010
EVERETT COMMUNITY COLLEGE $276,084 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Renovation of the Ocean Research College Academy (ORCA) laboratory at the Everett Community College which will provide students and instructors experiences with inquiry-based research and strengthens the understanding of the complex biogeochemical cycles National Science Foundation 8/17/2010
EARLHAM COLLEGE $807,794 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Earlham College, a small, undergraduate liberal arts school, proposed a renovation of the research laboratories to facilitate interdisciplinary 'research neighborhoods.' Chemistry faculty and students have a history of collaborative, interdisciplinary res National Science Foundation 9/15/2010
VASSAR COLLEGE $1,304,004 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Vassar College, an undergraduate liberal arts college with a long tradition of supporting faculty research and a commitment to educating students in the theory and practice of scientific research, will continue the transformation of research and research National Science Foundation 9/14/2010
MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY $1,176,470 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: To significantly expand the number of workstations interconnected via gigabit-per-second links and to establish an e-meeting facility in order to bolster collaborative research and education offerings at the four research institutions in the state of Miss National Science Foundation 8/18/2010
NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY $751,244 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The project will improve the structure of the Northern Tier Network (NTN) by linking North Dakota and South Dakota's NTN segments (NTN-ND and NTN-SD). NTN is a regional optical research and education network connecting institutions in thirteen states acro National Science Foundation 8/20/2010
CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY $1,535,012 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The project will renovate the regional research and education network facilities operated by the Three Rivers Optical Exchange (3ROX), a small regional network serving research institutions in Pennsylvania and West Virginia. 3ROX connects the campus netwo National Science Foundation 8/20/2010
UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH $430,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project will renovate the Bi-State Optical Network (BiSON), a high-speed optical network comprised of fiber optic links that serves a collaboration of research and educational institutions in Colorado and Wyoming. BiSON links these institutions toget National Science Foundation 7/12/2010
PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY $1,150,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: We will transform 10,745 square feet in Portland State UniversityG??s (PSU) Science Building 2 (SB2) into a Center for Life in Extreme Environments (CLEE) by renovating the majority of the fourth floor of Science Building 2 (SB2) at PSU. This will bring t National Science Foundation 8/19/2010
HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY $1,199,438 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Renovation of a multi-User Animal Research Facility National Science Foundation 9/15/2010
UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII SYSTEMS $1,176,475 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: AbstractProposal Number: EPS-1007033Proposal Title: Connecting the Islands; Cyber Connectivity for Science and Technology in HawaiiInstitution: University of HawaiiProject Director: James R. GainesThis proposal will be awarded using funds made available b National Science Foundation 8/18/2010
OHIO UNIVERSITY $321,270 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This award supports research infrastructure at Ohio University through an upgrade to the capabilities of the van de Graaff tandem accelerator at the Edwards National Science Foundation 8/10/2010
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY $1,374,132 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The project will renovate part of the Metropolitan Research and Education Network (MREN). It will provide gateways to forthcoming, next-generation national and international research and education networks and also provide access to customizable services, National Science Foundation 9/15/2010
MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY, INC $1,815,163 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Renovation of the Thermal Biology Institute's main laboratory space. National Science Foundation 8/17/2010
COLGATE UNIVERSITY $795,561 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The goal of this project is to renovate laboratory space in Wynn Hall at Colgate University. Wynn Hall has previously been used for teaching and research. T National Science Foundation 9/15/2010
UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS $1,481,252 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The University of Alaska Fairbanks campus will install a research supercomputer that will be a broadly accessible instrument for investigation of phenomena related to the Arctic as well as a set of other key research areas. The instrument will be utilized National Science Foundation 7/24/2010
DREXEL UNIVERSITY $5,999,997 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project partners researchers at Drexel, Carnegie-Mellon, MIT, Ohio State, Penn, Purdue, USC, and Virginia Tech to develop a new platform for humanoid robotics research, enabling roboticists in the US to work for the first time with a common instrumen National Science Foundation 7/08/2010
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS CENTER FOR RESEARCH, INC. $1,512,426 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This ARI-R2 project will bring a suite of research laboratories and a Server Room in the Biodiversity Institute (BI), University of Kansas (KU) into currency for 21st century research and research training in biodiversity science, from genomics to species National Science Foundation 9/10/2010
PISGAH ASTRONOMICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE $1,303,324 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This award will permit the renovation of the Research Building of the Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute (PARI). This facility is located in rural Nort National Science Foundation 8/10/2010
UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL MISSOURI $451,813 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This proposal requests funds to renovate existing research space in the research facilities for the Department of Biochemistry, Chemistry and Physics at th National Science Foundation 9/13/2010
SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY $1,176,470 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The C-2 proposal targets the inter-campus and intra-campus broadband connectivity at the three tribal colleges and Augustana that are involved in the NSF EPSCoR RII track I award. It is expected to broaden individual and institutional participation in ST National Science Foundation 8/18/2010
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY AUXILIARY SERVICES, INC $1,735,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This grant will create a core facility for research in energy and sustainability. The renovations are in the context of the grant to the CREST program to create a Center for Energy and Sustainability. Our College has identified Energy and Sustainability National Science Foundation 9/09/2010
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY $1,663,215 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: New York University Structural DNA Nanotechnology Facility National Science Foundation 9/16/2010
LAWRENCE TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY $1,342,276 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award will provide funds to renovate research laboratories in the Science Building of Lawrence Technological University, which was founded in 1932. Its College of Arts and Sciences was established in 1967. This project involves the renovation of labo National Science Foundation 9/11/2010
UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO $1,176,470 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Idaho is very rural, with most of the population concentrated into a few metropolitan areas. Despite this, the State has been quite proactive in making the Internet available to a broad-base of constituents. The Idaho Regional Optical Network (IRON) plays National Science Foundation 8/18/2010
UNIVERSITY OF UTAH, THE $1,176,470 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This RII Inter-Campus and Intra-Campus Cyber Connectivity (RII C2) award would leverage the facilities and statewide reach of the UEN to expand the capabilities of the of the research and education communities to more effectively engage faculty and studen National Science Foundation 8/18/2010
TRUSTEES OF TUFTS COLLEGE INC $1,568,929 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The overall goal of the renovation proposal is to create a state-of-the-art Environmental Sustainability Laboratory (ESL) that will support multi-disciplinary experimental and mathematical modeling research to advance our fundamental understanding of the National Science Foundation 8/31/2010
PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE $590,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Funds are provided to renovate the Biology Research Laboratory in the Classroom Building at the Schuylkill Campus of the Pennsylvania State University. The National Science Foundation 9/16/2010
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, THE $1,682,741 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The purpose of this project is to upgrade and repair basic experimental infrastructure within U.C. Berkeley Birge Hall, on the U.C. Berkeley campus. This space is devoted entirely to research and has been the primary laboratory facility for the U.C. Berke National Science Foundation 8/30/2010
LOUISIANA BOARD OF REGENTS $1,176,470 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project will extend the Louisiana Optical Network Initiative's high-bandwidth optical network into Xavier University of Louisiana. This will close the cyber-infrastructure gap at Xavier and will facilitate active research relationships between Xavier National Science Foundation 8/18/2010
SOUTH DAKOTA SCHOOL OF MINES & TECHNOLOGY $852,217 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project involves renovation of the Electrical Engineering and Physics building at South Dakota School of Mines & Technology (SDSM&T) in support of productive research activities under safe conditions. The improvements to the following systems are exp National Science Foundation 9/13/2010
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA MERCED $411,600 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Sierra Nevada Research Institutes (SNRI) Yosemite Field Station (YFS) in Yosemite National Park (YNP) supports interdisciplinary research on regional scale environmental issues at the interface of science and resource management. Three current resear National Science Foundation 9/18/2010
SOUTHEAST MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY $1,330,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Repair and renovation of faculty laboratory facilities at a comprehensive public university National Science Foundation 9/15/2010
NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY $1,157,498 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The project, proposed by the regional optical network, Pacific Northwest Gigapop, will replace an ad hoc system of connections to a tier of states in the northwestern United States with a fiber-based network capable of supporting multiple gigabit connecti National Science Foundation 9/15/2010
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA $1,176,470 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Nebraska will invest in the foundation for a statewide cyber backbone for high speed data and video transfer that will be created by expansion of the Nebraska University Regional Optical Netowrk (NURON), a fiber ring between Lincoln and Omaha with connec National Science Foundation 8/18/2010
THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC $318,124 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The project will contribute to the effort to better understand and measure ocean mixing around the globe, which is important for understanding the ocean role in climate and improving ocean climate prediction models. Lowered Acoustic Doppler Current Profil National Science Foundation 8/18/2010
TRUSTEES OF UNION COLLEGE IN THE TOWN OF SCHENECTADY IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK $900,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This project will renovate outdated laboratory space on the third floor of Butterfield Hall on the campus of Union College to create a Center for Neuroscien National Science Foundation 9/15/2010
TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY $604,170 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The natural sciences on the campus of Indiana University South Bend have no graduate programs. Over the past 16 years, the Biology department completely replaced the original faculty, and all tenure-track members have active research programs. At the same National Science Foundation 9/13/2010
UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA SYSTEM $1,176,470 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This cyberinfrastructrue project is to extend the reach and capability of the Montana University System's (MUS) newly activated owned-fiber network, the Montana Northern Tier Network (MT-NTN), to three strategic locations. This new infrastructure will im National Science Foundation 8/18/2010
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS $1,225,915 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Incus Facility : An integrated UIC Cyber infrastructure for High Performance Computing and Networking. The goal of the project is to renovate the existing networking infrastructure at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) so that: 1) the Labor National Science Foundation 8/17/2010
COE COLLEGE $4,704,396 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Renovation of Coe College's Peterson Hall of Science National Science Foundation 9/13/2010
DREXEL UNIVERSITY $1,111,170 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Renovation of the Drexel University Microfabrication Facility. National Science Foundation 9/20/2010
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND $1,500,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project is to renovate outdated laboratory suites in the Biology/Psychology Building on the campus of the University of Maryland - College Park to create the Joint Center for Cognitive, Social, Computational, and Mathematical Neuroscience. The Center National Science Foundation 8/27/2010
LOWELL OBSERVATORY $277,014 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Information Technology Infrastructure Improvements at Lowell Observatory National Science Foundation 9/18/2010
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, THE $525,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: While cryospheric research at National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) documents evidence of climate change, it is ironic that the carbon footprint of its computing systems is large. NSIDC is installing an energy-efficient, carbon footprint reduction upg National Science Foundation 7/12/2010
THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK $1,569,393 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This project will renovate laboratory space in Smith Hall, which was first occupied in 1968. Smith Hall houses the Chemistry, Physics, and Computational Scie National Science Foundation 9/10/2010
LE TOURNEAU UNIVERSITY $798,823 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project addresses the need for repair and renovation of existing research facilities in the Materials Joining Engineering Laboratory at LeTourneau University (LETU), the only stand-alone welding/materials joining engineering laboratory in the nation. National Science Foundation 8/11/2010
GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS COLLEGE $253,150 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The award supports the upgrade and renovation of undergraduate research laboratories on the lower level of the 19-year-old F.W. Olin Hall of Science at Gusta National Science Foundation 9/16/2010
STETSON UNIVERSITY, INC. $610,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is titled 'Enhanced Collaborative Research Facilities for Chemistry, Biology, and Psychology at Stetson University'. The funds provided were used to renovate five spaces in an old science building. The new spaces have modern casework, hoods, National Science Foundation 8/17/2010
UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI $1,200,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Funds from the Academic Research Infrastructure Program will be used to support the renovation of one synthesis laboratory, two laser laboratories and a computational chemistry facility, totaling 3300 square feet. Renovations to this research facility wil National Science Foundation 9/14/2010
CAL POLY CORPORATION $290,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Antarctic Peninsula is among the most rapidly warming regions on earth. Increased heat from the Antarctic Circumpolar Current has elevated the temperature of the 300 m of shelf water below the permanent pycnocline by 0.7 degrees C. This trend has disp National Science Foundation 7/15/2010
THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK INC $378,489 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Funds are provided to renovate the Molecular and Cell Biology research facility Purchase College, State University of New York. Established in 1967, Purchase College is a four-year undergraduate institution with a record of research, undergraduate student National Science Foundation 9/10/2010
HARVARD COLLEGE, PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF $1,300,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award will provide partial support for the completion of Harvard's helium recovery and reliquefaction infrastructure . The project includes helium gas recovery piping from a multi-user nuclear magnetic resonance facility and from the labs of 15 facul National Science Foundation 9/27/2010
MUSEUM OF THE EARTH AT THE PALEONTOLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTION $350,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project, which substantially renovates and reorganizes existing laboratory spaces, will improve in numerous ways the ability of PRI's research staff and associated students to carry out collaborative original research and research training, which are National Science Foundation 9/15/2010
MARY BALDWIN COLLEGE $1,205,601 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Faculty-student collaborative research facilities will be renovated to allow the following scientific impacts: 1) The faculty will implement coordinated environmental systems research on key pollutants in the Shenandoah Valley. They will use a combinatio National Science Foundation 9/14/2010
RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, THE $417,500 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The proposal seeks funding to renovate biological field station by replacing a laboratory building located on the Upper Research Site of SUNY-Oneontas Biological Field Station. The Upper Research Site is located near Moe Pond in New York State and is a re National Science Foundation 9/18/2010
BIGELOW LABORATORY FOR OCEAN SCIENCES $4,975,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project comprises the replacement of aging and sub-standard space for research on ocean biogeochemistry and its role in climate. NSF will fund the installation of a laboratory wing as part of a new building being constructed on a campus of the Bigelo National Science Foundation 9/18/2010
SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY $817,626 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: To Ensure that SDSU can continue to expand its research enterprise, modernization of the institutions cyberinfrastructure is needed. To that end, reovation of our research data center facility in the following manner: (1) perform upgrades to the electric National Science Foundation 8/30/2010
LINCOLN UNIVERSITY $313,639 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Lincoln University, Jefferson City Missouri, is a historically black, 1890 land-grant, public, comprehensive institution. Lincoln's mission is to provide ex National Science Foundation 8/27/2010
UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FOR ADVANCED INTERNET DEVELOPMENT $1,744,464 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project will develop and deploy the Dynamic Network System (DYNES), a nationwide cyber-instrument spanning 39 US universities and 16 regional networks. DYNES will support large, long-distance scientific data flows in the LHC, other leading programs i National Science Foundation 7/24/2010
WESLEY COLLEGE INC $281,676 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: To renovate research laboratories and to upgrade cyber infrastructure. National Science Foundation 9/01/2010
GEORGIA GWINNETT COLLEGE $205,653 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Renovate A1190 Chem/Bio Lab National Science Foundation 8/18/2010
SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY $791,764 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Monsanto Hall at Saint Louis University (built in 1965) houses the Department of Chemistry (ACS certified) with undergraduate programs in Chemistry (B.A., B.S.) and Biochemistry (B.A., B.S.) and graduate programs in Chemistry (M.S., Ph.D.) and Integr National Science Foundation 8/31/2010
UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS SYSTEM $1,701,988 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This proposal is to enhance the existing research computing facility and network connections at the University of Arkansas Fayetteville campus. This award National Science Foundation 8/19/2010
UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO-MEDICAL SCIENCES CAMPUS $800,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Construction grant for the renovation of laboratory areas at the Institute of Neurobiology. National Science Foundation 9/28/2010
SCHREINER UNIVERSITY $475,727 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project will renovate laboratory space in the Moody Science Building, which was built in 1968. While Moody was renovated in 2001, the space in question was not upgraded. The request is for new research benches with overhead storage and built in desks National Science Foundation 8/27/2010
BROWN UNIVERSITY IN PROVIDENCE IN STATE OF RI AND PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS $1,176,470 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Rhode Island (RI) Research Infrastructure Improvement Inter-Campus and Intra-Campus Cyber Connectivity project will provide high speed connection and thus facilitate effective collaboration among Rhode Island's institutions of higher education. Brown National Science Foundation 9/01/2010
TOWSON UNIVERSITY $1,395,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Towson University's G?Academic Research Infrastructure: Recovery and ReinvestmentG? grant will provide funds to renovate research laboratories of the Urban Environmental Biogeochemistry Laboratory (UEBL). TU will turn a sample preparation laboratory, a ne National Science Foundation 9/14/2010
AUBURN UNIVERSITY $4,623,008 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Through its biological engineering research programs (BERL), Auburn University is well positioned to address the global challenges of providing renewable sources of energy, clean and abundant sources of water, healthy environment, and safe and plentiful s National Science Foundation 8/20/2010
INDIANA STATE UNIVERSITY $1,503,562 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Indiana State University is a RUI-eligible institution highly engaged in undergraduate research training. This award will provide funds to the renovation of National Science Foundation 9/15/2010
HAMPTON UNIVERSITY $1,240,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Renovation of existing research areas at Hampton University to support research that can address the challenges of the 21st century. The proposed renovations will address these issues by providing: (1) laboratory-grade climate control; (2) an upgraded ele National Science Foundation 8/17/2010
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY $1,768,555 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Modernization and Enhancement of the Seawater System and Research Infrastructure at Northeastern University's Marine Science Center National Science Foundation 8/11/2010
OBERLIN COLLEGE $885,929 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The award will provide funds to renovate and expand research and research training facilities in the geosciences at Oberlin College. The existing facility was built in 1908 as the college library and was renovated in 1989 to accommodate four faculty, base National Science Foundation 8/19/2010
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA $7,104,536 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project involves a major renovation of the St. Anthony Falls Laboratory G?? University of Minnesota. SAFL is a hydraulic research laboratory dedicated to research and training in energy and the Earth-surface environment. SAFL was dedicated in 1938 an National Science Foundation 9/20/2010
RADFORD UNIVERSITY $399,750 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Biology and Chemistry Facilities Modernization. National Science Foundation 8/17/2010
THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC $7,243,260 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project involves the renovation of the second floor of the 'New Core Lab' at the Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory in order to create the Lamont Center for Biogeochemistry. This will enable the institution to support collaborative activities in an inc National Science Foundation 9/17/2010
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND $1,442,919 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Mid-Atlantic Crossroads (MAX) project involves enhancing existing Research and Education (R&E) metro network facilities with emerging 100 Gigabits per second (100Gb/s) equipment to support data intensive science exploration, modeling, and discovery. National Science Foundation 8/11/2010
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE $1,702,622 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: UMCES will make critical repairs to the 750' research pier at its Chesapeake Biological Laboratory location in Solomons, MD. Since 1936, the structure has served as a platform for instrumentation, equipment and experimental mesocosms designed to test bas National Science Foundation 9/09/2010
UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE $1,176,470 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The vision for this program, 'Intra-campus Connectivity to Promote Environmental and Biological Research, Education and Outreach,' is that all Delaware EPSCoR partner institutions will have access to high-quality inter- and intra-institutional cyberinfras National Science Foundation 8/18/2010
BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY $1,870,343 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The College of Engineering at Boise State University has experienced rapid growth since its inception in 1996, due to exceptional student interest and commu National Science Foundation 9/20/2010
WEST VIRGINIA HIGHER EDUCATION POLICY COMMISSION $1,176,470 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project is focused on advancing CI to current research standards at West VirginiaG??s (WV) two research universities, and enables Internet2 access potential for the StateG??s predominantly undergraduate colleges and universities (PUIs), community and National Science Foundation 8/18/2010
NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY $650,550 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). North Dakota State University's Department of Geosciences is expanding their research program and the laboratories renovated under this award complement this National Science Foundation 9/15/2010
PURDUE UNIVERSITY $1,999,969 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Energizing Research through Cyberinfrastructure (ERTC) project will address the impact of the growth of cyberinfrastructure by renovating the research data center (RDC) located in the Mathematical Sciences Building (Math Building) at Purdue Universit National Science Foundation 8/30/2010
VIRGINIA WESLEYAN COLLEGE $621,507 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Strategic Modernization of Undergraduate Research Facilities at Virginia Wesleyan College National Science Foundation 9/16/2010
COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY ASSOCIATION, INC. $497,423 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Upgrade and Renovation of Plant Growth Facilities at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory National Science Foundation 8/30/2010
CALVIN COLLEGE $951,150 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award funds the redesign, renovation, and upgrade of the ground floor of the Science Building complex on the campus of Calvin College to create the Integrated Science Research Experimental Laboratory (ISRx). The ISRx will place student and faculty re National Science Foundation 9/14/2010
ECKERD COLLEGE, INC. $870,720 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project renovates space for marine science that is no longer adequate for research needs in the Galbraith Marine Science Laboratory at Eckerd College. Eckerd College is an undergraduate institution that is widely considered as an important engine for National Science Foundation 8/31/2010
UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO $2,992,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: A Dedicated Advanced Science and Engineering Enterprise Network. National Science Foundation 9/08/2010