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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO | $133,700 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: International crises occur when two states confront each other with mutually incompatible demands. In general, states will not make concessions unless they are convinced that the alternative of fighting will be even more unpleasant. Crisis negotiations ar | National Science Foundation | 8/06/2009 |
| CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $671,995 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 'Firms, governments, and scientists are constantly striving to figure out what goods and services people want most and quantify their worth. The main technique used to do this in economics is to statistically analyze data on what people have bought befor | National Science Foundation | 7/19/2009 |
| OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY | $399,973 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The objective of this award is to perform the fundamental research necessary to advance the electric power grid integration of diverse variable renewable energy resources. The approach is separated into three tasks: first, building the tools to describe a | National Science Foundation | 7/15/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA | $411,774 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The research objective of this proposal is to use predictive simulations using innovative numerical methods and minimal empiricism to understand the physical processes that govern mixed flow/powder-snow avalanches (MA). MA consist of a dense core and salt | National Science Foundation | 8/07/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS | $470,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Spatial analysis is essential to the acquisition, transformation, and use of spatial data, information, and knowledge for scientific discovery and decision-making in many fields (e.g., ecology, environmental science and engineering, geography, geosciences | National Science Foundation | 6/09/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $400,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This proposal is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Prof. Stephen Cronin at the University of Southern California is supported by the Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Syst | National Science Foundation | 7/29/2009 |
| GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION | $500,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: ****NON TECHNICAL ABSTRACT**** This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Many natural and synthetic systems involve ordered arrangements of units on two-dimensional surfaces. Examples include viral p | National Science Foundation | 8/28/2009 |
| SIENA COLLEGE (INC) | $471,460 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Dr. Rose Finn (Siena College) will quantify the relative importance of the physical mechanisms that cause galaxies to evolve from blue, actively star-forming galaxies to red, passive galaxies by studying the gas and stellar properties of galaxies in 10 lo | National Science Foundation | 8/10/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES | $590,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The present project is focused on reactions of electrophilic metal-carbon bonds with substrates featuring strong C-N bonds in order to understand the mechanism of intimate reaction steps. The breaking of C-N bonds in heterocycles is a significant reaction | National Science Foundation | 8/02/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS | $337,681 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Young etiolated seedlings have little or no protection against abiotic stressors. It is therefore germane that we understand the signal transduction systems activated by abiotic stresses and how these signal transduction systems operate to produce compoun | National Science Foundation | 6/22/2009 |
| NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY | $440,250 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Genetics of Innate Immunity and Disease Resistance in Reef-Building corals | National Science Foundation | 6/19/2009 |
| WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY | $300,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This CRI proposal is designed to enhance the community's computing research infrastructure in support of smart environments. The goal of this program is to equip physical smart environment testbeds, and disseminate the data and software tools that are col | National Science Foundation | 7/20/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $291,737 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Experimental and theoretical studies of protein aggregation lag considerably behind protein folding studies, because of their much greater complexity. Several researchers have developed molecular dynamics simulations of protein misfolding and aggregation, | National Science Foundation | 6/09/2009 |
| BROWN UNIVERSITY IN PROVIDENCE IN STATE OF RI AND PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS | $446,472 | 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 newly discovered process of anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox) is an important process in marine environments. The contribution of anammox to global | National Science Foundation | 6/29/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES | $381,880 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Seminal insights towards establishing contributions of sensory biology to community ecology. | National Science Foundation | 9/14/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS | $306,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Skin is our largest organ, serving critical roles in fluid homeostasis, thermoregulation, immune surveillance, and self-healing. Disease and/or the loss of major portions of a human's skin can be disabling and potentially life threatening, and is a major | National Science Foundation | 8/03/2009 |
| SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY | $3,130,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award provides continuing support for a program of research for the High Energy Physics group at Syracuse University. The Syracuse HEP group is the only U.S. group on LHCb - an experiment at the LHC designed as the first to study b and c decays at a | National Science Foundation | 7/31/2009 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $375,000 | 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 project will develop a new framework for mathematical modeling of rechargeable batteries, taking into account statistical thermodynamics, concentrated | National Science Foundation | 5/29/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA | $278,144 | 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 the documentation of spontaneous connected speech, with a focus on conversation in natural settings, in two languages indigen | National Science Foundation | 8/16/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA SOUTHEAST | $449,852 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 'This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).' What Tlingit conversations do birth speakers of Tlingit use to carry on their daily lives? What record of daily functional language will learners and scien | National Science Foundation | 8/20/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $85,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). 0853817/0853396Hermanson/TryggvasonThis preliminary experimental and computational research program will study the physical mechanisms of disruption and vapo | National Science Foundation | 8/17/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN | $299,993 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The goal of the PI is to make a significant contribution in cardiovascular tissue engineering though research, education, and the transformation of stem cell engineering. In this context, stem cell engineering includes the design of cell and drug delivery | National Science Foundation | 6/02/2009 |
| PURDUE UNIVERSITY | $397,828 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Monitoring of effluents from point contamination sources and protection of drinking water supplies is a main environmental concern of any engineering solution aimed at minimizing contamination to surface waters should include a system capable of detecting | National Science Foundation | 6/17/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS | $249,265 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).Accurate modeling of power, leakage, and timing while accounting for process variations, is crucial for the manufacturable design of nanoscale Complementary M | National Science Foundation | 7/27/2009 |
| PURDUE UNIVERSITY | $350,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This is an integrated research and education project to study adsorptive separations of chiral enantiomer pairs, or racemic mixtures. These separations are a critical problem of the pharmaceutical and fine chemicals. A new approach is used to under | National Science Foundation | 7/17/2009 |
| VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE & STATE UNIVERSITY | $330,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The NSF award by the Chemical and Biological Separations program supports work by Professors S. Ted Oyama and Luke E. Achenie at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University to develop advanced membranes for CO2/CH4 separation. The studies will be | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITIES FOR RESEARCH IN ASTRONOMY INC | $150,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The National Solar Observatory (NSO) International Research Experience for Students (IRES) Program provides qualified and motivated US graduate students with the opportunity to perform scientific research at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA) in B | National Science Foundation | 8/19/2009 |
| TEXAS ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT STATION | $300,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 'The project investigates temperature controlled activation of micro nano structured nanocomposite hydrogel materials to produce temperature controlled self cleaning surfaces. Cyclical changes in temperature will activate these nanocomposite hydrogel micr | National Science Foundation | 8/24/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN | $775,600 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The main objective of the proposed research is to find a geometrically meaningful compactification of the moduli space of polarized K3 surfaces, obtained as an instance of Mumford's theory of toroidal compactifications.The theory requires a fan structure | National Science Foundation | 5/27/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, 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 | 5/29/2009 |
| HARVARD COLLEGE, PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF | $458,815 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Generalized geometries form a class of almost complex manifolds with reduced structure groups, which have become of central importance to the study of realistic string theory models. These are natural generalizations of Calabi-Yau manifolds and are of mat | National Science Foundation | 6/19/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN | $122,244 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The objective of this project is to inspire students at Tuskegee University and Auburn University in mathematics, aerospace science engineering, and networking by inviting them to contribute to a grand project: fly safely and efficiently, in a limited spa | National Science Foundation | 8/01/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF THE COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES | $193,628 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Numerous interesting applications have been enabled by embedded sensing technologies and significant research progress on wireless sensor networks. To fur | National Science Foundation | 7/10/2009 |
| CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY | $381,702 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: One of the grand challenges in robotics is to achieve dexterity, especially dexterity in manipulation. The equipment funded by this project ? a robot torso, two arms, and a custom designed robot hand, supports investigation of manipulation tasks, with a p | National Science Foundation | 7/29/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA | $400,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project involves precise measurements of the properties of the lead flouride molecule to hunt for a property of the electron known as its electric dipole moment or EDM. This hunt continues a 58-year-old search initiated by Nobel prize winning physici | National Science Foundation | 7/26/2009 |
| CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY | $215,664 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The sequential game is a mathematical model of the interaction of multiple self-interested players in dynamic stochastic environments with limited information. The long-term goal of this research project is to design and implement specialized algorithmic | National Science Foundation | 7/15/2009 |
| GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION | $762,372 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Music-making is universal and has been a conduit for human creativity for at least tens of thousands of years, and music plays an essential role in human social bonding, emotional communication, and entertainment. Because information technology and entert | National Science Foundation | 8/12/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $0 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).When a smooth complex surface degenerates to a singular surface with an ordinary double point there is a so called vanishing cycle: a two dimensional sphere w | National Science Foundation | 9/01/2009 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $470,721 | 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 plasmasphere boundary layer (PBL) is a critical region for dynamic processes in the mid-latitudes that couple the Earth's ionosphere and magnetosphere | National Science Foundation | 8/19/2009 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | $370,989 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: In experimental biomechanical studies, a common problem is the difficulty of conducting a large number of tests for the efficacy time course of engineering manipulation. An integrated experimental and computational molecular biomechanics model for the enh | National Science Foundation | 6/12/2009 |
| ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY | $145,459 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The primary objectives of this collaborative research study are to 1) better understand the interactive roles played by lane-changing and car-following, 2) quantify their effects on oscillations, and 3) develop a mathematical simulation model that accurat | National Science Foundation | 7/21/2009 |
| BROWN UNIVERSITY IN PROVIDENCE IN STATE OF RI AND PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS | $400,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5) 0846505 Stein Genetic information holds a key to rapid progress in the life sciences and medicine, yet it remains difficult to obtain because it is encoded | National Science Foundation | 7/24/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA | $480,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Historically, Langmuir circulation (LC) is characterized by pairs of parallel counter-rotating vortices oriented approximately in the downwind direction driven by the wave- and wind-driver turbulence within the upper ocean mixed layer. The highly resolved | National Science Foundation | 8/03/2009 |
| TEXAS ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT STATION | $440,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 'The research goal of this integrated research and educational endeavor is to advance the fundamental understanding of the behavior of interconnected systems by studying the influence of delays on their stability and performance. The proposed theoretical | National Science Foundation | 7/20/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT | $430,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The research objective of this Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) project is to establish the relative contribution of three distinct mechanisms in improvement of damaged bone tissue mechanical properties. The three mechanisms evaluated are: (a) ch | National Science Foundation | 6/16/2009 |
| EMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY INC | $483,699 | 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 primary science objective of this project is to gain a global understanding of the Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability (KHI) on Earth's magnetosphere-ionospher | National Science Foundation | 6/23/2009 |
| BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL, INC., THE | $400,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The central goal is to study the mesoscale self-assembly of hydrophilic materials with applications in a wide variety of fields ranging from materials science to biological studies. We aim to achieve this goal by developing simple and widely applicable te | National Science Foundation | 6/15/2009 |
| TEXAS A & M RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $599,763 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The very early universe, in the first instance after its creation, was filled with a very hot and dense soup of matter, consisting of quarks, leptons and gluons. When the universe expanded and cooled, but still just milliseconds after the Big Bang, quarks | National Science Foundation | 6/02/2009 |
| MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY | $464,974 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Understanding how humans comprehend speech is an unsolved and challenging problem, in part because of the many-to-many mapping between the acoustical properties of the speech signal (i.e., frequency, timing, and amplitude) and the words perceived by the l | National Science Foundation | 8/11/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $408,325 | 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 purpose of this project is threefold: development and analysis of fast, randomized, easily parallelizable algorithms, study of average behavior and limiti | National Science Foundation | 6/17/2009 |
| BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY (INC) | $689,571 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The article ?The Photochemistry of Monochloro Complexes of Copper(II) in Methanol Probed by Ultrafast Transient Absorption Spectroscopy? by Andrey S. Mereshchenko, Suman K. Pal, Kanykey E. Karabaeva, Patrick Z. El-Khoury, and Alexander N. Tarnovsky is pub | National Science Foundation | 7/19/2009 |
| WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY | $350,854 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: An award has been made to Washington State University for a collaborative effort with Western Washington University focused on moth biodiversity in the Pacific Northwest. This project will database the holdings of macro-moths in the James Entomological Co | National Science Foundation | 8/21/2009 |
| TEXAS A & M RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $350,500 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Professors James D. Batteas of Texas A&M and Charles M. Drain of Hunter College of CUNY are supported by the Analytical and Surface Chemistry Program in the Division of Chemistry to systematically design and synthesize a series of porphyrin and alkyl base | National Science Foundation | 6/24/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO | $900,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: In this project the PI will study the physical principles of viral genome packaging using phi29 as a model system. The study will use previously developed technique based on optical tweezers for real time visualization of viral packaging processes. The pr | National Science Foundation | 7/22/2009 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $504,963 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Coral reef ecosystems are highly endangered by recent increases in temperature and by projected increases in ocean acidification. Although temperature has been identified as a driver of some coral disease outbreaks, nothing is known about direct effects o | National Science Foundation | 8/14/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES | $372,655 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This is one of 50 Physics REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates)programs in the country. The money is aimed at supporting students coming from institutions around the country to be mentored by faculty in the Physics & Astronomy Department for a per | National Science Foundation | 5/27/2009 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $399,771 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Recent research has established that much and perhaps most of the interannual to interdecadal variation of tropical cyclone activity integrated over ocean | National Science Foundation | 6/18/2009 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $262,246 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Kuroshio brings warm waters northward in an intense current along the western boundary of the North Pacific. The current departs the Japanese coast to flow eastward as the Kuroshio Extension. This strong jet creates a front between warm subtropical an | National Science Foundation | 6/04/2009 |
| RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE | $320,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: To recruit eight undergraduates to participate in hands-on physics research with various research groups on campus for ten weeks in the summers of 2009, 2010 and 2011. | National Science Foundation | 6/08/2009 |
| FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE | $483,582 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Florida State University is awarded a collaborative grant to create a distributed information system that combines digital image repositories, biological collection management system and ontology management systems. The interoperability of these systems | National Science Foundation | 8/04/2009 |
| PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE | $162,492 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Two groups of migrants, aging baby boomers and Latino immigrants, are converging on rural America. Together, these groups will significantly transform their destination communities in the coming decades. While these migration streams have each attracted s | National Science Foundation | 8/02/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN | $988,186 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The proposed work is to examine changes in structural and physical properties along the southern Costa Rica subduction zone using 3D seismic imaging. At this location the plate boundary transitions from stable sliding to unstable sliding. Understanding su | National Science Foundation | 8/10/2009 |
| CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $527,244 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Self-control problems are at the core of many of the public policy challenges facing the United States. Examples include obesity, addiction, and low levels of savings. Not surprisingly, given its importance, the problem of self-control has been the subje | National Science Foundation | 6/19/2009 |
| NATURAL RESOURCES, SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF | $161,685 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This REU Site at the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources Marine Resources Research Institute offers a ten week research program for undergraduate minority students in the marine and environmental science fields. Students will be provided with e | National Science Foundation | 9/14/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA | $360,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project will establish an REU site in nanometerials at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, sponsored by the Nebraska Center for Materials and Nanoscience. The primary objectives will be to (1) create an atmosphere within which students can develop in | National Science Foundation | 6/22/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN | $323,456 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Undergraduate students and K-12 teachers in University of Texas Environmental Science Institute's combined REU/RET program will work in the research groups of faculty mentors working on scientific topics related to The Integrated Science of Global Change | National Science Foundation | 6/21/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA SOUTHEAST | $308,763 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award to the University of Alaska Southeast (UAS) is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). UAS will conduct an REU Site research program for undergraduates during the summers of 2009, 2011 and 2012. Ten s | National Science Foundation | 8/25/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS | $195,178 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Experimental Physical Chemistry Program supports Professor Alexander Scheeline of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to develop a levitated drop reactor to study the nonlinear reaction dynamics of myeloperoxidase, an enzyme found in neutro | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA | $527,690 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: * Objectives. We hypothesize that acidic sulfates will have a significant impact on SOA formation in the atmosphere via heterogeneous reactions forming nonvolatile organics such as heterogeneous acid-catalyzed reaction products (HAC-P) and organic sulfat | National Science Foundation | 6/23/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA | $1,279,792 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The following five projects will be carried out during the proposed five-year support period. 1. Simultaneous measurements of close and distant electromagnetic signatures of lightning for (a) testing the validity of lightning return-stroke models, (b) inf | National Science Foundation | 8/05/2009 |
| LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY, THE | $325,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Chalcogenide Phase Change (PC) materials are of interest due to their widespread application in high density PC optical recording and random access memory (PCRAM) devices. The operation of these devices involves a complex interaction of temperature and el | National Science Foundation | 7/06/2009 |
| RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE | $325,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The goal of this research is to provide a scientific basis for the development of a new class of materials for reversible and high capacity storage of hydrogen in nanostructured metal hydrides at moderate temperature and pressure. | National Science Foundation | 8/05/2009 |
| FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY | $94,321 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Award description. Project summary: Growing recognition of the importance of complex microbial communities and biofilms in engineered systems for environmental, industrial, medicinal, agricultural and municipal applications has created a demand for new ap | National Science Foundation | 6/24/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $309,475 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Intellectual merit Protein therapeutics (biopharmaceuticals) are increasingly being used for the treatment of a variety of diseases. Over 165 biopharmaceuticals are currently on the market and hundreds more are in development, representing more than one | National Science Foundation | 6/16/2009 |
| TEXAS ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT STATION | $81,687 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 'International Research Experience for Students: U.S.-Ukraine Collaboration on Discrete and Nondifferentiable Optimization This US-Ukraine project provides US undergraduate and graduate students opportunities to conduct research at the Glushkov Institute | National Science Foundation | 6/01/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY | $300,112 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The PI proposes to apply a state of the art fluorescent index matching technique to measure the three dimensional positions of particles in the bulk to investigate the elastic and plastic response of a dense granular system undergoing cyclic shear. The pr | National Science Foundation | 7/07/2009 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $240,000 | 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 award by the Chemical and Biological Separations program supports work by Professor Jongyoon Han at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to | National Science Foundation | 6/24/2009 |
| TEXAS ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT STATION | $305,279 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 'Most cells generate intracellular forces that are transmitted to, and countered by, forces in the extracellular matrix. This mechanical force balance is necessary for maintaining both mechanical and biochemical cell equilibrium, i.e. homeostasis. When th | National Science Foundation | 8/11/2009 |
| VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE & STATE UNIVERSITY | $229,098 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The design of clinically effective materials for the surgical repair of ruptured ligaments remains a challenging biomedical engineering problem. Currently, tissue grafts from the patient and cadaveric sources are the only clinically effective materials fo | National Science Foundation | 8/25/2009 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | $300,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Intellectual Merit The present proposal is to explore new anode materials that will allow solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) to work directly with a range of practical fuels, including hydrocarbons, gasified biomass, or coal. SOFCs are of particular current i | National Science Foundation | 6/23/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF THE COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES | $320,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The goal of this research is to study how lipophilic chemicals penetrate through the outermost layer of human skin, which is called the stratum corneum. The stratum corneum is a thin (20 to 40 um thick), composite membrane containing layers of flattened, | National Science Foundation | 7/06/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA | $300,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Gene therapy relies on the development of vectors that can carry therapeutic genes to target cells. Non-viral vectors can avoid the safety issue inherent to the viruses, but lack the capability of recognizing target cells and have low efficiency of transf | National Science Foundation | 6/25/2009 |
| KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY | $577,100 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This FRG builds on various recent successes in mirror symmetry and tropical geometry. On one hand, the Strominger-Yau-Zaslow conjecture has led to work by Kontsevich, Soibelman, Gross, Siebert, Zharkov and others to view mirror symmetry in terms of integr | National Science Foundation | 7/15/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF UTAH, THE | $391,200 | 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 real world inspires much of computer graphics and visualization research. In our work, we seek to acquire models directly from the real world and vali | National Science Foundation | 7/20/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $284,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). It will provide funds to work on the Pierre Auger Observatory in Malargue, Argentina. The Observatory is the world's largest detector for 'ultra-high energy' | National Science Foundation | 7/31/2009 |
| LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY, THE | $950,000 | 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 award extends the Stanford LIGO group's ongoing program on advanced gravitational wave detectors to address risk mitigation for Advanced LIGO and to pro | National Science Foundation | 6/09/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF UTAH, THE | $252,261 | 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 inert (or 'noble') gases are so named because they generally do not interact much with other materials. Like many other elements, however, certain of th | National Science Foundation | 7/26/2009 |
| CAL POLY CORPORATION | $200,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The objective of this project is to investigate a new light pattern as a possible solution to the 'addressability problem' of neutral atom quantum computing. Quantum computers are theoretical devices that exploit the fundamental rules of quantum mechanics | National Science Foundation | 8/03/2009 |
| EMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY INC | $80,000 | 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 award supports the PI's group to (I) work on searches for unmodeled bursts of gravitational waves in the incoming LIGO science run and (II) set up an ac | National Science Foundation | 8/02/2009 |
| KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY | $282,261 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Few-body collisions are playing an increasingly important role in experiments on ultracold quantum gases. This work addresses some of the most important outstanding questions about such collisions: What happens when three bodies collide in the reduced dim | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA SYSTEM | $180,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The object of the project is 1) to investigate orientation and vibration dependent multiphoton ionization (MPI) and high harmonic generation (HHG) for the potential application of monitoring molecular structure and dynamics with ultrafast and high intensi | National Science Foundation | 8/08/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $271,917 | 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 deploy a single, strategically placed mooring in the core of the western Arctic boundary current east of Barrow Canyon, which will colle | National Science Foundation | 8/04/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE | $1,662,201 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Circumpolar Active Layer Monitoring Network--CALM III (2009-2014): Long-term Observations on the Climate-Active Layer-Permafrost System Maintain long-term observations on climate/permafrost/active-layer system on the network of circumarctic monitorin | National Science Foundation | 8/03/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $88,773 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award supports the purchase of a new laser to replace the current laser in the lidar at Eureka, Nunavut, Canada. The installation of the new laser will improve instrument reliability and data quality of an observing system that has been operating as | National Science Foundation | 6/29/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO | $400,471 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The overarching goal of this renewal project is to maintain the existing ITEX AON and increase the applicability of the data collected to the greater scientific community. The International Tundra Experiment (ITEX) network has collected data on phenology, | National Science Foundation | 8/14/2009 |
| MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY | $289,070 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Objectives This study will seek to demonstrate experimentally the existence of new types of magnetically tunable optical band gaps recently predicted by the PIs. The project will design, fabricate and characterize functional photonic crystal structures ba | National Science Foundation | 6/21/2009 |
| ALEUT INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION | $2,499,989 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award will support the continued implementation of the Bering Sea Sub-Network (BSSN), a regional initiative of community-based organizations in Western Alaska and Northeast Russia. The 'Intellectual Merit' of BSSN lies in its operation as a distribut | National Science Foundation | 8/26/2009 |
| CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $330,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 'The project proposes to investigate a new type of amplifying coupled-resonator optical waveguide (CROW). The CROW is to be realized in a waveguide geometry with individual resonators formed by grating ''defects''. The waveguide will be fabricated on a h | National Science Foundation | 7/30/2009 |
| ILLUMINEX CORPORATION | $150,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Small Business Technology Transfer Phase I project will prototype a novel photovoltaic (PV) material based on nanotechnology: photovoltaic fabric. The PV fabric will be woven using threads that comprise of an array of p-type silicon nanowires grown d | National Science Foundation | 6/25/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH | $74,965 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: While the number of women receiving advanced degrees in the geosciences has been rising, the face of scientific leaders in academia remains dominantly male. Through the establishment of infrastructure to support the Earth Science Women's Network (ESWN), t | National Science Foundation | 8/06/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | $173,181 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award will facilitate the purchase of a continuous flow isotope ratio mass spectrometer. Requested is a Thermo Delta V with Conflo-IV interface. This instrument is being requested to increase sample sensitivity (and thereby decrease necessary sample | National Science Foundation | 8/06/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF UTAH, THE | $999,146 | 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 continued support to perform operations and to analyze data from the VERITAS Observatory. It will also support the group's role in the ongoin | National Science Foundation | 6/09/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS | $1,859,861 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: There exists no global database that defines the thermal state of permafrost within a specific time interval. Internationally, reported or unpublished temperature measurements have been obtained at various depths and periods over the past five or more dec | National Science Foundation | 5/21/2009 |
| DREXEL UNIVERSITY | $338,692 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project is a collaboration between Drexel University and Merck Inc & Co and addresses the processing and optimization of multilayered tablets. Multilayer tablets are becoming a key drug delivery method for coexisting medical conditions and multidrug | National Science Foundation | 8/10/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN | $900,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The objective of this research is to develop nanomanufacturing methods for fabrication of shape-specific ?smart? nanoparticles capable of delivering drugs or imaging agents to targeted tissues in response to disease-specific or physiological signals. Spec | National Science Foundation | 6/23/2009 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | $330,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project involves a program of research in the intersections of ergodic theory and additive combinatorics. Most of the problems are within ergodic theory and are related to the analysis of the long-term behavior of systems whose dynamics are too compl | National Science Foundation | 5/29/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, THE | $959,415 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Fefferman has been working to find efficient algorithms to interpolate multidimensional data by an interpolating function that is 'nearly as smooth as possible' (under various interpretations of the phrase in quotes); and investigating a possible self-sim | National Science Foundation | 7/19/2009 |
| TEXAS A & M RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $330,926 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project's objective is to identify the source of oxidized iron minerals in the 3.26-billion-year-old Manzimnyama Jaspillite Member of South Africa, one of the oldest well-preserved examples of a class of rocks called banded iron formations. Banded ir | National Science Foundation | 7/31/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA | $359,381 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award will allow structural biologists at the University of Oklahoma-Norman campus to establish an automated Macromolecular Crystallization Core Facility that will enable researchers throughout the State and regionally to accelerate the pace at which | National Science Foundation | 7/18/2009 |
| GETTYSBURG COLLEGE | $118,271 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Studies of exotic nuclei (those with a large excess of neutrons) are a top priority to address a number of outstanding nuclear physics questions. These include measurements to explore changes of the nuclear structure in nuclei far from stability and react | National Science Foundation | 9/17/2009 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $516,392 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: A current challenge for genetics and genomics research is discovering DNA sequences that alter the expression of genes operating during development and various physiological processes. This project will develop the statistical method of structural equatio | National Science Foundation | 6/06/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS | $1,770,910 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The acquisition and use of this molecular imaging instrument will enable new research directions and educational opportunities and programs that will significantly contribute to the intellectual base of knowledge in these disparate but unified areas, and | National Science Foundation | 8/28/2009 |
| FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE | $489,371 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This research project is the US contribution to a nine-member, seven-nation research study titled, 'Colony, Empire, Environment: A Comparative International History of Twentieth Century Arctic ScienceG? (CEE). One of seven research teams funded within the | National Science Foundation | 6/09/2009 |
| METHODIST HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE, THE | $200,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Our overarching goal is to develop mobileWARP as a community platform for mobile wireless research and education in next-generation networks. We envision mobileWARP devices to achieve data rates of 100+ Mbps, support interactive real-time user application | National Science Foundation | 9/14/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $562,953 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: New revolutionary technologies have been developed enabling scientists with the ability to rapidly determine the sequence of large amounts of DNA. This will allow scientists in nearly all biological disciplines to rapidly move forward on projects that see | National Science Foundation | 8/11/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO | $1,399,999 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project, building a Scalable Energy Efficient Datacenter (SEED), develops an integrated solution that encompasses physical layer hardware, protocols, and topologies that can provide the expected size and performance scaling for future data centers wh | National Science Foundation | 8/28/2009 |
| SUSTAINX, INC. | $497,621 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: SBIR Phase II: Pneumatic Energy Storage with Staged Hydraulic Conversion for Low Specific Cost Renewables Support | National Science Foundation | 7/24/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA CRUZ | $73,426 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This collaborative research project is being undertaken by Dr. Nathaniel J. Dominy, University of California Santa Cruz, and Dr. Salima Ikram, American University of Cairo, Egypt, to analyze isotope ratios of mummified baboons and to compare them with mod | National Science Foundation | 9/16/2009 |
| LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY, THE | $942,968 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The past decade has seen a profound shift in our understanding of the bacterial cell. It is now clear that the three-dimensional organization of the cell is an integral component of the function of cellular regulatory pathways. The bacterial cell is highl | National Science Foundation | 7/16/2009 |
| MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY | $749,369 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: With this award from the Chemistry Research Instrumentation and Facilities: Instrument Development (CRIF:ID) program, Marcos Dantus and his research group from Michigan State University will develop a phase and polarization modulated ultrafast laser sourc | National Science Foundation | 7/30/2009 |
| ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY | $209,318 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Nationally visible cases of convicted criminals who lapsed back into criminal activity following their release into the community have prompted state and federal legislators and local communities to focus on the public safety risk posed by offenders and t | National Science Foundation | 8/26/2009 |
| OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY | $661,247 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: With this award from the Chemistry Research Instrumentation and Facilities: Instrument Development (CRIF:ID) program, the research group at Oregon State University will develop a novel electromagnetostatic (EMS) electron capture dissociation (ECD)collisio | National Science Foundation | 7/30/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, THE | $485,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Professors Jeffrey Schwartz and Steven L. Bernasek of Princeton University are supported by the Analytical and Surface Chemistry Program in the Division of Chemistry to conduct research in collaboration with Professor Marc Tornow of Braunschweig Universit | National Science Foundation | 7/26/2009 |
| LABRADOR RESEARCH LLC | $500,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: SBIR Phase II: Water and Food Analysis by Non-Uniform Electroosmotic flow | National Science Foundation | 9/03/2009 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | $750,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Organic and Macromolecular Chemistry Program in the Chemistry Division at the National Science Foundation supports a proposal from Professor Fraser J. Stoddart of Northwestern University. This proposal, submitted in response to solicitation NSF 08-602 | National Science Foundation | 8/12/2009 |
| MICRO MAGNETICS INC | $500,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: SBIR Phase II: Ultrafast spintronic devices based on magnetic tunnel junctions using magnesium oxide (MgO) tunnel barriers | National Science Foundation | 7/29/2009 |
| MOBILAPS LLC | $500,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project will extend the successful findings of Phase I of the project to investigate the technical feasibility of an innovative emergency notification system that delivers emergency alerts to people | National Science Foundation | 7/31/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON SYSTEM | $25,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (public Law 111-5). It supports a workshop at the University of Houston, built around the theme, Energy Capitals: Local Impact, Global Influence. The workshop brings together en | National Science Foundation | 7/06/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO | $290,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The proposed research activities focus on the mechanisms that impact memory for content in a non-dominant language, The experiments will examine memory performance of Spanish-English bilinguals in their dominant and non-dominant languages, as well as that | National Science Foundation | 8/20/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $238,615 | 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 research is the development of new generalized integrated imaging and communication technologies making use of recent studies on several | National Science Foundation | 8/19/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME DU LAC | $164,948 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Our specific research objectives are therefore as follows: 1. Develop and optimize a theoretically justifiable framework for incremental learning of new data a. whose underlying distribution may experience a wide spectrum of drift scenarios, such as stead | National Science Foundation | 8/20/2009 |
| CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY | $3,845,723 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Collaborative Research with Carnegie Mellon University, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and the University of Pittsburgh. The goal of the proposed Expedition is to develop the next generation of model-checking and abstract-interpreation technology so that for | National Science Foundation | 8/11/2009 |
| GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION | $300,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This NSF award by Biosensing/CBET program supports work by Professor Vladimir V. Tsukruk from Georgia Institute of Technology on fundamental Raman scattering properties of nanoporous 3D membranes decorated with aggregates of noble metal nanostructures. Su | National Science Foundation | 9/02/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA | $350,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Achieving solar-to-electric energy conversion using inexpensive, abundant and nontoxic materials is an important goal. While silicon is a material that fits most of these criteria, highest efficiency solar cells are made from expensive single crystal wafe | National Science Foundation | 7/27/2009 |
| PURDUE UNIVERSITY | $400,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The award supports an REU/RET which will provide 12 undergraduate physics majors from across the country with a ten week long genuine research project emphasizing one-to-one mentoring with faculty from a wide range of disciplines within the Purdue Univers | National Science Foundation | 5/22/2009 |
| KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY | $210,720 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This engineering education research award to Kansas State University will employ researchers to integrate the concepts of alternative energy and sustainability into the electrical and computer engineering (ECE) curriculum. These concepts will be part of r | National Science Foundation | 6/01/2009 |
| OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY | $428,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Climate sensitivity is generally studied using two different types of modules. Atmosphere-ocean general circulation models (AOGCMs, or coupled GCMs) include interactive ocean dynamics and detailed heat uptake, but they are computationally expensive to run | National Science Foundation | 6/05/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $228,189 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This collaborative investigation into the forest atmosphere photochemistry will apply a unique set of collaborative approaches, focused on the chemistry occurring in the near-canopy environment. It is now well known that forests emit biogenic volatile org | National Science Foundation | 9/11/2009 |
| THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC | $110,920 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The PI's proposed research is concerned with the study of canonical Kahler metrics on algebraic varieties. There are deep conjectures relating the existence of extremal metrics to stability of the underlying algebraic variety and understanding this relati | National Science Foundation | 9/21/2009 |
| NORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC. | $120,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The purpose of this award is to develop and assemble molecular building blocks for supramolecular structures that exhibit charge transfer when irradiated with light. The PI will design and synthesize linkers to assemble fullerenes, conjugated plymers, and | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| SOUTH CAROLINA RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $323,559 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Novel Experimental and Theoretical Approaches to Understand Biomechanics of Atherosclerotic Plaque Rupture Atherosclerotic plaque rupture is the leading cause of acute cardiovascular events such as heart attack and stroke. While studies of plaque biomecha | National Science Foundation | 7/15/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $174,973 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The research objective of this BRIGE award is to develop new connection details utilizing the superior compression, bending, and torsion properties of hollow structural section (HSS) beam and column members for low to mid-rise steel frames in areas of hig | National Science Foundation | 7/19/2009 |
| SOUTHEASTERN LOUISIANA UNIVERSITY | $111,208 | 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 undergraduate students from Southeastern Louisiana University and other southeastern EPScoR state universities for seven weeks in Japan co | National Science Foundation | 9/08/2009 |
| PURDUE UNIVERSITY | $175,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: An emerging area of alternative fuels has great significance for the economy, transportation and power generation systems. In the global, just-in-time economy, American competitiveness and innovation require an affordable, diverse, stable, and environment | National Science Foundation | 9/22/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO | $232,214 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Oceanic core complexes (OCC) expose intrusive mafic rocks and lenses of mantle ultramafic rock, that are controlled by long-lived detachment faulting within the axial zone of a spreading center. The PI will analyze existing MCS OBS data at Atlantis Massif | National Science Foundation | 6/29/2009 |
| THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC | $44,200 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award funds a workshop focused on developing a research plan for work in the Soledad Basin, a high sedimentation rate anoxic basin with laminated sediments off Baja California. Topics covered will include 1) the 20th century warming of the California | National Science Foundation | 7/30/2009 |
| THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC | $401,957 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The research objective of this award is to develop a methodology for reliability and safety factor assessment of suspension bridge cables over time using real-time measurements from sensors installed inside the cables. Today, small-scale sensors that can | National Science Foundation | 7/27/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI | $300,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The proposed research designs new biomaterials to guide the long-range directional migration of attached mammalian cells in three dimensions. Like one-way signs, the patterned microarrays and/or microchannels impose directionality on cell movement and sim | National Science Foundation | 7/27/2009 |
| SOUTH CAROLINA RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $173,958 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Collaborative Research: Serpentinization and cycling of B, Nd and Sr in submarine hydrothermal systems: An experimental study on the effects of pH and temperature Project Summary Intellectual Merit: The serpentinized ultramafic oceanic lithosphere retains | National Science Foundation | 7/28/2009 |
| OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $424,999 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: There is a growing body of literature suggesting that cells use mechanical forces to transmit information and guide the assembly of multi-cellular structures. For example, during development, wound healing, and the creation of engineered tissues, cells e | National Science Foundation | 7/15/2009 |
| HARVARD COLLEGE, PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF | $369,250 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The inert nature of the noble gases makes them ideally suited to trace the volatile evolution on Earth. In particular, the Iodine-Xenon and Plutonium-Uranium-Xenon radioactive decay systems are the only ones that can provide constraints on the timing and | National Science Foundation | 7/29/2009 |
| MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY | $53,253 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award will provide support for a 400 electrode resistivity data collection system. It will be fitted with 2 control units (one field and one laboratory), electric addressing cards for the electrodes, field installation equipment and service, and cont | National Science Foundation | 7/30/2009 |
| ALLOTROPICA TECHNOLOGIES | $150,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Small Business Technology Transfer Phase I project will develop a multifunctional graphene-platinum composite for hydrogen fuel cells. High performance fuel cells currently have inefficient catalyst utilization due to limited contact between Pt nanop | National Science Foundation | 6/21/2009 |
| NANOSCALE MATERIALS, INC. | $150,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This STTR Phase I project focuses on the synthesis and delivery of nanoparticles for determination of the progression of cancer and provides treatment options. | National Science Foundation | 6/15/2009 |
| GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION | $336,580 | 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 project is to identify major sources and physico-chemical processes that produce secondary organic aerosol (SOA) in a polluted urban a | National Science Foundation | 9/11/2009 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $1,473,121 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The objective of this research is to develop truly intelligent, automated driving through a new paradigm that tightly integrates probabilistic perception and deterministic planning in a formal, verifiable framework. The interdisciplinary approach utilizes | National Science Foundation | 8/15/2009 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | $300,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This proposal focuses on laboratory measurements aimed at elucidating the molecular orientation of catalytically relevant hydrocarbons at oxide surfaces. The PI will determine the molecular orientation and distributions of common saturated and unsaturated | National Science Foundation | 8/27/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF THE COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES | $1,406,023 | 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 research is the development of methods for the control of energy flow in buildings, as enabled by cyber infrastructure. The approac | National Science Foundation | 8/15/2009 |
| MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY | $145,468 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Professor Kurtis Paterson of Michigan Tech University will lead twelve engineering graduate students from Michigan Tech in an International Research Experiences for Students project, with twelve engineering students from the University of Dar es Salaam in | National Science Foundation | 6/16/2009 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $82,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Nature displays a prodigious diversity of propulsion mechanisms in fluid systems. We have discovered a remarkable new one that operates in density-stratified environments. The underlying mechanism is a little-studied phenomenon, diffusion-driven flow, fir | National Science Foundation | 8/27/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS | $150,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This International Research Experiences for Students (IRES) project, funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5), invites students to participate in a research, education and conservation program that incorporates a | National Science Foundation | 6/01/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN | $280,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Many concentrated materials consist of soft particles (e.g., emulsions, elastic particles, microgels, star polymers or polymer-coated particles) packed and deformed into an amorphous state. These pastes are important as rheological modifiers for food, mat | National Science Foundation | 6/29/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $160,879 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).0854399/0854445Mankoff/LandayThis research will leverage mobile technologies and sensors to empower individuals with personal feedback about their carbon emis | National Science Foundation | 8/12/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF THE COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES | $79,608 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Intellectual Merit: This project proposes to test the hypothesis that natural tracers measured at temporal resolution similar to water fluxes (i.e., dail | National Science Foundation | 7/19/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA MERCED | $395,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The proposed research will explore expanded use of a commonly implemented remote sensing tool, hyperspectral imaging (HSI), within the realm of eutrophication and aquatic ecosystem metabolism. HSI has been successfully a remote sensing tool for mapping wa | National Science Foundation | 7/19/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $300,000 | 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 research objective of this award is to develop algorithms and experimental demonstrations for partially automated cooperative active safety systems at tr | National Science Foundation | 7/15/2009 |
| TEXAS A & M RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $50,400 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Generalized geometries form a class of almost complex manifolds with reduced structure groups, which have become of central importance to the study of realistic string theory models. These are natural generalizations of Calabi-Yau manifolds and are of mat | National Science Foundation | 6/19/2009 |
| RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY | $140,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The award will fund the support of Prof. Yuri Gershtein research program on CMS Experiment at CERN and outreach efforts with QuarkNet. The ultimate goals of the CMS experiment is the discovery of Higgs boson and investigation of its properties, as well as | National Science Foundation | 6/05/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY | $591,445 | 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 proposed work is focused on gestural human computer interfaces, camera-based interfaces for individuals with severe physical disabilities, communication | National Science Foundation | 7/20/2009 |
| ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY | $316,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The cost of solar cells must be reduced by a factor of two in order to achieve grid parity. There are a number of new technologies which can achieve this goal, including advanced silicon, thin film (CdTe or CIGS), organic solar cells, or, in the longer te | National Science Foundation | 7/20/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA | $313,386 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Abstract Arctic soils have large stores of carbon (C) and may act as a significant CO2 source with warming. However, the key to understanding tundra soil | National Science Foundation | 7/09/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA CRUZ | $192,492 | 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 majority of proxy temperature records indicate that during the early Pliocene, roughly 3 to 5 million years ago, the tropical Pacific was characterized | National Science Foundation | 7/27/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA | $102,764 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project examines a sedimentary sequence from Lake Chalco (Central Mexico) to develop a ~50 kyr record of terrestrial climate variability in the North American tropics. The project uses proxies that reflect hydrological and thermal variability, focusi | National Science Foundation | 8/26/2009 |
| OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY | $299,747 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: A significant missing component in paleo-reconstructions of GIS behavior has been the lack of an unambiguous ice sheet tracer. The development of such a tracer for the Greenland Ice Sheet (GIS) retreat and aerial extent is proposed using terrigenous prove | National Science Foundation | 9/11/2009 |
| PURDUE UNIVERSITY | $188,021 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Funding is provided to investigate equator-to-pole temperature differences and high-latitude seasonality during the equable climate of the Eocene Period when both were much smaller than they are today. These circumstances are difficult to explain within | National Science Foundation | 6/09/2009 |
| BROWN UNIVERSITY IN PROVIDENCE IN STATE OF RI AND PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS | $352,667 | 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 Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau occupies the highest elevation on the continental Earth and is renowned for its extraordinary monsoonal climate. It is among the | National Science Foundation | 8/31/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA | $118,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award supports an investigation of the deglacial record in the Gulf of Mexico, specifically the timing of the initial melting of the Laurentide Ice Sheet (LIS). The PI will use a multi-proxy approach (d18O, Mg/Ca, and Ba/Ca) to detect salinity anomal | National Science Foundation | 7/29/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $325,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: ID: MPS/DMR/BMAT(7623) 0906123 PI: Gopalan, Padma ORG: University of Wisconsin Title: Surface Engineering Strategies for Studying Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells (hMSCs) This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public | National Science Foundation | 8/08/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $317,291 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project will provide the necessary photo-excitation and emission data required to understand the important molecular physics and role in planetary atmospheres of molecular nitrogen (N2) by investigating the strong interactions among the Rydberg and v | National Science Foundation | 7/02/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, THE | $150,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Recently derived connections between the intrinsic autoregressions and the de Wijs process open up the possibility to further explore and exploit connections between Gaussian Markov random fields and the continuum models in geostatistics to facilitate the | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC | $100,077 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This proposed research deals with methodological and inferential strategies in some non-standard problems that arise in certain non-parametric scenarios. The 'non-standard' problems include situations exhibiting non-standard asymptotics -- where estimator | National Science Foundation | 6/14/2009 |
| CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY (INC) | $178,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award supports theoretical and computational research and education involving the magnetic properties of materials. Magnetism at the molecular scale is of fundamental importance in the development of future technologies. The goal of the proposed rese | National Science Foundation | 6/01/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER | $300,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This research involves the design, synthesis, and study of network polymers containing highly selective, multiple hydrogen-bonding side-groups. The major research goal is to understand how reversible binding affects the materials rate-of-strain and mass t | National Science Foundation | 5/27/2009 |
| TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY SYSTEM | $475,183 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 'This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).' Technical. This project addresses the epitaxial growth of high crystalline quality InGaN across the complete composition range. The aim is to gain greater | National Science Foundation | 5/27/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY | $240,568 | 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: This award supports theoretical research and education focused on understanding fundamental aspects of quantum many-particle dynamics and | National Science Foundation | 8/25/2009 |
| HARVARD COLLEGE, PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF | $378,426 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: In recent years, technological advances have dramatically increased the quality and quantity of data available to astronomers. Newly launched or soon-to-be launched space-based telescopes are tailored to data-collection challenges associated with specific | National Science Foundation | 7/19/2009 |
| GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY (THE) | $230,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project focuses on the physics of mesoscopic electronic devices. These devices are made of a large number of atoms, but are sufficiently small to exhibit quantum phenomena that are not found in macroscopic structures. Understanding how smaller size a | National Science Foundation | 8/13/2009 |
| DREXEL UNIVERSITY | $315,297 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: INTELLECTUAL MERIT: The overall aim of the proposal is to test the hypothesis that by mineralizing chitosan fibers, we can create a ceramic-based bone substitute material that combines the strength and stiffness of the ceramic phase with an increased toug | National Science Foundation | 8/31/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA | $149,851 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Need for the Study: The number of doctoral degrees earned in engineering increased from 3,166 in 1995 to 6,404 in 2005. While this overall increase is positive, growth in degrees awarded to international students (163% increase) significantly outpaced gro | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA | $126,351 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This engineering education research award to the University of Florida in collaboration with Virginia Commonwealth University will employ researchers to develop interactive virtual reality modules with haptic feedback to improve learning and promote inter | National Science Foundation | 8/05/2009 |
| TEXAS ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT STATION | $400,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This engineering education research award to Texas Engineering Experiment Station will employ researchers to develop a novel sketch recognition-based learning system which will allow students to use freehand sketching to enter their drawings of forces act | National Science Foundation | 6/29/2009 |
| ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY | $400,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This engineering education research award to Arizona State University will undertake an experiment to evaluate active learning techniques and how such knowledge can be utilized to develop more effective classroom teaching for materials engineering and nan | National Science Foundation | 7/19/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN | $401,250 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This is a collaborative project involving a consortium of six premier U.S universities and one national laboratory to train graduate students in an area of anticipated manpower need: advanced acceleration techniques. In particular, students will be traine | National Science Foundation | 9/15/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $25,531 | 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 research examines the history of emergent complexity in Northwest Alaska over the past 2000 years through a focused study of archaeological pottery from | National Science Foundation | 8/27/2009 |
| MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY | $29,018 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The objective of this EAGER project is to investigate the possibility of improving the mechanical properties of asphalt materials with the use of nonmetals separated from E-waste (e.g., computers, monitors, keyboard, cameras, TVs, etc.) and waste plastic | National Science Foundation | 8/10/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA | $705,703 | 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 pH of the ocean is predicted to decrease by 0.2-0.5 pH units in the next 50 to100 years as a result of increasing atmospheric CO2. To date almost all th | National Science Foundation | 8/16/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT | $319,933 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The objective of this award is to develop a fundamentally new approach to construct families of geometric skeletons for 2- and 3-dimensional geometric shapes that can be either rigid or undergoing drastic topological deformations. Our approach relies on c | National Science Foundation | 6/19/2009 |
| BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT #508 (INC) | $139,560 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: IRES US -Kenya: Effects of Habitat changes on distribution, abundance, and resource exploitation by globally threatened and forest specialist birds in Arabbuko-Sokoke Forest, Kenya - Developing Global Scientists and Engineers. | National Science Foundation | 9/04/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | $129,017 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Science, Technology, and Society project supports scholarship that will result in a book about ethics and ecology, in particular, the concept of harm to nature. The conceptual and normative analysis will focus on the recent history of attempts to ide | National Science Foundation | 8/04/2009 |
| VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE & STATE UNIVERSITY | $194,869 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The ultimate objective of this project is to determine the acceleration mechanism responsible for strong increases of radiation belt electron fluxes during geomagnetic storms. The project will calculate Ultra Low Frequency (ULF) wave power from ground-bas | National Science Foundation | 8/11/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO | $159,971 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: SHINE Postdoc: Interplanetary Scintillation (IPS) and Solar Mass Ejection Imager (SMEI) 3D-Reconstructions and Imaging of the Solar, Heliospheric, and INterplanetary Environment Remote-sensing observations of the inner heliosphere currently use IPS data | National Science Foundation | 8/12/2009 |
| BROWN UNIVERSITY IN PROVIDENCE IN STATE OF RI AND PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS | $422,979 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Like humans, ground-dwelling birds (ostriches, emus, chickens, guineafowl, etc.) move by alternate motion of their two legs. Avian bipedal locomotion is wel | National Science Foundation | 7/01/2009 |
| TEXAS ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT STATION | $1,226,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is an outcome of the NSF 09-524 program solicitation 'George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) Research (NEESR)' competition and includes Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas (lead institution), The Un | National Science Foundation | 7/20/2009 |
| MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY | $421,610 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Low-level jets are streams of fast-moving air in the lower troposphere. Both northerly (N-LLJs) and southerly (S-LLJs) low-level jets occur frequently in the central United States and have a significant impact on regional weather and climate, precipitatio | National Science Foundation | 8/24/2009 |
| MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY | $247,000 | 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 research award is to expand the sphere of application of impulsive control, and importantly, translate impulsive control from theory to | National Science Foundation | 6/25/2009 |
| SOUTH CAROLINA RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $134,921 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Fairness and the Provision of Public Goods Project Summary The proposed research tests a theory of fairness perceptions in social dilemma contexts. People face social dilemmas every day, such as weighing the temptation to cheat on taxes or to toss a plast | National Science Foundation | 7/30/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE | $223,519 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Rising demand for electrical energy and the limitations and pollution associated with fossil fuels are creating a need for better grid-connected solar photovoltaic (PV) systems. Presently, variations among PV cells and differences in how much insolation | National Science Foundation | 8/21/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO, THE | $157,144 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Over all Purpose: Conduct research activities to develop a novel hypergolic fuel detector using thermoelectric properties of graphene and other nanostructure carbon materials. This type of sensors can be used in aerospace and other applications. Expected | National Science Foundation | 7/29/2009 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $793,063 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project will support the development of middleware that will enable numerical models to be run on commercial compute farms via cloud computing and exploited in ongoing and future classroom educational activities. The intellectual merit of this wor | National Science Foundation | 8/29/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO | $74,639 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Title: Upgrading of Shared Computing Equipment in Geophysics Granted funds will support upgrade of compute facilities at the Institute for Geophysics and Planetary Physics (IGPP) at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Upgrades will | National Science Foundation | 8/07/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $175,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Intellectual Merit The PI?s long-term research goal is to develop a novel microbial consortium system for efficient and robust production of advanced biofuels from renewable lignincellulosic feedstocks. Her current focus is on the production of higher alc | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA | $457,059 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Rising atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations over the past two centuries have led to increasing carbon dioxide uptake by the oceans. This process, which is decreasing the pH of the upper ocean, is reducing oceanic carbonate ion concentrations and thus | National Science Foundation | 6/29/2009 |
| BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY (INC) | $343,290 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Over large scales encompassing heterogeneous conditions, biogeochemical mechanisms act to achieve a stoichiometric balance between nitrogen and phosphorus. Locally, however, imbalances can develop. The Laurentian Great Lakes are a vast freshwater system w | National Science Foundation | 8/16/2009 |
| HARVARD COLLEGE, PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF | $516,154 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Through research in the past two decades, the science community has seen a revolution in the understanding of marine microbial diversity. Molecular sequencing has revealed several previously unknown major groups of Bacteria and Archaea, yet total marine m | National Science Foundation | 7/28/2009 |
| GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION | $148,281 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This is an International Research Experience for Students (IRES) award to U.S. P.I. Paul Benkeser, Georgia Institute of Technology. This award will enable 8 U.S. undergraduate students from the Biomedical Engineering Partnership Program to gain research e | National Science Foundation | 8/15/2009 |
| WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY | $28,817 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Large earthquakes that strike populated regions present invaluable opportunities to improve our understanding of seismic hazards, and advance the state-of-practice in engineering and science through investigation and analysis of case histories. Traditiona | National Science Foundation | 7/17/2009 |
| THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC | $476,020 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: One emerging alternative to improving the state of inadequate, or decaying, infrastructure in urban environments, which does not involve a perpetuation of large scale, costly systems, is an approach known as low impact development (LID). LID interventions | National Science Foundation | 6/19/2009 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | $311,386 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: A large number of modern physical and biological structures and phenomena require tools to ?see? below the surfaces but non-destructively and with nanoscale resolution. This need is particularly critical in soft/frqgile cellular/sub-cellular process; whic | National Science Foundation | 7/15/2009 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | $99,953 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The PI will spend the academic year 2009-2010 in the Climate Group in the Geophysical Sciences Department at the University of Chicago. Primary goals of the immersion year include (1) gaining a scientific overview of key physical components of the climate | National Science Foundation | 9/08/2009 |
| WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY | $290,600 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: With this award we will purchase a modern gas source isotope ratio mass spectrometer with a high temperature elemental analyzer. The mass spectrometer will replace the aging Delta S that is currently operating and aging in the Stable Isotope Lab in the Ge | National Science Foundation | 8/26/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA | $31,974 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award provides the Department of Geosciences at the University of Arizona with the laboratory equipment to carry out fission-track analysis; a widely applied age dating technique that provides detailed information on the low temperature thermal histo | National Science Foundation | 7/19/2009 |
| LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY, THE | $325,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The development of sustainable energy solutions that will meet the needs of a growing world population, while reducing greenhouse gas emissions, will rely in large part on renewable energy sources. With a global radiation flux of 174,000 TW, solar energy | National Science Foundation | 8/11/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $99,804 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). While the number of women receiving advanced degrees in the geosciences has been rising, the face of scientific leaders in academia remains dominantly male. | National Science Foundation | 8/06/2009 |
| PROTON ENERGY SYSTEMS, INC. | $150,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Small Business Technology Transfer Phase I Project addresses the efficiency limitations of proton exchange membrane (PEM) electrolysis in order to provide a potentially renewable, cost-competitive hydrogen source for fueling and backup power applicat | National Science Foundation | 6/23/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES | $385,463 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The design on networked control systems for chemical processes and demonstrate their application and effectiveness in the context of process systems of industrial importances. | National Science Foundation | 9/08/2009 |
| CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $508,094 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 'Many of the future applications of systems and control that will pertain to cyber-physical systems are those related to problems of (possibly) distributed estimation and control of multiple agents (both sensors and actuators) over networks. Examples inc | National Science Foundation | 9/17/2009 |
| OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $205,558 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Recent advances in enzymatic synthetic methods using biocatalysts have lead to environmentally friendly production methods of beta-lactam antibiotics. These methods have been limited in their industrial use due to the difficult separation of the desired a | National Science Foundation | 9/01/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA | $300,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: There are currently over two million people in the United States suffering from various degrees of paralysis with an additional eleven thousand new cases of spinal cord injury each year. A means to rehabilitate these individuals would thus have tremendous | National Science Foundation | 6/23/2009 |
| TEXAS ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT STATION | $310,894 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 'When Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier with the first supersonic flight in 1947, the crucial technologies of the day that enabled such an endeavor were associated with aerodynamic design and strength of materials. During the last few decades a more in | National Science Foundation | 8/26/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF UTAH, THE | $305,992 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 0933778 Fang This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Over the past decades, the searches for solid hydride materials for hydrogen storage focused on intermetallic compounds that store hydrogen in | National Science Foundation | 8/21/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, THE | $350,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Partnership in Research and Education in Materials (PREM) at the City College of New York (CCNY) involves a collaboration with the Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) at the University of Chicago. The PREM has two broad goals: to | National Science Foundation | 8/24/2009 |
| MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY | $67,023 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This engineering education research award to Tufts University in collaboration with University of Colorado-Boulder and Michigan Technological University will study how service learning activities can best be used to enhance student learning about sustaina | National Science Foundation | 7/17/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | $1,392,318 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Urban Teaching Fellowship program for STEM professionals is supporting two cohorts of 10 NSF Teaching Fellows per year to participate in the Philadelphia Teacher Residency (PTR) program. Each Fellow is being supported for a total of five years: one ye | National Science Foundation | 6/08/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $374,496 | 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 is a collaborative project involving a consortium of six premier U.S universities and one national laboratory to train graduate students in an area of | National Science Foundation | 9/15/2009 |
| FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE | $726,260 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The overall purpose of the Learning To Teach for Equity in Science and Mathematics Classrooms: The Florida State University Noyce Scholarship Program (a program funded by the Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program-Phase I Awards) is to attract a divers | National Science Foundation | 5/28/2009 |
| DREXEL UNIVERSITY | $600,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Drexel University Noyce Scholarship Phase II program will continue to address the national need and the local need for high quality teachers in high needs schools. In partnership with the School District of Philadelphia, the program has placed highly | National Science Foundation | 6/12/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS | $200,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Division of Chemistry supports Susan Odom of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) as an American Competitiveness in Chemistry Fellow. Dr. Odom will investigate the feasibility of encapsulating chemical species into lithium ion batteri | National Science Foundation | 9/04/2009 |
| BROWN UNIVERSITY IN PROVIDENCE IN STATE OF RI AND PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS | $189,400 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 'This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).' Intellectual merit This nano related collaborative research program develops a new device integrating a microfluidic chip with a controlled environment v | National Science Foundation | 7/17/2009 |
| SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY INC | $109,908 | 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 study addresses several issues in modeling of fluid flow phenomena in systems with deformable fluid interfaces and structured solid surfaces. The latte | National Science Foundation | 8/20/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA | $144,108 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The United States faces an urgent and increasing need to educate and produce scientists and engineers. Within the context of a global marketplace of ideas and products, the competitiveness of our economy and the supporting innovation and development is vi | National Science Foundation | 5/28/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT RIVERSIDE | $314,730 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project will research the thermal and thermoelectric properties of Graphene. | National Science Foundation | 6/18/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $316,251 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The project will develop a new framework for mathematical modeling of rechargeable batteries, taking into account statistical thermodynamics, concentrated-solution reaction rates, elasticity, crystal anisotropy, stochastic effects, and composite microstru | National Science Foundation | 5/29/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, THE | $750,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Experiments at the Tevatron and the Large Hadron Collider are poised to shed light on the nature of electroweak symmetry breaking. New experimental and theoretical tools are being used to probe the structure of matter at high temperature and high density. | National Science Foundation | 6/16/2009 |
| CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY | $897,502 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The purpose of this contract is to create a set of services to the Spoken Dialogue research community. DialRC is committed to furnishing data, running studies, providing educational material and organizing a Challenge for researchers around the world. At | National Science Foundation | 8/19/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $450,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project establishes a dedicated computing platform for microsecond simulations to study DNA self-assembly and translocation through solid-state nanopores. The project uses a predictive hierarchical petascale simulation framework to study: Translocati | National Science Foundation | 7/29/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS | $172,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Research will be carried out into the semiclassical behavior of spin systems, using spin-coherent-state path integrals and other mathematical and theoretical physics tools. A significant part of this research will be done in the context of understanding a | National Science Foundation | 7/22/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA | $516,000 | 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 partially completed IceCube neutrino observatory, located near the geographic South Pole, is already collecting physics data in the largest instrumented | National Science Foundation | 8/11/2009 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $315,000 | 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: This project seeks to develop a new mathematical framework for the description of crystal orientations, as well as misorientations b | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE | $120,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Field theories provide our best known description of the fundamental interactions of Nature. In many situations, one can make significant progress by considering the theory. Perturbatively, starting from a collection of waves propagating independently. Th | National Science Foundation | 6/14/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA | $130,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: In the 1920's quantum mechanics replaced the classic 'solar-system' model of the atom where electrons follow simple circular and elliptical paths around the nucleus. Quantum mechanics is a more powerful model than its predecessors in that it more accurate | National Science Foundation | 7/31/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER | $325,683 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The research here will center on two major themes, pursued with theoretical calculations, both numerical and analytic: (i) The first part of the work examines the time-dependence of quantum entanglement, to clarify and extend recently identified phenomena | National Science Foundation | 8/11/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA | $351,844 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Many proteins in nature, such as silk and elastin, have superior physical properties. Inspired by the superior properties of these proteins, the goal of this project is to investigate an Evaporation-Assisted Plasma Lithography process for assembling biomi | National Science Foundation | 6/16/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT RIVERSIDE | $110,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project has several goals. First, together with M. Batanin and D.Tamarkin, the P.I. is going to prove the Deligne conjecture for Hochschild chains. Second, together with D. Tamarkin and B. Tsygan, the P.I. is going to prove the formality of the opera | National Science Foundation | 8/08/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $100,641 | 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 principal investigator is interested in the study of the geometry of moduli spaces, especially those that are birational to modular varieties of orthogo | National Science Foundation | 8/15/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $1,000,000 | 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 International Arctic Buoy Program (IABP) is one of the oldest continuously-operating environmental monitoring networks in the high Arctic. This proposal | National Science Foundation | 8/13/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT | $325,108 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This research project focuses on a new mechanical design, analysis and simulation framework for protein molecules. The fact that proteins are nano devices developed through evolution by nature suggests that the development of biomimetic artificial nano ma | National Science Foundation | 7/28/2009 |
| MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY | $190,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project integrates research and education to advance the state of knowledge of the mechanism of frost-induced damage in Portland cement concrete under freeze-thaw cycles. The primary objective of this research project is to combine expertise in micro | National Science Foundation | 6/02/2009 |
| GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION | $140,875 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The bispectral problem appeared first in the pioneering work of Duistermaat and Grunbaum. It asks to classify spectral problems possessing a hidden symmetry between the space and the spectral variables. The goals of this proposal is to establish and explo | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY | $329,786 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The objective of this research is to demonstrate a new table top photolithography scheme capable to print sub-50 nm features. The approach is based on projection holographic lithography, consisting of printing photoresist with the reconstructed image of a | National Science Foundation | 6/29/2009 |
| THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC | $381,154 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This is an investigation of the response of northern boreal forests to changes in arctic seasonality using an existing circumpolar network of centennial to millennial-length tree-ring width and density records that will be integrated with targeted field o | National Science Foundation | 6/10/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO, THE | $461,684 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Tundra soils are key regulators of many aspects of the Arctic System. Arctic soils have large stores of carbon (C) and may act as a significant CO2 source with warming. However, the key to understanding tundra soil processes is nitrogen (N), as both plant | National Science Foundation | 7/09/2009 |
| MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY | $199,093 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: It is well established that viruses play an important role in regulating the structure and function of marine ecosystems. However, we lack a mechanistic understanding of how bacteria cell receptors constrain virus infection, which has implications for the | National Science Foundation | 6/09/2009 |
| THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC | $450,001 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: As both corporate and consumer-oriented applications introduce new functionality and increased levels of customization and delegation, they inevitably give rise to more complex security and privacy policies. Yet, studies have repeatedly shown that both la | National Science Foundation | 9/22/2009 |
| OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $350,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Wireless mesh networks promise a flexible and cost-effective solution for bringing high-bandwidth low-latency applications to the home. Two orthogonal but immensely attractive approaches for designing high-performance mesh networks are network coding and | National Science Foundation | 9/04/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | $300,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Though perhaps unfortunate, as a practical matter software is often built with functionality as a primary goal, and security features are only added later, often after vulnerabilities have been identified. To reduce the cost and increase assurance in the | National Science Foundation | 7/28/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | $91,730 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The theme of this project is to generalize the methods of global Riemannian geometry to better understand metric measure spaces, which occur naturally as singularity models for the Ricci flow. This proposal builds on joint work by the PI and Petersen, who | National Science Foundation | 8/21/2009 |
| OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY | $718,712 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Invasive species are increasingly introduced by human activities to new regions of the world where those species have never existed previously. In the absence of natural enemies (predators, competitors, and diseases) from their homeland, invasives may hav | National Science Foundation | 6/05/2009 |
| ALMA COLLEGE | $150,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: RUI: Synthesis and Evaluation of Group-1 Specific Neuraminidase Inhibitors | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA | $74,970 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Prairie pothole lakes (PPL) are important hydrologic features in the glacial till of the Upper Midwest. A number of these lakes have developed unique water chemistries, including extremely high (10?s to 100?s of millimolar) levels of sulfate. Sulfate in | National Science Foundation | 7/19/2009 |
| ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY | $705,507 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Moore's law promises consistent increasing transistor densities for the foreseeable future. However, device scaling no longer delivers the energy gains that drove the semiconductor growth of the past several decades. This has created a design paradox: mor | National Science Foundation | 7/27/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS | $231,217 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project conducts research in the area of dispersive partial differential equations. Its intent is twofold. On the one hand, it is concerned with specific questions about the behavior of solutions to certain dispersive equations. On the other, it is f | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA CRUZ | $167,394 | 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 PI plans to investigate certain concrete problems in Operator Theory, mostly centered around Toeplitz operators and matrices as well as their modificati | National Science Foundation | 6/12/2009 |
| GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION | $330,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: State-of-the-art chips use low-k materials to form the insulator between interconnect lines. The use of low-k materials reduces capacitance, which in turn reduces the propagation delay between the transistor gates in a chip. To reduce delay, each technolo | National Science Foundation | 8/21/2009 |
| OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY | $248,347 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Significant seasonal changes in arctic sea ice have been observed in recent years, characterized by unprecedented summer melt-back because of the lengthening of the summer melt season with earlier melt and later freeze onsets. As summer sea ice extent shr | National Science Foundation | 8/12/2009 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $281,039 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Intellectual Merit Nanoparticles catalyze many chemical transformations in organic synthesis, pollutant removal, and energy production; intense efforts are thus made to characterize the structure and understand the catalytic properties of nanoparticle cat | National Science Foundation | 7/27/2009 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | $94,949 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The rise of randomized experiments is one of the most notable methodological developments in political science over the past decade. Scholars from every subfield now regularly turn to experiments. The recent penchant for experimentation means that politic | National Science Foundation | 5/26/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA | $299,066 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This grant establishes a Census Bureau Research Data Center (RDC) at the University of Minnesota. The goals of the Minnesota RDC are twofold. First, the RDC will help Minnesota researchers, working in collaboration with the Census Bureau and the National | National Science Foundation | 9/29/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF OREGON | $177,738 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Two groups of migrants - aging baby boomers and Latino immigrants - are converging on rural America, and combined these groups will significantly transform their destination communities in the coming decades. While these migration streams have each att | National Science Foundation | 8/02/2009 |
| MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY, THE | $482,144 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The newly discovered process of anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox) is an important process in marine environments. The contribution of anammox to global N budgets remains highly uncertain, however. To develop a predictive understanding of nitrogen sin | National Science Foundation | 6/29/2009 |
| TEXAS A & M RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $196,127 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: One of the greatest physicists Vladimir Gamow compared our universe with a giant reactor or cauldron, in which all elements are cooked up via nuclear reactions. The process itself is called 'nucleosynthesis.' We are all made of the products of this nucleo | National Science Foundation | 7/14/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA | $350,001 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The main objective of this project is to develop stable, high-purity, SWNT-dispersions based on large-scale processes that minimize risks to the environment and human health | National Science Foundation | 6/23/2009 |
| NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY | $298,106 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The cost of downstream processing is a major component of production of protein biopharmaceuticals. Affinity chromatography, wherein an immobilized ligand is used to selectively separate the desired target protein from a complex mixture, can greatly reduc | National Science Foundation | 6/17/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER | $201,671 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Athapascan or, as speakers prefer, Dene languages constitute the largest and most geographically widespread language family of native North America. Five separate sub-groupings have been identified: Alaskan, Northern Interior (BC/Yukon), Mackenzie Bas | National Science Foundation | 8/24/2009 |
| MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY | $349,910 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: In recent years, graphics processing units( GPUs)have emerged as a powerful alternative to CPU based computing, especially for scientific computing. However, GPUs follow the stream programming model. It is completely different from traditional serial prog | National Science Foundation | 7/20/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, THE | $356,606 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The work constitutes a significant update of WordNet, a large electronic lexical database of English that is a cornerstone of research and applications in computational linguistics, Natural Language Processing, Knowledge Representation, Semantic Web appli | National Science Foundation | 7/29/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY | $587,955 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project is focused on investigations of the fundamental constants, elementary interactions and basic symmetries of the Standard Model. The proposed research is based on precision experiments with low-energy muon beams and includes continuing work on | National Science Foundation | 9/02/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA | $135,892 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The proposed research is addressing the important question of the impact of human intervention on uncertainties that drive a particular system. Methods will be developed to assess whether interactions between decisions and uncertainties exist. If the answ | National Science Foundation | 7/16/2009 |
| NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY | $74,518 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Collaborative Research: The Learning Bridge | National Science Foundation | 7/22/2009 |
| LEHIGH UNIVERSITY | $209,835 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The overall purpose and expected outcomes of the project are described as follows. The project investigates a novel wireless signal network that can function as a versatile sensor to characterize properties of subsurface geo-media and to monitor indiscri | National Science Foundation | 7/21/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $1,224,449 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009(Public Law 111-5).Recent measurements of the Bering Strait throughflow fluxes find strong seasonal and interannual variability, so far unpredictable ? the heat flux increase fro | National Science Foundation | 7/06/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS | $195,417 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Funds are provided to deploy a single, strategically placed mooring in the core of the western Arctic boundary current east of Barrow Canyon, which will collect measurements permitting estimation of both the alongstream and cross-stream fluxes of importan | National Science Foundation | 8/04/2009 |
| PURDUE UNIVERSITY | $299,748 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Ozone plays a critical role in global and regional atmospheric chemistry and has a significant impact on global climate, making it vital to understand ozone source and sink processes. Although substantial progress has been made, there are many open questi | National Science Foundation | 6/25/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS | $380,994 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The construction of any infrastructure on or within the ground will subject the surrounding soils to complex loading modes. In order to understand the short and long term behavior of an infrastructure element such as a building or a tunnel it is therefore | National Science Foundation | 6/22/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $585,000 | 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 project is to develop and apply a novel technology for the automatic detection and real-time mitigation of accidental or deliberate ha | National Science Foundation | 7/14/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA | $124,988 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project aims to explore a new approach of civil structure health monitoring by making the concrete pavement itself as an installed detector. The electrical network of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) can be utilized to detect concrete cracking; the piezoresit | National Science Foundation | 6/02/2009 |
| HARVARD COLLEGE, PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF | $400,302 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Funding is provided to explore the variability in temperature and precipitation and their inter-relationship through Bayesian analysis of a combination of instrumental and proxy records. The premise of the research is that, climatologically, variability i | National Science Foundation | 5/21/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA | $59,256 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This grant supports research on late Pleistocene and Holocene convective and hydrologic variability in Indonesia through the recovery and analysis of new sediment cores from two large lakes on the island of Sulawesi. This research builds upon seismic refl | National Science Foundation | 9/01/2009 |
| KENT STATE UNIVERSITY | $235,416 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This grant produces paleoclimate datasets recording the timing, duration, frequency and magnitude of aridity cycles on a network of paired open and closed micritic basins along the western cordillera of North America from the Pacific NW to the Canadian Ar | National Science Foundation | 8/19/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO | $215,925 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is a 2-year collaborative project between the University of New Mexico, Northern Arizona University and the University of Minnesota, Duluth to conduct detailed paleoclimatic analysis of an 82-m long lacustrine sediment core (VC-3) from the Vall | National Science Foundation | 8/26/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA | $420,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The objective of this research is to develop solutions that ensure reliable power delivery in high-performance multicore systems. Technology trends for multicore chips show increased on-chip noise sources, decreasing supply voltage levels, and reduced hea | National Science Foundation | 8/06/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE | $67,762 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project supported graduate student Yonggang Hu to get his Ph.D. His work demonstrated that the polarization of electromagnetic ion cyclotron waves varies along magnetospheric magnetic field lines, that the relative amount of reflection or transmissi | National Science Foundation | 8/24/2009 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | $267,204 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The spread of contagions such as opinions, attitudes, beliefs, and diseases across a national population is a well-known complex problem; the recent fear of avian flu epidemics and financial contagion serve as excellent examples. Other examples include: o | National Science Foundation | 8/19/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF UTAH, THE | $859,990 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Force-feedback, or haptic, applications in medicine, engineering, and design are increasing in popularity and importance based on the advantages of haptic de | National Science Foundation | 7/10/2009 |
| GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION | $400,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This research will address critical issues through a collective research effort to develop new algorithms and high-performance software development for data analysis. With the deployment of petascale computing systems, these problems can for the first tim | National Science Foundation | 8/28/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH | $10,700,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: NSF/NCAR C-130 Modernization:To ensure that the NSF/NCAR C-130 remains a premier research platform, able to operate safely for the next 20 years, very important modernization efforts are planned: 1) Replace avionics to be compatible with the next generat | National Science Foundation | 7/20/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE | $288,810 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Probabilistic graphical models provide a powerful mechanism for representing and reasoning with uncertain information. These methods have been successfully applied in diverse domains such as bioinformatics, social networks, sensor networks, robotics, and | National Science Foundation | 8/12/2009 |
| PURDUE UNIVERSITY | $250,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project determines the fundamental limits of network secrecy from a network coding perspective, and then applies this theory to improve security guarantees in peer-to-peer and wireless networks. As network coding gains prominence as an important stra | National Science Foundation | 7/24/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF UTAH, THE | $957,467 | 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 will address the provenance of computational processes and the data they manipulate. These are of fundamental importance in maintaining scient | National Science Foundation | 6/26/2009 |
| HARVARD COLLEGE, PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF | $189,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This action funds an NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship for FY 2009 using funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The research and training plan is for Matthew K. Fujita and is entitled Genome structure and its | National Science Foundation | 7/01/2009 |
| LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY, THE | $655,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The proposal is aimed at increasing understanding of the structure of the moduli spaces of stable holomorphic maps by combining ideas from several different fields of research. The core of the project seeks to use geometric and analytical methods to inves | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $150,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project explores problems connected to large scale properties of random matrices and interacting particle systems. The beta-ensemble is a one parameter family of distributions of random points on a line; for specific parameter values it describes the | National Science Foundation | 7/04/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, THE | $132,002 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The general theme of this proposal is to find properties of the most symmetric spaces and dynamical systems that uniquely characterize these spaces. The PI proposes projects related to this goal with an emphasis on the following: a) understanding the boun | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $392,466 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The project supports the design and development of a sensitive, broadband antenna and receiver to observe the evolution with redshift of highly redshifted neutral hydrogen, throughout the epoch of reionization. The system, operating in the 45 - 200 MHz r | National Science Foundation | 9/03/2009 |
| LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY, THE | $103,764 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: In recent years, the availability of high-throughput data from genomic, finance, environmental, marketing (among other) applications has created an urgent need for methodology and tools for analyzing high-dimensional data. The explosion of data, due to ad | National Science Foundation | 7/10/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES | $262,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 'Vortices and Bubbles in Cryogenic Liquids' Superfluid helium at very low temperatures is known to flow without friction, but it is known that this superfluid state can be destroyed when the temperature of the liquid is raised above a critical value. It i | National Science Foundation | 9/07/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $345,001 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The goal of this research program is to develop rational synthetic methods for the low temperature, solution phase synthesis of functional inorganic nanocrystals for energy applications. Lower temperature reactions are energy efficient and offer the added | National Science Foundation | 7/07/2009 |
| PURDUE UNIVERSITY | $107,250 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The investigator studies nonparametric methods for continuous-time jump processes that are contaminated by a background noise, or are affected by random clocks. In financial markets, for instance, the background noise is a byproduct of the way trading tak | National Science Foundation | 7/07/2009 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $250,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). NON-TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION: The methods for production of most ceramic materials depend on a small amount of chemical additions that distribute non-unifo | National Science Foundation | 8/05/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, THE | $405,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Nanoparticle self-assembly offers special opportunities for the design of next-generation materials. This project focuses on a new class of ultra-thin sheets, fabricated from single layers of metal nanoparticles. In this ultrathin limit, the sheets combin | National Science Foundation | 5/27/2009 |
| PURDUE UNIVERSITY | $296,861 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The two-dimensional electron gas confined to semiconductor interfaces has been one of the important model systems of contemporary condensed matter physics. When the level of disorder in the host semiconductor is low enough and the randomizing effect of te | National Science Foundation | 8/26/2009 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $379,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: TECHNICAL SUMMARY: This award supports theoretical research and education focused mainly on the light elements, including hydrogen under conditions of high pressure and high temperature. The PI aims to elucidate quantum orderings, both in hydrogen and in | National Science Foundation | 7/06/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER AT DALLAS | $74,954 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This study provides statistical tools to explore three dimensional (3D) chromosome structures and directly addresses the important biological question that how the 3D structures facilitate the coordination in gene transcription. Besides scientific novelt | National Science Foundation | 6/29/2009 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | $900,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: NON-TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION: Solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) offer an important new option for converting fuels to electricity with increased efficiency, reduced pollution, and reduced greenhouse gas emissions. The race to reap the commercial and environment | National Science Foundation | 8/05/2009 |
| VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE & STATE UNIVERSITY | $247,880 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The project is devoted to development and implementation of new algorithms for the modeling and computational investigation of deformation and breakup of interfaces that separate two immiscible liquids. The majority of the effort is focused on the followi | National Science Foundation | 5/27/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA | $314,964 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The PI and the team will use computer simulations to follow the formation of galaxies through the period 1-2 billion years after the Big Bang, when the cosmic gas was reionized by ultraviolet light from newly-formed stars and the active nuclei of galaxies | National Science Foundation | 8/10/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF IOWA, THE | $150,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This research project is an analytical and numerical study of the behavior of solutions to classes of partial differential equations that arise in optics, fluid dynamics, population dynamics, molecular dynamics, and thermodynamics. The problem areas under | National Science Foundation | 7/04/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON SYSTEM | $300,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award supports theoretical research and education with a focus to develop the principles that govern phenomena that emerge in networks with immediate application to biological systems and materials. The notion of a network is an abstract concept that | National Science Foundation | 8/31/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | $163,995 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: PI will continue his work to determine the masses of the different components of disk galaxies, in particular the stellar disk, the gaseous disk and the dark halo. He will assemble velocity-resolved maps in the H-alpha line of ionized gas and in neutral h | National Science Foundation | 8/08/2009 |
| AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, THE | $402,615 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The project is a three year survey of nearby stars to find faint companions of these stars and to analyze their spectra to study the chemistry and atmospheric structure. Ultimately, we aim to image planets orbiting nearby stars. Deliverables are publish | National Science Foundation | 7/13/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA | $499,945 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Humans are increasingly living in urban ecosystems. Cities cover only one to two percent of Earth's surface, but they are important hotspots of biogeochemi | National Science Foundation | 8/16/2009 |
| FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE | $450,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Spin coherence and spin transport are two of the core issues facing semiconductor spintronics and quantum information science today. The central aim of this project is to examine in detail the electronic spin transport and spin coherence in a semiconduct | National Science Foundation | 8/07/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $428,021 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Dr. Townsend will undertake an exploration of the incidence, characteristics and evolutionary impact of wave transport by oscillation modes in massive stars | National Science Foundation | 5/21/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $356,185 | 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 proposal is to explore the microbiology of frost flowers -- delicate ice crystal structures with high brine content that form on the surface | National Science Foundation | 8/03/2009 |
| SOUTH CAROLINA RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $264,491 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Damped and Sub-damped Lyman-alpha Absorbers: What Are They, and What Do They Tell Us About Galaxy Evolution? PROJECT SUMMARY The evolution of galaxies and the production of chemical elements in the universe are fun- damental issues in astrophysics and cos | National Science Foundation | 8/20/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA CRUZ | $551,542 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Dr. Madau and his team will combine observations of the gas from which the galaxies were formed with theoretical and numerical studies of the state of that | National Science Foundation | 7/06/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF IOWA, THE | $409,122 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Dr. Robert L. Mutel of the University of Iowa and his students will undertake a research program to image the radio coronae of several active late-type binary stars at multiple epochs with unprecedented sensitivity, angular resolution, and positional accu | National Science Foundation | 5/21/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN | $262,651 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Two major surveys of Galactic field halo stars will be carried out in order to illuminate and constrain models of early chemical evolution in the Milky Way Galaxy. In one, a detailed study of high resolution spectra of over 100 stars with known space moti | National Science Foundation | 7/30/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA | $998,121 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Humans are increasingly living in urban ecosystems. Cities cover only 1 - 2% of Earth's surface, but they are important hotspots of biogeochemical cycling because they concentrate the consumption of food & energy that are produced beyond their boundaries. | National Science Foundation | 8/16/2009 |
| WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY | $275,164 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Dr. Moran will undertake a survey of the optical spectra of galaxies closer than about 250 million light years, making a census of their nuclear activity, which is powered by a central black hole. He will select galaxies from both the Sloan Digital Sky Su | National Science Foundation | 8/26/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA CRUZ | $433,602 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Dr. Woosley will continue his extensive research on the origin of the elements and the end points of stellar evolution. This includes the evolution of mass | National Science Foundation | 5/22/2009 |
| WILLIAM MARSH RICE UNIVERSITY | $302,010 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project addresses the frontier problems of plasma dissipation and radiation in accretion flows onto black holes, when the density is so low that Coulomb coupling is inadequate to heat the electrons. Using magnetohydrodynamic turbulence generated by t | National Science Foundation | 6/12/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT RIVERSIDE | $331,801 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Dr Wilson will study ten clusters of galaxies at redshift 0.87 < z < 1.34, which are seen as they were when the cosmos had expanded to only about half its present size. The clusters are chosen from a survey that combined 3.6-micron images from a 50-square | National Science Foundation | 8/14/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $191,972 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The investigators will measure mercury (Hg) concentrations, mercury isotopes, and a suite of trace metals in previously-collected Arctic sediment cores in order to increase understanding of paleoceanographic conditions in the Arctic Ocean as well as overa | National Science Foundation | 8/26/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS | $726,018 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This multidisciplinary proposal aims to improve understanding of ocean/glacier-ice interactions by linking oceanographic, glacier, and atmospheric measurements in a fjord/glacier system showing recent change to quantify processes occurring at this interfa | National Science Foundation | 8/11/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS | $316,779 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: People across the globe are increasingly facing rapid changes in the resources on which they depend for food and survival. In the Arctic, climate warming is one of several interrelated forces of change that could threaten the livelihoods of indigenous com | National Science Foundation | 8/03/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES | $185,310 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Understanding the role of environmental change of the long-term population dynamics of one surviving and two extinct arctic mammals. | National Science Foundation | 7/24/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $1,993,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Moore?s law promises consistent increasing transistor densities for the foreseeable future. However, device scaling no longer delivers the energy gains that drove the semiconductor growth of the past several decades. This has created a design paradox: mor | National Science Foundation | 7/27/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY | $2,858,292 | 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 ability to reason about the complexity of living organisms in diverse environments is one of the hallmarks of intelligence. In this project the PI and | National Science Foundation | 7/14/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA | $368,796 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Puna Plateau, northwestern Argentina, together with the Altiplano of Bolivia, is the second largest plateau on Earth. One popular model often invoked to explain the present day crustal structure and elevation of the Central Andean Plateau, including t | National Science Foundation | 7/28/2009 |
| PURDUE UNIVERSITY | $130,044 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This research group will give one of the first detailed accounts of the sedimentary basin response to oceanic spreading-ridge subduction. Forearc basins, one of the most common along convergent margins, are large sediment repositories that have the potent | National Science Foundation | 7/28/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | $249,690 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The boundary between Earth's rocky mantle and metallic core is home to a patchwork collection of partially molten structures. These structures, characterized by sharp peaks and valleys, are relatively thin (10s of km in thickness), dense (up to 10% denser | National Science Foundation | 7/01/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | $398,729 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The proposed research is designed to fill critical gaps in our knowledge concerning the magmatic partitioning of selected elements among sulfides, Fe-(Cu)-S-O melts, and selected oxides and silicates. These elements fall into two important groups found in | National Science Foundation | 7/19/2009 |
| FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE | $382,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award in the Inorganic, Bioinorganic and Organometallic Chemistry program supports fundamental studies on multifunctional spin crossover materials. Spin crossover compounds can exist in two magnetic states, transitions between which are achieved by | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, THE | $193,416 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Intellectual Merit: Amorphous silicate spectral features have been observed in our solar system, young stellar objects, star formation regions, novae, diffuse and dense interstellar medium, and in extragalactic quasars and AGN. Dust contributes to physica | National Science Foundation | 9/01/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS | $365,204 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Analytical and Surface Chemistry (ASC) program of the Division of Chemistry supports the research program of Professor Yves Chabal of the University of Texas at Dallas. Prof. Chabal and his students will examine the surface chemistry and chemical func | National Science Foundation | 7/06/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN | $214,053 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This proposal seeks funding to study the evolution of the lithospheric mantle beneath the central Rio Grande Rift and Colorado Plateau margin. The project will provide insights into a variety of questions related to the tectonic and volcanic evolution of | National Science Foundation | 7/19/2009 |
| WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, THE | $285,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This proposal details a series of experiments that seek to improve our understanding of ductile deformation in Earth's upper mantle. It is evident from studies of naturally deformed peridotites that deformation microstructures such as lattice-preferred o | National Science Foundation | 8/05/2009 |
| TEXAS A & M RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $137,413 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: With National Science Foundation support, Dr. Suzanne Eckert will investigate pottery and stone tool production during the Polynesian Plain Ware Period on Tutuila Island, American Samoa. Although ethnographic Polynesia is one of the model societies for wh | National Science Foundation | 8/16/2009 |
| RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY | $133,227 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: One of the basic tenets of plate tectonics is that quasi-rigid plates traverse the surface of the Earth, with significant deformations confined to regions near plate boundaries. While this idea works well in the oceans, it has had to be modified substanti | National Science Foundation | 7/08/2009 |
| OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $690,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Research award in the Inorganic, Bioinorganic and Organometallic Chemistry program supports work by Professor Claudia Turro at The Ohio State University to carry out fundamental/basic studies on ligand-loss photochemistry of ruthenium complexes. The | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA | $168,202 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: On any given day, approximately 15-30 volcanoes worldwide are either in eruption of show strong signs of unrest (e.g., anomalously high rates of seismic activity, ground deformation, or gas emissions). Volcanic activity, including high-altitude eruptions | National Science Foundation | 7/17/2009 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $255,150 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Salton Trough/Imperial Valley in Southern California spans the transition from strike-slip faulting within the San Andreas Fault system to oceanic spreading within the Gulf of California. The region exhibits a wide range of deformation behaviors both | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| CALVIN COLLEGE | $126,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Inorganic, Bioinorganic and Organometallic Chemistry Program supports the research of Professor Douglas Vander Griend of Calvin College for the in situ characterization of multi-component chemical solutions. Equilibrium Restricted Factor Analysis, a m | National Science Foundation | 8/02/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING | $326,140 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The overall purpose of this project is to determine the surficial response to lithospheric removal in the Puna Plateau of NW Argenitna. Why is this important? Because we want to understand how the Earth's surface responds to deep (mantle) processes and wh | National Science Foundation | 7/28/2009 |
| CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $337,007 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 'This project is studying the early history of the geological boundary zone between the Pacific and North America plates in northwestern Mexico. The peninsula of Baja California lies on the Pacific plate, and the rest of Mexico belongs to the North Ameri | National Science Foundation | 7/04/2009 |
| SMART POLYMERS RESEARCH CORPORATION | $99,999 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Title: Aptamer-Based Colorimetric Test Kit for Biological Contamination Detection Abstract Based on a known DNA aptamer, in Phase I we intend to develop a colorimetric test strip sensor for B. thuringiensis spores (anthrax simulant), to demonstrate its pe | National Science Foundation | 7/01/2009 |
| NIMBIC SYSTEMS | $99,879 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project will investigate the ability of a device technology currently in development to prevent the intrusion of infection-causing microorganisms into surgery sites via the airborne vector. The resear | National Science Foundation | 6/15/2009 |
| THIRD EYE DIAGNOSTICS | $100,000 | 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 Innovation Research Phase I project will involve the development of a noninvasive intracranial pressure (ICP) monitor based on a pilot c | National Science Foundation | 6/24/2009 |
| UNIFIED SCIENCE LLC | $99,900 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project will research and develop selective chemical probes for use in froth flotation systems. Sulfide mineral froth flotation is a solid-solid separations process which dominates all other methods used in | National Science Foundation | 6/01/2009 |
| INFOSENSE, INC. | $100,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I research project develops a cost effective solution to the sewer overflow hazard within combined sewer systems and sanitary sewer systems. Specifically, the complexity and dynamic nature of the wastewater sy | National Science Foundation | 6/05/2009 |
| ENDOSHAPE, INC. | $100,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project aims to develop the next generation of vascular embolization coils using proprietary shape memory polymer (SMP) technology. Coils are used to occlude or isolate vessels for treatment of malfor | National Science Foundation | 6/10/2009 |
| SOUTH CAROLINA RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $180,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Study on Algorithms and Applications of Centroidal Voronoi Tessellations PROJECT SUMMARY Centroidal Voronoi tessellations (CVTs) are special Voronoi tessellations having the property that the generators of the Voronoi tessellations are also the centroids | National Science Foundation | 8/19/2009 |
| OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $197,194 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Ohio State University, in partnership with Columbus State Community College, STEMColumbus, and the Ohio STEM Learning Network, will develop a Geoscience Awareness Program (GAP) targeted at underrepresented minority students at five academic levels - m | National Science Foundation | 9/18/2009 |
| PURDUE UNIVERSITY | $159,999 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This research program is motivated by the recognition that the volume of sensor data is expected to overwhelm even the enormous performance improvements in silicon technology expressed by Moore's Law. The focus is the development of a low-complexity alter | National Science Foundation | 6/02/2009 |
| TEXAS A & M RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $137,096 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The adequate numerical treatment of free boundary problems exhibiting disparate scales is a formidable mathematical and computational challenge where the geometry plays a crucial role. Modern algorithms should be able to optimize and balance the computati | National Science Foundation | 8/12/2009 |
| RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY | $144,795 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Non-Newtonian fluids or complex fluids are abundant in our daily lives. Examples of such fluids include molten plastics, engine oils with polymeric additives, paints, egg white and blood. Breakthrough technology can come from experiments or through utiliz | National Science Foundation | 7/31/2009 |
| NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY | $207,650 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Collaborative Research: Tribologically Durable UHMWPE Nanocomposites for Total Joint Replacements: Nano-mechanics and Bio-tribological Modeling This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The researc | National Science Foundation | 5/26/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $603,801 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The 8000-ft deep Homestake Mine in Lead, SD is the proposed site for a Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory (DUSEL). It is being operated today as the Sanford Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory (SUSEL) while it is being converte | National Science Foundation | 8/07/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA | $300,002 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: There is a high degree of interest in using organic thin films for lightweight, rugged, and flexible solar cells. Conjugated polymers are being considered as a major enabler of such applications. Due to a small dielectric constant in these organic materia | National Science Foundation | 6/15/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON | $402,976 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The major factor in the solar wind that controls magnetospheric activity is the direction and magnitude of the interplanetary magnetic field (IMF). When the IMF is relatively small, and the mach number of the solar wind flow is large, the magnetosphere re | National Science Foundation | 6/16/2009 |
| GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION | $350,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The objective of this research is to develop a spectrum management framework for cognitive radio ad hoc networks. The project investigates the challenges posed by the distributed multi-hop architecture, the dynamic network topology, and the frequently cha | National Science Foundation | 7/14/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT RIVERSIDE | $104,500 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project will undertake basic research aimed at controlling how electrical charge moves through photovoltaic devices. The objective is to produce synthetic electrets - non-conductive materials that are the electrostatic equivalent of magnets. Electret | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS | $369,016 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Changes in the magnitude and seasonality of Arctic summer vegetation production over the past several decades have been documented. These changes will likely accelerate and have consequences for the entire Arctic terrestrial system, in particular energy a | National Science Foundation | 8/20/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA | $52,656 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project is a request for funds to buy scientific equipment for the University of Minnesota's research vessel the Blue Heron. We intend to purchase acoustic releases for scientific moorings deployed on the Great Lakes, floatation for the scientific m | National Science Foundation | 7/08/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $461,109 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: A significant missing component in paleo-reconstructions of GIS behavior has been the lack of an unambiguous ice sheet tracer. The development of such a tracer for the Greenland Ice Sheet (GIS) retreat and aerial extent is proposed using terrigenous prove | National Science Foundation | 9/11/2009 |
| BROWN UNIVERSITY IN PROVIDENCE IN STATE OF RI AND PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS | $313,298 | 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 grant supports research on late Pleistocene and Holocene convective and hydrologic variability in Indonesia through the recovery and analysis of new se | National Science Foundation | 9/01/2009 |
| THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC | $68,185 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This study will quantitatively reconstruct deep ocean carbonate chemistry changes across the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum to determine the degree of ocean acidification during a past period of high CO2 and extreme warming. The PIs will generate record | National Science Foundation | 6/25/2009 |
| THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC | $470,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The objective of this research is to develop an automated design environment for enabling the integration of emerging nanoscale silicon photonic optical interconnect device technologies in next-generation multicore computing architectures. The approach in | National Science Foundation | 8/06/2009 |
| ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY | $233,014 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Domain specific multi-core processors (DSMPs) are aimed at high performance embedded system applications (image/signal processing, networking, graphics, medical instrumentation, and so on). DSMPs incorporate several architectural innovations including sym | National Science Foundation | 8/26/2009 |
| TEXAS A & M RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $88,085 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The principal investigator proposes to work on three problems in the geometry of Banach spaces with a strong set theoretic and/or combinatorial flavor. Firstly, the principal investigator proposes to work on the classification problem of complemented subs | National Science Foundation | 5/21/2009 |
| SCIBERQUEST, INC. | $361,316 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: A key distinction of this project is its transformative approach to simulation of complex multi-scale phenomena modeled with PDEs and particle-in-cell techniques. Our team combines expertise in discrete-event simulations, high-performance computing, as we | National Science Foundation | 8/21/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA | $200,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Traffic measurement is central to network operation, management, and security. Yet, support for measurement was not an integral part of the original Internet architecture. This project aims to develop a programmable measurement architecture that is versat | National Science Foundation | 8/01/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA | $901,940 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This proposal addresses the most challenging problems of very-high-resolution Numerical Weather Prediction, obtaining the optimal state estimations for initializing ensembles of predictions by assimilating the highest volume of weather observations availa | National Science Foundation | 9/02/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA | $368,488 | 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 seeks to address a wide range of research challenges involving OLAP (OnLine Analytical Processing). This collaborative project is concerned wit | National Science Foundation | 7/14/2009 |
| HARVARD COLLEGE, PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF | $330,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Great progress has been made in recent years in detecting massive planets orbiting other stars. These exciting discoveries are an important step toward understanding the evolution of other solar systems and whether or not they may harbor life. Tantalizing | National Science Foundation | 9/04/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO | $240,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Although much progress has been made on the theoretical understanding of cryptographic protocols, security vulnerabilities are still found in protocol standards and implementations long after they have been accepted and fielded. As in the case of software | National Science Foundation | 7/14/2009 |
| VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE & STATE UNIVERSITY | $353,671 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Probabilistic graphical models provide a powerful mechanism for representing and reasoning with uncertain information. These methods have been successfully applied in diverse domains such as bioinformatics, social networks, sensor networks, robotics, and | National Science Foundation | 8/12/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS | $220,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The fundamental question being examined is how to transfer information over wireless networks. Wireless networks differ from wireline networks due to the phenomenon of superposition. Signals transmitted by different transmitters are attenuated due to path | National Science Foundation | 7/24/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, THE | $175,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: There is a growing need for wireless networks that can sustain high data rates, are robust to interference, make efficient use of battery resources, and offer secure communications. This project introduces cooperative beamforming (CB), a novel technique t | National Science Foundation | 9/03/2009 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $451,282 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Desert dust aerosols impact the climate and biogeochemistry. This project seeks to improve our understanding of the spatial and temporal variability of desert dust and desert response to climate and human perturbation. It will address the following two qu | National Science Foundation | 8/30/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | $344,606 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Lithium ion batteries have been recognized as a critical technology to enable the advanced electric vehicles (EV) and hybrid electric vehicles (HEV). An obstacle of the traditional Li-ion batteries to the EV/HEV applications is their low peak power. Recen | National Science Foundation | 6/30/2009 |
| GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION | $99,735 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Microfluidic 'Labs on a Chip' have transformed a wide variety of biochemical assays by shrinking the contents of an analytical chemistry laboratory down to a few square centimeters. Scaling down even further, ultimately to assays at the single-molecule le | National Science Foundation | 8/14/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF IOWA, THE | $277,527 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The use of self-organizing liquid crystals is a method of enhancing performance of organic polymers through structural and chemical control on the nanometer scale. Functional nanostructured polymer materials based on lyotropic (i.e., amphiphilic) liquid c | National Science Foundation | 6/23/2009 |
| TEXAS A & M RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $85,697 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This exploratory project involves the first field test of a new, Relaxed Eddy Accumulation instrument for measuring concentrations and fluxes of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) in a long-term, unattended operational mode under limited infrastructure con | National Science Foundation | 6/05/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF UTAH, THE | $541,271 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Golden 0934721 University of Utah Funds are provided to develop methods of electromagnetically monitoring the internal state of sea ice, the thermal evolut | National Science Foundation | 8/25/2009 |
| TOWSON UNIVERSITY | $900,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Towson University is one of Maryland's premier educators of new teachers. Responding to a nationwide concern about the future of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education, Towson University and the whole University System of Maryla | National Science Foundation | 6/02/2009 |
| MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY | $144,604 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This engineering education research award to Michigan Technological University will develop problem based learning modules that integrate sustainability and sustainable design into three mechanical engineering courses spanning the sophomore through senior | National Science Foundation | 7/06/2009 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | $200,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Public demand for safer Li-ion batteries (LIBs) with lower cost and higher energy density has driven extensive research efforts in the synthesis of new electrodes and electrolytes that are less hazardous (non-toxic, non-flammable), have longer life cycles | National Science Foundation | 9/04/2009 |
| KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY | $76,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The research objective of this award is to develop a novel synthesis process to produce graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) with width controlled at a resolution of 1 nm and crystallographic-orientation (CO) controlled at a resolution of 50 (with controlled zig-z | National Science Foundation | 7/17/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $824,532 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Scaling Up is a program of research and development that will enable virtual organizations in the Earth sciences to scale to massive interdisciplinary 'commu | National Science Foundation | 9/11/2009 |
| GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION | $1,000,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Graduate Research Fellowship Program | National Science Foundation | 8/11/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA | $182,250 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The National Science Foundation aims to ensure the vitality of the human resource base of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics in the United States and to reinforce its diversity by offering approximately 1,654 graduate fellowships in this co | National Science Foundation | 8/12/2009 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $245,686 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Polyploidy (whole genome duplication) is one of the most important genetic phenomena in plants. Immediately after its formation, a polyploid plant can be identified simply by counting its chromosomes, because it has twice as many as a diploid. However, af | National Science Foundation | 8/15/2009 |
| RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY | $49,271 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The objective of this project is to organize a workshop that will provide an opportunity to present the state-of-the-art in the area of Dynamic Route Guidance and Coordinated Traffic Control. The workshop scope is to determine the most important theoretic | National Science Foundation | 7/24/2009 |
| HARVARD COLLEGE, PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF | $85,042 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Moral cognition is the study of moral judgment from the perspective of cognitive science, which views the brain as an information processor. Cognitive genetics is the study of how specific genetic variations affect how the brain processes information. The | National Science Foundation | 8/26/2009 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $400,000 | 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 Principal Investigator (PI) plans to develop a Geospace Science Center which will provide control, operation, and science integration of the Millstone | National Science Foundation | 9/01/2009 |
| VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE & STATE UNIVERSITY | $406,987 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This engineering education research CAREER award to Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University will advance fundamental knowledge of how professional engineering practices have changed due to globalization and how this has impacted engineers in t | National Science Foundation | 9/02/2009 |
| LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY, THE | $35,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The objective of this project is to create a framework for collection of life cycle inventory data for fiber reinforced polymer composite infrastructure materials. Currently, advancements are being made towards innovative, alternative materials for infras | National Science Foundation | 8/22/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING | $293,716 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is to study the potential of novel computational algorithms for impacting the potential of engineering simulations to take greater advantage of upcoming high performance computing architectures. The award will provide funds for PI involvement | National Science Foundation | 9/11/2009 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $597,716 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The objective of this research is to develop general-purpose algorithms for automatically identifying principles underlying observed phenomena, in fields ranging from physics to biology. For centuries, scientists have attempted to identify and document an | National Science Foundation | 8/28/2009 |
| FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE | $380,226 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The researchers will develop model(s) of the lifecycles of virtual multidisciplinary scientific teams using the facilities of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory built from data collected through descriptive multiple-case studies, grounded in an a | National Science Foundation | 9/03/2009 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $250,000 | 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 research applies argumentation theory to large-scale (hundreds to thousands of users), asynchronous, and geographically dispersed virtual organizations. | National Science Foundation | 9/11/2009 |
| PURDUE UNIVERSITY | $298,298 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The transformative accomplishment of this research will be the development of single molecule strategies to detect, quantify, and map multiple targets in a single nucleosome simultaneously at any locus within a living cell. These single molecule tools wil | National Science Foundation | 8/07/2009 |
| GEOSPACE RESEARCH INC | $48,253 | 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 investigator will utilize satellite altimetry data to identify the specific ocean source responsible for thermospheric Acoustic Gravity Wave observation | National Science Foundation | 7/22/2009 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $2,500,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships in support of doctoral students at Cornell University. | National Science Foundation | 8/13/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $1,000,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Not available at www.research.gov | National Science Foundation | 8/12/2009 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $3,100,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Under the term of this award, the National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center (NAIC) will perform infrastructure improvements to facilities of the Arecibo Observatory in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, at which the cornerstone research instrument is the 1000-ft diamet | National Science Foundation | 9/30/2009 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $296,385 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Dogs descended from Eurasian gray wolves, but where and how this process occurred is poorly understood. Much genetic research has focused on breed dogs, but the diverse populations of semi-feral village dogs are likely an important key for understanding d | National Science Foundation | 8/17/2009 |
| VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE & STATE UNIVERSITY | $203,977 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This engineering education award to the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University will develop innovative new graduate degree programs in mechanical engineering that are customized to the needs and strengths of veterans. A particular emphasis wi | National Science Foundation | 8/18/2009 |
| CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA (THE) | $32,114 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The objective of this EAGER research is to demonstrate the feasibility of using synthetic fly ash glass as a model for systematic studies of fly ash reactivity instead of using real fly ash. It will demonstrate that synthetic fly ash specimens will produc | National Science Foundation | 8/14/2009 |
| OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $49,965 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The objective of this workshop is to convene experts from government, non-profit, industry and academic organizations to explore various aspects of the potential afforded by ITS technologies as they relate to improvements in vehicular traffic, sustainabil | National Science Foundation | 8/06/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $656,204 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).A request is made to fund additional and back-up instrumentation on the R/V Thomas Thompson, a 274? general purpose Global research vessel operated by the Uni | National Science Foundation | 8/16/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA | $498,363 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 'This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).' A Resource-Scalable Unifying Framework for Aural Signal Coding The objective of this project is to achieve a comprehensive, unifying framework and corres | National Science Foundation | 6/02/2009 |
| PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY | $389,793 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Current stream engines are mostly stand-alone systems, whereas in many applications, stream processing will be one component of a larger information system. Coupling with other components, such as user interfaces, transactional data and archives will be i | National Science Foundation | 6/26/2009 |
| TEXAS A & M RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $191,093 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Archaeologists have long looked to Beringia, the region encompassing Alaska and far northeastern Siberia, for clues about the origins of the first Americans and spread of humans into the Arctic. The traditional view holds that humans first migrated from S | National Science Foundation | 8/24/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $350,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Quantum dot (QD) active regions hold potential for realizing extremely high performance semiconductor diode lasers. Unfortunately, these unique features of ideal QD active layers have not been fully realized to date. The most successful approach to date o | National Science Foundation | 6/19/2009 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $319,999 | 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 research award is to model the preference information embedded in natural language engineering design texts in order to identify lingui | National Science Foundation | 6/23/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | $100,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Currently plasmon resonances are mostly studied numerically or experimentally by using a trial-anderror approach, i.e., by probing nanoparticles with radiation of various frequencies and polarizations. The goal of this project is to advance novel techniqu | National Science Foundation | 8/22/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI | $313,701 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Drinking water distribution systems are a complex, integrated system of pipes and hydraulic devices that serve as the last step in delivering treated drinking to the consumer. Distribution system operations need to satisfy multiple objectives that range f | National Science Foundation | 7/21/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS | $270,321 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The PI will undertake research in harmonic analysis, and partial differential equations (PDE). In PDE, the focus is on the dynamical properties of Schrodinger evolution (SE). One subject of on-going research is dispersive estimates for SE. He will also wo | National Science Foundation | 5/21/2009 |
| TEXAS A & M RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $88,198 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The proposed project focuses on a number of problems related to isoperimetric inequalities on discrete groups and metric spaces. Sobolev and Poincare inequalities are classical examples of such inequalities, properties like non-exactness or Kazhdan's prop | National Science Foundation | 5/26/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS | $99,898 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The PI proposes to study the theory of singularities and complexity in CR geometry. In particular the PI proposes to study the connections between his previous work on Levi-flat hypersurfaces, properties of nowhere minimal submanifolds of complex euclidea | National Science Foundation | 7/02/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT RIVERSIDE | $610,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Positronium, with the chemical symbol Ps, is a very light form of hydrogen atom consisting only of an electron bound to an anti-electron or positron. Being composed of equal amounts of matter and antimatter, the Ps atom lives for only a fraction of a micr | National Science Foundation | 8/17/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS | $83,651 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: During the 20th century (and the beginning of the 21st), a number of deep and surprising connections have been found between modular forms, elliptic curves, quadratic forms, L-functions, Galois representations, and the representation theory of the sporadi | National Science Foundation | 8/02/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO | $349,999 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Objective: Nanowires' unique geometry leads to a large surface area to volume ratio, which, along with the capability of rational control in doping and heterostructure formation, can be exploited in many devices and subsystem modules for various applicati | National Science Foundation | 6/19/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, THE | $154,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The main thrust of this project is to further the understanding of the global/large data behavior of solutions to certain dispersive equations at critical regularity. More precisely, the principal investigator considers global well-posedness and scatterin | National Science Foundation | 6/09/2009 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $408,400 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Low complexity dynamical systems include symbolic systems such as Sturmian sequences and the Morse sequence; horocycle flows and other unipotent flows on spaces of algebraic origin; rational polygonal billiards and related systems such as linear flows on | National Science Foundation | 7/02/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, THE | $35,599 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Award ended in September 2010 and all work was completed at that time. | National Science Foundation | 6/29/2009 |
| THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC | $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 project wil | National Science Foundation | 7/02/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $244,801 | 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 investigator will carry out several research projects studying various aspects of conformal geometry and asymptotically hyperbolic metrics. These include | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN | $7,000,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Visualization is one of the most important and commonly used methods of analyzing and interpreting digital assets. For many types of computational research, it is the only viable means of extracting information and developing understanding from data. Howe | National Science Foundation | 7/25/2009 |
| PURDUE UNIVERSITY | $100,003 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The research objectives of this project are first to prove the theoretical validity of the bootstrap method as a general inferential tool for the semiparametric models, and then invent a computationally attractive bootstrap inference procedure, called k-s | National Science Foundation | 7/04/2009 |
| AMERICAN BAR FOUNDATION | $131,518 | 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 investigates the activities and experiences of African Americans in local civil courts from the Civil War through the Great Migration. Jim Crow | National Science Foundation | 6/25/2009 |
| COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY | $447,887 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Surveys represent a key source of data in a wide range of scientific disciplines, and are often an important input in public and corporate decision-making processes. While the primary use of survey data is to describe the population from which the sample | National Science Foundation | 8/26/2009 |
| CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $349,547 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 'Most of the rivers in hilly and mountainous landscapes have small, steep channels, which are typically mantled by boulders that rarely move. In these channels, boulders moderate the rate of river incision, roughen the flow creating local patches of grav | National Science Foundation | 6/23/2009 |
| GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION | $388,301 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Nitrogen is an essential element for life on Earth, yet fixed nitrogen is relatively scarce in the oceans. Simultaneously, global nitrogen budgets are difficult to balance, suggesting unknown nitrification and denitrification reactions may account for a l | National Science Foundation | 7/30/2009 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $229,081 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project would contribute to the literature on identification and inference in incomplete econometric models. An econometric model may be incomplete when, for example, sample realizations are not fully observable, or when the model asserts that the re | National Science Foundation | 7/07/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | $230,470 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Many pay as you go social security systems in the United States and Europe face impeding insolvency as the number of pensioners per worker rises. Among the possible reforms being considered is transiting to fully funded privatized accounts system. Chile w | National Science Foundation | 8/04/2009 |
| CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY (INC) | $135,296 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Studies of exotic nuclei (those with a large excess of neutrons) are a top priority to address a number of outstanding nuclear physics questions. These include measurements to explore changes of the nuclear structure in nuclei far from stability and react | National Science Foundation | 9/17/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $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).How living systems integrate information in complex and changing environments is a central unsolved puzzle of biology. Plant form is continuously modified in | National Science Foundation | 6/25/2009 |
| COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON | $339,999 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Amphipods are common herbivorous crustaceans found in both marine and freshwater habitats. As a rule, all herbivores consume a restricted subset of available plants, and our ability to predict herbivore impacts on natural systems depends on understanding | National Science Foundation | 8/14/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO | $300,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The principal investigator studies vertebrate brains and how they have evolved to subserve different behaviors and adaptations. In this project he will study the brain of the African lungfish, with various techniques that will reveal its structure and org | National Science Foundation | 7/29/2009 |
| CHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY | $319,361 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestments Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This research focuses on understanding the evolutionary history of the plant genus Artocarpus (Moraceae, mulberry family) with the goal of producing a pu | National Science Foundation | 6/26/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA | $583,552 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The project will assess evolutionary relationships among tiger moths and the evolutionary associations of moth feeding behavior with plant chemicals that serve to protect moths from predators. Relationships among tiger moths will be assessed using DNA dat | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT | $599,242 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Evolution typically leads to organisms that are increasingly complex in the way they look, the sorts of chemicals they produce, or the way their cells function. However, complex and costly characters can also be lost. For example, many lineages of birds h | National Science Foundation | 6/24/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | $250,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Award Title: Molecular mechanisms of ABA biosynthesis under drought stress Award descrition: Drought resulting from soil water deficit is one of the most common environmental factors that lead to substantial losses in productivity of crops worldwide. The | National Science Foundation | 7/03/2009 |
| CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY LONG BEACH FOUNDATION | $179,982 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award comes from NSF and is designed to investigate climate change in the Near East (principally Iran). The award funds geologic and geochemical investigations of lake sediments as a means of reconstructing droughts and monsoon variations through st | National Science Foundation | 8/31/2009 |
| GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION | $267,810 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The push toward heterogeneous architectures to increase performance, while reducing energy consumption creates considerable challenges for software development. For example, programmers must make non-trivial decisions about when to use special accelerator | National Science Foundation | 8/07/2009 |
| TEXAS ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT STATION | $254,985 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 'The objective of this research is to address the computational challenges in multi-core power distribution design by leveraging recent advances in single-instruction multiple-data (SIMD) graphics processing units (GPUs). The approach is to develop a mass | National Science Foundation | 8/25/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | $980,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Modeling the Dynamics and the Gravitational-Wave Emission of Coalescing Compact Binary Systems. This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The research spans several topics in gravitational-wave theor | National Science Foundation | 7/31/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES | $740,999 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Collaborative Proposal: Continuation of the XENON Dark Matter Project: Construction and Underground Operation of an Upgraded XENON100 Detector A continuation fund to support the operation of XENON100 dark matter detection project and to support the constr | National Science Foundation | 8/24/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA | $340,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are becoming pervasive in both civilian and military domains. Low cost and ease of deployment of these networks necessitate the use of batteries as the primary source of power. As a result, battery capacity has emerged as a | National Science Foundation | 7/25/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI | $118,185 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The project involves research on conditional moments of random fields, random matrices, noncommutative probability, and large deviations. The PI will explore connections between classical and free probability from several inter-related angles. To reconcil | National Science Foundation | 5/26/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO | $1,147,454 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project will develop an advanced 3-D hybrid simulation code (fluid electrons + kinetic ions) that included the coupling of the magnetosphere to the ionosphere. The hybrid magnetosphere model will be coupled an ionospheric model developed at the Naval | National Science Foundation | 7/24/2009 |
| THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC | $336,532 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project is focused on implementing novel methods for uncertainty quantification in the context of modeling carbon sequestration. Significant advances in both the basic methodology and computational implementation are proposed. Advances in numerical m | National Science Foundation | 6/26/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF THE COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES | $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).' There is a growing need for wireless networks that can sustain high data rates, are robust to interference, make efficient use of battery resources, and | National Science Foundation | 9/03/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO | $799,618 | 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 develop computational models of the nonverbal behavior and interactive strategies observed during face-to-face teaching. These | National Science Foundation | 8/10/2009 |
| CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $367,415 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The goals of this research are to (1) develop new proton conducting materials for fuel cell applications and (2) understand fuel cell reaction pathways so as to ultimately eliminate precious metals from fuel cell designs. The significance of successful d | National Science Foundation | 9/01/2009 |
| OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY | $32,873 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This research project aims to develop robust estimation methods for various non-and semiparametric frontier models using the efficient polynomial spline quantile smoothing method. More specifically, the objectives of the proposed research include: to prop | National Science Foundation | 6/23/2009 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $107,500 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project is in the field of Commutative Algebra. The proposed research deals with the structure of graded free resolutions, their numerical invariants, and applications. The general research goal is to study graded free resolutions using a variety of | National Science Foundation | 7/19/2009 |
| HARVARD COLLEGE, PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF | $249,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Dr. Stella Offner is awarded an NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowship to carry out a program of research and education at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Dr. Offner will: (1) perform simulated observations of adaptive mes | National Science Foundation | 6/15/2009 |
| WILLIAM MARSH RICE UNIVERSITY | $350,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The objective of this research is to acquire a better understanding of the charge transfer that takes place at the interfaces between organic semiconductors and metal, over a broad range of disorder in the organic material. This charge transfer strongly a | National Science Foundation | 8/10/2009 |
| GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION | $149,798 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The proposed research aims to study several fundamental problems in extremal combinatorics, many of them motivated by problems in theoretical computer science. One area of investigations is the relation between local and global properties of graphs, an ar | National Science Foundation | 6/14/2009 |
| NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY | $125,646 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Normal forms for intergrable PDE's and billards | National Science Foundation | 7/02/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $350,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The objective of this research is to demonstrate novel intrinsically switchable filters for frequency-agile communication systems and cognitive radios. The basis of the proposed effort is the investigation of field-tunable electrostriction effect in ferro | National Science Foundation | 8/21/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH | $31,972 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Parallel, distributed, and Internet-based computing, communication, and information systems are heterogeneous mixtures of machines and networks. They frequently experience degraded performance due to uncertainties, such as unexpected machine failures, cha | National Science Foundation | 7/24/2009 |
| BROWN UNIVERSITY IN PROVIDENCE IN STATE OF RI AND PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS | $1,200,001 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Traditional database systems are designed to provide the user with a clear picture of past states of the world as is represented in the database. Recently, | National Science Foundation | 7/10/2009 |
| THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC | $94,179 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The proposal requests numerous Shipboard Scientific Support (SSSE) items for the R/V MARCUS LANGSETH namely; a new magnetometer winch, new stern capstans, a new X-band RADAR, and installation costs for the Fleet Broadband satellite communications system f | National Science Foundation | 9/08/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS | $152,413 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Natural history museums are irreplaceable sources of species data and they are often the only source of historical data. Yet, many are poorly supported, putting their contents in jeopardy of decay or abandonment. This project uses mathematical models, mus | National Science Foundation | 8/14/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY | $3,000,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Montana-Kentucky (MTKY) cyber consortium is a partnership of the primary research universities in the two states--University of Kentucky (UK), University of Louisville (UL), Eastern Kentucky University (EKU),University of Montana (UM), Montana State U | National Science Foundation | 8/17/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA | $249,900 | 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 research objective of this award is to build tools for analysis and synthesis of nonlinear systems with particular emphasis on Atomic Force Microscopy. E | National Science Foundation | 6/29/2009 |
| DREXEL UNIVERSITY | $250,260 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The earthquake induced ground motions are not the same at any two points on the earthG??s surface. This occurs because the seismic waves travel from the earthquake source through different paths with different velocities, and reach the ground surface thro | National Science Foundation | 6/02/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS | $343,882 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This grant provides funds to explore new transportation security system paradigms that are proactive and meet the needs of our national transportation infrastructure. Methodologies from control theory and Markov decision process models and algorithms will | National Science Foundation | 7/14/2009 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $142,791 | 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 aims to define and apply non-commutative analogues of the Heisenberg and Weil representations of the symplectic group acting on integrable co | National Science Foundation | 7/21/2009 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $169,778 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project develops new methods for analysis and optimization of Markov Decision Processes with general state and action sets. In the case of continuous time Markov Decision Processes, this project also studies problems with unbounded transition rates. | National Science Foundation | 6/12/2009 |
| HARVARD COLLEGE, PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF | $737,184 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Principal Investigator plans to do research on the boundary between representation theory and number theory, exploring the implications of the local and global Langlands correspondence. He expects to extend his conjectures on restriction from SO(n) to | National Science Foundation | 6/12/2009 |
| BROWN UNIVERSITY IN PROVIDENCE IN STATE OF RI AND PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS | $435,307 | 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 are two parts to the research program in this proposal. Part one concerns multi-parameter Fourier analysis, the higher dimensional (or product) theory | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS | $518,573 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The PI has studied how local properties affect the global parameters of various combinatorial structures. This is a very general framework of the so-called Turan number problems. The PI plans to continue his work on this topic and investigates four differ | National Science Foundation | 6/15/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA | $300,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The objective of this research is exploration of a growth and device processing technique to improve the energy efficiency and reduce the cost of light emitting diodes for solid state lighting. Key challenges to the widespread implementation of these illu | National Science Foundation | 7/08/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | $390,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Objective The objective of this program is to provide new breakthroughs in the areas of stochastic control and global optimization through insights gained from particle filtering and from additional recent results in nonlinear filtering. With a focus on a | National Science Foundation | 8/20/2009 |