Recovery Tracker

How Much Stimulus Funding is Going to Your County?

Baltimore County, Md., funds by National Science Foundation

Listing $6,235,037.00 in stimulus funds from National Science Foundation for Baltimore

Note: For some programs where states do not report where money will be distributed across the state, we do not have the allocation for individual counties. Those programs include: Medicaid, unemployment benefits and food stamps. Those amounts are included in the totals for where the state agency receiving that money is located.

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

Recipient Amount Description Federal Dept./Agency Date
TOWSON UNIVERSITY $1,395,000 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Towson University's G?Academic Research Infrastructure: Recovery and ReinvestmentG? grant will provide funds to renovate research laboratories of the Urban Environmental Biogeochemistry Laboratory (UEBL). TU will turn a sample preparation laboratory, a ne National Science Foundation 9/14/2010
TOWSON UNIVERSITY $1,395,000 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Towson University's G?Academic Research Infrastructure: Recovery and ReinvestmentG? grant will provide funds to renovate research laboratories of the Urban Environmental Biogeochemistry Laboratory (UEBL). TU will turn a sample preparation laboratory, a ne National Science Foundation 9/14/2010
TOWSON UNIVERSITY $900,000 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
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY $631,652 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Most, if not all, bacteria are able to live either as independent planktonic cells or as members of organized surface-anchored communities called biofilms. Biofilm formation is thought to be a developmental process that begins when a motile bacterium (the National Science Foundation 8/15/2009
PLANT SENSORY SYSTEMS, LLC $516,000 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project addresses the need for crops with increased yield. Yield is directly related to nitrogen (N) utilization and is dramatically affected by climate. Plant Sensory Systems has developed a genetic National Science Foundation 8/06/2009
TOWSON UNIVERSITY $307,323 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The intellectual merit is based on our research accomplishments. We have a demonstrated record of managing high-quality undergraduate research laboratories, regularly publishing papers in peer-reviewed journals with our undergraduate collaborators, and pa National Science Foundation 8/05/2009
TOWSON UNIVERSITY $273,214 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The Towson University Biodiversity Center (TUBC) was created in 2007 to consolidate existing collections as a single management unit. The two largest, most extensive, and oldest collections are the botanical and entomological collections. These collection National Science Foundation 8/25/2009
TOWSON UNIVERSITY $257,546 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The multi-disciplinary group of collaborators identified in this proposal seeks funding for the purchase of a new Inductively Coupled Plasma-Time of Flight-Mass Spectrometer (ICP-TOF-MS) to increase access to, and expand the analytical capabilities of, th National Science Foundation 1/07/2010
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY $194,283 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) for interdisciplinary program in high performance cumputing. National Science Foundation 9/15/2009
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY $148,409 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Voluntary Virtual Organization (VVOs) have harnessed the collective problem solving abilities of diverse groups. This project will study voluntary teaming in Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOGs), specifically collective story telling in the service
This spending item is part of a $269,976 allocation. See details
National Science Foundation 9/01/2009
TOWSON UNIVERSITY $116,610 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This research investigates the ways in which claims to sovereignty in the Arctic rely on territorial imaginaries: explicit and assumed conceptualizations of a placeG??s elemental nature, its geophysical properties, and its geographical location. Specifica National Science Foundation 8/19/2009
ATHENA ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES INC $100,000 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The production and purification of proteins remains a rate-limiting step for basic and applied research as well as for commercial production. The general approach for the production of protein requires biomass production in multiple liters of medium foll National Science Foundation 6/01/2009