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Houghton County, Mich., funds by National Science Foundation

Listing $5,428,024.00 in stimulus funds from National Science Foundation for Houghton

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
MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY $2,371,116 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support In project GlobalWatershed, graduate Fellows will conduct research in watershed science topics, at a range of scales and cultural contexts, while working with middle/high school teachers to create lesson plans that transfer this knowledge to their student
This spending item is part of a $2,499,351 allocation. See details
National Science Foundation 8/26/2009
MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY $844,575 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support In addition to Michigan Technological Institution, this project includes Saginaw Valley State University, Grand Valley State University, Delta College, and Grand Rapids Community College and two school districts: Saginaw Public Schools and Grand Rapids Pu
This spending item is part of a $899,665 allocation. See details
National Science Foundation 5/26/2009
MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY $449,499 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The wolves and moose of Isle Royale National Park, Michigan, have been studied for 50 years and represent the longest predator-prey study in the world. The project's objectives address three of the most fundamental questions in all of ecology: (i) how and National Science Foundation 7/23/2009
MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY $349,910 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
MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY $302,650 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are potential candidates for H2 storage because they can reversibly absorb hydrogen at low temperatures. The critical issue is their low hydrogen capacity at room temperature or above, because the interaction between molecu National Science Foundation 8/10/2009
MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY $289,070 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
MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY $190,000 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
MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY $145,468 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
MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY $144,604 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
COPPER COUNTRY INTRMDT SCHL DIST $68,235 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support In project GlobalWatershed, graduate Fellows will conduct research in watershed science topics, at a range of scales and cultural contexts, while working with middle/high school teachers to create lesson plans that transfer this knowledge to their student
This spending item is part of a $2,499,351 allocation. See details
National Science Foundation 8/26/2009
MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY $67,023 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
MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY $60,000 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support STTR Phase I: Development of Materials for Optical Band Gaps in Magneto-Photonic Crystals for Switching and Biosensor Applications
This spending item is part of a $150,000 allocation. See details
National Science Foundation 6/10/2009
MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY $52,035 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The goals of this proposal are: 1) demonstrate the ability to sustainably produce H2 from lactose via aqueous-phase reforming (APR), 2) to further develop a synthesis technique for producing bimetallic catalysts with controlled microstructure (pseudomorph
This spending item is part of a $300,000 allocation. See details
National Science Foundation 8/20/2009
MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY $51,324 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This project is motivated by the principal investigator's research on modeling the electrical wave propagation in the heart, for which a system of variable coefficient and anisotropic elliptic-parabolic partial differential equations (PDEs) must be solved National Science Foundation 7/31/2009
MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY $29,018 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
MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY $13,497 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Collaborative Research: Petascale Computing, Visualization, and Science Discovery of Turbulent Sooting Flames - Basic Research Energy efficiency, the environment, and human health can be affected by combustion-generated soot, so controlling soot is a maj
This spending item is part of a $263,544 allocation. See details
National Science Foundation 8/22/2009