Durham County, N.C., funds by National Science Foundation
Listing $11,453,121.00 in stimulus funds from National Science Foundation for Durham
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 |
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| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $626,638 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Virtual cloud computing is emerging as a promising model for Information Technology (IT) management of complex server systems. The cloud vision is that the computing, networking, and storage resources offered by the service providers are multiplexed on de | National Science Foundation | 9/03/2009 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $580,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Electronic structure calculations provide fundamental information of molecular structure and interaction, and the potential energy surfaces necessary for studying complex dynamical processes. Density functional theory (DFT) is the method of choice for lar | National Science Foundation | 6/16/2009 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $564,635 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The Organization for Tropical Studies (OTS)-Duke University REU Site will provide a research program for undergraduates during the summers of 2009-2014. A diverse group of 10 students will be selected each year to participate in an intensive eight-week m | National Science Foundation | 6/30/2009 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $562,095 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This CAREER proposal presents a plan to use data and Monte Carlo from the Super-Kamiokande detector to optimize a 500-kiloton scale water Cherenkov (WC) detector sited at the Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory (DUSEL) for long-baseline ne | National Science Foundation | 6/09/2009 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $525,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The consequences of global climate change, such as hot temperature and drought, will significantly affect crop production and plant ecosystems, inevitably impacting on the overall health of the human population.Thus, it is crucial to understand how plants | National Science Foundation | 7/01/2009 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $498,176 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Online social networking has become ubiquitous and its popularity continues to grow. A social network is a collection of people tied by common interests such as those resulting from friendship, family, work, hobby, or geography. Online social networks (OS | National Science Foundation | 8/13/2009 |
| NORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL UNIVERSITY | $489,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Funding for a high resolution environmental field emission scanning electron microscope (FESEM) to support nanoscence research and education across science departments and research institutes at NCCU. | National Science Foundation | 1/22/2010 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $486,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This grant provides support towards awardees of the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program. The funds made available to Duke University on behalf of these graduate students provides one semester of stipend and one semester of | National Science Foundation | 8/13/2009 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $480,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Low-Light-Level Nonlinear Optics via Recoil-Induced Resonance The primary goal of the proposed research program is to study recoil-induced resonances (RIRs) in the high gain regime, where the back-action between atomic motion and generated light fields be | National Science Foundation | 6/15/2009 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $473,370 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Intellectual Merit: Understanding the abundance, diversity and activity of microbes over various time and space scales in terrestrial, freshwater and marine ecosystems is essential to understanding and addressing critical issues such as climate change, wa | National Science Foundation | 2/04/2010 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $450,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This proposal presents a plan to acquire a silicon deep reactive ion etching (DRIE) system to be installed and operated within the Shared Materials Instrumentation Facility (SMIF) at Duke University. The proposed system represents industry-leading DRIE pr | National Science Foundation | 3/08/2010 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $400,161 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Intellectual merit. The analysis of and on high-dimensional point clouds, dynamical systems, and of large graphs is motivated by many important applications, such as the study of high-dimensional data sets and of statistical models with a large number of | National Science Foundation | 6/25/2009 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $400,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This collaborative proposal seeks to provide a coordinated learning and research experience for Ph.D. students from seven universities that have developed different experimental and theoretical/simulations capabilities and have established a reputation as | National Science Foundation | 9/15/2009 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $400,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The Internet was designed to operate in a trusted and closely knitted academic environment. Today, as the Internet has embraced more than a billion users worldwide, its old design faces significant security and economics challenges. First, it is extremely | National Science Foundation | 9/16/2009 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $390,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Research Overview The proposed work is focused on the development and application of a new chemical modification- and mass spectrometry-based technique, termed SPROX (Stability of Proteins from Rates of OXidation), that can be used to measure the thermod | National Science Foundation | 7/06/2009 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $374,516 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support THE BIOLOGICAL BASIS OF MUSICAL TONALITY Music depends on periodically repeating sound stimuli (tones, notes) played in sequence as melodies, or in combination as harmonies. Any given theme or song entails a collection of tones that are formally referred | National Science Foundation | 7/20/2009 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $360,148 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Music depends on periodically repeating sound stimuli (tones, notes) played in sequence as melodies, or in combination as harmonies. Any given theme or song entails a collection of tones that are formally referred to as scales or modes. Each such collecti | National Science Foundation | 7/19/2009 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $350,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support High Efficiency Light Emitting Diodes using Nanostructured ZnO Intellectual Merit. This proposal presents collaborative effort to study chemically synthesized ZnO nanowires for potential application in high performance light emitting diode (LED) applicati | National Science Foundation | 7/30/2009 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $317,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The uptake of water by roots and its transport through xylem are essential for plants to grow and survive, replace water lost during transpiration, prevent desiccation, and continue carbon uptake. While many studies have examined water transport character | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $316,497 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Structured illumination(SI) is one of a new generation of techniques which have recently been demonstrated to break the diffraction limit in microscopy. The SI approach to super-resolution involves illuminating the object with a spatial frequency carrier | National Science Foundation | 8/28/2009 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $299,775 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Intellectual Merit Wastewater treatment processes do not efficiently remove all types of contaminants. The accumulation of these contaminants in biosolids is a growing concern because approximately 50% of biosolids in the United States are currently land- | National Science Foundation | 6/25/2009 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $281,181 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Intellectual Merit. Despite encompassing more than 90% of the livable space on the planet, the midwater environment and its inhabitants are among the least studied on the planet, primarily due to their remoteness and technological limitations that have | National Science Foundation | 6/01/2009 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $260,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Neotropical forests harbor high biodiversity, including fungi. Plant-mutualistic ectomycorrhizal (EM) fungi, however, are widely thought to be underrepresented in the neotropics. In contrast to temperate and boreal forests where EM fungi are nearly ubiqui | National Science Foundation | 8/17/2009 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $259,216 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This proposal describes three empirical projects examining markets for perishable goods. The products (event tickets and broadcast commercial time) are perishable because they lose their value after a pre-specified date. They also share the characteristic | National Science Foundation | 6/18/2009 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $249,991 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The edge of the Internet continues to spread rapidly over the wireless medium. To cope with the escalating demand, every available opportunity in wireless networking will have to be maximally exploited, particularly at the border of physical and higher la | National Science Foundation | 8/24/2009 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $176,270 | 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. Often times, they include many parameters characterizing the | National Science Foundation | 5/29/2009 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $150,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Chloroplast differentiation, as a vital part of the photomorphogenetic program in plants, is to establish photosynthetic plastids that enable plants for photoautotrophic growth in the light. This process is tightly controlled by environmental light cues, | National Science Foundation | 7/13/2009 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $128,260 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The proposed research contributes 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 th
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National Science Foundation | 7/07/2009 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $113,200 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This proposal requests purchase of the machinery equipment for the ship's on-shore workshop to provide better customer service by enabling ship's personnel to complete on-site machinery fabrications for configuring and repairing data sampling equipment th | National Science Foundation | 9/08/2009 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $110,821 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Intellectual Merit: We propose a unique computational platform to image the color phenotype of birds. The color phenotype is the angular spectral reflectance over the entire organismal surface. Scientific description of the color phenotype requires detail | National Science Foundation | 8/25/2009 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $90,000 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This is a STTR Phase I projoect awarded by NSF to develop ACC Synthesis - a Way to Create Safer, Efficacious and Inexpensive Single Enantiomers. The synthesis of single enantiomer drugs is an extremely important aspect of drug development. Unfortunately,
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National Science Foundation | 7/01/2009 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $79,088 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Method versus Preference Learning in Decision Analytic Preference Assessment Society faces problems in the 21st century that are different from what we have seen in the past. Policy makers and decision makers must make decisions in novel situations for w
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National Science Foundation | 6/17/2009 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $63,064 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Reforestation of tropical landscapes that were cleared of trees is a goal that has important implications for conservation biology, for developing diverse l
This spending item is part of a $333,992 allocation.
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National Science Foundation | 6/23/2009 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $62,948 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This project proposes a pilot educational research study to examine the career perspectives and goals of Duke engineering graduate students at various points of their doctoral or master#s degree programs. This study will also identify the variables or exp | National Science Foundation | 9/25/2009 |
| LIFESCITECH, LLC | $60,000 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This is a STTR Phase I projoect awarded by NSF to develop ACC Synthesis - a Way to Create Safer, Efficacious and Inexpensive Single Enantiomers. The synthesis of single enantiomer drugs is an extremely important aspect of drug development. Unfortunately,
This spending item is part of a $150,000 allocation.
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National Science Foundation | 7/01/2009 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $17,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Intellectual Merit This proposal requests a flow-through fluorometer to replace a 12-year old model. The fluorometer is used to measure surface chlorophyll a on R/V Cape Hatteras, a 136-ft long research vessel owned by the National Science Foundation and | National Science Foundation | 7/31/2009 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $9,071 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The broader impact of this request is support of basic oceanographic research. The science being conducted on Cape Hatteras that is supported by NSF in 2009 has relevance to the basic understanding of the carbon cycle. Three of the four studies will conce | National Science Foundation | 7/24/2009 |