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Luzerne County, Pa., funds by National Science Foundation

Listing $956,180.00 in stimulus funds from National Science Foundation for Luzerne

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
WILKES UNIVERSITY $704,323 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The immediate goal of this project is to increase the number of students from under-represented groups who enter graduate programs in biological research upon graduation from Wilkes University. The ultimate goal is to increase the number of PhD level biol National Science Foundation 8/25/2009
WILKES UNIVERSITY $210,880 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Award will support the purchase of a set of plant growth chambers that can be set for different temperatures, humidity, photoperiods, and CO2 levels. Aquisition of this instrumentation will have a direct impact on the research of three faculty and will ai National Science Foundation 4/07/2010
WILKES UNIVERSITY $40,977 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Plants form the base of arctic tundra food webs and are the determinants of terrestrial primary productivity in the Arctic. Given this central role, the response of tundra plants to climate change will have regional and global implications. This project
This spending item is part of a $196,846 allocation. See details
National Science Foundation 8/03/2009