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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
OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE $107,504 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The goal of this proposal is to train talented students from underrepresented groups to become field ecologists engaging in international collaboration. To accomplish this goal, the PIs will provide a comprehensive year-round research experience, includi National Science Foundation 5/29/2009
CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC $7,200,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project will continue to operate, develop, and improve the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS). CHESS is a unique national synchrotron radiation user facility that operates parasitically on the Cornell Electron Storage Ring (CESR), produci National Science Foundation 8/24/2009
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, THE $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). This award will fund the research of Florencia Canelli, an assistant professor in the experimental particle physics group at the University of Chicago. The r National Science Foundation 8/08/2009
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND $523,421 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Stochastics and Dynamics: Asymptotics Problems - 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, National Science Foundation 5/29/2009
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO $279,417 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
GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION $272,191 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 pursue the analysis of IceCube data. IceCube is a high-energy neutrino telescope currently under construction at the South Pole. Hal National Science Foundation 9/09/2009
UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE $40,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Travel grant to work on this topic National Science Foundation 6/30/2009
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT BROWNSVILLE $80,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The 1930's saw a revolution in astronomy with the first radio astronomical observatories, shattering the serene view of the Universe, revealing violent phenomena and exotic astrophysical objects. Today we stand on the verge of a new revolution of gravitat National Science Foundation 8/26/2009
UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT $400,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This program will study the formation and applications of ultracold molecules with translational temperatures less than 0.001 K. The formation of the homonuclear molecule Rb_2 and the heteronuclear molecule KRb will be investigated by photoassociation (PA National Science Foundation 8/11/2009
SENSOR ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY, INC. $99,364 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Small Business Innovation Research Project will develop an innovative approach for epitaxial deposition of high quality thick (Al)(In)(Ga)N layers with low dislocation density. Accomplishment of the proposed effort will provide technology for next ge National Science Foundation 6/10/2009
CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC $7,785,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This request concerns infrastructure used for R&D in microwave superconductivity, both basic studies and technology development. A central activity in these investigations is the testing of single- and multi-cell microwave cavities. The working fluid fo National Science Foundation 7/31/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS $417,288 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: In this study, we will enter for the first time the main brine body below the thick ice of Lake Vida, east Antarctica and perform in situ measurements, collect samples of the brine column, and collect sediment cores from the lake bottom for detailed geoch National Science Foundation 8/17/2009
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, THE $618,941 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Computational biology approaches to assessing the impact of amino acid residue substitution mutations on proteins. National Science Foundation 7/06/2009
RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY $535,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Faculty Early Career Award supports an integrated educational and research program addressing the fundamental electrical and optical properties of high-purity organic semiconductor devices, such as organic transistors and solar cells. These devices a National Science Foundation 8/18/2009
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, THE $499,548 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The title of this award is Fundamental Structural Processes of Relaxation and Shear Transformations in Metallic Glasses. Compared with conventional metals and alloys which are all crystalline, non-crystalline (amorphous) bulk metallic glasses (BMGs) show National Science Foundation 6/18/2009
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, THE $556,421 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The project outlines a comprehensive career plan for advancement of research and education in the field of active and cognitive hearing and speech technologies. The proposed research focuses on four main goals: (I) to design a novel architecture for corti National Science Foundation 6/26/2009
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, THE $300,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project will fund chemical engineering trainees, especially graduate students, to understand how to develop integrated self- and directed- assembly mechanisms to robustly assemble multi-component colloidal systems into more ordered and diverse struct National Science Foundation 6/25/2009
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN $450,005 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 is intended to achieve new, useful insights into control of noise pollution from jet aircraft by studying turbulent reactive flows and developi National Science Foundation 8/11/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS $775,940 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The purpose of this study is to develop a communication interface that will enable older people to effectively communicate with robotic assistants, allowing them in this way to remain living safely in their homes. The proposed communication interface will National Science Foundation 7/10/2009
LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM $51,525 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Oceanographic Instrumentation-2009 National Science Foundation 9/08/2009
PURDUE UNIVERSITY $374,769 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project examines the importance of intermediate physical organizations in the transformation of loose networks of researchers into sustainable cyber-based virtual organizations in emerging fields of interdisciplinary science and engineering work. Unl National Science Foundation 9/11/2009
MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY $2,000,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award provides funds to operate the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL) at Michigan State University as a national user facility, to support MSU faculty and staff research in nuclear physics, nuclear chemistry, astro-nuclear physics, National Science Foundation 8/24/2009
FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE $1,999,942 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The project has focused on the key development areas for the Inner Magnet as outlined below and good progress has been made with a number of these tasks. The work to-date has continued to be funded from other sources and has addressed issues of conductor National Science Foundation 8/24/2009
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI SYSTEM $752,656 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: MRI: Development of a Ground-based Interferometric Radar National Science Foundation 7/22/2009
COLGATE UNIVERSITY $83,745 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). We will acquire an ultraviolet laser for novel quantum imaging experiments at Colgate University. The grant will support and enhance the infrastructure of a National Science Foundation 8/17/2009
TRUSTEES OF THE COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES $551,296 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). With this award from the Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) program, Daniel M. Knauss and colleagues Stephen G. Boyes, Steven F. Dec, Andrew M. Herring National Science Foundation 7/28/2009
PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY $225,624 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Analogous to the use of medical X-rays to assess human structural features and plan medical treatment, analytical laboratory X-rays are vital in determining structural information for solid samples, often leading to the rational development of improved de National Science Foundation 9/14/2009
SEATTLE UNIVERSITY $129,628 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) award funds the acquisition of a fast protein liquid chromatography (FPLC) biomolecule purification system to support an interdisciplinary consortium of Seattle University faculty, their programs in undergraduate National Science Foundation 8/13/2009
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA MERCED $568,202 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The proposed MRI Development project will build and test an Affordable System for Solar Irradiance Sensing and Tracking (ASSIST). ASSIST will serve as model sensor and information technology system for directly and quantitatively observing the effects of National Science Foundation 8/29/2009
TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA $110,316 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: For two decades now, virtually all systematic analysis of the contemporary Supreme Court and its members has relied on Harold J. Spaeth s U.S. Supreme Court Judicial Database. This holds for research conducted by social scientists and, increasingly, by le National Science Foundation 8/24/2009
ECOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA, INCORPORATED $96,683 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Diversity program in the field of Ecology National Science Foundation 7/30/2009
CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY $163,173 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 'The ability of an animal to maneuver can determine its success at avoiding predators, catching food, and other fundamental behaviors that define the margin between life and death. Most research on the biomechanics of animal motion has concerned the init National Science Foundation 7/03/2009
MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY $50,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The diversity and pervasiveness of bacterial partnerships with animals is only now being fully appreciated. In many marine environments these symbioses play critical roles in sustaining high productivity. This project concerns symbioses between a group of National Science Foundation 7/28/2009
CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY $899,747 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The UTeach model is transforming the STEM teacher education program at the University. Features of intellectual merit include developing compact four-year degree programs that include both a content degree in mathematics, physics, biology or chemistry and National Science Foundation 5/28/2009
KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY $875,359 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The K-State Robert Noyce Scholarship Program is increasing the supply of highly qualified middle and high school teachers (Grades 6-12) in biology, chemistry, earth and space science, and physics. The program is providing opportunities for 20 freshmen and National Science Foundation 6/12/2009
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA $1,500,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Math for America Los Angeles (MfA LA), a non-profit organization formed by the University of Southern California (USC), Claremont Graduate University (CGU) and Harvey Mudd College (HMC), seeks to raise student achievement in the greater Los Angeles area b National Science Foundation 6/10/2009
DREXEL UNIVERSITY $49,885 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project seeks to develop and use a suite of freely-available internet chat-based tutorials for integrating computer modeling and design skills within any mechanical engineering undergraduate program. These tutorials will not only allow students to na National Science Foundation 7/22/2009
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES $2,257,731 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: TITLE: 'Student Training Through Research on Plasma-Based Accelerators.' This project seeks to provide a coordinated learning and research experience for Ph.D. students from seven universities that have developed different experimental and theoretical National Science Foundation 9/15/2009
BROWN UNIVERSITY IN PROVIDENCE IN STATE OF RI AND PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS $766,024 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 Atomic clusters containing a few to few hundred atoms exhibit dramatic size-dependent chemical and physical properties and form the founda National Science Foundation 9/17/2009
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN $231,429 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 collaborative investigation into the forest atmosphere photochemistry will apply a unique set of collaborative approaches, focused on the chemistry occ National Science Foundation 9/11/2009
WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY $120,271 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: It is now well known that forests emit organic compounds (BVOCs) that impact the physical (e.g. aerosols) and chemical (e.g. ozone) composition of the overlying atmosphere, and that this in turn impacts forest productivity. However, recent measurements o National Science Foundation 9/11/2009
PURDUE UNIVERSITY $116,836 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
WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY $286,992 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 $140,456 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Auroux-Donaldson-Katzarkov discovered a startlingly simple picture of smooth non-negative-definite 4-manifolds, generalizing Donaldson's interpretation of symplectic 4-manifolds as Lefschetz pencils. They view a 4-manifold, after blowing it up, as the tot National Science Foundation 7/13/2009
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND $262,452 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Collaborative Research: Petascale Computing, Visualization, and Science Discovery of Turbulent Sooting Flames Energy efficiency, the environment, and human health can be affected by combustion-generated soot, so controlling soot is a major technological National Science Foundation 8/22/2009
LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY, THE $280,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: A significant majority of current Internet traffic is due to distributing content, yet the Internet was designed to be largely agnostic to characteristics of the content flowing over it. This research investigates the design and operation of a content-awa National Science Foundation 7/24/2009
TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY SYSTEM $269,719 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 is focused on implementing novel methods for uncertainty quantification in the context of modeling carbon sequestration. Significant advances i National Science Foundation 6/26/2009
UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING $144,155 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award will enable the initiation of work on techniques for better climate simulation in conjunction with personnel at NCAR in Boulder Colorado. In this work, the PI at UW and personnel from his research group will interact with NCAR researchers to d National Science Foundation 9/05/2009
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA $300,001 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: In this project we propose the study of SiC membranes which show the potential to overcome some of the difficulties other membranes face, which have proven unstable in the presence of O2 and steam at temperatures higher than 300C; these are the conditions National Science Foundation 6/16/2009
THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC $548,837 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The project will quantify stratosphere-troposphere exchange (STE) using novel transport diagnostics: one-way cross-tropopause flux distributions and path densities with their associated transport rates. This new approach will extend the current knowledge National Science Foundation 6/19/2009
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND $280,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The research objective of this award is to develop fundamental understanding of the effect of probe-sample thin-fluid-film forces on the accuracy of dynamic atomic force microscopy (AFM) images acquired in ambient air. In particular, the work will quantif National Science Foundation 7/28/2009
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY $258,000 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
THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC $200,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The PIs will study some fundamental problems in algebraic number theory, particularly problems related to the deep links between Galois representations and special values of L-functions (as conjectured in the Birch-Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture and the Bloch National Science Foundation 6/18/2009
UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON SYSTEM $300,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Proteomics has contributed to advances in understanding fundamental biological phenomena and the detection and curing of diseases. Protein microarrays enable large amounts of data and quantitative studies for proteomics. However, these are not optimized f National Science Foundation 6/29/2009
DREXEL UNIVERSITY $275,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The objective of this collaborative research is to transform two major operating bridges with their approach highways and the associated diverse human and natural systems, into a living laboratory. This laboratory will be leveraged to explore how we may National Science Foundation 7/22/2009
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY $420,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Atomic clocks are the most accurate devices ever made by mankind, and have many important technological applications. The best atomic clocks are currently National Science Foundation 6/16/2009
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON $429,994 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This CAREER project is formulated to study the multiplexing and networking of passive wireless sensors for engineered sensor skins. The proposed multi-disciplinary research is focused to resolve three major challenges of sensor skins, i.e. electrical wiri National Science Foundation 6/29/2009
COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY $650,001 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Just like any other large social group, the honeybee colony critically relies on an efficient transfer of material and information among individuals. The interaction network which makes this possible is, however, also open to exploitation by pathogens or National Science Foundation 6/09/2009
LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY, THE $500,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Although spinal cord injury is a relatively rare occurrence (affecting about 11,000 people annually in the US), these debilitating injuries occur most commonly in young people who go on to live for many decades with extreme health complications, compromis National Science Foundation 8/06/2009
LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY, THE $400,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: As cell biologists, geneticists, or engineers, one routinely over-expresses a gene in a cell, observes the cell, and compares its behavior to the parent. Yet multiple genes, not one, often determine cell phenotypes. One example is the sustained proliferat National Science Foundation 7/09/2009
THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC $585,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: TECHNICAL SUMMARY: This CAREER proposal supports an integrated research and education program that centers on solving problems involving colloidal particle self-assembly using theoretical and computational methods. Unlike most of the work done so far in t National Science Foundation 6/12/2009
NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY $500,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The goal of this project is to develop the first chemo- and regioselective [2+2+2] cyclotrimerization reaction and establish it as an approach for the rapid assembly of natural products and libraries of analogs. These research objectives will be integrate National Science Foundation 7/02/2009
THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC $400,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This CAREER award is for research on creating an energy conversion system that converts the now landfilled petrochemical portion (plastics) of municipal solid wastes (MSW) to value added liquid fuel. The research includes carbon dioxide capture and storag National Science Foundation 7/22/2009
OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY $430,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The research objective of this Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) project is to develop analytic sensitivity methods for numerical simulations of fluid-structure interaction. The sensitivity methods can be employed in the design and assessment of c National Science Foundation 7/23/2009
UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON SYSTEM $308,288 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Project Summary: The University of Houston-Downtown has been recognized as a Hispanic Serving Institution as well as a Minority Serving Institution by the U.S. Department of Education. The objective of the REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates) site National Science Foundation 5/28/2009
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND $173,507 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Collaborative Research: Physics Based Modeling of Blue Jets. This project will focus on further development of a model of upper atmospheric phenomena known as Blue Jets, Blue Starters, and Gigantic Blue Jets. Blue Jets are narrow cones of blue light that National Science Foundation 6/15/2009
LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY, THE $579,244 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: In this CAREER proposal the PI, proposes to study the target-site search strategy of DNA-binding proteins. The PI will develop a reaction-diffusion methodology to model the facilitated diffusion of a protein finding its target site. The reaction-diffusion National Science Foundation 7/31/2009
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, THE $502,191 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award provides support to Washington University in St. Louis in their effort to build an extremely sensitive and versatile torsion balance. The instrument will probe possible deviations from the inverse square law of Newtonian gravity at sub-millime National Science Foundation 8/31/2009
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES $500,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 'A New Method For Producing Ultra-Cold Molecular Ions' This award is for support of a project working to demonstrate a novel method for producing and trapping ultracold molecular ions. The impact of this method for producing ground-state, ultracold molecu National Science Foundation 6/15/2009
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON $875,222 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).Ice-based buoys exist that can measure temperature profiles, but these are not optimized for observing the open sea. Thus the objective of this proposal is to National Science Foundation 5/21/2009
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, THE $696,904 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award will support the continuation of UVR (ultra-violet radiation) measurements at the Ultraviolet Spectral Irradiance Monitoring Network (UVSIMN) sites at Barrow, Alaska, and Summit, Greenland. UVR has been measured at Barrow since 1990 and at Summ National Science Foundation 7/16/2009
MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY, THE $911,715 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The 2007 Anaktuvuk River (AR) fire created a unique opportunity to observe the response of a pristine tundra landscape to a major disturbance. The area burned is large enough (>1000 km2) that its impacts can be measured directly at multiple scales, from s National Science Foundation 5/21/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA $150,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The investigator's research areas are number theory and representation theory. In particular, the investigator studies p-adic Galois representations and p-adic Hodge theory, with an eye towards applications to the modularity of Galois representations and National Science Foundation 7/23/2009
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY $419,999 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This is a project to investigate aspects of low-dimensional dynamical systems. The proposed research addresses the connection between algebraic properties of a group that acts on a surface in an area-preserving way and the possible topological nature of t National Science Foundation 7/08/2009
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA $329,997 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The objective of this research is to improve the reliability and restoration capability of wide area Power Grids (PG) thereby reducing power outages and their cascade effects. The approach is to embed novel intelligent sensors with distributed processing National Science Foundation 8/10/2009
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO $323,737 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The objective of this research is to demonstrate energy efficient, mixed-signal silicon transceiver circuitry using time-domain signal modulation for high-speed serial links. The approach is to employ plesiochronous double-edge pulse-width modulation to a National Science Foundation 8/20/2009
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON $518,993 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 will support a study that addresses the hypothesis that the expanding extent and duration of seasonal open water in the Arctic has the potential t National Science Foundation 7/15/2009
TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA $147,260 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The research focuses on the mathematical analysis of the evolutionary solutions to the equations from gas dynamics and fluid flow. In gas dynamics the goal is to gain a deeper understanding of relativistic kinetic equations coupled with their internally g National Science Foundation 7/19/2009
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY $287,040 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The theory of graph packing provides a general framework for organizing many areas of graph theory. Two famous results that can be phrased in this language are Dirac's Theorem on the existence of Hamiltonian cycles and the Hajnal-Szemer+?di Theorem on equ National Science Foundation 6/12/2009
TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, THE $158,522 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project aims to further our understanding of higher-dimensional shifts of finite type (SFTs) and cellular automata (CA). Broadly speaking, the goal is to describe their dynamics and identify types of dynamics that cannot occur in them. In recent work National Science Foundation 6/09/2009
KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY $131,451 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 activities supported by this grant include the following aspects of the geometric theory for the Monge-Ampere equation: a regularity theory in t National Science Foundation 6/05/2009
TEXAS ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT STATION $331,910 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The objective of this research is to design and construct a self-aligned tunnel logic device will consume less power in the off-state and require less switching power for device turn-on. The approach will be to use simulations to determine the appropriate National Science Foundation 9/03/2009
PURDUE UNIVERSITY $163,315 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The methods of p-adic Hodge theory have emerged as a powerful tool for studying Galois representations arising from algebraic varieties over p-adic fields. This proposal investigates integral p-adic Hodge theory, which is the study of integral and torsion National Science Foundation 6/05/2009
MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY $108,359 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: With regards to the intellectual content of the project, the aim of this proposal is the study of interactions between quasiconformal (QC) mappings, geometric analysis (in particular uniform rectifiability), Fourier analysis, and geometric combinatorics. National Science Foundation 8/02/2009
HARVARD COLLEGE, PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF $133,238 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Principal Investigator will conduct research on applications of algebra-geometric methods to Asymptotic Group Theory. The main goals of this project are twofold. One objective is to show that some group theoretic invariants (representation zeta functi National Science Foundation 8/02/2009
TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, THE $145,698 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 investigate interactions between differential geometry and nonlinear partial differential equations. In particular, it will explore (A) regu National Science Foundation 6/05/2009
TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY $201,559 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 will support a study that addresses the hypothesis that the expanding extent and duration of seasonal open water in the Arctic has the potential National Science Foundation 7/15/2009
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA $303,500 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The objective of the research will be to advance the science and technology of visible LEDs fabricated from columnar nanostructures that emit at visible wavelengths and with high efficiencies. Intellectual Merit of the Program A program of research is p National Science Foundation 7/31/2009
CHRISTOPHER NEWPORT UNIVERSITY $650,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The program experiments are conducted at the Jefferson laboratory and embodies one of the primary goals of Nuclear Physics which is to elucidate the underlying structure of protons, neutrons, and mesons. Specifically, these experiments further our unders National Science Foundation 8/17/2009
MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY $133,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: It will provide funds for this group to work on Milagro, a TeV cosmic gamma ray experiment, and HAWC, a successor to Milagro. Very high energy gamma ray astronomy probes some of the most extreme environments in the known universe. Known sources of TeV gam National Science Foundation 7/22/2009
THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC $2,620,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: After a year-long absence from the U.S. Ocean Bottom Seismometer Instrument Pool (OBSIP), Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory will rejoin OBSIP with new management, a service-oriented model, a renewed testing and verification program, and improvements to the National Science Foundation 8/19/2009
CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC $10,000,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network (NNIN) is a partnership of 14 institutions (Cornell University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Harvard University, Howard University, , Pennsylvania State University, Stanford University, University of National Science Foundation 9/17/2009
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM $5,000,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Synchrotron Radiation Center (SRC) is a national research laboratory operated by the Graduate School of the University of Wisconsin - Madison with funding from the National Science Foundation Division of Materials Research. The SRC uses an electron st National Science Foundation 7/29/2009
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO $1,070,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project continues Scripps Institution of Oceanography's role as the Pacific Facility of the Ocean-Bottom Seismic Instrument Pool. Scripps maintains a fleet of 75 OBS/H of which 25 can be used in a long-deployment, broadband configuration for periods National Science Foundation 8/25/2009
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT RIVERSIDE $229,309 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The purchase of a high power, femtosecond laser system is proposed. This laser system will generate 2 millijoule, <150 femtosecond pulses at 800 nm with a repetition rate of 1 kHz. These pulses will be used to pump an optical parametric amplifier which, National Science Foundation 7/28/2009
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA $469,164 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: With support from the Chemistry Research Instrumentation and Facilities: Multiuser program (CRIF:MU), the Departments of Chemistry at the University of Southern California (USC) and California State University - Fullerton (CSUF) will collaborate on the ac National Science Foundation 9/21/2009
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS $498,525 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).With support from the Chemistry Research Instrumentation and Facilities: Multiuser program (CRIF:MU), the Department of Chemistry at the University of North T National Science Foundation 7/26/2009
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS $193,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Intellectual Merit: The MARGINS program ends in 2009, and the organization, synthesis, and integration of the most important results is a high priority for each of the four experiments. This proposal outlines a 3-year collaborative effort (between 5 US an National Science Foundation 7/20/2009
WILLIAM MARSH RICE UNIVERSITY $266,942 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Fund are provided for conducting high-pressure experiments to investigate the fate of sediments as they are progressively subducted to greater depths. In particular, two major questions are addressed that are relevant to the chief goals of the Subduction National Science Foundation 6/29/2009
FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY $120,777 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Habitat degradation and loss may represent the most critical threats to biological diversity. While ecological effects of human activities at the ecosystem and community levels have received considerable scientific interest, evolutionary impacts of human National Science Foundation 8/11/2009
BROWN UNIVERSITY IN PROVIDENCE IN STATE OF RI AND PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS $606,347 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 'This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).' Terrestrial plants display remarkable variation in many aspects of leaf form. Leaves serve as main sites for photosynthesis, and are thus primary custodian National Science Foundation 6/06/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS $1,010,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The goal of this research is to improve understanding of severe convective storms using numerical models with particular attention to genesis, structure and evolution of supercells and tornadoes in increasingly realistic environmental conditions. Research National Science Foundation 6/25/2009
WILLIAM MARSH RICE UNIVERSITY $933,526 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Researchers at Rice University have been awarded a grant for an interdisciplinary project in software development, evolutionary biology and comparative genomics that will create new computational methods and web-based resources for comparing and interpret National Science Foundation 7/18/2009
VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE & STATE UNIVERSITY $439,006 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This multidisciplinary project focuses on how an introduced disease, white pine blister rust, can alter ecosystem function through the mortality of whitebark pine, a keystone and foundation species of subalpine and treeline communities of the western Unit National Science Foundation 7/02/2009
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON $1,499,988 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. Surface waves are believed to play a key role in the upper ocean boundary layer, yet do not appear explicitly in any of the major boundar National Science Foundation 8/10/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS $399,837 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Cyberinfrastructure (CI) that supports the global research community by linking together researchers, computational resources, instruments, and data, has had a significant impact on the science and engineering research communities. At the heart of CI is t National Science Foundation 5/29/2009
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO $151,650 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This proposal is aimed at exploring the development of a highly scalable software framework for global algorithms in three dimensions, such as Fast Fourier Transforms(3D FFT) and other analogous algorithms, tuned for massively parallel petascale architect National Science Foundation 9/21/2009
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO $400,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 'Imaging and Analyses of Heliospheric Structure for SHINE Using IPS and SMEI Remote-sensing observations to study the physics and global properties of heliospheric structure, such as coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are of fundamental importance to the Solar National Science Foundation 6/23/2009
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM $466,696 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project involves measuring formaldehyde and alpha-dicarbonyl (mainly glyoxal) concentration gradients and fluxes within and above the canopy at Blodgett Forest in the Sierra Nevada of California using state of the art instrumentation as part of the m National Science Foundation 6/05/2009
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM $306,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Many serious medical conditions, from hemorrhage to coronary artery disease to diabetes, are associated with disruptions in blood flow. It has been observed that dramatic beneficial effects on blood flow arise from addition to blood of low concentrations National Science Foundation 8/17/2009
MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY $300,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Leaking underground storage tanks (LUST) sites have resulted in BTEX (benzene, toluene, ethylbenezene and xylenes) compounds, oxygenates such as methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE) or tert-butyl alcohol (TBA) migrating into surface and groundwater and eventual National Science Foundation 8/25/2009
MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL, THE $305,700 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: There is a critical shortage of organs, with the organ waiting list currently at 100,000 requests and increasing by 5% every year. This study focuses on the liver: 27,000 die in the US annually due to liver disease, 3,000 while on the organ transplant lis National Science Foundation 8/19/2009
TEXAS ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT STATION $82,500 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 f National Science Foundation 8/25/2009
UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA $339,999 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The overall goal of the project is to better understand the mechanisms by which nanomaterials released into the environment may be taken up into fish species and cause toxicity. It is known that nanomaterials can enter through the gills or the digestive National Science Foundation 6/30/2009
FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE $5,000,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The purpose of this ARRA award is to ameliorate prior budget reductions. Cumulative under funding of this 5-yr award led to the deferment of equipment replacement, preventive maintenance, projects and a reduction in DC magnet operations. The receipt of National Science Foundation 8/03/2009
INCORPORATED RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS FOR SEISMOLOGY $5,101,724 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The integrated observing systems that comprise the EarthScope Facility can be used to address fundamental questions at all scales, from the active nucleation zone of earthquakes, to individual faults and volcanoes, to the deformation along the plate bound National Science Foundation 8/14/2009
UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE $4,315,607 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Spatial and temporal integration of carbon and mineral fluxes: a whole watershed approach to quantifying anthropogenic modification of critical zone carbon sequestration. To quantify the impacts on the global carbon cycle of humans as geological agents, a National Science Foundation 9/18/2009
CENTER FOR SEVERE WEATHER RESEARCH INC, THE $530,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Intellectual Merit: Under this Cooperative Agreement the Principal investigator will provide as a national facility a three-system ground-based mobile radar fleet, the Doppler On Wheels (DOWs). The three systems include two mobile X-band Doppler on Wheels National Science Foundation 9/15/2009
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY $299,541 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Biomaterial-based arterial reconstruction is an effective approach for the treatment of atherosclerosis, the leading cause of human death. However, biomaterials induce thrombosis and intimal hyperplasia, vascular disorders contributing to the failure of r National Science Foundation 7/27/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS $125,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Driven molecular transport around active nanostructures, such as functionalized graphene nanopores, internally-excited polarizable nanotubes and novel molecular nanodevices is an important area to study. The research objectives of the PIs are to: 1) devel National Science Foundation 8/19/2009
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA $110,251 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: A request is made to fund additional and back-up instrumentation for the R/V Blue Heron, an 86 foot Coastal vessel owned by the University of Minnesota and operated by the Large Lakes Observatory as part of the University-National Oceanographic Laboratory National Science Foundation 9/13/2009
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES $684,683 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Investigation of nonlinear wave-particle interactions The proposed project is aimed at studying the fundamental wave-particle interactions between energetic electrons and whistler-mode waves. It consists of a theoretical/ modeling component, and an expe National Science Foundation 6/25/2009
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA $309,796 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project will investigate the theory of kinetic Alfven waves along auroral field lines in the Earth's magnetosphere. Such waves play a major role in carrying energy from the outer magnetosphere to lower altitudes where it accelerates the precipitating National Science Foundation 8/19/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS $543,157 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Entanglement 'the bizarre' nonlocal connection that can exist between quantum systems is the critical resource in most quantum information processing (QIP) applications, and entangled photons are the central carriers of quantum information in many of thes National Science Foundation 7/07/2009
MIAMI UNIVERSITY $515,952 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: One of the most important issues in the geosciences is the growing disparity between the workforce needs and our ability to produce well trained students. This project is examining whether inquiry-based approaches to education and research can aid us in t National Science Foundation 8/12/2009
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON $713,199 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, Miguel Morales (University of Washington) will work towards removing the astrophysical and instrumental foregrounds from HI (neutral hydrogen) observation National Science Foundation 8/08/2009
OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION $336,448 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Since its founding in 1891, the Ohio State University Herbarium has grown to become the premier collection of plants from Ohio, documenting the change in plant diversity and distribution in the state through the last century. This project focuses on data National Science Foundation 8/17/2009
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA $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 award supports the University of Minnesota REU / RET physics site which introduces undergraduates to forefront research in physics by having them work wi National Science Foundation 6/04/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA $306,111 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 'This REU Site hosts ten students each year to engage in software language engineering research for eight weeks in the summer. This builds research and technical communication skills in the students through training and practice during the summer program National Science Foundation 7/27/2009
NEVADA SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION $1,254,266 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award supports the continuation and expansion of long-term measurements of the Arctic atmosphere, snow, and other Earth system components at the Summit, Greenland, Environmental Observatory (GEOSummit). The original measurement program began in 2003 National Science Foundation 6/15/2009
O F M RESEARCH INC $136,277 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Volcanoes are places where molten rock erupts on the surface of the Earth; they are both major natural hazards and fascinating targets for scientific study because they are messengers from the interior of our planet, where melting of rocks takes place. T National Science Foundation 6/04/2009
DREXEL UNIVERSITY $200,301 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Drexel University and Penn State University are partnering for a second round of WATERs testbed proposals concerning the Susquehanna River Basin Hydrologic Observatory System (SRBHOS). While the first phase concentrated on the establishment of a node wit National Science Foundation 7/28/2009
CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY $321,923 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 'Geodetic deformation across the Himalaya reflects primarily locking of the Main Himalayan Thrust (MHT) fault from the surface to a depth of about 15-20km. Local seismic monitoring has revealed clustered seismicity that is probably driven by stress accum National Science Foundation 9/11/2009
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES $2,475,347 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Research and Training Grant 'Analysis and Applications' has as its aim the increase of the numbers of US students interested in mathematics and, more specifically, in fields related to mathematical analysis. The grant provides training funds to under National Science Foundation 6/15/2009
UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE $166,657 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Collaborative Research: Measurement of Cosmic Ray Response Functions for an Ice Cherenkov Detector We determined a complete set of cosmic ray response functions for the ice Cherenkov detector used in the surface air shower array that is part of the Ice National Science Foundation 6/05/2009
TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE $149,501 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The GBASE project (GeomicroBiology of Antarctic Subglacial Environments) is one of three research components of the WISSARD (Whillans Ice Stream Subglacial Access Research Drilling) integrative initiative that is being funded by the Antarctic Integrated S National Science Foundation 8/25/2009
VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE $275,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) persist in the environment, undergo long-range atmospheric transport to polar regions, accumulate in biological tissues, biomagnify (increase in concentration with trophic level) in food webs, and cause adverse effects National Science Foundation 8/14/2009
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA CRUZ $555,788 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Marine mammals of the Southern Ocean have evolved diverse life history patterns and foraging strategies to accommodate extreme fluctuations in the physical and biological environment. In light of ongoing climate change and the dramatic shifts in the exten National Science Foundation 7/06/2009
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA $247,684 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The proposed project will investigate the coldest and driest parts of the Transantarctic Mountains (Ong Valley at Nimrod Glacier and Moraine Canyon at Amundsen Glacier) where the lack of running water and biological activity in the modern environment is t National Science Foundation 8/17/2009
NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY INC $325,602 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 11-5). The LISSARD project (Lake and Ice Stream Subglacial Access Research Drilling) is one of three research components of the WISSARD integrative initiative (Whil National Science Foundation 8/25/2009
OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY $411,249 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award supports a project to develop a robust analytical technique for measuring the stable isotopes of CO2 in air trapped in polar ice, and to reconstruct the isotopic signature 13C of CO2 over the last glacial to interglacial transition (20,000 to 1 National Science Foundation 5/22/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS $124,981 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project will deploy a new Fabry-Perot interferometer (FPI) at the U.S. Palmer Station located in the Antarctic Peninsula. The FPI will observe mesospheric and thermospheric neutral winds and temperatures using multiple nightglow emissions (OH, 892 nm National Science Foundation 8/18/2009
UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING $586,581 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: We will continue in situ balloonborne ozonesonde measurements through 2010. These ozone measurements, begun in 1986, documented the decline and minimum in ozone observed as chlorine increased and reached its maximum. The recent measurements show that most National Science Foundation 6/08/2009
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES $556,647 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The goal of this project, 'A Computational Investigation Into Biological Motion Perception,' is to develop a computational theory of biological motion perception by integrating modeling with psychophysical experiments. The theory addresses the underlying National Science Foundation 7/23/2009
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY $723,287 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 addresses fundamental questions in the realm of symplectic topology (the mathematical structure behind classical mechanics) and its interactio National Science Foundation 6/19/2009
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY $578,660 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Quantum computing is a scientific field that combines some of the deepest intellectual concerns of computer science and physics. Ultimately, we want to kn National Science Foundation 6/01/2009
MIAMI UNIVERSITY $527,684 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project will develop the ideas behind, and tools required for, a Rationale Management System that captures design decisions made during software development. The approach utilizes technology developed to support the Semantic Web, using Semantic Ann National Science Foundation 6/09/2009
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI $320,001 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Migration is a fundamental characteristic of the life history of many organisms allowing individuals to take advantage of different habitats as environments change seasonally. For example, over two-thirds of all landbirds that breed in temperate North Am National Science Foundation 7/08/2009
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO $449,142 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award will improve our understanding of biomembranes reinforced by embedded skeletons using two representative examples: insect wing and fish fin. The focus will be the correlation between the bio-architecture and locomotion performance a boundary-in National Science Foundation 6/24/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER $425,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This CAREER award supports an integrated research and education program emphasizing the theoretical study of feedback control and entanglement production with continuous quantum measurement in solid state systems. A theory will be developed that describes National Science Foundation 6/16/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER $97,654 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The process of sentence comprehension involves incrementally accessing the meaning of individual words and combining them into larger representations. In this process, readers / listeners use probabilistic cues to guide their expectations of upcoming word National Science Foundation 6/24/2009
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM $430,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The research objective of this Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) project is to advance the capabilities of micro-transfer printing through a fundamental investigation of the process mechanics that combines experimental characterization and computa National Science Foundation 7/20/2009
TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY-SAN MARCOS $549,999 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Some of the major challenges that the world faces today are how to feed the ever-increasing population and to find the ways to deal with global climatic change. A better understanding of molecular mechanisms involved in plant growth and development is nec National Science Foundation 7/15/2009
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY (THE) $843,662 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This is a CAREER award to support the research of Dr. Hongfang Liu in the Department of Biostatistics, Bioinformatics and Biomathematics at Georgetown University. Dr. Liu is a second-year, tenure-track Assistant Professor. Natural language processing (NLP National Science Foundation 8/10/2009
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY $1,250,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: While the nervous system operates with information, the mechanics of the body and the environment in which it is embedded constitute a world of forces. Work on the mechanics of the body and on the nervous system is rarely undertaken in a joint fashion, in National Science Foundation 7/27/2009
SOUTH CAROLINA RESEARCH FOUNDATION $408,042 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: CAREER: Integrated Modeling for Watershed Management The principal objective of this proposal is to advance integrated modeling as an approach for building next generation watershed models to support environmental management. Integrated modeling is a syst National Science Foundation 6/19/2009
PURDUE UNIVERSITY $647,073 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Quantifying the global fossil fuel carbon dioxide (CO2) flux at high space/time resolution has emerged as a critical need in both carbon cycle and climate change science. The Vulcan Project led by the Principal Investigator (PI) has recently completed suc National Science Foundation 8/16/2009
CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC $800,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This CAREER proposal describes a research program that will explore the opportunities for new discoveries at the Large Hadron Collider( LHC) at CERN using the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector. With pp collisions at 14 TeV, the LHC is expected to open National Science Foundation 6/02/2009
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS $430,000 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 understand deformation science in ultralight, single-crystal, hexagonal close-packed magnesium-lithium (Mg-Li) allo National Science Foundation 7/07/2009
CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC $400,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The PI proposes to develop tools to enable the introduction of exogenous DNA into specifically targeted cells in the brain of a live rodent, opening the door to cell-targeted genetic manipulation. This new capability will extend the power of genetic manip National Science Foundation 7/07/2009
TOWSON UNIVERSITY $273,214 Grant 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
PURDUE UNIVERSITY $950,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The aim of this project is to contribute to future advances in mass spectrometry by studying ionic processes outside the mass spectrometer. Progress is reported on six interrelated studies that involve ion chemistry at atmospheric pressure. (i) Serine o National Science Foundation 6/19/2009
MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY $387,490 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 Organic and Macromolecular Chemistry Program in the Chemistry Division at the National Science Foundation supports Professor Rajendra Rathore of Marquett National Science Foundation 7/30/2009
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT RIVERSIDE $211,045 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Amines are volatile organic compounds (VOCs) emitted to the atmosphere from a number of sources including animal feeding operations. (AFOs) Significant literature evidence indicates that amines in the atmosphere act as precursors for fine particulate matt National Science Foundation 7/20/2009
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON $58,061 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
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN $251,905 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Media priming has been established as one of the most important ways in which the information environment of electoral campaigns affects public opinion. By changing the criteria citizens use to evaluate policies and politicians, the media conditionally af National Science Foundation 6/16/2009
PURDUE UNIVERSITY $902,262 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Purdue University is awarded a grant to implement a complete informatics system for identifying conserved RNA structure topologies, and for finding new examples of similar topologies in sequence databases. This will allow RNA researchers the same loop of National Science Foundation 8/26/2009
UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY $1,027,384 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The University of Kentucky has received a grant to build cyberinfrastructure to help researchers understand the messenger RNA (mRNA) generated using new high throughput sequencing methods. Next generation deep sequencing technologies applied to complement National Science Foundation 8/04/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS $184,616 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project by Anna Berge at the University of Alaska is to continue the research that was encompassed in her earlier project on the Aleut language that was funded as an NSF CAREER award. The goals of the original CAREER project were to document aspects National Science Foundation 8/25/2009
INSTITUTE OF GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIETY, INC. $7,202,295 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 by the Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studie National Science Foundation 8/30/2009
TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, THE $94,575 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project will focus on further development of a model of upper atmospheric phenomena known as Blue Jets, Blue Starters, and Gigantic Blue Jets. Blue Jets are narrow cones of blue light that propagate upward from the top of a thundercloud and were disc National Science Foundation 6/15/2009
MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY, INC $911,637 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The FIREBIRD mission(Focused Investigations of Relativistic Electron Burst Intensity, Range and Dynamics)is a targeted, goal-directed, space weather CubeSat mission to resolve the spatial scale size and energy dependence of electron microbursts in the Van National Science Foundation 8/26/2009
UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH $495,539 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Researchers at NCAR aim to address Antarctic climate variability on interannual, multidecadal and longer timescales over the past ~250 years as a means to better understand the underlying physical mechanisms controlling climate change in the southern pola National Science Foundation 5/26/2009
GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION $264,818 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Georgia Tech investigators will provide an improved data synthesis in the area of air-sea interaction, combining available satellite data, historic and recent field observations and improved turbulent flux models for the high wind conditions that are so c National Science Foundation 5/22/2009
VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE & STATE UNIVERSITY $244,066 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Two models have been proposed to describe controls over microbial biogeography. One model proposes that microbes are ubiquitously distributed across the global environment, and that environmental conditions select for taxa physiologically adapted to local National Science Foundation 8/14/2009
TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE $98,832 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This effort seeks to develop a better understanding of how the nonlinearly coupled thermosphere and ionosphere are driven asymmetrically in polar storm events, and how coupling between these domains affects overall system-level response. Goals of the proj National Science Foundation 6/15/2009
TEXAS A & M RESEARCH FOUNDATION $388,477 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: A postulated key factor in controlling the future fate of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, for instance in the area of the Amundsen Sea embayment, is the extent to which warm Circumpolar Deep Water (CDW) intrusions may flow up onto the continental shelf and National Science Foundation 8/12/2009
PURDUE UNIVERSITY $526,883 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award supports a project to measure the concentration of the cosmogenic radionuclide, Beryllium-10 in the deep WAIS divide ice core. Since cosmogenic radionuclides are one of the key parameters used for absolute dating of the ice core and deriving pa National Science Foundation 6/19/2009
UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH $481,405 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The paucity of conventional meteorological observations over the Antarctic continent represents a major challenge to both weather forecasts and climate analysis. This puts a premium on the productive use of satellite data, including non-traditional approa National Science Foundation 5/26/2009
AUGSBURG COLLEGE $73,671 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Antarctic Aeronomy & Astophys PENGUin VI Space Physics Research Based In Antarctica National Science Foundation 8/20/2009
TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY $523,468 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). With this award from the Chemistry Research Instrumentation and Facilities Multiuser Program (CRIF:MU), Professor John E. Straub and colleague Sean J. Ellio National Science Foundation 7/26/2009
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA $577,076 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Analytical and Surface Chemistry Program of the Division of Chemistry will support the CAREER development of Prof. Matthias Batzill of the University of South Florida. Prof. Batzill and his research group will investigate the surface and interface pro National Science Foundation 7/06/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA $500,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This proposal seeks $500K (1/2 total cost) in funding to acquire a new electron microprobe. NASA will fund the other 50% in a separate funding action. The current Cameca SX50 probe is 18 years old, heavily used (400 hours / month), and has supported users National Science Foundation 7/23/2009
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA $625,153 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Food webs describe the flow of resources through ecosystems from producers (plants) to primary consumers (herbivores) and on to secondary consumers (predators). Food webs are especially complex in diverse tropical rainforests where numerous species share National Science Foundation 8/17/2009
PRESIDENT & TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE $367,046 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project will increase our understanding of how lakes shift from nutrient-poor to nutrient-rich states and the potential impact of a cyanobacterial species in that process and, in general, in nutrient cycling in nutrient-poor lakes. We are examining National Science Foundation 8/27/2009
UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA $273,219 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: One of the most critical threats to biological diversity is the habitat fragmentation and degradation caused by human activities. Significant advances in our understanding of the ecological effects of human activities have been made in recent years, howev National Science Foundation 8/11/2009
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY $617,009 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Methanobactin (Mb) is a small copper-chelating molecule isolated from methanotrophic bacteria, organisms that utilize methane as their sole carbon source. Methanobactin facilitates copper uptake and may also function in regulation of methane monooxygenase National Science Foundation 7/20/2009
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON $394,950 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 much has been learned about hurricane structure and intensity change from observational analyses and mesoscale model simulations, much less is known abo National Science Foundation 6/05/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS $300,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Research project. At the heart of each eukaryotic cell is the nucleus, a complex structure highly organized into many distinct functional domains to perform two fundamental roles: the maintenance of the genome and the distribution of the genetic informati National Science Foundation 7/20/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA $571,194 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The intellectual merit of this project is to understand cellular asymmetry and membrane adhesion, two processes that are not well understood and which are crucial for eukaryotic cells. Many structures, including the mitotic spindle, nuclear pore complexes National Science Foundation 7/17/2009
TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY $649,456 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 recent completion of the sequences of the human genome, and many others, has provided the raw data on which to build a deep understanding of how living National Science Foundation 6/17/2009
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY $249,829 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Microbial structures in Neoproterozoic cap carbonates Tanja Bosak MIT, EAR-0843358 ABSTRACT Life on our planet endured extreme glacial conditions National Science Foundation 8/19/2009
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY $4,174,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: With this award Northwestern University will establish an International Materials Institute (IMI) for Solar Energy Conversion. Although conventional silicon and other semiconductor solar cells have achieved high efficiency for solar energy conversion, the National Science Foundation 8/12/2009
RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY $100,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The atmosphere of the Earth is dominated by two gases, N2 and O2. N2 is virtually inert and has been the most abundant gas since the atmosphere formed. In contrast, O2, which came to comprise 10 to 30% of the volume of the atmosphere over the past ~500 mi National Science Foundation 7/17/2009
UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO $184,986 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: A common assumption underlying ecological and hydrological views of small stream systems is that beaver damming causes long-term filling of valleys with sediment, creating broad, flat ?beaver meadows?. Thus beaver activity is thought to promote both a pe National Science Foundation 6/21/2009
VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE & STATE UNIVERSITY $1,081,348 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Intellectual Merit Circadian rhythms are mechanisms that measure time on a scale of about 24 h and adjust physiological processes to external environmental signals. Core circadian clock genes are defined as genes whose protein products are necessary compo National Science Foundation 7/13/2009
THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC $678,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: With this CAREER award from the Organic and Macromolecular Chemistry Program in the Chemistry Division at the National Science Foundation, Professor Scott A. Snyder of the Department of Chemistry at Columbia University will develop new approaches for the National Science Foundation 5/21/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER $399,600 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Many image processing applications rely on a transform or an operator to eliminate the redundancies in images, thus sparsifying the data. The need for multi-resolution makes it difficult for wavelet-like transforms to sparsify local discontinuities, while National Science Foundation 6/19/2009
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI SYSTEM $613,490 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: CAREER: A Computational Approach to Study Molecular Mimicry in Host-Pathogen Interactions National Science Foundation 6/09/2009
CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC $536,700 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Current concepts of ecosystem ecology center on the coupling between nitrogen availability and biotic demand in controlling retention of nitrogen by ecosystems. Increased nitrogen loss is expected from ecosystems when the nutritional demands of plants are National Science Foundation 8/05/2009
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, THE $915,500 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Understanding the genetic basis of adaptation is a central goal of evolutionary biology. An exciting advance of the last decade has been the development of studies characterizing the molecular basis of adaptive polymorphism. This CAREER project capitalize National Science Foundation 8/02/2009
TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY $430,000 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 Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) project is to establish a rigorous theoretical and experimental foundation for track National Science Foundation 6/30/2009
HARVARD COLLEGE, PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF $702,452 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Population genetics provides powerful, well-tested theory for the fate of existing versions of genes in a population during evolution. In contrast, no strong quantitative framework exists to predict how new versions of genes arise and take over due to nat National Science Foundation 7/17/2009
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY $429,999 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Research in phonology has constructed rich mathematical theories to precisely characterize the systematic patterns of sounds observed in human languages. However, such theories have largely ignored how humans process sounds in real time. For example, when National Science Foundation 7/22/2009
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY $573,548 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Rivers are the dynamic link between terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. The biogeochemical processes that produce, consume, and transform organic carbon in rivers are critical to understanding regional carbon budgets, the controls on river water quality, National Science Foundation 9/02/2009
RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY $400,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The proposed microfluidics system uniquely allows examination of a combinations of factors in a physiologically relevant 3D environment, and holds great promise for elucidating guidance principles that underlay neurodevelopment and for identifying and imp National Science Foundation 6/02/2009
OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY $400,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This CAREER award applies ecological engineering to the management of environmental systems. It involves application and extension of the Willamette Collaborative Model, being developed and used by federal agencies for water resources planning in the Will National Science Foundation 7/02/2009
PURDUE UNIVERSITY $400,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Intellectual Merit: One goal of tissue engineering is to direct the differentiation, integration, and organization of living cells to produce biological substitutes for organs to meet the need of nearly 100,000 Americans who are waiting for organ transpla National Science Foundation 7/22/2009
TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY $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).' This Faculty Early Career Development project aims to advance nanophotonics by developing a new class of light emitting devices exploiting aperiodic media National Science Foundation 7/14/2009
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES $478,830 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Investigation of current and future urban-climate interactions in metropolitan regions of the southwest U.S. . National Science Foundation 6/05/2009
MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY $400,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The objective of this research is to create a unified theoretic framework for optimal control and estimation of nonlinear dynamic systems. The approach is to (1) establish a rigorous theory and efficient algorithms for solving nonlinear optimal control pr National Science Foundation 8/28/2009
TRUSTEES OF THE COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES $404,658 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 CAREER proposal integrates research and educational activities in the thematic area of gas-surface dynamics critical to nanoscale National Science Foundation 8/06/2009
BOARD OF REGENTS NEVADA SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION $430,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The motivation of this research is to understand the complex and dynamic interactions among population growth, water-energy nexus, climate change, and vulnerability, in a coupled human-environmental system. The main objective is the development of a new t National Science Foundation 7/14/2009
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM $450,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This CAREER proposal focuses on developing an integrated research and education program in biofuels which will aid in enhancing the conversion efficiency of biomass to ethanol, promoting the commercialization of cellulose ethanol, and training scientists National Science Foundation 7/24/2009
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT RIVERSIDE $400,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The objective of this integrated research and educational program is to understand the mechanisms that form proteins in living tissues. This understanding is critical for inducing tissue growth for wound healing or disease recovery, and for other biomanuf National Science Foundation 7/06/2009
HARVARD COLLEGE, PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF $800,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Under this CAREER award the PI will develop and test general theories of cytoskeletal organization, and thereby obtain an understanding of the architecture and dynamics of the metaphase spindle. The project will use fluorescence and polarized light micros National Science Foundation 7/17/2009
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND $400,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This CAREER award supports fundamental theoretical condensed matter physics research and education aiming to extend our understanding of superconductivity a state of matter where electrons pair together and act in concert as reflected by an absence of any National Science Foundation 6/22/2009
RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE $582,112 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The use of the basic principle of conservation has led to accurate and reliable mathematical models of the physical world. Such models, known as conservation laws, together with the related models such as Hamilton-Jacobi equations, display rich features i National Science Foundation 7/17/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS $500,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: INTELLECTUAL MERIT: The extracellular matrix (ECM) in human tissues plays a critical role in protecting and nourishing cells by providing cell adhesion sites and sequestering growth factors. Artificially constructed ECM-simulating biomaterials are often c National Science Foundation 8/06/2009
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY $600,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This CAREER award supports an experimental research program to develop new techniques for high-precision measurements on cold trapped molecular ions. Sympathetic cooling of charged molecules to sub-Kelvin temperatures has recently been demonstrated, openi National Science Foundation 6/16/2009
NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY $252,064 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The mycological herbarium at North Carolina State University has the largest and most comprehensive collection of wood decay fungi from the southeastern US. The collection consists primarily of wood decay and plant pathogenic fungi from ecologically diver National Science Foundation 8/21/2009
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT RIVERSIDE $529,588 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Pathogens and hosts are engaged in an endless and deadly warfare. Type III secretion system (T3SS) and secreted effectors (T3SEs) are essential virulence factors of gram negative bacterial pathogens, some of which are responsible for the most devastating National Science Foundation 6/24/2009
UNIVERSITY OF IOWA, THE $390,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project will develop methods to site-isolate commercially available Pd, Mn, Cr, and Co catalysts using polymeric thimbles. The structures of the catalysts will not be altered; the method of site-isolation will be compatible with catalysts that have b National Science Foundation 7/07/2009
OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION $458,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Analytical and Surface Chemistry (ASC) program of the Division of Chemistry supports the research program of Prof. James V. Coe of the Ohio State University. The Coe Group has developed a new method for recording 'scatter-free' infrared (IR) absorpti National Science Foundation 5/28/2009
COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY $260,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project seeks to develop a novel living and stereoselective anionic polymerization using novel dinuclear ambiphilic silicon catalysts. Building off the recently developed anionic polymerization catalyzed by silylium ions, this project will continue w National Science Foundation 7/23/2009
UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA $150,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Plants are sessile, which makes them vulnerable to constant assaults by hostile abiotic and biotic stresses. To ensure normal growth, plants have evolved unique mechanisms to defend themselves against harm from these stresses. The detailed mechanisms by w National Science Foundation 6/24/2009
SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE $193,308 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 'The Geometrical and Kinematic Evolution of Interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejections' This team plans to investigate the evolution of interplanetary coronal mass ejections (CME) at large distances from the Sun. With this knowledge, the principal investigato National Science Foundation 9/17/2009
VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE & STATE UNIVERSITY $1,421,725 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech is awarded a grant to develop GenoCAD, a web-based computer assisted design environment for synthetic biology. This infrastructure helps molecular biologists design custom DNA molecules by combining b National Science Foundation 8/04/2009
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN $381,829 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project aims to construct the first marine community phylogeny. It is inspired by the integrative perspective that lies at the core of the modern concept of biodiversity. Empirical realization of this integration requires that study systems be simple National Science Foundation 6/01/2009
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM $375,001 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The proposed PRE-Depression Investigation of Cloud-systems in the Tropics (PREDICT) is a focused observational field campaign to investigate both the structure and evolution of tropospheric wave-like disturbances in the tropics and sub-tropics and the sub National Science Foundation 9/14/2009
OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY $231,667 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The North Pacific Subtropical Gyre (NPSG) is the largest ocean ecosystem on Earth, playing a prominent role in global carbon cycling and forming an important reservoir of marine biodiversity. Nitrogen (N2) fixing bacteria (termed diazotrophs) provide a ma National Science Foundation 7/06/2009
TEXAS A & M RESEARCH FOUNDATION $401,841 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Understanding the behavior of 230Th is critical to interpret the sedimentary record and understand how climate change affects oceanographic processes. This study will address the controversy in using this technique based on assumptions made in the 230Th m National Science Foundation 6/25/2009
TEXAS A & M RESEARCH FOUNDATION $460,487 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Although natural radioisotopes, such as Th(IV), Pa(IV, V), Po(IV, II, -II), and Be(II), are important proxies that have long been used in oceanographic investigations, the molecular interactions and binding relationships between radionuclides and marine o National Science Foundation 6/25/2009
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO $609,066 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Geodesy plays an important role in gaining understanding of the tectonics that shape Earth's crust. Subaerial geodesy is a mature, advanced science. Submarine geodesy, on the other hand, limited by the opacity of seawater to electromagnetic radiation, is National Science Foundation 6/09/2009
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY $194,283 Grant 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 NEW MEXICO $474,240 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The University of New Mexico / Configurable Space Microsystems Innovation and Applications Center (COSMIAC) is designing a highly- affordable research satellite concept to characterize Ionospheric properties that affect electromagnetic wave propagation. T National Science Foundation 9/14/2009
CATHOLIC HEALTHCARE WEST $626,505 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: People are often surprised to learn that their eyes never stop moving, even when they fixate their gaze. Even more surprising: if their eyes did stop moving, they would become blind to stationary objects due to a brain process called ?neural adaptation?. National Science Foundation 9/25/2009
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). The proposed research seeks to develop terahertz quantum-cascade lasers (THz QCLs) that operate at high temperatures. Specifically, by end of the proposed National Science Foundation 6/19/2009
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY $599,987 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Intellectual merit Although several research groups have demonstrated the capability to produce small quantities of functional platelets from megakaryocytic cells (Mks) in culture, producing the 3-6 x 10-11 platelets required for a single transfusion dose National Science Foundation 6/02/2009
DREXEL UNIVERSITY $299,998 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The overall goal of this project is to elucidate and quantify the dynamics of the fusion machine of the HIV-host cell virological synapse. Based on the dynamics, methods will be engineered to alter time-dependent molecular processes controlling virus-c National Science Foundation 6/09/2009
UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE $354,998 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: GOALI: A Quantum Mechanics Based Method for Properties Predictions and Product Improvements Using Molecular Design National Science Foundation 8/26/2009
DREXEL UNIVERSITY $306,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: One of the critical challenges of modern reproductive biology is to develop viable clinical approaches to treat infertility. Embryo implantation represents a crucial step of the reproductive process and its success relies on the culmination of a well-orc National Science Foundation 8/05/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS $401,080 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The objectives of this research are to gain both a fundamental understanding of the microbial ecology of denitrifying biofilters and to create improved techniques to characterize the reliability of, and also the design of, this and other engineered ecosys National Science Foundation 7/20/2009
MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY, INC $141,002 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The grant supports nine students a year from Montana to conduct research in China with a Chinese collaborator. National Science Foundation 9/04/2009
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON $294,573 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Tolowa Dee-ni' language, a member of the Pacific Coast Group of the Athabaskan language family, is spoken today in and around Smith River, California. It is on the verge of extinction, with only three speakers remaining, two of whom are quite elderly. National Science Foundation 8/24/2009
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA MERCED $99,923 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Recent reports of environmental and health toxicity of nanomaterials are contradictory due to the wide variation in properties of any given type of nanomaterial. Thus, it is difficult to classify the toxicity of nanomaterials according to the type of mat National Science Foundation 6/25/2009
PURDUE UNIVERSITY $75,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This engineering education research award to Drexel University in collaboration with Purdue University, Texas Engineering Experiment Station, and Northeastern University will employ researchers to evaluate the effectiveness of using a fully instrumented r National Science Foundation 7/22/2009
TEXAS AGRILIFE RESEARCH $113,414 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The ability of coastal wetlands to survive accelerated sea level rise is a critically important and open question. Coastal marshes, which are dominated by the marsh grass Spartina alterniflora, build the land vertically (accrete) through a combination of National Science Foundation 7/09/2009
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA $405,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Malicious software is one of the most pressing security problems on the Internet. The main reason for the apparent failure of current defense approaches is National Science Foundation 8/01/2009
SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION $238,439 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The ability to document and understand long-term trends in ocean climate and ecology, including the role of human activities on the biosphere, depends on an adequate knowledge of natural interdecadal fluctuations. The proposed research will document chang National Science Foundation 8/07/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS $201,663 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This proposal seeks funding to support developing a high pressure, high temperature calibration scale for diamond anvil cell (DAC) studies. Existing pressure scales are plagued with issues particularly at high temperatures. Developing a pressure scale is National Science Foundation 6/25/2009
UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT $475,171 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Photosynthetic systems use reaction center proteins to direct electrons across membranes to convert solar energy into chemical energy. The products of green plant photosynthesis are carbohydrates and oxygen, which form the basis for life on earth. Reactio National Science Foundation 6/19/2009
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN $311,473 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
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY $229,106 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Coalescing compact binaries, binary star systems with black holes or neutron stars in highly relativistic orbits, are the most important potential sources of gravitational radiation for current laser interferometer detectors such as LIGO. The theoretical National Science Foundation 8/05/2009
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA $610,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This proposal details a plan to study collisions between polarized electrons and chiral molecules, as well as simple diatomic molecules. The proposed experiments address physics questions about the dynamics of electronG??molecule scattering, particularly National Science Foundation 8/08/2009
OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION $776,283 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The nucleosome is the fundamental unit of chromatin, formed of 147 base pairs of DNA wrapped around a histone octamer protein core. Post-translational modifications in this structured histone core are likely to play vital roles in assembly, maintenance, National Science Foundation 7/28/2009
FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY $1,200,070 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The International Tundra Experiment (ITEX) Arctic Observing Network (AON) collects data on phenology, plant growth, community composition and ecosystem properties as part of a greater effort to study environmental change in the Arctic. The network, start National Science Foundation 8/14/2009
NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY $330,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Advanced fuel injection strategies are central to efforts to improve the performance and emissions characteristics of internal combustion engines. Existing fuel injectors severely restrict the strategies that can be explored, however, because of their f National Science Foundation 8/13/2009
HARVARD COLLEGE, PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF $135,890 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The PI will explore three related projects in total positivity, cluster algebras, and statistical mechanics. The first project seeks to develop and apply combinatorial tools to the study of totally positive varieties; in particular, to understand their to National Science Foundation 6/29/2009
MIAMI UNIVERSITY $419,480 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Polar Terrestrial environmnets are often described as deserts, where water availability is a critical factor limiting the distribtuion of terrestrial organisms. In such environments, tolerance of low moisture conditions is likely as important as cold res National Science Foundation 8/14/2009
OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION $422,820 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Polar terrestrial environments are often described as deserts, where water availability is a critical factor limiting the distribution of terrestrial organisms. In such environments, tolerance of low moisture conditions is likely as important as cold res National Science Foundation 8/14/2009
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON $2,070,940 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 RTG grant at the University of Washington (UW) supports an array of activities that will enhance the education and training of undergraduate students, g National Science Foundation 5/27/2009
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA $145,543 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Although earthquakes are commonly modeled as frictional instabilities on planar fault surfaces, most natural faults have a more complex structure. Most displacement appears to be concentrated in one or more relatively narrow (mm to cm scale) ?cores? of hi National Science Foundation 7/02/2009
HARVARD COLLEGE, PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF $130,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: During the last quarter of a century many 3-D models of the mantle, or its part, have been derived. However, most of them describe only one parameter (for example, S-velocity) and are based on a data set that is limited to a narrow range of frequencies. T National Science Foundation 7/31/2009
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES $2,469,746 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Title: Research Training in Algebra and related fields. This RTG project aims to enhance graduate, post-doctoral, and undergraduate training in Algebra, Number Theory, Algebraic Geometry and Combinatorics at UCLA. National Science Foundation 6/15/2009
AUGSBURG COLLEGE $269,047 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Collaborative Research: Studies of Solar Wind - Magnetosphere Interactions using Observations of ULF Waves at Manned Stations as Part of an Extensive Ground Array National Science Foundation 7/08/2009
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION $146,896 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Langmuir circulation (LC) in the upper ocean mixed layer (UOML) is a feature most familiarly observed as linear stripes or sea surface streaks approximately parallel to the wind direction. These result from helical (ovoid) water cells rotating clockwise a National Science Foundation 5/26/2009
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO $700,302 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award supports a project to develop a precise gas-based chronology for an archive of large-volume samples of the ancient atmosphere, which would enable ultra-trace gas measurements that are currently precluded by sample size limitations of ice cores. National Science Foundation 6/19/2009
TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, THE $345,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: An interdisciplinary team of researchers will focus on describing the high productivity patchiness observed in phytoplankton blooms in the mid to late summer in the Ross Sea, Antarctica. Key hypotheses to be tested and extended are that intrusions of nutr National Science Foundation 8/18/2009
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN $68,829 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Collaborative Research: Synthesis and Integration of Magmagenetic Controls for Subduction Factory focus sites Intellectual Merit: The MARGINS program ends in 2009, and the organization, synthesis, and integration of the most important results is a high pr National Science Foundation 7/20/2009
UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO, THE $546,386 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This proposal describes research efforts in technologically advanced materials at the University of Toledo, which the acquistion of a state-of-the-art scanning electron microscope (SEM) will advance. The acquistion of a new SEM and suitable accessories w National Science Foundation 8/02/2009
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM $562,307 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). With support from the Chemistry Research Instrumentation and Facilities: Multiuser program (CRIF:MU), the Department of Chemistry at the University of Wisco National Science Foundation 8/02/2009
NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY $499,050 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Department of Chemistry at North Carolina State University proposes to acquire a state-of-the-art cyber-enabled Bruker Biospin E-500-EleXsys X/Q-band Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (EPR) spectrometer. This instrument would replace a quarter-century-o National Science Foundation 7/26/2009
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES $338,226 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Central American Magmatic Volatile Histories as Recorded by Apatite Phenocrysts National Science Foundation 7/04/2009
MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY $2,499,351 Grant 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 National Science Foundation 8/26/2009
COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY $782,407 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project focuses on advancing understanding of critical issues in atmospheric ice nucleation, one of the most basic processes affecting precipitation and impacting the radiative properties of cold clouds. Incomplete understanding of ice initiation pro National Science Foundation 6/04/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS $278,282 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project will produce the first user-friendly identification keys and global classification for the leafhopper subfamily Deltocephalinae, a diverse, economically and ecologically important group of plant-feeding insects, comprising 980 genera and 6329 National Science Foundation 6/22/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS $455,500 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project will initiate efforts to identify DNA catalysts (deoxyribozymes, DNA enzymes) for catalysis of reactions of small-molecule substrates with multiple turnovers. Nucleic acids are used as natural catalysts in the form of ribozymes (RNA enzymes). National Science Foundation 7/06/2009
CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY $368,363 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Removal of non-coding segments known as introns from precursor (pre) to messenger (m) RNAs in eukaryotic nuclei via splicing is an essential step in gene expression. The two-ste splicing reaction is carried out by a large complex of protein and RNA known National Science Foundation 7/23/2009
UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA $556,404 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Salicylic acid (SA) is a signaling molecule in the plant immune system. SA accumulates follow-ing pathogen invasion, triggering activation of the transcription regulator NPR1, which in turn induces resistance to a broad spectrum of pathogens. SA and its National Science Foundation 6/23/2009
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA $600,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: In humans and other animals, acoustic communication often takes place in large social groups or 'networks' comprising multiple signalers and receivers. In such environments, the background noise generated by simultaneously signaling individuals can impair National Science Foundation 7/02/2009
UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA $90,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Cooperating with others often not does not appear advantageous to all involved parties, yet individuals in many species cooperate in sometimes complex ways. Biparental care offers a model system for experimental analysis of simple cooperation. Two unrelat National Science Foundation 6/26/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS $453,458 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: In this research, the complex role of dynamics in the association of RRM-RNA complexes will be investigated. The RNA recognition motif (RRM) is a ubiquitous RNA binding protein that is found in all organisms and is involved in all steps of gene expression National Science Foundation 6/17/2009
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO $270,437 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: It is said that 'seeing is believing', and we take it for granted that vision operates efficiently and accurately. This suggests that vision is easy. However, failed attempts at producing computer vision demonstrate exactly the opposite--vision is perhaps National Science Foundation 8/19/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA $144,223 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Hiaki (also known as 'Yaqui' and 'Yoeme') is an endangered Uto-Aztecan language spoken in Southern Arizona and in Sonora Mexico. The Arizona dialect of Hiaki is moribund; its 70-80 native speakers are all fifty years of age or older, and it is not being l National Science Foundation 8/10/2009
TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY $41,801 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). How do infants learn words? Before they can attach meaning to words, children must understand what constitutes a word in their language. This task is compli National Science Foundation 8/12/2009
GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION $590,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project is designing new data structures and efficient algorithms for scaling modern machine learning techniques to massive datasets, and their application to recent sky surveys to solve central problems in astronomy. The long term goal is to scale u National Science Foundation 7/06/2009
UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT $405,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: With pervasive usage of embedded systems in our daily life and infrastructures, strengthening the security of embedded system in its design and implementation has become a critical priority for the research community. This project targets augmenting the p National Science Foundation 9/02/2009
OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY $409,877 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Cognitive radios and multi-antenna systems are two recent components that each offers a great potential for improving spectrum efficiency. The former enables opportunistic spectrum access (OSA), while the latter enables multiple-input, multiple-output (MI National Science Foundation 7/24/2009
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN $462,249 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This CAREER award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Investments in advanced computational infrastructure ('cyberinfrastructure' (CI)) represent a large and growing percentage of the U.S. science budget. National Science Foundation 7/30/2009
NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY $556,607 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This proposal for career development is motivated by two overarching goals: [A] Investigation of African easterly wave (AEW) origin and storm track dynamics; and [B] Improving the current paradigm for mathematical instruction in undergraduate atmospheric National Science Foundation 8/02/2009
THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC $613,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: What determines human health is known only in part. Even where causal pathways have been identified, great uncertainty frequently exists regarding the strength of the relationship. Compelling and precise estimates of these relationships are needed to info National Science Foundation 9/29/2009
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA $676,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: In this project supported by the Experimental Physical Chemistry Program, Professor Aaron Massari of the University of Minnesota will employ two-dimensional infrared vibrational echo spectroscopy (2D-IR VES) to understand how the molecular motions within National Science Foundation 7/19/2009
CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC $530,000 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 funded by this CAREER award will probe exotic states of matter in artificially engineered materials. In particular, this project will utilize an National Science Foundation 8/19/2009
NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC. $672,369 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Intellectual Merit Anyone interested in studying price movements in any asset market needs first to understand how information moves through agents in the market, and ultimately into prices. A critically important, and yet understudied, mechanism for this National Science Foundation 8/27/2009
OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION $514,970 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The field of economics known as mechanism design considers how to design incentive schemes that reach desired outcomes. It has many applications and it represents one of the most important developments in economic theory over the past 30 years; indeed, National Science Foundation 8/25/2009
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO $540,412 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Organic and Macromolecular Chemistry Program in the Chemistry Division at the National Science Foundation supports Professor Jerry Yang at the University of California San Diego whose research will evaluate and optimize the hydrolytic properties of a National Science Foundation 7/23/2009
WILLIAM MARSH RICE UNIVERSITY $550,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: At the forefront of condensed matter physics, the design and development of new materials has been the root of many fundamental discoveries. The ability to predict and synthesize targeted compounds represents one of the main challenges of our understandin National Science Foundation 9/01/2009
COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY $499,984 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Intensification of hydrologic regimes due to climate change will have important impacts on biogeochemical processes and ecosystem services, but quantifying these impacts experimentally remains a key challenge for earth scientists. My research goal is to i National Science Foundation 7/19/2009
TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY SYSTEM $546,784 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 Organic and Macromolecular Chemistry Program in the Chemistry Division at the National Science Foundation supports Professor Michael F. Mayer at Texas T National Science Foundation 7/23/2009
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT RIVERSIDE $400,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: TECHNICAL SUMMARY This CAREER award is funded by the Division of Materials Research and the Physics Division. It supports theoretical and computational research and education on quantum-many body systems with a focus on ultracold atom systems with connect National Science Foundation 7/07/2009
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY $1,166,000 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 fund neutrino studies at MIT as a tool to search for signatures of Beyond the Standard Model Physics. Over the past decade, neutrino studies have pro National Science Foundation 6/12/2009
UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO $453,444 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Equipment purchase, personnel support, supplies, etc. for improvements to the Arthropod Collection in the Museum of Southwestern Biology National Science Foundation 8/21/2009
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY $389,416 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: An award has been made to the herbaria (museum plant collections) of Arizona State University (ASU) and the Desert Botanical Garden (DES), under the direction of Drs. Leslie R. Landrum and Andrew M. Salywon respectively, to expand the Southwest Environmen National Science Foundation 8/18/2009
CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY $255,000 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 Inorganic, Bioinorganic, and Organometallic Chemistry Program supports the efforts of Dr. Mekki Bayachou of Cleveland State University to explore the two National Science Foundation 7/23/2009
FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE $360,462 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Bayesian methods are being used by a growing number of researchers to infer phylogenies because of the computational efficiency of these methods (Huelsenbeck, et al.2001). However, the stochastic process underlying the implementation of these methods is n National Science Foundation 7/18/2009
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND $662,331 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The University of Maryland College Park is awarded a grant to develop new algorithms and a suite of software tools based on a general and flexible definition of a 'network module' in order to extract meaningful biological clusters from noisy and incomplet National Science Foundation 8/07/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA $700,452 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The University of Arizona is awarded a grant to develop and evaluate a set of algorithms/software to help computers to read and ?understand? taxonomic descriptions of plants, animals, and other living or fossil organisms. The major functions of the algori National Science Foundation 7/18/2009
PURDUE UNIVERSITY $716,001 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Purdue University is awarded a grant to develop novel computational algorithms and software for building protein structure models, which can identify and utilize very distantly related template structures for the modeling. Considering the growing number o National Science Foundation 7/20/2009
WHEATON COLLEGE $109,880 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Recent work by this team shows that geothermal springs in major river valleys near the Main Central Thrust zone of the Himalayan front are significant sources of carbon dioxide. To date we have shown that this source of CO2 exceeds the consumption of CO2 National Science Foundation 8/24/2009
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY $211,260 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project develops and analyzes a new model in economic theory. The goal is to model individual preferences in a simple model where information may arrive in two stages. We introduce two general classes of representations, one for individuals who prefe National Science Foundation 6/18/2009
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN $651,456 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The project will enable ten undergraduate students per year to participate in scientific research for three months per year at the University of Michigan in the Space Physics Research Laboratory through a Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site National Science Foundation 8/16/2009
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN $630,602 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Global change drivers, including warmer temperature, changing precipitation, increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide and ozone, deposition of reactive nitroge National Science Foundation 7/02/2009
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO $233,825 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Despite pouring millions of dollars into programs to further the democratization of Africa, donors remain uninformed about one of the most important facets of politics on the continent: Why do Africans vote they way they do? Most observers of African elec National Science Foundation 7/19/2009
GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION $1,000,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Site at Georgia Institute of Technology will continue to offer summer research opportunities for undergraduate students recruited nationwide and teachers from inner-city and suburban public high schools in National Science Foundation 5/28/2009
SOUTH CAROLINA RESEARCH FOUNDATION $300,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: REU SITE: Sustainable Energy in Chemical Engineering PROJECT SUMMARY: 1. Intellectual Merit Funding is requested in this proposal for renewed support of our existing REU site in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of South Carolina National Science Foundation 7/08/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA $269,754 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: With the support of the National Science Foundation, an interdisiplinary team at the University of Arizona will greatly expand work in progress on characterizing (1) sources of turquoise in the southwestern USA and northern Mexico; (2) sources of native c National Science Foundation 7/02/2009
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY $389,616 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 transport of tracers in baroclinic flows will be investigated, using the perspective of the modified Lagrangian mean approach of Nakamura. The approac National Science Foundation 6/17/2009
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY $224,272 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The world today functions in an age of international migration and financial globalization, not only in terms of the century-old phenomenon of people and money crossing national borders, but also in the unprecedented scope and complexity that these crossi National Science Foundation 6/09/2009
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM $255,677 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: It is widely recognized that bacterial indicators do not co-occur with infectious viruses, nor do they respond in the same manner to environmental or engineered stressors. Thus, a more appropriate indicator for health risks of infectious viruses is needed National Science Foundation 6/23/2009
OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION $84,021 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This is small equipment grant for the acquisition of a high-energy, narrow-linewidth, injection-seeded Nd:YAG laser. This instrument will be the primary component for advanced imaging studies to investigate the gas-phase scalar mixing in turbulent spray f National Science Foundation 8/23/2009
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY $155,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Many liquid/gas two-phase flows involve topology changes, where atomization of the liquid is governed by the dynamics of the phase interface. Although atomization is crucial in many technical applications ranging from energy conversion to pharmaceutical s National Science Foundation 8/20/2009
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA $428,461 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Over the past two decades, the fundamental importance of iron and other bioactive trace metals in structuring marine food webs and biogeochemical cycles has been realized. Even more recently, over the past several years, the international ocean science co National Science Foundation 8/07/2009
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM $2,700,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Dependable and effective access to large amounts of sustained computing power is strategic to scientific discovery in a vast range of disciplines. An ever expanding number of science communities worldwide rely on Condor software tools to harness the power National Science Foundation 6/01/2009
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON $718,448 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).Subtidal communities in temperate geographic zones of the world are faced with changes caused by fishing, climate change, habitat alteration and invasive spec National Science Foundation 6/24/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS $73,299 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This research addresses the lack of chronologic information that exists for Midwestern glacial and postglacial environments. Absolute dates for key geomorphic events are lacking in the geomorphic literature, mainly because of the paucity of wood for radio National Science Foundation 8/05/2009
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, THE $201,644 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Intellectual merit: This proposal studies preference for timing of resolution of objective uncertainty in the sense of Kreps and Porteus (1978). It builds on a simple model with two stages of information arrival. Two general classes of representations cal National Science Foundation 6/18/2009
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND $97,543 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Collaborative Research: Computation-driven small area inference with applications. This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). There is a growing demand to assess various measures of human well-being National Science Foundation 8/24/2009
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO $160,002 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Collaborative Research: Radial Growth Responses among Naturally-Occurring Western U.S. Conifers under Changing Environmental Conditions This project is designed to examine and compare the effects of changing environmental conditions on the radial growth National Science Foundation 6/30/2009
APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY $182,953 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Collaborative Research: Radial Growth Responses among Naturally-Occurring Western U.S. Conifers under Changing Environmental Conditions Climate and atmospheric composition change research in coniferous ecosystems of the northern Rockies, USA National Science Foundation 6/30/2009
UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT $151,415 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The University of Kansas and the University of Connecticut are awarded collaborative grants to develop software to gather, visualize, and analyze large data sets of the distribution of species on continental and global scales. The proposed computational s National Science Foundation 7/29/2009
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA CRUZ $342,428 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
UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA $305,132 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The objective of the proposed REU site in the Agricultural and Biological Engineering Department (ABE) at the UF is to provide eight undergraduate students in engineering with eight weeks of research experiences, focused on sustaining water resources usin National Science Foundation 8/31/2009
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY $299,188 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This three year REU site award will provide an opportunity for undergraduate students to do research focused in the area of bioengineering education. It will build upon the practices established during a successful REU program at the Vanderbilt-Northweste National Science Foundation 6/19/2009
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA $299,991 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The renewal REU site award will provide research experiences for 10 undergraduate students each year over a three year period. The students will be engaged in state-of-the-art interdisciplinary research projects in the fields of solar cell characterizatio National Science Foundation 6/24/2009
RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE $209,222 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The proposed research will have a significant impact on the state of the art of smart biopolymers for protein purification and their implementation in an industrial setting. National Science Foundation 8/17/2009
THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC $301,677 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Intellectual merit: The intellectual merit of this proposal results from the first demonstration of the directed evolution of specific cell penetrating peptides (SCPPs). The directed evolution technique offers tremendous potential for the engineering of n National Science Foundation 6/17/2009
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT RIVERSIDE $209,222 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project will research the industrial implementation of smart biopolymers for antibody purification. National Science Foundation 8/17/2009
LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY, THE $170,717 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Current assessment of microbial pollution in recreational waters involves measurement of fecal indicator bacteria (FIB) as proxies for human pathogens. FIB concentrations display diurnal variability such that the time the sample is collected dramatically National Science Foundation 6/21/2009
VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE & STATE UNIVERSITY $240,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Bionanomaterial Uptake and Fate in Corbicula fluminea Similar to what has been observed with pharmaceuticals and personal care products, consumer use and disposal of bionanomaterials will inevitably result in their discharge to municipal wastewater treat National Science Foundation 6/17/2009
MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY $299,872 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Intellectual Merit: Heart valve disease is the third most common form of cardiovascular disease and has shown a steady rise in incidence over the past 20 years. The only option currently available to treat this condition is open-heart surgery. Therefore, National Science Foundation 6/09/2009
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON $300,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 0854298Jiang'This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).'Cell membranes and membrane-based organelles actively mediate several intracellular signaling and trafficking decisions. A growing number of app National Science Foundation 7/20/2009
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA $149,932 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award supports a collaborative research program between the University of South Florida and the UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education in Delft, the Netherlands. The Institute for Water Education is the largest postgraduate water education facility National Science Foundation 6/01/2009
CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY $235,988 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The goal of the award is to leverage mobile technologies and sensors to empower individualsand organizations with personal feedback about their energy use and carbon emissions and suggestions on how to improve. Our work includes transportation activities National Science Foundation 8/12/2009
UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA $385,542 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Intellectual merit: This project will advance the fields of bone biomineralization and tissue engineering while promoting teaching, training and learning. A peptide that can specifically not only bind to but also nucleate hydroxylapatite (HAP) nanocrystal National Science Foundation 6/17/2009
GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION $399,010 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Advanced oxidation processes (AOPs) have shown promise to destroy many of the emerging organic contaminants in water, and are being considered in potable water treatment, wastewater treatment, site remediation, and industrial applications. AOPs are mechan National Science Foundation 9/01/2009
UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT $86,284 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Storage system researchers have typically used I/O traces from various sources to drive their analysis and research. However, these I/O traces fail to adequately capture the effect of I/O on application performance. Moreover, they do not scale with other National Science Foundation 7/29/2009
TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA $354,465 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This is the report from the last quarter updateThe project effort to date is precisely aligned with the project award description. Our target date for public access to the database is January 2012. Specific activities to date include:Tool Development National Science Foundation 7/20/2009
TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA $298,050 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: All the necessary research infrastructure has been built. In this quarter, we have started using it to perform a variety of research activities. Few examples include motion planning for the Barrett WAM performing manipulation, incorporating acoustics feed National Science Foundation 8/07/2009
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN $625,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The physics program supported by this grant is directed at the study of spin and flavor structure of nucleons. Research will be carried out at the DESY laboratory in Germany as part of the HERMES collaboration, and at the Fermi National Laboratory near Ch National Science Foundation 7/31/2009
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY $390,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: It will fund the Syracuse University group to participate in the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS) experiment and research to develop and test detectors for possible future Dark Matter detection experiments. Observations indicate that 80% of the matter National Science Foundation 7/31/2009
SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION $145,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: A sensor for monitoring of the curvature of the surface of an optic such as a mirror or beam-splitter will be developed using heterodyne measurements of the phase of a laser beam reflecting off the surface of the optic. The objective is to provide a metho National Science Foundation 8/17/2009
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY $712,883 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Computational creativity has been a goal of artificial intelligence since nearly its inception. But while many interesting models have been developed, and some of these have even produced interesting creative works, most have been built on foundations tha National Science Foundation 6/08/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER $280,000 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 objective is to develop proton conducting ceramic membranes with enhanced transport properties for use in hydrogen membrane fuel cells. The propo National Science Foundation 7/28/2009
GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION $124,682 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
UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE $1,100,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Cosmic-ray Physics with IceCube IceCube is a neutrino observatory at the South Pole, which consists of 5160 sensitive optical detectors in the deep ice as well as 324 of the same detectors in tanks on the surface. The deep detectors look for upward-movin National Science Foundation 8/18/2009
CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY $439,990 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Building information models (BIMs), which represent the three dimensional (3D) geometry and high-level semantics of a facility, are increasingly used in the Architecture, Engineering, Construction, and Facility Management (AEC/FM) industry. Most BIM work National Science Foundation 7/15/2009
THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC $200,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Nearly hundred years after the debut of Einstein's theory of general relativity, gravitational waves are viewed as one of the most intriguing but still elusive astrophysical phenomena. They are expected to be emitted by extreme astrophysical sources such National Science Foundation 8/17/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS $437,576 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The research objective of this award is to develop manufacturing technology enabling the fabrication of multi-material, near net-shape tissue engineering scaffolds for bone defect repair. This will enable a new class of functionally graded scaffolds and w National Science Foundation 7/21/2009
TEXAS A & M RESEARCH FOUNDATION $92,139 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The proposed project is on approximation of operator functions, whose prototype in the case of functions of a scalar argument is the Taylor polynomial approximation. Values of operator functions do not commute in general, which makes the analysis of such National Science Foundation 5/26/2009
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY $137,751 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 proposes research on two subjects: 1) Representation theory of W-algebras, 2) uniqueness properties for algebraic group actions. W-algebras ( National Science Foundation 6/01/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA $399,734 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This grant improves our understanding of the hydrologic variability associated with the Asian Monsoon system in response to precessional forcing. The work generates quantitative paleorainfall reconstructions from sediments collected from the Chinese Loess National Science Foundation 8/31/2009
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI $284,368 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: A grant has been awarded by NSF to the University of Southern Mississippi for the purchase of instrumentation to expand faculty resources for ecological research and to improve student education and training. This instrumentation includes a CHNS Nutrient National Science Foundation 8/13/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS $495,500 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Advanced optical techniques (such as PIV, LIF and LDV) represent the most well-resolved and accurate means of experimentally documenting the physics of flows, yet there exist a wealth of practical complex flows spanning many fields of science and engineer National Science Foundation 8/21/2009
NITEK INC $493,733 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Small Business Innovation Research Phase II project will result in the development of a novel semiconductor growth technique to produce low dislocation density III-nitride AlInGaN substrate materials for high efficiency deep UVLEDs and electronic dev National Science Foundation 8/10/2009
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA $449,510 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Dopamine (DA) is an important and universal modulator of motor control, but neuroscientists have yet to determine precisely how DA-containing neurons and their targeted circuitry choreograph specific locomotor programs. This has been an especially dauntin National Science Foundation 7/29/2009
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND $210,600 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project combines a theoretical and numerical study of one of the mechanisms that may initiate magnetic reconnection in a geomagnetic substorm. The general mechanism is an enhancement in the electrical resistivity of the plasma brought on by a plasma National Science Foundation 6/23/2009
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN $356,083 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: A fundamental issue in studying biodiversity is understanding the relationship between species. This is approached by developing trees that describe the relationships and facilitate their study, the field of phylogenetics. When such trees are developed fr National Science Foundation 7/22/2009
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON $42,613 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 and the R/V Cliff National Science Foundation 8/02/2009
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY $449,298 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Because climate and water are intimately linked in deserts, desert streams are well suited for observing consequences of both natural climate variability and human-caused climate change. Here, researchers propose to study how stream ecosystem structure ch National Science Foundation 7/25/2009
LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY, THE $1,247,586 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Intellectual Merit: The objective of this research is to understand the mechanisms of charge separation and recombination in photosynthetic reaction centers (RCs) and the higher-order organization of photosynthetic membranes. This phase of the research p National Science Foundation 7/23/2009
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON $500,000 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 development of animals begins with fertilization, the interaction between two specialized cells, the sperm and egg. The process requires exquisite coordin National Science Foundation 6/17/2009
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA $298,918 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Some bacteria can enter a nongrowing 'persister' state that allows them to survive antibiotics and other treatments that normally kill them. By suspending growth, they may also free resources for their genetically identical clonemates. Most species form National Science Foundation 7/22/2009
TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, THE $97,574 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Causal inference is the central goal of most social science research. In recent years, empirical researchers are increasingly relying on experiments in order to improve the validity of causal conclusions. At the same time, the methodological literature on National Science Foundation 7/22/2009
HARVARD COLLEGE, PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF $593,304 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Why are there so many kinds of animals? Does evolutionary diversification tend to follow a similar trajectory in different groups of animals? Our work addresses both of these questions using an integrated analysis of DNA sequence data, laboratory experime National Science Foundation 7/30/2009
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT RIVERSIDE $249,670 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Biogeography is the study of the spatial distribution of species and ecosystems. While the biogeography of natural ecosystems is relatively well understood, we have a poor understanding of spatial patterns of plants in cities. Both the physical environmen National Science Foundation 8/12/2009
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, THE $140,323 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Intellectual Merit: Dispersal is a critically important process for shaping ecological communities and ecosystems and is increasingly receiving attention in ecology and conservation biology as landscapes and the movement pathways of organisms are altered National Science Foundation 8/17/2009
MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY $200,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Cheap commercial off-the-shelf wireless devices are being increasingly deployed for performance-sensitive applications such as patient monitoring with body sensors and home networking for multimedia and gaming. However, wireless communications may interfe National Science Foundation 9/16/2009
RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY $498,596 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Many studies have shown that human mistakes are an important source of system failures. Further, repairing mistakes is often time consuming, leading to high unavailability. In this project, we will explore a novel approach to dealing with human mistakes c National Science Foundation 8/01/2009
VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE & STATE UNIVERSITY $267,559 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Understanding how species form (speciation) is a fundamental area of study in the fields of taxonomy and evolution, and is the basis of all studies in comparative biology. However, most current theories of speciation are based upon organisms that reproduc National Science Foundation 7/15/2009
FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE $608,782 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Detailed information on protein dynamics at an atomic level and its thermodynamic implications is of fundamental biophysical importance for understanding protein stability and function. The only currently available tools to probe such information are nuc National Science Foundation 6/06/2009
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND $61,392 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: In the United States, crop loss due to infection by plant pathogens, including plant viruses, has been estimated to exceed thirty billion dollars per year. In the environment, the genomes of plant viruses, as well as small, virus-associated (subviral) RNA National Science Foundation 7/10/2009
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA $443,059 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Invasive species are a large and growing threat to ecosystem function, biodiversity and even human health. However, the traits that enable some species to expand their ranges and become pests remain understudied. The focus of the project is to ascertain h National Science Foundation 6/29/2009
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND $450,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Loss and Rescue of Regeneration in Naidine Annelids. Animals vary tremendously in their ability to replace lost body parts. While some animals, such as humans, cannot re-grow most body parts, others, such as some segmented worms, can re-grow an entire bo National Science Foundation 6/09/2009
TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY-SAN MARCOS $216,400 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Who first populated the Americas and when? Where did they come from and how did they get here? What was their lifeway like? These are not trivial questions since the Americas, comprising 24% of the Earth's land surface, were the last major area to be inha National Science Foundation 9/14/2009
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN $483,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The development of a low temperature scanning tunneling microscope with spin-polarized and spectroscopic capabilities is proposed (SP-STM). While a handful of similar instruments are operating in Europe and Japan, so far there are only two in the US. The National Science Foundation 9/08/2009
COLGATE UNIVERSITY $495,158 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 Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) award funds the acquisition of a laser scanning confocal microscope with spectral detection at Colgate University. National Science Foundation 8/26/2009
EMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY INC $503,484 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 seeks continued support of investigations of the polar mesosphere, thermosphere, and ionosphere over Sondrestromfjord through coordinated optica National Science Foundation 8/11/2009
OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY $426,340 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The supported research will build on earlier discoveries concerning the stereospecific reagent controlled homologation (StReCH) of boronic ester derivatives by enantioenriched main group chiral carbenoids. StReCH enables a programmable iterative synthesis National Science Foundation 8/07/2009
SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY INC $75,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Recently, many genomic studies have shown that significant chromosomal spatial correlation exists in gene expression of many organisms. Ignoring such corre National Science Foundation 6/29/2009
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM $450,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: INTELLECTUAL MERIT: The chemical composition of bioactive silicate bioceramics or glasses the leached SiCa concentrations strongly influence the complex process of osteointegration by affecting the texture of the amorphous silicacarbonated hydroxyapatite National Science Foundation 6/05/2009
MCPHEE RESEARCH CO $227,155 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Funds are provided to explore the overarching hypothesis that relatively small-scale aspects of the response of the ice-ocean boundary layer impact polar climate National Science Foundation 7/21/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS $250,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The methods for production of most ceramic materials depend on a small amount of chemical additions that distribute non-uniformly within the material; these small amounts can dominate a ceramic?s utility. These chemicals often produce additional crystalli National Science Foundation 8/05/2009
TEXAS A & M RESEARCH FOUNDATION $420,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: TECHNICAL SUMMARY: This proposal will examine the effect of polymer microstructure, solvent additives and solution components on lower critical solution temperature (LCST) phenomena both in solution and at surfaces. The studies proposed will use solution National Science Foundation 5/29/2009
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA $130,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The investigator will develop designs for statistical experiments that adapt over time to incoming data -- so-called 'adaptive designs' -- and plans for analyzing data coming out of such experiments for two general classes of problems: (I) optimal paramet National Science Foundation 7/04/2009
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA $231,857 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The band gap energy range of the InGaN alloys system uniquely covers the optical solar spectral emission window at earth. InGaN could be immediately employed for realization of a new generation of so elegantly less complex to manufacture, cost-effective, National Science Foundation 5/22/2009
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY $884,357 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Focused Research Group (FRG) project explores energy applications of group-IV (Si, Ge) semiconductor materials incorporating Sn. The combination of Sn with Si and Ge may allow desirable structural and electronic properties with advantageous opportuni National Science Foundation 8/28/2009
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, THE $270,606 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Dr. Gnedin will study how the intergalactic gas becomes ionized by hot stars in newly-formed galaxies, and by their active nuclei. He and his team will use very large simulations to calculate the expected absorption-line spectra from neutral hydrogen gas National Science Foundation 8/11/2009
MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY, INC $405,236 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The primary goal of this research is to constrain how magma accumulates in the continental crust and erupts at the surface in areas of active intrusion and volcanism. In particular, we are investigating preliminary evidence for active mid-crustal intrusio National Science Foundation 7/02/2009
TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY $288,364 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 is a collaboration between space scientists and engineers at Boston University and Montana State University. The objective of this three-year National Science Foundation 8/26/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS $184,870 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: How does the Himalaya rise up to today's height? How is the Tibetan Plateau (TP) formed? How is the crust of plateau deforming to produce great earthquakes, such as the one we witnessed on May 12, 2008 in Wenchuan, China, which killed over 70,000 people? National Science Foundation 6/04/2009
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA $341,828 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Continent collisions can form large plateaus, like Tibet, producing thick crust and high topography that affects climate change. How plateaus grow to become National Science Foundation 7/23/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA $296,328 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Much of the inventory of East Antarctic bedrock geochronology, as well as a record of its erosional history, is preserved in Cenozoic sediments around its margin. This project is to use these sediments to understand their sub-ice provenance and the erosio National Science Foundation 6/09/2009
THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC $69,999 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Much of the inventory of East Antarctic bedrock geochronology, as well as a record of its erosional history, is preserved in Cenozoic sediments around its margin. This project is to use these sediments to understand their sub-ice provenance and the erosio National Science Foundation 6/09/2009
TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE $93,850 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Plasma waves and radiation play key roles in space physics, in some cases playing an important role controlling particle transport, loss rates, or energy exc National Science Foundation 6/04/2009
TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE $402,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Research award in the Inorganic, Bioinorganic and Organometallic Chemistry program supports work by Professor Russell P. Hughes at Dartmouth College to carry out fundamental studies on the chemistry of perfluoroalkyl and perfluoroalkylidene compounds National Science Foundation 7/19/2009
MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY $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 Inorganic, Bioinorganic and Organometallic Chemistry Program supports the efforts of Professor James Gardinier of Marquette University for the design and National Science Foundation 6/29/2009
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA CRUZ $251,773 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 recent global census of surface loopers (drifter trajectories with a definite sense of rotation) has revealed some unexpected features of the distribution National Science Foundation 6/04/2009
FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE $400,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The purpose of this project is to observe and understand the interannual flow near the eastern tropical Pacific boundary. Satellite altimeter and coastal tide gauge data will be used to document and understand the tropical eastern Pacific interannual coas National Science Foundation 6/01/2009
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN $198,297 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Florida State University, University of Texas at Austin and the University of Kansas are collaborating to create a distributed information system that integrates image-based morphological data to improve species and specimen identification. In order to ac National Science Foundation 8/04/2009
HOPE COLLEGE $320,686 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 Hope College REU program in Computer Science is designed to provide promising undergraduates with an intensive and meaningful research experience that w National Science Foundation 6/26/2009
VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE & STATE UNIVERSITY $330,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This REU site is focused on cognitive communications at Virginia Polytechnic Institute, and hosts 10 undergraduate students for 10 weeks for 3 years. The site recruits, trains, and retains undergraduate students to research by supporting them in the follo National Science Foundation 6/26/2009
OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY $884,252 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: CAPABLE (Coastal Autonomous Profiling and Boundary Layer System) development began three years ago under OTIC funding with a partnership between Oregon State University's College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences (COAS) and Western Environmental Technol National Science Foundation 6/16/2009
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON $269,318 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 will develop probability models and inferential methods for the analysis of data collected using Respondent Driven Sampling (RDS). RDS is an inno National Science Foundation 8/24/2009
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN $192,587 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Securing a high and stable supply of blood and blood components is indispensable not only to face emergencies such as accidents and surgeries, but also to meet the increasing demand for blood for chronic diseases and certain types of cancer. The over 16 m National Science Foundation 6/17/2009
UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY $300,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This three year Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site program at the University of Kentucky will engage students in research focused in the fields of Electrical and Computer Engineering. The program objectives are as follows: 1) provide under National Science Foundation 7/16/2009
COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY $195,333 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The PIs will study higher secant varieties of classically studied varieties such as Segre varieties, Grassmann varieties, and Segre-Veronese varieties. These varieties correspond to parameter spaces for rank one tensors, alternating tensors, and hybrids o National Science Foundation 6/29/2009
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES $253,324 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Title: G?Collaborative Research: A 3D Seismic Study of the Pacific-North American Plate Boundary in Southern CaliforniaG? Description: G?We will use data from 34 long-duration, broadband Ocean Bottom Seismometers (OBS) in a passive seismic experiment off National Science Foundation 9/10/2009
UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING $470,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This proposal provides for the continued operation of the University of Wyoming (UW) King Air (UWKA, http://www.atmos.uwyo.edu/n2uw) research aircraft and the Wyoming Cloud Radar (WCR, http://www.atmos.uwyo.edu/wcr) as a national facility. This turboprop National Science Foundation 8/16/2009
LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY, THE $300,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project will quantify the electrodynamic coupling between the lower atmosphere, the ionosphere, and the magnetosphere by performing an observational and modeling study focused on terrestrial gamma-ray flashes TGF. The investigation will include full National Science Foundation 9/17/2009
WILLIAM MARSH RICE UNIVERSITY $426,939 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The West Antarctic Ice Sheet is believed to be vulnerable to climate change as it is grounded below sea level, is drained by rapidly flowing ice streams and is fringed by floating ice shelves subject to melting by incursions of relatively warm Antarctic c National Science Foundation 6/10/2009
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON $376,672 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Steig/0837990This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).This award supports a project to obtain a ~100,000-year record of 17O-excess from the WAIS Divide ice core, currently being drilled in West Antar National Science Foundation 5/22/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA $150,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Continuing his previous work on elliptic stable maps, the PI's near-term objective is to complete his joint work on the structures of the moduli spaces of genus-two stable maps; then strengthen the results that they already obtained in high-genus cases; f National Science Foundation 7/23/2009
PURDUE UNIVERSITY $139,398 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This engineering education research award to Clemson University in collaboration with Purdue University and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University will develop a comprehensive knowledge management system and visualization methods for the rapi National Science Foundation 7/17/2009
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI $576,332 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This proposal requests funds to develop a series of twenty engaging, multi-media case studies of ocean scientists addressing the Broader Impacts activities of their research. This effort will involve representatives of all Centers for Ocean Sciences Educa National Science Foundation 9/13/2009
TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY $2,099,999 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Focus on Mathematics (FoM) has, since 2003, been a project of NSF's Math and Science Partnership program that engaged Boston University, the Education Development Center, Inc., the University of Massachusetts at Lowell, and an array of Massachusetts publi National Science Foundation 7/07/2009
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY $348,315 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This grant provides funding for developing experimental design theories and techniques for product and process reliability responses that will fill the gap that currently exists in design for reliability. Direct application of traditional design of experi National Science Foundation 6/23/2009
PURDUE UNIVERSITY $215,050 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The research objective of this award is to develop a universal manufacturing method to fabricate composite functional structures/materials on three dimensional surfaces using laser dynamic forming. This research will enable an innovative and potentially t National Science Foundation 8/10/2009
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN $59,919 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
BROWN UNIVERSITY IN PROVIDENCE IN STATE OF RI AND PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS $592,035 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
BROWN UNIVERSITY IN PROVIDENCE IN STATE OF RI AND PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS $700,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Technical Abstract This MRI proposal by Brown University requests support for the acquisition of an FEI Tecnai S20 transmission electron microscope (TEM) to serve the nanoscale imaging and micro/nano-characterization needs of the local research community National Science Foundation 9/08/2009
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA $478,800 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This MRI proposal requests to acquire a high resolution scanning electron microscope (HRSEM) for interdisciplinary research and education at the University of South Florida (USF). The HRSEM instrument with ultrahigh-resolution and optimized analytical fun National Science Foundation 8/25/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM $431,200 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is for the acquisition of an imaging X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) microprobe surface analysis system to support diverse multi-departmental program at University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) in nanostructured, compositionally graded, National Science Foundation 9/08/2009
MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY $560,000 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 Marquette University computational grid (MUGrid) brings together a diverse team of investigators from mathematics, statistics, computer science, chemistr National Science Foundation 8/28/2009
UNIVERSITY OF IOWA, THE $440,595 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: With this award from the Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) program, Mark Young and colleagues Vicki Grassian, and Paul Kleiber from the University of Iowa will develop a single particle aerosol mass spectrometer. The proposed aerosol mass spectrometer National Science Foundation 7/29/2009
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN $1,429,330 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Observing time on the world's largest telescopes is a very valuable commodity. Any scheme that can enhance their efficiency pays significant dividends in the number of scientific research programs that can be undertaken and in the associated cost of the o National Science Foundation 8/24/2009
COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY $627,326 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project, acquiring High Performance Computing (HPC) instrumentation, aims to support much larger and more complex problems in science and engineering (especially for data intensive applications), add greater physical fidelity to existing models, faci National Science Foundation 8/29/2009
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON $679,482 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 progress in ultrafast laser technology has enabled new spectroscopies for probing matter in fundamentally new optical regimes with regard to frequency National Science Foundation 7/09/2009
PRAIRIE VIEW A & M UNIVERSITY $216,779 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 will fund the acquisition of a PowerWall-Based Virtual Reality (VR) system to enable the research and teaching in virtual prototyping at Prairie V National Science Foundation 7/17/2009
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT BROWNSVILLE $704,293 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Proposal #: NSF MRI 09-23456 PI(s): Lei, Hansheng; Benacquista, Matthew J.; Figueroa, Andres; Iglesias, Juan R.; Mukherjee, Soma Institution: University of Texas - Brownsville Title: MRI/Acquisition: FUTURO: A Data Intensive and High Performance Comput National Science Foundation 8/29/2009
UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON SYSTEM $587,570 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project, developing a dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) multi-mode switching platform instrument, supports telesurgery, telemedicine, and heterogeneous applications by allowing different types of messages within an application to choose f National Science Foundation 9/09/2009
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON $2,710,000 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 provides continuing support for a program of research for the High Energy Physics group at the University of Washington. This group is a member of National Science Foundation 7/23/2009
BROWN UNIVERSITY IN PROVIDENCE IN STATE OF RI AND PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS $270,422 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: Sn-based alloy coatings have been used for many years in the manufacture of electronic components to enhance solderability and prevent c National Science Foundation 7/06/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS $772,111 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Recent measurements of the Bering Strait throughflow fluxes find strong seasonal and interannual variability, so far unpredictable ? the heat flux increase from 2001 to 2004 is enough to melt an 800 km by 800 km area of 1 m thick ice, and the internannual National Science Foundation 7/06/2009
PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY $365,432 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award supports a modeling study of the processes in West Antarctic grounding zones, the transition from ice resting on bedrock to ice floating on the ocean surface with an eye toward understanding the interrelated causes of rapid change in grounding National Science Foundation 5/22/2009
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN $811,897 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The solar wind - magnetosphere - ionosphere system and the space weather phenomena it controls is a complex and dynamic environment that has increasing recognition of potentially impacting critical human technological infrastructure. To be able to forecas National Science Foundation 8/18/2009
LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY, THE $399,999 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The scheduled field campaigns aboard the Swedish icebreaker Oden in November-January of 2010 will provide an unprecedented opportunity to sample the sea ice microbial community in a region of the Antarctic ice pack that has received very little attention National Science Foundation 8/12/2009
UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO $306,050 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: In this proposal, we seek to determine whether snow is an important influence on soil microbial ecology and linked biogeochemical cycling. We propose to conduct fieldwork at the landscape scale (repeated aerial photography during the summer to characteri National Science Foundation 8/14/2009
UNIVERSITY OF UTAH, THE $430,245 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 investigators will examine competing hypotheses for the mechanism of extension and creation of the Transantarctic Mountains, and evolution of the thermal National Science Foundation 8/14/2009
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA CRUZ $179,599 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 Amundsen Sea Polynya is really the most productive Antarctic polynya, exhibits higher chlorophyll levels during peak bloom and greater interannual varia National Science Foundation 8/14/2009
VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE $831,131 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Ross Sea is a highly productive area within the Southern Ocean, but it experiences substantial variability in both physical (temperature, ice concentrations, salinity, winds, and current velocities) and biogeochemical (chlorophyll, productivity, micro National Science Foundation 8/05/2009
RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY $865,980 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Amundsen Sea Polynya is areally the most productive Antarctic polynya, exhibits higher chlorophyll levels during peak bloom and greater interannual variability than the better-studied Ross Sea Polynya ecosystem. Polynyas may be the key to understandin National Science Foundation 8/14/2009
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI $333,888 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Although natural radioisotopes, such as Th(IV), Pa(IV, V), Po(IV, II, -II), and Be(II), are important proxies that have long been used National Science Foundation 6/25/2009
FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE $178,236 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The award will provide funding for planning and implementing workshops and other supporting activities associated with the Political Networks Conferences in 2009, 2010, and 2011, including funding for approximately 40 graduate and assistant professor fell National Science Foundation 8/06/2009
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION $268,650 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 Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) on the Chesapeake Bay will offer an REU program in environmental biology to ten undergraduate students d National Science Foundation 5/29/2009
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA $100,426 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: There is a growing demand to assess various measures of human well-being (including socio-economic and health characteristics) at national and sub-national levels. However, data availability at the sub-national level is often limited owing to constraints National Science Foundation 8/24/2009
RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY $300,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This 3-year REU site program at Rutgers University will engage 10 undergraduate students each year in cutting-edge, cross-disciplinary research in the field of Cellular Bioengineering. Cellular Bioengineering encompasses a number of cutting edge research National Science Foundation 7/17/2009
UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA $380,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Nanotechnology is now accepted as one of the greatest areas for technological innovation and economical advancement. Its worldwide societal impact has been quantified in 2 million workers who will produce nanotechnology-based products worth $1 trillion pe National Science Foundation 6/18/2009
GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION $427,824 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 goals of this research project are to understand how variables within social computing environments improve older adult cognition, what properties of an National Science Foundation 6/01/2009
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, THE $370,077 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Describing the action of the nervous system in quantitative terms is an important goal in neuroscience, but has been hampered by lack of appropriate techniques to describe the complex time-varying activity patterns of individual neurons. The activity patt National Science Foundation 7/13/2009
CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY $987,032 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 'The investigators, with their students and postdocs, pursue an interdisciplinary project with three primary aims. The first aim is the development, optimization, and dissemination of novel computational methods based on arbitrary-order Hermite approxima National Science Foundation 9/09/2009
BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC $240,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Value Sensitive Design and Implantable Medical Devices Our group has continued to conduct extensive, semi-structured interviews to explore a value-sensitive analysis of technological advances in implantable medical devices. The current series of intervie National Science Foundation 8/15/2009
GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION $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 CALIFORNIA, SANTA CRUZ $1,151,548 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Interoperability of heterogeneous data is a critical problem faced by every modern enterprise that is concerned with data analysis, data migration, and data National Science Foundation 6/29/2009
COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY $169,990 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The investigator and his colleagues propose and study a model which can be used to characterize extremes (specifically threshold exceedances) on a regular spatial lattice. A spatial model for threshold exceedance data needs to handle situations where data National Science Foundation 6/25/2009
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES $639,694 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Award Description National Science Foundation 7/14/2009
COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY $1,042,470 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
TEXAS ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT STATION $841,243 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 'In this project the PIs will investigate human-robot interaction in situations where a human is highly dependent upon a robot that serves as the medium for the outside world, such as emergency response, hostage negotiation, and healthcare. In these domai National Science Foundation 7/13/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS $309,748 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The broad goal of this research is to use engineering approaches to identify fundamental mechanisms and biological design rules that control the assembly and stability of intercellular junctions in tissues. This research focuses on a class of proteins, ca National Science Foundation 6/02/2009
CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC $494,805 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: To identify the source of pollutants once they reach receiving water is one of the major problems of nonpoint-source pollution management. The principal objective of this project is to develop a tracer-system for identifying and characterizing different f National Science Foundation 6/18/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA $307,658 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Plasmon resonance, an optical phenomenon associated with metal nanoparticles, is being investigated for biomedical imaging and intervention at the cellular level. However, the size requirements for complete elimination of currently available nanoparticles National Science Foundation 7/02/2009
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY $375,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Neutrinos offer a new way to look at the sky. As a new generation of experiments is being developed, the detection of neutrinos from core collapse supernovae and stellar jets finally is within reach, with unprecendented potential to learn about these sour National Science Foundation 9/03/2009
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES $375,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Number theory has seen many significant advances recently. Results from arithmetic geometry and the theories of modular forms and Galois representations have produced a proof Fermat's Last Theorem, solved Serre's modularity conjecture and made fundamenta National Science Foundation 6/18/2009
TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, THE $119,969 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The PIs will study some fundamental problems in algebraic number theory, particularly problems related to the deep links between Galois representations and special values of L-functions (as conjectured in the Birch-Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture and the Bloch National Science Foundation 6/18/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS $416,360 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project will use ultra-cold atoms trapped in an optical lattice to explore thermopower in the Hubbard model. Thermoelectric (TE) materials will play a key role in near- and long-term reliable methods for efficient power generation and cooling in a wi National Science Foundation 7/14/2009
CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY $750,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The proposed project will turn the wireless emulator testbed into a shared community resource. The project has three thrusts. First, we propose to make two professionally-supported wireless emulator testbeds available as the core of a community testbed a National Science Foundation 7/20/2009
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON $681,071 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Buggy software costs the U.S. up to $60 billion annually, so preventing bugs is important to society. It is possible to prevent certain bugs by running a typ National Science Foundation 7/27/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA $360,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The objective of this study is the development, characterization and utilization of a ?sensate? cartilage covered scaffold that replaces the load bearing area of a joint. Load measurements from this implant will facilitate development of better cartilage National Science Foundation 8/04/2009
UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY $479,875 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The protons and neutrons that serve as building blocks for our visible universe are constructed from smaller, more fundamental particles called quarks and gluons. These point-like particles, or partons, are confined inside nucleons due to the nature of th National Science Foundation 8/17/2009
CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY $3,585,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 'This project covers a program of research in ''Fundamental Studies in Nuclear Physics'' at the Kellogg Radiation Laboratory of the California Institute of Technology. It includes primarily experimental research addressing key issues in nuclear physics a National Science Foundation 9/15/2009
RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY $275,521 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: In the last few years, Huang has proved the Verlinde conjecture and the Verlinde formula which play a fundamental role in Conformal Field Theory and related subjects and has proved the rigidity and modularity of the ribbon category of modules for vertex o National Science Foundation 8/11/2009
THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC $330,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The objective of this research is to develop a process which integrates high performance thin film silicon circuitry with compound semiconductor devices, and to use this process to demonstrate an active matrix light emitting diode capable of projecting a National Science Foundation 8/14/2009
UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY $156,625 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This proposal is composed of five broad research topics in algebraic, geometric and topological combinatorics. The first project is to expand results about the strong Bruhat graph of Coxeter systems to the more general setting of balanced graphs. The PI National Science Foundation 7/02/2009
PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE $143,937 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: There is increasing evidence that ecological processes at high latitude are just as sensitive to the timing of events as to their magnitudes. In the boreal forest, moisture availability in summer affects both tree growth and the fire regime. Summers are b National Science Foundation 6/25/2009
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA CRUZ $201,053 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). An understanding of how climate in California responds to global and regional forcing mechanisms on multiple timescales is crucial for the management of sca National Science Foundation 8/26/2009
THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC $260,834 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The group will test hypotheses concerning how temporal and spatial variability of Southern Hemisphere climate compared with the Northern Hemisphere during the Holocene. This research will help resolve drivers of paleoclimate by providing a perspective on National Science Foundation 8/25/2009
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY $399,546 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 is co-supported by the Petrology & Geochemistry and Tectonics programs of the Division of Earth Sciences, and sponsored also by the Office of National Science Foundation 7/19/2009
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA $399,798 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: (a) Non-technical explanation of the project's broader significance and importance: Small amounts of melt that form deep beneath Earth?s surface rise slowly to feed volcanoes such as those observed in Iceland and Hawaii. As this melt moves upward through National Science Foundation 7/22/2009
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA $178,775 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Volcanoes create hazards for millions of people worldwide, including many living in parts of the USA. Scientists can now forecast the timing of many eruptions at well-monitored volcanoes. Unfortunately, it is currently not possible to accurately forecast National Science Foundation 6/17/2009
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM $496,260 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The objectives of this Grant Opportunity for Academic Liaison with Industry (GOALI) research project are to improve understanding of pulsed laser micro polishing and to develop strategies for delivering pulsed laser energy to three-dimensional micro-sized National Science Foundation 6/17/2009
PURDUE UNIVERSITY $204,171 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The expressive power of nonlinear programs allows the formulation of a remarkable number of application problems from business, science, engineering, and economics. In the presence of nonconvexity, global optimization of such programs poses unmistakable c National Science Foundation 6/15/2009
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN $228,672 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The research objective of this award is to advance the manufacture, the fundamental understanding, and the device application of graphene-nanocrystal metamaterials or hybrid graphene-nanocrystal structures, i.e., graphene sheets with discrete nanocrystals National Science Foundation 7/09/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS $110,951 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The PI's research is centered on functional analytic aspects of harmonic analysis. This project is devoted to understanding real-Hardy spaces and the Littlewood-Paley theory in the noncommutative setting. The PI will apply the results to operator algebra/ National Science Foundation 6/05/2009
WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY $424,321 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The proposal focuses on the design of decentralized controller for dynamic networks. The objective is to investigate the design for three application areas, virus spreading control, air traffic flow management, and communication-agent algorithmic/control National Science Foundation 8/21/2009
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND $308,050 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: PI is continuing his research in model theory, which is a branch of mathematical logic. The bulk of his research is organized around the theme of obtaining better structure theorems in three distinct settings. He will continue his investigations of the f National Science Foundation 5/28/2009
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY $330,000 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Integrated Actuation, Alignment, and Latching for Reconfigurable Assembled 3D MEMS Principal Investigators Carol Livermore and George Barbastathis 'This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).' National Science Foundation 7/29/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS $212,861 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The PI intends to work on three different topics involving descriptive set theory and its applications in Banach space theory and topological dynamics. Firstly, he intends to further elaborate on the structure theory of large Polish group and, in particul National Science Foundation 5/21/2009
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY $297,078 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Adaptive, Reconfigurable, self-healing Soler Arrays National Science Foundation 8/21/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA $193,653 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Dr Coil, Dr Blanton and Dr Eisenstein will analyze their large survey of 300,000 galaxies, to understand the growth and evolution of the stellar bodies of galaxies over the past several billion years in the context of the current standard Cold Dark Matter National Science Foundation 9/08/2009
PURDUE UNIVERSITY $337,455 Grant Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The focus of this research is the development of a comprehensive theory to analyze (inverse) scattering problems with waves in random media generated by (random) ambient noise sources. In particular, the investigators are interested in the analysis of mea National Science Foundation 7/17/2009