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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY | $2,787,782 | 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 involves the renovation of invertebrate research areas within the Field Museum of Natural History (FMNH). The renovated Invertebrate Research Fa | National Science Foundation | 8/05/2010 |
| CARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON | $1,093,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project involves major renovations to laboratory spaces that will house three groups of instruments, the combination of which forms a coherent and multidisciplinary facility for research in Earth and space science and materials physics. | National Science Foundation | 8/24/2010 |
| MOUNT WILSON INSTITUTE | $1,486,837 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 'Revitalizing Mount Wilson Observatory' - Funds are to enhance the research related infrastructure of the Mount Wilson Observatory. This support is being utilized to repair and paint telescope domes and solar telescope towers, repair/upgrade potable and f | National Science Foundation | 8/27/2010 |
| JACKSONVILLE STATE UNIVERSITY (INC) | $38,002 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: MRI-R2: Acquisition of Simultaneous Thermal Analyzer for Undergraduate Research NSF Award 0958826 Project source TAS code 490101 | National Science Foundation | 7/14/2010 |
| ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA, THE | $1,051,265 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Renovation of ANSP Entomology Department Research Collection & Associated Lab | National Science Foundation | 10/01/2010 |
| INDIANA UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | $951,578 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award provides funds with which to renovate and upgrade 12 research and research training spaces in the Department of Biology at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. The award supports Department's educational philosophy that emphasizes active learni | National Science Foundation | 9/15/2010 |
| SAN JUAN COLLEGE | $250,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project will revitalize the chemistry laboratory at the San Juan College (SJC) located in Farmington, New Mexico. The project includes the creation of a clean room complete with laminar flow hoods for culturing of cells, installation of two new fume | National Science Foundation | 9/10/2010 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO | $1,149,687 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project proposes to renovate 6,569 sq. ft of existing research space (out of 8,703 sq. ft total) to relocate and consolidate most Institute for Tropical Ecosystem Studies (ITES) research at the UPR Rio Piedras Campus into a space we will call the ITE | National Science Foundation | 10/01/2010 |
| BARNARD COLLEGE (INC) | $1,843,610 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project will enable Barnard College, a liberal arts institution for undergraduate women, to modernize the research infrastructure of nearly one entire floor of Altschul Hall, its main science building. This facility has remained largely unchanged si | National Science Foundation | 9/09/2010 |
| LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM | $1,998,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The BIPAS project seeks to expand its key data network arteries across campus by extending the bypass concept currently implemented in the network core. The bypass concept is a straightforward and novel approach to allow researchers secure access to high | National Science Foundation | 7/13/2010 |
| GOVERNORS STATE UNIVERSITY | $2,321,899 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The purpose of this project is to replace the current inadequate biological research facilities distributed throughout teaching spaces, offices, and adapted labs. The renovation will improve research space by providing modern core infrastructure includin | National Science Foundation | 8/17/2010 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA | $1,898,232 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The USF College of Marine Science (CMS) is seeking fundng to renovate and completely upgrade a suite of 13 marginally functioning research laboratories and the associated infrastructure that supports this section of the MSL building. HVAC, electrical an | National Science Foundation | 8/11/2010 |
| NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $5,121,584 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This proposal seeks instrument development and infrastructure improvements of an existing radio array, the Owens Valley Solar Array (OVSA), to create a major university-based facility serving a broad scientific community, to keep the U.S. competitive in t | National Science Foundation | 9/22/2010 |
| BELOIT COLLEGE | $349,688 | 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 to renovate an anthropology research complex in the Godfrey Anthropology Building on the campus of Beloit College. The research laboratories | National Science Foundation | 8/19/2010 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO | $1,149,687 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project proposes to renovate 6,569 sq. ft of existing research space (out of 8,703 sq. ft total) to relocate and consolidate most Institute for Tropical Ecosystem Studies (ITES) research at the UPR Rio Piedras Campus into a space we will call the ITE | National Science Foundation | 9/24/2010 |
| BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY (INC) | $1,985,557 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: ARI-R2: Renovation of the Physical Sciences Laboratory Building. | National Science Foundation | 9/08/2010 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING | $874,225 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This MRI award is to purchase a next-generation multi-collector inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer (MC-ICPMS) for the University of Wyoming. | National Science Foundation | 4/26/2010 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE | $1,831,855 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Description: The project renovates 9,163 square feet in the 1963-built Dougherty Engineering Building at UTK to create the Sustainable Energy Laboratory (SEL). The renovation will place hundreds of linear feet of flexible casework, a half dozen acid f | National Science Foundation | 8/17/2010 |
| LEHIGH UNIVERSITY | $1,751,210 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project is to install 750 high-speed gigabit network connections, including cabling, switches, and required backbone interconnections, to establish a high-speed network infrastructure in the Iacocca Hall C-Wing Research Facility of Lehigh University. | National Science Foundation | 8/11/2010 |
| LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY (INC) | $597,807 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This renovation project will address critical research issues related to space limitations and inadequate infrastructure for the conduct of nano-molecular biotechnology research in Wilson Laboratory at the LSU Agricultural Center. The renovation will conv | National Science Foundation | 9/10/2010 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO | $637,664 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The sequencing and Genotyping facility (SGF) at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus (UPR-RP) proposes to acquire a ROCHE 454GS Titanium next generation sequencer and computational infrastructure for analysis of genomic data. The SGF serves | National Science Foundation | 7/21/2010 |
| KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY | $1,598,997 | 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 supports the renovation and reconfiguration of approximately 5,237 square feet of research laboratories at Kansas State University's Durland Hall | National Science Foundation | 8/30/2010 |
| NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY | $1,793,916 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: ARI-R2: Renovation of the North Carolina State University Phytotron for Improved Environmental Control and BSL-3 Containment. North Carolina State University (NCSU) faculty and students have a compelling need for a state-of-the art controlled, environment | National Science Foundation | 8/17/2010 |
| ONDAVIA, INC. | $500,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: SBIR Phase II: Water and Food Analysis by Non-Uniform Electroosmotic flow | National Science Foundation | 9/03/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, THE | $254,124 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The objective of this project is to identify major sources and physico-chemical processes that produce secondary organic aerosol (SOA) in a polluted urban atmosphere. The principal investigators will investigate Los Angeles SOA through participation in th | National Science Foundation | 9/11/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, THE | $1,012,496 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Current data resources do not permit satisfactory measurement and analysis of three key processes in our economy - globalization, technological change, and innovation. Consequently the impact of these forces on important outcomes, such as changes in the q | National Science Foundation | 8/19/2009 |
| SOUTHERN OREGON UNIVERSITY | $218,786 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The project objective is to enhance the physical attributes of the Biotechnology Research Center at Southern Oregon University (SOU) and develop it as a state-of-the-art facility for faculty and students to conduct cutting-edge research. The Center has be | National Science Foundation | 9/14/2010 |
| ARCADIA UNIVERSITY | $666,812 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Funds are provided to renovate and update the cell and molecular research laboratories in Boyer Hall at Arcadia University. These renovations will provide a modern, functional, and safe laboratory environment for the research faculty and their student res | National Science Foundation | 9/17/2010 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO | $1,960,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The objective of this research is to study fundamental electronic, photonic, chemical, and bio-logical behaviors of nanoscale structures relevant to future applications in next generation storage, energy harvesting, communications and computing, quantum c | National Science Foundation | 8/15/2010 |
| TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY | $1,287,206 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Research and Facility Renovation for the College of Engineering, Technology and Computer Science at Tennessee State University | National Science Foundation | 8/31/2010 |
| LUMARRAY INC. | $499,868 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project aims to develop a maskless photolithography system by ensuring that the patterns it writes are free of positional error (i.e., distortion) to the sub-1 nm level. In traditional photolit | National Science Foundation | 2/01/2011 |
| TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY | $604,170 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The natural sciences on the campus of Indiana University South Bend have no graduate programs. Over the past 16 years, the Biology department completely replaced the original faculty, and all tenure-track members have active research programs. At the same | National Science Foundation | 9/13/2010 |
| ACCUSTRATA | $432,016 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project is directed at developing a real time process control system, TF Auto-Pilot, for improving manufacturing of thin film products such as thin film solar panels, flat panel displays, optics and | National Science Foundation | 9/16/2010 |
| HUMBOLDT STATE UNIVERSITY SPONSORED PROGRAMS FOUNDATION | $320,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Project Summary: Ectomycorrhizal fungal diversity of the central Guiana Shield. Intellectual Merit. Neotropical forests harbor high biodiversity, including | National Science Foundation | 8/17/2009 |
| COLLEGE OF IDAHO, INC. (THE) | $0 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The College of Idaho is one of only 5 liberal arts colleges in the intermountain region encompassing Utah, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming and Nevada. Since its beginning in 1891, this undergraduate institution has been known for its quality education and strong | National Science Foundation | 8/27/2010 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, THE | $123,749 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award will establish a URM program to engage under-represented minority students in intensive mentoring and research experience and prepare them for graduate studies in the biological sciences. This URM program will engage 4-5 undergraduates for a pe | National Science Foundation | 8/26/2010 |
| TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY | $40,682 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Nationally visible cases of sex offenders who recidivated after release into the community have prompted state and federal legislators and local communities to focus on the public safety risk posed by offenders and the most appropriate means of dealing wi | National Science Foundation | 8/26/2009 |
| CLEMSON UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $518,503 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Enhancement of South Carolina cyberinfrastructure in support of two active ESPCOR RII programs (Tissue Fabrication RII and Cyberinfrastructure RII) and further develop capacity for interinstitutional collaborations in STEM education and research programs. | National Science Foundation | 9/01/2010 |
| HUMBOLDT STATE UNIVERSITY SPONSORED PROGRAMS FOUNDATION | $699,015 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Environmental Resources Engineering Professional Master of Science (PERE-MS) at Humboldt State University (HSU) will address the nation critical need for professional engineers technically trained in the areas of renewable energy and water resources. | National Science Foundation | 5/07/2010 |
| TOWSON UNIVERSITY | $1,395,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Towson University's G?Academic Research Infrastructure: Recovery and ReinvestmentG? grant will provide funds to renovate research laboratories of the Urban Environmental Biogeochemistry Laboratory (UEBL). TU will turn a sample preparation laboratory, a ne | National Science Foundation | 9/14/2010 |
| ROWAN UNIVERSITY | $296,650 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: MRI-R2:Acquisition of an X-ray Computed Tomography System with Loading Capabilities | National Science Foundation | 1/04/2010 |
| ROWAN UNIVERSITY | $263,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: To create a multiple user facility for determining phase,texture, epitaxy, and interfacial roughness information on materials synthesized by various solid state and film techniques. | National Science Foundation | 3/01/2010 |
| ROWAN UNIVERSITY | $164,923 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Collaborative Research: AIS Incremental Learning from Unbalanced Data in Nonstationary Environments | National Science Foundation | 8/20/2009 |
| KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND SERVICE FOUNDATION | $120,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Understanding and controlling the effects of QCD is critical for performing precision tests of the standard model (SM) and detecting and identifying signals of new physics at hadron colliders. Perturbative QCD calculations are plagued by the dependence o | National Science Foundation | 7/02/2009 |
| KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND SERVICE FOUNDATION | $896,765 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Kennesaw State University (KSU), in collaboration with Georgia Institue of Technology (GT), forms the Increasing Mathematics Teachers for ALL Students (IMTAS) project. This project is recruiting, preparing and retaining 36 teachers of secondary mathemati | National Science Foundation | 5/22/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY | $40,682 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Nationally visible cases of sex offenders who recidivated after release into the community have prompted state and federal legislators and local communities to focus on the public safety risk posed by offenders and the most appropriate means of dealing wi | National Science Foundation | 8/26/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS SYSTEM | $3,370,951 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The partnership between Arkansas (AR) and West Virginia (WV) builds on common research in geosciences, virtual environments, and computational sciences while leveraging technical expertise within the two states: WV leverages expertise in the deployment an | National Science Foundation | 8/27/2009 |
| WESLEY COLLEGE INC | $281,676 | Contract | : To renovate research laboratories and to update cyber infrastructure. | National Science Foundation | 9/01/2010 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH THE | $470,914 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The nervous system exerts profound regulatory influence over peripheral physiology and this control is essential for homeostasis and coordinating adaptive changes across physiological systems. The regulatory oversight exerted by the brain necessary for th | National Science Foundation | 7/15/2009 |
| SLIPPERY ROCK UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | $175,000 | Grant | Basic Scientific Research: Create a model to investigate the movement of air and how it relates to air pollution levels in Western PA. | National Science Foundation | 8/16/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH THE | $932,252 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The goal of this project is to build and use computational tools for elucidating the nature of membrane protein's interactions with the membrane and to increase the mathematical fluency of undergraduate and high school students. | National Science Foundation | 6/05/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH THE | $150,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The purpose of the award is to stimulate innovative manufacturing research and industrial competitiveness in the U.S. by enabling the design of engineering components with custom designed microstructures. The award is expected to lead to manufactured meta | National Science Foundation | 7/16/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH THE | $185,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award provides resources to build a Regional Stable Isotope Laboratory for Earth and Environmental Science Research at the University of Pittsburgh. Provided funds will support a technician that will maintain a dedicated laboratory housing two gas s | National Science Foundation | 9/08/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH THE | $400,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The proposed research, which is focused on electron injection from metal nanoparticles into the surrounding TCO matrix, broadens the arena for fundamental nanoscale research on potentially new and novel carrier conduction mechanisms and opens a new area f | National Science Foundation | 6/16/2009 |
| PACIFIC UNIVERSITY | $748,950 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Pacific STEM Teaching Pathways (PSTP) is a collaboration among the Pacific University Division of Natural Sciences, the College of Education, and several local Oregon high-needs K-12 school districts. Its purpose is to increase the number of exemplary K-1 | National Science Foundation | 6/12/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH THE | $495,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: In this research project supported by the Experimental Physical Chemistry Program, Professors Hrvoje Petek and Jin Zhao will study the electronic structure of graphene, a single atom thick, sheet-like allotrope of the element carbon. The study will focus | National Science Foundation | 8/06/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH THE | $280,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Using theory and simulation, our goal is to design coatings that permit the controlled spatial-temporal modulation of surface properties and thereby, impart biomimetic functionality to a broad range of systems. In these studies, we will take advantage of | National Science Foundation | 7/27/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH THE | $290,092 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Human-observer based methods for measuring human motion are labor intensive, qualitative, and difficult to standardize across laboratories, clinical settings, and over time. Moreover, many conditions that affect normal human movements must be diagnosed du | National Science Foundation | 9/05/2009 |
| SAN JUAN COLLEGE | $250,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project will revitalize the chemistry laboratory at the San Juan College (SJC) located in Farmington, New Mexico. The project includes the creation of a clean room complete with laminar flow hoods for culturing of cells, installation of two new fume | National Science Foundation | 9/10/2010 |
| FLORIDA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, INC. | $453,531 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Collaborative Research: Climate Change and Predatory Invasion of the Antarctic Marine Environment | National Science Foundation | 8/18/2009 |
| BROWN UNIVERSITY IN PROVIDENCE IN STATE OF RI AND PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS | $1,176,470 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Rhode Island (RI) Research Infrastructure Improvement Inter-Campus and Intra-Campus Cyber Connectivity project will provide high speed connection and thus facilitate effective collaboration among Rhode Island's institutions of higher education. Brown | National Science Foundation | 8/18/2010 |
| CLEMSON UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $1,431,340 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project will renovate the existing regional optical research and education network infrastructure in South Carolina, the South Carolina Light Rail and C-Light. The project will lead to a higher bandwidth connection between South Carolina campuses and | National Science Foundation | 7/15/2010 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, THE | $703,312 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The primary goal of this project is to develop a better understanding of secondary organic aerosols (SOA), which are aerosols that are formed from volatile organic carbon compound (VOC) precursors in the atmosphere. Until very recently, it was not possibl | National Science Foundation | 7/19/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS SYSTEM | $3,370,951 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The partnership between Arkansas (AR) and West Virginia (WV) builds on common research in geosciences, virtual environments, and computational sciences while leveraging technical expertise within the two states: WV leverages expertise in the deployment an | National Science Foundation | 8/27/2009 |