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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | $480,780 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This proposal explores several areas where algebraic geometry interacts with quantum field theory and string theory: the Geometric Langlands Program, on the math side; heterotic string phenomenology and F theory, in physics; and the superstring measure, a | National Science Foundation | 6/25/2009 |
| ACTIVE SPECTRUM INC | $98,458 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I research project will test the feasibility of increasing diesel fuel economy while reducing soot to below EPA emissions standards for diesel exhaust by adjusting fuel injection timing using feedback from an | National Science Foundation | 7/01/2009 |
| EMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY INC | $499,208 | 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 funding for a 3 year standard award to support a Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) in Engineering Site program at Embry-Riddle | National Science Foundation | 6/29/2009 |
| LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY, THE | $328,505 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Dr. Wechsler and her team will explore how hydrogen gas is reionized by the ultraviolet radiation from the earliest stars and active galactic nuclei, and how that affects star formation in small galaxies. Standard Cold Dark Matter cosmologies predict many | National Science Foundation | 9/05/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $403,153 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The interstellar medium (ISM) plays a vital role in the ongoing cycle of stellar birth and death, and galactic evolution. However the role of interstellar matter, from how its properties are influenced by stars to how, in turn, its properties influence st | National Science Foundation | 8/26/2009 |
| BRYN MAWR COLLEGE | $226,221 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The principal investigators propose to investigate flexibilityand rigidity questions that are central to the character ofsymplectic and contact topology by exploring knotting phenomenaof Lagrangian and Legendrian submanifolds. Approachingsymplectic and co | National Science Foundation | 7/26/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO, THE | $118,725 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This research will investigate the jet structure and energy generation of quasars and other active galactic nuclei (AGNs), microquasars, and gamma-ray bursters, all of which are believed to be powered by rotating (Kerr) black holes. However, there is as y | National Science Foundation | 9/21/2009 |
| MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY | $440,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Using Ternary Content Addressable Memories (TCAMs) to perform high-speed packet classification has become the de facto standard in industry. Despite their high speed, TCAMs have limitations of high cost, small capacity, large power consumption, and high h | National Science Foundation | 7/27/2009 |
| NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY | $428,271 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Strong emotional reactions to minor provocations can be detrimental to the psychological and physical health of individuals and those around them. The psychology literature has shown that such strong reactions are not characteristic of all individuals and | National Science Foundation | 6/08/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA | $405,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: An increasing number of mobile users rely on wireless technologies to gain secure and uninterrupted access to network services. As the volume of data disseminated via the wireless medium rapidly expands, provision of performance, reliability, and security | National Science Foundation | 8/11/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI | $201,684 | 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 march grass Spartina alterniflora, build the land vertically (accrete) through a combination of | National Science Foundation | 7/09/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $400,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This CAREER project is built on the PI's ultimate research vision to develop accessible technologies to address significant challenges limiting stem cell discovery. The significant challenge addressed is unraveling the mechanism(s) by which stem cells fus | National Science Foundation | 7/24/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA | $520,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Understanding how the brain's neuronal networks perform computations remains a difficult challenge. The interaction of large populations of neurons leads to a complex repertoire of high-dimensional activity patterns that is difficult to analyze. The dimen | National Science Foundation | 7/22/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA CRUZ | $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). TECHNICAL SUMMARY: The primary objectives of this CAREER project are to understand the interplay of nanostructure design and material properties, and use a | National Science Foundation | 7/07/2009 |
| NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY | $253,123 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Urgent Needs for the NCSU Research Collection The equipment, infrastructure, databasing, training, and research proposed herein facilitate a transcendence from specialized resource for researchers in Entomology and a handful of systematists worldwide, i | National Science Foundation | 8/12/2009 |
| VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE & STATE UNIVERSITY | $600,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: In this CAREER project, supported by the Theoretical & Computational Chemistry Program of the Chemistry Division, Prof. Edward Valeev of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University together with his students and postdoctoral workers will carry | National Science Foundation | 6/04/2009 |
| GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION | $530,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The major objective of this 5-year CAREER Development project is to discover unifying principles that guide locomotor compensation and integrate these scientific principles into prosthetics and orthotics education. The research goal is anchored by a centr | National Science Foundation | 7/19/2009 |
| WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY | $299,955 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Intellectual merits of this project: The genome is the cardinal instrument of development that encodes the genetic parts and genetic programs of an organism. With the sequencing of many genomes now complete, and indeed, most if not all the genes identifie | National Science Foundation | 8/10/2009 |
| MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL, THE | $649,196 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Objects, people and events around us tend to occur in typical contexts. Ovens appear in kitchens, traffic lights tend to appear in streets, and a beach-umbrella appears next to a beach-chair and a towel. These regularities in our environment---that relate | National Science Foundation | 8/25/2009 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | $484,083 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: By the time children enter preschool, most are phenomenal word learners, adding new words to their vocabulary every single day. It is clear, however, that not all words are learned with equal ease. What factors determine whether, and how rapidly, a partic | National Science Foundation | 8/24/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, RENO | $988,389 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM), a photosynthetic pathway found in approximately 7% of all vascular plant species that improves water use efficiency up to 10-fold relative to C3 species, provides an exquisite example of circadian and environmentally r | National Science Foundation | 7/01/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO | $300,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Anyone who has had a phone conversation about how to how to change the oil in a car or how to make lasagna knows the importance of explanatory gestures for communication. Multimodal discourse involves the use of both visual (gestures) and auditory (speech | National Science Foundation | 7/30/2009 |
| MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY | $187,632 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The insect and arthropod collections of the A.J. Cook Arthropod Research Collection (ARC) at Michigan State University (MSU) contains ~1.1 million pinned and labeled specimens and also, specimens in 114,000 vials and on 47,000 slides. Approximately a thir | National Science Foundation | 8/13/2009 |
| COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY | $454,993 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Absolute ages for the deposition of sedimentary rocks can be determined by radiometric dating of organic material in carbon-rich shales, using the decay of rhenium (Re) to osmium (Os). In particular, fossils of organic-walled graptolites are commonly foun | National Science Foundation | 9/29/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA | $65,984 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Archean and Proterozoic oceans have no known analogues in modern aquatic environments, and their biogeochemistry and microbiology remain enigmatic. Lake Matano's physical structure, abundance of Fe and dearth of sulfate mirror the stratified ferruginous c | National Science Foundation | 8/19/2009 |
| VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE & STATE UNIVERSITY | $755,207 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Much of the land area of Washington, Oregon, and California was added to continental North America during the last 200 million years. Exactly how this dominantly oceanic lithosphere accreted to the continent is not well understood, although it is clear th | National Science Foundation | 6/17/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA | $575,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project will investigate the physiology of Sonoran Desert winter annual plants in order to provide insights into their population and community dynamics and the mechanisms that allow species to coexist at high diversity. Annual plants are a major com | National Science Foundation | 7/30/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | $150,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: In this project the PI will investigate the combinatorics associated with some useful polynomials in several variables which were introduced by I. G. Macdonald in 1988, and play a central role in algebraic combinatorics, with applications to a growing num | National Science Foundation | 7/30/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA SYSTEM | $101,166 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project will address several fundamental questions in non-commutative algebra and field theory, specifically focusing on the brauer group. In this project the PI studies the following question. Given a specific field, what kinds of division algebra | National Science Foundation | 8/05/2009 |
| CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $96,333 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The proposed project concerns perturbation theory of almost periodic Jacobi and CMV matrices with finite or infinite gap spectrum as well as asymptotic analysis of the associated orthogonal polynomials on the real line and the unit circle, respectively. T | National Science Foundation | 7/28/2009 |
| COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY | $350,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Coherent nonlinear laser microscopy (CNLM) such as third harmonic (THG) and second harmonic (SHG) generation microscopes are widely used imaging tools. However, their application to date has eluded systems requiring rapid image acquisition. We propose to | National Science Foundation | 6/19/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $391,639 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).Zhang 0901987University of WashingtonSignificant seasonal changes in arctic sea ice have been observed in recent years, characterized by unprecedented summer | National Science Foundation | 8/12/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA | $77,246 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This grant supports research on late Pleistocene and Holocene convective and hydrologic variability in Indonesia through the recovery and analysis of new sediment cores from two large lakes on the island of Sulawesi. This research builds upon seismic refl | National Science Foundation | 9/01/2009 |
| THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC | $638,135 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Funding is provided to investigate whether landscape and vegetation feedbacks played a role in creating the severity and persistence of Medieval megadroughts and if these feedbacks might also impact future anthropogenic-induced aridification. Specifically | National Science Foundation | 6/22/2009 |
| LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY, THE | $404,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Mainstream computing - on the desktop, in the datacenter, and in embedded devices - is undergoing an unprecedented shift toward parallelism as manufacturers adopt multi-core architectures. Conventional multi-core processors have very inefficient communica | National Science Foundation | 8/07/2009 |
| HARVARD COLLEGE, PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF | $950,001 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The foreseeable future research of the PI will concentrate on differential topology questions and on also mathematical physics. What follows lists six specific topics of concentration: - Using the Seiberg-Witten equations to study the dynamics of vector f | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $3,187,165 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) award supports the development of a multidisciplinary graduate training program of education and research in food systems as they relate to poverty reduction. Most people suffering chron | National Science Foundation | 7/13/2009 |
| WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY | $3,030,702 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Managing reactive nitrogen is one of the great scientific and social challenges of the 21st century. Translating technical understanding to public policy may | National Science Foundation | 7/13/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY | $300,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Public software and an appropriate user-friendly interface will be developed and released for performing accurate quantum mechanical calculations of fundamental three-body processes. This new computational tool will permit scientists from many different f | National Science Foundation | 9/07/2009 |
| SOUTH CAROLINA RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $324,968 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Collaborative Research: Understanding Whole-genome Evolution through Petascale Simulation Proposal Summary Because of the advent of high-throughput sequencing and the consequent reduction in cost of sequencing, we are seeing an explosion in the amount of | National Science Foundation | 8/28/2009 |
| LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY, THE | $436,409 | 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 domain | National Science Foundation | 7/13/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH | $300,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Reliable weather and climate prediction at local-to-global scales ultimately depends on a full and quantitatively accurate understanding of microphysical processes governing interactions of individual cloud droplets and their interplay with cloud-scale dy | National Science Foundation | 8/15/2009 |
| ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY | $236,003 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project is defining the basis for lower-complexity robotic hands that can grasp a wide variety of objects in noisy and unstructured environments. The new generation of mobile and humanoid robots still lacks basic ?hands? that can reliably grasp objec | National Science Foundation | 6/26/2009 |
| THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC | $419,444 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project is defining the basis for lower-complexity robotic hands that can grasp a wide variety of objects in noisy and unstructured environments. The new generation of mobile and humanoid robots still lacks basic ?hands? that can reliably grasp objec | National Science Foundation | 6/26/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $623,063 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project is focused on implementing novel methods for uncertainty quantification in the context of modeling carbon sequestration. Significant advances in both the basic methodology and computational implementation are proposed. Advances in numerical m | National Science Foundation | 6/26/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $94,767 | 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 centered around the study of complex version of the very famous Ricci flow, Kahler-Ricci flow. Many closely related objects, for example, c | National Science Foundation | 9/02/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, THE | $340,000 | 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 |
| VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE & STATE UNIVERSITY | $270,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: TECHNICAL SUMMARY This award supports theoretical research and education in systems far from equilibrium that evolve with slow dynamics. The PI aims to generalize a theoretical framework that he has proposed to systems that evolve according to a detailed | National Science Foundation | 7/20/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS | $1,001,565 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Our nation's infrastructure relies increasingly on networks that connect growing amounts of data and systems, including those that interact directly with the physical world. Increased connectivity leads to a higher degree of vulnerability to attacks, malf | National Science Foundation | 8/12/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO | $399,991 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This a joint grant with two researchers at UT Austin, the purpose of which is to develop the tools and abstractions necessary for building concurrent systems that are secure because critical operations are done atomically. Concurrency bugs, where compute | National Science Foundation | 7/20/2009 |
| CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY | $370,863 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Addressing techniques for key challenges information integration, prediction, and generation using graphical models. First we addrss the intration of attribute -value and relational data, accounting for possible bias and sparsity in the observations and | National Science Foundation | 8/12/2009 |
| VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE & STATE UNIVERSITY | $372,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: TECHNICAL SUMMARY: The ability to control functional group placement and polymer backbone structure in synthetic polymers is important for understanding fundamental structure property relationships as well as designing polymeric materials with important | National Science Foundation | 5/27/2009 |
| PURDUE UNIVERSITY | $549,899 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Wireless mesh networks promise a flexible and cost-effective solution for bringing high-bandwidth low-latency applications to the home. Two orthogonal but immensely attractive approaches for designing high-performance mesh networks are network coding and | National Science Foundation | 9/04/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $600,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Despite years of effort, the underlying structure of the Internet is still largely opaque to networking researchers. This opaque structure is also a barrier to ISP administrators trying to diagnose connectivity problems - when a problem occurs, it can be | National Science Foundation | 8/01/2009 |
| CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $250,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 'This project determines the fundamental limits of network secrecy from a network coding perspective, and then applies this theory to improve security guarantees in peer-to-peer and wireless networks. As network coding gains prominence as an important st | National Science Foundation | 7/24/2009 |
| LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY, THE | $260,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This proposal consists of several projects investigating the new area of research known as 'String Topology', as well as related questions. String topology, a theory that was first introduced in 1999, studies structures on spaces of paths, loops, and sur | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $257,193 | 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: The objective of this project is to study and understand fundamental phenomena underlying the interaction between the piezoelectric potential and | National Science Foundation | 5/22/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA | $316,755 | 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: This collaborative project aims to study the detailed interfacial structure of semiconducting and dielectric polymers. The influence of | National Science Foundation | 6/09/2009 |
| THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC | $130,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Quantile regression (Koenker and Bassett, 1978) has emerged as an important statistical methodology, and has been used in a wide range of applications including economics, biology, ecology and finance. Very often a data set is not perfectly obtained. Some | National Science Foundation | 7/04/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA | $355,221 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The proposed project aims to develop new statistical theory and methodology for high-dimensional structured data. The project is inspired by challenging problems that arise in two important biological applications: disease gene identification and gene fun | National Science Foundation | 6/16/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $99,556 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) is a flexible computational technique that has proven very useful to many scientific disciplines and is the backbone of current implementations of Bayesian inference. Recent research developments suggest that the use of ada | National Science Foundation | 7/31/2009 |
| JACKSON STATE UNIVERSITY | $123,000 | 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 is a research project that involves theoretical and computational studies of the electron dynamics in metal and semiconductor nanostructures. The prime | National Science Foundation | 7/07/2009 |
| TEXAS A & M RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $113,928 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: In the context of missing data and semiparametric regression models (i.e., models with both finite dimensional and infinite-dimensional parameters), little work has been done on efficient estimation and still less on estimating general functionals. Most s | National Science Foundation | 6/30/2009 |
| TEXAS A & M RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $262,106 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: To meet the rising need for analyzing functional data with complex structures, the investigators develop innovative statistical methods under three broad categories: (1) Multi-level functional data analysis. New methods for multi-level principal component | National Science Foundation | 7/10/2009 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | $30,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This collaborative project will investigate the physics of electronic mesoscopic structures. These structures are made of a large number of atoms, but are sufficiently small to exhibit quantum phenomena that are not found in macroscopic objects. Understan | National Science Foundation | 8/13/2009 |
| OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $394,973 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Stellar opacity is the fundamental quantity in stellar models. In recent years an inexplicable solar abundances anomaly has emerged, between light element abundances derived spectroscopically and from the most sophisticated atmospheres models, on the one | National Science Foundation | 9/04/2009 |
| SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY | $468,000 | 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 Jon A. Zubieta of Syracuse University for the constructio | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA | $311,777 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Under this award, Drs. Jinyoung Kim (University of Arizona) and William Sherry (National Solar Observatory) will carry out a comprehensive observational study of two star forming regions (the W3 and W4 H II regions) that are representative of an environme | National Science Foundation | 8/31/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS | $120,784 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Rapid changes in the arctic climate system that occurred in the relatively recent past can be compared with the output of climate models to improve the understanding of the processes responsible for nonlinear system change. This study focuses on the trans | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $330,000 | 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 coming years will see the emergence of location-aware applications with sub-meter accuracy and minimal infrastructure requirements, operational in har | National Science Foundation | 6/30/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $192,833 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Changes in the magnitude and seasonality of Arctic summer vegetation production over the past several decades have been documented. These changes will likely | National Science Foundation | 8/20/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH | $670,103 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The primary goal of this project is to investigate the mechanisms underlying the seasonal response of the climate system to Arctic sea ice loss within the context of anthropogenic climate change. This research will utilize the NCAR Community Climate Syste | National Science Foundation | 8/24/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $393,523 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Funding is provided to further test the early anthropogenic hypothesis (EAH) that agriculture produced greenhouse-gas emissions large enough to reverse natural downward trends in carbon dioxide and methane concentrations several thousand years ago by driv | National Science Foundation | 5/21/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA | $109,845 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Intellectual Merit: This grant will support the development of calibrated, highly-resolved, and absolute-dated stable isotopic and trace-metal time series from multiple speleothems preserved in multiple cave systems along a N-S transect from East Tennesse | National Science Foundation | 8/26/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA CRUZ | $244,989 | 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 study will quantitatively reconstruct deep ocean carbonate chemistry changes across the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum to determine the degree of oce | National Science Foundation | 6/25/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $159,799 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The PI will investigate several aspects of polynomial mappings and related matters. One topic involves orbits of complex polynomials. The proposer will study when the cartesian product of finitely many such orbits has infinitely many points in common with | National Science Foundation | 9/14/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF THE COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES | $352,676 | 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 create and support an open source computer code for entangled quantum many-body dynamics called Time-Evolving Block Decimation (TEBD). Such | National Science Foundation | 9/01/2009 |
| MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY, INC | $302,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: We will develop a model to explain how magnetic energy is rapidly released in various natural plasmas such as the Earth's magnetosphere(Northern lights) or the Sun's corona(solar flares). | National Science Foundation | 8/17/2009 |
| KENT STATE UNIVERSITY | $139,527 | 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 | $2,423,847 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project addresses the question of the nature of dark matter in the Universe with an experimental search for Weakly Interactive Massive Particles (WIMPs) using two-phase xenon detectors. This group is currently operating at the 100 kg mass scale with | National Science Foundation | 8/24/2009 |
| LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY, THE | $691,476 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: New and exciting technologies have created opportunities for developing rich open-ended learning environments that combine a number of different learning paradigms and resources. Students can complete quests in game environments, engage in inquiry, intera | National Science Foundation | 7/31/2009 |
| PURDUE UNIVERSITY | $346,602 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Force-feedback, or haptic, applications in medicine, engineering, and design are increasing in popularity and importance based on the advantages of haptic devices in providing intuitive and realistic interactions with virtual environments. However, curren | National Science Foundation | 7/10/2009 |
| PURDUE UNIVERSITY | $54,900 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The investigator will construct different statistical models for the general Internet traffic and traffic from one extremely time-sensitive application, Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), due to the different traffic generation mechanism: A VoIP call cr | National Science Foundation | 8/02/2009 |
| HARVARD COLLEGE, PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF | $136,480 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The goal of this research project is to investigate a number of topics in the intersection of geometry, the analysis of nonlinear partial differential equations (PDE's) and general relativity (GR). These topics share a common theme: to investigate solutio | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH | $616,822 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The goal of our interdisciplinary effort between computational scientists, physicists, engineers and applied mathematicians is to build an all scales unified simulation system that can exploit the next generation of petascale systems and beyond. The advan | National Science Foundation | 9/05/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO | $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 |
| VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE & STATE UNIVERSITY | $1,182,798 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The spread of contagions such as opinions, attitudes, beliefs, and diseases across a national population is a well-known complex problem; the recent fear of avian flu epidemics and financial contagion serve as excellent examples. Other examples include: o | National Science Foundation | 8/19/2009 |
| ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY | $215,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are becoming pervasive in both civilian and military domains. Low cost and ease of deployment of these networks necessitate the use of batteries as the primary source of power. As a result, battery capacity has emerged as a | National Science Foundation | 7/25/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF UTAH, THE | $999,280 | 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 proposes the computational modeling of hazards related to explosives by combined means of modeling, algorithmic and computer science development | National Science Foundation | 9/02/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME DU LAC | $186,761 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The proposer intends to study universal equations and other properties of Gromov-Witten invariants of compact symplectic manifolds. Gromov-Witten invariants are defined by the intersection theory on moduli spaces of stable pseudo-holomorphic maps from Rie | National Science Foundation | 7/19/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $875,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).Significant progress has been made on technical solutions for implementing security while preserving varying degrees of privacy for mobile electronic devices. | National Science Foundation | 8/12/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON SYSTEM | $149,999 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: There is a growing need for wireless networks that can sustain high data rates, are robust to interference, make efficient use of battery resources, and offer secure communications. This project introduces cooperative beamforming (CB), a novel technique t | National Science Foundation | 9/03/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA | $700,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Accurate wireless measurements are critical to the sustained growth of deployed wireless networks, as well as the successful development of wireless innova | National Science Foundation | 8/26/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $124,997 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Mitchell's project is an investigation of affine flag varieties from the point of view of topology, combinatorics, Lie theory and algebraic geometry. The foc | National Science Foundation | 8/11/2009 |
| RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY | $128,096 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Statistical design and analysis of experiments is an effective and commonly used tool in scientific discoveries. The rapid growth in technology and computing power has made available many complex experiments, such as those with branching factors and funct | National Science Foundation | 7/31/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $107,127 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The projects in this proposal are clustered around themes in low-dimensional topology, asymptotic geometry, and the dynamics of group actions. Teichmuller space and the mapping class group are objects for special attention, and tools developed for that se | National Science Foundation | 8/26/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT RIVERSIDE | $112,955 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The area of research of the present proposal is low dimensional topology. The problems discussed in this proposal find origin in the study of the connections between three-dimensional topology and symplectic topology of certain families of four-manifolds. | National Science Foundation | 9/14/2009 |
| CORPORATION OF HAVERFORD COLLEGE, THE | $346,364 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Dr. Willman, Dr Geha and their team will apply their well-tested algorithms to search for nearby ultra-faint dwarf galaxies in vast regions around the Milky | National Science Foundation | 8/17/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA | $96,436 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Intellectual merit. This proposal centers on control theory of partial differential equations (PDEs). While offering mathematically varied and challenging directions of research, the field of control is primarily application-driven, with an impact on a va | National Science Foundation | 8/02/2009 |
| WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, THE | $121,646 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Intellectual Merit: 'Amorphous' silicate spectral features have been observed in our solar system, young stellar objects, star formation regions, novae, diffuse and dense interstellar medium, and in extragalactic quasars and AGN. Dust contributes to physi | National Science Foundation | 9/15/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $440,112 | 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 Valluri will study stellar motions in galaxies that are triaxial or have barred disks, and harbor supermassive black holes at their centers. Most ellipti | National Science Foundation | 8/26/2009 |
| CORPORATION OF HAVERFORD COLLEGE, THE | $75,621 | 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. Willman and her collaborators will study numerical simulations that follow the formation and evolution of the Milky Way's stellar halo. They will address | National Science Foundation | 7/30/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY | $173,982 | 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 optimal wealth process corresponding to the expected logarithmic utility maximization problem is probably the most popular and important investment stra | National Science Foundation | 8/17/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA | $260,891 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project carries out mathematical and numerical studies of potential flows of viscous and viscoelastic fluids. The Helmholtz decomposition divides the velocity into a rotational part and an irrotational part. In general, the rotational and irrotationa | National Science Foundation | 6/17/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN | $555,076 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Dr Gebhardt and his team will use a fiber-fed spectrograph at the McDonald 2.7-meter telescope to measure stellar motions in the outer parts of nearby elliptical galaxies. The large fibers will gather diffuse light over a 2-arcminute field of view, which | National Science Foundation | 8/08/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA CRUZ | $335,840 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Drs. Peter Bodenheimer and Douglas Lin (University of California - Santa Cruz) will undertake a study to determine the frequency of habitable planets around | National Science Foundation | 9/02/2009 |
| CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $85,270 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 'Dr. Andrew F. Boden of the California Institute of Technology will undertake a study of the properties of binary stars at various stages of their lives. Binary stars are fundamental calibrators of stellar evolution, since the masses of the stars and the | National Science Foundation | 8/03/2009 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $526,291 | 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 project involves a comprehensive study of galactic foreground emission for removal from sensitive maps of the Cosmic Microwave Background ( | National Science Foundation | 8/28/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA | $330,000 | 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 Materials World Network project is supported by DMR-CER and DMR-OSP. This Materials World Network research program between Prof. Roberto Fornari from t | National Science Foundation | 7/26/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS | $1,517,928 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Our knowledge of how crustal magma chambers evolve and how these magma chambers relate to plutons and eruptions is inadequate, largely because nobody has yet conducted a comprehensive study of an active crustal magma chamber. This project provides a uniqu | National Science Foundation | 7/02/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, THE | $685,013 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Rapid changes in the arctic climate system that occurred in the relatively recent past can be compared with the output of climate models to improve the understanding of the processes responsible for nonlinear system change. This study focuses on the trans | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $283,966 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The award will support an investigation of snow accumulation in the south-eastern sector of the Greenland ice sheet. Snow accumulation rates on the Greenland ice sheet have been significantly underestimated and the missing mass prevents accurate estimates | National Science Foundation | 9/09/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF UTAH, THE | $369,779 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The award will support an investigation of snow accumulation in the south-eastern sector of the Greenland ice sheet. Snow accumulation rates on the Greenlan | National Science Foundation | 9/09/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS | $119,999 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Rapid changes in the arctic climate system that occurred in the relatively recent past can be compared with the output of climate models to improve the understanding of the processes responsible for nonlinear system change. This study focuses on the trans | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS | $41,135 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Of the planet's ecosystems the Arctic is the most sensitive to climate change. Recent increases in the rate of environmental change in the Arctic pose considerable challenges to the survival of culturally and economically important, arctic-adapted species | National Science Foundation | 7/24/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $185,341 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestement Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).Luminescence dating has become an increasingly useful chronological tool over the last couple of decades in archaeological and geological sciences. This is d | National Science Foundation | 7/19/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS | $379,491 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Funds are provided to determine how arctic zooplankton communities have varied over interannual to decadal periods, from regional to panarctic scales. The PI states the specific hypotheses that zooplankton biomass may be increasing, due to environmental c | National Science Foundation | 8/03/2009 |
| VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE | $390,827 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Unds are provided to investigate the microbial controls on the productivity of a coastal Arctic ecosystem by focusing on the competition between autotrophs and heterotrophs for nitrogen (N). In the winter and summer waters near Barrow, Alaska, supplemente | National Science Foundation | 8/14/2009 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $353,355 | 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 main objective of our research is to improve our understanding of the structure and deformation of Earth?s crust and lithospheric mantle beneath SE Ti | National Science Foundation | 6/05/2009 |
| LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY, THE | $144,573 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: We will develop physically-based models of magma chambers and conduits that are coupled to the elastic surroundings. As magma ascends the decrease in pressure results in volatile exsolution. This decreases magma density, but increases viscosity and comp | National Science Foundation | 6/16/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $220,006 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Shallow tectonic earthquakes are driven by instabilities that take place in crustal faults. Earthquake may be thought of as a dynamically running shear crack. Friction and wear at the crack surface determine the stability of the faulted region. The surfac | National Science Foundation | 8/09/2009 |
| VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE & STATE UNIVERSITY | $750,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The burgeoning revolution in high-end computer architecture has far reaching implications for the software infrastructure of tools for performance measurement, modeling, and optimization, which has been indispensable to improved productivity in computatio | National Science Foundation | 8/04/2009 |
| TEXAS ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT STATION | $865,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 'The burgeoning revolution in high-end computer architecture has far reaching implications for the software infrastructure of tools for performance measurement, modeling, and optimization, which has been indispensable to improved productivity in computati | National Science Foundation | 8/04/2009 |
| GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY (THE) | $1,150,120 | 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 investigate why many small molecules self-assemble in dilute solution to form very long '1-dimensional' (1D) objects, thinner than a huma | National Science Foundation | 7/22/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, THE | $411,476 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Analytical and Surface Chemistry (ASC) program supports the research project of Prof. Andrew Bocarsly of the Department of Chemistry at Princeton University. Prof. Bocarsly and his students will study the mechanism of electrochemical reduction of carb | National Science Foundation | 7/06/2009 |
| CORPORATION OF HAVERFORD COLLEGE, THE | $160,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). In this RUI project funded by the Inorganic, Bioinorganic, and Organometallic Chemistry Program of the Chemistry Division and the Solid State and Materials C | National Science Foundation | 6/24/2009 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | $596,985 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Analytical and Surface Chemistry (ASC) program of the Division of Chemistry supports the research program of Professor Richard P. Van Duyne at Northwestern University. Professor Van Duyne and his coworkers are developing new concepts and experimental | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| TEXAS A & M RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $390,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Inorganic, Bioinorganic and Organometallic Chemistry Program supports the research of Professor Janet Bluemel of Texas A&M University to synthesize a new generation of linkers for the immobilization of catalysts on oxide supports. New 4,4'-bisphosphin | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC | $211,083 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The great 15 November 2006 Mw=8.3 and 13 January 2007 Mw=8.1 Kuril earthquakes rup-tured one of the most conspicuous gaps in subduction-zone seismic activity, a 600-km long Ku-ril arc segment that had not experienced a single great earthquake for about a | National Science Foundation | 7/28/2009 |
| TELESCENT, INC. | $99,805 | 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 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project will develop a new type of optical power monitor based on microwires and nanowires patterned | National Science Foundation | 5/29/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA | $333,705 | 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), Alec M. Wodtke from the University of California Sa | National Science Foundation | 7/26/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO | $298,400 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Upgrade of a 300 MHz NMR Spectrometer for Research and Teaching NSF provided funds to replace the console and upgrade a research instrument originally purchased in 1994. The instrument, an NMR spectrometer, is used by researchers in Chemistry and Chemica | National Science Foundation | 7/30/2009 |
| AUGSBURG COLLEGE | $257,283 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Collaborative Research: Imaging, Estimation, and Analysis of Density Distributions in the Conjugate Polar Ionospheres | National Science Foundation | 8/13/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES | $585,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 'Spin Transport and Dynamics in Nanostructures' Electron spin in nanoscale and low-dimensional systems provides prototypical quantum degrees of freedom, which garnered tremendous attention in recent years. Spins play a central role as building blocks for | National Science Foundation | 6/08/2009 |
| THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC | $54,229 | 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 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA | $450,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Division of labor occurs at all levels of biological organization: for example, cells in a multi-cellular organism just as workers in a social insect colony may specialize on particular tasks. Such specialization can lead to morphological differentiation, | National Science Foundation | 6/12/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $533,999 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The productivity of many aquatic ecosystems is often limited by the availability of a key nutrient. In the oceans and in some lakes nitrogen is often that key limiting nutrient. Nitrogen, which is critical for life, occurs in diverse chemical forms includ | National Science Foundation | 8/11/2009 |
| WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, THE | $74,881 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: We request funds to upgrade our geophysics research group computer system by purchasing two Dell workgroup servers, two 14 Tb fast RAID disk arrays, three fast workstations, and associated accessories. These acquisitions will allow us to standardize geoph | National Science Foundation | 6/15/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $540,154 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).Single carbon (C1) compounds commonly found in the environment include methane, methanol, methylated amines, halogenated methanes, and methylsulfonates. These | National Science Foundation | 6/18/2009 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $477,976 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Quantitative measurements of the global electric circuit, in which lightning plays a key role, are important both in terms of basic description of the ear | National Science Foundation | 7/20/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES | $120,421 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Investigation of the evolution of leaf form in Viburnum (Adoxaceae), a clade of c. 168 shrubs and trees that display a striking diversity of many key leaf traits. | National Science Foundation | 6/06/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES | $400,633 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Description: The semiconductor industry is likely to see several radical changes in the fabrication and device technologies in the next decade. Conventional after-the-fact changes to design methodologies and tools to technology leads to wasted effort and | National Science Foundation | 6/10/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON | $550,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Analytical and Surface Chemistry Program supports this CAREER award to Professor Kevin Schug of the University of Texas - Arlington, to devise means of quantitatively assessing noncovalent binding interactions by electrospray ionization mass spectrome | National Science Foundation | 7/15/2009 |
| TEXAS ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT STATION | $400,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 'The goal of this CAREER project is to develop an integrated research and educational program in molecular systems biology (MSB). This project focuses on soluble signal-mediated signaling between bacteria and human cells, termed inter-kingdom (IK) signali | National Science Foundation | 6/02/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO | $245,931 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Collaborative Research: Tracking Galaxy Growth with 200,000 Spectroscopic Redshifts. This project is to analyze the PRIsm MUlti-object Survey (PRIMUS), a new wide-area faint spectroscopic redshift survey out to z=1, consisting of over 200,000 spectra an | National Science Foundation | 9/08/2009 |
| OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY | $375,810 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Our knowledge of how crustal magma chambers evolve and how these magma chambers relate to plutons and eruptions is inadequate, largely because nobody has yet conducted a comprehensive study of an active crustal magma chamber. This project provides a uniqu | National Science Foundation | 7/02/2009 |
| NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY | $345,879 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Improved forecasting of orographic precipitation requires continued integration of theory, field studies, and long term observations. While much of the previous work on orographic precipitation has focused on steady-state processes, little work has been d | National Science Foundation | 9/10/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS | $283,374 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This work will document observed changes in the hydroclimatology of the Siberian region, attribute these changes to specific physical mechanisms in the context of climate change, and study the impact of those changes from the regional to the hemispheric w | National Science Foundation | 8/20/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS | $607,031 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Chukchi Borderland is a block of extended continental crust embedded in the oceanic crust of the Canada Basin. As the piece that does not fit the simple 'windshield wiper' model for the Mesozoic opening of this basin, it figures prominently in all tec | National Science Foundation | 8/26/2009 |
| NANOMATERIAL INNOVATION LTD | $100,000 | Grant | Science, Recovery Act: This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project is to design, synthesize, manufacture, and test high-performance polymeric composite structures based on commercially proven resins, long fibers and nano-sized functional particles. Long fibers can p | National Science Foundation | 7/01/2009 |
| MICROBIAL INSIGHTS INC | $100,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project will result in a suite of microbial source tracking assays to provide cost-effective identification of fecal contamination sources in surface waters. Beach closures and advisories exceeded 20,000 day | National Science Foundation | 6/04/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA | $163,440 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 'This project, which is a collaboration between researchers at Western Washington University, the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa, and Boston University, is focused on improving our understanding of what happens when rocks are heated, pressurized, and | National Science Foundation | 6/04/2009 |
| OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $409,417 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: In this work we explore the elastic and viscoelastic responses of the solid earth related to climate induced surface load changes. The climate changes and associated loads occur at time scales ranging from annual hydrological cycles at one extreme to ice | National Science Foundation | 7/19/2009 |
| CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $595,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Analytical and Surface Chemistry (ASC) Program of the Division of Chemistry will support the research project of Prof. Nathan Lewis of California Institute of Technology (Caltech). Prof. Lewis and his students will develop a detailed understanding of | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF THE COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES | $228,306 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: INTELLECTUAL MERITS. The extraction of melts from the lower crust and their subsequent emplacement at higher structural levels is possibly the most important crustal differentiation mechanism. A significant control on the trace element composition of melt | National Science Foundation | 6/04/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA CRUZ | $101,144 | 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 National Science Foundation support, Dr. Habicht Mauche and her multi-institutional research team will examine the early development, production and ex | National Science Foundation | 6/15/2009 |
| BRYN MAWR COLLEGE | $150,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: A broad program of research is proposed to elucidate the geometrical structure that underlies the internal dimensions of string theory, and to overcome key obstacles to extracting 4D particle physics from this geometry. The two main areas that will be inv | National Science Foundation | 6/12/2009 |
| WAVESINSOLIDS LLC | $99,998 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I research project w ill advance the state-of -the-art in underwater bridge inspection through development of novel long range ultrasonic technology (LRUT). The objective of this project is to determine if the | National Science Foundation | 6/03/2009 |
| SOLARITY LLC | $100,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Solarity is a start-up company located in the Innovation Park at Penn State that is focusing on manufacturable ways to make solar cells more efficient and less expensive. We have patented a novel architecture for solar cells which employs lateral collecti | National Science Foundation | 7/01/2009 |
| MULTIFLOW COMMUNICATIONS LLC | $99,500 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The project objective of the first phase SBIR grant is to complete a detailed architecture of specification of the VFP control framework, definition of processing engines required for programmable WiMAX/LTE processor, and to evaluate the feasibility of an | National Science Foundation | 7/07/2009 |
| GOLDFINCH SOLUTIONS, LLC | $100,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project seeks to determine the feasibility of a multispectral imaging technology, to provide real time beef tenderness prediction. The hypothesis is that it is possible to predict the tenderness of beef usin | National Science Foundation | 6/05/2009 |
| X5 SYSTEMS INC | $100,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This SBIR Phase I project seeks to demonstrate feasibility of a software tool employing advanced search algorithms applied to antenna design and optimization. Current methods of designing and optimizing antennas by hand are time and labor intensive, limi | National Science Foundation | 6/11/2009 |
| CYPHY WORKS, INC | $99,865 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I research project will develop underlying technologies that will enable Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAV) to navigate inside houses and buildings. This technology, applied to emergency response situations, will sav | National Science Foundation | 6/04/2009 |
| COGNISCENT, INC. | $99,700 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: SBIR Phase I: Next generation optochemical sensors for detection of growing mold Mold contamination in buildings presents significant health and economic problems.There were about $8 billion in mold-related damage claims made under property insurance p | National Science Foundation | 7/01/2009 |
| ELECTRON ENERGY CORPORATION | $100,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The main objective of the project was to develop anisotropic hard magnetic nanoparticles to be consolidated by screen-printing into permanent magnet structures with dimensions that cover the current dimensional gap between the permanent magnet thin films | National Science Foundation | 6/04/2009 |
| PRINCETON SATELLITE SYSTEMS, INC. | $99,967 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project seeks to develop advanced control technologies for improving the overall cost-effectiveness of small-scale vertical axis wind turbines. Most commercial wind turbines operate at energy efficiencies mu | National Science Foundation | 7/01/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA | $405,362 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Computing architectures are increasingly parallel, most relying on multi-core microprocessors. Trends are also towards increased heterogeneity, with systems combining diverse components ranging from multiple microprocessors, field-programmable gate arrays | National Science Foundation | 7/27/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $172,618 | 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 Sound Citizen Apprenticeship Program is a pilot partnership between the University of Washington's School of Oceanography, the UW Institute for Science an | National Science Foundation | 8/07/2009 |
| HOPA MOUNTAIN | $199,168 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Track 1 Native Science Fellows | National Science Foundation | 7/19/2009 |
| MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY | $190,100 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The overall purpose of this project, Diversity Enhancement of Geosciences through Research Experiences (DEGReE): Mentoring African Americans through Research and Professional Development (Track 1), is to increase the number of African-American students i | National Science Foundation | 8/02/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS | $225,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 0-1 Semidefinite Programming (0-1 SDP) is a new optimization model that covers several classes of challenging nonlinear integer programming problems. 0-1 SDPs arise frequently from numerous applications in various domains such as learning, communications | National Science Foundation | 6/12/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE | $496,913 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 'SHF: Small: Analyzing and Modeling Natural Language Usage in Software to Improve Software Maintenance Tools' Large scale software nowadays -- hard to maintain and modify and keep up to date. There is a dire need for automated support for software system | National Science Foundation | 9/03/2009 |
| MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY | $218,626 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The scaling of body parts is the quintessential feature of animal body form. Within species, organs need to be correctly proportioned to the body for the organism to function; larger individuals require larger hearts, longer limbs, etc., whereas smaller i | National Science Foundation | 7/28/2009 |
| FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE | $443,588 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The objective of this research is to develop and apply efficient simulation methods to quantitatively describe complex biomolecular phenomena that usually occur in longer timescale than what conventional methods can achieve. Molecular recognition such as | National Science Foundation | 6/04/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA | $142,897 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This proposal will fund a petrographic microscopy system and an SEM-EDX upgrade for rapid sediment core characterization at the Lacustrine Core Facility. The SEM with EDX/EDS elemental analysis will be user friendly and table top to facilitate core analys | National Science Foundation | 9/08/2009 |
| HARVARD COLLEGE, PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF | $300,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The overall goal of the proposed research is to functionalize Si nanoparticles to target common cancers, enhance the nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) signal of these particles using dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP), and characterize the hyperpolarized p | National Science Foundation | 8/25/2009 |
| MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY, THE | $99,879 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Global warming is lengthening the growing season and increasing temperature in the arctic ecosystem. The lengthened growing season is featured by earlier snow melt and later fall freeze-up. Photosynthesis and respiration may respond differently to these c | National Science Foundation | 6/11/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN | $447,027 | 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 funding for this group to continue their contributions to searching for the neutrinoless double beta decay. The observation of neutrino oscil | National Science Foundation | 8/11/2009 |
| SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE | $269,881 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 'GEM: Evolution of Plasmasphere, Plumes and Fine Structure.' The cycle of erosion and recovery of Earth's plasmasphere evolves in distinct phases that depend on relative changes of the strength of magnetospheric convection as well as the elapsed time (' | National Science Foundation | 6/16/2009 |
| PURDUE UNIVERSITY | $472,346 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Does global warming increase the vigor of the hydrological cycle? This question forms the overall research theme of this study, which investigates the role of hydrological cycle feedbacks in climate change using a combination of proxy reconstructions and | National Science Foundation | 7/29/2009 |
| SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE | $255,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 'GEM: Why Does the Magnetosphere Enter a Steady Mode of Energy Transport Instead of an Oscillatory Mode?' The goal of this project is to better understand the magnetospheric processes involved during steady magnetospheric convection (SMC). The two main | National Science Foundation | 7/02/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | $300,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The objective of this research is to test Newton's inverse-square law of gravitation to 1% at a 100-micrometer range and to search for extra dimensions or other new physics down to a few tens of micrometers. This research will explore the very nature of | National Science Foundation | 8/08/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $1,200,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project takes on two problems: (1) deciphering ancient texts using computers, and (2) training automated language translation systems without using parallel texts. Statistical language processing software has played little role to date in the analysi | National Science Foundation | 7/10/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT | $262,437 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Energy efficiency, the environment, and human health can be affected by combustion-generated soot, so controlling soot is a major technological and societal concern. This research is directed toward achieving soot prediction from turbulent combustion by u | National Science Foundation | 8/22/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $1,600,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The goal of this project is to take physics-based seismic hazard analysis (SHA) to a new level using petascale computational resources. Building on the scientific and technical successes under their current PetaApps award the PIs will incorporate better t | National Science Foundation | 7/24/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO | $481,500 | 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 |
| HARVARD COLLEGE, PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF | $334,695 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Title: HCC: Medium: Collaborative Research: Computer Vision and Online Communities: A Symbiosis. The project represents a new paradigm for research in computer vision related to content-based image management--one that exploits a symbiosis between this te | National Science Foundation | 7/10/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS | $115,305 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The role of iron as a limiting nutrient in many oceanic regions has been established, and atmospheric deposition has been recognized as a major source of iron in the global ocean. The fraction of iron that dissolves in seawater after its atmospheric depos | National Science Foundation | 9/14/2009 |
| PURDUE UNIVERSITY | $182,147 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The research objective of this Grant Opportunity for Academic Liaison with Industry (GOALI) Collaborative Research award is to develop capabilities for engineering surfaces with specific micro-scale and ultrafine grained structures, and enhanced mechani | National Science Foundation | 7/16/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE | $403,536 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Researchers at the University of Maryland will conduct a laboratory study of carbonate co-precipitation and phosphate complexation of yttrium and the rare earth elements (YREEs). These processes are anticipated to be sensitive to minor pH variations, thus | National Science Foundation | 7/24/2009 |
| THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC | $260,190 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The objectives of the GEOTRACES program are: 1) to determine the global distributions of selected trace elements and isotopes and evaluate the sources, sinks and internal cycling of these species to better understand the physical, chemical and biological | National Science Foundation | 9/18/2009 |
| GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION | $285,737 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Objectives and Methods to be Employed-Chemical processing frequently requires vaporizing liquid reagents, mixing, and heterogeneous reaction in the presence of a solid catalyst, followed by product separation. In traditional large scale chemical reactors | National Science Foundation | 6/23/2009 |
| FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE | $320,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Understanding the processes that produce and maintain genetic variation is a critical goal of modern biology. Of the many behavioral processes that may influence genetic variation, few are as directly influential as mate choice. Choice of a reproductive | National Science Foundation | 6/30/2009 |
| OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY | $100,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Evolutionary biologists have developed a number of mathematical models to understand the process of selection on traits that arises from partner preferences. However, tests that can be used to discriminate among these models are lacking, in part because s | National Science Foundation | 6/24/2009 |
| NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY | $776,892 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Intellectual merit. Membrane proteins are of tremendous importance for biology and pharmaceutical industry. However, their X-ray high-resolution structures are still difficult to obtain due to the challenges in crystallization posed by the presence of li | National Science Foundation | 6/08/2009 |
| THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC | $70,000 | 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 ILLINOIS | $405,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The World Wide Web is a critical infrastructure that serves our society by facilitating information exchange, business and education. As it continues to evolve, the number of web-based attacks that target innocent web users keeps increasing. Examples | National Science Foundation | 8/15/2009 |
| NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY | $567,232 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Coastal evolution has become even more a concern under the scenarios of rising global sea levels, changing climate and accelerating human activities. World-wide, coastal erosion is becoming a still more serious problem than it already is. Being in direct | National Science Foundation | 7/14/2009 |
| TRINITY UNIVERSITY | $402,985 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Tectonic deformation, magmatism, and associated changes in erosion rates and paleodrainage systems directly affect sedimentary basin evolution in active tectonic settings. Thus, a detailed and robust evaluation of convergent margin sedimentary basins may | National Science Foundation | 8/07/2009 |
| TEXAS ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT STATION | $430,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 'The main objectives of this Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) proposal are to discover atomic-scale details governing nanomaterials? response to irradiation, and to explore the possibilities of property-tuning to achieve extremely radiation toler | National Science Foundation | 7/22/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | $4,346,611 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project will establish a monitoring network in two watersheds of the Luquillo National Forest in Puerto Rico to evaluate the physical, chemical, hydrological and biological processes involved in weathering of bedrock and the evolution of the soil env | National Science Foundation | 9/18/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA | $4,350,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Transformative Behavior of Energy, Water and Carbon in the Critical Zone: An Observatory to Quantify Linkages among Ecohydrology, Biogeochemistry, and Landscape Evolution We are developing an interdisciplinary observatory in the southwestern US that will | National Science Foundation | 9/02/2009 |
| UNAVCO, INC | $3,898,276 | 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 bounda | National Science Foundation | 10/01/2008 |
| NEVADA SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION | $664,507 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Lake Vida is the largest lake of the McMurdo Dry Valleys, with an approximately 20 m ice cover overlaying a brine of unknown depth with at least 7 times seawater salinity and temperatures below -10 degrees C year-round. Samples of brine collected from ice | National Science Foundation | 8/17/2009 |
| HARVARD COLLEGE, PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF | $225,238 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Using Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit, Knowledge To Guide The Development Of Hypotheses On Narwhal Tusk Function. Results from this study will uncover the knowledge recorded in the interviews of 55 hunters and elders from over 12 communities in the High Arctic re | National Science Foundation | 7/14/2009 |
| ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY | $293,851 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Through plate tectonics and subduction, Earth recycles oceanic crust and lithosphere into its mantle. The down going oceanic crust carries H2O, which, when released into the overlying mantle wedge, causes melting that results in arc volcanism. If the mant | National Science Foundation | 6/05/2009 |
| BOARD OF REGENTS NEVADA SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION | $305,314 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The overall purpose of this project is to improve basic scientific knowledge of how crystalline solids deform, with a focus on earth materials and the mineral quartz in particular. The ability to predict the response of crystalline solids to forces that c | National Science Foundation | 7/30/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES | $22,175 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Investigation of the temporal and spatial evolution of volcanism related to giant calderas in the Central Andes through detailed dating and chemical analysis of zircon crystals. | National Science Foundation | 6/04/2009 |
| MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY, THE | $259,627 | 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 |
| NEVADA SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION | $809,174 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award supports a project to use the WAIS Divide deep core to investigate the Last Deglaciation at sub-annual resolution through an integrated set of chemical and biological analyses. The intellectual merit of the project is that these analyses, combi | National Science Foundation | 6/10/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF OREGON | $613,510 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Physiological processes provide the functional connection between the genome and the environment. Over the years, a rich literature has emerged concerning physiological response to variable environments; however, much less is known about how genetic varia | National Science Foundation | 7/03/2009 |
| DREXEL UNIVERSITY | $249,801 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The funds awarded will purchase a MALDI mass spectrometer that will support the exploding numbers of diverse and interdisciplinary research projects requiring analysis and characterization of synthetic macromolecules and biomacromolecules that cannot be a | National Science Foundation | 9/04/2009 |
| NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY INC | $379,150 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 11-5). With support from the Chemistry Research Instrumentation and Facilities: Multiuser program (CRIF:MU), the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Northe | National Science Foundation | 8/02/2009 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $250,481 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) is the dominant form of atmospheric intraseasonal variability in the climate system. It interacts with and influences a wide range of physical weather and climate phenomena (e.g., monsoon onsets and breaks, El Nino-Sout | National Science Foundation | 5/28/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO | $700,003 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The thin, rocky shell of the Earth, the lithosphere, is broken into a mosaic of thin plates that are in constant motion. Along some boundaries between plates, one slides beneath the other and is consumed in a process known as subduction. Most of great ear | National Science Foundation | 8/07/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING | $234,416 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project focuses on advancing understanding of several critical issues in atmospheric ice nucleation (IN), one of the most basic processes affecting precipitation and impacting the radiative properties of cold clouds. Incomplete understanding of ice i | National Science Foundation | 6/04/2009 |
| HARVARD COLLEGE, PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF | $337,752 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: We can not perceive other minds the way we perceive our own. So, we can not look into the mind of a patient in a persistent vegetative state to see if 'someone is home,' just as we can not really know what is going on in the mind of an infant or an animal | National Science Foundation | 6/09/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA CRUZ | $583,349 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Locally rare species are expected to have a survival advantage because rarity reduces their risk of damage from pathogens. This 'rare-species advantage' may help maintain plant diversity in natural systems and explain how introduced plant species become i | National Science Foundation | 8/11/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS | $231,431 | 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 coiled coil of myosin is among the longest in nature and contains functionally diverse elements that will be characterized using a newly developed gravita | National Science Foundation | 6/10/2009 |
| OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $497,705 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Recently, there has been a paradigm shift in microbial metabolism: the focus is no longer solely on the elucidation of how substrates are converted to products (inputs and outputs), but rather also includes a concerted effort to understand the connectivit | National Science Foundation | 6/08/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM | $545,997 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The goal of this research is to determine the mechanism of polypeptide translocation catalyzed by the hexameric E. coli ClpA motor protein. Motor proteins are essential enzymes for a variety of cellular processes that require mechanical work. Therefore, | National Science Foundation | 6/06/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO | $123,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This multidisciplinary project involves a combination of paleomagnetic, high precision geochronologic, stable isotope, and sedimentologic work on sequences of Late Permian to earliest Triassic age in westernmost Texas and eastern New Mexico. These rocks | National Science Foundation | 7/28/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS | $469,810 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: With National Science Foundation support, Dr. Kathryn Bock will conduct three years of psycholinguistic research on the cognitive processes involved in producing number agreement in spontaneous speech. The project will investigate whether and how the numb | National Science Foundation | 7/02/2009 |
| SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY INC | $96,000 | 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 project involves a collaboration between scientists at the Berkeley Geochronology Center, University of California, University of New Mexico, New Mexico | National Science Foundation | 7/28/2009 |
| BROWN UNIVERSITY IN PROVIDENCE IN STATE OF RI AND PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS | $476,017 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). At the culmination of the lithospheric accretion that built the Appalachian Mountains (250-320 million years ago) the lithosphere of another continent (Gond | National Science Foundation | 8/14/2009 |
| BROWN UNIVERSITY IN PROVIDENCE IN STATE OF RI AND PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS | $558,434 | 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 is currently unclear what paradigms will be most appropriate for programming autonomous robots. There are many approaches to robot control, such as teleo | National Science Foundation | 6/22/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $743,070 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Intellectual Merit. When new proteins are synthesized, they emerge in an extended, linear conformation and must be folded into their final, three-dimensional shapes before they acquire function. The cellular network responsible for supervising this proces | National Science Foundation | 6/26/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA | $400,448 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: As semiconductor technology enters the nanometer regime, modern VLSI systems face an unprecedented power crisis. Although existing power management methods have proven to be successful in many IC modules, as structural and algorithmic complexity keep incr | National Science Foundation | 7/08/2009 |
| WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY | $656,643 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project is directed toward the discovery of new chemistry for S-nitrosothiols, which are important nitric oxide metabolites. The lability of the sulfur-nitrogen bonds often makes S-nitrosothiols in proteins cumbersome to measure accurately. In this p | National Science Foundation | 8/27/2009 |
| NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY | $430,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Career: an Innovative Performance-Based Simulation Framework for High-Rise Building against Wind Hazards | National Science Foundation | 7/08/2009 |
| BROWN UNIVERSITY IN PROVIDENCE IN STATE OF RI AND PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS | $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). PI: Webster, Thomas Proposal Number: 0730906 Novel materials are needed to restore functions to persons with disabilities since current materials have not | National Science Foundation | 6/02/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $400,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: PROJECT SUMMARYCAREER: Nano Tip Sensor for Rapid Detection of Dissolved DNA for Environmental Monitoring'This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).'One of the critical challenges in environmental moni | National Science Foundation | 6/23/2009 |
| SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY | $528,461 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project will investigate the formation of water molecules and the growth of ice in conditions that simulate the interstellar medium and planetary environments. Water is a well-recognized prerequisite for the complex chemistry linked to the emergence | National Science Foundation | 8/11/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE | $300,448 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Funds are provided to examine the nature and cause of short-term ice sheet velocity changes. The work field would occur near Swiss Camp, Greenland and focus on the interactions between the ice sheet, the atmosphere and the bed through an integrated observ | National Science Foundation | 8/28/2009 |
| GRT, INC | $99,971 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project is an innovative route to produce liquid fuels from biomass. The process will convert biomass, including lignocellulosic biomass, to liquid fuels, with three key steps. First, a synthetic natural gas | National Science Foundation | 6/01/2009 |
| MICROBIAL FUEL CELL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC | $99,780 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project is aimed at the development of a new consolidated bioprocess to generate hydrogen from inexpensive cellulosic biomass in a single bioelectrochemical reactor. Demand for hydrogen is increasing but a r | National Science Foundation | 6/03/2009 |
| ELCRITON | $99,492 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project aims to develop platform clostridia strains suitable for industrial scale alcohol production from renewable feedstocks and also to improve metabolic engineering technologies for all clostridia. Clost | National Science Foundation | 6/03/2009 |
| BIOTIC LABORATORIES, INC. | $98,328 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project focuses on enhancing combinatorial and timed release of drugs for the localized treatment of cancer. Currently there are few solutions for localized elimination of tumor cells following surgic | National Science Foundation | 6/09/2009 |
| Y-CARBON INCORPORATED | $100,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Metal atoms will be chemically etched from a metal carbide lattice, leaving only carbon, the pore size of which can be tuned with Angstrom precision by varying the carbide precursor or etching conditions. While the use of a metal carbide lattice as a temp | National Science Foundation | 6/05/2009 |
| NANOINTEGRIS, INC. | $100,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: SBIR Phase I: Large-Scale Production of Monodisperse Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes | National Science Foundation | 6/02/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS | $249,148 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Land is an integral component of the climate system and changes in land cover can significantly influence terrestrial weather and climate. This project aims to investigate regional-scale vegetation-atmosphere feedbacks over seasonal timescales in the cont | National Science Foundation | 9/14/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $552,114 | 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 a project to reconstruct the past physical and chemical climate of Antarctica, with an emphasis on the region surrounding the Ross Sea Em | National Science Foundation | 5/22/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA | $282,370 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Both the mechanisms of growth of orogenic plateaus and the processes that control or limit their growth remain controversial. Within currently active orogen | National Science Foundation | 6/18/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA | $5,449,995 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Rationale: Soil water exerts a critical control on weather, climate, ecosystem, and water cycle, and hence is crucial for many fields within atmospheric sciences and related disciplines. A serious handicap in soil moisture measurements is the mismatch bet | National Science Foundation | 8/14/2009 |
| OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY | $299,016 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Intellectual Merit. This project will address the time scales of assembly and the organization of batholith-scale silicic magma systems in the Altiplano Puna Volcanic Complex (APVC) of the Central Andes. The proposed work builds on recent efforts that exp | National Science Foundation | 6/04/2009 |
| NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY INC | $2,175,868 | 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 RAGES project (Robotic Access to Grounding zones for Exploration and Science) is one of three research components of the WISSARD (Whillans Ice Stream Subg | National Science Foundation | 8/21/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH | $736,951 | 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 |
| LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY, THE | $150,000 | 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 PENGUIn team will continue investigating in depth a multi-scale electrodynamic system that comprises space environment of Planet Earth (geospace). Severa | National Science Foundation | 8/20/2009 |
| TEXAS A & M UNIVERSITY | $247,238 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This grant provides funds for upgrading an existing nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectrometer that will provide the only cryoprobe at Texas A&M University. The cryoprobe will have significant impact on research and education both intra- and extramura | National Science Foundation | 7/26/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | $422,253 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Research has shown that being excluded from social groups is endemic to peer interactions, relationships, and groups from early childhood through to adulthood. In fact, exclusion constitutes a basic feature of group dynamics that derives from the processe | National Science Foundation | 8/24/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $301,599 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). With this award from the Chemistry Research Instrumentation and Facilities Multiuser Program (CRIF:MU), Professor Paul B. Hopkins and colleagues Karen Goldbe | National Science Foundation | 7/26/2009 |
| RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY | $399,544 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Intellectual Merit: The ability of anaerobic prokaryotes to perform dissimilatory selenium reduction is a remarkable biological adaptation that allows selenium respiring microorganisms to populate ecological niches in Earth?s subsurface. In laboratory exp | National Science Foundation | 8/31/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS | $800,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Intellectual merit: How the accurate duplication of genetic material and its faithful segregation to daughter cells is coordinated in multi-cellular organisms is an important question that remains to be clearly understood. In eukaryotic cells these two ev | National Science Foundation | 7/28/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF UTAH, THE | $375,047 | 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 Pacific Northwest, and Washington State in particular, are characterized by a subduction zone environment called the Cascadia subduction system. The Casc | National Science Foundation | 6/09/2009 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | $274,325 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Studies of intergroup contact often focus on how members of visibly stigmatized groups, such as racial minorities, maintain high levels of self-esteem after they have experienced poor treatment or have otherwise been reminded of their group's devalued sta | National Science Foundation | 6/05/2009 |
| LEHIGH UNIVERSITY | $3,750,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Half of the 20 most significant inventions of the 20th century would not have materialized without glass. The solutions to 11 of the 14 grand engineering challenges of this century depend on the availability of glass either as a support material or as an | National Science Foundation | 7/31/2009 |
| OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY | $350,960 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Debris flows initiating in the upper reaches of glaciated valleys of the Cascade strato volcanoes are typically associated with intense, multi-day rain events being brought in by the subtropical jet stream. Recent investigations suggest that the number an | National Science Foundation | 8/02/2009 |
| WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY | $243,840 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Much of the land area of Washington, Oregon, and California was added to continental North America during the last 200 million years. Exactly how this dominantly oceanic lithosphere accreted to the continent is not well understood, although it is clear th | National Science Foundation | 6/17/2009 |
| ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY | $105,077 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Biological Research Collections - This project will develop the first computerized database of the 7,600 specimens of birds and mammals in the John Wesley Powell-Dale Birkenholz Natural History Collections at Illinois State University. This includes sc | National Science Foundation | 8/11/2009 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $750,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Magnetic reconnection plays a fundamental role in nearly all magnetized plasmas as it enables magnetic energy to be converted into high speed flows, and t | National Science Foundation | 7/24/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE | $765,392 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: CAREER: A Structure-Based Approach to Transcription Factor-binding Site Prediction via Protein-DNA Docking This is a CAREER award to support the research of Dr. Juntao Guo in the College of Computing and Informatics at the University of North Carolina - | National Science Foundation | 7/16/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, THE | $400,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The PI plans to obtain new examples of gauge/gravity dualities and apply them to address open problems in standard model, nuclear, and condensed matter physics.The PI's research focuses on the AdS/CFT correspondence and more generally on gauge/gravity dua | National Science Foundation | 6/05/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $710,819 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). In this CAREER project supported by the Theoretical & Computational Chemistry Program of the Chemistry Division, Xiasong Li of the University of Washington w | National Science Foundation | 7/02/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA | $697,501 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 'Intellectual Merit Iron in its unbound state is potentially toxic to organisms; therefore, sophisticated mechanisms are in place to traffic this essential metal ion, especially in the mitochondrion. The mitochondrial iron chaperone protein frataxin binds | National Science Foundation | 6/30/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS | $472,997 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The mail goal of the proposal is to develop a practical computational framework for the response of a complex chaotic nonlinear multiscale dynamical system to changes in external forcing parameters. It is based on the PI's recent successful efforts to cre | National Science Foundation | 7/28/2009 |
| MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY | $500,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: An intricate network of signaling pathways controls reproductive development in plants. However, the basic mechanisms that have evolved to control signaling pathways, and thus variation in the onset of reproduction across different growing habits, remain | National Science Foundation | 7/14/2009 |
| TEXAS ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT STATION | $400,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 'CAREER: Information Theory and Coding for Wireless Broadcast Networks Broadcast is a fundamental nature of wireless communication. With appropriate coding architecture, the broadcast nature of wireless communication can be used to the advantage of simul | National Science Foundation | 6/08/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER | $279,643 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: With this award from the Chemistry Research Instrumentation and Facilities: Multiuser program (CRIF:MU), the Chemistry Department at the University of Rochester will acquire a matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time of flight (MALDI-TOF) mass spe | National Science Foundation | 7/26/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON | $340,800 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: With support from the Chemistry Research Instrumentation and Facilities:Multiuser program (CRIF:MU), the Department of Chemistry at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) will upgrade a 500 MHz nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectrometer with a new | National Science Foundation | 8/02/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO | $404,396 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: In the evolution of biological organisms, the ability to see has been a popular feature for millions of years. However, the majority of machines built today remain essentially blind to the photons that continually bombard them. Effective real-time compute | National Science Foundation | 6/09/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $845,385 | 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 objectives of this project are to elucidate the mechanisms and importance of nocturnal nitrogen oxide chemistry in the polluted marine boundary l | National Science Foundation | 6/16/2009 |
| MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY | $425,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Policy-based computing is a critical component of many large-scale configurable systems because it enables dynamic adaptability of system behavior by changing policy configurations without reprogramming the systems. Policy evaluation, the process of check | National Science Foundation | 9/02/2009 |
| THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC | $399,999 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Intellectual Merit. High throughput sequencing that allows human genetics to access rare variation 'Next Generation' sequencing is transforming human genetics: several disruptive technologies are coming of age and now enable resequencing throughput of meg | National Science Foundation | 6/12/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA | $427,816 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Processors with tens or possibly hundreds of cores will be a reality within the next few years. To ensure that multi-core performance will scale with the increasing number of cores, innovative processor architectures are increasingly being deployed in har | National Science Foundation | 6/22/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $449,879 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The basic hardware technology that is used to build microprocessors and the applications we run on them are are radically changing. Hardware building blocks are becoming increasingly brittle and error-prone, leading to a fundamentally unpredictable hardwa | National Science Foundation | 6/22/2009 |
| PURDUE UNIVERSITY | $422,522 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The project addresses basic electronic/photonic materials research issues in a topical area of materials science with high technological relevance. The success of the research activities will enable development of devices that will impact important techni | National Science Foundation | 6/26/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | $499,900 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Nearly one hundred years after the discovery of cosmic rays, neutrino telescopes are becoming an integral part of a multi-messenger approach to discovering their still elusive origins. Neutrinos are unique astronomical messengers which may provide critica | National Science Foundation | 7/31/2009 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | $409,314 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The United States is the only advanced industrial country without publicly financed national health care or compulsory national health insurance, it has a public welfare state that is one of the smallest in the western world, and consequently there is mor | National Science Foundation | 8/04/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF IOWA, THE | $159,977 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This research project will evaluate the effect of the presence of bubbles on the turbulence structure, velocity distribution and ultimately the water entrainment caused by surface jets, as well as the resulting gas phase distribution. There is ample exper | National Science Foundation | 8/21/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA | $79,586 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 0853988, 0853568, 0853409 Boehm, Nelson, McNeill 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 t | National Science Foundation | 6/21/2009 |
| TEXAS ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT STATION | $426,579 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Real-world software systems are large, complex artifacts built up over multiple layers of abstraction using diverse collections of components. Though individual components are often reusable, code that manages interactions between components seldom is. Su | National Science Foundation | 6/12/2009 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | $429,723 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: As computers become more powerful, the limiting factor for building software systems is shifting away from the underlying computer's performance limitations to the software's inherent complexity. One way to cope with this complexity is to use software con | National Science Foundation | 6/05/2009 |
| CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $400,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 'Scheduling policies are at the heart of all computer systems and are a key determinant of system performance. The goal of this project is to provide a rigorous foundation for modern scheduling design issues. The project includes two main directions that | National Science Foundation | 7/25/2009 |
| MIAMI UNIVERSITY | $486,499 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project focuses on the synthesis and characterization of two new classes of conjugated oligomers, as the next-generation technologies require the manipulation of charge and energy of new organic materials with unusual conjugated features on the nano | National Science Foundation | 7/10/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN | $470,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Peter Rossky of the University of Texas, Austin, is supported by an award from the Theoretical and Computational Chemistry program to carry out research on quantum mechanical simulation of chemical dynamics in condensed phases. The research focuses on thr | National Science Foundation | 7/04/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY | $435,000 | 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 Research award in the Inorganic, Bioinorganic and Organometallic Chemistry program supports work by Professor Linda Doerrer at Boston University to carr | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $175,374 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Intellectual merit: Zircon is a widespread component of siliceous igneous rocks and hosts a wide range of trace elements (e.g., REE) and isotopic species (e.g., O, Hf, Pb and U) that are useful for geochronologic, petrogenetic and geochemical studies of t | National Science Foundation | 6/05/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $127,590 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Drs. T. Douglas Price and James H. Burton will use support from the National Science Foundation to replace the primary scientific instrument in the Laboratory for Archaeological Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The lab will purchase a new | National Science Foundation | 7/04/2009 |
| FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE | $105,266 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Hydrologic environments are open and complex, rendering them prone to multiple interpretations and mathematical descriptions regardless of the quantity and quality of available data. This recognition has led to a growing tendency among hydrologists to po | National Science Foundation | 8/31/2009 |
| RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE | $379,158 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: We submitted a manuscript on G?In Vitro Capture and Identification of Proteins that Bind to a GGA-Rich Sequence from the ERBB2 Gene Promoter RegionG?. As described in previous progress reports, the paper describes our affinity capture studies of the Pu28- | National Science Foundation | 6/17/2009 |
| THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC | $164,576 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Technical Description: In the shallow crust, most of the strain at plate boundaries is relieved during sudden rare large earthquakes. Below the shallow locked portion, strain has often been thought as being relieved through steady creep, or, in the case o | National Science Foundation | 7/31/2009 |
| OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $77,814 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Prairie pothole lakes (PPL) are important hydrologic features in the glacial till of the Upper Midwest. A number of these lakes have developed unique water chemistries, including extremely high (10?s to 100?s of millimolar) levels of sulfate. Sulfate in | National Science Foundation | 7/19/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY | $390,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5) H. E. Stanley of Boston University is supported by an award from the Theoretical and Computational Chemistry program to carry out research concerned with und | National Science Foundation | 6/16/2009 |
| WILLIAM MARSH RICE UNIVERSITY | $293,267 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Chemistry of oceanic island basalts (OIBs) reflects the complexity of compositions and processes in the Earth's mantle. Isotope and trace element geochemistry have established that parent lithologies of OIBs in the Earth's mantle are heterogeneous. Howeve | National Science Foundation | 6/19/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS | $158,365 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The PI will develop algorithms for treating solutions of singular polynomial systems. The implementation of these hybrid symbolic-numerical methods will provide a broad research community with software whose capabilities go beyond solving regular systems | National Science Foundation | 6/29/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA | $315,059 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The immersed boundary method is a popular numerical scheme to simulate problems problems of fluid-structure interaction. Despite the popularity of the immersed boundary method, its convergence properties are poorly understood. The goal of this proposal is | National Science Foundation | 7/26/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA | $469,405 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Significant increases in application complexity demand processing requirements that exceed the performance achievable by current processors using software only implementations. For example, recent multimedia standards, such as JPEG2000, have significantly | National Science Foundation | 8/12/2009 |
| MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY | $51,324 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project is motivated by the principal investigator's research on modeling the electrical wave propagation in the heart, for which a system of variable coefficient and anisotropic elliptic-parabolic partial differential equations (PDEs) must be solved | National Science Foundation | 7/31/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, THE | $160,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This research program is motivated by the recognition that the volume of sensor data is expected to overwhelm even the enormous performance improvements in silicon technology expressed by Moore's Law. The focus is the development of a low-complexity alter | National Science Foundation | 6/02/2009 |
| NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY | $405,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Large-scale hosting infrastructures have become important platforms for many real-world systems such as cloud computing, virtual computing lab, enterprise data centers, and web hosting services. However, system administrators are often overwhelmed by the | National Science Foundation | 7/29/2009 |
| LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY, THE | $499,999 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The project investigates statistical software analysis, which infers relationships among program components by using statistical properties derived from multiple program executions. To motivate statistical techniques, it is useful to draw analogies to sta | National Science Foundation | 8/07/2009 |
| NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY | $470,112 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: III: Small: Exlporing Data in Multiclustering Views | National Science Foundation | 7/15/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS | $420,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project develops techniques for increasing energy-efficiency of modern data centers with performance constraints. Both computing and cooling energy are considered. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, data centers in the United Stat | National Science Foundation | 8/12/2009 |
| ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY | $339,574 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Wireless networks operate under hostile conditions and often exhibit multi-scale stochastic dynamics. In such dynamic environments, network algorithms for quality of services (QoS) provisioning hinge heavily on state information exchange, and network func | National Science Foundation | 9/22/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN | $499,996 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The goal of this proposal is to devise and implement a scalable virtual machine that includes scalable garbage collectors, profilers and just-intime (JIT) compilers. As hardware vendors deliver chip multiprocessors (CMPs) as the next-generation generalpur | National Science Foundation | 7/27/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS | $25,819 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Archaeologists have long looked to Beringia, the region encompassing Alaska and far northeastern Siberia, for clues about the origins of the first Americans and spread of humans into the Arctic. The traditional view holds that humans first migrated from S | National Science Foundation | 8/24/2009 |
| CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY LONG BEACH FOUNDATION | $295,226 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: A team of archaeologists and geologists at the Institute for Integrated Research in Materials, Environments, and Societies (IIRMES), California State UniversityG??Long Beach will use NSF funding to support research on ancient technology, economic interact | National Science Foundation | 7/30/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, THE | $462,558 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project takes a fresh look at the evolutionary origin of cartilaginous fishes: sharks, rays, and the less well-known chimaeras. Sharks and their relatives tend to be presented as primitive and/or supremely adapted predators, although popular attentio | National Science Foundation | 6/24/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI SYSTEM | $600,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Vision/Summary of Proposed Partnership: The vision is to unite business development resources in the Kansas City region with colleges and universities to develop a technology commercialization process that maximizes the ability of institutions with R&D f | National Science Foundation | 9/15/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA | $333,155 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The gases in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere (UT/LS) have a significant effect on the chemical and radiative budgets of the global atmosphere, crucial to understanding climate change. To understand the chemical makeup of the UT/LS region, a m | National Science Foundation | 8/16/2009 |
| OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $188,375 | 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 f | National Science Foundation | 7/22/2009 |
| GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION | $186,453 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The proposed research is directed towards the preparation of a Preliminary Design Report for an NSF Major Research Equipment and Facility Construction (MREFC) project: The Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory (DUSEL) at the former Homestake | National Science Foundation | 8/05/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA SYSTEM | $317,878 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The project will provide novel insight into how aerodynamics, skeletal motion, neuromuscular control and muscle mechanicl work and power integrate during drastically different form of vertebrate locomotion. Furthermore, this data, for the very first time | National Science Foundation | 7/30/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA | $150,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Genetic, geographic and ecological processes can isolate related plants resulting in the evolution of new species. Reproductive isolation is a very important component of this process that determines whether closely related plants are sexually compatible | National Science Foundation | 7/02/2009 |
| BOARD OF REGENTS NEVADA SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION | $146,261 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The complete abstract for this award is available in Research.gov at : www.research.gov. Objectives: The objective of this research is to use single-molecule techniques of atomic force (single-molecule antibody recognition force microscopy) and fluorescen | National Science Foundation | 8/31/2009 |
| PURDUE UNIVERSITY | $311,627 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This interdisciplinary study combines efforts from mathematicians and ecologists to develop more suitable models and modeling approaches that address issues of interest to both ecologists and resource managers. The specific objectives of this project are | National Science Foundation | 8/30/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA | $109,635 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The concept of a neural network is central to the way we think about the brain, and has permeated research in many disciplines. It is widely believed that the activity of a population of neurons emerges from the dynamics of neural circuits. On the other h | National Science Foundation | 9/13/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA | $215,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Although geography is an organizing feature of K to 12 education, the U.S. lacks an integrated database that describes student populations living in school attendance boundaries. The lack of a spatial database of school attendance boundaries has hindered | National Science Foundation | 8/30/2009 |
| COLGATE UNIVERSITY | $373,114 | 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 grant supports a program of research to explore the underlying principles that guide individual attitudes about aggressive interrogation. Despite the | National Science Foundation | 8/24/2009 |
| FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE | $93,862 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This research will draw on more than 90,000 criminal cases that have yielded a conviction in U.S. urban courts between 1990 and 2008 to explore changes over time in the magnitude of racial and ethnic differences in the probability of incarceration, and ho | National Science Foundation | 7/06/2009 |
| FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE | $176,061 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This research investigates the ways in which claims to sovereignty in the Arctic rely on territorial imaginaries: explicit and assumed conceptualizations of a placeG??s elemental nature, its geophysical properties, and its geographical location. Specific | National Science Foundation | 8/19/2009 |
| TEXAS A & M RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $399,918 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Shallow marine carbonate rocks that are deposited at continental margins are subjected to intense deformation at convergent plate boundaries, and a growing body of evidence indicates that these carbonate rocks are entrained in subduction zones to signific | National Science Foundation | 6/23/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA | $253,597 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The direction and intensity of the Earth's magnetic field varies in both time and space. As volcanic rocks cool they record a snapshot of the field and through careful laboratory experiments the evolution of the magnetic field during Earth's approximately | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES | $294,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Synthetic Approaches to Endohedral Complexes and Highly Functional Derivatives of Fullerene C60 | National Science Foundation | 7/26/2009 |
| FAIRFIELD CRYSTAL TECHNOLOGY, LLC | $100,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project is to demonstrate a novel technique for producing freestanding GaN wafers and substrates. Low-cost, high-quality GaN substrates are important for volume production of high-brightness LEDs (HB | National Science Foundation | 5/29/2009 |
| MO SCI CORP | $99,990 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Selective Laser Sintering of Bioglass Scaffolds for Bone Tissue Engineering | National Science Foundation | 6/30/2009 |
| NERITES CORPORATION | $99,990 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: SBIR Phase I: Bioadhesive Construct to Augment Rotator Cuff Repair | National Science Foundation | 6/09/2009 |
| GWC TECHNOLOGIES INC | $100,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Label-free biosensor systems utilizing Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR) to detect molecular interactions are an important tool in basic research and drug development. SPR biosensors require a metal-coated surface, and gold is currently the most practical | National Science Foundation | 6/11/2009 |
| THERMAVANT TECHNOLOGIES, L.L.C. | $100,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I proposal describes a heat spreader embedded with a nanolfuid oscillating heat pipe (OHP) that will meet the cooling needs of high power density electronics by utilizing: 1) the extra-high heat transfe | National Science Foundation | 6/05/2009 |
| GEOVANTAGE, INC. | $100,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I research proposal addresses synergistic integration of navigation and environmental sensing instruments on manned or autonomous ground or air vehicles to both improve information registration accuracy and re | National Science Foundation | 6/03/2009 |
| PHOEBUS OPTOELECTRONICS, LLC | $99,872 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The grant is a Phase I Small Business Innovation Research award focused on the development of specialized infrared sensors called polarimetric sensors, based on a new class of optical materials called metamaterials. The sensors under development have the | National Science Foundation | 6/02/2009 |
| GINKGO BIOWORKS, INC. | $99,981 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project proposes to develop a set of novel, versatile measurement tools for use during fermentation and scale-up in metabolic engineering. The tools will be based on the production of odorants and enable rea | National Science Foundation | 6/01/2009 |
| RK COMPOSITES INC. | $99,894 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: In this Phase I SBIR program, RK Composites, Inc. (RKCI) and its partners is developing intelligent sensors for structural state sensing. For this phase I program, the RKCI-led team will demonstrate the feasibility of a successful intelligent structural s | National Science Foundation | 6/05/2009 |
| PICARRO, INC. | $99,838 | 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 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project will combine the capabilities of Picarro?s WS-CRDS (wavelength-scanned cavity ring down spect | National Science Foundation | 6/10/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT | $600,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: In this CAREER project supported by the Theoretical and Computational Chemistry Program of the Chemistry Division, Jose Gascon of the University of Connecticut will carry out research to develop accurate classical/quantum (QM/MM) computational methodologi | National Science Foundation | 7/06/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS | $575,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Language consists of an extremely complex signal, replete with information of several different types, including words (lexicon) and their smaller parts (morphology), syntactic structure (grammar), connections between input and previous input (context), a | National Science Foundation | 7/26/2009 |
| PURDUE UNIVERSITY | $493,235 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Division of Computer and Communication Foundations (CCF) NSF program : Compilers Automatic and Manual Debugging Support for Massively Parallel Programs. The research funded by this award targets the difficult problem of how to debug programs running on l | National Science Foundation | 8/03/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA CRUZ | $250,000 | 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 will develop efficient mechanisms for deploying and managing wireless self-organizing networks (WSONs). These networks are able to manage thems | National Science Foundation | 8/13/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE | $1,050,079 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: In 2006, the NSF EPSCoR states of Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont and Delaware (VT, NH, ME, RI DE) launched an initiative that we have recently renamed the North East Cyberinfrastructure Consortium (NECC, formerly NE Network Initiative, NENI). | National Science Foundation | 8/25/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA | $193,699 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: With National Science Foundation support, Dr. Maria Nieves Zedeno and a team of colleagues and Blackfeet collaborators will conduct two seasons of archaeological fieldwork on the US northwestern Plains. Together they will examine the relationships between | National Science Foundation | 8/26/2009 |
| BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY | $410,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Fungi in the groups Harpellales and Asellariales spend their entire lives in the guts of insects; they cannot grow independently. They may be parasites or may be mutualists that live in harmony with their hosts. The fungal-host associations can be traced | National Science Foundation | 8/14/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT & STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE | $1,199,921 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The North East Cyberinfrastructure Consortium was formed to develop resilient, high-bandwidth connectivity between research and academic institutions in ME, RI, NH, VT and DE. We have initiated two related collaborative efforts to identify and promote th | National Science Foundation | 8/25/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA SYSTEM | $338,364 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This collaborative proposal addresses the genetic basis of post-pollination prezygotic reproductive isolation between sympatric sister species of yellow monkeyflowers. Towards the goal of identifying the molecular genetic basis of conspecific pollen prec | National Science Foundation | 8/17/2009 |
| TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY-SAN MARCOS | $165,085 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: One of the major unanswered patterns in ecology is the latitudinal gradient of species diversity from the tropics to the poles. This project will develop a comprehensive explanation for this and related patterns in the distribution and abundance of plants | National Science Foundation | 8/11/2009 |
| SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION | $372,904 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Lakes, estuaries, and coastal marine waters throughout the world have been degraded by over-enrichment with plant nutrients such as nitrogen (N) that cause algal blooms, and eventually deplete dissolved oxygen. Nitrogen exports to aquatic ecosystems have | National Science Foundation | 7/16/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE | $401,411 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Red algae are among the dominant photosynthetic organisms in the sea. Many are leafy seaweeds, but a large number grow as crust-like pavements on the ocean | National Science Foundation | 7/15/2009 |
| RANCHO SANTA ANA BOTANIC GARDEN | $540,505 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Broad to fine scale phylogenetic pattern and character evolution in ruellieae (Acanthaceae) | National Science Foundation | 8/20/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA | $300,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Yoder laboratory studies genetic control of events that shape animal form. Patterning animal bodies requires integration of genetic signals that converge on otherwise similarly fated parts of the developing body conferring unique identities. Likewise, | National Science Foundation | 6/02/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS | $497,001 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Understanding how genes and environment act through complex biological networks to influence social behavior is a fundamental challenge in biology. This proposal addresses long-duration behavioral 'states' in honey bee workers, which are known to be influ | National Science Foundation | 7/02/2009 |
| TRINITY UNIVERSITY | $125,866 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Understanding workers' responses to incentives is critical to enhancing firm productivity as well as the overall efficiency of an economy. The projects in this proposal involve conducting economic experiments to provide a better understanding of how indi | National Science Foundation | 8/24/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS | $534,999 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Ribotoxins kill cells by endonucleotically cleaving essential RNAs involved in protein translation (rRNAs, tRNAs, and mRNAs). We have identified a novel bacterial RNA repair system that neutralizes the effect of ribotoxins. This unique RNA repair system a | National Science Foundation | 6/04/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $265,001 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Whales are mammals that evolved from land to sea during the Eocene epoch of geological time. The transition was made by Archaeoceti or archaic whales that a | National Science Foundation | 8/02/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA | $168,445 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Conflicts continue to rage in the Levant, South Asia, and elsewhere. Governmental, nongovernmental, and intergovernmental organizations are seeking a technology that will help them anticipate the outbreak of violence. Some progress has been made predictin | National Science Foundation | 9/11/2009 |
| WILLIAM MARSH RICE UNIVERSITY | $297,234 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Research on economic sanctions has advanced a great deal in recent years and there has been an impressive relationship between theory and evidence. Recent empirical work has led to the development of theoretical questions that cannot be answered with exis | National Science Foundation | 8/03/2009 |
| FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY | $59,845 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: During the late 1700s, colonial Mexicans and Peruvians sued each other more than they ever before had in 300 years of Spanish control. Spanish culture is widely described as legalistic and litigious. Yet, in Spain, there was little change in civil suits d | National Science Foundation | 7/08/2009 |
| BROWN UNIVERSITY IN PROVIDENCE IN STATE OF RI AND PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS | $180,908 | 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 premise of this research is that a society's prosperity hinges in part on property being sufficiently secure from theft so that investing in production, | National Science Foundation | 8/26/2009 |
| SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION | $283,070 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). To predict present and future rapid coastal evolution, we must first reconstruct the long-term rates of local-relative sea-level rise in response to non-ant | National Science Foundation | 9/24/2009 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | $219,214 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: An increase in Earth surface oxygen levels has long been invoked as a driver of biological innovation at the end of the Neoproterozoic Era (1000 to ~541 million years ago), when diverse macroscopic life, including animals, first flourished. Recent work su | National Science Foundation | 8/24/2009 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $393,523 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Virtual Research Data Center at Cornell University has been a successful research support tool for users of many of the Census Bureau large-scale confidential data products including, but not limited to, those that are accessible via the Census Resear | National Science Foundation | 7/08/2009 |
| THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC | $419,833 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: I. Intellectual Merit. The nature of price setting by firms is central to many important questions in macroeconomics. Over the last few years, research on firm price setting has been transformed by the increased availability of micro price data. For sever | National Science Foundation | 8/04/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT | $182,411 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: A number of times during life's history, biodiversity was decimated by mass extinctions that wiped out a large proportion of the Earth's species. The five largest mass extinctions of the prehistoric world are known as the 'Big Five' (the dinosaurs died ou | National Science Foundation | 8/24/2009 |
| SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | $98,928 | 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 new flow cytometer, a cell counter, and a phase-contrast microscope with digital camera are being used to help advance the cellular and molecular biology | National Science Foundation | 7/30/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA SYSTEM | $179,703 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This research will provide an excellent opportunity to evaluate how previous flume research or field studies of small channels, upon which much of what is known about sediment transport and related asects of fluvial processes is based, scale up to larger | National Science Foundation | 6/21/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA | $214,813 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Collaborative Research: Ocean Oxidation and the Biosphere during Neoproterozoic Glaciation Susannah Porter (Lead Principal Investigator); EAR-0922305 University of California Santa Barbara Matthew Hurtgen; EAR-0921913 Northwestern University ARRA State | National Science Foundation | 8/24/2009 |
| DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT | $293,918 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The underlying genetic basis behind anatomical, physiological, or behavioral adaptations arising during the evolution of humans and great apes (hominids) remains largely unknown. Observable change may come from changes to protein-coding genes, from change | National Science Foundation | 8/16/2009 |
| HOPE COLLEGE | $203,894 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Studies of exotic nuclei (those with a large excess of neutrons) are a top priority to address a number of outstanding nuclear physics questions. These include measurements to explore changes of the nuclear structure in nuclei far from stability and react | National Science Foundation | 9/17/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $168,493 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The majority of the work is now completed. Student RAs are continuing to collect new data, but most of what they are doing at this point involves cleaning data and assembling them in a form that I can use. | National Science Foundation | 7/30/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS | $481,151 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: In this project, the applicants propose the development of a novel chemical analysis technology. Analysis of chemical species has been important to many technological advances. Current technologies rely on adsorption spectroscopy, inductively coupled plas | National Science Foundation | 8/28/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | $1,936,855 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Studying activity of the human brain non-invasively is a major scientific challenge, yet it is essential for enhancing our understanding of the neural bases of action, emotion, and thought. A major technological advancement in studying the neural basis of | National Science Foundation | 8/16/2009 |
| PURDUE UNIVERSITY | $485,790 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Funds for the purchase of an advanced ultrafast laser system for nonlinear spectroscopy are requested. The system that specified is a Spectra-Physics Spitfire Pro 40F-5W ultrafast laser system. The pulse length of the fundamental output of the system is < | National Science Foundation | 8/21/2009 |
| TOWSON UNIVERSITY | $307,323 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The intellectual merit is based on our research accomplishments. We have a demonstrated record of managing high-quality undergraduate research laboratories, regularly publishing papers in peer-reviewed journals with our undergraduate collaborators, and pa | National Science Foundation | 8/05/2009 |
| SQUARE ONE SYSTEMS DESIGN, INC. | $498,695 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II research project seeks to develop a radically new type of mobile robot. Most of today's robots rely on wheels to move from one location to another but the proposed Tri-Sphere robot moves by walking. | National Science Foundation | 8/10/2009 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | $550,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project will continue work on developing powerful new reactions and strategies for chemical synthesis. The proposed research aims to develop highly useful synthetic methods centered on the use of N-allylhydrazones as readily prepared compounds that c | National Science Foundation | 7/30/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA | $403,254 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: An Integrated Multiscale Platform for Fundamental Studies of Peptide Self Assembly Peptides are exceptionally versatile platforms for tunable molecular self assembly, forming an impressive variety of nanoscale morphologies in response to cues spanning tem | National Science Foundation | 7/24/2009 |
| VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE & STATE UNIVERSITY | $1,036,874 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Host plant resistance is the most effective, economical, and environmentally friendly way to control plant diseases. Although significant progress about the interaction of plant NB-LRR-type resistance gene and the corresponding bacterial effector gene has | National Science Foundation | 7/27/2009 |
| GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION | $405,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Internet-connected computer systems face ongoing software attacks. Existing defensive solutions, such as intrusion detection systems, rely on the ability to identify malicious software (malware) in order to prevent its installation. This approach remains | National Science Foundation | 9/02/2009 |
| SOUTH CAROLINA RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $579,818 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: CAREER: Computational Analysis and Prediction of Genome-Wide Protein Targeting Signals and Localization A typical cell has a size of only 10 m while it contains about a billion proteins. How these many proteins are transported from their synthesis sites | National Science Foundation | 8/10/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $850,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).When we open our eyes we instantly -- without any apparent effort -- have a detailed three-dimensional (3D) representation of our environment. However, the su | National Science Foundation | 6/15/2009 |
| TEXAS ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT STATION | $409,530 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Engineered nanomaterials have unique chemical and physical properties that make them desirable for widespread applications including environmental remediation, energy conversion, catalyst support and biomedical use. Despite their benefits, questions need | National Science Foundation | 6/03/2009 |
| MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY | $479,082 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The project will focus on a rigorous analysis of wave propagation in disordered media, along with related analysis of random operators and matrices. The goal is to establish diffusive propagation of waves in a weakly disordered medium over arbitrarily lon | National Science Foundation | 7/02/2009 |
| LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY, THE | $350,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: We develop an electrically pumped microcavity exciton-polariton laser as a novel coherent light source based on the exotic quantum nature, Bose-Einstein Condensation (BEC) of microcavity exciton-polaritons. In a monolithic semiconductor structure, half-li | National Science Foundation | 8/26/2009 |
| NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY | $340,706 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: We propose a new paradigm in antenna design and development that can lead to very low-loss radiating/receiving devices that are mechanically stretchable, flexible, and 'self-healing'. These properties offer a wide spectrum of possibilities in reconfigurab | National Science Foundation | 8/21/2009 |
| SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY | $350,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5) Objective: The objective of this program is to develop a new framework for studying distributed inference with dependent observations. A broad range of issue | National Science Foundation | 8/20/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, THE | $220,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The proposal addresses a variety of new problems that arise from a conjecture of S. B. Rao. Rao's conjecture itself concerns degree sequences of graphs, and remains open, although in joint work with Maria Chudnovsky, the PI has made substantial progress, | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| TEXAS ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT STATION | $252,097 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 'The objective of this research is to develop a waveguide radio-frequency micro-electromechanical systems tunable filter as a unique three-dimensional microstructure in silicon. The approach is based on combining 1) bulk micromachining for miniaturized ca | National Science Foundation | 7/30/2009 |
| MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY, INC | $110,250 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Quantum information storage and retrieval is becoming more significant and necessary in the current secure communications scenario due to its superior encryption techniques immunity to eavesdropping. There are many approaches to implement this concept and | National Science Foundation | 8/04/2009 |
| WILLIAM MARSH RICE UNIVERSITY | $237,339 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: All animals rely on the integration of sensory, postural and environmental information to generate complex motor behaviors such as swimming, diving or flying. This collaborative project will study how the nervous system transforms information gathered by | National Science Foundation | 7/13/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA | $243,906 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: All animals rely on the integration of sensory, postural and environmental information to generate complex motor behaviors such as swimming, playing tennis or flying. This collaborative project will study how the nervous system transforms information gath | National Science Foundation | 7/13/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON | $319,518 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Intellectual Merit: This grant will support the development of calibrated, highly-resolved, and absolute-dated stable isotopic and trace-metal time series from multiple speleothems preserved in multiple cave systems along a N-S transect from East Tennesse | National Science Foundation | 8/26/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA | $400,603 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Funding is provided to help characterize patterns of Holocene drought using new cave records from the Southwestern U.S. to better understand mechanisms of hydro-climatic variability in this arid region. The research is centered on the following science h | National Science Foundation | 5/26/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $626,091 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project will combine data analysis and modeling to investigate: (1) phenomena that appear, or are significantly modified, only during the most extreme geospace disturbances, (2) the linkages between them, (3) the reasons they appear in some events an | National Science Foundation | 8/19/2009 |
| OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY | $88,300 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This proposal requests funds to purchase equipment in support of seagoing research onboard Research Vessel WECOMA and other academic research vessels. This equipment joins a substantial existing inventory of shared-use equipment, and provides needed enhan | National Science Foundation | 8/05/2009 |
| LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY, THE | $1,184,825 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The problem of providing seamless, integrated querying over multiple interrelated sources of information has been plaguing the database, information management, information retrieval, and artificial intelligence research communities for decades. There hav | National Science Foundation | 6/29/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA | $848,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Proposal Title: RI: Medium Collaborative Research: Minimalist Mapping and Monitoring Institution: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Abstract Date: 05/05/09 'This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law | National Science Foundation | 6/22/2009 |
| TEXAS ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT STATION | $276,298 | 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-aw | National Science Foundation | 7/24/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE | $1,064,500 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The purpose of this award is to support interdisciplinary research to develop high-performance computation codes and tools that enable multiscale computer simulations of cloud microphysics and cloud dynamics. The award supports collaborative research betw | National Science Foundation | 8/15/2009 |
| TEXAS A & M RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $146,783 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Mean-field spin glass models and, in particular, the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model were better understood in the past several years following the discovery of the replica symmetry breaking interpolation by Francesco Guerra and the proof of the celebrated | National Science Foundation | 8/07/2009 |
| GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY (THE) | $750,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: With the advent of new supercomputers that employ hundreds of thousands of processors and can compute at speeds approaching one quadrillion operations per second, many grand challenge science problems can be solved which were unsolvable even a few years a | National Science Foundation | 9/15/2009 |
| BLENDICS INC | $499,789 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase II project will develop and apply a principled design methodology to confront the serious problems associated with deep sub-micron, system-on-chip (SoC) integrated-circuit designs. The support provided | National Science Foundation | 8/31/2009 |
| EARTHGENES PHARMACEUTICALS LLC | $500,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The overall purpose of the award is to further extend and ultimately to commercialize our phase I efforts to develop a novel and fruitful approach to natural product drug discovery. Our unique technology encompasses screening environmental DNA libraries f | National Science Foundation | 7/30/2009 |
| FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE | $254,878 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Cooper and Kagel (2005, in press) found that strategic play in two person teams beat the truth wins benchmark by wide margins and that teams display impressive levels of cross-game learning. Cooper, Kagel and Mayefsky (2008) study the effects advice and | National Science Foundation | 6/25/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY | $135,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Thomas Keyes of Boston University is supported by a SGER award from the Theoretical and Computational Chemistry program to provide the most widely used bios | National Science Foundation | 8/19/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $306,405 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Project AbstractThis award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Mountain snowmelt is an essential resource to 40% of the world?s population but is threatened by warming associated with climate change. Accu | National Science Foundation | 6/01/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS | $231,812 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Noble gas radionuclides provide a new and previously unexplored tool that can help distinguish the origin of the atmospheric components associated with volcanic gases. In this project led by a beginning female investigator, we aim to measure these radionu | National Science Foundation | 6/04/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS | $2,024,104 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Mathematics Department at UIUC aims to train stewards of the mathematical enterprise. Our programs facilitate all stages of development from prospective undergraduate math major to senior mathematician. We propose here to enhance our REGS program and | National Science Foundation | 5/27/2009 |
| THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC | $160,179 | 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 | 5/27/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $120,665 | 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 continues research on Triassic and Jurassic faunas from the Beardmore Glacier region of Antarctica. Research will be supported for one field sea | National Science Foundation | 8/17/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA | $627,724 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The near shore environments of the western Antarctic Peninsula (WAP) harbor extremely high densities of mesograzers (small invertebrate predators approximately 1-25 mm in length) such as benthic amphipods, as well as rich assemblages of macroalgae, endoph | National Science Foundation | 8/13/2009 |
| FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE | $2,575,401 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Antarctic Marine Geology Research Facility (AMGRF) at Florida State University is the largest repository of Southern Ocean piston cores in the world. The AMGRF provides numerous services to the Antarctic and Earth Science community. This award inclu | National Science Foundation | 6/08/2009 |
| OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $150,002 | 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 appr | National Science Foundation | 5/26/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA | $2,684,370 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: ANDRILL (ANtarctic geological DRILLing) is an international, multidisciplinary program designed to investigate Antarctica's role in Cenozoic global environmental change. After two successful drilling projects, ANDRILL proposes to move northeastward and ou | National Science Foundation | 8/19/2009 |
| CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $311,706 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The proposal seeks funding to continue astronomical site-testing investigations at the South Pole Station using the Gattini-UV camera that will provide data on sky brightness in the Astronomical U and B bands for the very first time. The objectives of th | National Science Foundation | 5/21/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA CRUZ | $1,899,641 | 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 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 |
| VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE & STATE UNIVERSITY | $665,673 | 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 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES | $299,012 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: EXPLORING THE CHEMICAL REACH OF THE MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION: SATELLITE/IN-SITU DATA ANALYSIS AND CHEMISTRY/TRANSPORT MODELING | National Science Foundation | 5/28/2009 |
| WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY | $499,631 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 'This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).' Solar energy harvested by plants provides the energy required for the major metabolic pathways within plant tissue (e.g. photosynthesis, photorespiration, | National Science Foundation | 6/24/2009 |
| ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY | $125,913 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This proposal seeks ~$126K funding to purchase a second multi-anvil high pressure device. The current multi-anvil systems are fully booked ? and have been so for the past four years. Requested is a 1000 ton capacity, 8800 psi press with a 15' vertical and | National Science Foundation | 6/17/2009 |
| MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY | $284,823 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The focus of this project is on quantum dynamics studies of the recombination reaction of oxygen atoms (O) and molecular oxygen (O2) to form ozone (O3), in order to study the anomalously large isotopic enrichment of stratospheric ozone. A hierarchy of sui | National Science Foundation | 6/05/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA | $203,082 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: We are using new continuous GPS and seismic data products from EarthScope facilities to investigate possible dynamic links between vertical crustal motions and lithospheric structure. We are combining PBO and PBO NUCLEUS data with GPS data from a large ne | National Science Foundation | 6/16/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS | $568,471 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Hormonal responses to an experience can gate how well and for how long the experience is remembered. Epinephrine (adrenaline) is one such hormonal regulator of memory strength and durability. Recent findings by the PI, using an electrophysiological model | National Science Foundation | 6/09/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA | $390,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 1) Why some supercell-spawned tornadoes are particularly long-lived? 2) How environmental conditions influence tornado genesis, intensity, and longevity? 3) How capping inversions and microphysical makeup influence cold pool strength and the development | National Science Foundation | 6/25/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS | $162,982 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Chromium in its hexavalent form, Cr(VI), is mobile and toxic in the environment. Reduction of Cr(VI) to the trivalent form, Cr(III), is a very important process as it renders Cr immobile and less toxic. Reduction induces stable isotope fractionation, and | National Science Foundation | 8/24/2009 |
| WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, THE | $400,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: RESEARCH EFFORT: The attachment of dissimilar materials is a major engineering challenge because of the high levels of localized stress that develop at such interfaces. An effective biologic solution to this problem can be seen at the attachment of tendon | National Science Foundation | 7/29/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $160,094 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: During the Cenozoic, southwestern North America underwent a shift from Farallon subduction to the present Pacific - North American strike-slip plate boundary, the San Andreas fault system (SAF). As a result, much of the southwestern U.S. experienced exten | National Science Foundation | 6/24/2009 |
| WILLIAM MARSH RICE UNIVERSITY | $144,465 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: During the Cenozoic, southwestern North America underwent a shift from Farallon subduction to the present Pacific - North American strike-slip plate boundary, the San Andreas fault system (SAF). As a result, much of the southwestern U.S. experienced exten | National Science Foundation | 6/24/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA SYSTEM | $837,367 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The proposed studies examine a set of questions about how leaf microclimates - the temperature and relative humidity adjacent to a leafs' surface - influence insect-plant associations. Frist, how different are leaf microclimates from nearby macroclimates | National Science Foundation | 6/23/2009 |
| PURDUE UNIVERSITY | $433,291 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The research objective of this proposal is to develop a new regularization framework for effectively identifying molecular signatures under the following practical challenges: (a) small n large p data; (b) sparse signatures; (c) structured features; and ( | National Science Foundation | 6/10/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA | $753,563 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Protein production, trafficking and degradation are essential for proper cellular function. Perhaps no cells are more sensitive to imbalances in these tightly coordinated processes than neurons. An important cellular compartment, the endoplasmic reticulum | National Science Foundation | 7/01/2009 |
| PURDUE UNIVERSITY | $900,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: A number of animal groups (e.g. mammals, birds, fish) undertake long-distance migrations between feeding and breeding grounds. The alternative evolutionary 'decisions' of migration versus permanent residency play important roles in maintaining ecological | National Science Foundation | 7/21/2009 |
| GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION | $400,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Intellectual Merit. The PI proposes a fundamental research program to establish theoretical foundation for battery supported cyber-physical systems (CPS). Such systems play vital roles in real-time controlled applications across multiple disciplines such | National Science Foundation | 9/11/2009 |
| WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY | $449,978 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Multi-core processing platforms have an increasingly broad range of applications. From consumer multimedia to image processing to defense applications, new designs containing large numbers of embedded cores are emerging. Network-on-Chip (NoC) has emerged | National Science Foundation | 6/19/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA | $500,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project strives for novel and transformative approaches to design automation guided by physical views of computation. A broad theme is the application of expertise from an established field, digital circuit design, to new fields, such as nanotechnolo | National Science Foundation | 9/17/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA | $1,015,598 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The cardiovascular system is the first operational organ system in developing vertebrates and proper control of its function, which transports oxygen and nutrients, is absolutely critical for the subsequent normal development of the animal. Any perturbati | National Science Foundation | 6/24/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS | $709,231 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This is a CAREER award to support the research of Dr. Sheng Zhong, in the Department of bioengineering at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Zhong is a fourth-year, tenure-track Assistant Professor. Understanding cellular processes, such as d | National Science Foundation | 7/25/2009 |
| MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY | $835,660 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Ecosystems are incredibly complex because they include many species interacting with each other in a spatially and temporally varying environment. One tool ecologists use to cope with this complexity is mathematical modeling. Despite the fact that mathema | National Science Foundation | 8/17/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO | $407,448 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: While green engineering measures such as artificial turf, reflective roof coatings, and urban forests have proven advantageous in conserving resources in individual buildings, holistic modeling of urban meteorology and engineered systems at the physical p | National Science Foundation | 8/19/2009 |
| LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY, THE | $522,691 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 'INTELLECTUAL MERIT Harmful levels of nitrogen (N) in estuaries can be diminished through tightly coupled processes in the microbial nitrogen cycle, including nitrification (chemoautotrophic oxidation of ammonia to nitrite and nitrate) and denitrification | National Science Foundation | 6/18/2009 |
| FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY | $751,041 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Understanding the hurricane boundary layer processes is of vital importance, not only to scientific study of hurricane genesis, development, and dissipation during landfall, but also to effective promotion of hurricane mitigation measures. Despite ever in | National Science Foundation | 8/26/2009 |
| HARVARD COLLEGE, PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF | $400,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The goal of this CAREER proposal is to understand the limits and predictive power of string theory by: (1) investigating fundamental questions such as: Are there consistent models of quantum gravity that are not described by string theories? And if so, wh | National Science Foundation | 6/09/2009 |
| COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY | $413,801 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Polysaccharides provide structural and mechanical properties for tissues and organs, and they have binding domains for proteins such as enzymes, cytokines, growth factors, and other extracellular matrix components. They are therefore excellent candidate m | National Science Foundation | 6/15/2009 |
| ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY | $569,117 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project will investigate the fate of organic matter in a cloud/fog system. First, scavenging efficiencies of particulate organic matter by fogs and clouds will be determined and parameterized based on simple measurable quantities like cloud liquid wa | National Science Foundation | 9/13/2009 |
| COLORADO SEMINARY | $550,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Very small physical systems, where one or more dimension is reduced below 100 nanometers, often show framatically different behavior than larger objects. Though research into this nanoscale regime is very active and has already revealed new phenomena and | National Science Foundation | 8/28/2009 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | $411,473 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The research will study the economic experiences and related social processes of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA), how their financial conditions and economic survival strategies evolve over time, and how these processes shape and are shaped by their h | National Science Foundation | 7/26/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, THE | $154,563 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This collaborative project outlines a series of studies investigating the role of individual differences in executive functions (EFs) in expression of implicit racial bias. Executive functions refer to higher-order control processes that regulate thought | National Science Foundation | 7/15/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA | $730,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Professors Robert M. Metzger and Stephen A. Woski of the University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, and Professor Daniell L. Mattern of the University of Mississippi are supported by the Analytical and Surface Chemistry Program in the Division of Chemistry to deve | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES | $299,995 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Title: SUBREGIONAL ANALYSIS OF THE HUMAN MEDIAL TEMPORAL LOBE IN EPISODIC MEMORY. This project will use high-resolution neuroimaging to investigate how different parts of the human medial temporal lobe contribute to different memory functions. We will id | National Science Foundation | 8/12/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER | $286,895 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: When speakers encode their thoughts into linguistic utterances, they often can choose between several different ways of conveying the same message. For example, English speakers may use an active or a passive. They are more likely to choose a passive over | National Science Foundation | 5/27/2009 |
| WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIO-MEDICAL RESEARCH | $600,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: In this project the PI proposes to measure, analyze, and model chromosome conformation based on the imaging of an extensive collection of fluorescently-labeled strains in prokaryotic cells. The PI will also introduce the co-variance matrix for loci displa | National Science Foundation | 7/26/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA | $470,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: ' The Analytical and Surface Chemistry Program in the Division of Chemistry supports work by Professors Carolyn Cassady and David Dixon at the University of Alabama - Tuscaloosa aimed at enhanced understanding of the gas-phase chemistry of deprotonated am | National Science Foundation | 6/19/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT RIVERSIDE | $455,300 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This proposal centers on the development and application of novel set of multi-dimensional nuclear magnetic resonance experiments for establishing through-bond connectivity and chemical shift assignments in disordered solids using scalar coupling-driven c | National Science Foundation | 7/10/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | $205,922 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: An observational study is an empiric investigation of the effects of a treatment, policy, intervention or exposure which was not randomly assigned to subjects, as it would be in a randomized experiment. Observational studies are common in most fields that | National Science Foundation | 8/24/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE | $1,202,998 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Annotating the Cis-Regulatory Binding Sites in Sequenced Prokaryotic Genomes University of North Carolina at Charlotte has been awarded a grant to develop software and a database resource for characterizing cis-regulatory binding sites in sequenced bacte | National Science Foundation | 8/04/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $542,845 | 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 cycles of organic carbon and oxygen are linked by the stoichiometry of photosynthesis and respiration, the mass balance of oxygen in the upper ocean is | National Science Foundation | 6/05/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO | $766,025 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: A common perception is that sharks are small-brained animals with a limited behavioral repertoire. Recent research has been dispelling these myths and has found that sharks possess brains that are of comparable size to birds and mammals. One brain structu | National Science Foundation | 8/06/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $343,332 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: AbstractThrough modeling and data assimilation studies, University of Washington researchers seek to reconcile information on Antarctic sea ice and its interaction with the upper ocean and the atmosphere, throughout the modern era of satellite observation | National Science Foundation | 5/22/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, THE | $375,543 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award supports a project to conduct a modeling study of the ice stream - sub-glacial water system. A suite of numerical models of various dimensionality and complexity will be constructed in a sequential, hierarchical fashion to formulate and test hy | National Science Foundation | 7/06/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $366,724 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: his 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 proje | National Science Foundation | 6/15/2009 |
| OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY | $294,755 | 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 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA CRUZ | $431,467 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The RAGES project (Robotic Access to Grounding zones for Exploration and Science) 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 Int | National Science Foundation | 8/21/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO | $65,225 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Los Alamos Summer School is a ten week program for undergraduate physics students held in Los Alamos, New Mexico, with the support of the University of New Mexico and Los Alamos National Laboratory. The school's principal aims are to expose the stude | National Science Foundation | 5/22/2009 |
| JACKSON STATE UNIVERSITY | $172,855 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: With this award from the Chemistry Research Instrumentation and Facilities Multiuser Program (CRIF:MU), the Chemistry Department at Jackson State University (JSU) will acquire a multi-user GC-triple quadrupole mass spectrometer. The spectrometer will enab | National Science Foundation | 9/04/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $300,172 | 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 Carol A. Fierke from the University of Mic | National Science Foundation | 7/26/2009 |
| VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE & STATE UNIVERSITY | $109,728 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The overall goal of this project is to increase understanding of the conjugate nature of the polar ionospheres, which in part helps understanding the multi-scale global solar wind, magnetosphere, and ionosphere system. The project utilizes numerous types | National Science Foundation | 8/13/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | $799,956 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: African cichlid fishes provide a unique system for understanding how genomic information (DNA) is converted into whole organism variation (e.g., differences in size, shape, color). There are more than 2000 species of cichlid fishes, making them some of th | National Science Foundation | 7/01/2009 |
| OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $310,843 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project examines two groups of highly unusual members of the blueberry family, including some species without leaves. Goals include how to tell the species apart, and determining how the species in each group are related to each other and to the res | National Science Foundation | 7/14/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE | $401,998 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Freshwater ecosystems provide vital ecological services important to human well being such as drinking water, food resources, and recreation. These systems are vulnerable to disruption of these services if human activities and their impacts exceed the cap | National Science Foundation | 8/27/2009 |
| ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY | $865,914 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Water and energy are essential ingredients of life and key commodities for humans and other living organisms that make up food webs. Curiously, although the role of energy in determining the inner workings of food webs has been thoroughly explored, water | National Science Foundation | 8/17/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $482,974 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Neurons transmit electrical information through long axons to distant parts of the brain and body. The cell bodies of neurons must also receive information from their targets, however very little is known about how this 'retrograde' information is transmi | National Science Foundation | 6/23/2009 |
| CORPORATION OF HAVERFORD COLLEGE, THE | $314,024 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This project examines the effects of the immediate social and physical environment on pain sensitivity (nociception) in laboratory mice, primarily utilizing | National Science Foundation | 5/26/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $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).' Objective: The objective of this research is to experimentally understand the requirements for manipulating light in waveguides using electron spin polari | National Science Foundation | 7/14/2009 |
| RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY | $499,759 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The traditional separation between the 'structure-only' Database world and the 'text-only' Information Retrieval world is fading. Databases now routinely include text components while documents are being augmented with structural information. The goal of | National Science Foundation | 7/13/2009 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $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). The objective of this research is to overcome the limited bandwidth density and energy scaling of electrical interconnects, which have caused a slow-down | National Science Foundation | 9/13/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI | $575,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Organic and Macromolecular Chemistry Program in the Chemistry Division at the National Science Foundation supports Professor Suri S. Iyer at the University of Cincinnati who will synthesize ligands that exhibit antibody-like selectivity, are robust, i | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY | $994,655 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: CAREER: Biomolecular Interactions that Regulate the Cellular Reaponse to DNA Damage | National Science Foundation | 6/26/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $400,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: TPROPOSAL 0845120This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).The objective of this research is to investigate a new system-on-brain paradigm, one of the next great challenges of the integrated circuit c | National Science Foundation | 7/01/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $693,866 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Sources and sinks of carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) in forests, wetlands, and lakes significantly alter the impact of fossil fuel emissions on the a | National Science Foundation | 8/04/2009 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $550,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Non-Technical abstract: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This CAREER award funds a project to understand the mechanism of superconductivity in cuprates by studying dynamics of ultrafast e | National Science Foundation | 8/28/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA | $644,946 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The CAREER project integrates next-generation molecular genetics with an aggressive education strategy to prepare students and professionals in genomics and to communicate the importance of science to the public. The research questions asked are: What is | National Science Foundation | 8/25/2009 |
| 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 scientific data management landscape is changing. Improvements in instrumentation and simulation software are giving scientists access to data at an unpre | National Science Foundation | 6/19/2009 |
| MISSOURI SYSTEM, UNIVERSITY OF | $575,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: INTELLECTUAL MERIT Indole-3-butyric acid (IBA) is a natural ly-occurring compound in the auxin family of plant hormones. Auxins play critical roles in growth, development, and response to environmental cues, especially in root morphology. Because auxins | National Science Foundation | 5/26/2009 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $646,700 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Nonlinear internal waves (NLIWs), ubiquitous features of the coastal ocean and lakes, are on the receiving end of an energy cascade initiated at large scales by the winds and tides in stratified natural water bodies. These waves transport this energy over | National Science Foundation | 7/20/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $400,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: INTELLECTUAL MERIT: The long-term goal of this project is to develop new, broad-spectrum antimicrobial agents. The central hypothesis is that the preassembly of membrane-active polymer chains will enhance their cooperative ability to perforate the membran | National Science Foundation | 6/15/2009 |
| SOUTH CAROLINA RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $430,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: CAREER: Cooperative Human-Computer Model Updating Cognitive Systems (MUCogS) The research objective of this early career development (CAREER) project is to develop a framework for cooperative human-computer Model Updating Cognitive Systems (MUCogS). Comm | National Science Foundation | 8/10/2009 |
| RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY | $479,634 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Advances in high-performance computing have enabled the scientific community to progress toward the Direct Numerical Simulation of whole blood, at least in microcirculation. Despite the complexity of the problem, many research groups have succeeded in sim | National Science Foundation | 8/19/2009 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $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). The objective of this research is to push the limits of electronics to THz frequencies and to increase society's awareness to the new possibilities offere | National Science Foundation | 7/01/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $430,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Early Career Development (CAREER) project is to develop a new flexure system design methodology inspired by elastic averaging, which is seen in nature. Flexures are jointless elastic structures that derive motion from material compliance, which results in | National Science Foundation | 8/18/2009 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $400,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Intellectual Merit: This project will provide tools and methodologies that will enable advancements in the formulation, identification and analysis of mechanistic mathematical models of protein-protein and protein-DNA interaction networks. Although the | National Science Foundation | 6/19/2009 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $700,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Why do some children in susceptible families become autistic when others do not? How can understanding what goes wrong in autistic brain development help us to understand what goes right in normal brain development? And how might this knowledge lead to in | National Science Foundation | 7/08/2009 |
| TEXAS A & M RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $62,578 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Earth today has major ice caps on Antarctica and Greenland, but this was not always the case. This research focuses on climate change during a time period known as the Oligocene (34 to 24 million years ago). This interval of time began with a big shif | National Science Foundation | 8/31/2009 |
| PURDUE UNIVERSITY | $494,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This CAREER proposal describes a detailed research plan that will allow precision measurements with the CMS experiment to be carried out in the challenging environment of very high luminosity proton-proton collisions. The proposal integrates the analysis | National Science Foundation | 6/02/2009 |
| PURDUE UNIVERSITY | $550,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award supports a project to investigate novel quantum physics, inspired by high energy nuclear and particle physics, in graphene (a nanomaterial). Graphene is the building block of many carbon materials such | National Science Foundation | 8/21/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $658,460 | 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 CAREER award, funded by the Experimental Physical Chemistry Program of the Chemistry Division, supports an experimental research program by Professor Kh | National Science Foundation | 8/05/2009 |
| CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $850,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 'A three year old infant can recognize visual objects better than any machine. Despite decades of work on the problem of complex object recognition, the principles used by the brain to solve this problem are still unknown. One major experimental difficul | National Science Foundation | 8/16/2009 |
| DESERT BOTANICAL GARDEN, INC., THE | $110,548 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Southwest Environmental Information Network (SEINet) was initiated at the Global Institute of Sustainability (GIOS) at Arizona State University. It was created to serve as a gateway to distribute data resources of interest for the environmental rese | National Science Foundation | 7/02/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $304,867 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The primary goal of this proposal is to computerize taxonomic, geographic, and stratigraphic information for catalogued invertebrate fossils at the University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology (UMMP-IC). The UMMP-IC has long ranked among the most importa | National Science Foundation | 8/12/2009 |
| VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE | $311,993 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Through its 56-year history, the Ichthyology Collection (at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) has grown from an un-cataloged teaching collection to become one of the largest repositories for freshwater, Chesapeake Bay, coastal, and deep-sea | National Science Foundation | 8/26/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY | $425,600 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). In this project, alkylative dearomatization processes will be developed for synthesis of the polyprenylated phloroglucinol natural products. In preliminary | National Science Foundation | 8/10/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA | $360,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project will continue studies on the development of new methods for the direct formation of C-N bonds via activation of C-H and C-C bonds. Four new aspects of catalytic nitrogenation reactions are targeted for study during the next funding period: 1) | National Science Foundation | 7/22/2009 |
| UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY | $194,482 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Amines are volatile organic compounds (VOCs) emitted to the atmosphere from a number of sources including intense emissions from animal feeding operations (AFOs). In the atmosphere, amines act as precursors for aerosols, but the fates of amines released i | National Science Foundation | 7/20/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, THE | $65,221 | 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 |