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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY | $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 | 10/15/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA | $399,914 | 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 the proposed research is to develop solid-state devices for achieving controlled and efficient coupling between single photon | National Science Foundation | 8/12/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA | $140,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This proposal requests partial support for research on Experimental Particle Physics at the CMS experiment at the LHC. The focus of the proposal is the upgrade of the Level 1 (L1) trigger of CMS by including information from the Pixel Detector. It has lon | National Science Foundation | 6/04/2009 |
| COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY | $409,117 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Arctic soils have large stores of carbon (C) and may act as a significant CO2 source with warming. However, the key to understanding tundra soil processes is nitrogen (N), as both plant growth and decomposition are severely N limited. However, current mod | National Science Foundation | 7/09/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $1,264,424 | 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 people's social and moral relationships with personified robots. These robots, in various ways and to varying degrees, embody as | National Science Foundation | 7/15/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME DU LAC | $88,777 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: We plan to study the following three branches in the years to come. 1. Systematic study of stationary-harmonic multiple-valued functions; 2. Frequency and branch sets of multiple-valued functions; 3. Regularity of integral varifolds. These branches are no | National Science Foundation | 9/30/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME DU LAC | $90,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: A new era for particle physics is about to begin. The Tevatron and the LHC are soon going to start probing the scale where the mechanism of electroweak symmetry breaking has to show up. In the Standard Model this mechanism relies on the existence of a fun | National Science Foundation | 6/16/2009 |
| CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY | $855,259 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Successful completion of the effort of this proposal will make significant contributions to both theory and practice in multiagent systems, search, integer programming, planning under uncertainty, exchange design, electronic commerce, and transplation. | National Science Foundation | 6/22/2009 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | $1,048,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: It is widely recognized that current wireless spectrum policy has been an impediment to the continued growth of high-capacity wireless networks. This project is investigating the consequences of lifting current restrictions on spectrum allocation and owne | National Science Foundation | 7/25/2009 |
| PURDUE UNIVERSITY | $96,568 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Probabilistic graphical models provide a powerful mechanism for representing and reasoning with uncertain information. These methods have been successfully applied in diverse domains such as bioinformatics, social networks, sensor networks, robotics, and | National Science Foundation | 8/12/2009 |
| OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $334,469 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: One of the main challenges in automatic speech recognition is variability in speaking style, including speaking rate changes and coarticulation. Models of the articulators (such as the lips and tongue) can succinctly represent much of this variability. Mo | National Science Foundation | 6/26/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | $360,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The proposed research seeks to formally and experimentally investigate defensive infrastructure addressing vulnerabilities in open cellular operating systems and telecommunications networks and other wireless networks. This includes the development of in | National Science Foundation | 9/24/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN | $799,998 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Concurrency-related vulnerabilities are pervasive in modern computing systems. Concurrency exploits include time-of-check-to-time-of-use (TOCTTOU) race conditions in file systems, attacks on signal handlers, and evasive malware that uses concurrency to es | National Science Foundation | 7/20/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, THE | $110,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Intellectual merit. The topics to be studied are in the interrelated areas of stahle and unstable homotopy theory, homotopical algebra, and higher category theory. Together, the work will expand our understanding of all of these areas. In stable homotopy | National Science Foundation | 8/30/2009 |
| THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC | $1,998,242 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project supports the acquisition of a plasma-beam-forming instrument to study the first stages of the formation of organic molecules in gas-phase interactions. The instrument will simulate energy levels and densities in interstellar space, and attemp | National Science Foundation | 9/21/2009 |
| CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $306,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award supports theoretical and computational research that will develop new computational algorithms and tools for determining the relationship between the structure of a specific, possibly candidate, material and its properties. The PI will extend | National Science Foundation | 9/14/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA | $431,228 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The objective of this project is to address and improve the poor constraints on gradients in chemical abundances across the galactic disk by carrying out a consistent, state-of-the-art analysis of a statistically-robust sample of several hundred OB stars. | National Science Foundation | 8/13/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA | $249,272 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This work consists of three projects related to the computational analysis of dynamical systems with many degrees of freedom. The first concerns networks of coupled biological oscillators and excitable elements driven by fluctuating external stimuli. The | National Science Foundation | 5/21/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO | $49,998 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The investigator will utilize an integrated modeling approach to improve our understanding of Polar Mesosphere summer echoes (PMSE) from the cold summer Mesopause region, at altitudes between about 80-95 km at high polar latitudes. The interest in improv | National Science Foundation | 8/24/2009 |
| HARVARD COLLEGE, PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF | $545,914 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Title: Research and Education in Physical Mathematics. This research focuses on the coupling of the analytical methods of applied mathematics to numerical computation, in the context of both research and education. It addresses a range of problems in engi | National Science Foundation | 8/16/2009 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $500,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This ARRA award will fund research on multicore computing. It is primary output will be scientific publications, trained students, and software to make application run better on multicore computers. Multicore chips with hundreds of cores will likely | National Science Foundation | 8/15/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY | $249,999 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Research in communication networks has been driven by the need to reliably and efficiently reproduce information; not process it and make decisions. Information is transported without paying attention to its end use and decisions are arrived at only after | National Science Foundation | 6/02/2009 |
| DREXEL UNIVERSITY | $156,319 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project pursues a comprehensive research agenda in the design of topology control algorithms for reduced energy consumption, reduced interference and higher capacity in real wireless environments in the presence of multipath fading, link failures, hi | National Science Foundation | 7/29/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $249,984 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: With a vision to fully realize the potential of next generation communication network infrastructure based on ubiquitous sensor nodes, this research introduces new architectures and strategies, for distributed in-network information processing, which dire | National Science Foundation | 6/02/2009 |
| MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY | $494,364 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The TEAMS project applies digital evolution to the design of robust communication services for cooperating groups of robots. Example applications include teams of robots for disaster relief operations, assisting humans in dangerous occupations, and monito | National Science Foundation | 8/01/2009 |
| SOUTH CAROLINA RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $184,495 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: NeTS: Small: RUI: Dynamic Indoor Location Computing and Benchmarking Project Summary The problems of indoor location computing are not yet fully solved. They still present many challenges and involve phenomena not yet fully understood, and there is yet a | National Science Foundation | 8/28/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO | $476,155 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Computer processor industry has moved fully into the multi-core era to enable continual scaling of performance, but at the cost of increased energy consumption and increased cooling costs due to higher temperatures and thermal gradients. This proposal des | National Science Foundation | 8/07/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA | $422,200 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Securing cyberspace is one of the top priorities in protecting our national infrastructure. As wireless ad hoc networks (WANETs) have been built to access or been parts of the Internet, they become the weakest links which should be secured and protected. | National Science Foundation | 8/27/2009 |
| OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $400,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Deployment is a fundamental issue in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). In many missions today, sensors are deployed deterministically in a planned manner. Instances include airport/harbor monitoring, intruder tracking on government property, etc. This pr | National Science Foundation | 8/27/2009 |
| PURDUE UNIVERSITY | $335,448 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project architects high-performance wireless local area networks (WLANs) by understanding the impact of physical layer attributes on performance and incorporating them in the design and control of next generation WLANs. The research is comprised of t | National Science Foundation | 7/25/2009 |
| CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY | $487,108 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Research is proposed to extend the scale and generality of separation logic and grainless semantics to become applicable to more complex and varied softward systems. Specifically the following will be investigated: Higer-Order Desgn Patterns, Procedures | National Science Foundation | 6/22/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | $499,344 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Communication protocols on the Internet are typically designed first to work, then to interoperate and evolve, and eventually to be resilient to misbehavior and selfishness. Unfortunately, these extensions to protocols often sacrifice backward compatibili | National Science Foundation | 8/01/2009 |
| WILLIAM MARSH RICE UNIVERSITY | $350,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Tremendous growth in hosted services and data sharing are motivating a new generation of storage virtualization technologies that encompass the entire data center or ensembles of data centers. Accurate dynamic resource provisioning is critical to achievin | National Science Foundation | 7/27/2009 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $107,570 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Kalavasos and Maroni Built Environments Project is an interdisciplinary and collaborative effort by Cornell University and Ithaca College to investigate the relationships between architecture, social interaction and social change in Late Bronze Age (c | National Science Foundation | 8/16/2009 |
| MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY, INC | $250,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Senescence, the last developmental phase of annual plants including the world's most important food crops, is characterized by the massive remobilization of nutrients to the developing seeds. Knowledge gained from this project will be applicable to the de | National Science Foundation | 7/29/2009 |
| WILLIAM MARSH RICE UNIVERSITY | $62,362 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Accurate predictions of community and ecosystem responses to climate change will require identifying not only the direct effects of altered climate on species, but also the indirect effects that occur through biotic interactions or as a result of species | National Science Foundation | 7/13/2009 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $491,250 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project investigates exceptionally species-rich but poorly known fossil plant deposits in Patagonia, Argentina, dating from 66-47 million years old. Approximately 80% of more than 500 species so far collected are new to science, and the time interval | National Science Foundation | 8/17/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS | $596,493 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Project Description Two important aims of comparative biology are to identify characteristics that affect the rates at which new species form or become extinct, and those that evolve more frequently in one direction than another. This project investigat | National Science Foundation | 7/27/2009 |
| PURDUE UNIVERSITY | $202,918 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Arctic has been experiencing great warming and ecological changes in recent decades. The last pronounced warm period occurred about 11,000-9,000 years ago in Alaska. The warm and possibly dry climate resulted in unusual ecosystem types and processes, | National Science Foundation | 7/17/2009 |
| BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN CORPORATION | $196,878 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Flowering plants (angiosperms) are the most diverse group of plants on Earth (>280,000 species) and comprise almost all of our agricultural crops, yet little is known about the interplay of biological and environmental factors that have fostered this dive | National Science Foundation | 6/22/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT | $332,306 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The hippocampal formation (hippocampus and entorhinal cortex) is essential for making episodic memories in the mammalian brain. The physical substrate of memory resides in the connections among groups of cells (ensembles) and their dynamic activity (elect | National Science Foundation | 7/20/2009 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $650,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Moderate temperature variations have large effects on various plant processes including defense responses. Often, an elevated growth temperature above the norm renders an otherwise resistant plant susceptible to pathogens. This project aims at revealing t | National Science Foundation | 7/16/2009 |
| WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY | $699,999 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Many animals communicate with members of their own species using specific sounds. These sounds are behaviorally relevant to the animals because they facilitate important behaviors such as maintaining a territory or finding offspring on return from foragin | National Science Foundation | 6/02/2009 |
| THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC | $659,995 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: A major issue in understanding how evolution has shaped social communication is determining how the brains and behavior of communication signal sender and receiver are matched so that signals such as vocalizations convey meaningful social information. Son | National Science Foundation | 6/01/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT | $313,029 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Understanding how animals adapt to environmental changes is an important question, and has implications for many fields. Little is known about early life stages, especially their ability to deal with different environments. Aquatic invertebrate animals ar | National Science Foundation | 8/25/2009 |
| OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $258,045 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Microorganisms are the oldest living inhabitants of planet Earth, spanning some 3.5 billion years, and their importance in shaping the Earth?s soils, oceans, and atmosphere has long been accepted. The biosynthesis of magnetite (Fe3O4) by magnetotactic bac | National Science Foundation | 8/31/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS | $290,403 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Biologically active suspensions, of which a bath of swimming bacteria is a paradigmatic example, are fluid systems whose microstructure is alive and motile. As the system's 'active particles' propel themselves through the surrounding fluid, they produce d | National Science Foundation | 8/30/2009 |
| LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY, THE | $355,865 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: There are relatively few records that reflect large-scale changes in atmospheric circulation during the last glacial-interglacial cycle, and very few with sufficient temporal resolution and/or continuity to resolve the timing and sequence of changes. To u | National Science Foundation | 7/30/2009 |
| WABASH COLLEGE | $217,803 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The chloridoid grasses are a large, economically and ecologically important group of approximately 1500 species in 150 genera that have been classified using the highly variable features of the inflorescence (how flowers are arranged). Despite their impor | National Science Foundation | 8/20/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | $467,861 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The major goal of this research is to understand the molecular genetic basis of adaptation to seasonality in the model organism Drosophila melanogaster. Although this species is native to sub Saharan Africa, a form of reproductive diapause (analogous to h | National Science Foundation | 8/12/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WEST GEORGIA | $82,710 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The research will investigate the ways in which claims to sovereignty in the Arctic rely on territorial imaginaries; explicit and assumed of a place's elemental nature, its geophysical properties, and its geographic location. How do they intersect with s | National Science Foundation | 8/19/2009 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | $366,212 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: For two decades now, virtually all systematic analysis of the contemporary Supreme Court and its members has relied on Harold J. Spaeth's U.S. Supreme Court Judicial Database. This holds for research conducted by social scientists and, increasingly, by le | National Science Foundation | 8/24/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $807,630 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Exposure to stress early in life can have profound effects on physiology and behavior later in life, which may alter the ability of individuals to grow, com | National Science Foundation | 6/26/2009 |
| DREXEL UNIVERSITY | $888,500 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: As the ubiquity of wireless networking leads to an increasing reliance on high-speed data communications, there is clearly an impending need for new high-bandwidth, inexpensive, flexible, and upgradable wireless communications technologies to meet the gro | National Science Foundation | 8/29/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES | $450,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Award title: Analysis of the Cell Biological Mechanisms of Learning and Memory in the Zebrafish. Award description: The purpose of the proposed project will be to develop the zebrafish (Danio rerio) into a useful model system for cellular and molecular s | National Science Foundation | 7/15/2009 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | $201,851 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: With this award from the Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) program, the Chemistry Department at Northwestern University will acquire a gas chromatograph time-of-flight (GC-TOF) mass spectrometer for use in teaching and research. A variety of research p | National Science Foundation | 9/08/2009 |
| NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY | $566,997 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project from North Dakota State University aims for acquisition of a remotely operable analytical field-emission scanning electron microscope (FE-SEM) with energy-dispersive X-ray spectrometry, along with specimen preparation equipment. These instrum | National Science Foundation | 9/14/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF OREGON | $750,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: These funds are for a Dual-Beam Focused Ion Beam (DB-FIB) instrument configured to meet the needs of a wide range of research projects as well as to complement our state-of-the-art transmission electron microscopy (TEM) facility. The main features of a DB | National Science Foundation | 8/26/2009 |
| LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY, THE | $63,392 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: High-resolution geochronology is instrumental in providing evidence for a causal link between continental-scale, short-term volcanic events and environmental crises. We seek support for a three year collaborative research proposal aimed at unraveling the | National Science Foundation | 8/31/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA | $486,418 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Intellectual merit. One of the many inhabitants in the leafy debris of the forest floors is social amoeba. These are ancient organisms that diverged and evolved independently from mammals quite early in evolution. Social amoeba are quite remarkable--they | National Science Foundation | 7/28/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, THE | $463,218 | 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 proposal seeks funding for acquisition of two light stable isotope mass spectrometers. These instruments will be incorporated into the newly renovated s | National Science Foundation | 8/20/2009 |
| BIOO SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION | $500,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The overall objective of this project is to commercialize targeted in vivo delivery agent kits and reagents such that they are readily available to researchers to perform directed RNAi in vivo experiments. Currently, access to this technology is limited o | National Science Foundation | 8/01/2009 |
| TETRAMER TECHNOLOGIES, L.L.C. | $499,996 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project aims to commercialize and expand the application of piezopolymer nanocomposite technology. Piezoelectric materials are an alternative energy source, which interconvert mechanical and electric | National Science Foundation | 7/17/2009 |
| MOTION CONTROL, INC | $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). This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project will combine lighter weight and quiet piezoelectric technology into an innovative Multi-Grip | National Science Foundation | 7/21/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO | $101,051 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project will determine how dopamine (DA) modulates motor control in the European medicinal leech and how DA affects the decision whether the animal will crawl or swim. The contribution of the Kristan laboratory will be to identify neurons that produc | National Science Foundation | 7/29/2009 |
| TEXAS A & M RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $126,789 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Social scientists recently exposed the myth of universal water services coverage in the United States: migrant farm workers, the rural poor, and urban homeless communities face substantial deficiencies in water and sanitation infrastructure. Although inst | National Science Foundation | 8/20/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | $400,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award funds research to conduct laboratory experiments that will compare the outcomes of different auction mechansims. One of the most fruitful areas of theoretical auction research has been the comparison of static auction mechanisms with dynamic au | National Science Foundation | 8/26/2009 |
| MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY | $370,960 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Routines are vital to how work gets done in organizations. Routines are repetitive, recognizable patterns of interdependent actions carried out by multiple actors. These patterns can be flexible or rigid; they can produce efficiency gains or persistent in | National Science Foundation | 8/04/2009 |
| VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE & STATE UNIVERSITY | $183,906 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project is an investigation of Polar Mesospheric Clouds (PMCs) that uses both satellite observations and model simulations to determine the cloud occurrence frequency, variation with latitude and longitude, and the possible response to the lower atmo | National Science Foundation | 8/30/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA CRUZ | $598,297 | 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 funds the development of new software for conducting economic experiments at the LEEPS lab of the University of California at Santa Cruz. The Con | National Science Foundation | 7/30/2009 |
| TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY-TEXARKANA | $299,288 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The project focuses on the development of a new tool for solving pattern recognition problems. This tool is based on the application of an original artificial neural network & multilayer nueral network with multi-valued neurons. This network has a simpl | National Science Foundation | 8/21/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | $150,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: There is tremendous current interest in molecular machines: nanoscale systems that carry out specific tasks of mechanical work, microscopic assembly, or information processing. Alongside rapid progress revealing the details of biological molecular machine | National Science Foundation | 8/25/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA | $349,998 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The objective of this research is to realize efficient infrared electroluminescence using a hybrid organic-inorganic light-emitting device based on emissive group IV semiconductor nanoparticles including Si, Ge and Si1-xGex. Intellectual Merit: Group IV | National Science Foundation | 7/30/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS | $329,999 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: An international collaboration project ?Future Oxides and Channel materials for Ultimate Scaling (FOCUS)? between US, Ireland and Northern Ireland investigators is established. The project will investigate the chemical, structural, and electrical properti | National Science Foundation | 8/20/2009 |
| INDIANA STATE UNIVERSITY | $141,798 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Natural disturbances such as fires and pests are the primary factors influencing landscape patterns and processes over broad parts of the Earth. In the montane forests of the North American west, insect outbreaks and fire constitute the dominant disturban | National Science Foundation | 7/29/2009 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $882,610 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project proposes to investigate and implement a variety of tools for enhancing the very widely used and popular Arxiv.org infrastructure, based on information filters for assisted service discovery and selection, text-mining, information genealogy, a | National Science Foundation | 9/02/2009 |
| OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $920,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Modern networks (like InfiniBand and 10GigE) have capability to provide topology, routing and also network status information at run-time. This leads to the following broad challenge: Can the next generation petascale systems provide topology-aware MPI co | National Science Foundation | 8/13/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS | $432,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project addresses fundamental and challenging questions that are common to robotic systems that build their own maps and solve monitoring tasks. In particular, the work contributes to our general understanding of the interplay between sensing, contro | National Science Foundation | 6/22/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA | $1,197,306 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Recent years have witnessed a dramatic change in the goals and modus operandi of malicious hackers. In particular, hackers have realized the potential monet | National Science Foundation | 9/03/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE | $99,999 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Quantile Regression for Multivariate Time Series Models with Functional Coefficients Quantile regression receives increasing attention in econometrics and statistics for its advantages over mean regression. For multivariate nonlinear time series, there | National Science Foundation | 7/08/2009 |
| PURDUE UNIVERSITY | $448,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The intellectual merit of the proposed research is that, by using a unique combination of experiment and theory, this research will provide a useful understanding of the phase behavior and structures of this new class of mixed polyelectrolyte brush system | National Science Foundation | 5/27/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS | $315,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The crystallographic textures generated by dry sliding wear in metallic elements and alloys are investigated in this project. These crystallographic textures develop in the severely plastically deformed (SPD) nanograin layers that are produced by wear jus | National Science Foundation | 8/04/2009 |
| KENT STATE UNIVERSITY | $277,903 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Liquid crystals are the key material in many modern technologies. As stated by the Nobel Prize winner P.G. de Gennes, ''...the study of liquid crystals is complicated because it involves...a certain sense of vision in three-dimensional space in order to v | National Science Foundation | 8/27/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI SYSTEM | $457,394 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The ability to quantitatively predict RNA structures and stabilities is essential for understanding and rational design of RNA functions. Recent breathtaking new discoveries on the functions of non-coding RNAs have opened a new door for many potential the | National Science Foundation | 6/02/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS | $280,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The research objective of this award is to develop a science-based design methodology that can be extended to create materials undergoing stress-induced phase transformation with superior properties. The work proposes to advance knowledge in design of new | National Science Foundation | 7/27/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN | $380,130 | 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 project is to develop a theoretical framework for monolayer graphene based on nonlinear continuum mechanics and atomistic modeling. Wit | National Science Foundation | 6/22/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY | $239,272 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 'This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).' Although the various pathways of nitrogen exchange at the sediment-water interface are critical to our understanding of ecosystem functions, existing nitr | National Science Foundation | 9/18/2009 |
| CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $275,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 'The recently released Uniform California Earthquake Rupture Forecast by the Working Group on California Earthquake Probabilities concludes that there is a high probability that an earthquake of magnitude 6 or larger will occur on the southern section of | National Science Foundation | 7/09/2009 |
| BROWN UNIVERSITY IN PROVIDENCE IN STATE OF RI AND PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS | $490,984 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Overfishing is emerging as one of the greatest threats to the integrity of marine ecosystems and the societal services they provide. Though the consequences | National Science Foundation | 8/07/2009 |
| PURDUE UNIVERSITY | $175,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Designing materials with cues to induce or enhance adult stem cell differentiation into cartilage cells would improve treatment options for patients suffering from osteoarthritis, a degenerative disease that affects articular cartilage. Healthy cartilage | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| LAFAYETTE COLLEGE | $279,275 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Permeable granular piles (ie., sand compaction piles, stone columns, and rammed aggregate piers) are commonly used to support structures and highway facilities constructed on soft or loose soils subjected to static and seismic loading. Although the use of | National Science Foundation | 7/20/2009 |
| TEXAS A & M UNIVERSITY | $312,147 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project is an effort to study the spatial/temporal variability of methyl bromide and other halocarbons in the upper ocean in response to the implementation of the Montreal Protocol and its amendments. The long-term goals of this work are to understa | National Science Foundation | 6/29/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI | $174,857 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: GEOTRACES is a newly initiated international oceanographic program to identify processes and quantify fluxes that control the distributions of key trace elements and isotopes in the oceans and to establish an understanding of the sensitivity of these dist | National Science Foundation | 9/18/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | $249,865 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Traditionally, collisions in wireless networks have been treated as a challenge, and a lot of research has been devoted on mechanisms that can avoid them. If however the information contained in the packets that collide can be obtained even after they ac | National Science Foundation | 7/24/2009 |
| VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE & STATE UNIVERSITY | $418,616 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This research develops the algorithmic and computational framework needed for a judicious assessment of the observation impact in air quality modeling. Novel algorithms in the framework of model-constrained optimization will allow to account for the data | National Science Foundation | 7/17/2009 |
| SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY INC | $191,774 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The key objective of this research is to combine the strength of the immersed interface method (IIM), hierarchical grids, and the level set method for accurate and and efficient simulation of interface problems. In particular, the investigator and his stu | National Science Foundation | 7/04/2009 |
| TEXAS ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT STATION | $313,175 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Currently, one of the most important research problems encountered in molecular biology, bioinformatics, and systems biology consists in deciphering the mechanisms that lie at the basis of gene regulatory networks. The importance of gene regulatory networ | National Science Foundation | 6/02/2009 |
| SOUTH CAROLINA RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $155,004 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: SHF: Small: Co-Processors for High-Performance Genome Analysis This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This research develops novel techniques for applying the heterogeneous execution model, where | National Science Foundation | 8/07/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | $454,612 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: In programming languages research, there is a strong trend toward extremely PRECISE TYPE SYSTEMS, which can encode and verify extremely detailed assertions about the behavior of programs and the structure of the data they manipulate. However, precision | National Science Foundation | 7/20/2009 |
| PURDUE UNIVERSITY | $376,582 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Goal: to develop computationally efficient and accurate methods for imaging physically significant parameters, using diffusely scattered light. Optical sensing and imaging will continue to become more important for in vivo medicine. In most cases, li | National Science Foundation | 6/01/2009 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $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). Wireless Mesh Networks have emerged as a solution for providing last-mile Internet access. By exploiting advanced communication technologies, they can ac | National Science Foundation | 7/29/2009 |
| PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY | $402,069 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Computer systems such as personal computers and embedded systems are increasingly pervasive. People's everyday lives depend on these systems. Therefore, they must be high-confidence. To boost system performance, hardware and software are often closely cou | National Science Foundation | 7/27/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA | $327,590 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Energy-efficient wireless communication is critical for long-term sensor network applications, such as military surveillance, habitat monitoring and infrastructure protection. To reduce the energy costs of RF listening, a node has to reduce its duty-cycle | National Science Foundation | 8/01/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA | $405,973 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Wax esters are a highly valued class of lipid utilized in cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, as fine lubricants, and as fuels. The study of the pathways utilized by different organisms to produce and accumulate energy storage compounds such as lipids has tremend | National Science Foundation | 10/06/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY | $297,971 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: his proposal will be awarded using funds made available by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This project will operate a small experimental GPU cluster configured for application physicists and applied mathematicians | National Science Foundation | 8/22/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA | $1,000,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Graduate Research Fellowship Program that readies GRFP fellows for teaching and science research in the work force. | National Science Foundation | 8/12/2009 |
| THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC | $1,000,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award provides $40,500 per student per year in support to 8 graduate students to do research in various STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) fields as defined in their individual applications to the Graduate Research Fellows Progra | National Science Foundation | 8/12/2009 |
| LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY, THE | $103,133 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Background: Contact networks shaped by social processes are key drivers of epidemic dynamics. Understanding the structure of network formation is thus crucial to our understanding of how human interactions affect the spread of infectious diseases. Researc | National Science Foundation | 8/13/2009 |
| RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE | $241,714 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: With this EArly-concept Grants for Exploratory Research (EAGER) proposal, the team aims to demonstrate that BOINC can be an efficient platform for a wide class of applications employing a probabilistic inference based on Gibbs sampling. Specifically, the | National Science Foundation | 9/16/2009 |
| SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY | $235,178 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This engineering education award to the Syracuse University will develop an innovative model of attracting veterans to engineering study, predicting how many will be likely to study engineering and customizing the degree program to their needs. The result | National Science Foundation | 8/19/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS | $200,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Increasing levels of congestion in urban traffic networks have significant economic and environmental impact. Supported by dramatic increases in sensing and communication ability, there is a renewed emphasis on developing intelligent transportation system | National Science Foundation | 7/24/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $280,961 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Model-based simulation is a computational approach that enables manufacturing firms to perform virtual prototyping instead of relying exclusively on physical prototyping. Research by the Council on Competitiveness indicates that leveraging cyberinfrastruc | National Science Foundation | 8/31/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | $153,289 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Large-eddy simulation (LES) is one of the most promising numerical techniques for modeling complex turbulent flows in a variety of applications ranging from engineering to geophysical flows. Today, one of the main obstacles to the widespread use of LES to | National Science Foundation | 8/24/2009 |
| HARVARD COLLEGE, PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF | $3,000,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The National Science Foundation provides graduate fellowship support under the Graduate Research Fellowship Program. Potential fellows apply to the National Science Foundation. Outstanding applicants are selected for graduate study leading to research-bas | National Science Foundation | 8/20/2009 |
| CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY | $377,573 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: INVESTIGATION OF NANOSCALE SPIN DYNAMICS AND INTERACTIONS WITH SCANNING PROBES This proposal will investigate the spin torque induced switching and ferromagnetic resonance dynamics of small patterned magnetic tunnel junction devices using scanning probe m | National Science Foundation | 7/30/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT RIVERSIDE | $210,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The objective of this research is to fill the technological 'gap' at the THz spectral region, by developing the first generation of THz graphene-based photodetectors with exceptional sensitivity, dynamic range, response rate and non-cryogenic operating te | National Science Foundation | 7/06/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $149,737 | 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 University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Bacteriology and College of Agricultural and Life Sciences will direct an NSF-funded International Researc | National Science Foundation | 8/17/2009 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $192,725 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Division of Chemistry supports Eric Spitler of Cornell University as an American Competitiveness in Chemistry Fellow. Dr. Spitler will investigate the potential for covalent organic frameworks (COFs) to efficiently generate and separate electron-hole | National Science Foundation | 9/04/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $200,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Division of Chemistry supports Sean T. Roberts of the University of Southern California (USC) as an American Competitiveness in Chemistry Fellow. Dr. Roberts will study the dynamics of energy migration in organic photovoltaic materials using sophistic | National Science Foundation | 9/18/2009 |
| MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY, INC | $1,998,849 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The project focuses on the fundamental engineering necessary to develop the direct production of fuel hydrocarbons from cellulose-based waste feedstock. Gliocladium roseum is a recently isolated endophytic fungus, which produces hydrocarbons. This porject | National Science Foundation | 8/18/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA | $200,000 | 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 will initiate work on the development of methods for two unprecedented reactions: (1) in situ Grignard formation and use in cross-coupling react | National Science Foundation | 7/29/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $60,048 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This research is a one-year preliminary investigation into the feasibility and science of low-temperature plasma ignition in free gas bubbles passing through a column of water. Products of such a discharge include ozone, radicals, electrons, hydrogen pero | National Science Foundation | 8/17/2009 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $68,416 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). There is increasing evidence that iron is important in regulating bulk phytoplankton production in large regions of the world oceans and also influences | National Science Foundation | 7/31/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY | $194,978 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Manufacturing industries will emerge from economic crises with a need for workers who can handle the stresses of continuous improvement in Total Quality Management (TQM) and last-second delivery of parts in Just-in-Time Inventory (JIT) systems. Current kn | National Science Foundation | 6/04/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS | $336,880 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Funds are provided to collect baseline winter information on the overwintering physical and biological characteristics of three important Arctic Seas: The Bering Sea, the Chukchi Sea, and the Beaufort Sea. Understanding of seasonality, and particularly wi | National Science Foundation | 8/26/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA CRUZ | $354,987 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Dr. Romanowsky and his team will measure the motion of stars in the outer regions of elliptical galaxies. A European collaboration has already probed the central regions of such galaxies, finding an abundance of internal structures that are undoubtedly re | National Science Foundation | 8/10/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $308,016 | 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 PI's overarching goal is to investigate short-term Arctic climate predictability and to improve understanding of the mechanisms that give rise to short-te | National Science Foundation | 8/10/2009 |
| MATERIALS FOCUS INC | $100,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project addresses the need for more cost effective, carbon/carbon (C/C) composites with improved properties. Microwave processing will be investigated to enhance densification of C/C composites traditionall | National Science Foundation | 6/01/2009 |
| CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY | $723,789 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: TC: Medium: Collaborative Research: User-Controllable Policy Learning; Research being conducted with this award involves developing and evaluating a new family of user-oriented machine learning technologies to help users refine a wide range of security an | National Science Foundation | 9/22/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES | $600,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project focuses on understanding the principles and methods for the design of green networks at the edge of the Internet. The total power consumption of edge networks is estimated to be quite significant, so even moderate improvements in energy-usage | National Science Foundation | 8/26/2009 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $570,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Great progress has been made in recent years in detecting massive planets orbiting other stars. These exciting discoveries are an important step toward un | National Science Foundation | 9/04/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $600,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project focuses on understanding the principles and methods for the design of green networks at the edge of the Internet. The total power consumption of edge networks is estimated to be quite significant, so even moderate improvements in energy-usage | National Science Foundation | 8/26/2009 |
| ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY | $400,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The fundamental differences between multi-hop networks and point-to-point settings indicate that leveraging MIMO gains in multi-hop networks requires a paradigm shift from high SNR regimes to interference-limited regimes. This project undertakes a broad r | National Science Foundation | 7/24/2009 |
| COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY | $180,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The PI develops methods in function estimation and inference, using shape-restricted regression splines. The work includes three broad areas in estimation and inference. First, generalized multiple regression models is investigated, where the mean respons | National Science Foundation | 7/02/2009 |
| OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY | $278,793 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Probabilistic and decision-theoretic planning, which operates under conditions of uncertainty, has important applications in science and engineering, but such stochastic methods have been under-utilized because these planners do not scale to large, compli | National Science Foundation | 6/22/2009 |
| LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY, THE | $1,014,036 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: A four-pixel prototype heterodyne focal plane array based on Monolithic Millimeter Integrated Circuit technology will be built. The purpose is to demonstrate the feasibility of a scalable focal plane array technology based largely on technology developed | National Science Foundation | 8/19/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN | $96,339 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The principal investigator will pursue several lines of research motivated by three deep open questions in the theory of word-hyperbolic groups. (1) Is every hyperbolic group residuall finite? If so, then in fact word-hyperbolic groups satisfy much strong | National Science Foundation | 6/17/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | $360,001 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Liquid crystals are important both for device and biological application. Liquid crystals are in TVG??s, clocks and many other applications. They are also the phases of the walls of every living creature cell. The interaction of nanoparticles with liquid | National Science Foundation | 8/26/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $1,212,001 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Technical. The goal of this focused research group (FRG) proposal is to achieve an atomic-level understanding of the growth and novel properties of switchable oxide hetero-interfaces, with advanced properties and new functionalities. The idea is to create | National Science Foundation | 6/18/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $393,646 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: NON-TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION: Solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) offer an important new option for converting fuels to electricity with increased efficiency, reduced pollution, and reduced greenhouse gas emissions. The race to reap the commercial and environment | National Science Foundation | 8/05/2009 |
| PURDUE UNIVERSITY | $230,721 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The PI's three-year research program will investigate fundamental aspects of random variables which can be understood within the framework of Wiener spaces. Specifically, in the context of the Wiener process W (standard Brownian motion), if a random varia | National Science Foundation | 7/04/2009 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | $375,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: TECHNICAL SUMMARY A variety of useful functional materials can be produced by adsorption of polymeric molecules, nanoparticles, or a combination of these components to liquid/liquid or liquid/solid interfaces. Applications of these materials require that | National Science Foundation | 6/16/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES | $449,571 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: There has been an abundance of research in recent years on polymeric amphiphiles as drug carriers. These materials, formulated as micelles, vesicles and emulsion droplets, can exhibit greater stability and improved control over release compared to convent | National Science Foundation | 8/06/2009 |
| SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY | $399,364 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The goal of this proposal is to create and understand active cell culture substrates using surface shape memory and, in parallel, to study unique properties of shape memory polymers (SMPs) that promise broad application in biological and biomedical fields | National Science Foundation | 8/12/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $600,357 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Interstellar and intergalactic gas is pervaded by relativistic charged particles known as cosmic rays, which account for a significant fraction of the energy density in the gas. A fluid theory of cosmic rays has been developed in which collisions with tin | National Science Foundation | 6/17/2009 |
| MISSOURI SYSTEM, UNIVERSITY OF | $343,884 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Studying young stellar systems, analogs to the early solar system, is vital to understanding our origins. One component of this growing area of research is to investigate how volatile molecules such as water, CO, and simple organic molecules evolved throu | National Science Foundation | 9/08/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $340,310 | 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 test hypotheses about the responses of marine birds to spatial and temporal variability in ocean processes in the Bering Sea and Aleutian Isla | National Science Foundation | 6/29/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, THE | $433,930 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Dr Strauss and his team will develop a software pipeline to analyze images from large sky surveys in a systematic way to optimize their use for weak-lensing measurements: light from a distant galaxy is bent by the gravity of all the matter that it passes | National Science Foundation | 8/13/2009 |
| SOUTH CAROLINA RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $175,882 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Collaborative Research on Mathematical Constructs for Multiphase Complex Fluids Project Summary The projects in this proposal are to develop mathematical constructs for multiphase complex fluids(MCFs). Complex fluids are distinguished from viscous fluids | National Science Foundation | 6/22/2009 |
| CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $285,147 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 'In this project, Dr. Ben Oppenheimer of the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) and Dr. Lynne Hillenbrand of the California Institute of Technology will conduct a survey of nearby stars to detect planetary companions. They have previously develope | National Science Foundation | 7/13/2009 |
| WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, THE | $74,939 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Intellectual Merit: Heat transfer from crystallizing granitic plutons has fundamental consequences for crustal heat-flow, metamorphism, hydrothermal systems, wall-rock assimilation, duration of volcanic centers, and pluton growth. Current thermal models | National Science Foundation | 8/02/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA | $340,465 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The project investigates the role of deformation in the distribution of titanium (Ti) and other trace elements in quartz over a wide range of temperature and deformation conditions in nature and experiments. The mobility of Ti in deforming quartz is addre | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY | $104,952 | 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, which is a collaboration between researchers at Western Washington University, the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa, and Boston University | National Science Foundation | 6/04/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON | $325,308 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Inorganic, Bioinorganic, and Organometallic Chemistry Program supports the efforts of Professors Frederick M. MacDonnell and Norma S. Tacconi of the University of Texas at Arlington for the investigation of an integrated approach towards the design, t | National Science Foundation | 7/28/2009 |
| CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $483,056 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 'This project is to investigate the role of convection on dynamic stability of the three-dimensional incompressible Euler and Navier-Stokes equations. The main objective is to show that convection together with incompressibility plays an essential role i | National Science Foundation | 5/21/2009 |
| PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE | $299,797 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Under this award, Dr. P. Frank Winkler (Middlebury College) will carry out a program of research with the overarching theme of increasing our understanding of how supernovae explode, how their prodigious energy release affects their host galaxies, and how | National Science Foundation | 8/27/2009 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $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). This is a joint project between the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT- USA) and the University of Bayreuth (UB- Germany). Catalysts have played a c | National Science Foundation | 8/07/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO | $506,157 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The objective of this research is to constrain star formation models with high dynamic range simulations. Current star formation simulations are based on unphysical initial conditions or artificial driving forces that mimic the energy injection from a lar | National Science Foundation | 8/29/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN | $358,520 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Dr. Kumar's research program will address two fundamental issues regarding long duration Gamma Ray Bursters (GRBs). The first is the mechanism for production of the prompt gamma-ray emission and how the energy in an expanding jet is converted into radiati | National Science Foundation | 8/27/2009 |
| SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE | $429,881 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 'A Long Baseline Investigation of Clouds, Haze, and Methane Distributions on Titan.' The primary goals are to retrieve Titan's time-dependent distributions of methane and haze using ground-based, Hubble Space Telescope, and the Cassini Imaging Science Sub | National Science Foundation | 9/08/2009 |
| CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $889,157 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 'Dr. Djorgovski and his team will use the data stream from the NASA-funded Catalina Sky Survey (CSS) to search for transient astronomical objects including flare stars, gamma-ray bursts, and strong microlensing events. That survey uses two wide-field tel | National Science Foundation | 7/31/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE | $261,589 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award will support an investigation of Holocene glacier fluctuations in the Scoresby Sund region of central East Greenland (~70-72-?N, 22-28-?W) along a transect from a coastal maritime setting to the continental conditions adjacent to the Greenland | National Science Foundation | 7/15/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI | $201,310 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award will support an investigation of Holocene glacier fluctuations in the Scoresby Sund region of central East Greenland (~70-72-?-?N, 22-28-?-?W) along a transect from a coastal maritime setting to the continental conditions adjacent to the Greenl | National Science Foundation | 7/15/2009 |
| LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY, THE | $106,270 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The uppermost 200 kilometers of geologically stable regions behaves nearly rigidly over geological times. The temperature in this region, called the lithosphere, gradually increases with depth. The rock near the base of the lithosphere deforms slowly as a | National Science Foundation | 6/05/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA | $301,642 | 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 Arctic is undergoing structural and functional changes that appear to be the result of climate change, including shifts in vegetation distribution, inc | National Science Foundation | 7/16/2009 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $616,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: In this project funded by the Inorganic, Bioinorganic, and Organometallic Chemistry Program of the Chemistry Division, Roald Hoffmann of Cornell University will use theoretical methods to understand structure and bonding in solids under high pressure and | National Science Foundation | 7/06/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI | $228,354 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The role of large strike-slip faults in the evolution of the Himalayan-Tibetan orogen is a topic of continued debate, with considerable focus on the Altyn Tagh and Karakorum fault systems. Two primary families of models have emerged regarding the importan | National Science Foundation | 7/28/2009 |
| HARVARD COLLEGE, PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF | $551,873 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Professor Adam E. Cohen of Harvard University is supported by an award from the Experimental Physical Chemistry Program to develop a trap capable of suppressing the Brownian motion of single small molecules in solution, with molecular diameters as small a | National Science Foundation | 7/06/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $88,885 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The goal of the proposed work is to understand the dynamics of the Earth?s interior and the long-term evolution of our planet. The motion of tectonic plates and the attendant earthquakes are surface expressions of a large-scale flow in the interior, which | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE | $418,590 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Deep earthquakes, some of which are among the largest and most damaging of all earthquakes, have been a paradox since their discovery in the 1920s. The combined increase of confining pressure and temperature with depth inhibits frictional sliding, the pri | National Science Foundation | 9/08/2009 |
| PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY | $492,502 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Organic and Macromolecular Chemistry Program in the Chemistry Division at the National Science Foundation supports Professor Carl C. Wamser of Portland State University. His research proposes to develop the next generation of solar cells that depends | National Science Foundation | 7/30/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA | $249,820 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Nondestructive imaging methods such as X-Ray Computed Tomography (CT) yield high-resolution 3 D representations of pore space and fluid distribution within porous materials. Steadily increasing computational capabilities and easier access to industrial an | National Science Foundation | 8/26/2009 |
| CALVIN COLLEGE | $170,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project will focus on the development of methods for the formation of N-alkyl pyridone containing structures, including amino acid homologues. N-Alkyl pyridones are interesting motifs due to their prevalence in natural products as well as their abili | National Science Foundation | 7/06/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, THE | $271,351 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Traditionally, faults were thought to accommodate slip in one of two ways: Stick-slip motion, in which long periods where the fault is essentially locked are punctuated by brief episodes of rapid slip (earthquakes), and steady creep at plate tectonic rate | National Science Foundation | 6/16/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $131,868 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5) Recently, a new mode of coupled deformation and weak seismic radiation has been discovered in numerous subduction zones globally. Slow slip and weak tremor o | National Science Foundation | 8/02/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS | $432,522 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The glaciers and icefields of coastal southeast Alaska and the adjacent areas of Canada are among the most dynamic on the planet, and they are shedding mass at a dramatic rate due to climate warming and the dynamics of tidewater glacier retreat. Deglaciat | National Science Foundation | 8/19/2009 |
| LOUISIANA TECH UNIVERSITY | $600,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The main thrust of the research program of the Louisiana Tech University TJNAF group involves parity violating electron scattering reactions, a program which will challenge our understanding of nucleon structure, probe the dynamics of QCD symmetry breakin | National Science Foundation | 9/13/2009 |
| VOCOLLECT, INC | $99,380 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I research project aims to develop a wearable computer system with an innovative multimodal input mechanism. The objective of this research is to assess the feasibility, efficiency, and quality of documentatio | National Science Foundation | 6/01/2009 |
| EL-TAS LLC | $100,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This SBIR Phase I research project will demonstrate an opto-fluidic chip-scale bio-sensor system for label-free, high-throughput, real-time monitoring and detection of dynamics of multitude of biochemical reactions in small volumes and at low cost. Numero | National Science Foundation | 6/03/2009 |
| PARABON NANOLABS, INC. | $99,890 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: SBIR Phase 1: Nano-scale Engineering via Grid-scale Computing: Designing, Optimizing and Manufacturing Cancer Therapeutics | National Science Foundation | 6/18/2009 |
| PICOCAL, INC | $99,776 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project develops an inexpensive rugged sensor for explosives detection with ability for wireless data transmission. The sensor can identify analyte by changes in the electronic properties of the sensor mate | National Science Foundation | 7/01/2009 |
| KAVIZA | $100,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project will focus on developing a desktop-specific distributed architecture to provide enterprise grade, highly available and scalable virtual desktop systems that cost no more than a regular PC. In order | National Science Foundation | 7/01/2009 |
| RESENSYS, LLC | $99,700 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I research project addresses distributed structural integrity monitoring of infrastructure systems such as bridges and pipelines. The existing solutions for structural state sensing are expensive, labor intens | National Science Foundation | 7/01/2009 |
| ASTRAION | $100,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I research project is aimed at developing an innovative Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) based warehouse management system utilizing a new patent-pending component that will help to address fundamental sh | National Science Foundation | 6/08/2009 |
| ADVANCED DIAMOND TECHNOLOGIES, INC. | $99,852 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project will investigate UNCD(R), a nanocrystalline from of smooth, thin diamond, as an anti-thrombotic coating for implantable medical devices. One of the largest problem with implantable circulatory assist | National Science Foundation | 6/04/2009 |
| TACO LAB LLC | $100,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project aims to accelerate construction of humane, efficient and intuitive user interface (UI) - a system of small, wireless, gesture-sensitive displays that act in concert as one interface. People can effic | National Science Foundation | 6/04/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $1,012,992 | 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 transmission cycle of many important infectious agents includes not only the hosts but also their environments. After infection of a host with a pathoge | National Science Foundation | 7/14/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA | $220,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This proposal concerns the development of a means for efficient computerized search for combinatorial objectswith a specified isomorph-invariant property. One of themost powerful techniques developed by the computer science and operations research communi | National Science Foundation | 7/31/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF IOWA, THE | $299,986 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Software bugs cost the U.S. economy over $60 billion each year. Promising bug-detection technology depends on high-performance logic solvers for Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT), which employ sophisticated algorithms to check large formulas efficientl | National Science Foundation | 7/15/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, THE | $980,043 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Computational Mathematics has been central to the Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics(PACM) since its inception in the mid 1970s. This tradition is rooted in the traditional, in uential and powerful fields of computational fluid dynamics, con | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | $182,200 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Presence of a well structured market is necessary for efficient and flexible use of licensed spectrum bands, and for fair pricing of spectrum usage. The goal of this project is to design radio spectrum markets that allow trading of spectral resources no | National Science Foundation | 8/29/2009 |
| TEXAS A & M RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $435,757 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Numerical methods are the future of computation in algebraic geometry. The reason for this is that increases in computing power will be due to massive parallelization and symbolic algorithms do not appear to be parallelizable while numerical algorithms ar | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA | $269,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Historical static spectrum assignment has led to a critical spectrum shortage. While new prominent wireless technologies starve for spectrum, large chunks | National Science Foundation | 8/01/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE | $499,995 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Non-Linear Processing and Coding for Compressive Sensing with Aplications in Imaging:-? Recently, the new field of compressive sensing (CS) has emerged with the promise to revolutionize digital processing broadly. Surprisingly, Nyquist-rate sampling, w | National Science Foundation | 6/01/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN | $499,991 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Opportunistic communication leverages communication opportunities arising by chance to provide significant performance benefit or even enable communication where it would be impossible otherwise. This project develops algorithms, techniques, and protocols | National Science Foundation | 8/01/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA | $382,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Robotic Sensor Networks (RSNs) are finding increasing use in critical applications such as surveillance, environmental monitoring, emergency response and search-and-rescue. With recent advances in embedded technologies, devices that can be used as RSN uni | National Science Foundation | 8/13/2009 |
| THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC | $250,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Wireless Mesh Networks have emerged as a solution for providing last-mile Internet access. By exploiting advanced communication technologies, they can achieve very high rates. However, effectively controlling these networks, especially in the context of a | National Science Foundation | 7/29/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA | $374,999 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Increasingly, the Internet is used to distribute content on massive scale. Massive content distribution causes shortage of network capacity, increases costs of service providers, and impairs quality of user experience. This project develops advanced conte | National Science Foundation | 7/24/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $499,998 | 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 the 21st century, the dominant computing platform has shifted to multicore chips that implement cache-coherent shared memory and run multi-threaded app | National Science Foundation | 7/30/2009 |
| GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION | $450,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: A fundamentally different approach for circuit design that has recently gaining popularity is sub-threshold circuits, where the power supply is set below the transistor threshold voltage to obtain energy savings when speed is not the primary constraint. I | National Science Foundation | 9/01/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN | $399,971 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The performance of network users' best effort flows, e.g., file transfer delays and web browsing responsiveness, depends on the resources they are allocated over time. When varying traffic loads share these resources and/or wireless nodes' transmission ca | National Science Foundation | 7/24/2009 |
| PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE | $245,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project provides challenging test data and benchmarks designed to advance stereo vision methods to a level of practical relevance. It aims to bridge the gap between the sophisticated but brittle methods that perform best on current benchmarks and the | National Science Foundation | 7/10/2009 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | $500,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Much of the Internet's growth occurs in domains beyond the reach of current measurement techniques and platforms, such as behind NAT boxes and firewalls or in regions of the Internet not exposed by public BGP feeds. This work is motivated by the observati | National Science Foundation | 7/20/2009 |
| FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE | $237,549 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Our central hypothesis is that the slow electrical bursting oscillations and episodic bursting that are often exhibited by pancreatic islets, and that have the same period as insulin oscillations observed in vivo, are driven by oscillations in metabolism. | National Science Foundation | 8/25/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY | $186,859 | 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 models decision-making and learning in complex environments. One would expect most decision makers to be aware of such complexity and to realiz | National Science Foundation | 8/19/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $519,443 | 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 support of animals in ecosystems ultimately comes from two sources: primary production within an ecosystem (e.g. newly grown plant material) or primary | National Science Foundation | 7/14/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $326,267 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Animal cells divide themselves by assembling a contractile ring of actin myosin around the cell equator which constricts the cell surface between duplicated chromosome sets at the end of mitosis. Classical experiments suggest that cells 'know' where to bu | National Science Foundation | 7/20/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA CRUZ | $333,992 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Reforestation of tropical landscapes that were cleared of trees is a goal that has important implications for conservation biology, for developing diverse l | National Science Foundation | 6/23/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE | $471,102 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Vibrio parahaemolyticus as a model system to determine bacterial adaptation to changes in the marine coastal ecosystem | National Science Foundation | 8/14/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA | $468,625 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Understanding how species form (speciation) is a fundamental area of study in the fields of taxonomy and evolution, and is the basis of all studies in comparative biology. However, most current theories of speciation are based upon organisms that reproduc | National Science Foundation | 7/15/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF UTAH, THE | $985,070 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Mammals, including humans, have extremely high genetic diversity among the genes involved in the immune system. The resulting differences among individuals | National Science Foundation | 6/11/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | $299,372 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The project addresses fundamental research issues in a topical area of electronic photonic materials science having technological relevance. Lowering the cost barrier associated with Ge substrates is a key element in making advanced III V photovoltaics as | National Science Foundation | 6/18/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT RIVERSIDE | $119,736 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Advanced computing and data acquisition technologies have made possible the gathering of large multivariate data sets in many fields. Efficient multivariate statistical analysis tools for such data sets are highly sought after. Among the existing multivar | National Science Foundation | 7/04/2009 |
| COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY | $324,800 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Reducing the size of a magnetic material down to sub-micrometer or nanometer dimensions changes the energetics of the system and leads to vastly different magnetic landscapes and dynamic excitations that are important for a wide range of present and futur | National Science Foundation | 8/26/2009 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | $460,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: TECHNICAL SUMMARY This award supports theoretical research that will study pattern formation in fibers and in self-assembled gels with charged units and with competing interactions. Nanopatterns in gels of charged chains with self-attracting interactions | National Science Foundation | 7/13/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF IOWA, THE | $330,846 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Dr. Cornelia Lang (University of Iowa) will carry out an observational program to study the impact of the young massive stellar population on the interstellar medium in the central regions of the Milky Way galaxy. The physical properties of this region ar | National Science Foundation | 8/26/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $140,082 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The project is aimed at obtaining constructive proofs of existence of various particular solutions of the multi-dimensional compressible Euler and potential flow equations. Constructive proofs provide not only mathematical rigor, but also detailed informa | National Science Foundation | 6/08/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA | $312,216 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Dr Zabludoff will study Lyman-alpha blobs, large clouds of glowing gas in the distant Universe that may represent the adolescence of today's brightest galaxies. She and her team will complete two complementary, blind surveys to search for Lyman-alpha blob | National Science Foundation | 8/10/2009 |
| THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC | $302,302 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Interactions between the interstellar medium (ISM) of a disk galaxy and the intracluster medium (ICM) of a massive cluster of galaxies will strip gas from infalling galaxies and can lead to color and morphological changes. These interactions can be used a | National Science Foundation | 9/01/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA | $182,898 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: the Navier-Stokes equations, which evolve on its G?fluidG? domain, coupled to the Lam+? system of elasticity, which evolves on its G??solidG? domain. The coupling between the two disparate fluid and solid dynamics takes place between the boundary interfac | National Science Foundation | 8/02/2009 |
| RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY | $342,401 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Volcanism in the Arctic SysTem (VAST) project is investigating the effects of both tropical and Arctic volcanic eruptions on climate change in the Arctic. New paleoclimatic records are being developed and global climate models are being used to simula | National Science Foundation | 8/03/2009 |
| VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE & STATE UNIVERSITY | $456,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Materials World Network for Structure-response Relations of Advanced Diagnostic Tools comprises a research and education partnership among the Macromolecules and Interfaces Institute at Virginia Tech, the School of Physics at the University of Western | National Science Foundation | 7/19/2009 |
| SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE | $280,781 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 'Exploring the Collisional and Dynamical Evolution of Asteroids and Comets.' We propose to model the collisional and dynamical evolution of the asteroid belt, Hilda, and Trojan asteroid populations to probe how smal bodies have been shaped and scattered | National Science Foundation | 9/14/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA | $360,000 | 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 Award by the Solid State Materials Chemistry program and the Office of Special Programs in the Division of Materials Research to | National Science Foundation | 8/08/2009 |
| COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY | $771,369 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The goal of this project is to determine how plants, microbes and soil invertebrates interact to drive changes in soil organic matter and carbon sequestration with ambient and increased soil nutrient availability in the dominant upland arctic tundra ecosy | National Science Foundation | 8/19/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO | $389,800 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Arctic region is experiencing a period of rapid warming, unprecedented in history. Long-term data sets are rare, but key to understanding recent change in Arctic ecosystems. In 1971, NSF funded the International Biome Projects (IBP) - Tundra Biome Pro | National Science Foundation | 8/25/2009 |
| TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY SYSTEM | $487,493 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 'This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).' Professor Carol Korzeniewski of Texas Tech University is supported by the Analytical and Surface Chemistry Program in the Division of Chemistry to investi | National Science Foundation | 7/10/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, THE | $500,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This research focuses on combining foundational and lightweight formal methods to verify the safety, security, and dependability of large-scale software systems. Foundational approaches (to formal methods) emphasize expressiveness and generality, but t | National Science Foundation | 7/01/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, THE | $600,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Emily Carter of Princeton University is supported by an award from the Theoretical and Computational Chemistry Program to pursue the development of accurate and efficient ab initio methods for application to very large molecules. Her goal is to 1) achieve | National Science Foundation | 6/19/2009 |
| GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION | $400,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Obtaining physiological/behavioral data from human subjects in their natural environments is essential to conducting ecologically valid social and behavioral research. While several body area wireless sensor network (BAWSN) systems exist today for physiol | National Science Foundation | 8/26/2009 |
| HARVARD COLLEGE, PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF | $570,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Trustworthy Computing (TC): Large: Collaborative Research: Combining Foundational and Light weight Formal Methods to Build Certifiably Dependable Software. This National Science Foundation award is a part of a collaborative research with Princeton Univers | National Science Foundation | 7/01/2009 |
| DICKINSON COLLEGE | $184,920 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 'This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).' One of the greatest challenges for modern science is trying to predict the future implications of global climate change. While significant progress is be | National Science Foundation | 6/21/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA | $362,483 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Quantifying the Effects of Large-Scale Vegetation Change on Coupled Water, Carbon and Nutrient Cycles: Beetle Kill in Western Montane Forest We are quantifying how rapid, extensive changes in forest structure and composition associated with Mountain Pine | National Science Foundation | 9/18/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $108,558 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Longmen-Shan Fault (LSF) located at the east margin of the Tibetan Plateau in western China is featured by active tectonics. It was broken in total length of 300 km with the maximum slip larger than 9 m in the devastating M8 Wenchuan earthquake on May | National Science Foundation | 8/07/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $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). This project, supported by the Experimental Physical Chemistry Program and conducted in the laboratory of Professor F. Fleming Crim at the University of Wisc | National Science Foundation | 7/19/2009 |
| CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY (INC) | $255,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This research award in the inorganic, Bioinorganic and Organometallic Chemistry program supports chemistry by Professor Bradley D. Fahlman at Central Michigan University to develop new materials for next-generation nonvolatile memory devices (e.g., portab | National Science Foundation | 7/07/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | $249,676 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Intellectual merit - Fluid flow in subduction zones has broad affects the generation of arc magmas, the formation of continental crust, the geochemical evolution of the mantle, and the generation of Benioff zone seismicity. Yet many outstanding questions | National Science Foundation | 7/19/2009 |
| HARVARD COLLEGE, PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF | $194,423 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Iodine-Xenon and Plutonium-Uranium-Xenon radioactive decay systems are the only ones that can provide constraints on the timing and rates of degassing from the Earth's mantle during the first couple hundred million years of the Earth's history. Dissec | National Science Foundation | 6/05/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA | $416,456 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is the single most important experimental technique used by chemists to deduce the structure of new organic compounds. It capitalizes on the fact that certain types of atomic nuclei, most importantly hydrogen | National Science Foundation | 6/12/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA | $361,394 | 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 12 May 2008 Mw 7.9 Wenchuan, China earthquake is the largest intraplate earthquake recorded by modern geophysical observations. It ruptured unilaterally | National Science Foundation | 6/16/2009 |
| GENERAL SENTIMENT INC. | $100,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Phase I Small Business Innovation Research project investigated a news/blog analysis system to support the commercialization of a product for market research and trends analysis. By performing natural language / statistical analysis on roughly 2,000 U | National Science Foundation | 6/05/2009 |
| SIOUX MANUFACTURING CORPORATION | $100,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project applies tomaterial & process development of products from scrap (recycled) thermoplastic composite materials with microballoon fillers. | National Science Foundation | 6/01/2009 |
| ATRP SOLUTIONS, INC. | $94,944 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project is directed towards adaptation of atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) to industrial scale production. ATRP is among the most powerful controlled/living radical polymerization techniques, and | National Science Foundation | 6/08/2009 |
| SENSOR ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY, INC. | $99,499 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project will develop innovative water disinfection unit based on solid state UV LED lamps for compact point-of-use and point-of-entry water purification reactors. Accomplishment of the proposed resear | National Science Foundation | 5/21/2009 |
| KSPLICE, INC. | $100,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project aims to demonstrate the feasibility of fundamental improvements to OS update technology. These improvements would allow system administrators to apply OS patches faster than current practice, which w | National Science Foundation | 6/09/2009 |
| SYZYGY MEMORY PLASTICS CORP., THE | $99,991 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project aims to develop a new material and methodology to design comfortable, custom earpieces, based on shape-memory polymers. The work focuses on these adaptive self-adjusting materials that conform to com | National Science Foundation | 6/03/2009 |
| SELDON TECHNOLOGIES, INC | $99,853 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project will develop a novel membrane based on functionalized multi-walled carbon nanotubes. This membrane will radically outperform conventional membranes used for water separation from ultra-low sulfur di | National Science Foundation | 6/01/2009 |
| ATHENA ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES INC | $100,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The production and purification of proteins remains a rate-limiting step for basic and applied research as well as for commercial production. The general approach for the production of protein requires biomass production in multiple liters of medium foll | National Science Foundation | 6/01/2009 |
| MISERWARE INC | $100,000 | 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 Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project will develop and commercialize an intelligent software power management solution for multicore-based | National Science Foundation | 6/03/2009 |
| CREATIVE ELECTRON INC. | $99,998 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project will develop and characterize lead-free adhesives with very high thermal and electrical conductivity for wide bandgap semiconductor packaging. The company will build on its IP portfolio of fluxing ad | National Science Foundation | 7/01/2009 |
| TRANSCEND INNOVATION GROUP | $99,824 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This SBIR Phase I project will create a content and delivery platform to facilitate interactive learning for career education ? addressing the application in support of teaching and/or learning subtopic. The project will create a prototype of the Career S | National Science Foundation | 6/21/2009 |
| MYTEK, LLC | $100,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project is to develop a tunable, low power miniaturized laser which can be applied to a wide variety of sensing applications. The laser will use thermal tuning and is expected to provide a tuning range of > | National Science Foundation | 6/03/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT | $545,346 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Photosynthetic organisms contain protective mechanisms that allow them to dissipate excess solar energy not needed for photosynthesis. This protective process is called nonphotochemical quenching (NPQ). Among its critical components are xanthophyll pigmen | National Science Foundation | 7/20/2009 |
| OCEAN DISCOVERY INSTITUTE | $272,400 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Opportunities for Enhancing Diversity in Geosciences (OEDG) initiative is a collaborative effort between the University of San Diego and Ocean Discovery Institute that builds on a five year pilot study. The pilot project, facilitated by the Ocean Dis | National Science Foundation | 9/10/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF THE COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES | $253,981 | 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 investigator and her colleagues consider a novel high order adaptive semi-Lagrangian approach for kinetic plasma simulations. The major challenge of k | National Science Foundation | 7/10/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON SYSTEM | $339,023 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This grant supports research in adapting and optimizing Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods to compute Bayesian models on large data sets resident on secondary storage, exploiting database systems techniques. The work will seek to optimize computations, pres | National Science Foundation | 7/30/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $141,001 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This proposal is awarded using funds made available by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The research objective is the development of new discretization methods for complex models driven by partial differential equatio | National Science Foundation | 9/14/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN | $58,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This collaborative research project is being undertaken by Dr. David L. Bourell, University of Texas at Austin, and Dr. Khalid M. Elghany, Central Metallurgical R&D Institute, Egypt, to evaluate and optimize freeform fabrication processes for porous metal | National Science Foundation | 9/11/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO | $218,748 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The scaling of integrated circuits (ICs) into the nanometer regime has thrown up new challenges for designers, foremost among which are variations in the characteristics of IC components. Variations threaten to diminish the fundamental benefits of technol | National Science Foundation | 8/12/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA | $322,746 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Numerous species are expected to modify their geographical range in response to climate change. Predicting the extent and speed with which such range changes will occur is difficult because we currently have a poor understanding of the mechanisms that ena | National Science Foundation | 7/27/2009 |
| MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY | $449,499 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The wolves and moose of Isle Royale National Park, Michigan, have been studied for 50 years and represent the longest predator-prey study in the world. The project's objectives address three of the most fundamental questions in all of ecology: (i) how and | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME DU LAC | $449,895 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Grasshopper populations, their enemies (predators and parasites), their food plants and nutrient availability for plants have been studied since 1982 in a Montana Palouse prairie ecosystem. Grasshoppers are the dominant herbivore in this ecosystem and str | National Science Foundation | 8/01/2009 |
| WILLIAM MARSH RICE UNIVERSITY | $100,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Many of the mineral resources necessary for modern society are found in the continental crust, particularly in the form of ores. Ore formation requires trace metals from the crust to be scavenged, redistributed and then re-deposited, processes which in so | National Science Foundation | 6/15/2009 |
| WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY | $226,993 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Understanding how species form (speciation) is a fundamental area of study in the fields of taxonomy and evolution, and is the basis of all studies in comparative biology. However, most current theories of speciation are based upon organisms that reproduc | National Science Foundation | 7/15/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA CRUZ | $489,029 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Growing attention has turned to the importance of bridging more effectively from biodiversity-ecosystem functioning research to studies of the ongoing and potential consequences of actual species losses. The effects of non-random plant species declines an | National Science Foundation | 8/17/2009 |
| VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE & STATE UNIVERSITY | $227,555 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Quantitative integration of stratigraphic and paleontological data derived from sedimentary rocks can enhance informative value of both the geological and fossil records. This approach will be applied to the depositional system (sedimentary basin) of the | National Science Foundation | 7/26/2009 |
| OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $450,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: During normal animal development cells communicate with each other using signaling molecules. This ensures the correct body pattern is made and key features such as limbs are properly formed. In this project, the fruit fly will be used as a model system | National Science Foundation | 7/20/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON SYSTEM | $529,048 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The majority of biological processes such as differentiation, growth, development and transformation are under tight control of cellular signaling systems. But detailed mechanisms of how cells decide when and where to execute these processes remains one o | National Science Foundation | 7/20/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA | $195,015 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This grant provides partial salary support for a laboratory technician for the University of Arizona Center for Environmental Physics and Mineralogy (CEPM) over a three year period. The (CEPM) houses analytical equipment for research in environmental phys | National Science Foundation | 9/25/2009 |
| WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY | $130,828 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award will fund acquisition and installation of a new inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer (ICPMS) instrument in the GeoAnalytical Lab at Washington State University (WSU). It will replace a 12 year old instrument that is now obsolete. The IC | National Science Foundation | 8/31/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA | $102,370 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The award was to purchase a new FTIR spectrometer for use in the research laboratories of Marc Hirschmann and David Kohlstedt. | National Science Foundation | 8/24/2009 |
| INTEGRATED PHOTONICS INC. | $150,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: STTR Phase I: Development of Materials for Optical Band Gaps in Magneto-Photonic Crystals for Switching and Biosensor Applications | National Science Foundation | 6/10/2009 |
| MESA PHOTONICS, LLC | $150,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project will lead to the development of low cost ultrafast lasers that can address lucrative emerging opportunities in the bioinstrumentation market. Ultrafast lasers are finding commercial applications in areas ranging from corrective eye surgery ( | National Science Foundation | 6/23/2009 |
| FIBRON TECHNOLOGIES, INC. | $150,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I project seeks to develop polyaniline nanofibers into a biologically responsive multi-functional material for use as a tool for the rapid and inexpensive diagnosis of urinary tract infections (UTIs) th | National Science Foundation | 6/18/2009 |
| DREXEL UNIVERSITY | $149,814 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project aims to establish a multi-year collaboration between researchers at Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and the Czech Technical University (CTU) in Prague, Czech Republic. The technical foci of the collaboration is the design, imp | National Science Foundation | 8/17/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | $300,156 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Complex fluids are a broad class of materials that are usually homogeneous at the macroscopic scale and disordered at the microscopic scale, but possess structure at an intermediate scale (e.g., colloids, blood, and polymers). The rheology and bulk flow b | National Science Foundation | 7/07/2009 |
| ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY | $325,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The interaction of thermal radiation with nanofluids, which are nanoscale colloidal suspensions, has not been extensively examined. This research deals with fundamental thermal transport phenomena that occur when sufficiently intense thermal radiation is | National Science Foundation | 8/11/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS - PAN AMERICAN | $768,552 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The University of Texas Pan American URM program will engage undergraduate students from a Hispanic Serving Institution in cohort research and mentoring to increase the participation of underrepresented minorities in science. The URM program will combine | National Science Foundation | 8/21/2009 |
| NORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC. | $897,690 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The project is a collaborative effort that exists to increase the number and effectiveness of high school mathematics teachers in the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky region's urban core. | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| ST JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY | $748,182 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Saint Joseph's University (SJU) is increasing the number of highly qualified math and science secondary school teachers who work in high-need school distric | National Science Foundation | 6/16/2009 |
| THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC | $200,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Division of Chemistry supports Alon Gorodetsky of Columbia University as an American Competitiveness in Chemistry Fellow. Dr. Gorodetsky will develop chemically modified carbon nanotubes (with attached DNA) to be used in field effect transistors. The | National Science Foundation | 9/06/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA CRUZ | $200,000 | 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 Division of Chemistry supports Debraj Ghosh of the University of California - Santa Cruz as an American Competitiveness in Chemistry Fellow. Dr. Ghosh w | National Science Foundation | 9/06/2009 |
| ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY | $521,875 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Microbial habitats in extreme environments and organic transformations at ridge-crest hydrothermal systems are receiving increased attention as the novel properties of microbes that live in these environments become increasingly important in terms of biop | National Science Foundation | 8/06/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY | $1,984,322 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Intellectual Merit: The utilization of lignin as a resource for the production of biofuels is presently hampered by its resistance to chemical and biological manipulation, and consequently, by a lack of selective and cost-efficient processes for its conv | National Science Foundation | 8/19/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $129,213 | 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 the influence of weather and sea ice noise on polar climates using a modeling technique that has been applied extensively to st | National Science Foundation | 8/24/2009 |
| TEXAS ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT STATION | $220,825 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 'Wildfires cause great destruction including the loss of life and damage to property, infrastructure and the environment. The complexity of wildfire management arises from the uncertain dynamic interactions and dependencies among multiple system component | National Science Foundation | 9/18/2009 |
| BARD COLLEGE | $200,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Babesiosis is a rapidly emerging disease in the U.S., Europe, and Asia that is caused by infection with a protozoan parasite. The parasite, Babesia microti, | National Science Foundation | 7/02/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, THE | $1,303,234 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Mass spectrometry technology has the potential to revolutionize the biological sciences by enabling quantitative and comprehensive assessment of proteins (proteomics) and metabolites (metabolomics). A major challenge, however, is converting raw mass spect | National Science Foundation | 8/28/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA | $483,634 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Wildfires cause great destruction including the loss of life and damage to property, infrastructure and the environment. The complexity of wildfire management arises from the uncertain dynamic interactions and dependencies among multiple system components | National Science Foundation | 9/18/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME DU LAC | $1,450,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: A few years ago, no one would have believed that a global team of volunteers could write a major operating system kernel or a comprehensive encyclopedia. But today, Linux and Wikipedia serve as evidence that loosely organized teams can create and maintain | National Science Foundation | 8/31/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN | $2,002,463 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Simplified ice sheet models in current use are incapable of accounting for the dynamics of flow transitions that are key to how ice sheets respond to environmental change. It is these regions that are now rapidly changing. The concern is that currently st | National Science Foundation | 8/31/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA | $1,950,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Recent advances in imaging have enabled multimodal/multiscale observations of complex natural systems. Annotating, harvesting, extracting, and correlating t | National Science Foundation | 8/25/2009 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $388,994 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The research objective of this award is to consider how people manage their attention in multi-cultural collaborations between geographically distributed individuals. G?Virtual organizationsG?-- aggregations of individuals, facilities and resources that s | National Science Foundation | 9/03/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN | $217,159 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project will investigate a novel method for producing large amounts of high-quality DNA sequence data for phylogenomic applications. The project will extend a strategy called microarray-based genome selection (MGS), which is capable of enriching a DN | National Science Foundation | 7/29/2009 |
| CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY | $169,325 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Project-based design organizing is fundamental to the contemporary relentless pursuit of innovation. Design organizations inevitably have virtual components | National Science Foundation | 9/14/2009 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $450,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: BROADER IMPACTS: Successful implementation of the project will result in novel nanostructure design tools accessible to a wide range of material scientists and macromolecular engineers. Student training on this project is multidisciplinary, requiring a ra | National Science Foundation | 6/05/2009 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $400,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Dimension reduction plays an essential role in reducing the complexity of data so that the most useful information in data can be successfully extracted. Most existing dimension reduction methods are developed under the assumption that the data are indepe | National Science Foundation | 6/12/2009 |
| RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY | $95,316 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award provides funds to conduct workshops aimed at improving the broader impacts efforts of scientists. Through professional development workshops, scientist-graduate student teams will produce interactive materials based on the ?Ocean Literacy? and | National Science Foundation | 9/10/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES | $2,500,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Teachers are Key addresses a central aspect of the crisis in computer science (CS) education: the need for quality high school CS teachers and how to build effective supports and professional development system at a local and national level for these teac | National Science Foundation | 8/22/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $886,355 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This proposal will be awarded using funds made available by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The proposal requests numerous Shipboard Scientific Support (SSSE) items for the vessels operated by the University of Washi | National Science Foundation | 8/07/2009 |
| HARVARD COLLEGE, PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF | $299,983 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: In the nematode C. elegans, experimentally introduced double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) mediates specific gene silencing that spreads between cells and tissues of the animal (and can even be transmitted to progeny). This remarkable spreading phenomenon is known | National Science Foundation | 7/30/2009 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | $1,000,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This proposal is a request to support Graduate Research Fellowships | National Science Foundation | 8/12/2009 |
| NEVADA SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION | $29,715 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Project Abstract: The Gleason Controlled Burn, to be conducted near Ely, Nevada, provides an opportunity to quantify the effects of fire on soil structure, and to test hypotheses on how fire-induced changes in soil structure can lead to coupled water and | National Science Foundation | 9/15/2009 |
| THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC | $57,005 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The objective of this research is to investigate novel architectures for the realization of ultra-low-power, integrated, pulse-based, ultra-wideband radar and imaging sensors. The approach is to exploit compressive sensing for high-speed baseband processi | National Science Foundation | 8/27/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, THE | $1,000,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Graduate Research Fellowship Program | National Science Foundation | 8/13/2009 |
| VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE & STATE UNIVERSITY | $394,805 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Ruminants, like cows and sheep, use specialized stomachs containing fermenting bacteria to digest plant material. Some non-ruminant animals, such as kangaroos and langur monkeys, also have specialized stomachs containing fermenting bacteria. Bacteria pres | National Science Foundation | 6/06/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS | $245,320 | 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 |
| NUFORM MATERIALS, LLC | $499,376 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)Phase II project seeks to overcome the principal impediments of the inconsistent quality of metal matrix composite (MMC) materials from fly ash and aluminum. This project utilizes highly processed ash derived | National Science Foundation | 7/14/2009 |
| MAXWELL SENSORS INC. | $500,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The goal of the project is to develop a smart sensor network integrated with Zero-Power Radio Frequency Identification-Sensing Tags (FRID-ST) that combines the technology of a digital MEMS sensor and a reconfigurable RF antenna for blood bag application. | National Science Foundation | 8/17/2009 |
| PLANT SENSORY SYSTEMS, LLC | $516,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project addresses the need for crops with increased yield. Yield is directly related to nitrogen (N) utilization and is dramatically affected by climate. Plant Sensory Systems has developed a genetic | National Science Foundation | 8/06/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | $659,596 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Intellectual merit. In order for multicellular organisms to function properly, individual cells within the organism must be able to share information. One way this can happen in plants is through the directed transport of transcription factors between cel | National Science Foundation | 7/20/2009 |
| PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY | $182,308 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Scientists are just beginning to discover the extent to which fluorescence occurs in organisms in nature, and what roles fluorescence may play in influencing an organism's survival. Our knowledge has been limited in part because humans can see only a port | National Science Foundation | 7/02/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO | $1,499,098 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The objective of this research project is to achieve fundamental advances in software technology that will enable building cyber-physical systems to allow citizens to see the environmental and health impacts of their daily activities through a citizen-dri | National Science Foundation | 8/15/2009 |
| TOPASOL LLC | $474,043 | 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 II project seeks to reduce the cost and risk of manufacturing nanoparticle/resin blends for coatings. | National Science Foundation | 7/17/2009 |
| OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $330,609 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: It is widely believed that decisions arrived at by groups of decision makers are superior to those made by individuals, hence the common aphorism that 'two heads are better than one.' In prior research the Principal Investigators found that this is the c | National Science Foundation | 6/25/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, THE | $495,090 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Development scholars and policy planners regard cooperative producer organizations as a core component of poverty reduction strategies, but little is known about the social dynamics that make some of these organizations more successful than others. This r | National Science Foundation | 8/05/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA | $328,908 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The objective of this research is to develop a fabrication technique for producing complicated gradient-index electromagnetic components in the millimeter-wave and terahertz spectral bands. The approach is to modify existing rapid-prototyping hardware and | National Science Foundation | 8/21/2009 |
| PURDUE UNIVERSITY | $270,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The objective of this research is to develop a novel nanomechanical sensor with single molecule detection sensitivity. The approach is to form a hybrid cantilever with a functional virus at its tip. The cantilever/virus hybrid structure will be used as a | National Science Foundation | 8/13/2009 |
| PURDUE UNIVERSITY | $409,247 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The objective of this program is to devise and demonstrate architectures incorporating mode-evolution based, integrated polarization splitter and rotator devices in silicon photonics, in order to enable polarization sensing and manipulation functionalitie | National Science Foundation | 8/28/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES | $681,108 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The purpose of this research is to test a set of interrelated hypotheses about the psychosocial benefits of racial/ethnic diversity in urban middle schools. It is hypothesized that greater diversity can benefit students' mental health, intergroup attitud | National Science Foundation | 9/01/2009 |
| FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE | $173,130 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Our team of undergraduate coders has completed all of the coding. We have conducted two inter rater reliability analysis, and I have submitted the final report to the National Science Foundation. The grant was a success and we will be cleaning and then an | National Science Foundation | 8/31/2009 |
| PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY | $108,587 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Pepperdine University has acquired a Cell Lab Quanta SC Flow Cytometer system. The flow cytometer instrument will be utilized in our summer undergraduate research programs and Honor's research program in original, student generated research projects. This | National Science Foundation | 8/07/2009 |
| TOWSON UNIVERSITY | $116,610 | 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. Specifica | National Science Foundation | 8/19/2009 |
| VUELOGIC, LLC | $500,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project involves the examination of consumer consumption behavior across multiple on-line domains to predict those items to be most likely consumed in the next interchange and the terms under which t | National Science Foundation | 7/27/2009 |
| MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY | $309,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Shifts in gene expression drive differentiation of tissues and the evolution of new morphologies in multicellular organisms. However, studies linking the evolution of gene expression and the evolution of development are difficult in complex organisms. Fun | National Science Foundation | 8/10/2009 |
| CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA (THE) | $1,023,621 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Large DNA viruses, bacterial viruses ('bacteriophages' or 'phages') and eukaryotic viruses such as herpes viruses, package the viral genome inside a protein shell (capsid). The bacteriophage T4, which infects E. coli, packages a 171-kb 56 micrometer long | National Science Foundation | 6/02/2009 |
| GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION | $446,388 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Soil, sediment and subsurface environments harbor a tremendous diversity of microbes, and a major research goal is to better understand how such complex systems evolve, function, and respond to environmental changes. The reductionist approaches that focus | National Science Foundation | 9/02/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT | $479,660 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Bacterial species are poorly understood both in an evolutionary and taxonomic sense. Recently, through developments in DNA sequencing, the genus Halorubrum has emerged as an excellent model for testing hypotheses regarding the nature of bacterial speciat | National Science Foundation | 7/20/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA | $829,110 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Many organisms exhibit a remarkable capacity for tissue regeneration. Most dramatic is the ability of free-living flatworms known as planarians to regenerate an entire new body plan from small excised pieces of tissue. This regenerative ability is driven | National Science Foundation | 7/17/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE | $287,112 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: NSF Proposal DMS-0920850 'Novel mathematical methods for retrieving mechanical properties and microstructural information of cancellous bones'. | National Science Foundation | 8/31/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY | $272,515 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This project will develop mathematical models to study the influence of subcellular architecture on the dynamics of gene expression and regulation in eukar | National Science Foundation | 9/04/2009 |
| WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY | $173,442 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Does the 'gendering' of constitutions promote women's equality? New democracies, and some older ones, increasingly include gender provisions in their constitutions. This research examines the incorporation of gender in national constitutions and the signi | National Science Foundation | 7/19/2009 |
| THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC | $17,060 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The goal of this project is to explore the link between public demand for and elected officials? supply of efficient, responsive government. In particular, it examines three distinct mechanisms for mobilizing grassroots pressure for good government, and t | National Science Foundation | 7/10/2009 |
| CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY (INC) | $117,922 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Protocols for conducting forensic interviews of children should be informed by research, but interviewers who obtain evidence from alleged victims of abuse frequently use unreaserched techniques. This project examines two popular procedures: cuing event r | National Science Foundation | 8/06/2009 |
| HARVARD COLLEGE, PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF | $176,836 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This proposal addresses a compelling contemporary question in human biology: How do development and energetics determine the pace and trajectory of reproductive maturation? This project takes advantage of a unique opportunity in The Gambia to directly add | National Science Foundation | 8/24/2009 |
| MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY | $203,990 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). With this award from the Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) program, Kevin D. Revell and colleagues Edie J. Banner and James R. Cox from Murray State Univ | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN | $195,243 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: A calibration of the paleosol carbonate CO2 barometer is proposed in order to improve estimates of the concentration of CO2 in Earth?s ancient atmosphere. The concentration of CO2 in the soil during soil carbonate formation, S(z), is required in order to | National Science Foundation | 7/31/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF UTAH, THE | $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). Leslie E. Sieburth IOS 0922288 BYPASS1 root-to-shoot signaling: the mobile signal interacts with the auxin pathway Plants develop in an integrated manner | National Science Foundation | 8/14/2009 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $317,930 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: It is widely acknowledged that making decisions often involves the consideration of both 'rational' and 'intuitive' inputs. This program of research will examine how people decide the amount of weight to assign rational considerations and intuitive impuls | National Science Foundation | 8/20/2009 |
| SOUTH CAROLINA RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $420,415 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Regulation of meristem function by AIL proteins Project Summary The aerial portion of a plant is derived from a small group of cells at the apex of the plant called the shoot apical meristem. The shoot apical meristem is responsible for continued organ in | National Science Foundation | 6/24/2009 |
| WHITMAN COLLEGE, INC | $388,940 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This National Science Foundation award through the Major Research Instrumentation program will allow the purchase of a 400 MHz NMR spectrometer that will enhance Whitman College?s faculty and undergraduate research and research training program. The spect | National Science Foundation | 7/29/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY | $300,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: During higher plant embryogenesis, the single celled zygote proliferates and differentiates to form the mature embryo within the seed. During this phase of the life cycle, not only must the plant body form (called morphogenesis) but also storage products | National Science Foundation | 7/13/2009 |
| KENT STATE UNIVERSITY | $124,810 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: With this award from the Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) program, Professor Arne Gericke and his colleague Edgar A. Kooijman will acquire a surface plasmon resonance (SPR) instrument. The research uses include projects aimed at studying: 1) lipid med | National Science Foundation | 9/08/2009 |
| MACALESTER COLLEGE | $351,668 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Funds from this grant will support the acquisition of a variable pressure sample chamber scanning electron microscope (VP-SEM) equipped with cathodoluminesc | National Science Foundation | 8/19/2009 |
| SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY | $540,776 | 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 primary scientific goal of the project is to upgrade the capabilities of the LHCb experiment at the CERN LHC. It will enable the experiment to make preci | National Science Foundation | 8/20/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $1,700,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The objective of this project is to acquire an electron-beam lithography system for the University of Michigan. This system will be used to facilitate research on a broad array of new technology, materials, structures, and devices, including nanolithogra | National Science Foundation | 8/24/2009 |
| MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY | $286,777 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This major research instrumentation (MRI) award funds the purchase of a confocal system to support the research programs of 11 Biological Sciences faculty a | National Science Foundation | 8/26/2009 |
| MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY | $688,984 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Experiments with rare isotope beams are critical for advancing our understanding of the nuclear force and nuclear structure. Improved knowledge of nuclei will allow questions concerning the nature of neutron stars and dense nuclear matter, the origin of t | National Science Foundation | 9/14/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN | $698,600 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin are requesting the purchase of a cutting-edge time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometer (TOF-SIMS) for spectroscopy, imaging, and sputter depth profiling of a large variety of solid samples. This TOF-S | National Science Foundation | 8/26/2009 |
| CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY (INC) | $463,150 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Biology Department Microscopy Facility at Central Michigan University will acquire a Laser Scanning Confocal Microscope with this award from the Major Research instrumentation program. The new instrument will have increased sensitivity, resolution, an | National Science Foundation | 8/10/2009 |
| OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $299,658 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Funding is requested to develop a unique high-pulse-energy (~1 J/pulse) laser system that will enable quantitative ultra-high-frame-rate ( > 20 kHz) Particle Imaging Velocimetry (PIV), Planar Laser-Induced Fluorescence (PLIF) and Rayleigh and Raman scatte | National Science Foundation | 8/24/2009 |
| BROWN UNIVERSITY IN PROVIDENCE IN STATE OF RI AND PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS | $1,999,983 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project, developing a world-class interactive large-field-of-view 95 megapixel immersive virtual-reality environment, aims at creating a novel, demonstrably useful, rich, and expressive interaction, visualization, and analysis that truly leverage the | National Science Foundation | 8/19/2009 |
| WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, THE | $375,539 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: We propose to development a novel NMR/optical instrument that combines the techniques of optically-pumped (OPNMR) and optically-detected NMR (ODNMR) spectroscopy. Once completed, this instrument will allow us to study questions of a fundamental nature, r | National Science Foundation | 7/29/2009 |
| AUGSBURG COLLEGE | $444,081 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Major Research Instrumentation MRI: Acquisition of Advanced Scientific GPS Receivers for Magnetospheric and Ionispheric Research | National Science Foundation | 7/19/2009 |
| NEVADA SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION | $653,473 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project will develop a real-time, sensitive sensor for measurement of atmospheric mercury (Hg) to resolve uncertainties in atmospheric Hg measurements imposed by low temporal resolution of current sensors. Based on a laboratory prototype Hg sensor de | National Science Foundation | 9/13/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF UTAH, THE | $740,048 | 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 goal of this project is to create an inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) facility with capabilities to study trace elemental content an | National Science Foundation | 8/19/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO | $586,523 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project will develop a novel chemical ionization aerosol time-of-flight mass spectrometer (CI-ATOFMS) that will couple the soft and selective ionization of CI, the ion trapping and transfer properties of an electrodynamic ion funnel (IF), and a high | National Science Foundation | 8/05/2009 |
| LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY, THE | $406,518 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Animal behavior ultimately determines survival and reproduction of individuals. In social species, behavior occurs within groups where the choices made by an individual is influenced by and influences others. Animals in groups communicate sophisticated in | National Science Foundation | 7/13/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $204,142 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: COLLABORATIVE RESEARCHPOPULATION RESPONSE TO QUATERNARY ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: GREAT BASIN LAGOMORPHS AS A CASE STUDYElizabeth A. Hadly, Department of Biology, Stanford UniversityDonald Grayson, Department of Anthropology, University of Washington_________ | National Science Foundation | 8/19/2009 |
| GRANDIS, INC | $499,904 | 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 Innovative Research (SBIR) Phase II project will address material innovations required to successfully take spin-transfer torque (STT) s | National Science Foundation | 8/21/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $128,385 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Low-level jets are streams of fast-moving air in the lower troposphere. Both northerly (N-LLJs) and southerly (S-LLJs) low-level jets occur frequently in the central United States and have a significant impact on regional weather and climate, precipitatio | National Science Foundation | 8/24/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE | $349,134 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Development of a Low Cost Form of Maglev Transportation Using Electrodynamic Wheels The objective of this research is to experimentally and numerically verify that a low cost, high efficiency, maglev vehicle can be built. The approach is to electromecha | National Science Foundation | 7/30/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF UTAH, THE | $61,494 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Block-molded expanded polystyrene (EPS) geofoam is a type of cellular geosynthetic with a long history of successful applications in geotechnical engineerin | National Science Foundation | 5/28/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | $1,848,083 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: A Collaborative Proposal Involving CMU, CUNY, NYU, Stony Brook, UMD, Cornell, JPL This Expedition, under the directorship of Lead PI Edmund M. Clarke, will develop new computational tools to help scientists and engineers analyze and understand the beh | National Science Foundation | 8/11/2009 |
| VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE & STATE UNIVERSITY | $174,275 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The research objective of this BRIGE award is to initiate the first phase of a research program to develop a civil infrastructure asset management system to predict and optimize public school management of facility components that impact environmental hea | National Science Foundation | 7/20/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN | $300,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The research objective of the proposed research is to employ electrodeposition techniques in the design of a manufacturing route for creation of fully dense metal-nonmetallic selective laser sintered parts. The approach will be to adapt and modify convent | National Science Foundation | 7/20/2009 |
| LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY, THE | $597,394 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is for a suite of comprehensive field observations to elucidate and quantify the mixing processes in the inner shelf and to directly examine the impact of these processes on inner shelf biological distributions. Predictive modeling of coastal f | National Science Foundation | 7/29/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA | $317,113 | 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 the PI will test four hypotheses about what drives changes in the Atlantic overturning circulation on orbital timescales over the last 3 Ma. | National Science Foundation | 7/30/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS | $288,696 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This grant provides funding for the development of mathematical models integrating production, inventory and pricing decisions in a host of centralized/decentralized supply chain systems as well as the development of efficient algorithms to solve these mo | National Science Foundation | 6/21/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $270,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: As novel applications for nanocrystalline materials continue to emerge, there is an increasing need for new approaches to manufacture these materials efficiently, at high yield, and with minimal damage to the environment. In this project, two green chemis | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE | $450,361 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Collaborative Research: The dynamics of sediment-laden river plume and initial deposition off small mountainous rivers The goal of the project is to improve our current capability in coastal ecosystem management and hazard prevention/mitigation. Speci | National Science Foundation | 7/29/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS | $491,178 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project will digitize and provide internet access to over 2000 Alaska Native language interview tapesrecorded under the 1971 Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act and another 2000 plus recordings selected from the 5000 held by the Alaska Native Languag | National Science Foundation | 8/28/2009 |
| APPLIFLEX LLC | $499,990 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Small Business Technology Transfer Phase II project will commercialize laser vapor deposition (LVDG??), an innovative technology for depositing thin films and hetero-structures of functional polymers, functionalized nanoparticles and nanoparticle-loa | National Science Foundation | 7/27/2009 |
| LAKE SHORE CRYOTRONICS, INC. | $499,521 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II proposal is for the development of extremely high energy density capacitors based on the spin-on metal oxide dielectric and conductor technology developed in Phase I combined with very high surface a | National Science Foundation | 8/28/2009 |
| PARALLEL SYNTHESIS TECH | $472,326 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This SBIR Phase II project will provide technology to perform remote nucleic acid testing (NAT) in any location. The combination of (a) our Probe-Target-Reporter (PTR) assay which allows the detection of unlabeled Target DNA, (b) our Parallume optical enc | National Science Foundation | 8/12/2009 |
| HARVARD COLLEGE, PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF | $9,301,955 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Title: Collaborative Research: RoboBees: A Convergence of Body, Brain and Colony. With impacts ranging from industrial automation to household chores, robots are poised to become an integral part of modern life. Technological progress over the past severa | National Science Foundation | 8/11/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $385,118 | 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, researchers at the University of Washington will address two of the overriding goals of the GEOTRACES program: advancing our understanding of | National Science Foundation | 8/16/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS | $161,037 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project will study the processes that remove nitrogen oxides in high latitudes during winter by measuring near-surface nocturnal nitrogen oxide levels, quantifying their lifetimes through a steady-state analysis, and correlating their loss rate to th | National Science Foundation | 8/30/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $161,483 | 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 most dramatic geologic events - such as earthquakes and volcanic eruptions - occur along the margins of the mosaic of plates that cover the surface of t | National Science Foundation | 8/16/2009 |
| THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC | $98,149 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Current Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous time scale based on the M-sequence marine magnetic anomalies are not well constrained due to the lack of accurate radiometric ages and due to their reliance on the assumption of constant oceanic spreading rates. Whil | National Science Foundation | 6/29/2009 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $270,972 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Microbial mats are conspicuous components of many benthic marine and aquatic settings. A subset of these microbial mats binds sediments to form potentiall | National Science Foundation | 8/10/2009 |
| OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $468,492 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: In this project, investigators propose to develop a programming environment for easing the development of portable high-performance applications for GPUs and accelerators by automatic generation of OpenCL code from annotated C programs provided by the use | National Science Foundation | 9/14/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO | $460,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Modern networks (like InfiniBand and 10GigE) have capability to provide topology, routing and also network status information at run-time. This leads to the following broad challenge: Can the next generation petascale systems provide topology-aware MPI co | National Science Foundation | 8/13/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY | $400,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The objective of this research is to (1) use a machine to enhance a manual welding process that is currently operated and controlled by a human welder and (2) establish the foundation for the resultant machine-human cooperative control of the welding proc | National Science Foundation | 6/19/2009 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | $380,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The mechanical properties of polymers in confined domains are examined from a novel combination of nanoscale indentation experiments and theory. The work will be directly applied to thin polymer films and then extended to model polymer nanocomposites. The | National Science Foundation | 6/03/2009 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $194,439 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The objective of the proposed work is to provide fundamental understanding of the nonlinear dynamics of electrostatically actuated doubly-clamped carbon nanotubes,including the effect of slack, and explore in depth the consequences, advantages, and disadv | National Science Foundation | 8/19/2009 |
| MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY | $302,650 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are potential candidates for H2 storage because they can reversibly absorb hydrogen at low temperatures. The critical issue is their low hydrogen capacity at room temperature or above, because the interaction between molecu | National Science Foundation | 8/10/2009 |
| COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY | $270,197 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project addresses a significant area of uncertainty in our understanding of biogenic sources of gases and aerosols to the atmosphere by updating a 3-dimensional global model (Community Atmospheric Model - Chemistry coupled with Community Land Model). | National Science Foundation | 9/17/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA | $420,409 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Department of Geosciences at the University of Arizona will receive funds to build a new electron imaging facility to support the geochronological research of the Arizona LaserChron Center (ALC), and also to serve a broad range of research activities | National Science Foundation | 8/19/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $142,017 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Granted funds will support acquisition of an electron backscattered diffraction (EBSD) camera and an energy dispersive spectrometer (EDS) for a recently acqu | National Science Foundation | 8/26/2009 |
| WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, THE | $389,949 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5) and supports the design and construction of a new instrument capable of measuring with high sensitivity the torsional oscillations of the Earth's surface indu | National Science Foundation | 8/19/2009 |
| GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION | $174,594 | 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 partially funds a full-time laboratory technician for the Georgia Institute of Technology cosmogenic nuclide geochronology laboratory. Dates and e | National Science Foundation | 9/08/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $400,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: In this project new technologies based on the emerging sciences of microfluidics and microelectro-poration have been developed in a partnership between neuroscientists and engineers to address fundamental questions of nervous system and sensory system dev | National Science Foundation | 7/20/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA | $66,415 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This research explores the potential and multiple risks of suicide for Native (Yup'ik) Alaskan soldiers and veterans returning from the Middle East war theatre as they reintegrate into their rural isolated communities located in the Yukon - Kuskokwim Delt | National Science Foundation | 6/09/2009 |
| VIRGINIA NANOTECH | $149,869 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: STTR Phase I grant | National Science Foundation | 7/01/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES | $598,814 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Ultra high-throughput holographic on-chip cytometry using inertial micro-fluidics Flow cytometry is a workhorse of modern cell biology and clinical diagnostics, but suffers from three significant downsides: (i) limited throughput; (ii) high cost; and (ii | National Science Foundation | 8/25/2009 |
| BIJHEM SCIENTIFIC | $150,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award sponsors research and development towards the laboratory synthesis of novel biomaterials with controllable properties and characteristics at the nano dimension. The expected outcome of the sponsored work is a novel test material with unique ch | National Science Foundation | 6/19/2009 |
| PRESIDENT & TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE | $128,926 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Eyewitnesses are a crucial source of information for crime scene investigators. Accurate information facilitates crime solutions; inaccurate information leads to wasted investigator effort or, even worse, wrongful convictions. How investigators and eyewit | National Science Foundation | 6/29/2009 |
| TEXAS A & M RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $374,865 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Self-control is an important key to success in life insofar as individuals who succeed at self-control enjoy more satisfying interpersonal relationships, better physical health, and greater subjective well-being than do people who fail at self-control. Un | National Science Foundation | 8/16/2009 |
| BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY (INC) | $470,250 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: ntellectual merit Tetrapyrroles are essential biomolecules required for metabolism in all organisms. They form the basis of heme moieties, which act in energy-generating electron transfer reactions, and they also form the core of chlorophylls, which perfo | National Science Foundation | 7/27/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $104,395 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Statistical models in social and natural sciences typically include a parameter of interest as well as other parameters that need to be estimated (nuisance | National Science Foundation | 9/21/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA | $158,649 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Are new international laws promoting the rights of children effective? Under what conditions? Since 1989, nearly every country in the world has ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child, making it the most widely ratified treaty ever. The world h | National Science Foundation | 7/26/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA | $45,730 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project will test two hypotheses to explain striking landforms found in thick loess of the Great Plains and other regions, including large, apparently wind-aligned linear scarps and troughs. The broader significance of these landforms lies in the in | National Science Foundation | 6/24/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO | $160,948 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Understanding the causes of major extinction events is often hampered by a lack of rigorous environmental and biological data and limited geographic coverage, which can help determine how closely events in one region are mirrored in others. The PI propose | National Science Foundation | 8/30/2009 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $236,236 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: We propose a study of magnesium isotope variations produced by weathering processes and biogeochemical cycling in the surface environment of Hawaii. Recent work has demonstrated Mg isotopic variations among fresh rocks, soils, stream, spring and ground wa | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, THE | $270,000 | 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 most striking large-scale pattern in biological diversity is the dramatic increase in the number of species and higher taxa from the poles to the tropics | National Science Foundation | 7/31/2009 |
| RHODES COLLEGE (TENNESSEE), INC. | $125,180 | 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 |
| INCORPORATED RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS FOR SEISMOLOGY | $1,992,785 | 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 funded by the Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) Program, the PI?s will develop a new, international (8-nation), broadband seismic capabili | National Science Foundation | 8/06/2009 |
| MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY | $211,758 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The study of plant biology has advanced our understanding in areas not only related to agriculture and food quality, but also in the areas of human biology. Recent advances in technologies in the area of biochemistry, cell biology and genetics have enable | National Science Foundation | 8/10/2009 |
| GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION | $800,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: With this award from the Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) program, Facundo Fernandez and colleagues Thomas Orlando, Mark Sullards and Dongmei Wang from Georgia Institute of Technology will develop an atmospheric pressure ion mobility mass spectrometer | National Science Foundation | 8/05/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA | $440,751 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This proposal is for the acquisition of state-of-the-art thermal analysis and calorimetry instrumentation, namely a thermobalance and a heat flow calorimeter. The thermobalance is combined with evolved gas analysis (EGA) by coupled mass and Fourier transf | National Science Foundation | 8/26/2009 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $675,176 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This instrument development project creates a new type of 3D fluorescence and phosphorescence lifetime imaging microscope based on a novel decay time measurement technique that operates in real-time. The decay time or lifetime is the time a molecule rema | National Science Foundation | 7/16/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA | $467,847 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Temperature-dependent sex determination (TSD) was first reported 40 years ago in an African lizard. It has since been shown that temperature determines sex in some fish and amphibians, several lizards, numerous turtles, and all crocodilians. Nevertheless, | National Science Foundation | 6/29/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO | $699,671 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Cyber-ShARE Center of Excellence proposes to establish a collaborative visualization theater, the Cyber-ShARE Collaborative Visualization Theater (CCVT), to present high-resolution displays of scientific datasets for exploratory, monitoring, education | National Science Foundation | 9/09/2009 |
| BOARD OF REGENTS NEVADA SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION | $397,316 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The PIs plan to acquire a research-grade gamma spectroscopy instrument for making ultra-low radiation measurements of the type needed over a wide range of emission energies (fractions of an MeV to several MeV). Presently, there are only a handful of facil | National Science Foundation | 8/25/2009 |
| BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY | $627,185 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). MRI: Acquisition of Vis-NIR Tunable Femtosecond Mode-Locked Laser System for Nanophotonic Devices and Materials Research Boise State University (BSU) propos | National Science Foundation | 9/09/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF OREGON | $499,379 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is one of the most powerful tools available to chemists for the elucidation of the structure of molecules. It is used to identify unknown substances, to characterize specific arrangements of atoms within molec | National Science Foundation | 7/29/2009 |
| PHARAD, LLC | $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). This Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase II project is creating create novel technologies for the realization of a cost-effective, optical fiber | National Science Foundation | 7/28/2009 |
| EKSO BIONICS, INC. | $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). This Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase II project proposes to create an in-home gait training device that allows a post-stroke patient to unde | National Science Foundation | 7/28/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA | $296,660 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The objective of this research is to develop the fundamental scientific and engineering principles that will form and drive the development of k-space multifunctional acoustic wave devices as potential components in telecommunication technology with high | National Science Foundation | 8/22/2009 |
| CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $555,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 'Professor Michael R. Hoffmann of California Institute of Technology is supported by the Analytical and Surface Chemistry Program in the Division of Chemistry to conduct research in an international collaboration with Professor John T. Irvine of St. Andr | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA | $521,579 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Intellectual Merit: Under this award the Principal Investigator (PI) will continue investigating how microphysics and kinematics affect storm electrification and lightning production by using lightning mapping, electric field, radar, and other storm obser | National Science Foundation | 9/10/2009 |
| Z4 ENERGY SYSTEMS, A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY | $435,291 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: An Advanced Aeroelastic Thermoplastic Composite Blade for Residential-Scale Wind Turbines This Small Business Innovation Research Phase II project will capitalize upon Phase I and Phase IB success by prototyping/validating a novel, self-regulating blade | National Science Foundation | 8/17/2009 |
| RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE | $175,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The objective of this proposal is to design a multifunctional chemiresistor sensor array which integrates a variety of preselected functionalized gold nanoparticles and supersensitive electrometers. The availability of such a device will be beneficial in | National Science Foundation | 7/19/2009 |
| NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY | $208,090 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Highly Organized Two & Three Dimensional Single Wallrd Carbon Nano-tubes - polymer Hybrid Structures for Diverse Flexible Devices & Systems. | National Science Foundation | 7/16/2009 |
| MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY, INC | $175,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The purpose of this project is to explore the potential of using natural bio-surfactants as a delivery system for anti-microbial agents or other therapeutic agents. This type of delivery system could be useful in human health applications and also shows p | National Science Foundation | 7/24/2009 |
| PURDUE UNIVERSITY | $365,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project seeks to study the nonlinear, multi-modal, and stochastic dynamics of microcantilevers tapping on samples in liquids to significantly improve next generation dynamic Atomic Force Microscopy (dAFM) for biology and medicine. The proposed work w | National Science Foundation | 7/20/2009 |
| GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION | $217,798 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Iron limitation of heterotrophic bacteria has substantial biogeochemical implications, including lower assimilation efficiencies and reduced incorporation of CO2 into biomass. Marine bacterioplankton also have a large impact on iron speciation in seawater | National Science Foundation | 8/04/2009 |
| RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE | $247,498 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The objectives of this research are to i) gain an understanding of and ii) create a predictive methodology for crack initiation and overall crystal quality evolution for Aluminum Nitride (AlN) single crystals during processing. | National Science Foundation | 8/24/2009 |
| RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY | $388,732 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The study will promote understanding of sediment dispersal in estuaries through an investigation of the Delaware River estuary. Coordinated studies of water-column sediment flux, deposition, and resuspension are planned and the PIs hope to establish the s | National Science Foundation | 7/22/2009 |
| NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY | $1,985,888 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: PRISM: Attracting students to mathematics, physics, and biology through inter-disciplinary research and discovery | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| PURDUE UNIVERSITY | $179,997 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Liquefaction is an important cause of damage to civil infrastructures during earthquakes, and techniques that can minimize the liquefaction susceptibility of a site, with no ground disturbance can greatly impact geotechnical earthquake engineering practic | National Science Foundation | 7/20/2009 |
| WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, THE | $300,781 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Lithium-ion secondary batteries are considered an attractive power source for portable devices, hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs), and large electric facilities. Lithium manganese spinel LiMn2O4 and olivine-type lithium iron phosphate (LiFePO4, LFP) are con | National Science Foundation | 9/02/2009 |
| MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY | $99,998 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Selectively permeable separator membranes are central to the development of highly efficient energy conversion devices.They must be structurally durable, even at elevated temperatures, and must facilitate the transport of ions of one charge while inhibiti | National Science Foundation | 9/08/2009 |
| CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $489,006 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Explanations for why CO2 varies on glacial timescales and why the ice core records are out of sync on millennial-centennial timescales most likely reside in the deep ocean. To learn how we must first know how this reservoir changes under different climat | National Science Foundation | 6/29/2009 |
| RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY | $149,707 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project will investigate the paleo-geological history of Ocean Anoxic Event II (OAEII, ~94 Ma) by iron isotopic analyses (d56Fe) of total iron in archived sediment cores from the proto North Atlantic and bordering Western Interior Seaway, including s | National Science Foundation | 8/19/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA | $496,411 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: NSF support for equipment upgrades and components form an integral part of continuing the vital role of the Arizona AMS Laboratory and maintaining our equipment at modern standards. The facility's two machines are in need of vacuum equipment and computer | National Science Foundation | 8/31/2009 |
| CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $20,865 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 'GEOTRACES is a newly initiated international oceanographic program to identify processes and quantify fluxes that control the distributions of key trace elements and isotopes in the oceans and to establish an understanding of the sensitivity of these di | National Science Foundation | 7/24/2009 |
| FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE | $300,475 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The overall goal of the GEOTRACES program is to improve our understanding of the sources, distributions, and sinks of geochemically significant trace elements and their isotopes (TEIs) in the worldG??s oceans. After several years of coordination and plann | National Science Foundation | 8/12/2009 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | $81,450 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award will provide funding to replace equipment for sedimentary geology and biogeochemistry. The main items which will be improved or replaced are a rock saw, shatterbox, centrifuge, ovens, a balance, coulometer and spectrophotometer. All instruments | National Science Foundation | 8/03/2009 |
| SELAH TECHNOLOGIES, LLC | $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). This Small Business Technology Transfer Phase I project is to develop a novel technology for the large-scale sorting of single walled carbon nanotubes (SWNT | National Science Foundation | 6/18/2009 |
| NORTHERN TECHNOLOGIES INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION | $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). This Small Business Technology Transfer Phase I project is responsive to topic Multi-Functional Materials (MM), Subtopic Materials for Sustainability (MS). | National Science Foundation | 6/19/2009 |
| VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE & STATE UNIVERSITY | $299,999 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project will be an experimental investigation focused on advancing our understanding of the dynamic behavior of complex fluids (i.e., fluids containing dispersed nanocolloids) in confinement. While the oscillatory equilibrium structure of these films | National Science Foundation | 6/29/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, THE | $306,675 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: A better understanding of the behavior of powders is becoming increasingly important as industrial processes require smaller and smaller particle sizes. In addition, there is a growing realization that the existence of fines even in nominally larger sized | National Science Foundation | 7/07/2009 |
| SOUTH CAROLINA RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $179,995 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Collaborative Renewal Proposal: NSF Center for Friction Stir Processing I/UCRC PROJECT SUMMARY The Center for Friction Stir Processing (CFSP) is a multi-university Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (IUCRC ) established in 2004 with a collab | National Science Foundation | 7/27/2009 |
| THE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY | $74,998 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Pollination is an essential ecosystem service that is currently threatened by anthropogenic forces. Through climate change and species invasions, historic plant-pollinator interactions are likely disrupted due to alterations in the abundance, distribution | National Science Foundation | 6/24/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS | $296,317 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project is for the continued development of a Helium (He) 1083nm resonance bistatic lidar which will achieve the first lidar measurements of the upper thermosphere. A key element in the lidar design and construction has already been attained: a tunab | National Science Foundation | 8/02/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY | $1,500,000 | 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 Math for America Boston: Teacher Scholars Program represents a partnership among Boston University, seven high needs school districts in the Boston area | National Science Foundation | 6/10/2009 |
| ALABAMA A & M UNIVERSITY | $74,999 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: A plan to prepare in-service STEM Teachers for certification and leadership | National Science Foundation | 6/08/2009 |
| PURDUE UNIVERSITY | $301,915 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This engineering education research award to Purdue University will employ researchers to investigate the role of socioeconomic status in student decision making, academic trajectory, and success using MIDFIELD, a longitudinal database of information abou | National Science Foundation | 8/24/2009 |
| PURDUE UNIVERSITY | $150,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This engineering education research award to Purdue University will employ researchers to develop a conceptual framework for assessing sustainability knowledge gained by undergraduate engineering students and to explore elements of a sustainability concep | National Science Foundation | 7/06/2009 |
| VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE & STATE UNIVERSITY | $148,419 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This engineering education research award to Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University will employ researchers to combine two types of experiential learning, namely undergraduate research and internships with industry, in a format that reaches a | National Science Foundation | 7/02/2009 |
| VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE & STATE UNIVERSITY | $132,474 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This engineering education research award to Clemson University in collaboration with Purdue University and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University will develop a comprehensive knowledge management system and visualization methods for the rapi | National Science Foundation | 7/17/2009 |
| NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY INC | $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) This engineering education research award to Northern Illinois University will employ reserchers to develop and assess the effectiveness of a 'minimal' game | National Science Foundation | 8/04/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS | $1,226,982 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is an outcome of the NSF 09-524 program solicitation 'George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) Research (NEESR)' competition and includes the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (lead institution) and the | National Science Foundation | 7/20/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO | $6,736,743 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network is a group of 26 of the most intensively-studied ecosystems in the world. Since 1980, the National Science Foundation has sponsored research on long-term ecological processes that determine the dynamics of | National Science Foundation | 8/13/2009 |
| RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY | $136,295 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The goal of the Integrated Studies theme of the Ridge 2000 (R2K) Program is to understand the interdependence of component linkages of the mid-ocean ridge system, including the impact of hydrothermal fluid flux on the overlying biological system. In 2003, | National Science Foundation | 8/02/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS | $125,065 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The proposed research is directed at developing a manufacturing process for making ultra-sharp bulk metallic glass surgical knife blades as a high-performance low-cost alternative to single-crystal diamond blades. The work will involve developing a novel | National Science Foundation | 6/17/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $2,059,528 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Intellectual Merit Two major barriers in conventional approaches for converting microalgae to liquid fuels on a large scale are the needs to cultivate algae with high oil content and to dry the algae and extract the oil components. The PIs propose to deve | National Science Foundation | 8/24/2009 |
| WILLIAM MARSH RICE UNIVERSITY | $134,018 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This research investigates the ways that citizens and policy makers attend to stimulus funds under the Recovery Act of 2009. The research develops new methods to estimate the impact of stimulus funds on the perceptions of citizens and the choices of local | National Science Foundation | 6/15/2009 |
| THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC | $136,135 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Center for Ethnomusicology at Columbia University holds valuable recordings of traditional Iupiat (Native Alaskan) music recorded in Barrow, Alaska by collector Laura Boulton in 1946. Co-Pis Fox and Dr. Sakakibara are working with Iupiat community lea | National Science Foundation | 6/15/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA | $299,929 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The plant innate immune system represents an important barrier that pathogens need to circumvent in order to cause disease. It relies on a receptor-based surveillance that detects the presence of conserved molecules of microorganisms outside the plant cel | National Science Foundation | 7/08/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA CRUZ | $81,259 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). There is increasing evidence that iron is important in regulating bulk phytoplankton production in large regions of the world oceans and also influences the | National Science Foundation | 7/31/2009 |
| GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY (THE) | $542,152 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Long-term studies of mammals are precious resources for scientists and the public, but rarely are such data sets fully exploited. This is largely because, with volumes of data stored in many formats (e.g. spreadsheets, text, image files), biological inqui | National Science Foundation | 9/13/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $1,611,038 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The goal of the project ?STCI: Integrated Resource Provisioning Across the National Cyberinfrastructure in Support of Scientific Workloads? is to develop a resource provisioning system that will provide a common job interface to the two national cyberinfr | National Science Foundation | 8/19/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA | $761,422 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The University of Arizona is awarded a grant to develop tools that enable biologists to better integrate web data and services. The project has three specific goals. First, it will develop ontologies as the 'currency' of semantic web services. Ontologies | National Science Foundation | 8/27/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS | $61,200 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The objective of this research is to demonstrate the feasibility of reconfigurable wireless interconnection networks operating in the 60 GHz ISM (industrial, scientific and medical) band for data centers and server farms. The approach is to build a test b | National Science Foundation | 9/09/2009 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $496,924 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Two of the most important abstractions in Computer Science are graphs and point clouds. A graph abstracts relations between things: two vertices in a graph are connected by an edge if the objects associated with the vertices are related. Directed edges in | National Science Foundation | 8/03/2009 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $731,577 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: A full understanding of human evolution requires understanding modern human diversification and the origins of modern human populations. As modern humans expanded out of Africa, genetic drift and selection operated to change allele frequencies at millions | National Science Foundation | 7/30/2009 |
| EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY | $322,923 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This grant will build a geolinguistic infrastructure for more work on language mapping, language relationships and language change in the Arctic, illuminating language shift, language death, and language contact. The project will enhance existing map an | National Science Foundation | 8/26/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA | $900,000 | 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 University of California, Santa Barbara's (UCSB) Division of Mathematical, Life, and Physical Sciences, UCSB's Gevirtz Graduate School of Education (GGS | National Science Foundation | 6/01/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT | $899,819 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Teachers for Tomorrow Noyce Scholarship program provides, over 5 years, a total of forty-nine $15,000 stipends to post-baccalaureate candidates with science and math degrees who commit to teaching in high-need school districts. Recipients are enrolled | National Science Foundation | 6/16/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI SYSTEM | $891,728 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The goal of the project is to double the number of secondary science teachers graduating from our undergraduate teacher education program. The proposed project will support the recruitment, development and retention of secondary science teachers through i | National Science Foundation | 5/21/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH | $2,500,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) has for several decades been the principal provider of high-performance computing (HPC), data storage resources, software engineering and visualization tools for the atmospheric and related sciences comm | National Science Foundation | 8/31/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, THE | $238,680 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Fluid flows over rough surfaces constitute an important and challenging class of problems in fluid dynamics with both industrial applications and natural examples. Many materials and products have a surface texture by design or one that evolves due to nat | National Science Foundation | 9/09/2009 |
| OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY | $1,500,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Mathematics Studio Fellowship Program involves a close collaboration between Oregon State University (OSU) and Teachers Development Group (TDG), a non-profit organization for K-12 professional development in mathematics. It builds on a pilot program f | National Science Foundation | 6/17/2009 |
| SOUTH CAROLINA RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $149,999 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Creating Industry-Ready PhD Graduates Creating Industry-Ready PhD Graduates The broad objective of this research is to investigate how engineering doctoral programs can better prepare graduates for careers in industry. Currently, engineering doctoral prog | National Science Foundation | 7/06/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS | $400,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This engineering education research award to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will employ researchers to investigate the learning mechanisms and benefits to engineering education of popular and rapidly expanding international service learnin | National Science Foundation | 6/29/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS | $300,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The focus of this project is to perform the basic theoretical and experimental research for a novel method of water desalination using solar energy. A key element of the proposed process is to use seawater as the working fluid and to maintain independence | National Science Foundation | 7/24/2009 |
| RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY | $427,643 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Signal transduction pathways play a key role in many cellular functions as well as intercellular communication. However, elucidating the exact mechanisms involved in signal transduction pathways is non-trivial: crosstalk exists between different pathways, | National Science Foundation | 8/28/2009 |
| CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY | $1,499,983 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The objective of this research is to develop methods to monitor and ensure the robustness of a class of cyber-physical systems termed 'physical networks,' such as electric, water, sewage, and gas networks. The approach is to analyze such networks using t | National Science Foundation | 8/18/2009 |
| FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE | $384,325 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The interaction of liquid water with plasma ( a higher energy and temperature gaseous environment where some molecules are ionized) occur in a wide range of technological applications and natural phenomena including liquid phase electrical discharge for a | National Science Foundation | 8/11/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS | $128,445 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The aim of this proposal is to implement a highly focused program at The University of Texas at Dallas that enables seniors enrolled in senior design projects in the Department of Electrical Engineering (EE) to partner with clinical collaborators from The | National Science Foundation | 8/24/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | $316,822 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This NSF award by the Biosensing /CBET program supports work by PI at University of Maryland College Park to develop a label-free biosensor that uses optical waveguides and resonant cavities comprised of nanoporous silicon. Nanoporous silicon is a unique | National Science Foundation | 8/05/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA | $299,427 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Through a combination of Gower's expertise in biomimetic engineering and Norton's expertise in electronic materials, a new interdisciplinary research program is proposed that will explore the feasibility of a new biopanning approach for electroactive pept | National Science Foundation | 8/04/2009 |
| MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY | $300,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The goals of this proposal are: 1) demonstrate the ability to sustainably produce H2 from lactose via aqueous-phase reforming (APR), 2) to further develop a synthesis technique for producing bimetallic catalysts with controlled microstructure (pseudomorph | National Science Foundation | 8/20/2009 |
| KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY | $609,651 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Photodynamic Therapy causing apoptosis (programmed cell death) rather than necrosis, is a very promising approach for the treatment of numerous cancers. Many PDT-agents can be delivered to cancer cells with high selectivity due to the overexpression of po | National Science Foundation | 8/19/2009 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $971,247 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Cornell University will establish am Undergraduate Research and Mentoring (URM) program to engage under-represented minority students in intensive mentoring and research experience and prepare them for graduate studies in the biological sciences. The Corn | National Science Foundation | 8/14/2009 |
| NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY | $315,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Efficient infrastructure systems such as highways, bridges, buildings, pipelines, flood control systems and utilities are all necessary for a healthy economy and comfortable standard of living. Concrete and steel are the backbones of physical infrastructu | National Science Foundation | 7/08/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS | $308,728 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Funds are provided to develop methods of electromagnetically monitoring the internal state of sea ice, the thermal evolution of its microstructure, and the transport processes it controls. The PIs will conduct fundamental mathematical studies, as well as | National Science Foundation | 8/25/2009 |
| ARKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY | $899,988 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Creating STEM Teachers for Arkansas' Future is an educational opportunity attracting Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) majors into the teaching profession. | National Science Foundation | 6/23/2009 |
| VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE & STATE UNIVERSITY | $396,180 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This engineering education research award to Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University will employ researchers to develop, assess, and disseminate a process model for teaching students how to collaborate in learning environments with multiple di | National Science Foundation | 6/29/2009 |
| SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $149,957 | 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 engineering education research award to San Jose State University will integrate fundamental concepts of sustainability into two core lower division eng | National Science Foundation | 7/06/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON | $150,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This engineering education research award to the University of Texas at Arlington will employ researchers to infuse sustainability concepts into the undergraduate curriculum of three major departments, civil, electrical, and industrial engineering, in a v | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON SYSTEM | $149,652 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This engineering education research award to the University of Houston in collaboration with Texas Southern University will employ researchers to develop a general framework for remote laboratory experiments with the goal of making access and use independ | National Science Foundation | 8/04/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $385,197 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This is a collaborative project involving a consortium of six premier U.S universities and one national laboratory to train graduate students in an area of anticipated manpower need: advanced acceleration techniques. Students will be trained in experiment | National Science Foundation | 9/15/2009 |
| PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY | $100,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Faculty Development Award supports the effective integration of research, teaching and outreach. The research goals are to characterize the surface corrosion products formed on bronze sculptures using scanning electron microscopy and x-ray fluorescen | National Science Foundation | 7/07/2009 |
| CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY | $400,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This research examines practices of software development, co-creation and sharing in collaborative scientific research based on a sample of multiple virtual organizations using the Open Science Grid. Almost every workflow that generates scientific results | National Science Foundation | 9/14/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS | $200,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: A Comparative Study of Virtual R&D Organizations: A Sociotechnical Systems Analysis This study investigates the characteristics of effective virtual organizations across different stages of research and development using a comparative case study approac | National Science Foundation | 9/14/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS | $1,933,337 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) was recently awarded a three-year, $1.9-Million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for G?OptIPlanet Cyber-Mashup,G? to create persistent visualization and | National Science Foundation | 8/18/2009 |