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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC | $68,870 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). A request is made to fund additional and back-up instrumentation on the R/V Point Sur, a 135 foot, general purpose Regional research vessel. The vessel is op | National Science Foundation | 7/22/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, THE | $243,591 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project is an exploratory research project proposing to evaluate the possibility of a new parallel scripting programming model that can be applied to enable a large, new, and useful class of scientific applications on extreme-scale computing systems. | National Science Foundation | 9/09/2009 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $5,000,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) provides opportunities for graduate education that prepare students for a broad range of careers through its strategic investment in intellectual capital. So that the nation can build upon the strength | National Science Foundation | 8/13/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $2,000,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program supports graduate student fellowships in NSF disciplines. Awardees receive three years of full funding (stipend, tuition waiver, health benefits) to be used within a five year period.Students apply for these a | National Science Foundation | 8/12/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $1,000,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This grant provides fellowship support to individual students who have applied to the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program. The funding is awarded directly to students for general support in the Biological, Physical and Social Sciences. This award is | National Science Foundation | 8/12/2009 |
| VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE & STATE UNIVERSITY | $2,349,894 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Super Dual Auroral Radar Network (SuperDARN) is a network of HF radars that provide global-scale and continuous measurements of the high latitude ionosphere and upper atmosphere in both the northern (14 radars) and southern (7 radars) hemispheres. Sup | National Science Foundation | 8/19/2009 |
| OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY | $1,000,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The National Science Foundation aims to ensure the vitality of the human resource base of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics in the United States and to reinforce its diversity by offering approximately 1,000 graduate fellowships in this co | National Science Foundation | 8/12/2009 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $724,863 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The project will develop a new framework for mathematical modeling of rechargeable batteries, taking into account statistical thermodynamics, concentrated | National Science Foundation | 8/06/2009 |
| LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY, THE | $55,572 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: this EArlyConcept Grants for Exploratory Research (EAGER) award seeks to use nanoscale electronics technology to develop brain-like computing structures that possess the density and plasticity that allow arrays of synapses to perform sensing, pettern reco | National Science Foundation | 8/31/2009 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $384,949 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Conflict between the sexes over control of fertilization is expected to be widespread among organisms, but its evolutionary consequences are still poorly understood particularly in vertebrate animals. Waterfowl have complex breeding systems that include f | National Science Foundation | 8/04/2009 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $202,152 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The majority of proxy temperature records indicate that during the early Pliocene, roughly 3 to 5 million years ago, the tropical Pacific was characterized by a permanently warm El Nino-like mean state. Specifically, the sea surface temperature (SST) grad | National Science Foundation | 7/27/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, THE | $475,523 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award supports a research program to develop petascale numerical simulations of structure formation in the universe. This work will utilize the Adaptive Refinement Tree (ART) cosmological simulation code. Specific goals are: (1) to achieve petascale | National Science Foundation | 9/04/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $279,352 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Energy efficiency, the environment, and human health can be affected by combustion-generated soot, so controlling soot is a major technological and societal concern. This research is directed toward achieving soot prediction from turbulent combustion by u | National Science Foundation | 8/22/2009 |
| SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY INC | $438,993 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The investigators, with their students and postdocs, pursue an interdisciplinary project with three primary aims. The first aim is the development, optimiz | National Science Foundation | 9/09/2009 |
| ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY | $874,484 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: A recent study by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) documented over 32,000 mostly surgery-related deaths, costing nine billion dollars and accounting for 2.4 million extra days in hospital in 2000. At the same time, economic pressures | National Science Foundation | 7/10/2009 |
| OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY | $1,232,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The expression of affect in face-to-face situations requires the ability to generate a complex, coordinated, cross-modal affective signal, having gesture, facial expression, vocal prosody, and language content modalities. This ability is compromised in ne | National Science Foundation | 7/10/2009 |
| NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY | $770,856 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Recently, the concept of ?brain games? that could slow or even reverse cognitive decline has become popular around the world. However, research into these existing games shows little in the way of general cognitive benefits. Research into novel training e | National Science Foundation | 6/01/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $1,199,997 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project is developing computational agents that operate for extended periods of time in rich and dynamic environments, and achieve mastery of many aspects of their environments without task-specific programming. To accomplish these goals, research is | National Science Foundation | 6/22/2009 |
| HARVARD COLLEGE, PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF | $435,351 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Title: RI: Medium: Collaborative Research: Robotic Hands: Understanding and Implementing Adaptive Grasping. This NSF award is a collaborative research with Columbia University and Arizona State University. This research is aimed at alleviating the glaring | National Science Foundation | 6/26/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE | $387,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: TECHNICAL SUMMARY The objective of this proposal is to understand and model the microstructure and deformation mechanisms controlling the strength and ductility as a function of temperature and strain rate for different lamellar spacings in a recently-di | National Science Foundation | 9/07/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA | $656,052 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project is for the design and construction of a sideband-separating Superconductor-Insulator-Superconductor mixer receiver for the 380 to 500 GHz band. The receiver, whose design will mimic that used for the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Arr | National Science Foundation | 9/05/2009 |
| PURDUE UNIVERSITY | $391,297 | 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 |
| CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY | $798,981 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: RI: Medium: Collaborative Research: Physically Grounded Object Recognition Most of todayG??s approaches to visual object recognition essentially reduce the problem to one of 2D pattern classification, where rectangular image patches are independently com | National Science Foundation | 6/22/2009 |
| THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC | $404,383 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The nature of telecommunications networks is rapidly changing. Commodity smart mobile phone frameworks such as Android and Openmoko invite developers and end users to build applications, modify the behavior of the phone, and use network services in novel | National Science Foundation | 9/24/2009 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $1,000,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The goal of the project is to harness the information contained in users' interactions with information systems (e.g., query reformulations, clicks, dwell time) to train those systems to better serve their users' information needs. The key challenge lies | National Science Foundation | 8/19/2009 |
| NGJ | $99,990 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Improved Manufacturing Method for Carbon Nanofiber Production INTELLECTUAL MERIT: This SBIR Phase I project will investigate the effectiveness of forming carbon nanofibers by a gas jet process. The beneficial properties of carbon nanofiber reinforced po | National Science Foundation | 5/29/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, THE | $63,833 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This collaborative research project is being undertaken by Dr. Gerta Keller, Princeton University, and Dr. Abdel Aziz Tantawy, South Valley University in Egypt, to collect the necessary long-term biotic, mineralogical and geochemical records needed to und | National Science Foundation | 9/08/2009 |
| CHROMADEX, INC. | $99,999 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This SBIR Phase I project Microbial Production of Selected Anthocyanins aims to establish cost-effective methodologies for the efficient production of anthocyanins from genetically engineered bacteria. Anthocyanins are plant secondary metabolites that ar | National Science Foundation | 6/07/2009 |
| ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY AND RESEARCH CORPORATION | $99,941 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I research project focuses on the development of several technical capabilities for the class of open-frame, cable driven robots and demonstrates these capabilities in a practical boat maintenance application. | National Science Foundation | 6/01/2009 |
| BC GENESIS, LLC | $100,000 | Contract | : NSF SBIR Phase I | National Science Foundation | 7/01/2009 |
| COOLCAD ELECTRONICS | $99,984 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: CoolCAD Electronics LLC was awarded a Phase I SBIR contract from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to carry out research into development of Silicon Carbide (SiC) based power device and circuit computer-aided-design tools and prototype DC-DC converter | National Science Foundation | 6/03/2009 |
| AQUA BOUNTY FARMS, INC. | $99,840 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project will investigate a new transgenic approach to inducing sterility in economically important species, with initial application in aquaculture. There is a need for improved performance and reproductive | National Science Foundation | 6/11/2009 |
| BOARD OF REGENTS NEVADA SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION | $90,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: There were 11 relevant publications. In addition, the PI has been also continuously working on another project targeting an anisotropic, nonisothermal two-phase transport model of PEM fuel cell with micro-porous layers and wet gas channels. Such problem o | National Science Foundation | 9/14/2009 |
| MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY | $423,119 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Principal component analysis (PCA) has long played a central role in dimensionality reduction and compression. However, the fact that PCA is a data-dependent transform that is traditionally determined via a computationally expensive eigendecomposition oft | National Science Foundation | 6/01/2009 |
| PURDUE UNIVERSITY | $429,088 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Multicore processors have become main-stream. At the same time, CPU clock rates are no longer increasing. Operating within this environment, application developers are under competitive pressure to parallelize software in order to achieve an aceptable per | National Science Foundation | 7/27/2009 |
| TEXAS A & M RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $165,046 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The principal investigator (P.I.) will study three topics in measurement error models, develop relevant methodologies and analyze their corresponding properties and performances. The first topic concerns functional models in the situation when the main | National Science Foundation | 7/02/2009 |
| NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY | $317,622 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: We propose to study the impact of interfacial interactions of polymers on charge transport in semiconducting polymers. The proposed experiments will attempt to disaggregate, for the first time, the impact of molecular organization, dipolar interactions, | National Science Foundation | 6/09/2009 |
| TEXAS A & M RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $75,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project studies classes of spatial-temporal covariance functions for nonstationary, multivariate processes on a globe. Many processes in geophysical and environmental problems these days take large portion of the Earth as their spatial domain and exh | National Science Foundation | 8/02/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES | $790,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Obtaining physiological/behavioral data from human subjects in natural environments is essential to the effectiveness and accuracy of social and behavioral research, such as ecologically valid studies of psychosocial stress, addictive cravings, and enviro | National Science Foundation | 8/26/2009 |
| CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY | $360,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Implementation of the FieldStream framework in several real-life wireless sensor systems, starting with the ones being led by us (AutoSense at Memphis, and Urban Sensing and UCLA). It will help establish the feasbility of FieldStream for real-world deplo | National Science Foundation | 8/26/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA | $354,300 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The purpose of this project is to demonstrate that chiral metal nanostructures can be grown on chiral metal oxide surfaces. If successful, it will provide an avenue for the design and development of new chiral separation technologies that would have a sub | National Science Foundation | 7/04/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN | $180,584 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The objective of this project is to develop fast and robust numerical reconstruction methods for linear and nonlinear inverse transport problems appeared in many application areas. The main approach proposed is to incorporate a priori information into opt | National Science Foundation | 7/10/2009 |
| OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY | $575,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The proposal requests numerous Shipboard Scientific Support (SSSE) items for the vessel operated by Oregon State University (OSU), namely the R/V WECOMA. The requests specifically include items that have been recommended from past NSF inspections, or Post | National Science Foundation | 9/15/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA | $307,269 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 'This research will determine how the shifting seasonality of arctic river hydrology alters key biotic linkages within and among lake and stream components of watersheds and may alter the function of the arctic system. Arctic grayling (Thymallus arcticus) | National Science Foundation | 6/16/2009 |
| MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY, THE | $1,317,687 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This research will determine how the shifting seasonality of arctic river hydrology alters key biotic linkages within and among lake and stream components of watersheds and may alter the function of the arctic system. Arctic grayling (Thymallus arcticus) | National Science Foundation | 6/16/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS | $797,130 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: There is increasing evidence that ecological processes at high latitude are just as sensitive to the timing of events as to their magnitudes. In the boreal forest, moisture availability in summer affects both tree growth and the fire regime. Summers are b | National Science Foundation | 6/25/2009 |
| NEVADA SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION | $210,236 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Funding is provided to obtain new ice core accumulation records from Combatant Col, Mt. Waddington, in southwestern British Columbia (BC), Canada. Combatant Col is located significantly farther south than other existing ice core sites along the west coast | National Science Foundation | 6/04/2009 |
| THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC | $135,883 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Anomalous local turbulent transport in plasmas will be measured directly with novel diagnostics. By measuring critical parameters, the fundamental scaling laws of transport will be compared with various theories. A key element of the project is the diagno | National Science Foundation | 9/14/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF UTAH, THE | $188,299 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project contributes tools to engineer future information processing systems so that they operate reliably and efficiently. Given that many of these systems will be produced on single micro-chips, and given the increasing demands for rapid turn-around | National Science Foundation | 8/02/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA | $140,000 | 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 group project in computational high energy physics being carried out by physicsts at the University of Arizona, University of California, Santa Bar | National Science Foundation | 9/15/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF UTAH, THE | $160,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This is a group project in computational high energy physics being carried out by physicsts at the University of Arizona, University of California, Santa Bar | National Science Foundation | 9/15/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES | $2,995,563 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Award Description: The Clean Energy for Green Industry (Clean-Green) IGERT at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is designed to train U.S. Ph.D. scientists and engineers for leadership roles in the clean energy sector - university-industry- | National Science Foundation | 7/10/2009 |
| THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC | $30,084 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The primary focus of this theory program is on pure electron plasmas, in particular the properties of low density electron plasma equilibria. The theories developed are now being tested in several devices, not only on the Columbia Nonneutral Torus (CNT) b | National Science Foundation | 9/22/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER | $465,608 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This research focuses on two frontiers of plasma physics where particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations can help elucidate underlying principles of energy transfer in plasmas: (1) Motivated by collisionless accretion disks, we will study whether a faster-than-C | National Science Foundation | 8/04/2009 |
| GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION | $300,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The Community Infrastructure for General Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamics (CIGR) collaboration will create a modern, scalable, and open, community toolkit a | National Science Foundation | 9/18/2009 |
| WILLIAM MARSH RICE UNIVERSITY | $514,554 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project addresses the question of the nature of dark matter in the Universe with an experimental search for Weakly Interactive Massive Particles (WIMPs) using two-phase xenon detectors. This group is currently operating at the 100 kg mass scale with | National Science Foundation | 8/24/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY | $159,671 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The investigators will carry out high spatial resolution mid-infrared imaging, spectroscopy, and polarimetry of nearby active galactic nuclei (AGN), taking advantage of the subarcsecond, diffraction limited resolution afforded by 8-10m telescopes to probe | National Science Foundation | 9/05/2009 |
| VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE & STATE UNIVERSITY | $238,996 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The goal of our interdisciplinary e ort between computational scientists, physicists, engineers and applied mathematicians is to build an all{scales unified simulation system that can exploit the next generation of petascale systems and beyond. The advanc | National Science Foundation | 9/05/2009 |
| OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $310,240 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project will develop an advanced 3-D hybrid simulation code (fluid electrons + kinetic ions) that included the coupling of the magnetosphere to the ionosphere. The hybrid magnetosphere model will be coupled an ionospheric model developed at the Nava | National Science Foundation | 7/24/2009 |
| ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY | $328,821 | 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 |
| THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC | $175,280 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Floer homology theory, a technique using partial differential equations to study problems in smooth / symplectic topology, were first introduced in the 1980's. Since then, these theories have led to many dramatic discoveries, including the resolution of t | National Science Foundation | 7/13/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN | $146,595 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This proposal describes several major research thrusts related to algebraic invariants of structured ring spectra. In algebraic K-theory, the PI describes an approach to resolving the central conjectures of Waldhausen and Rognes that underpin a program to | National Science Foundation | 6/25/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | $380,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award supports theoretical research and education in condensed matter physics. The PI aims to further study a new kind of insulator predicted by theory. It has long been known that insulators do not conduct electric current. In the past 5 years, theo | National Science Foundation | 8/31/2009 |
| TEXAS A & M RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $195,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Although natural radioisotopes, such as Th(IV), Pa(IV, V), Po(IV, II, -II), and Be(II), are important proxies that have long been used in oceanographic investigations, the molecular interactions and binding relationships between radionuclides and marine o | National Science Foundation | 7/07/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $282,175 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Quantifying, managing and pricing risk is not only important for the big players in the economy but has become increasingly important for every individual, who are trying to reduce the risk of outliving their wealth through their retirement funds, and the | National Science Foundation | 8/26/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA | $200,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Under this award Drs. Lucy Ziurys and DeWayne Halfen (University of Arizona) will continue their investigation of the chemistry of the refractory elements through the ongoing joint laboratory/observational program. The laboratory investigations will focus | National Science Foundation | 9/05/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO | $331,800 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Stochastic models of complex networks with dynamic interactions arise in a wide variety of applications in science and engineering. Specific instances include high-tech manufacturing, customer service systems, telecommunications, computer systems, and gen | National Science Foundation | 7/04/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $582,405 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The objective of this research is to develop novel/improved methods for statistical model building and risk factor estimation when the training set has complex continuous and discrete attribute variables and including, but not limited to extremely long at | National Science Foundation | 6/25/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO | $480,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: NON-TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION: Nanomagnetism is one of the most active areas in science with a wide range of fundamental scientific problems as well as emerging technologies. Many magnetic devices are still in their infancy and a thorough understanding of th | National Science Foundation | 8/05/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF OREGON | $345,385 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The ability to conduct the targeted synthesis of a new solid-state compound is one of the grand challenges of the field of solid state chemistry. This proposal targets the synthesis of new misfit layered compounds [(MX)m]1+x[TX2]n where M is a metal that | National Science Foundation | 9/07/2009 |
| CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $250,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The discovery of high-temperature superconductivity in a class of oxide materials known as cuprates in 1986 had simulated intense worldwide research efforts because of high expectations for potentially a wide range of applications. Although much progress | National Science Foundation | 8/27/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | $255,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The objective of this research project is the investigation and the mathematical analysis of a wide class of asymptotic problems for stochastic partial differential equations, with emphasis on the study of averaging principle, large deviation principle, s | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN | $633,687 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: As a single sheet of graphite, graphene has a number of exceptional properties, including: extraordinary mechanical properties, high thermal conductivity and excellent electrical conductivity. Combined with its very high specific surface area (for the ind | National Science Foundation | 5/22/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $399,959 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Proposal Title: Collaborative Research: Three-Dimensional Microstructural andChemical Mapping of Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Electrodes: Processing,Structure, Stability, and ElectrochemistryInstitution: Northwestern UniversityAbstract Date: 06/11/09This award i | National Science Foundation | 8/05/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, THE | $366,039 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Funds are provided to develop a better understanding of the processes and consequences of surface meltwater production on the Greenland ice sheet, particularly the development of surface lakes and their subsequent drainage to the subglacial bed, with the | National Science Foundation | 8/18/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $374,774 | 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 influence of massive stars and accreting black holes on the surrounding interstellar medium, termed 'feedback', has been regarded as an important ingred | National Science Foundation | 7/31/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY | $602,138 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Personnel in place: Dr. Alan Marscher (PI, professor) Dr. Svetlana Jorstad (co-I, senior research associate) Dr. Manasvita Joshi (PDRA) - new hire (9/1/09)to participate in the ARAA-funded project Dr. Ivan Agudo (PDRA) - new hire (2/1/10) to participate i | National Science Foundation | 6/18/2009 |
| KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY | $380,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Under this award, supported by the Experimental Physical Chemistry Program of the Chemistry Division, Professor Ryszard Jankowiak from Kansas State Universit | National Science Foundation | 7/10/2009 |
| CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY F | $183,447 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Speckle observations are proposed for a significant set of binaries drawn from the Hipparcos Catalogue and other sources. The Hipparcos mission discovered t | National Science Foundation | 5/29/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | $148,426 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Investigators will conduct a series of 3-D magnetohydrodynamic simulations, to study how outflows from radio galaxies affect the surrounding gas, and to better understand the role of magnetic fields in regulating the temperature of the X-ray-emitting gas | National Science Foundation | 8/27/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, THE | $633,320 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project will investigate the gas dynamics of protoplanetary disks, and the interaction of disks with planets. The work includes (1) studies of angular momentum transport by the magnetorotational instability (MRI) in protoplanetary disks, (2) studies | National Science Foundation | 9/01/2009 |
| MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY | $341,932 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The mathematical modeling techniques and computational methods developed in this project will address key scientific challenges in applied mathematics including three-dimensional electromagnetic wave propagation in periodic chiral or nonlinear structures; | National Science Foundation | 6/16/2009 |
| BOARD OF REGENTS NEVADA SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION | $339,621 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Understanding Gamma-Ray Burst emission physics with multi-wavelength data This is a program to perform a multi-wavelength study of Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) to: 1. Systematically analyze GRB afterglow data, and clearly identify emission components that have | National Science Foundation | 6/12/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON | $159,569 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This CAREER project is formulated to study the multiplexing and networking of passive wireless sensors for engineered sensor skins. The proposed multi-disciplinary research is focused to resolve three major challenges of sensor skins, i.e. electrical wiri | National Science Foundation | 6/29/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH | $776,475 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Very rapid change has been observed in the Polar Regions and is projected to continue for the foreseeable future. This change is ubiquitous across the system occurring within the atmosphere, terrestrial and marine components and encompassing the physical, | National Science Foundation | 8/03/2009 |
| CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $557,067 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 'Dr Steidel will make a detailed study of the galaxies and gas within a few million light years of bright quasars that we observe as they were 10 billion years ago. Using the Keck telescopes, he will take high-resolution optical and near-infrared spectra | National Science Foundation | 8/17/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY | $299,312 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project has now been awarded a total of 400 hours of telescope time at Arecibo Observatory, out of which 300 hour have already been used. Graduate student Kristen Thompson continues her analysis and interpretation of the data as well as her manageme | National Science Foundation | 9/05/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN | $250,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Ferroelectric ceramics have unique properties, including piezoelectricity, pyroelectricity, the electro-optic effect, phase change, and polarization switching. These special properties make them useful for a wide range of technological applications. For e | National Science Foundation | 8/05/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON | $225,550 | 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 ARIZONA | $280,068 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Intellectual Merit: Expanded use of (U-Th)/He and 4He/3He thermochronology in tectonic and geomorphic studies over the last decade have elucidated several first-order challenges facing their practical application and interpretation. Quantitative understan | National Science Foundation | 6/05/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $197,325 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project involves the analysis of data from a temporary array of 11 three-component, broadband seismic instruments deployed in July 2008 in a 15 km diameter area centered on Katmai Pass, Alaska, supplemented by data from the surrounding Alaska Volcano | National Science Foundation | 7/19/2009 |
| THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC | $489,335 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Emphasis on the elevated level of arsenic in groundwater tapped by millions of shallow tubewells across southern Asia over the past two decades has tended to obscure that anoxic aquifers that are low in As are also widespread and often within reach of dri | National Science Foundation | 9/30/2009 |
| MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY | $243,552 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Vadose-zone soil moisture is an important driver of processes in agricultural, hydrological, ecological, and climate systems, yet the detailed nature of plant water use across ranges of scales is often poorly characterized. With projected changes in clima | National Science Foundation | 8/26/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO | $270,002 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: One of the unsolved paradoxes in the earth sciences is how fluid-assisted mass transfer occurs at convergent plate boundaries. Subduction causes rapid P-T changes in the downgoing slab and juxtaposes rocks of very different geochemical characteristics. Ma | National Science Foundation | 7/19/2009 |
| SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $150,913 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project will entail an integrated, multi-disciplinary approach involving PIs and collaborators with diverse expertise and perspectives. The project will combine extensive field work, elemental and isotopic analyses of rock, glass, mineral, and melt i | National Science Foundation | 8/03/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES | $148,787 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The title of the project is 'Investigating the mechanics of conjugate strike-slip faults and its implications for continental deformation'. The work consists of three components: (1) field investigations mapping the geometry and kinematics of active conju | National Science Foundation | 7/19/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA | $365,545 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The proliferation of multiple cores on the same die has given rise to communication-centric systems, wherein the design of the interconnection network has become extremely important. To address the growing wire delay problems and improve performance in CM | National Science Foundation | 7/30/2009 |
| COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY | $161,545 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This research program is motivated by the recognition that the volume of sensor data is expected to overwhelm even the enormous performance improvements in silicon technology expressed by Moore`s Law. The focus is the development of a low-complexity alter | National Science Foundation | 6/02/2009 |
| CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY | $515,079 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Robot hands are usually simple, with just two or three fingers, perhaps a single actuator, and most often no sensors at all. These simple hands are also very specific in their function, such as picking up a specific part. Research on more general robot ha | National Science Foundation | 8/08/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | $349,058 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project focuses on the development of a new binary rewriter that can be use to statically transform binary code that does not have relocation information and to do so without the overhead of dynamic binary rewriting. Binary rewriters are pieces of so | National Science Foundation | 7/27/2009 |
| SOUTH CAROLINA RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $250,001 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: NeTS: Small: Collaborative Research: Transmission Reordering in Wireless Networks: Protocols and Practice The edge of the Internet continues to spread rapidly over the wireless medium. To cope with the escalating demand, every available opportunity in wir | National Science Foundation | 8/24/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA MERCED | $396,684 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project develops novel methods for integrating image and non-image geospatial data to 1) advance the state-of-the-art of automated remote sensed image analysis and, in turn, 2) improve the coverage and fidelity of the non-image repositories. A charac | National Science Foundation | 7/13/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO | $250,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The project will develop efficient mechanisms for deploying and managing wireless self-organizing networks (WSONs). These networks are able to manage themselves with little or no human intervention and consequently can be deployed in remote, difficult-to- | National Science Foundation | 8/13/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO | $483,005 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Increasingly, computation and storage are moving into a planetary cloud accessible across ever-widening Internet pipes. Unfortunately, asynchrony, failures, and heterogeneity make it difficult to harness available computing power and storage, with inheren | National Science Foundation | 7/25/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO | $400,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project addresses the complex networking challenge presented by the emerging cloud computing model. Cloud providers must run a diverse set of client applications, each with potentially different networking demands, on shared data-center facilities. T | National Science Foundation | 8/28/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES | $500,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Project is to design, implement and evaluate the personal wellness platform called Health Guardian (HG). The Health Guardian concept introduces a paradigm shift in wellness monitoring - from traditional client to server model to location/environment awa | National Science Foundation | 8/22/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS | $303,444 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Heritage speakers are adults who grew up hearing and even speaking a language other English but who are now more comfortable in English. Recent studies of heritage speakers have documented incomplete acquisition of aspects of inflectional morphology and s | National Science Foundation | 8/16/2009 |
| CONSORTIUM FOR OCEAN LEADERSHIP INC | $105,930,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Program Management Office staffing in support of managing the Ocean Observing Initiative Construction Project for the National Science Foundation. Coastal and global scale nodes development and build. | National Science Foundation | 9/14/2009 |
| OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY | $403,253 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Granted funds will support establishment of a prototype Hydrologic Measurement Facility to be named the Center for Multiscale Sensing of the Environment (CMSE), allowing for the first time broad community access to fiber optic Raman temperature measuremen | National Science Foundation | 9/15/2009 |
| UNIFIED SCIENCE LLC | $150,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I project addresses unmet analysis needs of froth flotation, a separations process widely used in the mining industry to separate worthless gangue from desired mineral particles. The goal of this Phase | National Science Foundation | 6/29/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | $133,772 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Millard Alexander of the University of Maryland is supported by an EAGER award from the Theoretical Chemistry and Computational program to conduct exploratory research on advanced methods for the study of chemical dynamics of multiple potential energy su | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| APPLIED SCIENCES, INC | $149,878 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project seeks to develop advanced heat transfer fluids using nano-structured carbons. Heat exchanger technologies having higher performance and lower cost are needed for improvement in cooling efficiency. | National Science Foundation | 6/12/2009 |
| APPLIFLEX LLC | $149,996 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Small Business Technology Transfer Phase I project will demonstrate the commercial feasibil-ity of metal oxide nanostructures, especially ZnO and TiO2, which offer unprecedented properties, suitable for a wide range of applications from thin film bat | National Science Foundation | 6/15/2009 |
| BAKER-CALLING, INC. | $149,265 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Small Business Technology Transfer Phase I project seeks to develop to develop a commercially viable, self-calibrating, piezoelectric micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) microphone. The acoustical specifications of these microphones (measured by | National Science Foundation | 6/09/2009 |
| ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY | $175,590 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Granted funds will support acquisition of a Planar Laser-Induced Fluorescence (PLIF) imaging system and shock wave tube to study the dynamics of simulated volcanic eruptions in laboratory experiments. Laser-based multi-phase fluid dynamic diagnostic capab | National Science Foundation | 8/20/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $350,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).930909DotyMicroorganisms that live within plants (endophytes) can dramatically enhance plant growth by increasing resistance to pathogens and stress, providin | National Science Foundation | 8/07/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | $299,705 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: CPS:Small:Fundamental Advances in Control of Wireless Sensor and Robotic Networks The objective of this project is to investigate fundamental issues in network control and distributed coordination of wireless sensor and robotic networks. The study o | National Science Foundation | 8/19/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | $448,995 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Long-Term Research in Environmental Biology project capitalizes on 35 years of existing data to investigate how climate change is affecting the phenology (timing) and abundance of flowering by nearly 100 species of alpine wildflowers. Researchers fro | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA MERCED | $935,457 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Earth's critical zone is where water, atmosphere, ecosystems and soils interact on a geomorphic and geologic template, and extends from bedrock to the atmospheric boundary layer. Process understanding of erosion, weathering, soil formation, water move | National Science Foundation | 9/14/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | $295,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This program involves the development of a new reactor that is designed to provide access to a new class of cluster materials. Clusters of rare-earth elements are currently unknown and would represesent a major breakthrough in cluster science. | National Science Foundation | 9/21/2009 |
| PURDUE UNIVERSITY | $1,426,404 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The National Science FoundationG??s TeraGrid high-performance computing (HPC) network provides extensive support for massive computational science, typically conducted by scientists highly trained in HPC. TeraGridG??s strategic plan requires the engagemen | National Science Foundation | 9/12/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS | $398,521 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This research project integrates experiments and modeling to develop physics-based predictive models for the problem of room temperature creep in nanocrystalline metallic films. The novel experiments aim at extracting directly the grain-boundary (GB) slid | National Science Foundation | 6/15/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA | $824,761 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Laurentian Great Lakes are a valuable regional resource and an immense reservoir of planetary fresh water. Two major questions will be addressed in this proposed project. First, what are the principal biogeochemical control points that tip the N cyc | National Science Foundation | 8/16/2009 |
| GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION | $229,046 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The current research in Bayesian model prediction and validation of computer models mainly focuses on computer experiments with single output and fixed input variables. The proposed research focuses on Bayesian approach for calibration, validation, predic | National Science Foundation | 7/27/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | $275,001 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The research objective of this project is to construct an analytical framework to reduce uncertainty in forecasts of hurricane intensity by optimally targeting a coordinated observing network of unmanned aircraft using ensemble-based adaptive sampling and | National Science Foundation | 7/16/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, THE | $316,627 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Optical trap-assisted nanolithography is a novel technique providing high resolution nanoscale rapid prototyping over different types of surfaces. Small plastic beads, used as near-field lenses for pulsed-laser processing, are placed in close proximity to | National Science Foundation | 7/09/2009 |
| WILLIAM MARSH RICE UNIVERSITY | $389,261 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: River inputs play a significant role in the geochemistry of the global oceans. Rivers provide a significant source of nutrients, organic matter and suspended sediment to coastal shelves and the open ocean. The delivery of high nutrient loads to coastal ar | National Science Foundation | 7/24/2009 |
| OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY | $581,002 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Coastal upwelling systems are oceanic regions of great importance with regard to productivity, air-sea carbon dioxide exchange, and carbon sequestration, as well as economically and ecologically valuable fisheries. In the California Current System (CCS), | National Science Foundation | 7/28/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO | $69,115 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This proposal is for acquisition of a tunable diode laser system. The unit will be used for research on atmospheric vapor transport, and will be used intensively by Professors Galewsky and Sharp, as well as Ph.D. student Leah Johnson. | National Science Foundation | 8/24/2009 |
| OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $57,800 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award will fund acquisition of a liquid oxygen isotope analyzer. The device is a reasonably new instrument relying on cavity ringdown spectroscopy. Precision specifications for this instrument are published at 0.1 permil and 0.3 permil for oxygen and | National Science Foundation | 8/10/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS | $68,891 | 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 | $74,527 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This is a RAPID project that sends an early career female researcher to participate in a unique, state-of-the-art, 3D seismic study of the central portion of the Mentawai segment of the Sumatran subduction zone to collect and interpret detailed geophysica | National Science Foundation | 6/05/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $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 Nanotechnology Undergraduate Education (NUE) in Engineering program entitled 'NUE: A Nanotechnology Certificate Program for Engineering Undergraduate | National Science Foundation | 8/10/2009 |
| TEXAS A & M RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $300,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This grant will initiate a new project on the design of catalysts that can harvest solar energy and relay this to the metal centers to promote the rate of reactions or to induce desirable selectivity effects. Specifically, ligands are designed to be in di | National Science Foundation | 7/29/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, THE | $357,357 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Scaling Up is a program of research and development that will enable virtual organizations in the Earth sciences to scale to massive interdisciplinary communities of communities. A key element is commodity governance, which encodes social and technical as | National Science Foundation | 9/11/2009 |
| RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY | $630,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is estimated to affect approximately 1 out of every 166 children around the world, with a prevalence rate that makes it the most common developmental disability. Conservative estimates report that in the US over 400,000 peop | National Science Foundation | 8/24/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO | $81,829 | 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 |
| CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY | $430,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This career development plan seeks to build the foundation of the PI's long-term career on integrated research and education regarding sketch-based construction and interaction with geometric content in creative design environments. Studies in engineering | National Science Foundation | 7/15/2009 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $580,000 | 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 they | National Science Foundation | 7/01/2009 |
| OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY | $294,031 | 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 major objective of this project is to develop the fundamental theoretical framework and algorithms that realize human context awareness in an infrastruc | National Science Foundation | 7/28/2009 |
| CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY | $399,928 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Project-based learning, especially in courses where students work in groups on real-world problems for industry sponsors, is common in engineering curricula. These courses offer students the opportunity to move forward in their trajectory from being a stu | National Science Foundation | 7/08/2009 |
| NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY | $698,045 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Collaborative Research: robobees: A convergance of body, brain and colony | National Science Foundation | 8/11/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA | $31,036 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This proposal supports the acquisition of a UIC, Inc. Carbon Analyzer system for determination of concentrations of total carbon, total inorganic carbon, and total organic carbon in sedimentary materials. The instrument will support the work of the PI, he | National Science Foundation | 7/30/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA | $99,995 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The PI will spend one academic year at the National Weather Center (NWC), on the campus of the University of Oklahoma. The PI will gain experience in the acquisition and interpretation of radar data, and enhance his collaborations with researchers at NWC. | National Science Foundation | 9/08/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY | $269,976 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Voluntary Virtual Organization (VVOs) have harnessed the collective problem solving abilities of diverse groups. This project will study voluntary teaming in Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOGs), specifically collective story telling in the service | National Science Foundation | 9/01/2009 |
| WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY | $262,144 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: In recent years, the use of geographically (and often globally) distributed teams to accomplish organizational tasks has become ubiquitous. One arena where the use of such teams is popular is in Information Systems Development. Interestingly, while the mo | National Science Foundation | 9/11/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY | $331,738 | 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 Micromorphology Laboratory in the Archaeology Department at Boston University is a unique facility in the United States and focuses on the microscopic a | National Science Foundation | 7/30/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO | $615,971 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The ecological consequences of hybridization of asexual microbial symbiont Many new plant and animal species arise from hybridization between different species. Although less well-studied, microbial species also hybridize and create new genetic species a | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, RENO | $250,582 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Mercury exists in the atmosphere as elemental mercury, gaseous oxidized mercury and particulate mercury. The atmosphere is an important pathway by which mercury is input to ecosystems. Mercury inputs may occur by way of wet and dry deposition. Our underst | National Science Foundation | 9/30/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $393,778 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: ABSTRACTThis award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Understanding the barriers to reproduction between species is central to evolutionary biology. The evolution of reproductive barriers is a key step i | National Science Foundation | 8/17/2009 |
| THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC | $146,200 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: A request is made to fund additional and back-up instrumentation on the R/V Marcus Langseth, a 235? Global seismic vessel with general oceanographic operated by Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University as part of the University-National Oce | National Science Foundation | 8/16/2009 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | $150,097 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project models decision-making and learning in complex environments. One would expect most decision makers to be aware of such complexity and to realize that they have at best a limited understanding of the factors that determine the outcomes of any | National Science Foundation | 8/19/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS | $304,440 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The introduction of exotic species to native communities has caused considerable ecological and economic damage to agriculture, forestry, and fisheries. Research suggests this damage occurs in part due to a mismatch of evolutionary histories between the n | National Science Foundation | 8/12/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA SYSTEM | $371,947 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project proposes to develop, parameterize, and test phenological and evolutionary models for the two fungi associated with mountain pine beetle (MPB). Coupled with an existing MPB phenology/fitness model, the fungal models will be used to predict th | National Science Foundation | 6/23/2009 |
| MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY | $765,249 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Distinct organs, tissues and cells of plants can display different responses to environmental cues (e.g., during de-etiolation cotyledon growth is stimulated by light, whereas hypocotyl growth is inhibited by light). The hypothesis that organ- and tissue- | National Science Foundation | 7/13/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, THE | $439,744 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: A core challenge for ecologists is to develop frameworks to predict how complex natural communities and ecosystems will respond to environmental impacts such as species extinction and global change. Because ecological interactions are comprised of complex | National Science Foundation | 7/27/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS | $649,113 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The evolutionary adaptation to polar climates can provide a model for adaptations to climate changes in general. Today's frigid polar waters are inhospitable for most bony fishes, but some can live in freezing waters because they have evolved antifreeze p | National Science Foundation | 8/02/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS | $3,000,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project seeks to develop and demonstrate the capability of a Pacific Area Climate Monitoring and Analysis Network (PACMAN). PACMAN is expected to yield a more reliable understanding of the impacts of climate warming on fresh water resources and commu | National Science Foundation | 8/28/2009 |
| NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY | $485,999 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Summary Aquatic insects play critical ecological roles and are of practical importance due to their widespread use in biomonitoring programs, yet their physiology is poorly understood. This research program will use a phylogenetically based, comparative | National Science Foundation | 6/29/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $312,560 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project will evaluate the basic factors that allow ammonia oxidizing bacteria to respond to stress. An ecological framework based in differential gene expression at the community level will be integrated with deterministic mathematical models to accu | National Science Foundation | 8/26/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY | $591,929 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This study investigates the molecular mechanisms by which critical genes are regulated in the developing brain. Exposure to the hormone estrogen during development is critical for establishing long-term structural and functional aspects of the brain. Estr | National Science Foundation | 6/09/2009 |
| OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $421,388 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The long-term goal of this activity is to define novel, critical components required for the assembly of photosynthetic membranes. Photosynthesis is the major mechanism of solar energy capture in the biosphere, providing organic carbon for food, fuel and | National Science Foundation | 7/01/2009 |
| RANCHO SANTA ANA BOTANIC GARDEN | $586,039 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Collaberative research: Branching in chloridoid grasses: phylogeny and inflorescence diversification | National Science Foundation | 8/20/2009 |
| OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $540,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The central nervous system (CNS) is a structure of immense complexity and intricacy, whose overall architecture has been conserved throughout vertebrate evolution. The molecular and cellular mechanisms by which the three-dimensional (3D) structure of th | National Science Foundation | 6/22/2009 |
| GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION | $212,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Cooperative behavior is a common trait among animals, from films of bacteria, to flocks of birds, to schools of whales. Observations of such coordination between individuals have inspired computer scientists and roboticists to try to build swarm-inspired | National Science Foundation | 6/17/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY | $400,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The development of multicellular animals from a single-celled fertilized egg is a complex process that requires extensive communication between enormous numbers of cells. It is the long-term goal of this research to better understand how cellular signalin | National Science Foundation | 7/29/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES | $564,855 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 'Mechanical Coupling Between Hair Cells of the Inner Ear' The sense of hearing plays a crucial role in our lives, as it helps us orient ourselves in space and communicate with each other; nevertheless, it remains one of the least understood of the senses, | National Science Foundation | 5/26/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO | $250,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Title: Multiplex Analysis of Boundary Formation in the Drosophila Embryo. Description: There are two major tasks for this award. The first is to obtain high quality multiplex in situ hybridization data from Drosophila embryos and the second is to analy | National Science Foundation | 7/08/2009 |
| FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE | $496,579 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This grant funds two long run research projects examining different aspects of worker motivation. One involves looking at how different incentive schemes in the workplace affect employee motivation as well as how they might affect self selection into diff | National Science Foundation | 8/24/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS | $50,812 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This interdisciplinary study combines efforts from mathematicians and ecologists to develop more suitable models and modeling approaches that address issues of interest to both ecologists and resource managers. The specific objectives of this project are | National Science Foundation | 8/30/2009 |
| LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY, THE | $68,265 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Political psychology is a thriving field of inquiry with roots in political science and connections to a range of other social sciences. Political psychologists attempt to understand the psychological underpinnings, roots, and consequences of political be | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| KENT STATE UNIVERSITY | $289,872 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Little is currently known about how human and animal brains differ. While the human brain is unusually large, it is also known that even small structural cha | National Science Foundation | 8/10/2009 |
| BRYN MAWR COLLEGE | $209,156 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Multiple lines of evidence imply that the Early Triassic was a time of elevated atmospheric CO2 most likely resulting from the extreme volcanism of the Siberian Traps. At the same time, metazoan reefs disappeared from the fossil record until the Middle Tr | National Science Foundation | 9/24/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA | $200,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Everyday spatial behaviors in geographic space are essential activities in a person's life. Researchers have not yet developed instruments that sufficiently examine and evaluate these spatial behaviors, which include, among others, wayfinding, following d | National Science Foundation | 8/24/2009 |
| THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC | $190,409 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Intellectual merit of proposed research activity: Inflation is one of the most used concepts by economists, with a search for the term in research databases yielding thousands of matches. Most work in the area of price indices uses static models, e.g., of | National Science Foundation | 6/19/2009 |
| OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $195,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This study examines the interrelationships of feeding behavior, food texture and jaw bone structure in 8 monkey species. The research goals are 1) to improve understanding of the influence of physiological activity on bone structure generally and 2) to de | National Science Foundation | 9/10/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS | $57,894 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The root systems of terrestrial plants not only obtain nutrients and water, but provide critical physical support for the above ground portions of the plants. Some modern marine organisms, including algae and invertebrates, also have anchoring systems or | National Science Foundation | 7/26/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE | $127,432 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project will improve our ability to predict the access of solar energetic protons to Earth's magnetosphere and ionosphere. Solar energetic particle (SEP) events have strong space weather impacts and can change the radiation environment in the radiati | National Science Foundation | 9/14/2009 |
| HARVARD COLLEGE, PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF | $1,048,994 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Title: MRI: Development of a New Instrument to Observe Isotopic Fluxes of CH4 and CO2 from Arctic Melt Regions, to Link Carbon Fluxes, Climate Feedbacks and Sea Level Rise. New developments in the physical sciences are poised to make critically important | National Science Foundation | 8/03/2009 |
| URSINUS COLLEGE | $99,696 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This is a proposal to construct and test a liquid hydrogen target at Ursinus College for use with fast rare isotope beams. The design is based on an existing target developed at RIKEN in Japan. Drawings and technical details of the RIKEN target have been | National Science Foundation | 9/08/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE | $730,184 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The combined use of microscopy and high-resolution fluorescence imaging is a fundamental tool for exploration of the physical and biological world. This Major Research Instrumentation grant from the NSF provides the Dartmouth community with a state-of-the | National Science Foundation | 7/22/2009 |
| WHITMAN COLLEGE, INC | $407,932 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This National Science Foundation award through the Major Research Instrumentation program will allow the purchase of a scanning electron microscope (SEM) that will expand the imaging and micro-quantitative analysis capabilities of Whitman Colleges existin | National Science Foundation | 7/16/2009 |
| MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY, THE | $157,303 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Technical Summary: This project aims to develop a multimode optical microscope which will simultaneously reveal the structure and dynamics of soft and biological materials from various perspectives and across multiple length scales. The proposed instrumen | National Science Foundation | 9/08/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO, THE | $447,799 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Funding was provided to acquire a Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization Tandem Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometer (MALDI TOF/TOF MS) equipped with a LC-MALDI spotting system for general user access for research, education, and training. The instrument | National Science Foundation | 7/22/2009 |
| LAFAYETTE COLLEGE | $357,106 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This MRI requests a Cell-Scale Biotester 5000 biaxial materials testing system, Applied Biosystems (ABI) real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) analysis suite, and a Nikon Ti-E inverted C1 confocal laser scanning microscope. The Cell-Scale Biotester | National Science Foundation | 7/28/2009 |
| GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY (THE) | $108,596 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Technical Summary: Static and dynamic light scattering provide real-time, noninvasive characterization of molecular masses and/or particle sizes. They are powerful techniques for characterizing materials such as polymer dispersion, pigments, colloids, etc | National Science Foundation | 9/10/2009 |
| BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY (INC) | $481,976 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: With this award from the Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) program, the Ohio Laboratory for Kinetic Spectrometry and the Center for Photochemical Sciences at Bowling Green State University will acquire ultrafast spectroscopy instrumentation. The instru | National Science Foundation | 8/06/2009 |
| PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY | $238,943 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Funds from this grant will support the acquisition of a variable pressure cell equipped scanning electron microscope (VP-SEM) for geoscience research and education at Portland State University (PSU). The instrument will immediately impact the research pro | National Science Foundation | 7/24/2009 |
| MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY | $800,867 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This proposal will fund the purchase of one Thermo Scientific LTQ Velos Orbitrap mass spectrometer for quantifying and describing proteins and their modifications. Being able to do such work is a fundamental component for understanding the functional comp | National Science Foundation | 8/26/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON | $526,567 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Major Research Instrumentation (MRI)award funds the acquisition of a Genome Sequencer FLX System from 454 Life Sciences and Roche Applied Science to help meet the needs of an expanding group of genomics researchers at University of Texas Arlington an | National Science Foundation | 8/25/2009 |
| MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY | $463,399 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Funding is requested for two custom configured, versatile Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) instruments such as the Veeco BioScope II and MultiMode, which can perform all major scanning probe and force measurement techniques along with combined AFM and biolog | National Science Foundation | 8/21/2009 |
| WILLIAM MARSH RICE UNIVERSITY | $1,800,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This collaborative project, developing a mobile, open, and all-layers programmable platform for wireless communication systems research, supports the design, development, and dissemination of a community platform instrument, for collaborative architecting | National Science Foundation | 9/14/2009 |
| TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY-SAN MARCOS | $99,263 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Technical Summary: There is an emerging need to create meso-, micro-, and nano-scale structures on samples with arbitrary topography. This capability would enable the realization of new devices such as: sensors for vector quantities, charge-coupled device | National Science Foundation | 9/09/2009 |
| PURDUE UNIVERSITY | $421,528 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Investigators will develop a new kind of scanning probe microscope, based upon the dielectrophoretic force. The microscope that they will develop will allow the team to probe the surfaces of nanoscopic and biological samples without contact of the probe t | National Science Foundation | 7/26/2009 |
| COOLSPINE LLC | $499,952 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Intraventricular Cooling Catheter | National Science Foundation | 8/26/2009 |
| HARVARD COLLEGE, PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF | $361,200 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Cooperative Congressional Election Study is a collaboration of research teams from over 50 universities and colleges. Collectively these research teams have fielded national, stratified-sample surveys of 35,000 persons in 2006 and 37,000 persons in 20 | National Science Foundation | 9/14/2009 |
| CVISION TECHNOLOGIES, INC | $500,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the ARRA of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project involves development of real-time algorithms for Optical Character Recognition (OCR) from documents. This RT/OCR system, to be | National Science Foundation | 8/20/2009 |
| BROWN UNIVERSITY IN PROVIDENCE IN STATE OF RI AND PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS | $136,671 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). What do babies learn first -- sounds or words? The standard view is that infants learn sounds first. In order to represent words most efficiently, they mus | National Science Foundation | 8/20/2009 |
| SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $299,943 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Real-world decisions utilize both sensory evidence and 'top-down' signals. When buying a house, for example, sensory evidence might consist of the immediate | National Science Foundation | 8/16/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $592,116 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).Organic matter diagenesis, including protein diagenesis, is an important area for understanding the fate of sinking marine materials as well as the global oce | National Science Foundation | 8/12/2009 |
| LAFAYETTE COLLEGE | $149,775 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This International Research Experiences for Students(IRES) project, funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, provides an intensive summer experience for US undergraduate engineering students to develop improved methods to assess the sustai | National Science Foundation | 8/15/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN | $459,940 | 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 |
| THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC | $181,739 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Deciphering the origins of the giant large igneous provinces is a critical element for understanding mantle dynamics and its relation to terrestrial magmatism. Among a dozen or so large oceanic plateaus in the oceans Shatsky Rise is an important target be | National Science Foundation | 7/22/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA | $325,394 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Sexually-selected traits, such as horns, spurs, and bright feathers have attracted the notice of humans for centuries. During recent decades, knowledge of the processes of sexual selection has grown dramatically, yet much is still unknown. One major gap i | National Science Foundation | 7/20/2009 |
| PURDUE UNIVERSITY | $151,308 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This research addresses a multidisciplinary challenge at the intersection of sensing, environmental engineering and geotechnical engineering focused on obtaining valid and representative measurements of chlorinated solvents in the geoenvironment to faci | National Science Foundation | 7/20/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON SYSTEM | $175,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Chemically-amplified resists are required for high-throughput patterning of integrated circuits, but recent experimental and theoretical reports suggest that these systems cannot simultaneously achieve the required resolution, sensitivity, and line edge r | National Science Foundation | 7/19/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA | $523,818 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Continued investigation on differentiated congestion pricing, an innovative application enabled by iRoad. Mathematical models have been developed to optimize congestion charges with respect to drivers? travel characteristics. Recognizing that price differ | National Science Foundation | 9/08/2009 |
| VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE & STATE UNIVERSITY | $300,150 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Sprains of the knee ligaments are among the most common orthopedic injuries. They usually occur when the knee is forced beyond its normal range of motion, such as in a fall. They also happen when the knee experiences an impact, such as in a car accident o | National Science Foundation | 8/11/2009 |
| SENMATER TECHNOLOGY, LLC | $150,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: SenMater Technology, LLC is a newly founded small company located in Fayetteville, Arkansas. The mission of SenMater is to develop advanced sensing materials and materials-related novel technologies for electronic, photonics, medical and diagnostic | National Science Foundation | 6/11/2009 |
| JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY | $150,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This engineering education research award to James Madison University will integrate instruction in sustainability into design courses across three years of the undergraduate engineering curriculum. The project will develop methods for evaluating sustaina | National Science Foundation | 7/08/2009 |
| RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY | $315,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The purpose of this proposal is to start a new I/UCRC 'Integration of Composites into Infrastructure (CICI)' with a focus on ushering applications and cost-effective rehabilitation schemes using composites in civil and military structures. The lead instit | National Science Foundation | 7/08/2009 |
| SOUTH CAROLINA RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $315,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Collaborative Research: I/UCRC on Grid-Connected Advanced Power Electronic Systems (GRAPES) The purpose of this I/UCRC is to develop the new knowledge, tools, hardware, and personnel that will be required to pervasively insert power electronics into the 2 | National Science Foundation | 7/27/2009 |
| NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY | $1,499,934 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Kenan Fellows Program for Curriculum and Leadership Development, housed at the Kenan Institute for Engineering, Technology, & Science on the North Carolina State University (NC State) campus, is partnering with school districts in 11 counties, the Uni | National Science Foundation | 5/26/2009 |
| CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY LONG BEACH FOUNDATION | $74,913 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project is a planning grant with the ultimate goal of submitting a full proposal in spring 2010. The project involves science and mathematics educators, Los Angeles County Office of Education and an external evaluator. We will be determining the stru | National Science Foundation | 5/21/2009 |
| PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY | $600,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Portland State University (PSU) Robert Noyce Teacher Scholars Program, Phase II addresses the critical local and national need to expand the talent pool of teachers with science content knowledge, pedagogical skills and leadership capacity to improve | National Science Foundation | 6/23/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS | $900,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Department of Curriculum and Instruction and the Department of Mathematics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) are awarding Noyce Scholarships to 39 students, including 24 undergraduate mathematics majors and 15 postbaccalaureate | National Science Foundation | 6/23/2009 |
| PURDUE UNIVERSITY | $400,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This engineering education research award to Purdue University will employ researchers to develop a deeper understanding of key skills required by future engineers as well as assessment tools to measure these skills. Service-learning, which presents enorm | National Science Foundation | 7/02/2009 |
| VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE & STATE UNIVERSITY | $99,401 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This engineering education research award to Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in collaboration with University of Tennessee Knoxville will study learning, knowledge sharing, and participation in open-source communities to better underst | National Science Foundation | 8/03/2009 |
| PURDUE UNIVERSITY | $395,439 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This engineering education research award will study the progression of students through their choice of engineering major. In particular the study will address why students choose to enroll in one engineering discipline rather that another and what facto | National Science Foundation | 7/17/2009 |
| SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY | $390,772 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This engineering education research award to Syracuse University will employ researchers from the College of Engineering and Computer Science as well as College of Architecture to investigate new approaches to improved creative problem solving. They will | National Science Foundation | 6/30/2009 |
| PURDUE UNIVERSITY | $149,998 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This engineering education research award to Purdue University will study the attitudes and threshold concepts of first and second year engineering students towards the relationship between environmental sustainability and engineering. The study employs a | National Science Foundation | 7/20/2009 |
| TEXAS ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT STATION | $150,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This engineering education research award to Texas Engineering Experiment Station in collaboration with Saint Mary's University will employ researchers in the development of new methods and web-based tools to integrate design of automated manufacturing in | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY | $590,391 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: An innovative technique for improving seismic performance of steel beam-column connection with the advantages of the reduced beam section (RBS) connection, but with improved energy dissipation. Through a pilot study the concept is validated numerically at | National Science Foundation | 7/22/2009 |
| CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $200,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Division of Chemistry supports Michael Walter of California Institute of Technology (CalTech) as an American Competitiveness in Chemistry Fellow. Dr. Walter will investigate the preparation and characterization of metal treated aminophenylporphyrin fi | National Science Foundation | 9/18/2009 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | $230,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Professor Franz Geiger of Northwestern University is supported by the Analytical and Surface Chemistry Program in the Division of Chemistry to develop a label-free non-linear optical imaging voltmeter for interrogating fluid/solid interfaces. Using this i | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $140,743 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).A request is made to fund additional and back-up instrumentation on the R/V Thomas Thompson, a 274? general purpose Global research vessel and the R/V Cliffor | National Science Foundation | 9/08/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE | $586,040 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This NSF award is for Shipboard Science Support Equipment aboard the R/V Hugh R. Sharp. This award includes a ship anti-roll stabilization system, repair and upgrades to the existing Caley CTD system and an up-grade to the existing starboard trawl winch r | National Science Foundation | 9/08/2009 |
| RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE | $1,100,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The goal of this project is to design and implement a software toolkit and ready-to-go application plugins that are able to encode and understand the underlying meaning of data, information, and science concepts in a familiar vocabulary. Both experts and | National Science Foundation | 9/16/2009 |
| THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC | $1,134,047 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The proposal requests numerous Shipboard Scientific Support (SSSE) items for the vessels operated by the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO); namely the R/V MARCUS LANGSETH. The requests specifically include items that have been recommended from past | National Science Foundation | 8/12/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, THE | $2,000,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This is stimulus funding from the National Science Foundation, which will be used toward supporting student fellows in the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program. It will be disbursed over 3 years, so approximately $666,666/year, and is used for stipend | National Science Foundation | 8/12/2009 |
| PURDUE UNIVERSITY | $1,000,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) helps ensure the vitality of the human resource base of science and engineering in the United States and reinforces its diversity. The program recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF | National Science Foundation | 8/12/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES | $1,000,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Graduate research fellowship program. | National Science Foundation | 8/12/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS | $1,228,750 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: No abstract available. This is a Graduate Research Fellowship award covering academic years 2009 - 2012. | National Science Foundation | 8/11/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA | $1,000,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Graduate Research Fellowship Program | National Science Foundation | 8/12/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS | $200,002 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The spacetime discontinuous Galerkin (SDG) method is a new computational technology whose novel mathematical framework leads to algorithms that have the potential for signi?cant impact in a wide variety of application disciplines wherever high-resolution | National Science Foundation | 9/17/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA | $289,352 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: More than one-half of the global human population now lives in cities. In the U.S., Sun Belt cities like Tampa are growing rapidly, but rapidly growing cities consume more natural resources than they produce. Urban ecosystems rely on the redistribution an | National Science Foundation | 9/25/2009 |
| ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY | $179,927 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The aim of the proposed research is to explore cyber-infrastructure that will enable and promote large scale collaboration in building, maintaining, and using (towards discovery) scientific knowledge bases that are grounded in published literature. Althou | National Science Foundation | 8/31/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $53,956 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).The objective of this research project is to advance the vision of a universal bio-signal acquisition system-on-chip (SoC). Such a system would have the abili | National Science Foundation | 8/07/2009 |
| MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY | $253,997 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This is a planning grant with the objective to encourage and assist the military veterans population in entering STEM fields of study (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) through a national, geographically distributed, consortium of univers | National Science Foundation | 8/18/2009 |
| PURDUE UNIVERSITY | $127,997 | 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 | 9/10/2009 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $750,402 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Dr. Hector Arce (Yale University) will provide an unprecedented observational data set that will be used to study the evolution of the dense gas intimately involved in the star formation process. The goal of the project is to establish how infall and outf | National Science Foundation | 8/08/2009 |
| OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY | $199,978 | 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 purpose of this proposal is to acquire Optically Stimulated Luminescence (OSL) dates from whole cobbles within raised beach ridges and boulder pavements | National Science Foundation | 6/09/2009 |
| BERKELEY GEOCHRONOLOGY CENTER | $119,028 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The proposed project will investigate the coldest and driest parts of the Transantarctic Mountains (Ong Valley at Nimrod Glacier and Moraine Canyon at Amunds | National Science Foundation | 8/17/2009 |
| MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY STUDENT GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION SCHOLAR, THE | $75,817 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is for a pilot study on Antarctic diamictite samples from two cores in the Ross Sea area. Core samples are collected at the Antarctic Research facility at Florida State University by a graduate student and the faculty. Samples locations for one | National Science Foundation | 6/12/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA ANCHORAGE | $196,556 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Marine mammals of the Southern Ocean have evolved diverse life history patterns and foraging strategies to accommodate extreme fluctuations in the physical and biological environment. In light of ongoing climate change and the dramatic shifts in the exte | National Science Foundation | 7/06/2009 |
| RECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA | $114,294 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project will investigate the structure of several classes of groups defined by generators and relations, including Golod-Shafarevich groups and Kac-Moody groups. The Principal Investigator will study various asymptotic invariants for these groups (e. | National Science Foundation | 9/14/2009 |
| TOYOTA TECHNOLOGICAL INSTITUTE AT CHICAGO | $438,830 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Project Name: RI: Medium: Collaborative Research: Explicit Articulatory Models of Spoken Language, with Application to Automatic Speech Recognition ------ Project Description: One of the main challenges in automatic speech recognition is variability | National Science Foundation | 6/26/2009 |
| WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY | $100,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: To study two hybrid organic/inorganicsystems for which the effects of employing IPM Materials will specifically address a primary limitation in each system. The first is in organic nonvolatile memory devices, where the use of IPMs can lead to increased r | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| RECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA | $91,786 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: In plants, the distinction between species is often not complete, allowing for the production of hybrids that frequently perform poorly. Conversely, within a single species, genetic differentiation may develop between isolated populations resulting in poo | National Science Foundation | 8/17/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MAINE SYSTEM | $725,700 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The International Trans Antarctic Scientific Expedition (ITASE) was formed with the goal of understanding the past 200-1000+ years of physical and chemical climate over Antarctica and adjacent reaches of the Southern Ocean. ITASE has resulted in an array | National Science Foundation | 5/22/2009 |
| MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY STUDENT GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION SCHOLAR, THE | $119,406 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project will construct a geomagnetic paleointensity record from the Shaldril NBP05-02 sediment core collected from Maxwell Bay, Antarctic Peninsula. This core contains the rare combination of a strongly-magnetic silty-clay lithology and contains bio | National Science Foundation | 6/12/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM | $148,860 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Global climate change is altering polar marine ecosystems through rising temperatures and ocean acidification. Benthic communities in Antarctica face an additional threat: the unprecedented, climatically driven invasion of predators from temperate and sub | National Science Foundation | 8/18/2009 |
| ST. OLAF COLLEGE | $348,184 | 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 RAGES project (Robotic Access to Grounding zones for Exploration and Science) is one of three research components of the WISSARD (Whillans Ice Stream Sub | National Science Foundation | 8/21/2009 |
| OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $197,814 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Ross Sea is a highly productive area within the Southern Ocean, but it experiences substantial variability in both physical (temperature, ice concentrations, salinity, winds and curent velocities) and biogeochemical (chlorophyll, productivity, mocronu | National Science Foundation | 8/05/2009 |
| SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY | $698,837 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award supports a project to make continuous major ion analyses in the West Antarctica Ice Sheet Divide (WAIS Divide) ice core by sampling the brittle ice zone (approximately from 500 m to 1500 m). The intellectual merit of the project is that these w | National Science Foundation | 5/22/2009 |
| ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITIES FOR RESEARCH IN ASTRONOMY INC | $5,600,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Infrastructure Improvements at the National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO): NOAO, a Federally Funded Research and Development Center under a Cooperative Agreement with the National Science Foundation, is charged with the oversight and management o | National Science Foundation | 9/03/2009 |
| PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE | $363,137 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Broad-scale investigations of the ecological consequences of changing climate and seasonality in the Arctic are imperative to improving our understanding t | National Science Foundation | 6/25/2009 |
| PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE | $267,758 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Of the planet?s ecosystems the Arctic is the most sensitive to climate change. Recent increases in the rate of environmental change in the Arctic pose consi | National Science Foundation | 7/24/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA ANCHORAGE | $502,530 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Arctic is undergoing structural & functional changes that appear to be the result of climate change, including shifts in vegetation distribution, increases in CO2 & CH4 efflux from ecosystems to the atmosphere, and the acceleration of dissolved organi | National Science Foundation | 7/16/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, THE | $500,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Dr. Begelman will study the formation and growth of the most massive black holes in the cosmos. These are the powerhouses for the luminous active nuclei that are found at the centers of luminous galaxies. The black holes must grow rapidly, since luminous | National Science Foundation | 8/08/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII SYSTEMS | $2,847,171 | 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 Akamai Workforce Initiative (AWI) is an interdisciplinary project that partners the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy, the Center for Adaptive | National Science Foundation | 7/31/2009 |
| VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY, THE | $1,075,873 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The PI will execute an integrated research plan to address several problems that are at the forefront of supermasslve black hole research: 1. How supermassive black holes merge, 2. How supermasslve black hole growth is influenced by the galaxy environment | National Science Foundation | 8/11/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS | $304,158 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Title : The Observations of Redshift Evolution in Large Scale Environments (ORELSE) Survey This program centers on the Observations of Redshift Evolution in Large Scale Environments (ORELSE) survey, a systematic search for structure on scales greater tha | National Science Foundation | 9/01/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND | $187,178 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: RUI: Preparing for the era of the cosmic microwave background polarimetry. The investigations funded by this award will address several timely questions about the analysis and interpretation of observations of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiat | National Science Foundation | 6/16/2009 |
| NEW YORK UNIVERSITY | $232,350 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Collaborative Research: Tracking Galaxy Growth with 200,000 Spectroscopic Redshifts | National Science Foundation | 9/08/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, THE | $456,663 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Neptune?s atmosphere is one of the most dynamically active atmospheres in our solar system, and yet it is (still) poorly constrained. In order to gain a better understanding of the global circulation in this atmosphere, new sets of observations are propos | National Science Foundation | 5/29/2012 |
| UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA | $252,489 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The award will be used to fund the research on recently discovered very high energy gamma-ray sources. Working together, UF and Penn Sate teams will carry out a systematic multiwavelength analysis of all available archival data to determine the properties | National Science Foundation | 7/02/2009 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, THE | $291,577 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: We propose to further investigate the formation and evolution of asteroids, comets, and planetary bodies in young exo-systems, by comparing astrophysical mid-infrared observations of dust in exo-solar circumstellar disks to planetary astronomy studies of | National Science Foundation | 8/27/2009 |
| SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION | $378,630 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Dr. Di Stefano and her co-investigators will use gravitational lensing to explore the local neighborhood of the Galaxy, the region within 1 kiloparsec.and will develop methods to identify local neuron stars, to measure their masses and transverse velociti | National Science Foundation | 9/28/2009 |
| PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE | $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). Dr Charlton and her collaborators will conduct a multi-wavelength survey of twelve nearby Hickson compact groups of galaxies. Space-based infrared, optical | National Science Foundation | 9/04/2009 |
| ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITIES FOR RESEARCH IN ASTRONOMY INC | $3,100,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 'This award will be used to augment the project team with key staff to complete the design efforts, prepare for construction start, support recommended risk reductions and assist in vendor contracting preparation in support of the construction phase. The | National Science Foundation | 7/16/2009 |
| RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, THE | $548,106 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project will use the opportunity afforded by the PRE-Depression Investigation of Cloud-systems in the Tropics (PREDICT) field experiment, currently planned for August and September 2010, to investigate the pre-genesis and genesis of North Atlantic tr | National Science Foundation | 9/14/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI | $424,576 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Research over the past few decades has established that much and perhaps most of the interannual to interdecadal variation of tropical cyclone activity integrated over ocean basins is controlled by the large-scale atmospheric and oceanic environment in wh | National Science Foundation | 6/18/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $302,336 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Low-frequency atmospheric variability, with time scales from one week to a few months, will be studied by identifying a small number of flow states that per | National Science Foundation | 6/24/2009 |
| THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK | $296,811 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Improved forecasting of orographic precipitation requires continued integration of theory, field studies, and long term observations. While much of the previous work on orographic precipitation has focused on steady-state processes, little work has been d | National Science Foundation | 9/10/2009 |
| NORTHWEST RESEARCH ASSOCIATES, INC. | $165,336 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project aims to conduct a comprehensive investigation of meteoric smoke particles in the polar mesosphere using D-region observations from the Poker Flat incoherent scatter radar (PFISR) in Alaska as well as extensive measurements previously obtained | National Science Foundation | 9/01/2009 |
| UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY | $360,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The increased concentration of greenhouse gases in the upper atmosphere is associated with global warming in lower troposphere. It has been suggested that the increasing amounts of these radiatively active gases would lead to global cooling in the upper a | National Science Foundation | 9/14/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO | $300,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 'The project will combine field and modeling investigations to address how the physico-chemical properties of long range transported African dust (LRTAD) aerosol influence Caribbean cloud properties and precipitation levels in a unique Puerto Rican tropic | National Science Foundation | 6/12/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT ASHEVILLE | $472,103 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project employs time-intensive radio astronomical observations to study rapidly varying phenomena. The Dedicated Interferometer for Rapid Variability (DIRV) at the Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute (PARI) will be used to observe intraday variab | National Science Foundation | 8/26/2009 |
| WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY | $146,905 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project is a collaborative biodiversity informatics that builds on strengths at the MT James Entomological Collections (JEC) at Washington State Univrsity and Western Washington University. This project will complete the computerization, georeferenc | National Science Foundation | 8/21/2009 |
| RECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA | $675,085 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: In this experimental program highly excited atoms are exposed to microwave fields with two goals. The first is to understand how a many level atomic system interacts with a radiation field over a broad range of atomic states, from one in which the frequen | National Science Foundation | 7/07/2009 |
| RECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA | $139,876 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Functional integrals were introduced by R. P. Feynman as a conceptual tool for the understanding of the quantum field theory of elementary particle physics. They provide a bridge from classical mechanics and field theory to their quantum counterparts. The | National Science Foundation | 6/17/2009 |
| RECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA | $569,426 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Non-technical: The project addresses basic research issues in a topical area of materials and chemical sciences with technological relevance. The success of this project is likely to have impacts on the advancement of the emerging area of spintronics and | National Science Foundation | 6/08/2009 |
| OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY | $1,150,566 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Using a participatory action research model the research team will investigate the roles, strengths, and needs of Alaska Native grandparents residing in rur | National Science Foundation | 8/28/2009 |
| WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY | $137,481 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The goal of this project is to develop and test a new method for measuring the rate of metamorphic processes including nucleation, growth, and strain. We hypothesize that the Mn content of garnet subvolumes will correlate with age. We propose to combine | National Science Foundation | 6/04/2009 |
| OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY | $306,768 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). On March 24, 1989, the tanker vessel Exxon Valdez ran aground on Bligh Reef, a well-marked navigational hazard in the Valdez Arm of Prince William Sound (PW | National Science Foundation | 9/09/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS | $94,902 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Using pollen to assess local environmental variation during the viking age | National Science Foundation | 6/29/2009 |
| INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY | $999,990 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Postdoctoral Program in theoretical and observational astrophysics | National Science Foundation | 5/27/2009 |
| NEW YORK UNIVERSITY | $351,470 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Collaborative Research: Integrative Study of Marine Ice Sheet Stability and Subglacial Life Habitats - Robotic Access to Grounding-zones. | National Science Foundation | 8/21/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII SYSTEMS | $377,634 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 'This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).'An interdisciplinary team of researchers will focus on describing the high productivity patchiness observed in phytoplankton blooms in the mid to late summe | National Science Foundation | 8/18/2009 |
| NORTHWEST RESEARCH ASSOCIATES, INC. | $750,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The project will employ a sophisticated meteor radar at the Brazilian Antarctic station Comandante Ferraz on King George Island for a number of synergetic research efforts of high interest to the international aeronomical community. The location of the ra | National Science Foundation | 8/06/2009 |
| NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $149,338 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This study propose to use data collected from 2008 (and ongoing) to study CIR signatures at high geomagnetic latitudes. 2008 is a period of extremely low solar activity as compared to the past few solar cycles, sllowing one to study CIRs apart from afore | National Science Foundation | 8/20/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, THE | $991,956 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: A three-year interdisciplinary research program will be undertaken at Cape Espenberg, located on the northern coast of the Seward Peninsula (Alaska), with a focus on the history of human settlement and response to climate change between AD 800 and 1400. D | National Science Foundation | 5/28/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, THE | $1,968,016 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award supports the continued development of the Exchange for Local Observations and Knowledge of the Arctic (ELOKA). It provides data management and user support to facilitate the collection, preservation, exchange, and use of local observations and | National Science Foundation | 8/13/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, THE | $150,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: On March 24, 1989, the tanker vessel Exxon Valdez ran aground on Bligh Reef, a well-marked navigational hazard in the Valdez Arm of Prince William Sound (PWS), Alaska spilling 11 million gallons of crude oil into the surrounding ecosytem. In various ways, | National Science Foundation | 7/17/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA ANCHORAGE | $545,143 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award will support the continued implementation of the Bering Sea Sub Network (BSSN), a regional initiative of community-based organizations in Western Alaska and Northeast Russia. The 'Intellectual Merit' of BSSN lies in its operation as a distribu | National Science Foundation | 8/26/2009 |
| WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION | $5,274,224 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: AON: Continuing the Beaufort Gyre Observing System to Document and Enhance Understanding Environmental Change in the Arctic | National Science Foundation | 6/18/2009 |
| RFCUNY - JOHN JAY COLLEGE OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE | $560,166 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project includes 30 months of interdisciplinary research aimed at understanding how people in Arctic Communities form social connections in response to high levels of social change. The research will take place in the communities of Nain and Goose Ba | National Science Foundation | 7/14/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH THE | $299,842 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: A three year study is proposed to reconstruct the Holocene Paleomagnetic records of the Arctic and investigate linkages with regional climate using lake core studies. At present, there are no terrestrial Arctic paleomagnetic data to the west of the histo | National Science Foundation | 8/14/2009 |
| WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION | $533,676 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Collaborative Research: A Winter Expedition to Explore the Biological and Physical Conditions of the Bering, Chukchi and Southern Beaufort Seas | National Science Foundation | 8/26/2009 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF AKRON | $664,657 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This study will look at the relationships between the planktonic food web of the Barents Sea and changing sea-ice conditiions. It will focus on the role of microzooplankton (MZP), which have been suggested to be more important herbivores than the larger | National Science Foundation | 7/31/2009 |
| RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK | $572,430 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: ARRA - TRANS-NSF RECOVERY ACT RESEARCH SUPPORT | National Science Foundation | 8/26/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS SYSTEM | $273,750 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This award will establish a new Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site at the University of Arkansas. Ten REU students work with faculty on peer- | National Science Foundation | 6/09/2009 |
| THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK | $294,454 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Dr. Michal Simon and students will undertake a project to explore the formation of single and binary stars. The research will provide theorists with precisely measured masses of young stars to enable critical tests of theoretical calculations of early ste | National Science Foundation | 6/08/2009 |
| GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC. | $894,115 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Intellectual Merit: The question, Who are our neighbors? is addressed from many different angles by this proposal, focusing on discovering and characterizing the fainter members of the solar neighborhood G?? red dwarfs, white dwarfs, brown dwarfs, and ext | National Science Foundation | 5/21/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI SYSTEM | $280,630 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Intellectual Merit: Silicate dust plays an essential role in many astrophysical environments. The 'amorphous' silicate spectral features have been observed in our solar system, young stellar objects, star formation regions, novae, and the diffuse and dens | National Science Foundation | 9/15/2009 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, THE | $399,955 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Through this award, Dr. Pascucci, along with students and collaborators, will complete an on-going ground-based campaign to spectrally resolve bright gas emission lines detected with the Spitzer Space Telescope toward many protoplanetary disks. These obse | National Science Foundation | 5/27/2009 |
| SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY | $603,764 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The project is designed to support for development of major research instrumentation: CHIRON (CTIO High Resolution Spectrometer.) | National Science Foundation | 8/11/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, THE | $154,025 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: A major objective of the Geospace Environment Modeling (GEM) Focus Group on Space Radiation Climatology is to investigate the relationships between interplanetary conditions and trapped radiation belt particles and how these relationships change on long t | National Science Foundation | 6/05/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, THE | $574,785 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project aims to better delineate the global manifestations of non-migrating tides from the stratosphere through the thermosphere and to better determine the origin of the non-migrating tides which is largely in the troposphere. The investigation of t | National Science Foundation | 8/12/2009 |
| WVHTC FOUNDATION | $475,117 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Magnetohydrodynamic Modeling of Current Sheet Structure and Magnetic Reconnection Using a Realistic Description of Transport Processes | National Science Foundation | 7/02/2009 |
| SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION | $347,988 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: REU Program in Solar Physics. The students' main activity is carrying out individual research projects in Solar Physics under the supervision of CFA staff scientist for ten weeks during the summer. Most of the projects involve the analysis of data from sp | National Science Foundation | 6/24/2009 |
| RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK | $340,350 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: RECOVERY ACT Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) is a collaboration of the City University of New York (CUNY) and the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) creating the Center for Global Climate Research (CGCR). | National Science Foundation | 6/19/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY ENTERPRISES, INC. | $257,795 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Further development of solid phase microextraction (SPME) techniques for the successful sampling and analysis of biogenic sesquiterpenes (SQTs) emitted from vegetation. The key result of the work will be published data describing emissions of SQTs and re | National Science Foundation | 6/17/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI | $96,700 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The objective of this proposal is to strengthen our understanding of the atmospheric chemistry of nitrous acid (HONO) and nitric acid (HNO3) in forested environments. Understanding the behavior of atmospheric HONO and HNO3 is very important for understand | National Science Foundation | 6/10/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY SYSTEM OF NEW HAMPSHIRE | $113,818 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This University of New Hampshire team has recently developed a fully automated version of a popular and familiar shock analysis code, based on the solution of the Rankine-Hugoniot relations, creating a tool that is accessible via the internet. The code ut | National Science Foundation | 9/01/2009 |
| CSU CHICO RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $554,585 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 3-year research project will test the ability of a high performance aerosol lidar to measure the wind in the lower atmosphere. The project will also evaluate the usefulness of the lidar in frontiers in microscale atmospheric research. If shown to be able | National Science Foundation | 9/01/2009 |
| NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $277,983 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Study of the evolution of coronal magnetic configuration and the corresponding free magnetic energy is the key to understanding and forecasting solar explosive phenomena such as flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs). We propose a 3-year program aiming | National Science Foundation | 9/14/2009 |
| SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY | $41,291 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is a collaboration between SIUC and the Storm Peak Laboratory. It supports gas samples collected in western Colorado forests that have been infested with the mountain pine beetle. Forest emit volatile organic compounds (VOCs) that react with a | National Science Foundation | 6/17/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO | $1,999,440 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 'G??The Low Level Underwater Multispectral Imaging System (LUMIS) design was finalized by Marine Physical Lab (MPL) personnel at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and fabrication was begun. After testing, more powerful fluorescence strobes were need | National Science Foundation | 8/25/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL | $447,492 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Longitudinal Development of African American English and its Role in School Achievement This research examines the development of African American English (AAE) from childhood through adolescence and its potential impact on literacy acquisition based | National Science Foundation | 9/18/2009 |
| NEW YORK UNIVERSITY | $833,965 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: CAREER: Testing a Memory-Systems Model of the Expression and Reduction of Racial Prejudice: A Plan for Research and Training | National Science Foundation | 7/02/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $39,578 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Absolute dates and ages for key geomorphic events in the Midwest U.S. are sorely lacking, mainly because of the paucity of wood in glacial deposits for radiocarbon dating. This coallaborative research project will address the paucity of geochronoligic in | National Science Foundation | 8/05/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS | $399,755 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Logitudinal Investigation of Maternal Influences on Infant Outcomes Mediated by Physiological Investment and Behavioral Care during Lactation in Rhesus Macaques (Macaca Mulatta). | National Science Foundation | 8/24/2009 |
| OHIO UNIVERSITY | $134,437 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The proliferation of multiple cores on the same die has given rise to communication-centric systems, wherein the design of the interconnection network has become extremely important. To address the growing wire delay problems and improve performance in CM | National Science Foundation | 7/30/2009 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $145,416 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The pervasive and growing influence of humans on ecosystem functioning and the concurrent decrease in the extent of 'natural' areas have prompted a reconceptualization of the long-term study of ecosystems to include a human dimension. Human systems intera | National Science Foundation | 9/25/2009 |
| HASKINS LABORATORIES, INC. | $329,995 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This research project develops analytical/mathematical and computational modeling tools for evaluating the fit between theoretically posited syllabic parses and experimental data on the timing or coordination of speech movements registered from speakers o | National Science Foundation | 9/18/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII SYSTEMS | $133,363 | 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 |
| COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY ASSOCIATION, INC. | $999,253 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: We are requesting funding for the creation of a next generation sequencing center, dedicated to plant genomics. Such centers were recently called for by a report on the plant genome project by the National Research Council. We will use the facility for | National Science Foundation | 8/12/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE | $289,399 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Intellectual merit: High-level computation is a necessity of much modern research in chemistry. In particular, electronic structure calculations have become a vital tool for inorganic, organic, and biochemical research. UC Irvine Chemistry is a top resear | National Science Foundation | 7/31/2009 |
| LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM | $105,402 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The award is for purchase of a CD Spectrophotometer for use in the Louisiana State University College of Basic Sciences' Protein Facilty. The new equipment will serve the research needs of multiple laboratories. | National Science Foundation | 8/02/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH THE | $750,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Experimental and Theoretical Investigations of Electrostatic Interactions and Ordering in Highly Charged Colloidal Assemblies We aim to unveil the form of the fundamental electrostatic interactions by direct measurements of electrostatic interactions usi | National Science Foundation | 7/02/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO | $269,097 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project focuses on the development of a novel method for the formation of organocatalysts using the self-assembly of designed precatalyst modules and its application in asymmetric catalysis. While organocatalysts have been shown to rival the traditio | National Science Foundation | 8/07/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE | $435,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Title: Low-Valent Chromium - Molecules, Reactivity and Catalysis This award supports research on synthetic and mechanistic organometallic chemistry of chromium. | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO | $390,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project will continue work on the further development of Ir(I)-catalyzed enantioselective decarboxylative allylic amidation reaction and the corresponding intermolecular allylic amidation reaction, with particular emphasis on their synthetic utility | National Science Foundation | 7/22/2009 |
| VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY | $590,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The primary objective of this research is to gain fundamental information and new knowledge on the formation and growth mechanisms of complex organics including polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), oligomers and polymers in the gas phase, in clusters | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM | $490,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project aims to synthesize and evaluate a new series of fluorescent dyes for potential applications in bioimaging, in bioanalyses or in medicine. These new materials offer a number of unique opportunities compared with currently available dyes; they | National Science Foundation | 5/29/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE | $150,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: SGER: Single Nanoparticle Surface Plasmon Resonance Imaging Proposed here is the development and demonstration of single particle surface plasmon resonance spectroscopy probes of local dielectric constant for label free imaging of nanostructures. Placing | National Science Foundation | 5/26/2009 |
| CLAREMONT MCKENNA COLLEGE | $483,521 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: MRI:Acquisition of a 500 MHz NMR to Support Teaching and Research with Undergraduates | National Science Foundation | 7/29/2009 |
| DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT | $361,291 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: NON-TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION: Magnetic ceramic nanoparticles will be studied in this project to explore their interesting physico-chemical properties and their prospective applications in catalysis and gas sensing. Enhanced device performance is expected fo | National Science Foundation | 8/06/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON | $120,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Characterization of the magnetic distortions in closed-circuit magnetic measurements will be investigated by University of Dayton researchers. These distortions were reported for the first time by us in 2008, and the physics behind the phenomenon is not w | National Science Foundation | 6/29/2009 |
| TEMPLE UNIVERSITY-OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION | $306,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded by the Division of Materials Research and the Chemistry Division. It supports theoretical research and education on how oligomer/polymer films interact with and emit light. The PI aims to investigate fundamental excitations in organic | National Science Foundation | 8/07/2009 |
| PRESIDENT & TRUSTEES OF WILLIAMS COLLEGE | $303,300 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The award will be used for an AFM system for use by multiple research groups in multiple departments at Williams College. There are a number of ongoing research projects that will be enhanced by the acquisition of an AFM; in addition, a number of new col | National Science Foundation | 8/20/2009 |
| WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY (INC) | $580,777 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The present proposal seeks funding to purchase a JEOL JSM-7600F Thermal Field Emission (FE) Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) (or equivelent) for interdisciplinary Nanotechnology research and teaching at Wayne State University. This proposed instrument | National Science Foundation | 8/20/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO | $3,250,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: To provide support for projects/initiatives funded under The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA). This project will provide economic stimulus to the nation while furthering the NSF mission to promote the progress of science; and to advan | National Science Foundation | 8/24/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE | $145,792 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Mathematical models taking both deterministic and stochastic factors into account are becoming increasingly important in science and technology. These models, as a rule, are rather complicated. Oftentimes, they include many parameters characterizing the s | National Science Foundation | 5/29/2009 |
| TEMPLE UNIVERSITY-OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION | $100,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The principal investigators propose to undertake a systematic development of a theory for elliptic partial differential equations on a compact manifold with singularities of edge type. The core of the project is a precise description of boundary value pro | National Science Foundation | 7/17/2009 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF AKRON | $70,907 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project aims to study a class of dynamical systems on the Wasserstein space of probability measures corresponding to some fundamental systems of partial differential equations in fluid and quantum mechanics. A nice feature of the Wasserstein space a | National Science Foundation | 8/30/2009 |
| CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY | $118,951 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project is in the field of asymptotic geometric analysis, which deals with high-dimensional phenomena in convex geometry and functional analysis, and more specifically in applications of probability theory in this field. The project has two separate | National Science Foundation | 6/16/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA | $434,943 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Predicting the behavior of an individual amidst a large number of other people, such as a player in a multiplayer online game or a pedestrian in an urban scene, poses a difficult challenge. This is because an agent's actions are strongly influenced by oth | National Science Foundation | 6/17/2009 |
| RFCUNY - JOHN JAY COLLEGE OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE | $489,161 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: RECOVERY ACT RESEARCH SUPPORT as an NSF CAREER award studying Authentication and Privacy in Location-based Services such as Google maps | National Science Foundation | 6/10/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, THE | $350,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The multidisciplinary research team assembled for this proposal will apply an integrated chemical, biological, and hydrological approach in field and laboratory studies to investigate the relationships between nutrient loading, endocrine-disrupting compou | National Science Foundation | 9/16/2009 |
| WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE | $50,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The goal of this project is to examine the breakup and vaporization of liquid droplets in supersonic flow using numerical simulations and to complement an experimental study funded by a companion award (to the University of Washington). The simulations wi | National Science Foundation | 8/17/2009 |
| LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM | $299,093 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The overall goal of this project is to develop a technical and economically feasible method to obtain and extract high energy storage products from microalgae through environmentally friendly processes. This goal will be achieved by testing the following | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, THE | $350,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Project Summary. The project is aimed at the full demonstration of an intermediate-band solar cell based on the recently discovered multi-band semiconductor alloy AlyGa1-yAs1-xNx. The research to be undertaken targets fundamental questions in photovoltaic | National Science Foundation | 7/02/2009 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $316,497 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Structured illumination(SI) is one of a new generation of techniques which have recently been demonstrated to break the diffraction limit in microscopy. The SI approach to super-resolution involves illuminating the object with a spatial frequency carrier | National Science Foundation | 8/28/2009 |
| FURMAN UNIVERSITY | $260,866 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 'MRI: Acquisition of a Quartz Crystal Microbalance and a Dynamic Light Scattering Apparatus for Undergraduate Education' This grant will support for the acquisition of a Quartz Crystal Microbalance (QCM) and a Dynamic Light Scattering (DLS) Apparatus. T | National Science Foundation | 9/02/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS | $430,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Funds will support research into boosting the sensitivity and lowering the power consumption of micro-electromechanical systems, or MEMS. The improvements of these tiny sensor devices that are embedded into semiconductor chips will benefit a wide range of | National Science Foundation | 6/19/2009 |
| CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY | $450,001 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This CAREER proposal will be awarded using funds made available by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5), and meets the requirements established in Section 2 of the White House Memorandum entitled, Ensuring Responsible Spen | National Science Foundation | 7/01/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI SYSTEM | $430,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: CAREER: Fabrication of Surface Modified Hydroxyapatite Nanofibers and their Composites | National Science Foundation | 7/02/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, THE | $365,502 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The global climate crisis, coupled with the rising cost and growing scarcity of oil, mean that cities throughout the world need to more actively embrace greener, more sustainable modes of transport, including public transit, bicycles and walking. But for | National Science Foundation | 7/15/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY SYSTEM OF NEW HAMPSHIRE | $528,395 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The research objective of this award is to non-intrusively measure cutting forces during milling at sufficient bandwidth to enable closed-loop control. The research approach consists of extending finite difference time domain methods to accurately model t | National Science Foundation | 5/21/2009 |
| BRADLEY UNIVERSITY | $406,467 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: MRI: Acquisition of a High Speed Imaging System for Fundamental and Applied Research/Teaching at Bradley University | National Science Foundation | 7/17/2009 |
| PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE | $190,240 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Abrasivity is an important property of soil which it is often overlooked due to its less than critical impact in many applications, including construction p | National Science Foundation | 7/09/2009 |
| IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY | $99,913 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: A critical component of earthquake and tsunami loss reduction is the accurate prediction and design of the response of pile-soil systems under dynamic loading. Despite many years of significant advances in theoretical and experimental research, significan | National Science Foundation | 7/17/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS | $29,995 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The objective of this study is to develop a photopatternable superhydrophobic nanocomposite coating to achieve a moisture-resistant surface using an innovative micro-condensation principle, mimicking nature. The presence of the biomimetic micropatterned s | National Science Foundation | 8/06/2009 |
| WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY | $246,918 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This EAGER program seeks to achieve a substantial increase in knowledge of the healthcare services aimed at improved sustainability decision-making. The initial focus is on patterns of energy consumption. | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| NEW YORK UNIVERSITY | $410,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: CAREER: A Low-Cost Efficient Wireless Architecture for Rural Network Connectivity | National Science Foundation | 9/15/2009 |
| CLEMSON UNIVERSITY | $272,616 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award provides funding for a new Research Experiences for Undergraduate site focused on human-centered computing at Clemson University. The objective of the REU site is to provide talented undergraduate students genuine research experiences through i | National Science Foundation | 6/24/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, THE | $320,510 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: REU-Research Experiences for Undergraduates Site for Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval. Broaden intellectual horizon of participants through exposure to opportunities available. Utilize a combination of theor | National Science Foundation | 6/22/2009 |
| AUBURN UNIVERSITY | $189,284 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Collaborative Research: CRI-RUI: II-New Attract: Aerial and Terrestrial Testbed for Research in Aerospace, Computing and Mathematics - The objective of this project is to inspire students at Tuskegee University and Auburn University in mathematics, aero | National Science Foundation | 8/01/2009 |
| CLARKSON UNIVERSITY | $480,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The project develops cryptographic protocol reasoning techniques that take into account algebraic properties of cryptosystems. Traditionally, formal methods for cryptographic protocol verification view cryptographic operations as a black box, ignoring the | National Science Foundation | 7/14/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS | $789,991 | 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 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA | $420,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The growing popularity of wireless networks at the periphery of the Internet, combined with the need for ubiquitous access to video on demand (VoD) applications, calls for a new generation of video streaming technology. This research is investigating tech | National Science Foundation | 7/20/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH THE | $290,092 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Human-observer based methods for measuring human motion are labor intensive, qualitative, and difficult to standardize across laboratories, clinical settings, and over time. Moreover, many conditions that affect normal human movements must be diagnosed du | National Science Foundation | 9/05/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE | $245,244 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Grant to study climate change effects on sand dune restoration using lab and field experiments and field surveys, with scientific papers and management recommendations being the main outputs and outcomes. | National Science Foundation | 7/13/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA | $398,794 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Genome evolution in natural populations and synthetic lines of allopolyploids in Tragopogon (Asteraceae) Most of what we know about the genetic and genomic consequences of polyploidy (genome doubling) is derived from the study of crops, synthetic polyplo | National Science Foundation | 8/04/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $263,725 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The research objective of this award is to advance the manufacture, the fundamental understanding, and the device application of graphene-nanocrystal metama | National Science Foundation | 7/09/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE | $751,980 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Comprehensive identification of all functional elements encoded in genomes is a fundamental need in biomedical research. A powerful tool for discovering functional elements in the genomes is through comparative genomics, by comparing genomes from multiple | National Science Foundation | 7/06/2009 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF AKRON | $180,001 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The University of Akron REU Site provides a research program for undergraduates during the summers of 2009-2011. Six students were selected for this first of three years to participate in an intensive 10-week research program in 'Ecology at the Urban-Rur | National Science Foundation | 6/01/2009 |
| ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND, THE | $1,134,058 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: In this project, we propose several advancements of the GEOLocate toolkit, including 1) enhancing its web services for natural language processing and georeferencing of locality descriptions; 2) improving GEOLocateG??s core algorithm for more efficient an | National Science Foundation | 8/06/2009 |
| PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE | $459,570 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Much of biology is regulated by the specific and high-affinity binding of ligands to proteins and nucleic acids. In most cases, however, the interacting mol | National Science Foundation | 8/13/2009 |
| MINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY, MANKATO | $199,475 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: MRI: Acquisition of a Scanning Electron Microscope for a Multi-User Core Facility in Science, Engineering, and Technology | National Science Foundation | 8/10/2009 |
| WILKES UNIVERSITY | $704,323 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The immediate goal of this project is to increase the number of students from under-represented groups who enter graduate programs in biological research upon graduation from Wilkes University. The ultimate goal is to increase the number of PhD level biol | National Science Foundation | 8/25/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS | $48,066 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Hawaiian Islands provide an unparalleled system for understanding species formation. This biodiversity hotspot contains large numbers of species that occur nowhere else in the world. One very diverse group is the Hawaiian files (Diptera). DNA sequence | National Science Foundation | 8/01/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, THE | $297,798 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Recent earthquakes have provided numerous examples of the devastating effects of earthquake surface fault rupture on structures. Several major cities are built in areas containing active faults that can break the ground surface (e.g., Los Angeles, Sal | National Science Foundation | 12/07/2011 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, THE | $360,775 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The objective of this work is to develop accurate and efficient computational methods for the simulation of resonant damping in micro-electromechanical devices such as are planned for next generation sensing-arrays and communication circuitry. To addre | National Science Foundation | 3/02/2012 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, THE | $519,662 | 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). This project will utilize the NEES equipment site at the University of California at Davis. The m | National Science Foundation | 3/02/2012 |
| THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK | $615,637 | 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 endemic to sub-Saharan Africa, a form of reproductive diapause (analogous to | National Science Foundation | 8/12/2009 |
| MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY, INC | $1,377,273 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Assembling the Viral Tree of Life research project will focus on understanding the evolutionary relationships between viruses and cellular life; helping to bridge the gap in our knowledge of archaeal viruses and their evolutionary relationships to the vir | National Science Foundation | 8/13/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA | $246,135 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Helical mesoporous silica is attractive because of its potential applications in chiral catalysis and separations, which are of great interest in the pharmaceutical industry. The objective of this proposed research is to fabricate helical mesoporous silic | National Science Foundation | 7/24/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI | $494,094 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project is to obtain a state-of-the-art high resolution inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer (HR-ICP-MS), which will be located at the University of Mississippi (UM), Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. The instrument utilizes a double- | National Science Foundation | 8/20/2009 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, THE | $531,143 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: In this project a system will be developed, built and tested, that can perform multiscale, time resolved, 3D velocity measurements within a finite sample volume of a fluid flow. This instrument integrates and extends the capability of two state-of-the-art | National Science Foundation | 8/24/2009 |
| PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE | $300,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: In initial work the PIs have achieved efficient solar conversion of carbon dioxide and water vapor to methane and other hydrocarbons using nitrogen doped titania nanotube arrays, with a wall thickness low enough to facilitate effective carrier transfer t | National Science Foundation | 8/07/2009 |
| RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, THE | $330,846 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Although the formation of amorphous oxide thin films by low-temperature oxidation of metals is of significant importance for many technological applications including heterogeneous catalysis, electronics, corrosion protection, and surface coatings, the fi | National Science Foundation | 6/24/2009 |
| SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION | $300,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The overall goal of the proposed research is to functionalize Si nanoparticles to target common cancers, enhance the NMR signal of these particles using dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP), and characterize the hyperpolarized particles in vitro. These are | National Science Foundation | 8/25/2009 |
| MISSOURI SYSTEM, UNIVERSITY OF | $50,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Understanding Dendrite Abatement in Reaction-Engineered Battery | National Science Foundation | 6/30/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS | $317,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Many emerging and future electronics applications require large amounts of digital signal processing, and operate with very limited power budgets. Examples include: many types of wireless communications, medical imaging such as ultrasound, sensor networks | National Science Foundation | 8/03/2009 |
| THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK | $1,858,340 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Summary: Formal Analysis of Complex Systems 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 | National Science Foundation | 8/11/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, THE | $1,200,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Analytical and Surface Chemistry (ASC) Program of the Division of Chemistry and the Solid State and Material chemistry (SSMC) Program of the Division of Material Research (DMR) supports the highly synergistic collaborative research project of Profs. J | National Science Foundation | 7/28/2009 |
| WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY (INC) | $500,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The goal of the proposed research is to dramatically enhance the technical capabilities available in the Wayne State University Department of Chemistry through the acquisition of a new, 600 MHz NMR spectrometer. The instrument including a micro-liter flo | National Science Foundation | 8/04/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS | $349,828 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Purchase of an X-Ray Diffractometer' Purpose: Purchase of X-ray diffractometer molecular structure determination by collection of X-ray diffraction data from single crystals. | National Science Foundation | 7/26/2009 |
| WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION | $550,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The research projects proposed are initiated by a recent discovery from PI's research group: novel synthesis of 4,5-disubstituted-NH-triazoles and their application in Rh(I) and Au(I) catalyzed reactions. The focus of this proposal is to investigate this | National Science Foundation | 8/14/2009 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $390,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Research Overview The proposed work is focused on the development and application of a new chemical modification- and mass spectrometry-based technique, termed SPROX (Stability of Proteins from Rates of OXidation), that can be used to measure the thermod | National Science Foundation | 7/06/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH THE | $175,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The overall objective of the research is to demonstrate that using small variations on the same chemistry we can efficiently convert a basic set of core molecules, the fluorine oligomers, into an extended family of polymers with varying, but completely co | National Science Foundation | 7/29/2009 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $580,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: John Tully of Yale University is supported by an award from the Theoretical and Computational Chemistry program within the Division of Chemistry to engage in research to advance our atomic-level understanding of dynamical processes in large molecules, at | National Science Foundation | 6/12/2009 |
| WESTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY INC | $210,000 | 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 continue work on the development and optimization of different chemoselective oxidation procedures using water-soluble hypervalent iodine | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| VASSAR COLLEGE | $219,500 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award will support year-round research in asymmetric catalysis with undergraduate students in the Chemistry Department at Vassar College. The research focuses on applying multiple asymmetric induction phenomena with the objective of enhancing enanti | National Science Foundation | 8/16/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY | $560,880 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Professor Martin Jarrold and his students will study melting and freezing transitions in isolated metal nanoclusters with 10-1000 atoms. Phase transitions like melting and freezing are normally associated with bulk objects. This work will examine what hap | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, THE | $126,525 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Through this award from the Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) program, Professor Fadi Bou-Abdallah at SUNY Potsdam will acquire an isothermal titration calorimeter. It will support the research of colleagues at Potsdam, and nearby St Lawrence and Clark | National Science Foundation | 9/08/2009 |
| WELLESLEY COLLEGE | $116,686 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Grant award supports the acquisition of an Olis DSM 20 circular dichroism (CD) spectrophotometer for the Departments of Chemistry and Biological Sciences at Wellesley College. The acquisition of a CD spectrophotometer will allow Wellesley faculty to inves | National Science Foundation | 8/17/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF GRINNELL COLLEGE, THE | $428,295 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Acquisition of Mass Spectrometry Instrumentation for Chemistry and Biology research - With this award from the Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) program, the Chemistry Department at Grinnell College will acquire an ion trap gas chromatography mass spec | National Science Foundation | 7/29/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, THE | $430,002 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The research objective of this Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) project is to study the systematic analysis and design of distributed controllers that guarantee constraint satisfaction in large scale networked dynamical systems. The project will | National Science Foundation | 6/30/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS | $781,998 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Hundreds of billions of dollars and thousands of lives are at risk when a major earthquake shakes a metropolitan area. Building damage or collapse is one of the primary contributors to the risk. Huge investments are being made to improve performance of ne | National Science Foundation | 7/20/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS | $1,512,150 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Engineering versatile drug delivery vehicles that enable simultaneous delivery of several agents is a key challenge in medicine. Liposomes would gain significant stability and functional capacity from having a solid core, tethered to the bilayer by strong | National Science Foundation | 8/19/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, THE | $125,024 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Parallel, distributed, and Internet-based computing, communication, and information systems are heterogeneous mixtures of machines and networks. They frequently experience degraded performance due to uncertainties, such as unexpected machine failures, cha | National Science Foundation | 7/24/2009 |
| UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY | $282,789 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This is a renewal of the previously funded REU Site NSF Award No. 0552758. This 10 week REU Site program in MAS-net (Mobile Actuator Sensor Networks) provides eight undergraduate students an opportunity to participate in the ongoing research activities of | National Science Foundation | 6/26/2009 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, THE | $675,433 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Given the U.S. demographic trends (aging population, increasing prevalence of chronic diseases), nursing staff shortages, and decreasing hospital capacities, it is no surprise that the U.S. healthcare system faces immense challenges on a daily basis. Mult | National Science Foundation | 7/20/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE | $800,001 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The burgeoning revolution in high-end computer architecture has far reaching implications for the software infrastructure of tools for performance measurement, modeling, and optimization, which has been indispensable to improved productivity in computatio | National Science Foundation | 8/04/2009 |
| STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (INC) | $399,999 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: It is commonly understood that to achieve a desired level of security in wireless networks is a bigger challenge than in wired networks. The denial of service (DoS) attack is a prominent threat in wired networks, and is a more potent threat in the wireles | National Science Foundation | 8/17/2009 |
| VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY, THE | $472,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Modern automobiles and flight avionics systems form complex distributed real-time and embedded (DRE) systems. A key challenge for these DRE system developers, however, is that the techniques for determining the best way of deploying software components to | National Science Foundation | 8/01/2009 |
| COLLEGE OF WILLIAM & MARY, THE | $200,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This research will develop a Holistic Transparent Performance Assurance(HTPA) framework to support performance sensitive wireless applications, which will provide merit to Fine-grained Spectrum Profiling, Medium Access Control Virtualization, and System a | National Science Foundation | 9/16/2009 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $486,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This grant provides support towards awardees of the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program. The funds made available to Duke University on behalf of these graduate students provides one semester of stipend and one semester of | National Science Foundation | 8/13/2009 |
| CLEMSON UNIVERSITY | $498,863 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Black flies are a worldwide group of more than 2,000 species of medically important, blood-feeding insects that breed in flowing water. They are structurally similar and many species, known as cryptic species, defy distinction under the microscope. An int | National Science Foundation | 7/29/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS | $276,489 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The islands of the Southwest Indian Ocean are renowned for exceptional biological diversity and high concentrations of endemic species. A complex process of continental fragmentation, island emergence and habitat isolation has produced a unique flora and | National Science Foundation | 8/13/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA | $934,498 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Some of the most compelling questions in evolutionary biology relate to the origin of our own species. Fossil and genetic data have provided incredible insights into human evolutionary history, and yet there are many important questions left unanswered. | National Science Foundation | 7/17/2009 |
| LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM | $519,944 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Despite numerous ecological and behavioral studies focusing on Neotropical cichlids, Heroini, the largest tribe comprising 160 nominal species, has received little taxonomic attention. Heroini includes many well-known fishes kept as pets (e.g., Amatitlani | National Science Foundation | 8/15/2009 |
| IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY | $200,558 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Elucidating the causes and consequences of polyploid evolution is central to understanding the origin and diversification of most lineages of eukaryotes. Polyploids experience the combined challenge and potential of having two or more genomes together in | National Science Foundation | 8/04/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL | $561,396 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Title: Competition and the origins of diversity: Experimental evolution of resource polymorphism, character displacement, and reproductive isolation in viruses Project description: A central goal of evolutionary biology is to explain why living things ar | National Science Foundation | 6/08/2009 |
| OAKLAND UNIVERSITY | $242,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The understanding of many non-equilibrium processes has been enhanced by the use of phase-field modeling methods. The basic idea behind this method is to propose a free energy that is a functional of a continuum or phase-field that distinguishes between l | National Science Foundation | 5/27/2009 |
| PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE | $450,000 | 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 (MWN) team consists of five experimentalists and two theorists from China, Colombia, Japan, Switzerland, and the US to investi | National Science Foundation | 8/07/2009 |
| PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE | $616,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This Materials World Network project integrates and maximizes the interrelated, but distinct, areas of expertise of two research groups from the United Stat | National Science Foundation | 7/06/2009 |
| IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY | $475,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Intellectual Merit The ultimate goal of this research is the generation of a new class of polymer composites, comprised of block copolymers densely grafted to the surfaces of highly exfoliated layered silicate particles. I hypothesize that this novel clas | National Science Foundation | 7/31/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE | $264,855 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Supported by the proposer's previous NSF grant, a total of 17 papers were published, accepted, or submitted. Among these papers, four conjectures were proved (some jointly with other people) and one proposed in the area of spectral theory from mesoscopic | National Science Foundation | 7/02/2009 |
| OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE | $150,200 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This is an RUI proposal focused on the study of graphs embedded in 3-space. This area of topology was developed in the early 1980?s in order to study DNA recombination as well as to aid in the analysis of molecular symmetries. Since then it has continued | National Science Foundation | 7/14/2009 |
| AUBURN UNIVERSITY | $116,653 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The proposed research is divided into five parts: (1) Investigate Hausdorff dimension of minimal sets of known counterexamples to the Modified Seifert Conjecture; (2) Investigate periodic orbits and periodic points in neighborhoods of planar adding machin | National Science Foundation | 8/17/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI SYSTEM | $130,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: In this project, the investigator develops computational methods for Bayesian optimal sequential design for the estimation of random functions. Intellectual Merit: Random function estimation, either in the context of Bayesian nonparametric regression or i | National Science Foundation | 7/02/2009 |
| AUBURN UNIVERSITY | $203,183 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project will allow the PI to continue to establish fundamental theories for various nonautonomous and random differential, paying special attention to the effects of the time/space dependence and randomness on the dynamics of the underlying problems | National Science Foundation | 5/21/2009 |
| THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK | $394,912 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The investigator works on the topology of algebraic maps, with applications to algebraic cycles. The study of the relations between the topology of the domain and target of a map is interesting and has broad applications in the fields of geometry and topo | National Science Foundation | 6/11/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE | $298,612 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The focus of this proposal is the development of a comprehensive theory to analyze (inverse) scattering problems with waves in random media generated by (random) ambient noise sources. In particular, the investigators are interested in the analysis of mea | National Science Foundation | 7/17/2009 |
| NEW YORK UNIVERSITY | $270,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Computational Methods for Studying Heterogeneous Pulse-Coupled Network Dynamics | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE | $101,222 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Our research is directed towards detecting osteoporosis, a major public health threat affecting more than 44 million Americans. Both treatment and prevention of the disease rely on the best assessment possible of the condition of the patient's bones. Curr | National Science Foundation | 8/31/2009 |
| RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK | $112,588 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: RESEARCH SUPPORT for Root Number of Abelian Varieties and Related representation-Theoretic Questions | National Science Foundation | 9/29/2009 |
| CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY AUXILIARY SERVICES, INC | $284,002 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: will develop a close partnership between the lead institution California State University, Los Angeles (CSULA) and a core partner, the Montebello Unified School District (MUSD). Through mutual engagement in Professional Learning Communities, development o | National Science Foundation | 7/06/2009 |
| CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY | $75,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Through this planning grant, steps are being taken to develop the framework for a Master Teaching Fellows program. This project builds on an existing Noyce scholarship program in the Cleveland region. It is anticipated that the Master Teaching Fellows wil | National Science Foundation | 5/21/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, THE | $2,000,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Graduate Research Fellowship Program | National Science Foundation | 8/13/2009 |
| ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND, THE | $474,996 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project develops synthetic methodologies for, and the fundamental characterization of, cyclic polymer topologies. Preliminary investigations will also probe the utility of this relatively unexplored macromolecular family for a range of materials and | National Science Foundation | 7/01/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH THE | $550,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This CAREER Award funds a combined research and education program that will explore methods to control quantum coherence and entanglement of quantum systems in complex environments. The research program will study the fundamental properties of quantum ent | National Science Foundation | 7/26/2009 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $475,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The proposed work will contribute to emerging technology solutions in fields such as photovoltaics, non-linear optics and membranes. It specifically takes aim at the production of semiconducting materials which can be used for next generation solar cells. | National Science Foundation | 6/16/2009 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, THE | $299,846 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This is a project that will fund materials science trainees, especially graduate students, to determine the properties of a new and intriguing class of organic materials that have surprising capability to transmit electron currents in semiconductor-based | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY | $342,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Two-dimensional (2D) electron systems, systems where the motion of the electrons is confined to a plane, i.e. 2D, are not only relevant to advanced microelectronic and optoelectronic devices, but also important platforms in the study of electrons in reduc | National Science Foundation | 8/27/2009 |
| PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE | $230,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Technical Abstract This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Multiferroic tunnel junction refers to a ferromagnetic tunnel junction using a ferroelectric insulator barrier. Theoretical calculations | National Science Foundation | 8/13/2009 |
| CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY | $158,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Technical Abstract :We request funds for a Nanomill, a novel ultra-low-energy concentrated ion beam system for preparing highest-quality specimens for transmission electron microscopy. Designed to perform the final polishing step on specimens that have be | National Science Foundation | 9/14/2009 |
| BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY | $385,512 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Generalized geometries form a class of almost complex manifolds with reduced structure groups, which have become of central importance to the study of realistic string theory models. These are natural generalizations of Calabi-Yau manifolds and are of mat | National Science Foundation | 6/19/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, THE | $376,191 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 'The inner model program attempts to associate to each large cardinal hypothesis H a canonical minimal universe of sets in which H is true. The stronger H is, the larger this minimal universe will be. Some of our deepest understanding of large cardinal hy | National Science Foundation | 2/21/2012 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA | $85,366 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Cauchy-Riemann complex is a system of partial differential equations describing the behavior of holomorphic functions, which are fundamental objects of study in many areas of pure and applied mathematics. The PI will investigate the properties of var | National Science Foundation | 8/10/2009 |
| RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, THE | $156,933 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project investigates special fibres of good integral models of Shimura varieties of abelian type. The special fibres are smooth, quasi-projective varieties over finite fields which have a rich structure due to their expected (conjectured) moduli inte | National Science Foundation | 6/25/2009 |
| COLLEGE OF WILLIAM & MARY, THE | $115,783 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project funds the study of interpolation problems for bounded (more specifically, bounded by one in modulus) analytic functions on the unit disk, the area of mathematics which has traditional connections with engineering and control theory and especi | National Science Foundation | 8/30/2009 |
| VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY | $4,947,929 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 'The NSF Mathematics Specialist Partnership Institute will be offered to 50 outstanding middle school teachers. Each teacher will: participate in a 66 day Institute offered over three consecutive summers; complete a total of 33 graduate credits during the | National Science Foundation | 7/08/2009 |
| CARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON | $276,639 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Establishmen of a new high pressure scale that will be used to make accurate determination of pressure at high temperature in the externally heated and laser heated diamond anvil cell. | National Science Foundation | 6/25/2009 |
| RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, THE | $308,646 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The State University of New York - New Paltz (SUNY New Paltz) and the New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) will sponsor an eight week summer research experience for 12 highly motivated undergraduate students conducting a comprehensiv | National Science Foundation | 8/31/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII SYSTEMS | $198,950 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Although large-scale convection in the Earth?s mantle ultimately controls tectonic deformation at the Earth's surface, the link between deep mantle flow and plate tectonics remains poorly understood. This is because patterns of mantle flow are difficult t | National Science Foundation | 7/21/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS | $1,500,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Memphis Mathematics and Science Teacher Induction Fellowship program represents a partnership among the University of Memphis, the Memphis City Schools, and the non-profit Partners in Public Education. The partners are working together to recruit twen | National Science Foundation | 5/22/2009 |
| WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC | $898,781 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: WKU Science and Mathmatics Alliance for Recruitment and Retention of Teachers. | National Science Foundation | 6/16/2009 |
| MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY | $899,972 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The College of Basic and Applied Sciences at Middle Tennessee State University is preparing 36 new physics and mathematics secondary teachers over 5 years. Students major in either math or physics, complete thirty semester hours in the other discipline, a | National Science Foundation | 6/01/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH THE | $208,397 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Research proposes to use Holocene lake sediment records from British Columbia (BC) to reconstruct the spatial and temporal patterns of drought/pluvial cycles along the cordillera of western North America to help identify the underlying causes of these eve | National Science Foundation | 8/19/2009 |
| EAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY | $136,411 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This grant will support the development of calibrated, highly-resolved, and absolute-dated stable isotopic and trace-metal time series from multiple speleothems preserved in multiple cave systems along a N-S transect from East Tennessee, through southern | National Science Foundation | 8/26/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, THE | $245,397 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Hydrologic responses to earthquakes, such as increases in stream flow or changes in the water level in wells, are not uncommon. Such hydrologic responses are important because they provide unique insight into the coupling of hydrologic and tectonic proces | National Science Foundation | 2/28/2012 |
| CARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON | $480,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Acquisition of a Dual Beam FIB/SEM system for the Carnegie Institution of Washington, which will be used for sample characterization, micro/nano-fabrication, and sample preparation | National Science Foundation | 8/05/2009 |
| MINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY, MANKATO | $226,290 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: MRI: Acquisition of an X Ray Diffractometer for Research and Training Applications in a Multidisciplinary Setting | National Science Foundation | 8/19/2009 |
| FRIENDS OF THE NORTH CAROLINA | $130,963 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Acquisition of an FTIR for the Nature Research Center, North Carolina Museum of Natural SciencesThis award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This award will provide funding to acquire an infrared micros | National Science Foundation | 8/19/2009 |
| MUSEUM OF THE EARTH AT THE PALEONTOLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTION | $110,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Paleontological Research Institution (PRI) will purchase a benchtop scanning electron microscope for use in research and education. PRI has one of the most significant research collections of fossils in North America, including an outstanding collecti | National Science Foundation | 8/14/2009 |
| VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY, THE | $361,870 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The objective of this proposal is to quantify the relative importance of surface area and quality factor on the sensitivity of detecting small molecules. While high quality (Q) factor resonant optical biosensors require fewer target molecules to be presen | National Science Foundation | 8/06/2009 |
| THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK | $400,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The focus of this research is the design of algorithms and real-time system implementations for the task of source localization and separation using miniature sensor arrays. The dimensions of the arrays are much smaller than the wavelength of the incident | National Science Foundation | 7/01/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI SYSTEM | $268,033 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Clog Free Nozzle-based Ejector Array Using Thin Liquid Film Valves | National Science Foundation | 7/30/2009 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, THE | $336,239 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The objective of this research is to investigate phase-coherent, fiber optic multiple access communications for efficient, flexible, and secure local access networks. The proposed coherent diversity receiver cancels multiple access interference and speckl | National Science Foundation | 7/30/2009 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, THE | $493,332 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Start Date is 1/1/2010 Summary of the proposed work This project brings together a multidisciplinary team with complementary expertise in biological vision (Connor), computer vision (Bajcsy, Vidal), dynamical systems (Vidal), robotics (Bajcsy), and machin | National Science Foundation | 9/01/2009 |
| AUBURN UNIVERSITY | $100,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: ECCS/PCAN/EAGER: Biologically Inspired Resource Harvesting in Mobile Wireless Networks - This research will provide techniques to harvest and manage two of the most important resources required by a wireless mobile device: energy and computing power. Re | National Science Foundation | 8/28/2009 |
| RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK | $120,343 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: RECOVERY ACT RESEARCH SUPPORT TO STUDY Algebraic Dynamics over Global Fields | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE | $140,913 | 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 principal investigators propose to undertake a systematic development of a theory for elliptic partial differential equations on a compact manifold wit | National Science Foundation | 7/17/2009 |
| AMHERST COLLEGE, TRUSTEES OF | $147,914 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project concerns topics surrounding two key conjectures that have arisen in recent years in the field of number-theoretic dynamics. The first conjecture, stated by Morton and Silverman in 1994, predicts that there is some uniform upper bound for the | National Science Foundation | 8/21/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY | $112,428 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: V.Tarasov intends to study various types of Bethe algebras, that include the Bethe algebras of the XXX-type models, as well as the Bethe subalgebras of the group algebra of the symmetric group, the affine Weyl group, the degenerate affine Hecke algebra an | National Science Foundation | 7/02/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT & STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE | $74,775 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Classical unsolved problems often serve as the genesis for the formulation of a rich and unified mathematical fabric. Diophantus of Alexandria first sought solutions to algebraic equations in integers almost two thousand years ago. Today, mathematicians | National Science Foundation | 6/26/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, 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). In this work, the investigator develops a new global optimization technique, which is primarily motivated by applications in drug discovery. Although ident | National Science Foundation | 6/24/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS | $217,414 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: In ``3-manifolds as viewed from the curve complex'' (\cite{He1}), J. Hempel demonstrated the usefulness of the curve complex as a tool in the study of 3-manifolds. His investigation introduced concepts and methods from geometric group theory into the stu | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $156,447 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project aims at studying the geometric properties of Schramm-Loewner evolution (SLE) introduced by Oded Schramm. SLE describes conformal invariant random fractal curves in plane domains, which are the scaling limits of many interesting two dimensiona | National Science Foundation | 7/02/2009 |
| BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY | $121,512 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The proposed research has two main parts. The first part concerns producing new smooth and symplectic closed four-manifolds so as to address a variety of problems that range from constructing non-diffeomorphic copies of standard four-manifolds with small | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| NEW YORK UNIVERSITY | $97,617 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Dynamics of Gaseous Stars and Hydrodynamic Limits for Boltzmann Equations | National Science Foundation | 6/30/2009 |
| TENNESSEE TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY | $137,149 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project deals with the development, analysis and implementation of novel techniques for the solution of large, sparse linear systems of equations of saddle point type. | National Science Foundation | 6/16/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE | $151,634 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: We propose to exploit advances in theory and 3D simulation to investigate the prediction and control of two-phase microstructures. We will focus on solid/liquid and solid/solid diffusional phase transitions in pure materials. Diffusional phase transformat | National Science Foundation | 7/21/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE | $1,950,568 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Early stimulation and nurturing of mathematical interest of undergraduate students is a key in improving the overall quality of undergraduate mathematics program, increasing the number of students in successful pursuit of advanced degrees, and strengtheni | National Science Foundation | 7/29/2009 |
| RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK | $839,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: ARRA - TRANS-NSF RECOVERY ACT RESEARCH SUPPORT Robert Noyce Teacher Academy at College of Staten Island Twenty nine mathematics and science pre-service teachers for grades 7 - 12 are receiving Noyce scholarships awarded by the College of Staten Island Te | National Science Foundation | 5/27/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS CENTER FOR RESEARCH, INC. | $599,792 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The University of Kansas Noyce Phase II Scholarship and Stipend Program (Phase II Noyce) is a collaboration between the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the School of Education and high needs school districts to increase the number of talented second | National Science Foundation | 5/26/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, THE | $900,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Cal Teach at Berkeley Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program is supporting undergraduate students in mathematics, science and engineering toward their disciplinary degrees and K-12 teaching credentials, with a focus on teaching in urban schools. The | National Science Foundation | 5/22/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII SYSTEMS | $295,222 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This three-year REU site program at the University of Hawaii will provide research experiences for ten undergraduate students each year in the area of Engineering Applications of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) using High Performance Computing (HPC). T | National Science Foundation | 7/06/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII SYSTEMS | $174,635 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Some of the major obstacles preventing the successful creation of stem cell therapies include accurately and reproducibly controlling the differentiation of stem cells, and creating a sufficient amount of cells for therapeutic procedures. These obstacles | National Science Foundation | 7/17/2009 |
| GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY | $54,085 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Virtual-Reality-based Educational Laboratories in Fiber Optic Engineering. The project is focused on the development and evaluation of innovative instructional environment by integrating virtual reality (VR) based interactive 3Dsimulations into undegradua | National Science Foundation | 8/04/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MAINE SYSTEM | $190,718 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: A major challenge confronting geoscientists studying granulite-facies complexes is identifying the precursors to the rocks constituting the complexes and the tectonic environment in which they were originally deposited; the granulite-facies rocks exposed | National Science Foundation | 7/10/2009 |
| PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE | $207,226 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This grant supports acquisition of a high temperature (up to 200-?C), high pressure (up to 70 MPa) capable, multi (3) triaxial cell, rock deformation appara | National Science Foundation | 7/30/2009 |
| CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY AUXILIARY SERVICES, INC | $163,513 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Chromium in its hexavalent form, Cr(VI), is mobile and toxic in the environment. Reduction of Cr(VI) to the trivalent form, Cr(III), is a very important process as it renders Cr immobile and less toxic. Reduction induces stable isotope fractionation, and | National Science Foundation | 8/24/2009 |