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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BERKELEY GEOCHRONOLOGY CENTER | $271,397 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This project involves a collaboration between scientists at the Berkeley Geochronology Center, University of California, University of New Mexico, New Mexico | National Science Foundation | 7/28/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $282,838 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The NSF REU Dune Undergraduate Geomorphology and Geochronology (DUGG) project will address how and why dunes formed in various environments in the state of Wisconsin. The goals of this project include providing students with significant earth science fie | National Science Foundation | 8/24/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, THE | $210,474 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project investigates time-varying fault-zone strength at seismogenic depth that will effect the triggering and sequencing of earthquakes, by taking advantage of the numerous identified repeating earthquakes accumulating from a dense borehole seismogr | National Science Foundation | 8/05/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA | $188,090 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The research outlined in this proposal is meant to both complement and expand our current knowledge of Proterozoic paleogeography and, in particular, the supercontinents of Gondwana, Rodinia and Columbia. Paleomagnetic data (in combination with reliable | National Science Foundation | 7/19/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII SYSTEMS | $295,743 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Magma that feeds volcanic eruptions on oceanic islands and most of the deep ocean is produced by melting of the underlying mantle. Current knowledge of the details of magma genesis and transport are derived from observations of eruption rates and basalt c | National Science Foundation | 7/21/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA | $148,786 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The award is supporting research into improved methods of global and regional scale seismic tomography in order to better constrain models of flow in the Earth's mantle. This research will verify a proposed method of modeling surface waves and shear spli | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE | $460,692 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: ABSTRACT 'This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).' Hyporheic zones and riparian zones play important roles in catchment-scale budgets of nutrients, heat, and energy. Significant research has been c | National Science Foundation | 6/21/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY | $120,976 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project seeks to further our understanding of the distribution of frictional properties on faults, which is essential for assessing seismic potential of faults. The idealized view of coupling involving an interseismically locked section that ruptures | National Science Foundation | 7/04/2009 |
| BOSTON COLLEGE, TRUSTEES OF | $215,027 | Grant | Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support: We investigated the structural and metamorphic history of the Foxe Fold Belt (FFB) in Nunavut, Canada. Orientations of fold hinge lines and related structures yield invaluable information about past relative movements of tectonic domains. These structures | National Science Foundation | 6/21/2009 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA | $50,761 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project will investigate the origin of large, striking landforms that occur in areas of thick loess (sediment formed by deposition of wind-blown dust), in North America, northern China, and central Europe. These landforms include features such as st | National Science Foundation | 6/24/2009 |
| AUBURN UNIVERSITY | $148,505 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Development of Electronic Systems for Noble Gas Analysis: this award presents a plan for instrument development to address the strong demand for inexpensive, high precision analyses of noble gases by many Earth scientists in the U.S. and worldwide. | National Science Foundation | 6/22/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, THE | $299,416 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The objective of this research is to develop a low-cost non-destructive, non-contact probing method for surface and sub-surface characterization of inhomogeneous materials and devices. New artificial and nano-material development requires fast, low-comple | National Science Foundation | 8/21/2009 |
| IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY | $700,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Description of the Instrument: The project is for the acquisition of a Raith e-line electron beam lithography system, which is capable of defining feature sizes < 20 nm over large areas (4G?x4G?). The instrument is also capable of doing stitchless li | National Science Foundation | 8/26/2009 |
| NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY | $179,997 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The objective of this research is to fill the technological gap at the THz spectral region, by developing the first generation of THz graphene-based photodetectors with exceptional sensitivity, dynamic range, response rate and non-cryogenic operating temp | National Science Foundation | 7/06/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF TUFTS COLLEGE INC | $73,326 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This engineering education research award to Tufts University in collaboration with University of Colorado-Boulder and Michigan Technological University wil | National Science Foundation | 7/17/2009 |
| GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY | $200,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project, entitled: 'Integration of Nanotechnology into Undergraduate Engineering and Science Education,' is under the direction of Lihong (Heidi)Jia, Nael A. Barakat. | National Science Foundation | 8/24/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE | $2,675,331 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The partnership between South Carolina (SC) and Tennessee (TN) is based on existing and planned collaborations in advanced materials and systems biology research, and in knowledge domains where computational science is driving new approaches and insights. | National Science Foundation | 9/04/2009 |
| PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE | $479,742 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). AfricaArray will create a preeminent and sustainable pipeline program for increasing the representation of African-American and Hispanic students within th | National Science Foundation | 8/17/2009 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $178,547 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: GeoCORPS is a partnership between the Yale Peabody Museum's after school program Evolutions, Yale geoscience faculty, and the LSAMP program at the University of Connecticut. The aim of the GeoCORPS program is to provide a diverse group of Grades 9 - 12 st | National Science Foundation | 7/04/2009 |
| SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY | $186,439 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: SURRGE is a three-year collaborative project at Southern Illinois University Carbondale (SIUC) that investigates how student interest in the geosciences is affected by 1) a reader that presents culturally relevant geoscience topics with the instructional | National Science Foundation | 7/24/2009 |
| PRINCETON LIGHTWAVE INC. | $99,935 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: We are investigating a new technology for enhanced night vision devices that can combine shortwave infrared imaging with thermal imaging. | National Science Foundation | 6/16/2009 |
| CRONO, LLC | $100,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project will address the problem of automating complex multi-step tasks and negotiations for computer users. The focus is on developing representations and algorithms for a personal assistant agent, and on c | National Science Foundation | 6/04/2009 |
| CONCURRENT ELECTRONIC DESIGN AUTOMATION, LLC | $100,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Small Business Innovative Research Phase I proposal will research, develop and demonstrate that the performance of Engineering Simulation and Modeling applications can be dramatically improved using FPGA and GPU accelerated servers. Engineering Simul | National Science Foundation | 6/15/2009 |
| FIJI SYSTEMS LLC | $100,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: SBIR Phase I: Low-power Real-time Java for Mission-critical Systems The complete abstract for this award is available in research.gov at: www.research.gov | National Science Foundation | 6/11/2009 |
| BRIDGER PHOTONICS, INC. | $100,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Small Business Innovative Research Phase I research project will demonstrate the feasibility of a high-precision optical metrology system that meets a current market need for extremely precise distance measurements with rapid update rates. The projec | National Science Foundation | 6/09/2009 |
| SOLIDUS BIOSCIENCES, INC. | $500,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This research project is focused on developing microarray bioschips for cell-based and enzymatic reaction screening. Specific tasks are the following: (1) Optimize the activity and stability of biosynthetically important enzymes and cells encapsulated in | National Science Foundation | 7/30/2009 |
| SEASHELL TECHNOLOGY LLC | $455,854 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: STTR Phase II: Abrasion Resistant Ultrahydrophobic Coatings for Corrosion, Erosion and Wear | National Science Foundation | 7/22/2009 |
| GIBBARD RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CORP. | $149,902 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Small Business Technology Transfer Phase I project addresses the need for greater efficiency and clean emissions in power generation systems through the development of nonprecious metal catalysts for oxygen electroreduction based on metal-nitrogen-ca | National Science Foundation | 6/23/2009 |
| LEHIGH UNIVERSITY | $480,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award retained 1.0 jobs. This position is a graduate research assistant (RA). The RA is doing work in assistive robotics while earning his PhD in Computer Science. Specifically, the student is focusing on intelligent perception to navigate a smar | National Science Foundation | 6/09/2009 |
| ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN GEOGRAPHERS, THE | $199,276 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Track 1: Departments and Underrepresented Students ALIGNED: Addressing Locally-tailored Information Infrastructure & Geoscience Needs for Enhancing Diversity. The ALIGNED Project will support the development of knowledge-driven, place-based, and locatio | National Science Foundation | 9/01/2009 |
| RECINTO UNIVERSITARIO MAYAGUEZ | $363,640 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This proposed three year REU site program at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez (UPRM) will provide research experiences for undergraduate students focused in the area of industrial and systems engineering. Students will be recruited from US unive | National Science Foundation | 8/22/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS | $299,088 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The research experiences for undergraduates (REU) Site will support 10 undergraduates - split between the University of Massachusetts Lowell, Northeastern University, and the University of New Hampshire - for 10-week-long research experiences in summers 2 | National Science Foundation | 6/19/2009 |
| TEXAS SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY | $49,970 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Collaborative Research: Develop Next Generation unified Framework for Remote Laboratory | National Science Foundation | 8/04/2009 |
| VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY | $108,115 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This planning grant is to create a process that will shorten the time to degree in Engineering at the bachelor?s level and to improve retention and success for Post 9/11 Veterans. The School of Engineering will design a system for evaluating military tra | National Science Foundation | 8/03/2009 |
| RECINTO UNIVERSITARIO MAYAGUEZ | $50,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The engineering education research award to the Missouri University of Science and Technology wil employ researchers to create an integrated engineering curriculum that emphasizes sustainability and globalization in the context of green manufacturing and | National Science Foundation | 7/07/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, THE | $173,196 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: While the number of women receiving advanced degrees in the geosciences has been rising, the face of scientific leaders in academia remains dominantly male. Through the establishment of infrastructure to support the Earth Science Women's Network (ESWN), t | National Science Foundation | 8/06/2009 |
| NOVARIALS TECHNOLOGY | $100,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I Project addresses the fabrication, characterization, and assessment of unprecedented high performance and low cost ceramic membranes: Bendable Ceramic Paper Menbranes. Membrane technology is one of the criti | National Science Foundation | 6/09/2009 |
| ALAMANDA POLYMERS, INC. | $100,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Small Business Research Phase I project contributes solutions to two problems faced by therapeutic techniques using protein drugs: (i) current carriers for protein drugs are nonuniform on a molecular level and (ii) the efficacy of protein drugs dimi | National Science Foundation | 6/05/2009 |
| ENERVANA TECHNOLOGIES LLC | $100,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: NSF SBIR Phase I grant | National Science Foundation | 6/05/2009 |
| CERTICHEM INC | $99,884 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project will test 23 food antioxidants (AOs) for their EA or anti- EA. The project will also examine whether EA levels change after AOs are exposed to common-use-stresses of sterilizing or microwaving. Thi | National Science Foundation | 6/30/2009 |
| VESCENT PHOTONICS, INC | $100,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This SBIR Phase I project will reduce mechanical external-cavity diode lasers to a centimeter-sized waveguide chip using a novel giant electro-optic effect. The device, a waveguide external-cavity semiconductor laser (WECSL), will be enviornmentally robu | National Science Foundation | 6/09/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA | $399,149 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The project represents a new paradigm for research in computer vision related to content-based image management--?one that exploits a symbiosis between this technology and the online communities it serves. It is quite clear that communities stand to benef | National Science Foundation | 7/10/2009 |
| COLORADO COLLEGE, THE | $76,346 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Collaborative grant with University of New Hampshire (Cheryl Whistler, PI) as the lead, titled 'Collaborative Research: Use of Genome Enabled Tools to Understand Symbiosis.' This $76,346 grant to Colorado College Associate Professor of Biology Phoebe Los | National Science Foundation | 6/04/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO | $150,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: A combined biochemical, molecular and computational approach to understanding the regulation of gibberellin biosynthesis in Arabidopsis. The gibberellin group of plant hormones regulate many phases of a plant's life cycle from seed germination to floweri | National Science Foundation | 7/16/2009 |
| RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, THE | $533,041 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The sense of taste is used by all organisms to determine whether potential food items will be ingested or rejected and is critical for the survival of the organism. The taste system is made up of multiple cell types that detect chemicals in food and then | National Science Foundation | 6/01/2009 |
| OHIO UNIVERSITY | $261,206 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The biochemical approach remains problematic given the difficult to sufficiently purify the AGP GalT activity for proteomic analysis. Consequently, we are using 6 putative AGP GalT genes which we identified using a bioinformatic approach. These six genes | National Science Foundation | 7/30/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS | $433,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Research grant on 'Molecular Control of Ovule Development'. directed toward the understanding of the underlying genetic and molecular basis of development of ovules, the precursors to seeds. Primary work is done in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana. | National Science Foundation | 6/24/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS | $600,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Mechanism of Ooctye Renewal in the Adult Zebrafish Ovary The reproductive capacity of animals is determine, in large part, by the numbers of eggs a female can produce during her lifetime. In mammals, such as humans, new eggs are only produce in the embry | National Science Foundation | 7/08/2009 |
| RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, THE | $744,973 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Intellectual Merit All animals rely on their ability to sense and respond to their constantly changing environments to survive. Because they do not have eyes or ears, C. elegans (small roundworms) depend heavily upon their ability to taste and smell chemi | National Science Foundation | 7/17/2009 |
| MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY, INC | $597,215 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Structural studies of proteins associated with the antiviral response in Archaea. | National Science Foundation | 6/12/2009 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $298,724 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: shifts in gene expression drive differentiation of tissues and the evolution of new morphologies in multicellular organisms. However, studies linking the evolution of gene expression and the evolution of development are difficult in complex organisms. Fun | National Science Foundation | 8/10/2009 |
| CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY LONG BEACH FOUNDATION | $721,589 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The late endosome and vacuole of yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae are functionally equivalent to the mammalian late endosome and lysosome. Yeast offers the advantage of both conventional and molecular genetic tools and large majority of yeast genes identifi | National Science Foundation | 6/18/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA | $675,973 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Title: NSF CAREER: Understanding Molecular Networks Controlling Plant Glucosinolate Metabolism. Plants produce thousands of chemicals that are important to their growth, development and interaction with the environment. Many of these chemicals, such as gl | National Science Foundation | 7/13/2009 |
| CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, CHANNEL ISLANDS | $920,552 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This study will use a copper-binding protein to examine how partner atoms and molecules participate in protein folding and stability. Many of these experiments, and the activities that support them, will be woven directly into the curriculum of several Ca | National Science Foundation | 7/28/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS | $209,087 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Rapid changes in the arctic climate system that occurred in the relatively recent past can be compared with the output of climate models to improve the understanding of the processes responsible for nonlinear system change. This study focuses on the trans | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS | $411,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This CAREER award supports an integrated theoretical research and education program to study the controlled formation of complex, three-dimensional structures. Analytical and numerical methods will be used for two related research topics. The first topic | National Science Foundation | 6/05/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS | $552,908 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The objective of this work is to study biomolecular interactions individually, even when they are transient and irreversible. To this end, a droplet-based method for molecular confinement and mixing will be adapted to make possible the use of single-molec | National Science Foundation | 6/22/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY CORPORATION, THE | $626,658 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Tropical coral reefs face a suite of environmental assaults ranging from anchor damage to the effects of global climate change (GCC). The consequences are evident throughout the tropics, where many coral reefs have lost a substantial fraction of their cor | National Science Foundation | 6/17/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO | $384,211 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Award title: Air-Sea Exchange in the Southern Ocean. The award supports research on air-sea heat exchange within the Southern Ocean and is expected to contribute to our overall understanding of coupled ocean-atmosphere climate processes. Funding provid | National Science Foundation | 6/05/2009 |
| OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $394,749 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Total and dissolved organic carbon (TOC/DOC) are central components of the global carbon cycle, as well as being two important parameters in water and environmental quality analysis. Accurate measurements of dissolved organic matter are important for def | National Science Foundation | 6/25/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII SYSTEMS | $437,859 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The North Pacific Subtropical Gyre (NPSG) is the largest ocean ecosystem on Earth, playing a prominent role in global carbon cycling and forming an important reservoir of marine biodiversity. Nitrogen (N2) fixing bacteria (termed diazotrophs) provide a ma | National Science Foundation | 7/06/2009 |
| RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK | $220,594 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: RECOVERY ACT RESEARCH SUPPORT for the Implication of ANAMMOX Community Structure and Microbial Interactions in Estuarine N removal Processes | National Science Foundation | 6/01/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII SYSTEMS | $164,710 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This study will quantitatively reconstruct deep ocean carbonate chemistry changes across the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum to determine the degree of ocean acidification during a past period of high CO2 and extreme warming. The PIs will generate record | National Science Foundation | 6/25/2009 |
| ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND, THE | $255,073 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: In the North Atlantic Ocean, poleward transport of equatorial heat is facilitated by both the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (~90% of total northward heat transport) and the Subtropical Cells (STCs, ~10% of heat transport). Changes in the tr | National Science Foundation | 6/25/2009 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $361,286 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This is potentially transformative research that focuses on whether the oxygen isotope ratios in phosphate in DNA record the temperature at which organisms grow. Its purpose is to explore the environmental conditions and temperature optima for life in anc | National Science Foundation | 7/30/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE | $206,145 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The PIs propose to study the hypothesis that Rossby basin modes play a significant role in Pacific Decadal Variability (PDV). Baroclinic Rossby basin modes are natural oscillations of the ocean with very large spatial scales and periods of up to a decade | National Science Foundation | 8/10/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC. | $134,382 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This collaborative project will use the model organism Vibrio fischeri to investigate how marine bacterial communities coordinate responses to changing and varied nutrient conditions, focusing on carbon sources and iron. Graduate and undergraduate studen | National Science Foundation | 8/04/2009 |
| WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION | $999,358 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Infrastructure Enhancements for Deep Submergence | National Science Foundation | 9/13/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE | $266,743 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The objective of the proposed project is to develop a comprehensive software package for high fidelity direct numerical simulation (DNS) of turbulent combustion with detailed consideration of gas-phase chemistry, soot formation, and spectrally-resolved, v | National Science Foundation | 8/22/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE | $1,330,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: We propose to develop the core of a new generation of scalable chemistry and physics codes with an immediate target of the petascale computers now being deployed by the NSF but with a vision that incorporates the exascale computers anticipated within a de | National Science Foundation | 6/15/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL | $848,503 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Peta-Flops Acoustic Simulation | National Science Foundation | 7/25/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS | $263,544 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Collaborative Research: Petascale Computing, Visualization, and Science Discovery of Turbulent Sooting Flames - Basic Research Energy efficiency, the environment, and human health can be affected by combustion-generated soot, so controlling soot is a maj | National Science Foundation | 8/22/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII SYSTEMS | $382,421 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: PI: SuthersInstitution: University of Hawaii at ManoaProposal: 0943147Proposal Title: VOSS Traces--Understanding Distributed Socio-Technical SystemsThis award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). To more e | National Science Foundation | 9/15/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL | $376,264 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: VOSS: Collaborative Research: Virtual teams, Knowledge management, and team performance Many knowledge-based organizations depend on virtual teams, whose membership is neither co-located nor stable, to complete the work of the organization. Team dispe | National Science Foundation | 9/02/2009 |
| WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY (INC) | $287,291 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The proposed research program will promote general interest in science while advancing discovery. This REU proposal focuses on research participation of students of all of preparation. Proposed collaborative effort between different departments of WSU wi | National Science Foundation | 6/04/2009 |
| CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, STANISLAUS | $123,034 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Explore classical stability properties of topological black holes and black holes in topologically massive gravity. | National Science Foundation | 8/08/2009 |
| INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY | $450,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Probing Fundamental Physics on Cosmological Scales | National Science Foundation | 8/04/2009 |
| ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND, THE | $180,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This grant is to support a continuing program of nuclear physics measurements using neutron interferometry. Unlike a scattering experiment which measures a cross section, the neutron interferometer detects a neutron phase shift with an accuracy less than | National Science Foundation | 8/10/2009 |
| SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY | $58,536 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The main goal is to model physical properties of so-called compact stars, which are the collapsed cores---about 20 kilometers in diameter but with the mass of the Sun---of ordinary stars that have exhausted their nuclear fuel. Like the Earth, a compact st | National Science Foundation | 8/02/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL | $25,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Beyond LambdaCDM: Theoretical Predictions & Observational Constraints: Recent advances cosmology lead to a coherent picture of the standard model of Big Bang inflation. We are now in a position to ask more fundamental questions such as: 1)why did we star | National Science Foundation | 7/07/2009 |
| ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (INC) | $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 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, RENO | $306,593 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award supports experimental research investigating quantum information using nuclear spin. In quantum information research, atomic gases have been successfully used in many important applications. Prior experiments using atomic ensembles stored qua | National Science Foundation | 7/07/2009 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $400,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This collaborative proposal seeks to provide a coordinated learning and research experience for Ph.D. students from seven universities that have developed different experimental and theoretical/simulations capabilities and have established a reputation as | National Science Foundation | 9/15/2009 |
| RAMAPO COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY | $1,587,155 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Biology research Suite: renovation of 35 year old spaces into well equipped biology research laboratories for faculty members working with undergraduates on multiple research projects. | National Science Foundation | 9/13/2010 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI | $120,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The goal of this project is to further the understanding of several outstanding contemporary problems in theoretical physics. These problems have originated in worldwide intensive research related to supersymmetric quantum mechanical systems, in general, | National Science Foundation | 8/11/2009 |
| HAMPTON UNIVERSITY | $405,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: With the requested funding from this proposal, Dr. Michael Kohl, a new assistant professor in the experimental nuclear physics group of Hampton University, will be able to pursue two fundamental and exciting new precision experiments, OLYMPUS and TREK, an | National Science Foundation | 8/11/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS | $119,188 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This RAPID award was made to take advantage of a unique opportunity to add a basic research component to an existing industry testing program that is about to begin. By taking advantage of a project being planned by the Transportation Technology Center, I | National Science Foundation | 8/10/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS | $424,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: As our reliance on online services continues to grow, the need for maintaining high availability of these services has become a pressing need as well as a challenge. The challenges include hardware failures, software bugs, operator error, malicious break- | National Science Foundation | 7/31/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL | $162,656 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Collaborative Research: The Threat and Imposition of Economic Sanctions | National Science Foundation | 8/03/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY | $40,682 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Nationally visible cases of sex offenders who recidivated after release into the community have prompted state and federal legislators and local communities to focus on the public safety risk posed by offenders and the most appropriate means of dealing wi | National Science Foundation | 8/26/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, THE | $119,996 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Innovation & Environmental Justice in the Clean Tech Space: Measuring Performance & Anticipating Risks of Renewable Energy Technologies This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009(Public Law 111-5). This Science, Technol | National Science Foundation | 9/29/2009 |
| ADVENTIUM ENTERPRISES, LLC | $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) and is subject to the ARRA Terms and Conditions, dated April 2009. This grant is awarded pursuant to the authority of the National Science Foundation Act of 1 | National Science Foundation | 5/21/2009 |
| XAPIO, INC. CORPORATION | $99,999 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: SBIR Phase I: The Natural Finder. This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project addresses the problem of finding and analyzing information within emails and files. We intend to build a Natural Finder user interface that works with existing searc | National Science Foundation | 6/04/2009 |
| PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE | $600,000 | 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 Partnerships for Innovation (PFI) project--a Type III: (C: A) partnership between Pennsylvania State University-Harrisburg (PSH), an institution new to | National Science Foundation | 9/15/2009 |
| NANOPTICS, INC. | $150,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Small Business Technology Transfer Phase 1 project will research and develop continuous micro stereo lithography as an enabling manufacturing platform of biocompatible, multifunctional material structures and systems, such as plastic fiber microarray | National Science Foundation | 6/15/2009 |
| XIDEX CORPORATION | $150,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This Small Business Technology Transfer Phase I project will demonstrate the feasibility of building and operating a carbon nanotube (CNT) based electrolyti | National Science Foundation | 6/15/2009 |
| BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY | $179,995 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The proposal requests a five rear renewal of NSF funding for the SDSMT, USC and BYU sites of the Center for Friction Stir Processing (CFSP). The Center, comprised of these three sites, was established in 2004; and currently has two additional sites (Wichi | National Science Foundation | 7/27/2009 |
| SOUTH DAKOTA SCHOOL OF MINES & TECHNOLOGY | $484,999 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Center for Friction Stir Processing (CFSP) is a multi-university Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (IUCRC) established in 2004 with a collaborative research partnership between the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, University | National Science Foundation | 7/27/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, THE | $1,200,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Research under this award addresses a core problem in the development of intelligent systems: the generation of effective, deliberate activity over substantial time scales in complex state spaces. Whereas current methods for plan generation are limited ei | National Science Foundation | 2/21/2012 |
| MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY STUDENT GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION SCHOLAR, THE | $169,174 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The main goal of this project is to develop a tagging method which neither relies on target-language training data nor requires bilingual dictionaries and parallel corpora. The main assumption is that a model for the target language can be approximated b | National Science Foundation | 9/03/2009 |
| THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK | $260,064 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Understanding how animals adapt to environmental changes is an important question, and has implications for many fields. Little is known about early life stages, especially their ability to deal with different environments. Aquatic invertebrate animals ar | National Science Foundation | 8/25/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT & STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE | $400,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The purpose of this project is to determine how a newly described protein, LATD/NIP, functions in the plant response to the stress hormone, Abscisic Acid (ABA). We will test the hypothesis that the LATD protein functions as a transporter for the ABA hormo | National Science Foundation | 6/13/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS | $550,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Our internal biological clocks regulate many important aspects of behavior and physiology, from sleep-wake cycle to daily changes in body temperature and blood pressure. Unlike hourglass-type of timers, the oscillator-type of timers such as the circadian | National Science Foundation | 6/06/2009 |
| LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM | $590,426 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The project will examine the origins of high temperature stability of proteins by examining the thermodynamics and structural properties of their denatured states. | National Science Foundation | 8/11/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI SYSTEM | $565,948 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Light is a key environmental signal that regulates many aspects of development and behavior of organisms, including the majority of species in the fungal kingdom. In this kingdom, light can influence the production of sexual or asexual spores, pigmentati | National Science Foundation | 6/18/2009 |
| PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE | $531,228 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). During plant development, plant cells undergo a highly orchestrated series of cell divisions and elongation events that contribute directly to the shape of | National Science Foundation | 7/27/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH THE | $654,534 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Transcriptional elongation, splicing and polyadenylation are tightly controlled and coupled processes that are subject to targeted regulation. In up to 20% of the genes of higher mammals there is a competition between a polyadenylation site versus an upst | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH THE | $932,252 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The goal of this project is to build and use computational tools for elucidating the nature of membrane protein's interactions with the membrane and to increase the mathematical fluency of undergraduate and high school students. | National Science Foundation | 6/05/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH THE | $130,573 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This proposal aims to elucidate how Raf acts as a signal integrator in the specific context of striated muscle, with the following experimental objectives: 1. To identify the protein phosphatases responsible for dephosphorylating Raf at specific Ser/Thr | National Science Foundation | 8/17/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL | $440,676 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Collaborative Proposal: De Novo Genes in Drosophila: functions, origins, and polymorphisms. Genomes are dynamic: new genes are formed, compete, evolve, and occasionally die. To understand this dynamic, we need know the genetic and evolutionary processes | National Science Foundation | 7/29/2009 |
| SANFORD-BURNHAM MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE | $660,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This research project addresses the intricate interplay between global and transcript-specific control of protein synthesis. The overall problem is exemplified by the environmental stress response pathway. In response to environmental stress, cells shut d | National Science Foundation | 7/20/2009 |
| DONALD DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER | $559,923 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The phenylpropanoid pathway found in higher plants produces many of nature?s colorful compounds. Among these compounds, lignins and flavonoids play essential roles in plant growth and development. Lignins are a major component of plant secondary cell wall | National Science Foundation | 7/28/2009 |
| WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION | $1,375,634 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Collaborative Research: Mode Water Formation in the Lofoten Basin: A Key Element in the Meridional Overturning Circulation | National Science Foundation | 6/17/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MAINE SYSTEM | $499,198 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The investigators have two simultaneous goals. One is to test hypotheses about how subsurface deposit feeders free particles from the medium that they crack, and the other is to measure the per-event and per-individual sedimentary consequences in the cont | National Science Foundation | 5/26/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND | $1,088,618 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Kuroshio brings warm waters northward in an intense current along the western boundary of the North Pacific. The current departs the Japanese coast to flow eastward as the Kuroshio Extension. This strong jet creates a front between warm subtropical an | National Science Foundation | 6/04/2009 |
| WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION | $1,058,724 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Particle Transport and Carbon Export over the Northwest Atlantic Margin | National Science Foundation | 7/28/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS | $1,998,601 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This program has two parts 1. Conversion of biomass-derived feedstocks and derivatives to fuels Catalytic fast pyrolysis CFP is used to convert solid biomass into gasoline-range aromatics in a single-step process. CFP begins with the pyrolysis of the sol | National Science Foundation | 7/30/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS | $310,847 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Colloidal particles with attractive interparticle potentials are important from both a fundamental and applications standpoint. Much of the research to date has focused on colloids with short-range attractions, which may form either attractive colloidal g | National Science Foundation | 9/02/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS | $511,143 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The award is to acquire a high-resolution scanning electron microscope (HR SEM). The instrument will be located in a new electron microscopy facility at the University of Massachu-setts Amherst that will serve both life and materials sciences. For scienti | National Science Foundation | 8/12/2009 |
| NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY | $499,991 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This research grant from the Office of Polar Programs, National Science Foundation is entitled G?Mount Erebus Volcano Observatory III (MEVO III); Conduit Processes and SurveillanceG?. Mount Erebus is AntarcticaG??s most active volcano and has been in a pe | National Science Foundation | 8/07/2009 |
| MARINE ENVMTL SCNCES CNSORTIUM | $258,552 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Alabama's Dauphin Island Sea Lab will offer research experiences for 7 undergraduate students interested in pursuing graduate studies and careers in the marine sciences. | National Science Foundation | 8/06/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI | $251,169 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The ocean plays a fundamental role in the evolution of climate at a number of scales, going from the large scales circulation (order of 1000 km) to mesoscale (100-10 km) and submesoscale (less than 10 km) motions. The present grant focuses on the underst | National Science Foundation | 6/04/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO | $374,991 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Antarctic Intermediate Water (AAIW) is the densest of circumpolar Subantarctic Mode Waters (SAMW). AAIW fills the southern hemisphere and world tropical oceans at depths of 800 m to 1000 m. These waters are important in the global freshwater budget and ma | National Science Foundation | 5/21/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND | $392,493 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: In this study, researchers at the University of Rhode Island will attempt to determine the origin and fluxes of black carbon (BC) in marine sediments from the South Atlantic. Black carbon in the atmosphere is a key driver of global climate change; it is s | National Science Foundation | 7/02/2009 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, THE | $450,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project will focus on studies in perturbative Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), the theory used to predict an outcome of hadronic collisions. The goal of the research is to understand physics? results from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), which is expect | National Science Foundation | 6/05/2009 |
| WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION | $158,346 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Collaborative research at the Lau ISS: integrating microbial diversity with geochemistry using heat and mass transport models. | National Science Foundation | 7/22/2009 |
| WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION | $2,779,273 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: East Coast Winch Pool Facility | National Science Foundation | 8/16/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MAINE SYSTEM | $173,621 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The proposed activities will: 1.Inform scientists about successful Broader Impacts efforts through exposure to high-quality COSEE products and participation in workshops that have been tailored to support the goals of four COSEE Centers; 2.Provide assista | National Science Foundation | 9/10/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, THE | $210,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Advances in laser technology and computing power that have been made in the first few years of the 21st century allow one to enter a fundamentally new regime, where the inner workings of an atom or molecule - that is the complex, correlated dance of elect | National Science Foundation | 7/07/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY | $240,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Intellectual Merit: The major proposed topics lie in the area of G?quarkG??nuclear physics,G? the study of quark subG??structure of strongly interacting particles, with a focus on approximate symmetries of QCD. This research should shed light on detailed | National Science Foundation | 7/31/2009 |
| MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL, THE | $778,395 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project will investigate the structure of the cerebral cortex with noninvasive diffusion-sensitive MR imaging. At macroscopic scale, the human cerebral cortex consists of an estimated 50 or so discrete areas of distinct structure identifiable only at | National Science Foundation | 9/03/2009 |
| RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK | $120,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: RECOVERY ACT COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH SUPPORT in Gauge Theory, Gravity and String Cosmology | National Science Foundation | 6/16/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, THE | $1,500,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The first decade of the 21st century has witnessed a remarkable convergence of the fundamental questions about the origin, structure and the future fate of our Universe. Questions such as 'What is the Universe made of?' ' What are matter, energy, space an | National Science Foundation | 5/21/2009 |
| TRINITY COLLEGE | $125,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: AWARD ID:08855799 PI DAVID BRANNING RUI:Time-dependent inhibited spontaneous emission | National Science Foundation | 6/14/2009 |
| WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY | $120,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award supports several projects that study quantum effects related to cosmology and black holes. One of the most important ideas in cosmology today is that early in its history the universe underwent a process of extremely rapid expansion called infl | National Science Foundation | 7/21/2009 |
| NEW YORK UNIVERSITY | $375,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Particle Astrophysics with the Pierre Auger Observatory and Simulations of Ultrahigh Energy Showers | National Science Foundation | 9/07/2009 |
| RECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA | $324,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: An electron is an elementary particle that carries electric charge and spin (magnetic moment). Abundant in a solid, electrons can interact strongly with each other to bring about novel phenomena when certain conditions are met. Well-known examples of the | National Science Foundation | 8/21/2009 |
| CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY | $75,822 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The primary goal of this project is to develop a scalable, ensemble-based data assimilation system that can run efficiently on peta-scale supercomputers, and to apply the data assimilation to very large-scale weather prediction programs. | National Science Foundation | 9/02/2009 |
| RECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA | $109,650 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: In the functional linear regression model, the investigator proposes a feature identification procedure to identify the null intervals of the functional coefficients and to estimate the functional coefficients on the non-null intervals. This procedure can | National Science Foundation | 6/05/2009 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, THE | $238,072 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The mid-latitude ionosphere is considerably more dynamic than previously thought. Medium-scale traveling ionospheric disturbances (MSTIDs), sporadic-E (Es) layers, and mid-latitude spread F are examples of mid-latitude ionospheric dynamics that occur duri | National Science Foundation | 8/30/2009 |
| NORTHWEST RESEARCH ASSOCIATES, INC. | $298,413 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Meteor Crater Experiment (METCRAX) was performed in Arizona's Meteor Crater in October 2006 because of the frequent occurrence there of stable cold pools accompanied by benign boundary layer flows. Motivations for the METCRAX studies were a better und | National Science Foundation | 9/14/2009 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, THE | $1,353,113 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: SuperDARN is an international collaboration involving the funding agencies of a dozen countries. The SuperDARN Upper Atmosphere Facility (UAF) operates four of the radars and provides essential technical support to the collaboration in the areas of radar | National Science Foundation | 8/19/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT & STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE | $677,856 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Research objectives: The Principal Investigator's (PI's) career research activity is to explore and understand a range of complex social and natural systems through online experiments, empirical studies, and theoretical models. Over the next five years, | National Science Foundation | 8/16/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS CENTER FOR RESEARCH, INC. | $188,333 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: SES-Political Science PD 98-1371 | National Science Foundation | 9/11/2009 |
| PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE | $213,786 | 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 sale and use of illegal drugs contributes to a wide range of societal problems, including crime and violence. Recognizing the scope of the problem, law e | National Science Foundation | 8/05/2009 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $214,275 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The proposed research contributes to the literature on identification and inference in incomplete econometric models. An econometric model may be incomplete when, for example, sample realizations are not fully observable, or when the model asserts that th | National Science Foundation | 7/07/2009 |
| POMONA COLLEGE | $234,955 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project is conducted by the United States affiliates of World Wide Views on Global Warming, in collaboration with the global project organizer, the Danish Board of Technology, and approximately 10 additional partners at sites where WWViews deliberati | National Science Foundation | 8/26/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF OREGON | $572,879 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project highlights the need for a better understanding of mimicry theory in general, and specifically its extension to non-animal systems. We are working with epiphytic orchids in the genus Dracula, which are remarkable examples of an unusual plant m | National Science Foundation | 8/11/2009 |
| RECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA | $441,703 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Most organisms exist in populations that are distributed in irregular and often ephemeral patches. This research explores two fundamental consequences of this fact: the forces that create and destroy patterns of genetic variation across a landscape and ho | National Science Foundation | 7/30/2009 |
| RECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA | $278,739 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: With this award to the Biology department at the University of Virginia a bioluminescence/biofluorescence imaging system will be acquired to study molecular signals associated with daily time keeping mechanisms. The instrument will be used for experiments | National Science Foundation | 7/22/2009 |
| RECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA | $323,598 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Confident but mistaken eyewitness testimony is one of the leading causes of wrongful convictions. Recent published research by the investigator suggests that older adults are particularly prone to make high confidence memory errors in a variety of tasks, | National Science Foundation | 7/26/2009 |
| RECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA | $400,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The research projects covers several research projects in which very low energy neutrons are used to strengthen our understanding of fundamental interactions. In the first project, several observables in neutron beta decay are studied; the combination of | National Science Foundation | 9/02/2009 |
| AUSTIN COLLEGE | $100,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Faculty Development Award to establish an active research program and integrate teaching/service and research activities at Austin College | National Science Foundation | 8/10/2009 |
| NEVADA SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION | $200,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This proposal will concentrate on the synthesis and characterization of new ligands for complexation of lanthanide ions and sensitization of their luminescence. The application of these materials is based on their emission wavelength. Those emitting in th | National Science Foundation | 9/04/2009 |
| THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK | $430,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The research objective of this award is to develop an integrated education and research program at Stony Brook University designed to play a leading role in the field of environmentally benign polymer surface processing. Supercritical carbon dioxide (scCO | National Science Foundation | 7/15/2009 |
| CLEMSON UNIVERSITY | $128,781 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The 8000-ft deep Homestake Mine in Lead, SD is the proposed site for a Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory (DUSEL). It is being operated today as the Sanford Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory (SUSEL) while it is being converte | National Science Foundation | 8/07/2009 |
| CLARKSON UNIVERSITY | $231,625 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project will acquire a high capability nanoindentation system for research and education in advanced materials at Clarkson University. Nanoindentation is used to probe the mechanical properties of materials at the nano-size scale (approximately 10-7 | National Science Foundation | 7/17/2009 |
| MASSACHUSETTS, UNIVERSITY OF | $507,980 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The objective of this project is to utilize an innovative nanoimprint lithography (NIL) technique for research and training in prototyping and fabrication of micro/nano sensors/actuators, nano devices, nanostructures and nanoscale tooling for nanomanufact | National Science Foundation | 7/31/2009 |
| NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $348,684 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The goal of this award is to develop a general and novel drug manufacturing technology based on Hot-Melt Extrusion (HME), a process that holds the potential of improving the bioavailabilty of poorly soluble drugs. HME will be treated as a multidisciplina | National Science Foundation | 8/14/2009 |
| RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, THE | $163,633 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The objective of the proposed work is to provide fundamental understanding of the nonlinear dynamics of electrostatically actuated doubly-clamped carbon nanotubes, including the effect of slack, and explore in depth the consequences, advantages, and disad | National Science Foundation | 8/19/2009 |
| PRESIDENT & TRUSTEES OF WILLIAMS COLLEGE | $400,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This grant will address issues with using mobile computing environments. Application management frameworks have previously helped software developers address challenges in conventional, wired Internet settings, but no such framework exists to tackle the | National Science Foundation | 7/25/2009 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $626,638 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Virtual cloud computing is emerging as a promising model for Information Technology (IT) management of complex server systems. The cloud vision is that the computing, networking, and storage resources offered by the service providers are multiplexed on de | National Science Foundation | 9/03/2009 |
| FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY | $382,628 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project deals with the species diversity, extant and historical distribution, and evolutionary relationships of three families of true flies (Insecta: Diptera), i.e., Apioceridae (flower-loving flies), Asilidae (robber flies), and Mydidae (mydas flie | National Science Foundation | 6/26/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS | $57,723 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Award Description Title: Collaborative Research: Phylogeny, Diversification, and Evolutionary Trajectories in the Terebinthaceae (Anacardiaceae and Burseraceae) Documenting the patterns and understanding the causes of variation in rates of lineage diversi | National Science Foundation | 6/22/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, THE | $862,974 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Arctic system is strongly defined by its seasonality. The extreme annual cycle of solar radiation, interactions between the Arctic and lower latitudes, within-Arctic interactions between the land, ocean, and atmosphere, and the energetics of freeze an | National Science Foundation | 6/29/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, THE | $114,868 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The primary goal of this project is to investigate the mechanisms underlying the seasonal response of the climate system to Arctic sea ice loss within the context of anthropogenic climate change. This research will utilize the NCAR Community Climate Syste | National Science Foundation | 8/24/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, THE | $100,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Recent changes in the flow dynamics and overall geometry of the Greenland Ice Sheet have been concurrent with increased surface melting: the velocity of some outlet glaciers has increased, the ice sheet margins have thinned, and the overall mass of the ic | National Science Foundation | 8/24/2009 |
| RECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA | $118,264 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Brownian motion on finite dimensional Riemannian manifolds is well studied, and the deep relationship between the Laplace-Beltrami operator and the geometry of a space and the properties of Brownian motion and its heat kernel measure on that space are wel | National Science Foundation | 6/01/2009 |
| RECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA | $246,445 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Gas giant exoplanets in short-period orbits around their parent star, often referred to as 'hot Jupiters', are exposed to ionizing radiation and a stellar wind flux that are orders of magnitude more intense than for solar system gas giants. Under such con | National Science Foundation | 6/18/2009 |
| IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY | $455,862 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Intellectual Merit Accurate simulation of the initiation and morphological evolution of mesoscale convective systems (MCSs) is important for both rainfall and severe weather forecasting. Near cloud-permitting grid spacing (NCPGS) is used increasingly oft | National Science Foundation | 6/22/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF OREGON | $364,756 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Biologists are making significant progress in understanding how changes in single genes allow organisms to cope with changing environments. However, it is still unknown how entire genomes - the total genetic information encoded in an organism's DNA - resp | National Science Foundation | 6/17/2009 |
| OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY | $237,537 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Pulic Law 111-5). Recent hurricanes such as Katrina and Ike have reminded policy makers and planners of the susceptibility of coastal communities to natural forces such as stor | National Science Foundation | 8/19/2009 |
| OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY | $326,617 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The objective of this research is to meet the urgent global need for improved safety and reduced maintenance costs of important infrastructures by developing | National Science Foundation | 9/08/2009 |
| UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $1,199,535 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The National Science Foundation hereby awards a grant of $1,199,535 to Utah State University Research Foundation for support of the project described in the proposal referenced above as modified by revised budget dated July 22, 2009 and NSF. | National Science Foundation | 9/25/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL | $301,183 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Integration of Spatial and Social Network Analysis in Vaccine Trials This project will develop and test spatial analytical and social network analysis methods for vaccine trials and disease transmission modeling. Existing methods limit the extrapolation o | National Science Foundation | 8/16/2009 |
| WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION | $309,761 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Sea Ice and Planktonic Foraminifera in the Arctic: Productivity and Geochemistry | National Science Foundation | 6/19/2009 |
| CH2M HILL CONSTRUCTORS, INC. | $7,000,000 | Contract | : Modification to approve, fund, and provide required clauses for tasking related to 2009 ARRA. Tasks include acquiring traverse equipment for use in Greenland and the design/build of a dining facility at Toolik field Station, Alaska. | National Science Foundation | 9/08/2009 |
| OHIO UNIVERSITY | $357,373 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: NON-TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION: Non-volatile memories such as those used in DVDs retain stored information even when power is not supplied. Phase-change memories (PCM), due to their high-speed phase transitions used for information storage, have attracted trem | National Science Foundation | 8/28/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, THE | $254,691 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Size and Morphology Dependence of Hamaker Constant for Noble Metal Nanoparticles. The purpose of this project is to elucidate the size and morphology dependence of the Hamaker constants for noble metal nanoparticles and to establish a fundamental relati | National Science Foundation | 6/22/2009 |
| NEW MEXICO RESONANCE | $156,116 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Optimization & extension of MRE for the study of force chain structure in 3D materials | National Science Foundation | 6/30/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA | $364,569 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: MRI: Acquisition of PPMS EverCool Dewar, and Heat Capacity and Thermal Transport Probes for Research into Disordered Magnetic Materials at a Predominately Undergraduate Institution | National Science Foundation | 9/08/2009 |
| NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $282,015 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: MRI-0923032: Acquisition of a Properties Measurement System for Education and Research in Energy Related Materials There is a critical need to develop new and novel materials for energy storage and energy conversion and recovery. In order to tap the en | National Science Foundation | 9/10/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, THE | $805,415 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The vast range of scales occurring in the Earth's climate system cannot be explicitly captured in global climate models, even on emerging petascale computers. This project will further understanding of the effects of physics at a scale that is too small t | National Science Foundation | 6/22/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, THE | $2,349,360 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 'In the interdisciplinary area of geometry, topology and operator algebras, we will establish two new seminars of different formats. The `hot topics seminar' will invite faculty, postdocs, graduate students and advanced undergraduate students, who togethe | National Science Foundation | 6/17/2009 |
| NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY | $158,058 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Northern Arizona University will host a summer Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program for 2009-20011. Each summer, six students will be selected nationwide for these programs, with recruitment | National Science Foundation | 9/10/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, THE | $432,046 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This collaborative project outlines a series of studies investigating the role of individual differences in executive functions (EFs) in expression of implicit racial bias. Executive functions refer to higher-order control processes that regulate thought | National Science Foundation | 7/15/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS CENTER FOR RESEARCH, INC. | $284,641 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Although listening to speech is typically an effortless task, the actual cues to speech sounds continually fluctuate due to context. A fundamental issue in the study of speech perception is how listeners are able to extract and integrate information from | National Science Foundation | 6/05/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL | $238,848 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Collaborative Research: The Proper Scale for Environmental Markets with Applicant We will evaluate the ability of market mechanisms to be used to influence the amount and distribution of nitrogen emissions from wastewater treatment plants at the watershed | National Science Foundation | 8/24/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND | $101,874 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Collaborative Research: The Proper Scale for Environmental Markets with Application to Nitrogen Trading in the Nuese River Basin Overall Purpose One of the most striking developments in public policy over the last several decades is the widespread accep | National Science Foundation | 8/24/2009 |
| RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK | $303,087 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: ARRA - TRANS-NSF RECOVERY ACT RESEARCH SUPPORT | National Science Foundation | 8/26/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, THE | $495,308 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The research project will examine the relationship between physical drivers, biogeochemical processes, and microbial community composition in streams in the McMurdo Dry Valleys. The investigators will use molecular phylogenetic techniques, genomic network | National Science Foundation | 7/02/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM | $703,313 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project provides an evaluation of the importance of mesograzers and macroalgal endophytes in western Antarctic Peninsula marine communities. It examines the role of mesoherbivores in structuring macroalgal communities and attempts to elucidate the e | National Science Foundation | 8/13/2009 |
| FLORIDA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, INC. | $453,531 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Collaborative Research: Climate Change and Predatory Invasion of the Antarctic Marine Environment | National Science Foundation | 8/18/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND | $101,822 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) persist in the environment, undergo long-range atmospheric transport to polar regions, accumulate in biological tissues, biomagnify (increase in concentration with trophic level) in food webs, and cause adverse effects | National Science Foundation | 8/14/2009 |
| FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY | $212,791 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Funds will be used to conduct a field season in Antarctica, prepare and study new material recovered, continue preparation and study of dinosaur material collected from Mt. Kirkpatrick during the 2003-04, and place these fossils in a refined stratigraphic | National Science Foundation | 8/17/2009 |
| BERKELEY GEOCHRONOLOGY CENTER | $47,265 | 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 proposal seeks limited funds to develop the capability of the Berkeley Geochronology Center to measure the stable cosmogenic nuclide 21Ne, and to use thi | National Science Foundation | 5/26/2009 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $491,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The teleost fish fauna in the waters surrounding Antarctica are completely dominated by a single clade of closely related species, the Notothenioidei. This clade offers an unprecedented opportunity to investigate the effects of deep time paleogeographic t | National Science Foundation | 5/27/2009 |
| WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION | $191,466 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Periglacial Landscape Evolution in Antarctic: New Constraints on Patterned Grould Formation | National Science Foundation | 5/21/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO | $169,816 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: ' LTREB: Collaborative Research: Decadal Variations in Antartic Marine Benthic Ecosystems This is a joint project from two primary institutions: Moss Landing Marine Laboratories (MLML), and Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO). Intellectual Merit | National Science Foundation | 8/07/2009 |
| WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION | $205,709 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: LGM and Deglacial Radiocarbon from U-series Dated Passage Deep-sea Corals | National Science Foundation | 5/21/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, THE | $576,514 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The goal of most climate research is to detect change over time. Much of the data are in the form of spatiallyarranged remote sensing data or model output. These data sets are voluminous and tend to be organized as separate geo-referenced files for a sing | National Science Foundation | 8/26/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY SYSTEM OF NEW HAMPSHIRE | $340,920 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Stream networks are intimately connected to the landscapes through which they flow and significantly transform nutrients and organic matter that are in transport from landscapes to oceans. This work will quantify the relative influences of throughflow, la | National Science Foundation | 6/10/2009 |
| GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY | $620,822 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Award Title: Collaborative Proposal: Understanding Climate-Driven Phenological Change - Observations, Adaptations and Cultural Implications in Northeastern Siberia and Labrador/Nunatsiavut (PHENARC) Description: This interdisciplinary proposal encompasses | National Science Foundation | 8/14/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH THE | $141,355 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Research is a collaboration with Northern Arizona University and proposes analyze lakes from Washington State to the interior of Alaska. By using consistent methods on a network of similar lakes we will be able to make direct comparisons between sites an | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS | $175,150 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The goals of this project are to document observed changes in the hydroclimatology of the Siberian region, to attribute these changes to specific physical mechanisms in the context of climate change, and to study the impact of those changes from the regio | National Science Foundation | 8/20/2009 |
| WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION | $349,543 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Interannual Variability in Carbon Export to the Deep Arctic Ocean | National Science Foundation | 7/13/2009 |
| RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK (INC) | $49,900 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: ARRA - TRANS-NSF RECOVERY ACT RESEARCH SUPPORT | National Science Foundation | 7/27/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, THE | $755,604 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) is the earliest possible image of the Universe, consisting of primordial photons last scattered only 400,000 years after the Big Bang. The statistics of the tiny anisotropies in the CMB temperature and polarization en | National Science Foundation | 8/10/2009 |
| PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE | $298,522 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). In this project, Dr. Mercedes Richards of the Pennsylvania State University will use spectroscopic analysis, synthetic spectra, tomography, and hydrodynamic | National Science Foundation | 6/04/2009 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $336,936 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Dr. Willman, Dr Geha and their team will apply their well-tested algorithms to search for nearby ultra-faint dwarf galaxies in vast regions around the Milky Way. They will use new datasets from large surveys, including the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, the Re | National Science Foundation | 8/17/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, THE | $208,582 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This collaborative investigation into the forest atmosphere photochemistry will apply a unique set of collaborative approaches, focused on the chemistry occurring in the near-canopy environment. It is now well known that forests emit biogenic volatile org | National Science Foundation | 9/11/2009 |
| CLAREMONT MCKENNA COLLEGE | $69,574 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Project Title: Reactions and Fate of Amines in the Atmosphere Emitted from Animal Feeding Operations. The project is an ambient study of amine incorporation into particulate matter using the Particle-Into-Liquid-Sampler (PILS) Ion Chromatography system i | National Science Foundation | 7/20/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII SYSTEMS | $267,177 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).Environmental factors controlling thunderstorm updraft speed, including instability and height of cloud-base, may prevail in determining much of the pattern i | National Science Foundation | 9/14/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI | $822,473 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This grant enables a community of scientists to obtain instrumentation that will allow us to study aerosol-cloud interactions in the atmosphere over South Florida and its adjacent waters. Aerosol-cloud interactions are identified as a key uncertainty in t | National Science Foundation | 8/24/2009 |
| NORTHWEST RESEARCH ASSOCIATES, INC. | $173,283 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project focuses on modeling studies of mesospheric bores. These wave features occur in the upper mesosphere and lower thermosphere and are identified as a sharp wave front with a large horizontal extent (on the order of 500 km) followed by a train of | National Science Foundation | 8/07/2009 |
| IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY | $299,419 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Intellectual Merit The temporal and spatial variability of glacier sliding is responsible for the most dynamic behavior of ice masses. Microseismicity measured on glacier surfaces contains information about basal movement, including slip velocity and disp | National Science Foundation | 7/27/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO | $173,697 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Economic development in remote rural regions is a challenge throughout the world, but in high latitude areas, remoteness is joined by early measurable effects of climate change to make this challenge even greater. To learn how local communities are adapt | National Science Foundation | 7/13/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND | $574,183 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Mesozooplankton play a critical role in determining carbon flow from primary producers to higher trophic levels. In the SE Bering Sea interannual changes in the timing and extent of both sea ice cover and summer stratification will affect their role in de | National Science Foundation | 8/17/2009 |
| ATMOSPHERIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH, INC. | $299,940 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Abstract The leading statistical mode of winter climate variability for the extratropical Northern Hemisphere, a same-signed height anomaly stretched acros | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| CENTRAL WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY INC | $79,113 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: A major unknown in the estimation of the effects of climate warming is the rate of sea level rise. This is believed to be significantly impacted by the transfer of mass from ice sheets and glaciers to the ocean, both as melt water runoff and as ice bergs | National Science Foundation | 7/27/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI | $178,333 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Ants of the Southwest Indian Ocean and East Africa (ASWEA): assessing the phylogenetic diversity and biogeographic linkages across the Mozambique Channel. The proposed project will impact three broad research areas: (1) the discovery and documentation of | National Science Foundation | 8/13/2009 |
| CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES, INC. | $228,020 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project is supported by the National Science Foundation and as such as two components: Intellectual Merit (the scientific research to be conducted) and Broader Impacts (which includes the educational, outreach and benefits to science and society of t | National Science Foundation | 7/14/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, THE | $286,000 | 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 Principal Investigator at the University of California, Berkeley, is supported by an award from the Theoretical and Computational Chemistry program to d | National Science Foundation | 11/28/2011 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, THE | $393,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Molecular Photonic Materials - A fundamental understanding of molecular level events that occur at sensitized semiconductor interfaces can one day lead to the efficient harvesting and storage of energy from the sun. In previous NSF-funded research, we hav | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| THE CORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITY | $181,155 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Gonzaga University is a primarily undergraduate institution in Spokane, Washington with an undergraduate enrollment of approximately 4500 and a freshman retention rate of 92%. The Gonzaga Chemistry department serves approximately 95 chemistry majors in a | National Science Foundation | 8/30/2009 |
| THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK | $230,223 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project develops new methods for analysis and optimization of Markov Decision Processes with general state and action sets. In the case of continuous time Markov Decision Processes, this project also studies problems with unbounded transition rates. | National Science Foundation | 6/12/2009 |
| PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE | $320,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This proposal will be awarded using funds made available by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5), and meets the requirements established in Section 2 of the White House Memorandum entitled, Ensuring Responsible Spending of | National Science Foundation | 7/20/2009 |
| V. M. I. RESEARCH LABORATORIES | $334,789 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: MRI: Acquisition of Videogrammetry and Thermal Imaging Equipment | National Science Foundation | 7/22/2009 |
| CLARKSON UNIVERSITY | $234,010 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This MRI grant will be used to acquire an X-ray microtomography (XM) system to support diverse research and education groups at Clarkson University (CU). The equipment will directly support the research and educational mission of CU through the training a | National Science Foundation | 7/31/2009 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY | $143,792 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This grant provides funding for the development of a pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) resource demand forecasting model (?PICU-Forecast?). The model will forecast demand for nurse staffing and bed resources in real-time up to 72 hours into the future | National Science Foundation | 8/03/2009 |
| SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY | $89,260 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The MES program supports research on design, planning, and control of operations in manufacturing enterprises. Research is supported that impacts the analytical and computational techniques relevant to extended enterprise operations and that offer the pr | National Science Foundation | 6/23/2009 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $362,845 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Nanoimprinting promises low cost fabrication of micro- and nano-devices in various fields of application including data processing and storage, photonics, and biomedicine. The success and proliferation of nanoimprinting critically rely on the manufacturin | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| CLEMSON UNIVERSITY | $260,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The research effort supported by this award is aimed at formulating algorithms that use preview information of terrain, traffic signal timing, and traffic flow for saving fuel and reducing emissions of modern vehicles with conventional or hybrid powertrai | National Science Foundation | 7/22/2009 |
| COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS | $900,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The goal of this project is to increase substantially the number of Holy Cross undergraduates who enter the teaching profession in STEM disciplines, including students from underrepresented groups. The project consists of five elements: (1) aggressive ma | National Science Foundation | 6/02/2009 |
| CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FRESNO FOUNDATION INC | $1,500,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Fresno State Teaching Fellows (FRESTEF) | National Science Foundation | 6/16/2009 |
| NORTHWEST RESEARCH ASSOCIATES, INC. | $400,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project will significantly expand our knowledge of the dust environment of our solar system by tracking the speeds and directions of incoming meteors, thereby allowing their orbits to be reconstructed. This will be enabled by an upgrade to the Southe | National Science Foundation | 8/26/2009 |
| CLEMSON UNIVERSITY | $299,563 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Dr. Jeremy King and his students will utilize high-resolution spectroscopy to address several longstanding or timely issues of fundamental stellar astrophysics. Firstly, they will identify short-period tidally-locked binaries in globular clusters to provi | National Science Foundation | 9/14/2009 |
| YOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITY | $156,850 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Dr Durrell is a member of a collaboration using the MegaCam wide-field imager on the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope to make a multicolor survey of 100 square degrees of sky in the Virgo cluster of galaxies. He will use these images to search for globular | National Science Foundation | 8/02/2009 |
| GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC. | $581,591 | 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 | 8/13/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, THE | $178,291 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This research program addresses the fundamental science of jet and vortex propulsion by Cephalopods (squid, cuttlefish, etc) and Medusa (Jellyfish) in contrast to more well-investigated aquatic locomotion through body and fin undulations like most fish. W | National Science Foundation | 8/04/2009 |
| MISSOURI SYSTEM, UNIVERSITY OF | $285,985 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: research focuses on green recycling of used printed wiring boards (PWBs). The combustion and pyrolysis of PSB powders will be investigated using TG/DTA-MS furnace and larger scale batch reactor. | National Science Foundation | 8/12/2009 |
| OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $225,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Sorption by the soil/sediment organic matter (SOM) fraction of geosolids controls the fate of nonionic organic compounds in the environment, and is an underlying process affecting decision-making in analytical chemistry, risk assessment and remediation st | National Science Foundation | 7/07/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF TUFTS COLLEGE INC | $350,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Despite the rapid development of nanotechnologies over the past decade, our current understanding of nanomaterial fate and transport in the environment remains quite limited. For example, it is not known how most engineered nanomaterials will interact wi | National Science Foundation | 6/17/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, THE | $339,089 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Acid Mine Drainage (AMD) is a serious environmental problem resulting from oxidation reactions in sulfidic rock, which is mediated by iron-oxidizing bacteria (IOB). The principal objective of this proposal is to develop a fundamental quantitative understa | National Science Foundation | 6/17/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO | $425,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Pervasive societal use of information systems has increased the need for software to be both reliable and extensible. One technique that can be used to improve software reliability is the application of static analysis to discover and validate that prope | National Science Foundation | 6/19/2009 |
| IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY | $248,901 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This is a collaborative proposal that brings together expertise in reliability analysis and in software product lines. The goal is to create techniques that improve the reliability of software product lines. Reliability is important to product-line develo | National Science Foundation | 8/13/2009 |
| RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK | $587,670 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: ARRA - TRANS-NSF RECOVERY ACT RESEARCH SUPPORT | National Science Foundation | 8/11/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS SYSTEM | $177,064 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This research will use remote sensing, geotechnical investigations, and traditional boots-on-the-ground reconnaissance information to collect, process, interpret, and digitally archive ground failure events (landslides and a massive, several km2 lateral s | National Science Foundation | 7/17/2009 |
| TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY INC | $345,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The funded project is aimed at the development of novel functionalized phosphonic/inic acids as novel precursors for the preparation of polymers, clusters and cages. These materials are prepared by facile synthetic methods, extending metal phosphonate ch | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS | $581,386 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award funds the study of multicomponent reactions, which will chemical transformations that enable the preparation of useful materials including natural products and potential cures for diseases. In addition, a portion of the award funds the installa | National Science Foundation | 7/22/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS | $550,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: With this award, the NSF Organic and Macromolecular Chemistry Program is supporting the research within the Department of Chemistry at University of California, Davis. This project will design and develop new catalysts for asymmetric synthesis based on t | National Science Foundation | 7/30/2009 |
| EMORY UNIVERSITY | $408,070 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Multi-Exciton Dissociation in Quantum Dots by Ultrafast Charge Transfer to Adsorbates In this award, funded by the Experimental Physical Chemistry Program of the Chemistry Division, Prof. Tianquan Lian of Emory University and research group will employ | National Science Foundation | 7/22/2009 |
| PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE | $756,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). With support from the Analytical and Surface Chemistry Program, Professor Nicholas Winograd of Pennsylvania State University seeks enhanced understanding fu | National Science Foundation | 7/26/2009 |
| THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK | $585,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Inorganic, Bioinorganic, and Organometallic Chemistry and Molecular and Cellular Biosciences Programs support the efforts of Professor Elizabeth M. Boon of SUNY at Stony Brook for the investigation of H-NOX heme structure in response to NO and O2 usin | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $580,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Electronic structure calculations provide fundamental information of molecular structure and interaction, and the potential energy surfaces necessary for studying complex dynamical processes. Density functional theory (DFT) is the method of choice for lar | National Science Foundation | 6/16/2009 |
| OHIO UNIVERSITY | $314,275 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Analytical and Surface Chemistry Program supports Professor Hao Chen of Ohio University in studies targeting improved insight into the mechanisms of ion/ion reactions important for characterizing a wide range of molecules, including proteins. The appr | National Science Foundation | 5/29/2009 |
| OAKLAND UNIVERSITY | $340,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Reactions catalyzed by organic catalysts (amines, amino acids and amino alcohols) are often plagued by low reactivity (high catalyst loadings and long reaction times) and limited substrate scope. In order to overcome these limitations, we decided to inves | National Science Foundation | 7/30/2009 |
| RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, THE | $550,584 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: With this award from the Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) program, Eriks Rozners and colleagues Susan Bane, Wayne E. Jones, Changhong Ke and Omowunmi Sadik from SUNY-Binghamton will acquire a 600 MHz NMR spectrometer to support chemical research of th | National Science Foundation | 7/28/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO | $710,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The instrument that we are constructing will is a multi-faceted, mid-IR, time resolved spectrometer with a time resolution less than ~100 femtoseconds (fs). Our goal is to construct an extremely flexible instrument that can be configured to accommodate a | National Science Foundation | 7/29/2009 |
| UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY | $665,779 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: NSF Award: 0923654 Title: International Collaboration in Chemistry: Is the Single Transition State Model appropriate for the Fundamental Reactions of Organic Chemistry? Activities: Detailed studies of six different fundamental organic reaction typ | National Science Foundation | 8/04/2009 |
| ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $399,999 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project addresses the design and utilization of high-capacity data networks, with the goal of increasing throughput, network security, and reliability. These are issue of paramount importance in the current development of high-speed networks as a com | National Science Foundation | 8/01/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI SYSTEM | $1,409,963 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: CPS: Medium: Active Heterogeneous Sensing for Fall Detection and Fall Risk Assessment | National Science Foundation | 8/15/2009 |
| RAYTHEON BBN TECHNOLOGIES CORP. | $11,546,106 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Global Environment for Network Innovations (GENI) is a novel suite of infrastructure now being designed to support experimental research in network science and engineering. The majority of this award is to fund 38 subcontractors, consisting of collabo | National Science Foundation | 9/02/2009 |
| NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY | $185,058 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Computational clusters and clusters coalitions continue to grow in scale and in the complexity of their components and interactions. In these systems, component failures become norms instead of exceptions. Failure occurrence as well as its impact on syste | National Science Foundation | 7/25/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY | $1,003,333 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Genome sequencing projects have revealed large and frequent changes between species in the size of gene families. These changes have been shown to be responsible for morphological, physiological, and behavioral differences between species, and to contribu | National Science Foundation | 7/15/2009 |
| SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY | $249,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This program brings together a diverse team of faculty researchers with active extramurally-funded research labs to provide research training for students and to encourage them to consider graduate-level training and careers in the sciences. The program | National Science Foundation | 6/26/2009 |
| THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK | $172,429 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Funding provided by the Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) Program will significantly enhance The College at Brockport's (State University of New York) infrastructure and research capacity. Drs. Jacques Rinchard and Joseph Makarewicz of the Department o | National Science Foundation | 7/16/2009 |
| LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO | $141,494 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The goal of this award is to obtain funding to purchase a spectral Laser Scanning Confocal Microscope that we are currently leasing. Confocal technology reduces the contribution of out of focus light to microscope images, thereby improving the relative co | National Science Foundation | 8/26/2009 |
| TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY | $66,779 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: To purchase a photosynthesis respiration equipment system which is very important to our ecological and environmental research program at Tennessee State University. This type of equipment is vital to the programs of the department in that is will provid | National Science Foundation | 8/17/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA ANCHORAGE | $588,056 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The University of Alaska Anchorage has been awarded a grant to purchase two stable isotope mass spectrometers plus a tunable diode laser system to quantify the processes of change in high latitudes. The instruments will be used to measure the natural abu | National Science Foundation | 8/11/2009 |
| AUGUSTANA COLLEGE | $286,152 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The US Antarctic Program has supported geological and paleontological research on the rocks of the Beacon Supergroup for the past 35+ years. Scientists have recovered a remarkable record of life on land from the Permian to Jurassic (-?260?180 Ma), includi | National Science Foundation | 9/01/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY SYSTEM OF NEW HAMPSHIRE | $257,025 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The proposal seeks funding to: (a) continue ongoing studies that compare ground observations of Pc 1-2 waves with waves and ions observed by Cluster and THEMIS spacecrafts, both on dayside closed field lines (especially in relation to geomagnetic storms, | National Science Foundation | 7/08/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, THE | $151,156 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The PENGUIn team will continue investigating in depth a multi-scale electrodynamic system that comprises space environment of Planet Earth (geospace). Several science topics important to the space physics and aeronomy are outlines in this proposal that ca | National Science Foundation | 8/20/2009 |
| ATMOSPHERIC & SPACE TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH ASSOCIATES | $152,398 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The goal of this project is to increase understanding of the conjugate nature of the polar ionospheres, which is in part a means to understanding the multi-scale global solar wind, magnetosphere, and ionosphere system. To accomplish this we intend on depl | National Science Foundation | 8/13/2009 |
| THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY | $25,712 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: In plants the distinction between species is is often not complete, allowing for the production of hybrids that frequently perform poorly. On the flip side, within a single species, genetic differentiation may develop between isolated populations resulti | National Science Foundation | 8/17/2009 |
| LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM | $237,643 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 'A novel approach to the identification of independent evolutionary lineages'. Project seeks to develop and test software that can identify the limits of evolutiationary lineages using genetic data. Project will (a) develop software that will be distribut | National Science Foundation | 7/16/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA ANCHORAGE | $306,901 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Biologists are making significant progress in understanding how changes in single genes allow organisms to cope with changing environments. However, it is still unknown how entire genomes - the total genetic information encoded in an organism's DNA - res | National Science Foundation | 6/17/2009 |
| LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY ASSOCIATION, INC., THE | $240,688 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Valparaiso Experience in Research by Undergraduate Mathematicians. Many students with high ability in mathematics elect not to pursue mathematical studies in college, selecting social science and other non-STEM majors, because they were never shown the va | National Science Foundation | 9/14/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, THE | $111,431 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The vast range of scales occurring in the Earth's climate system cannot be explicitly captured in global climate models, even on emerging petascale computers. This project will further understanding of the effects of physics at a scale that is too small t | National Science Foundation | 4/09/2012 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI | $642,875 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The research focuses on the interaction between tropical geometry and mirror symmetry. The ultimate explanation of mirror symmetry, in its more general form, is requiring more than ever the use of tropical geometry. A cooperative effort between experts of | National Science Foundation | 7/15/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE | $264,793 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Dynamically defined Cantor sets play a fundamental role in Dynamical Systems. The proposed project focuses on two topics related to the problems where dynamically defined Cantor sets appear: conservative Newhouse phenomena in celestial mechanics, and the | National Science Foundation | 7/02/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO | $112,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The PIs will study higher secant varieties of classically studied varieties such as Segre varieties, Grassmann varieties, and Segre-Veronese varieties. These varieties correspond to parameter spaces for rank one tensors, alternating tensors, and hybrids o | National Science Foundation | 6/29/2009 |
| GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY | $134,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Topics in the Theory of Randomization II - $2,508 summer salary support for research on randomization procedures in clinical trials | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY, THE | $103,460 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The goal of this project is to deepen and enhance our understanding of geometric topology, that is, the homeomorphism classification of closed manifolds (of dimension greater than three) within a given homotopy type. These spaces have the same algebraic t | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| CARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON | $317,290 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Three year project to measure thermal emission from over a dozen Hot Jupiter extrasolar planets at optical and near-infrared wavelengths. | National Science Foundation | 6/16/2009 |
| NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $890,575 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This proposal is the main source of support of the Owens Valley Solar Array (OVSA), a university-based solar-dedicated radio imaging array. This proposal provides the funds to keep the instrument operating, partial support for the personnel on the site at | National Science Foundation | 8/12/2009 |
| VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY, THE | $342,075 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: M-dwarfs (dMs) make up ~70% of stars in the Galaxy and have main sequence lifetimes longer than the age of the Galaxy. They are therefore useful probes of the structure and evolution of the Milky Way. dMs have strong magnetic fields that give rise to chro | National Science Foundation | 8/10/2009 |
| RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, THE | $278,595 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This study is part of the Pre-Depression Investigation of Cloud-systems in the Tropics (PREDICT) project. The central scientific hypothesis of this study is that properly simulating the initial formation of synoptic-scale, pre-tropical-depression wave tro | National Science Foundation | 8/30/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI | $214,462 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This collaborative research project between the University of Miami and the University at Albany focuses on the prediction and processes inherent to the genesis of tropical cyclones (TCs), in support of the proposed NSF Pre-Depression Investigation of Clo | National Science Foundation | 8/30/2009 |
| NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY | $329,150 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Vorticity and Thermodynamic Budgets in Easterly Waves -- PREDICT Participation. Researchers from the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology will participate in the planning, field, and data analysis phases of the PREDICT (PRE-Depression Investigat | National Science Foundation | 9/01/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE | $461,495 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Paleoclimate proxy archives are the only source of information about past climate variability beyond the short instrumental record and provide critical data for testing climate models. To determine the precise timing and nature of past climate changes, ho | National Science Foundation | 6/05/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY SYSTEM OF NEW HAMPSHIRE | $360,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The principal goal of this research program is to investigate the role of ballooning instabilities, collisionless reconnection and other current-driven instabilities in the triggering and temporal evolution of magnetospheric substorms. The project will us | National Science Foundation | 6/25/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE | $438,228 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 'The Principal Investigator (PI) will investigate the anomalous diffusion of energetic charged particles in fusion, space, and astrophysical plasmas using a combination of theory, simulations, and observations. He intends to focus on the role of non-class | National Science Foundation | 8/16/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, THE | $254,124 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The objective of this project is to identify major sources and physico-chemical processes that produce secondary organic aerosol (SOA) in a polluted urban atmosphere. The principal investigators will investigate Los Angeles SOA through participation in th | National Science Foundation | 9/11/2009 |
| NORFOLK STATE UNIVERSITY | $145,743 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The main goal of the project is to develop an innovative instructional environment by integrating Virtual Reality based 3-D simulations into an undergraduate optical engineerint laboratory curriculum as well as investigate how different aspects of externa | National Science Foundation | 8/04/2009 |
| CLEMSON UNIVERSITY | $400,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This engineering education research award to Clemson University will employ researchers to investigate how engineering students organize prior knowledge and develop effective problem solving strategies. Tablet PCs will be used to capture a complete histor | National Science Foundation | 7/07/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS | $399,629 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Engineering for the Common Good | National Science Foundation | 6/29/2009 |
| RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, THE | $600,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Technical Summary Vanadium oxides have a rich and complex phase diagram originating from the facile accessibility of different vanadium oxidation states and the various structural distortions adopted to accommodate non-stoichiometry and point defects. The | National Science Foundation | 5/27/2009 |
| WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION | $230,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Magnetic nanostructures have been the basis of several recent technological innovations that have led to small, more efficient data storage and electronic devices. Recently, there has been much interest developing new materials, called multiferroics, tha | National Science Foundation | 8/26/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE | $450,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The glycocalyx is a layer of glycoconjugates that coats both eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells, forming a chemically rich landscape that varies among cell types. Distinctive, complex topographies are generated from a combination of (a) diversity in oligosa | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, THE | $490,780 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Under what conditions do people become environmentalists? What causes translocal and transnational efforts to protect biodiversity to be adopted and connected with local interests? What are the implications of trends in global conservation practice toward | National Science Foundation | 6/04/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY | $269,562 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The human perceptual system receives a constant stream of continually changing information. For example, the eyes move several times each second, providing different views of different objects or words. The proposed work investigates the dynamic process o | National Science Foundation | 8/19/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY | $467,071 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This research addresses the question of how developments in childrenG??s object naming arise from basic processes of lexical memory and retrieval. The proposed experiments seek empirical evidence to determine the nature and developmental course of lexica | National Science Foundation | 7/30/2009 |
| AUBURN UNIVERSITY | $376,104 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This study will provide critical new evidence about (a) associations among psychophysiological and coping responses to normative peer stressors and (b) psychophysiological and coping responses that predict peer and school adjustment and emotional and phys | National Science Foundation | 8/20/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF UNION COLLEGE IN THE TOWN OF SCHENECTADY IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK | $30,799 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This study examines the interrelationships of feeding behavior,food texture, and jaw bone structure in 8 monkey species. The research goals are 1)To improve | National Science Foundation | 9/10/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA | $118,960 | 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 |
| THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK | $113,939 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The PI will pursue three directions related to the estimation of the geometry of Riemann surfaces. The first is the continuation of the work with Mikhail Lyubich toward proving the bounds for renormalization of iterated complex quadratic polynomials, with | National Science Foundation | 6/04/2009 |
| IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY | $169,982 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Project Summary: The proposed project focuses on the development of appropriate nonparametric likelihood (resampling) methods for dependent data, as well as investigation of the properties and optimal implementation of such methods. Previously, the P | National Science Foundation | 6/22/2009 |
| LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM | $314,139 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: As the Nation strives to reduce its carbon footprint, protect its economy from fluctuating oil prices, and increase its energy independence, Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS) represent a virtually untapped, clean, renewable, economically viable and widely | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL | $130,450 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Collaborative Research on Mathematical Constructs for Multiphase Complex Fluids | National Science Foundation | 6/23/2009 |
| CLEMSON UNIVERSITY | $256,583 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The principal investigator (PI) proposes to research mathematical models and numerical methods for enabling long time accuracy in turbulent fluid flow simulations. The first aspect is the development, through mathematical and numerical analysis, of high | National Science Foundation | 7/10/2009 |
| CLARKSON UNIVERSITY | $182,142 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The PI and her collaborators will develop tensor-based numerical methods for applications primarily to signal processing and environmetrics, and secondarily to image processing, data mining and scientific computing. In the past, these subjects benefited f | National Science Foundation | 6/15/2009 |
| PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE | $180,000 | 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 project, the investigators are using mathematical methods from game theory, dynamical systems, and stochastic processes to study how behavioral patt | National Science Foundation | 9/14/2009 |
| VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY | $900,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The proposed VCU Noyce Initiative is a scholarship program designed to increase the number and retention of highly effective, diverse secondary science teachers in high-need schools in the metro-Richmond area by (1) recruiting and supporting 32 outstandin | National Science Foundation | 6/16/2009 |
| OAKLAND UNIVERSITY | $893,199 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award targets the recruitment of high-quality science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) career-changers to provide them stipends to undertake an innovative science and mathematics focused Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) program at Oakl | National Science Foundation | 5/26/2009 |
| KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY | $896,765 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Kennesaw State University (KSU), in collaboration with Georgia Institue of Technology (GT), forms the Increasing Mathematics Teachers for ALL Students (IMTAS) project. This project is recruiting, preparing and retaining 36 teachers of secondary mathemati | National Science Foundation | 5/22/2009 |
| AUBURN UNIVERSITY | $1,499,981 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Team-Math Teacher Leader Academy for Elementary Mathematics Specialists builds on the design for Secondary Mathematics Teachers. The Academy will identify a cadre of 15 fellows in high-needs school who have the potential to make a significant impact | National Science Foundation | 5/22/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA | $899,298 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Mathematics and Science Teachers for Iowa | National Science Foundation | 5/27/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, THE | $579,965 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Continuing climate change poses uncertainties on future water resources. The water cycle encompasses fundamental processes that link various elements of climate and water resources. Holding approximately 30% of Earth's fresh water, groundwater?s enormous | National Science Foundation | 8/24/2009 |
| RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, THE | $211,688 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Collaborative Research: Do CFCs and SF6 behave as reactive (sorbing) tracers in low carbon content sedimentary aquifers? This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Intellectual Merit: CFCs and SF6 ar | National Science Foundation | 7/09/2009 |
| WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION | $280,356 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Collaborative Research: An Earthscope Magnetotelluric Survey of the Southern Cascadia Subduction System, Eashington | National Science Foundation | 6/09/2009 |
| LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM | $34,623 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Research in Yellowstone National Park (YNP) will characterize the geology, geochemistry and geochronology of the Precambrian rocks that underlie the northern part of the Park. REU students will participate in three major activities that will constitute a | National Science Foundation | 8/30/2009 |
| WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION | $265,874 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: CSEDI Collaborative Research: Influence of Grain-Size Evolution on Global and Regional Mantle Flow and Upper Mantle Seismic Structure | National Science Foundation | 7/21/2009 |
| RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, THE | $247,226 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Recent developments in the understanding of Pleistocene glacial records in the western U.S. reveal spatial variability in the onset of the last glacial-interglacial transition (GIT; the time ~17-10 ka) among the northern, middle, southern Rocky Mountains, | National Science Foundation | 9/12/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA | $384,989 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The research will take place at four springs in north-central Florida along the Suwannee River, but results should be applicable in other regions with springs. Work will include sampling and monitoring chemistry of water flowing into the springs during | National Science Foundation | 7/26/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO | $138,986 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: We propose to quantify how rapid, extensive changes in forest structure and composition associated with Mountain Pine Beetle (MPB) infestation of western montane forests affect the cycling of water, carbon, and nitrogen cycles, including both land surface | National Science Foundation | 9/18/2009 |
| MISSOURI SYSTEM, UNIVERSITY OF | $124,341 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Splitting of teleseismic shear-waves is mostly the consequence of lithospheric deformation and asthenospheric flow. Significant seismic anisotropy with an averaged splitting time of about 1 s has been observed in the vicinity of most present-day subductio | National Science Foundation | 7/10/2009 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, THE | $202,399 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Our long-term goal is to obtain a comprehensive understanding of the factors and mechanisms that influence bacterial transport and distribution in the subsurface. The main research objective of this proposal is to investigate and analyze scenarios in whic | National Science Foundation | 8/31/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS | $312,506 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: In this work we explore the elastic and viscoelastic responses of the solid earth related to climate induced surface load changes. The climate changes and associated loads occur at time scales ranging from annual hydrological cycles at one extreme to ice | National Science Foundation | 7/19/2009 |
| PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE | $186,048 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Understanding the factors controlling the stress state and nature of slip on major tectonic faults is a fundamental problem in earthquake physics and fault | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY | $118,944 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This award will fund the acquisition of an Inductively Coupled Plasma Optical Emission Spectrometer (ICP-OES) in the HDR Environmental Engineering Laboratory | National Science Foundation | 9/08/2009 |
| PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE | $69,862 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Soil Research Cluster Laboratory (SRCL) is a University funded multifunction, multi-user facility hosted by the Department of Crop and Soil Sciences (CSS) at The Pennsylvania State University. The SRCL provides faculty, students, and technical staff w | National Science Foundation | 8/07/2009 |
| BERKELEY GEOCHRONOLOGY CENTER | $110,189 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Funds will be used for the acquisition of replacement electronics and associated components for a thermal ionization mass spectrometer that has formed the co | National Science Foundation | 8/19/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS CENTER FOR RESEARCH, INC. | $136,097 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: For this proposal, PI will be conducting geologic field research on the Tibetan plateau to investigate the geologic evolution of active faults across the Tibet interior. Due to the vast region to be covered each field season, this requires that Taylor an | National Science Foundation | 7/19/2009 |
| SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSTIY FOUNDATION | $400,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The objectives of the proposed research and education efforts are to conduct research on the reconfigurable aperture antennas and arrays which can provide compact multifunctional antenna solutions, and to enhance quality of the antenna and microwave educa | National Science Foundation | 7/15/2009 |
| GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY | $349,482 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: NSF -- ARRA grant # ECCS 0901236: ?Nanoscale Field Effect Diode-Based Memory and Electrostatic Protection Devices?, $349,482.00, 8/15/09 ? 7/31/12. The goal of this project is to combine the strengths of the Thin Capacitively Coupled Thyristor (TCCT) app | National Science Foundation | 8/10/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS | $286,824 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 'The objective of this program is to develop a systematic and numerically tractable Lyapunov approach for evaluation of the magnitude of nonlinear oscillations. Intellectual merit: The intellectual merit is that the Lyapunov approach provides a quantitat | National Science Foundation | 8/21/2009 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $350,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: High Efficiency Light Emitting Diodes using Nanostructured ZnO Intellectual Merit. This proposal presents collaborative effort to study chemically synthesized ZnO nanowires for potential application in high performance light emitting diode (LED) applicati | National Science Foundation | 7/30/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MAINE SYSTEM | $231,738 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: With this award from the Major Research Instrumentation Program, Lucille A. Benedict and Samantha J. Langley-Turnbaugh of the University of Southern Maine will acquire a portable x-ray fluorescence (XRF) analyzer, a bench top x-ray fluorescence analyzer a | National Science Foundation | 9/02/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO | $499,949 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Islands of the Caribbean have a remarkably rich flora internationally recognized as a biodiversity hotspot. Herbarium collections of the region serve to document the flora providing a vast resource for a broad spectrum of studies. All active herbaria in t | National Science Foundation | 8/21/2009 |
| MUSEUM OF THE EARTH AT THE PALEONTOLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTION | $497,100 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Paleontological Research Institution (PRI) collection includes more than 2.5 million specimens and is among the 10 largest and most scientifically important fossil collections in the US. Allowed to deteriorate and become largely inaccessible for many | National Science Foundation | 9/22/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS CENTER FOR RESEARCH, INC. | $177,555 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This proposal describes a plan to develop an infrastructure that will create a distributed interoperable information system that combines the Morphbank image repository, the Specify collection management system, and the Morphster ontology management syste | National Science Foundation | 8/04/2009 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $541,482 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project is a collaboration between investigators at Yale University and at Duke University. Color is a crucial feature of many multicellular organisms. Scientific description of organism color requires detailed documentation of both the spectral and | National Science Foundation | 8/25/2009 |
| RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, THE | $609,677 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: A grant is awarded to the University at Albany to acquire an atomic force microscope (AFM)-laser scanning confocal microscope (LSCM) for research and training at the College of Nanoscale Science & Engineering (CNSE). Biological research at the nano- and m | National Science Foundation | 8/10/2009 |
| DONALD DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER | $869,695 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The ability to detect, identify, and characterize biomolecules remains an essential component in the elucidation of complex cellular processes. Progress in the field of analytical instrumentation development continually advances current capabilities and | National Science Foundation | 8/11/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC. | $100,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The objective of this collaborative project is to investigate a novel sensing platform of a carbon nanotube (CNT) coated with discrete SnO2 nanocrystals for miniaturized gas sensors. The project will combine experiments (atomic, electronic, electrical, an | National Science Foundation | 7/09/2009 |
| MISSOURI SYSTEM, UNIVERSITY OF | $250,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Corrosion is responsible for annual bridge expenditures in the United States of nearly $10 billion with indirect costs approaching 10 times that amount per year. Among many methods that have been developed for corrosion protection over the past two decade | National Science Foundation | 6/12/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS | $165,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The funding is for investigating new technologies that can improve the coverage of wireless services providing high speed connectivity using wireless relays. | National Science Foundation | 8/04/2009 |
| RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, THE | $239,085 | 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 NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL | $574,477 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: TC: Large: Collaborative Research: Trustworthy Virtual Cloud Computing Virtual cloud computing is emerging as a promising solution to Information Technology (IT) management to both ease the provisioning and administration of complex hardware and software | National Science Foundation | 9/03/2009 |
| ST. MARY'S UNIVERSITY OF SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS | $50,869 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The engineering research award enables St. Mary's University to collaborate with Texas Engineering Experiment Station to further employ researchers in the development of new methods and web-based tools to integrate design of automated manufacturing into e | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $62,948 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project proposes a pilot educational research study to examine the career perspectives and goals of Duke engineering graduate students at various points of their doctoral or master#s degree programs. This study will also identify the variables or exp | National Science Foundation | 9/25/2009 |
| RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, THE | $524,049 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The State University of New York at Buffalo has received a grant to create a database and software tools to facilitate the study of gene regulation, through transcriptional cis-regulatory modules (CRMs). CRMs are a major class of genomic sequence elements | National Science Foundation | 7/18/2009 |
| BOSTON COLLEGE, TRUSTEES OF | $529,903 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Although the advent of large-scale functional genomics studies has led to major advances in the study of gene regulation, many of the regulatory sequences in eukaryotic genomes are still not understood. In particular, regulatory sequences within coding DN | National Science Foundation | 7/28/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MAINE SYSTEM | $1,350,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The National Science Foundation has invested significant resources in EPSCoR jurisdictions in support of research infrastructure and capacity, including support for facilities, instrumentation and personnel. In the northeast, Delaware, Maine, New Hampshir | National Science Foundation | 8/25/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY SYSTEM OF NEW HAMPSHIRE | $1,200,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The North East Cyberinfrastructure Consortium (NECC) unites Maine (ME), New Hampshire (NH), Vermont (VT), Rhode Island (RI), and Delaware (DE) to support cyber-enabled research that requires analyses of large datasets. The project is organized around shar | National Science Foundation | 8/25/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND | $1,200,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The North East Cyberinfrastructure Consortium (NECC) unites Maine (ME), New Hampshire (NH), Vermont (VT), Rhode Island (RI), and Delaware (DE) to support cyber-enabled research that requires analyses of large datasets. The project is organized around shar | National Science Foundation | 8/25/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, THE | $295,099 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Intellectual Merit: Metamaterials are a new class of nano/bio related materials which possess unique optical properties derived from the structural design of the constituents rather than their individual chemistry. The PIs propose to use an integrated app | National Science Foundation | 7/27/2009 |
| WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE | $429,982 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The aim of this work is to analyze dust ignition and dust deflagrations using laboratory based bench scale tests. Ultimately, this will help in quantifying the fire and explosion hazard in facilities that process and handle fine particulates. Some example | National Science Foundation | 7/17/2009 |
| AUBURN UNIVERSITY | $71,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Rheology of Lyotropic Nematogenic Nanorod Dispersions - This award will enable investigation of the fundamental rheological behaviors of nanocylinder liquid crystals, particularly, SWNT-DNA liquid crystals. This will enable improved understanding, develo | National Science Foundation | 8/14/2009 |
| SOUTH DAKOTA SCHOOL OF MINES & TECHNOLOGY | $699,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Purchasing a modern electron microscope (TEM) for nanoscience & nanoengineering research and research training in a range of disciplines, including materials science, physics, chemistry, and geological, chemical, biochemical, and environmental engineering | National Science Foundation | 8/25/2009 |
| J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE INC | $281,559 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Microbial energy transformations are fundamental to biomolecular processes that enable technologies such as biosensors, and microbial fuel cells for bioremediation and bioenergy. To develop and optimize these technologies it is critical to understand what | National Science Foundation | 8/28/2009 |
| PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE | $480,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 'This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).' Proposal ID: 0903432 PI name: Xie, Yuan Inst: PA St U University Park Title: ADAMS: Architecture and Design Automation for 3D Multi-core Systems ABST | National Science Foundation | 8/03/2009 |
| BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY | $125,533 | 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 |
| BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE | $1,000,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The long-term aims of this work are to develop new methods to analyze massive, noisy, and multi-scale networks and to predict protein function from evolutionary, physical and functional correlations. The approach relies on approximation methods to resolve | National Science Foundation | 8/08/2009 |
| NEW YORK UNIVERSITY | $150,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Flexible, Efficient, and Trustworthy Proof Checking for Satisfiability Modulo Theories | National Science Foundation | 7/15/2009 |
| NEW YORK UNIVERSITY | $1,848,082 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Collaborative Research: Next-Generation Model Checking and Abstract Interpretation with a Focus on Embedded Control and Systems Biology | National Science Foundation | 8/11/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, RENO | $360,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The project is designed to investigate structure function relationships of the metalloenzyme nickel superoxide dismutase. We are specifically focusing on the role that the primary and secondary coordination environment about the Ni-center plays in dictat | National Science Foundation | 7/30/2009 |
| IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY | $600,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Intellectual Merit. This career proposal outlines a plan for implementing a research and education program focused on developing novel fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) methods and high spatial resolution stimulated emission depletion (STED) i | National Science Foundation | 7/19/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA | $382,812 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Next Generation Thermoplastics from Biorenewable Carbonyl Compounds The project objectives include the synthesis and characterization of new crop-based, biorenewable thermoplastics designed to replace those made from petroleum. Several synthetic strateg | National Science Foundation | 7/22/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, THE | $277,114 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: An area of engineering practice that is not well defined is the seismic response of sites requiring site-specific evaluation (i.e., IBC Soil Type F). It follows from the limited fundamental understanding of the behavior of these materials. Site F includes | National Science Foundation | 8/14/2009 |
| NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $400,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This proposal outlines a challenging career development plan focusing on fundamental challenges associated with dependable data management in SC-HSNs. Specifically, there are three main thrusts in our proposed research in correspondence to the three daunt | National Science Foundation | 8/18/2009 |
| THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK | $400,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: As computing becomes embedded in the very fabric of our society, the exponential growth and advances in cheap, high-speed communication infrastructures allow for unprecedented levels of global information exchange and interaction. As a result, new market | National Science Foundation | 9/10/2009 |
| INTERNATIONAL COMPUTER SCIENCE INSTITUTE | $207,942 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Developing security monitoring to robustly protect large sites against Internet attacks presents exceptionally difficult research challenges. There is a world of difference between detecting attackers in a small-scale environment such as a departmental LA | National Science Foundation | 7/27/2009 |
| WESTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY INC | $274,987 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Data centers using virtual machine (VM) consolidation are taking over old computer rooms run by individual companies. However, consolidating services and res | National Science Foundation | 8/12/2009 |
| 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). Wireless sensor networks have been applied to many military and commercial applications. However, the sensor network envisioned so far is targeted for a sin | National Science Foundation | 8/17/2009 |
| RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK | $249,999 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: RECOVERY ACT RESEARCH SUPPORT OF Synthesis and Crystal Growth of Dilute Magnetic Semiconductors and Frustrated Magnets | National Science Foundation | 6/08/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT ASHEVILLE | $628,665 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: There is widespread interest in the design and study of new sophisticated materials with specialized physical and chemical properties (e.g., high-temperature superconductivity, novel magnetism, spintronics, catalysis). The composition of such materials c | National Science Foundation | 9/08/2009 |
| NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY | $279,914 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Granted funds will support continued operation of the Amino Acid Racemization Geochronology Laboratory (AAGL) at Northern Arizona University. Racemization of amino acids following the death of an organism is proportional to time elapsed since death and th | National Science Foundation | 8/24/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, RENO | $446,906 | 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, allowing fo the first time borad community access to fiber optic Raman temperature measurement capabl | National Science Foundation | 9/15/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC. | $155,400 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 0929912 Schroeder This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Granted funds will support acquisition of a powder x-ray diffractometer (XRD) to support research in environmental geochemistry, paleocli | National Science Foundation | 8/10/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS CENTER FOR RESEARCH, INC. | $82,345 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: (U-Th)/He dating of U- and Th- bearing accessory minerals has attracted tremendous interest as a low-temperature thermochronometer in the geosciences community. Exploding demand for high-quality low-temperature thermochronometric data to address crucial q | National Science Foundation | 8/24/2009 |
| BERKELEY GEOCHRONOLOGY CENTER | $482,030 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Funds will be used to acquire a single-collector, magnetic-sector, inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer (ICP-MS) for the Berkeley Geochronology Cente | National Science Foundation | 8/24/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS CENTER FOR RESEARCH, INC. | $81,473 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: PI will be responsible for reassessing the morphotaxonomy of the large polyphyletic Harpellales genera, Smittium and Stachylina, to conform to DNA-based phylogenetic hypotheses. The results will establish new monophyletic genera where warranted. He will b | National Science Foundation | 8/14/2009 |
| LEHIGH UNIVERSITY | $399,468 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Arctic has been experiencing the great warming and ecological changes in recent decades. The Holocene thermal maximum, about 11000-9000 years ago in Alaska, was the last pronounced warm period. The warm and possibly dry climate resulted in unusual eco | National Science Foundation | 7/17/2009 |
| MISSOURI SYSTEM, UNIVERSITY OF | $451,614 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Project summary: Physical ecosystem engineering is now widely held as an important ecological process. Despite this purported importance, the extent of the ecological and evolutionary impacts of ecosystem engineers on other organisms, and the conditions u | National Science Foundation | 8/17/2009 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF AKRON | $139,430 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The adaptation of organisms to their environment is one of the most conspicuous features of evolution. Many studies have focused on the dynamics of adaptation, but relatively little is known about the mechanistic basis of these dynamics. With the advent | National Science Foundation | 6/04/2009 |
| OHIO UNIVERSITY | $200,914 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Soil pH (acidity) has a major influence on soil fertility, and therefore the structure and function of ecosystems. The availability of phosphorous (P), in particular, is highly controlled by soil pH. Both natural processes and human-induced disturbance, s | National Science Foundation | 7/30/2009 |
| LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM | $225,394 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project seeks to develop bioinformatics software that will facilitate the incorporation of next-generation sequencing data to phylogeography. We expect to oversee the development of a software pipeline that can be used by phylogeographic researchers. | National Science Foundation | 8/15/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, THE | $783,611 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 'Research will be conducted into a broad array of problems in Fourier analysis, partial differential equations, and complex analysis. The PI will investigate upper bounds for multilinear oscillatory integral operators, seeking to further develop the stati | National Science Foundation | 6/17/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY | $135,794 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The principal investigator proposes to study moduli spaces of p-divisible groups and the cohomology groups of such spaces. These cohomology groups furnish representations of certain p-adic reductive groups and Galois groups. Moreover, the way these repres | National Science Foundation | 6/29/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA | $140,545 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The investigator and his collaborators study a new non-invasive method for imaging the electrical conductivity of the inside of the body. Inner knowledge of the conductivity has found applications in various fields ranging from Medicine, Geophysics, Envir | National Science Foundation | 6/30/2009 |
| VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY, THE | $136,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Hamiltonian dynamical systems describe a variety of mechanical systems where the energy dissipation can be neglected. For example, the planetary motion in celestial mechanics and the motion of a charge in a magnetic field are usually treated as Hamiltonia | National Science Foundation | 9/02/2009 |
| CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FRESNO FOUNDATION INC | $78,532 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Link, Homology, Categorification and extended Topological Quantum Field Theory | National Science Foundation | 7/28/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE | $473,029 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Collaborative Research: New MCMC-Enabled Bayesian Methods for Complex Data and Computer Models Applied in Astronomy. A principled statistical method under development that accounts for calibration uncertainty has been refined and tested on a battery of s | National Science Foundation | 7/19/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY | $303,125 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Intellectual merit: The PI proposes to study the structure, its robustness/stability and transitions of the large scale atmospheric and oceanic flows, to yield a better understanding of the atmospheric and oceanic prediction and predictability relevant to | National Science Foundation | 6/10/2009 |
| AUBURN UNIVERSITY | $175,777 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The investigator and his students will study poromechanical models analytically (existence and uniqueness), develop and rigorously analyze finite element based methods for approximating solutions of various model problems in poromechanics, and derive a-pr | National Science Foundation | 9/14/2009 |
| IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY | $99,235 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: In this project we will design, analyze and implement new discontinuous Galerkin(DG) finite element methods for solving partial differential equations arising from physics and engineering. We will focus on the local discontinuous Galerkin(LDG) methods fo | National Science Foundation | 8/26/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT | $260,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project will develop and validate a model for collective migration of cells in tissue. We will focus on wound healing assays (13-17). In these experiments, a monolayer of epithelial cells is plated onto a substrate and a wound is made in the monolay | National Science Foundation | 9/14/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI SYSTEM | $4,999,969 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: A TIME FOR FRESHMAN PHYSICS IN MISSOURI Academy for Teachers using Inquiry and Modeling Experiences for Freshman Physics in Missouri Lead Core Partner: University of Missouri (MU), Columbia MO Core District Partners: Columbia Public Schools, North Kansas | National Science Foundation | 7/08/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE | $68,631 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The project ended 5/31/2010. No activity occurred during the 3rd quarter. The Teach/Here Teacher Residency Initiative (TRI), which is being developed through a partnership between the University of Tennessee, the Public Education Foundation, Hamilton Coun | National Science Foundation | 5/21/2009 |
| RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK (INC) | $899,900 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: ARRA - TRANS-NSF RECOVERY ACT RESEARCH SUPPORT Robert Noyce Mathematics and Science Teacher (MaST) Scholars Program | National Science Foundation | 5/27/2009 |
| SEATTLE PACIFIC UNIVERSITY | $74,998 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Development of Discipline Centered National Model for STEM Teacher Preparation | National Science Foundation | 6/23/2009 |
| AMERICAN UNIVERSITY | $1,498,042 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Math for America DC (MfA DC) is a collaborative project between American UniversityG??s (AU) School of Education, Teaching, and Health (SETH) and Department of Mathematics and Statistics (M/S), the District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS), a group of DC | National Science Foundation | 5/22/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH THE | $400,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The proposed research, which is focused on electron injection from metal nanoparticles into the surrounding TCO matrix, broadens the arena for fundamental nanoscale research on potentially new and novel carrier conduction mechanisms and opens a new area f | National Science Foundation | 6/16/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC. | $564,036 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The purpose of this research is to investigate non-oxidizing routes to SWNT purification and the use of these purified suspensions for control over SWNT networks properties using a novel temparature deposition method. | National Science Foundation | 5/27/2009 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $387,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The two PIs are committed to graduate and undergraduate education, and will use this research project as a forum for advanced interdisciplinary training of students. The successful completion of the proposed research would open up huge opportunities in ar | National Science Foundation | 8/31/2009 |
| CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY | $76,520 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: In earlier work, the PI introduced a new version of Stein's method of exchangeable pairs, called infinitesimal exchangeable pairs, adapted to situations in which the underlying random object is distributionally invariant under the action of a continuous s | National Science Foundation | 6/09/2009 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $176,270 | 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. Often times, they include many parameters characterizing the | National Science Foundation | 5/29/2009 |
| IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY | $174,993 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Intellectual Merit Rapidly growing volumes of information arising from, for example, biological data, present modern science with the challenge of processing and analyzing this information efficiently. Recent advances in discrete mathematics have proven | National Science Foundation | 8/02/2009 |
| NEW YORK UNIVERSITY | $305,024 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Collaborative Research: The Analysis and Simulation of Biologically Active Suspensions | National Science Foundation | 8/30/2009 |
| ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $97,900 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The proposed program will provide excellent training opportunities for graduate students in parallel computing and offer them easy access and hands-on experience to a high performance computing cluster. Four courses in computational mathematics will be e | National Science Foundation | 8/11/2009 |
| LEHIGH UNIVERSITY | $299,748 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The purpose of this grant is to develop a novel approach to understand volcanic eruptive processes by determining the size distribution of bubbles in the volcanic foam of the eruptive column at the time and place of fragmentation of the foam into a gassy | National Science Foundation | 6/05/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL | $121,988 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Acquisition of an X-ray fluorescence spectrometer for research in petrology and paleoclimatology | National Science Foundation | 7/31/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC. | $394,076 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). At the culmination of the lithospheric accretion that built the Appalachian Mountains (250-320 million years ago) the lithosphere of another continent (Gond | National Science Foundation | 8/14/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA | $625,400 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Much of the land area of Washington, Oregon, and California was added to continental North America during the last 200 million years. In the Idaho-Oregon border region, the boundary between oceanic and continental lithospheres is well exposed in a very n | National Science Foundation | 6/17/2009 |
| CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY | $409,542 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The mining and processing of metal-bearing ores has left a legacy of contaminated mine wastes across the gold, silver, and mercury deposits of the north-central Mojave Desert located in southern California. In addition to the primary metals being mined at | National Science Foundation | 8/31/2009 |
| BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY | $87,288 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Collaborative Research: Sedimentary Basin Response to Paleocene-Eocene Spreading Ridge Subduction in South-Central Alaska This research group is providing one of the first detailed accounts of the sedimentary basin response to oceanic spreading-ridge subd | National Science Foundation | 7/28/2009 |
| WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION | $236,063 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Modification of Primary Magma Composition Through Reaction With Lower Crust: Insights from Icelandic Glass Bearing Crustal Xenoliths | National Science Foundation | 7/19/2009 |
| FORT LEWIS COLLEGE | $138,818 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Petrological and Geochemistry Research | National Science Foundation | 7/10/2009 |
| OHIO UNIVERSITY | $180,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Granted funds will support a laboratory technician to work as a fossil preparator at Ohio University. The technician will support the research of at least ni | National Science Foundation | 8/19/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA | $400,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The objective of this research is to develop next-generation ultra-low-cost phased arrays for various applications including radar, broadcasting, cellular communications, satellite communications, and weather forecasting. The approach is to investigate an | National Science Foundation | 7/15/2009 |
| MISSOURI SYSTEM, UNIVERSITY OF | $292,912 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Project Summary The research objective of this proposal is to improve residential photovoltaic (PV) installations with switched-capacitor (SC) power converters. Typical PV panels generate about 200 W at voltages generally below 50 V. PV installations with | National Science Foundation | 8/04/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI | $337,360 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The significantly increased clock rates of computer central processing units are rapidly outpacing the corresponding electrical motherboard data rates. Due to severe frequency dependant physical factors such as crosstalk, power dissipation, packaging dens | National Science Foundation | 8/21/2009 |
| IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY | $395,992 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Intellectual Merit: The main objective of the proposed research is to uncover important mechanisms for the emergence of complex behavior in networked control systems, to propose ways to mitigate and control the effects of such behaviors, and to apply the | National Science Foundation | 8/21/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS | $100,607 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: MRI: Acquisition of the Multi-Probe Wide-Temperature Parameter Analysis System for Low-Voltage Low-Noise Measurements. The Electrical and Computer Engineering department at the University of Massachusetts Lowell will use the funding toward the acquisitio | National Science Foundation | 8/25/2009 |
| PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE | $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). The objective of this research to design, and demonstrate a versatile, high pixel density, calorimetric (bio)chemical sensor array from temperature sensitiv | National Science Foundation | 7/09/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI SYSTEM | $306,118 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Novel 3-Dimenional Biosensor for Rapid Detection and Accurate Identification of Salmonella in Food | National Science Foundation | 7/30/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, THE | $300,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This three year REU site program will engage nine undergraduate students each year in hands-on-research in the area of functional materials. In addition, two international participants, from the Technological Institute of Monterrey, will join the student | National Science Foundation | 7/06/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS CENTER FOR RESEARCH, INC. | $499,477 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This RET program, called G?Shaping Inquiry from Feedstock to TailpipeG? or SHIFT, proposes to engage science teachers in research to develop renewable fuels. The projects are part of a new initiative at the University of Kansas (KU) that integrates resear | National Science Foundation | 8/12/2009 |
| RECINTO UNIVERSITARIO MAYAGUEZ | $175,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The research objective of this BRIGE award is to investigate the effect of silver (Ag) nanostructures' morphology on the progression of an environmentally bening lead-free, pressureless sintering process. Key to the success of the project is the characte | National Science Foundation | 7/06/2009 |
| LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY INC | $149,603 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This engineering education research award to Loyola Marymount University will employ researchers to create and assess an on-line interactive learning environment called the Virtual Engineering Sciences Learning Lab (VESLL). The resources of the popular Se | National Science Foundation | 8/03/2009 |
| FRANKLIN W. OLIN COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, INC. | $400,084 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: CAREER: Exploring the Relationship Between Self-Efficacy and Project-Based Learning Among Engineering Students. This engineering education research CAREER award to Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering will determine the impact of first year project-b | National Science Foundation | 9/30/2009 |
| PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE | $1,884,991 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Climate change has the potential to affect the dynamics and distribution of vector-borne diseases that impact the lives of millions of people. However, our | National Science Foundation | 7/01/2009 |
| SOUTH CAROLINA RESEARCH AUTHORITY | $3,324,669 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The partnership between South Carolina (SC) and Tennessee (TN) is based on existing and planned collaborations in advanced materials and systems biology research, and in knowledge domains where computational science is driving new approaches and insights. | National Science Foundation | 9/04/2009 |
| WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION | $4,622,113 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: AON: Continuation of the Ice-Tethered Profiler contribution to the Arctic Observing Network | National Science Foundation | 8/13/2009 |
| WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION | $152,342 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Collaborative Research: Changing Seasonality of the Arctic: Alteration of Production Cycles and Trophic Linkages in Response to Changes in Sea Ice and Upper Ocean Physics | National Science Foundation | 8/12/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT & STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE | $549,581 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: HOW DOES CHANGING SEASONALITY AFFECT THE CAPACITY OF ARCTIC STREAM NETWORKS TO INFLUENCE NUTRIENT FLUXES FROM THE LANDSCAPE TO THE OCEAN? During the G?shoulder seasonsG? in the arctic (spring and fall) the extent of sub-stream tha | National Science Foundation | 6/10/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MAINE SYSTEM | $189,774 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award will support an investigation of Holocene glacier fluctuations in the Scoresby Sund region of central East Greenland (~70-72-?N, 22-28-?W) along a transect from a coastal maritime setting to the continental conditions adjacent to the Greenland | National Science Foundation | 7/15/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA ANCHORAGE | $430,063 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Early historical records about people of the Aleutian Archipelago of Alaska emphasized the importance of coastal resources to the cultures, leading Laughlin (1980:20) to conclude 'The interior land surfaces on the other hand were irrelevant to their way o | National Science Foundation | 8/25/2009 |
| PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE | $532,177 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 'This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).' This study will use tracer methodologies to track the origin and extent of exogenous microbial contamination during ice-core drilling and post-core relaxa | National Science Foundation | 7/09/2009 |
| RECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA | $137,172 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Funding is provided to further test the early anthropogenic hypothesis (EAH) that agriculture produced greenhouse-gas emissions large enough to reverse natural downward trends in carbon dioxide and methane concentrations several thousand years ago by driv | National Science Foundation | 5/21/2009 |
| WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY | $193,543 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The primary goal of this project to to investigate earthquake activity and the internal structure of the undersea Loihi volcano in unprecedented detail. A network of ocean bottom seismometers will be deployed on the volcano to perform the first high reso | National Science Foundation | 8/16/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC. | $365,938 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: PI Name Dr. Wei-Jun Cai/ Institute U of Georgia, Dept of Marine Sciences/ Phone 706.542-1285/ Email [email protected] Program US\Federal\NSF\OD\OPP\ARC\ANS Grant # 0909330 IPY Project? No Title Controls on Sea Surface pCO2 Variability and CO2 Uptake in the | National Science Foundation | 8/18/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY SYSTEM OF NEW HAMPSHIRE | $206,457 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This multidisciplinary proposal aims to improve understanding of ocean/glacier-ice interactions by linking oceanographic, glacier, and atmospheric measurements in a fjord/glacier system showing recent change to quantify processes occurring at this interfa | National Science Foundation | 8/11/2009 |
| RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, THE | $209,379 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Rapid changes in the arctic climate system that occurred in the relatively recent past can be compared with the output of climate models to improve the understanding of the processes responsible for nonlinear system change. This study focuses on the trans | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| SKIDAWAY INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY | $356,139 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Reductions in sea ice and increases in terrestrial inputs to the coastal Arctic have profound implications for productivity, ecosystems structure, and carbon fluxes in this region. For the Arctic coastal region in particular, ecosystem shifts could be co | National Science Foundation | 8/14/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA | $109,828 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: We will investigate, in close collaboration with our Japanese and MIRES colleagues, an optimized design for a mid-IR (MIR, 7.5-26-?m) instrument for the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT). Japan is very likely to join the TMT as a full major partner, and membe | National Science Foundation | 8/10/2009 |
| TECHNICAL EDUCATION RESEARCH CENTERS, INC. | $189,557 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: TERC in partnership with Vcom3D is using the Signing Avatar-? assistive technology to research and develop a unique, state-of-the art, illustrated, interactive 3D dictionary of at least 750 standards-based Earth science terms for high school students who | National Science Foundation | 7/22/2009 |
| CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY | $965,874 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The objective of this interdisciplinary research program is to experimentally and theoretically characterize heat transfer and fluid flow in carbon nanotube (CNT) aerogels. Aerogels are ultra-light, highly porous materials. Our team has the unique capabil | National Science Foundation | 8/21/2009 |
| FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY | $150,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The goal of this project is to provide American student participants with a global perspective and opportunities for professional growth through international cooperative research training, networking and mentoring in the BioMEMS research field. This proj | National Science Foundation | 8/17/2009 |
| RECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA | $210,997 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This engineering education award to the University of Virginia will develop an innovative model for an accelerated masters degree in systems engineering that is customized to the needs and strengths of veterans. A particular emphasis will be including res | National Science Foundation | 8/18/2009 |
| PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE | $391,000 | 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 LISSARD project (Lake and Ice Stream Subglacial Access Research Drilling) is one of three research components of the WISSARD integrative initiative (Whil | National Science Foundation | 8/25/2009 |
| LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM | $380,906 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This submission (GBASE) is one of three interrelated proposals (along with LIZZARD and RAGES) using an interdisciplinary science approach to study the subglacial environments of two West Antarctic ice streams. GBASE proposes an integrated investigation to | National Science Foundation | 8/25/2009 |
| CAL POLY POMONA FOUNDATION INC | $1,237,695 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The mission of the California-Arizona Minority Partnership for Astronomy Research and Education (CAMPARE) program is to advance Astronomy research and education among Hispanic and other minority students by creating a partnership between California State | National Science Foundation | 7/02/2009 |
| FLORIDA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, INC. | $178,904 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Collaborative Proposal: Resolved Mid-IR Observations and Modeling of AGN and their Hosts | National Science Foundation | 9/05/2009 |
| SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSTIY FOUNDATION | $302,757 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The purpose of this project is to undertake precision measurements of the masses and radii of stars in eclipsing binary systems in nearby clusters. The primary motivation for this is the observation of characteristics of stars that allow very precise age | National Science Foundation | 8/25/2009 |
| NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY | $429,834 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Despite the important role which massive stars play in essentially all research areas of Astronomy, their formation and early evolution is still poorly understood. Preliminary observational studies indicate that mass loss phenomena are present throughout | National Science Foundation | 8/28/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII SYSTEMS | $141,664 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).Few undergraduate institutions are able to provide their faculty and students with research grade telescopes and instrumentation. The University of Hawaii at | National Science Foundation | 9/10/2009 |
| ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITIES FOR RESEARCH IN ASTRONOMY INC | $1,400,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Infrastructure improvements at the National Solar Observatory (NSO). NSO is a Federally Funded Research Center that operates telescopes and research facilities on Kitt Peak on property leased from the Tohono O'odham Nation in the Quinlan Mountains in Ariz | National Science Foundation | 9/03/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, THE | $1,587,712 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project is creating a carefully validated global model that addresses how sea salt from the oceans, soil dust from major deserts, and smoke particles from natural fires enter the atmosphere, are transported and then impact the climate. The work makes | National Science Foundation | 6/08/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, THE | $52,051 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Investigator will develop a simple, effective, and inexpensive method of obtaining very high-vertical-resolution atmospheric measurements made in close proximity to the SOUSY radar beam in Jicamarca Peru (a NSF Upper Atmospheric Facilities funded cent | National Science Foundation | 7/06/2009 |
| ATMOSPHERIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH, INC. | $416,251 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 'This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).' Severe thunderstorms and associated local extreme weather events (e.g., tornadoes, floods and lightning) significantly threaten life and property but rema | National Science Foundation | 9/14/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE | $535,691 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 'In this project, the Principal Investigator (PI) will perform a systematic study of electron and ion transport in solar energetic particle (SEP) events and create a training program for space physicists. The PI will develop an enhanced Monte Carlo approa | National Science Foundation | 6/19/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY CORPORATION, THE | $258,767 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: CSUN (California State University-Northridge) operates the San Fernando Observatory (SFO), which has produced an extensive data set of photometric full-disk solar images covering more than twenty-two years. These images allow precise measurement of the re | National Science Foundation | 6/09/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT & STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE | $199,519 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Diversity Climate Network (D-ClimNet) is a national partnership among the University of Vermont (UVM), the University of California - Los Angles (UCLA) and the University of Georgia (UGA) to create a pipeline of under-represented students from the hig | National Science Foundation | 7/19/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII SYSTEMS | $197,854 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Scientists and educators at the University of Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology (HIMB), the Department of Oceanography, and Paepae o He'eia Fishpond on Oahu are working to develop a community-based research and education partnership that seeks to integra | National Science Foundation | 7/24/2009 |
| CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FRESNO FOUNDATION INC | $1,398,706 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Mentoring, Education, Training, Research and Outreach (METRO): A co-ordinated approach to increase diversity in the Geosciences (OEDG Type II) | National Science Foundation | 9/13/2009 |
| THE AEROSPACE CORPORATION | $315,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This project will determine how short-term dynamics influences the long-term behavior of Earth's inner radiation belt (Van Allen belt). An existing physics | National Science Foundation | 7/20/2009 |
| POLYMER PHASES INC | $100,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: SUSTAINABLE POLYESTERS FOR FOAMS: This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project will develop new sustainable, biodegradable polyester materials that will replace many currently-used petrochemical polymer plastics. Polymer Phases, Inc. (PPI) has | National Science Foundation | 7/01/2009 |
| SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY | $360,779 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project involves the building of a high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructure at Southern Illinois University Carbondale (SIHPSI?Southern Illinois HPC Infrastructure), a facility first-of-its-kind not only within the campus but in the greater So | National Science Foundation | 8/22/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY SYSTEM OF NEW HAMPSHIRE | $150,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This study will perform a comprehensive computational study on the role of membrane elasticity, non-axisymmetry, and particle-wall interactions on capsule dynamics. Manipulation of single cells in microfluidic devices has gained momentum in the last decad | National Science Foundation | 8/18/2009 |
| WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION | $245,837 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This grant will be conducted as collaborative research with a colleague working on a grant awarded to Iowa State University. This collaborative research will create techniques that improve the reliability of software product lines. A software product line | National Science Foundation | 8/13/2009 |
| NEW YORK UNIVERSITY (INC) | $350,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Purchase of a Cyber-enabled X-Ray Microdiffractometer for the NYC Region | National Science Foundation | 7/26/2009 |
| IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY | $384,200 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Intellectual Merit The Department of Chemistry at Iowa State University requests funds to significantly upgrade the ISU Mass Spectrometry Laboratory through the purchase of a new accurate mass LCMS/MS. The proposed instrument is a cyber-enabled high resol | National Science Foundation | 8/14/2009 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF AKRON | $438,650 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The purpose of these funds is the acquisition of a new state of the art single crystal diffractometer to augment the aging and overburdened instrument currently housed in the department of chemistry. The new X-ray diffractometer will address the updated | National Science Foundation | 7/26/2009 |
| RFCUNY - CITY COLLEGE | $137,605 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: ARRA - TRANS-NSF RECOVERY ACT RESEARCH SUPPORT | National Science Foundation | 8/17/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS CENTER FOR RESEARCH, INC. | $577,800 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Purchasing a 400 MHz spectrometer | National Science Foundation | 8/19/2009 |
| THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY | $222,399 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Awash National Park Baboon Research Project has been conducting research on the behavioral, anatomical, physiological and ecological adaptations of anubis and hamadryas baboons, and on the natural hybrid zone between them, for over thirty years. All t | National Science Foundation | 8/24/2009 |
| SANTA FE INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INC | $496,067 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 'Network Conflict Theory: Empirically-Based Models of Conflict Dynamics and Effective Conflict Management Strategies': This project aims to develop an empirically derived quantitative and predictive set of models and tools for the analysis of protracted | National Science Foundation | 8/30/2009 |
| GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC. | $199,861 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Overall Purpose One of the most striking developments in public policy over the last several decades is the widespread acceptance of the use of markets to achieve environmental regulation goals. Environmental markets now span air and water pollution, fis | National Science Foundation | 8/24/2009 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $360,148 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Music depends on periodically repeating sound stimuli (tones, notes) played in sequence as melodies, or in combination as harmonies. Any given theme or song entails a collection of tones that are formally referred to as scales or modes. Each such collecti | National Science Foundation | 7/19/2009 |
| SLIPPERY ROCK UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | $175,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: To examine how air transport patterns in western Pennyslvania relate to air quality in the region. Using NOAA hysplit trajectories, air sheds will be created allowing us to examine typical air patterns and the connection to air pollutant levels within th | National Science Foundation | 8/16/2009 |
| STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (INC) | $235,069 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Computer vision research and related technology are on the cusp to be taken out of the lab to meet real-world challenges: understanding, reasoning, and navigation in large-scale, dynamic, and complex environments.This project will acquire a state-of-the | National Science Foundation | 7/29/2009 |
| CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY | $521,962 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Case Western Reserve University has been awarded a grant to build computational tools to facilitate research in metabolic profiles. Metabolites are molecules that are intermediates and products of metabolism. Current blood-labs in most hospitals and healt | National Science Foundation | 8/27/2009 |
| PENINSULA COLLEGE INC | $99,955 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Peninsula College REU Site provided a research program for undergraduates during the summers of 2009. Nine (9) students were selected to participate in an intensive 12-week research program in ecology and conservation in the Olympic Peninsula of Washi | National Science Foundation | 8/21/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, THE | $149,696 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Current assessment of microbial pollution in recreational waters involves measurement of fecal indicator bacteria (FIB) as proxies for human pathogens. FIB concentrations display diurnal variability such that the time the sample is collected dramatically | National Science Foundation | 5/03/2012 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA | $418,045 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Nanoparticles (NP) show tremendous potential in the area of therapeutics due to their smaller size and unique physicochemical properties as compared to their coarse counter parts. However, there exists a fissure in the current body of knowledge pertaining | National Science Foundation | 7/22/2009 |
| IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY | $300,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Intellectual Merit The rheological behavior of highly loaded, nanosize powder suspensions presents scientific and technological challenges. As the particle size approaches nanoscale, the viscosity of the suspension increases sharply. When the solids conte | National Science Foundation | 6/30/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE | $550,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Intellectual merit. Coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) microscopy is maturing as the method of choice for rapid chemically selective imaging of label-free biological cells and micro-structured materials. At present, the resolution of the CARS mi | National Science Foundation | 7/08/2009 |
| RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK | $178,152 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: RECOVERY ACT COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH IN Molecular Conduction in Confined Molecular Assemblies | National Science Foundation | 6/24/2009 |
| NEVADA SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION | $89,180 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This proposal will concentrate on the synthesis and characterization of new ligands for complexation of lanthanide ions and sensitization of their luminescence. The application of these materials is based on their emission wavelength. Those emitting in th | National Science Foundation | 9/04/2009 |
| RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK | $370,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: RECOVERY ACT RESEARCH SUPPORT In the Development of Controlled Palladium(0)-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling Polymerizations | National Science Foundation | 8/16/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE | $443,728 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project will work toward a microscopic understanding of how water and dihalogen molecules interact in clusters, and in liquid and solid solutions. Gas clathrate-hydrates are crystalline solids with structures consisting of a lattice of hydrogen-bonde | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS CENTER FOR RESEARCH, INC. | $500,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The University of Kansas (KU) Small-Molecule Crystallography Laboratory requests funds to acquire a diffractometer that will permit high-quality crystal structure determinations for samples that are either too small or that diffract too poorly to use with | National Science Foundation | 7/29/2009 |
| SRI INTERNATIONAL | $477,261 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: By developing large, high-density micro-cylindrical ion trap arrays, we will provide cutting-edge methods to create highly sensitive mass spectrometer (MS) components with the potential for low-cost batch fabrication. We also expect to make significant pr | National Science Foundation | 8/11/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII SYSTEMS | $346,167 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). A new era in displays, lighting and electronics is opening with the introduction of devices fabricated using high performance organic semiconductors. Opportu | National Science Foundation | 8/07/2009 |
| MISSOURI SYSTEM, UNIVERSITY OF | $73,393 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The complete control of spin dynamics is the primary goal of over 30 years of research into pulse sequence development for NMR, since pulse performance is such a crucial determinant of spectral information. We have evolved a unique and powerful tool set f | National Science Foundation | 7/29/2009 |
| RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, THE | $440,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The main objective of the proposed Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Project is to advance knowledge and understanding of the nonlinear dynamics of electrostatically actuated micro-electro-mechanical systems MEMS. This project will investigate non | National Science Foundation | 7/16/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI SYSTEM | $143,975 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Collaborative Research: Extracting 3-D fracture orientations for rock failure analysis by combining optical imaging and LIDAR scanning technologies. | National Science Foundation | 7/28/2009 |