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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY | $476,449 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Development of appropriate manufacturing processes is critical to realizing integrated circuits (IC) with multilevel metallization designs. Over the past 20 years, through significant improvements in design and manufacturing, the Chemical Mechanical Plana | National Science Foundation | 6/12/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII SYSTEMS | $37,073 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The proposed research is directed towards the preparation of a Preliminary Design Report for an NSF Major Research Equipment and Facility Construction (MREFC) project: The Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory (DUSEL) at the former Homestake | National Science Foundation | 8/05/2009 |
| PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE | $337,673 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The research objective of this Grant Opportunity for Academic Liaison with Industry (GOALI) award is to devise a low volatile organic carbon (VOC) core bin | National Science Foundation | 8/07/2009 |
| NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY | $145,709 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The need for system identification and reduced order modeling arises from the fact that, presented with sensor data, the analyst is generally unaware of many details of the underlying dynamical system from which they originated. The straightforward appro | National Science Foundation | 7/20/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI | $265,716 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The research objective of this project is to construct an analytical framework to reduce uncertainty in forecasts of hurricane intensity by optimally targeting a coordinated observing network of unmanned aircraft using ensemble-based adaptive sampling and | National Science Foundation | 7/16/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO | $354,478 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The objectives of this project are to acquire the fundamental knowledge necessary to create in situ root based stabilization structures suitable for use in subsurface environments, and to test these structures for efficacy. Intact, in place root structure | National Science Foundation | 7/06/2009 |
| TUSKEGEE UNIVERSITY | $348,158 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The objective is to build an aerial and terrestrial testbed composed of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and terrestrial robots. The UAVs and the robots must cooperatively complete a given mission. The UAVs are commercial products built by Procerus Co and | National Science Foundation | 8/01/2009 |
| NORTH CAROLINA AGRICULTURAL AND TECHNICAL STATE UNIVERSITY | $275,000 | 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 management to both cases the provisioning and administration of complex hardware and software sy | National Science Foundation | 9/03/2009 |
| FRANKLIN AND MARSHALL COLLEGE | $171,619 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Internet's traditional transport services architecture combines many orthogonal functions into a single transport protocol, an approach that worked well in the limited heterogeneity of the early Internet, but fails to satisfy the more diverse demands | National Science Foundation | 7/20/2009 |
| RECINTO UNIVERSITARIO MAYAGUEZ | $412,979 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project, developing a versatile service-oriented wireless mesh network (WMN), VESO-MESH that can be quickly built to respond to natural disaster, establishes a data intensive environmental monitoring application specifically addressing hurricanes and | National Science Foundation | 9/16/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY | $520,810 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Metagenomic sequences are vast in number and as obtained in the lab, fragmented and short (due to the limitations of sequencing techniques). The complexity of metagenomics data can also be overwhelming, as it contains sequences (by random sampling) from d | National Science Foundation | 8/26/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, THE | $1,497,426 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: LoCal (A Network Architecture for Localized Electrical Energy Reduction, Generation and Sharing) investigates Information Age approaches for managing society's most limited resource: energy. The world's electric grids are an engineering wonder of last cen | National Science Foundation | 5/08/2012 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS SYSTEM | $99,736 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project will explore alternative parallelization techniques for very largescale data intensive applications on emerging new parallel architectures, including distributed memory computer clusters using multicore and GPGPU processors. The experimental | National Science Foundation | 9/17/2009 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $110,821 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Intellectual Merit: We propose a unique computational platform to image the color phenotype of birds. The color phenotype is the angular spectral reflectance over the entire organismal surface. Scientific description of the color phenotype requires detail | National Science Foundation | 8/25/2009 |
| KEAN UNIVERSITY | $291,690 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: MRI: Acquisition of Instrumentation for a Molecular Ecology and Biosystematics Laboratory | National Science Foundation | 8/13/2009 |
| LEWIS & CLARK COLLEGE | $89,835 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Lewis & Clark College, a selective liberal arts institution focused on educating undergraduates and advancing knowledge, has received an award from the National Science Foundation to purchase a Zeiss AxioImager high resolution, time-lapse, fluorescence de | National Science Foundation | 7/09/2009 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA | $321,787 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Acquisition of a genetic analyzer, a quantitative PCR thermal cycler, a ChemiDoc imaging system, a Nanodrop spectrophotometer, and a vacuum centrifuge is planned by five (J. Kerby, H. Britten, K. Helenurm, M. Nepokroeff, and A. Paulson) of the 13 faculty | National Science Foundation | 7/22/2009 |
| VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY, THE | $688,129 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Phylogenetic trees are the foundation of all comparative biology. Because phylogenetic relationships among many groups of organisms are still poorly understood, the identification of the factors compromising accuracy in molecular phylogenies is critical | National Science Foundation | 7/15/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $889,840 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). What mechanisms allow some species to attain and maintain high relative abundance in tropical forests, while other species remain at low population densiti | National Science Foundation | 8/11/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY SYSTEM OF NEW HAMPSHIRE | $1,000,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Only a rare fraction of mutations is beneficial in a given environment, and it is uncertain how mutations that are beneficial in one environment will influence organismal performance in other environments. The effect of a mutation could appear in a single | National Science Foundation | 7/29/2009 |
| CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY | $318,383 | 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 |
| SALEM STATE UNIVERSITY | $299,733 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: To create The Atlantic Partnership for the Biological Sciences, a partnership for effective lab and field-based science between Salem State College (SSC) and the University of Puerto Rico at Humacao (UPRH) which has seven goals: 1) conduct a needs assess | National Science Foundation | 8/20/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, THE | $246,666 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The objective of this research is to develop bio-inspired algorithms for recognizing human movements and movement styles in videos of human activities. The approach is based on a new representation of static three-dimensional (3D) shape structure in the v | National Science Foundation | 2/22/2012 |
| RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, THE | $525,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Technical Abstract This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This Faculty Early Career Award funds a proposal that seeks to make significant impact on our current understanding of the physics of qua | National Science Foundation | 8/19/2009 |
| SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY | $432,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The major objective of the proposed research work is to predict the structural and thermodynamic properties of polymer films near interfaces. Our detailed investigation on the adsorption of polymer films on different surfaces will provide us with the mean | National Science Foundation | 5/21/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA | $186,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: THE KEY TO BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF SUPERCONDUCTORS HINGES ON VORTEX DYNAMICS, THE PHYSICS OF MAGNETIC FLUX QUANTA (VORTICES) WHICH PENETRATE THE SUPERCONDUCTOR DURING APPLICATION CONDITIONS. AN EXCITING PROBLEM IN VORTEX DYNAMICS CONCERNS EFFECTS OF THE | National Science Foundation | 7/31/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE | $475,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This grant supports primarily computational research on the properties of strongly interacting systems of electrons in one- and two-dimensions, with particular application to nanodevices and superconducting materials. The behavior of electrons when they a | National Science Foundation | 5/27/2009 |
| VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY, THE | $394,392 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The goal of the research program is to obtain a fundamental understanding of the electronic- and atomic- structure/property relationship of the iron-based superconductors, using a combination of state-of-the-art experimental and computational modeling tec | National Science Foundation | 8/28/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, THE | $86,911 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project is to investigate the role of convection on dynamic stability of the three-dimensional incompressible Euler and Navier-Stokes equations. The main objective is to show that convection together with incompressibility plays an essential role in | National Science Foundation | 5/21/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, THE | $248,054 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Many important dynamical processes take place on networks. Examples include epidemic propagation, genetic regulation, synchronization, information propagation, and many more. Often, these dynamical processes have a modifying effect on the network structur | National Science Foundation | 8/14/2009 |
| BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY | $400,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This work focuses on the stability theory of nonlinear waves and coherent structures, with an emphasis on front propagation arising in the continuum and kinetic theories of compressible flow. This class of problems models key real-world phenomena such as | National Science Foundation | 6/14/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL | $870,478 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: FRG:Advanced Algorithms and Software for Problems in Computational Bio-Fluid Dynamics The numerical modeling of the dynamics of biological fluid-structure interactions is a rapidly expanding research area in mathematical biology. We will consider two suc | National Science Foundation | 6/10/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, THE | $390,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Primary purpose is research in Set Theory and graduate student training. The expected outcome is scientific discovery and the training of new researchers. Deliverables will be published articles and new PhD recipients. | National Science Foundation | 2/22/2012 |
| RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, THE | $121,690 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This proposal is aimed at breaking the convexity bounds for $L$-functions on high rank groups. The principal investigator has already made the first progress on breaking the convexity bounds for self dual L-functions on GL(3). The problems related to brea | National Science Foundation | 6/16/2009 |
| POMONA COLLEGE | $182,226 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This is an RUI project focused on the study of graphs embedded in 3-space. This area of topology was developed in the early 1980's in order to study DNA recombination as well as to aid in the analysis of molecular symmetries. Since then it has continued | National Science Foundation | 7/14/2009 |
| PITZER COLLEGE | $132,392 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Motivated by analogies with geometrically minimal surfaces, the PI recently introduced the notion of a topologically minimal surface in a 3-manifold. Such a surface has an associated disk complex that is either empty, or is non-contractible. Topologically | National Science Foundation | 6/16/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS | $495,452 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: In the past decade 'global' questions, questions concerning classes and sequences of graphs have come to the fore in graph theory. Hereditary properties of graphs, sequences of dense and sparse graphs, classes of inhomogeneous random graphs, graph algebra | National Science Foundation | 5/29/2009 |
| WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION | $119,959 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The problem of recovering a function from its moments is a special case of the classical moment problem, which concentrates mainly on the questions of the existence and uniqueness of a function with specified moments. The importance of the probabilisti | National Science Foundation | 7/31/2009 |
| OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $171,739 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This research project will develop a suite of mathematical constructs for the hydrodynamics of multiphase complex fluids. Complex fluids are distinguished from viscous fluids (e.g. , water, oil) in that they require resolution of microstructure to resolv | National Science Foundation | 6/22/2009 |
| PACIFIC UNIVERSITY | $748,950 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: NSF Robert Noyce Scholarship grant. | National Science Foundation | 6/12/2009 |
| MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY | $1,496,765 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Middle Tennessee State University NSF Master Teaching Fellowship Program aligns, coordinates, and integrates resources across the College of Education, College of Basic and Applied Sciences, STEM Industry Partners (through out non-profit partners), an | National Science Foundation | 6/12/2009 |
| THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK INC | $899,969 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The State University of New York-Cortland is providing Noyce scholarships, 32 to undergraduates majoring in science, technology or mathematics and 18 to (science, technology, engineering or mathematics) STEM career changers seeking graduate degrees to pre | National Science Foundation | 5/27/2009 |
| EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY | $899,524 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The East Carolina University (ECU) Noyce Scholars program recruits and prepares mathematics and science majors to become highly-qualified high school mathematics and science teachers. ECU-Noyce recruits 7 science and 5 mathematics majors a year for three | National Science Foundation | 5/22/2009 |
| TEMPLE UNIVERSITY-OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION | $900,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Temple Noyce Teachers (TNT) Scholars program provides Robert Noyce teacher scholarships and supports to participants in two model, math and science, teacher preparation programs or pathways currently being piloted at Temple University. First, TUteach, | National Science Foundation | 5/21/2009 |
| CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY AUXILIARY SERVICES, INC | $899,966 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: To achieve the three-fold goal of rigor, relevance, and retention (Three R?s) for the forty highly qualified teachers we hope to send in high-need secondary schools with the help of Noyce scholarships. Integration of research, education and diversity serv | National Science Foundation | 5/26/2009 |
| CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, STANISLAUS | $895,946 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The project will provide scholarships and a teacher development mentoring program to encourage students and professionals majoring in science, technology, engineering and mathematics to become K-12 mathematics and science teachers. | National Science Foundation | 6/16/2009 |
| PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE | $200,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Susquehanna River Basin (SRB) is the largest tributary to the Chesapeake Bay. Without this flow the estuary could not sustain its extraordinary diversity and productivity of aquatic life. Management of the SRB requires a balance between the competing | National Science Foundation | 7/28/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, THE | $282,710 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Erosion of bedrock in river channels is a fundamental process governing the evolution of landscapes that has not yet been evaluated fully. The rate of this erosion and its location within a river channel depend on a river's energy available to do work on | National Science Foundation | 7/26/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII SYSTEMS | $70,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This proposal requests funds to upgrade a multi-processor computer cluster, which is being used and maintained by the PI's. The proposed new hardware will greatly enhance our computing power for carrying out research in computational geodynamics and seism | National Science Foundation | 7/31/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS CENTER FOR RESEARCH, INC. | $102,325 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: AwardDescr This project will provide answers to several fundamental questions about how metals and carbon behaved in the early history of our planet. Specifically it help us understand how iron influences microbes and if there is a connection between iron | National Science Foundation | 8/19/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, THE | $91,845 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The project ?Probing the Deep Rheology of Tibet: Unique Constraints from Recent Dip-slip Earthquakes? aims to utilize InSAR time series of postseismic deformation following eight recent moderate to large dip-slip earthquakes to probe the rheological prope | National Science Foundation | 6/05/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC. | $335,498 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This research seeks to investigate and resolve an important controversy in the Mesozoic geologic evolution of the western U.S. Cordillera. Mesozoic processe | National Science Foundation | 8/04/2009 |
| PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE | $260,511 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The proposed project seeks to determine the nature of continental crust involvement in the generation of a suite of lavas erupted over the past ~86 thousand | National Science Foundation | 7/26/2009 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $409,466 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The purpose of this projects is to provide a new set of laboratory data to understand the deep mantle water cycling. Possible melting near the 410-km and its consequence on geochemical cycling have been speculated. However, there have been no definitive s | National Science Foundation | 8/25/2009 |
| PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE | $217,500 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Although many volcanoes have clearly distinct phases of unrest and quiescence, a growing number of 'quiescently active' volcanoes are known to exhibit high background levels of geophysical unrest suggestive of persistent shallow magmatic activity during n | National Science Foundation | 7/17/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, THE | $333,461 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The purpose of the present research is to determine the interfacial free energy of goethite, an important natural nanomineral, in various surface environments, and to use the results to analyze nucleation, adsorption and reactivity. The investigators wi | National Science Foundation | 7/31/2009 |
| STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (INC) | $349,993 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The objective of this research is to develop an integrated framework for rate-constrained adaptive quantization techniques with application to distributed inference in wireless sensor networks. The approach allows sensor nodes to sequentially transmit the | National Science Foundation | 7/15/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE | $851,725 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 'The Center for Applied Optics (CAO) at the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) seeks support to establish a transformational environment for education and research in the design and fabrication of advanced optical systems. In this pursuit, CAO prop | National Science Foundation | 8/25/2009 |
| ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (INC) | $200,297 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: A Nanonics scanning probe microscopy (NSPM) system will be acquired for investigating and manipulating nanoscale systems. The system is extremely flexible, allowing the simultaneous use of several probes anywhere on a sample, including optical, electrical | National Science Foundation | 8/25/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE | $160,677 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The purpose of this award is to develop a methodology to fabricate a sensor platform consisting of arrays of SWNTs and monolayer graphene with systematically modified surface properties for reliable detection of hypergolic fuels at low temperatures. The | National Science Foundation | 7/29/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, THE | $58,634 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This engineering education research award to Tufts University in collaboration with University of Colorado-Boulder and Michigan Technological University will study how service learning activities can best be used to enhance student learning about sustaina | National Science Foundation | 7/17/2009 |
| HAMPTON UNIVERSITY | $116,011 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This is collaborative research between Auburn University and Hampton University. In this project, we integrate organizational, engineering education, and educational learning literature to develop a model of student learning to research how learning style | National Science Foundation | 6/29/2009 |
| MISSOURI SYSTEM, UNIVERSITY OF | $149,838 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This engineering education research award to the Missouri University of Science and Technology will employ researchers to create an integrated engineering | National Science Foundation | 7/07/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE | $99,366 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project studied how newcomers participate in open source software projects-how they learn and share knowledge-and the role of technology in this process. The project identified low-barrier tools but also documented how they are used and what impact t | National Science Foundation | 8/03/2009 |
| CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES, INC. | $179,999 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Eutrophication represents a major regime shift in freshwater lakes marked by a reduction in water quality that includes frequent, sometimes toxic, blooms of nuisance cyanobacteria. T he nitrogen-fixing colonial cyanobacterium Gloeotrichia echinulata, whic | National Science Foundation | 8/27/2009 |
| NATIONAL ECOLOGICAL OBSERVATORY NETWORK, INC. | $9,962,780 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The goal of this project is to reduce the risk associated with the production of the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) airborne imaging spectrometer. The mitigation approach is to develop and testing a Design Verification Unit (DVU) to retire | National Science Foundation | 9/29/2009 |
| CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, BAKERSFIELD | $170,234 | 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 San Joaquin Valley (SJV) Rocks: Inspiring Future Geoscientists Track 1 project will enhance minority participation in the geosciences by enhancing the ea | National Science Foundation | 7/19/2009 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, THE | $994,632 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Structural and Dynamic Characterization of 2/2 Hemoglobin: Hemoglobin is known as the oxygen transporter responsible for blood being red. The hemoglobin superfamily of proteins, however, has members in all three domains of life, including bacteria. It is | National Science Foundation | 7/03/2009 |
| MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY, INC | $314,601 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project is to perform computer simulations and experiments on the microscopic molecular dynamics of proteins using Newton's laws of motion and quantum theory that lead to a detailed fundamental understanding of the largely unknown underlying molecula | National Science Foundation | 6/10/2009 |
| HARVEY MUDD COLLEGE | $157,489 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Nucleotide substitution is an important mechanism by which genomes change over evolutionary time. This project seeks to improve our understanding of nucleotide substitution by focusing on an aspect that is currently poorly characterized: how the context o | National Science Foundation | 7/20/2009 |
| RFCUNY - JOHN JAY COLLEGE OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE | $415,665 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: RECOVERY ACT RESEARCH at an undergraduate Instituiton to study Pokeweed Antiviral Protein selection of mRNA; Effects of mRNA structure and initiation factors | National Science Foundation | 6/19/2009 |
| WELLESLEY COLLEGE | $327,007 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project involves a research program in the area of bioinformatics. The research project aims to elucidate the roles of small genes in bacteria. In particular, the program of research focuses on two classes of elusive genes, namely small noncoding RNA | National Science Foundation | 8/10/2009 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, THE | $579,192 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The proposed research program will provide critical insights into the interrelationships between the molecular biochemical signaling and cellular mechanics that guide matrix assembly - the microenvironmental context of cellular life. | National Science Foundation | 7/02/2009 |
| APPLIED GEOSOLUTIONS LLC | $99,906 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project will use Particle Image Velocimetry wherein a sample sheet volume is illuminated by laser diodes. A high speed camera takes pictures of precipitation illuminated in the sample volume. The prop | National Science Foundation | 6/01/2009 |
| MARSHALL UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION | $750,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Marshall University (MU)-ADVANCE Program, established in 2006, capitalized on MarshallG??s existing human resources by establishing faculty-administrator partnerships to oversee the ProgramG??s initiatives: Recruitment, Faculty Development, and State | National Science Foundation | 8/03/2009 |
| CONCURRENT ANALYTICAL INC | $100,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Phase I project focused on the development of an innovative hydrodynamic approach to increase reactant flux via a free liquid jet delivery system in a framework compatible with existing point-of-care (POC) and clinical instrumentation. The approach i | National Science Foundation | 6/10/2009 |
| MACKINAC TECHNOLOGY, THE | $149,991 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is to fund a Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) research and development project the purpose of which is to demonstrate the effectiveness of a new window insulation technology. In the United States, buildings account for more than 40% o | National Science Foundation | 7/01/2009 |
| ANGSTRON MATERIALS, LLC | $150,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This STTR project seeks to develop a method for rapid, large-scale production of pristine nano graphene platelets (NGPs) ? an emerging class of nano material | National Science Foundation | 7/01/2009 |
| AGILE SCIENCES, INC. | $149,999 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Small Business Technology Transfer Phase I Project tests the feasibility of applying Agile Sciences' technology to decreasing or eliminating biofouling on filtration membranes used for drinking water purification. The main obstacle in efficiently ap | National Science Foundation | 7/01/2009 |
| NANO-C, INC | $145,918 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: NSF-STTR: Fullerenic Molecule-Silica Hybrid Dielectrics for the Field-Sensitive Tunneling Barriers in Flash Memory. | National Science Foundation | 6/09/2009 |
| UNITED ENVIRONMENT & ENERGY, LLC | $150,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Small Business Technology Transfer Phase I project aims at developing a novel bioasphalt production technology using a recycled agricultural byproduct and recycled coal-fired power plant waste. Demand for asphalt in the United States is projected to | National Science Foundation | 6/18/2009 |
| SOLARNO, INC | $150,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: STTR Phase I: Synthesis of multifunctional nanofibrous polyaniline/carbon composites. | National Science Foundation | 6/23/2009 |
| SVT ASSOCIATES, INCORPORATED | $149,122 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Semiconductor ultraviolet (UV) optical sources offer the possibility of compact, light-weight, low-cost, low-power-consumption optoelectronic systems that would enable a new generation of fieldable systems for applications that include biodetection, non-l | National Science Foundation | 6/09/2009 |
| RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | $212,720 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The overall purpose of this project is to develop a multimodal communication interface integrating speech, gestures, and haptics that will allow an older person to effectively use an assistive robot. | National Science Foundation | 7/10/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, THE | $550,005 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The primary target of the research program is to undertake interdisciplinary research on the study of plant adaptation and floral evolution. This project initiates a long-term investigation of the genetic mechanisms underlying novel morphologies associate | National Science Foundation | 7/14/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS | $500,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: During the process of evolution, cellular specialization required the development of a matrix of signaling pathways with inherent plasticity to provide organisms with the capacity to respond to a wide range of inputs. The resultant signaling systems can b | National Science Foundation | 6/29/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII SYSTEMS | $233,789 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The cyanobacterium Anabaena differentiates specialized cells called heterocysts that supply a form of nitrogen that can be used for growth to the remainder of the cells of the organism. Heterocysts occur at approximately every tenth cell position on unbra | National Science Foundation | 6/18/2009 |
| UMDNJ-ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL | $570,842 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The goal of the award is to characterize the funciton of a K+ channel complex, KHT-1-MPS-1 in determing habituation to tap, a simple yet universal form of learning. We expect that at the end of this project we will have reached a better understanding of t | National Science Foundation | 7/01/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY SYSTEM OF NEW HAMPSHIRE | $772,709 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The squid-Vibrio fischeri symbiosis has emerged as an engaging and important model for studying animal colonization by bacteria. The availability of several sequenced genomes in the genus Vibrio, has made this a more powerful system than ever for elucidat | National Science Foundation | 6/04/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC. | $57,114 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: A multi-PI multi-University initiative to generate and characterize a comprehensive mutant library in the model bioluminescent symbiotic bacterium Vibrio fischeri. Training of both graduate and undergraduate students is a priority of this project. | National Science Foundation | 6/04/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, THE | $449,984 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The goal of this research is to determine the role of key biological and physical factors on fertilization rates in broadcast spawning, the reproductive strategy used by many benthic invertebrates. The objectives are to quantify the effect of gamete trait | National Science Foundation | 6/05/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH THE | $64,536 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This US-Ukraine project provides US undergraduate and graduate students opportunities to conduct research at the Glushkov Institute of Cybernetics in Kyiv, Ukraine. The research activities are focused in the areas of discrete and nondifferentiable optimiz | National Science Foundation | 6/01/2009 |
| NANO-C, INC | $149,965 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: STTR Phase I: Large-scale Manufacture of Exclusively Metallic or Semiconducting Single-walled Carbon Nanotubes. The aim of the project is the development of technology allowing for the large-scale manufacturing of a) semi-conducting and b) metallic singl | National Science Foundation | 6/15/2009 |
| SCIGENESIS | $149,827 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: STTR Phase I: Novel Nanoparticle Complexes for Tunable Dielectric Materials. This Small Business Technology Transfer Phase 1 project will seek to develop new low-loss materials for tunable dielectrics, which are suitable for high-frequency applications an | National Science Foundation | 6/11/2009 |
| BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE INC | $267,762 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The goal of this project is investigate the generation of collision avoidance behaviors in an integrated manner, by taking into account the neural, biomechanical and physical constraints imposed by the environment on the animal generating these behaviors. | National Science Foundation | 7/13/2009 |
| WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION | $309,001 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Collaborative Research: Using Melt Inclusions to Test Models for Wet Melting and Melt Extraction Beneath Mid-Ocean Ridges | National Science Foundation | 8/17/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII SYSTEMS | $6,201,878 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This new award will support the Hawaii Ocean Time-series (HOT) research program under the leadership Dr. Matthew Church, a stellar young scientist, for a 4 year period (August 2009-July 2013). The University of Hawaii will be the nexus for the entire HOT | National Science Foundation | 7/30/2009 |
| SHASTA CRYSTALS, INC. | $100,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: I. Project Summary 1. This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project will demonstrate the feasibility of growing high-quality fibers of periodically poled Mg-doped LiNbO3 for visible light generation, by a modified version of the laser heated ped | National Science Foundation | 6/05/2009 |
| PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE | $986,000 | 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 IceCube neutrino observatory was designed to detect high energy neutrinos from astrophysical sources and to search for indirect evidence of dark matter | National Science Foundation | 8/17/2009 |
| ST CLOUD STATE UNIVERSITY | $150,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Periods of rapid advancement in science have historically been connected with either fantastic new theories or with substantial new experimental apparatus boasting significantly improved capabilities. The current situation in high-energy nuclear physics m | National Science Foundation | 8/17/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, THE | $534,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The project investigates novel materials, paramagnetic atoms ablated into a cryogenic buffer gas and nitrogen-vacancy (NV) color centers in diamond crystals, that open a possibility for creating magnetic-field sensors with unprecedented combinations of pa | National Science Foundation | 7/14/2009 |
| PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE | $1,020,000 | 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 Pierre Auger Cosmic Ray Observatory is now measuring every high energy cosmic ray that lands in an area equal to the State of Rhode Island, but located | National Science Foundation | 8/12/2009 |
| PRESIDENT & TRUSTEES OF WILLIAMS COLLEGE | $115,400 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The purpose of the grant is to support research in particle theory at Williams College, with a particular focus on understanding how different models of particle physics can be tested at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Involving undergraduates in this r | National Science Foundation | 5/28/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS SYSTEM | $149,760 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The immense importance of fungi in the functioning and maintenance of ecological processes in nature is unquestioned, but our knowledge of their biodiversity is far from being complete. Tropical forests are thought to be the terrestrial ecosystems charact | National Science Foundation | 8/22/2009 |
| TERTL STUDOS LLC | $500,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The purpose of Phase II is to scale up the unit of research to a structured informal curriculum aimed at producing significant learning outcomes across a si | National Science Foundation | 7/30/2009 |
| ASPEN SCIENCES, INC. | $150,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: STTR Phase I: Nanoselenium for Simultaneous Detection and Capture of Mercury Vapor in Fluorescent Lighting Technology. This Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I project is focused on the development of a new technology for reducing the huma | National Science Foundation | 6/26/2009 |
| MAGNOLIA OPTICAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC. | $149,999 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The goal of this Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I project is to establish the technical and commercial feasibility of an innovative approach for improving the performance and lowering the costs of photovoltaic solar-electric power convers | National Science Foundation | 6/15/2009 |
| NSC TECHNOLOGY | $149,993 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Small Business Technology Transfer Phase I project addresses the needs specified under the topic of Multi-Functional Materials (MM) and the subtopic of Nanostructured Materials (NM). Two areas of rapidly-growing marketing opportunities, (1) the biom | National Science Foundation | 6/08/2009 |
| ADVANTAGEOUS SYSTEMS LLC | $150,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Title: STTR Phase I: Desalination Using Functionalized Magnetic Nanoparticles: This Small Business Technology Transfer Phase I project proposes the research and development of a functionalized magnetic nanoparticle to be used in a new water desalination | National Science Foundation | 6/23/2009 |
| OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY | $259,862 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The researchers are developing new theoretical models and technology to automatically convert descriptive text into 3D scenes representing the text?s meaning. They do this via the Scenario-Based Lexical Knowledge Resource (SBLR), a resource they are creat | National Science Foundation | 6/10/2009 |
| VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY, THE | $681,541 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This proposal extends our previous work to designing, implementing, and analyzing choice-adaptive systems that will prepare students for future learning in real-world environments. Learning outside of school and in technology-enhanced learning environment | National Science Foundation | 7/31/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS | $684,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Proteins are nanometer-scale (one billionth of a meter) machines found inside of cells. In order to see such tiny objects we need microscopy. An electron microscope has good resolution to allow visualization of such small objects, but the samples (usually | National Science Foundation | 7/22/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS | $191,602 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Intellectual Merit. The Athabasca granulite terrane, Saskatchewan, Canada is one of Earths largest exposures of intact lower continental crust, and offers the opportunity to see first-hand the complexity of magmatic processes that contributed to formation | National Science Foundation | 7/19/2009 |
| NANOGRIPTECH | $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 investigates a design method for fibrillar adhesives to develop advanced repeatable adhesive material | National Science Foundation | 7/01/2009 |
| INTEGRATED SURFACE TECHNOLOGIES, INC. | $99,996 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Grant | National Science Foundation | 6/02/2009 |
| NN-LABS, LLC | $99,981 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Small Business Innovation Research Phase 1 project intends to demonstrate a spectral down-converter based on metal ion-doped nanocrystalline quantum dots to increase the efficiency of polycrystalline silicon solar cells. Attempts to add a luminescent | National Science Foundation | 5/29/2009 |
| HANS TECH | $100,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project entitled ?USV-Grain Refining? aims at advancing the grain refining technologies for the production of aluminum or magnesium alloy ingots or castings. Grain refining is usually one of the first proce | National Science Foundation | 5/29/2009 |
| SENS4 LLC | $100,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: NSF SBIR Phase I and Phase Ib | National Science Foundation | 5/29/2009 |
| SOLAR TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH CORP. | $100,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Novel Chemistry for Low Cost Solar-Grade Silicon | National Science Foundation | 6/01/2009 |
| KAI MEDICAL, INC. | $99,499 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Wireless Sleep Monitor: The focus of the SBIR Phase I project is to develop and test a robust Doppler radar system for sleep monitoring. | National Science Foundation | 6/02/2009 |
| PIXELLIGENT TECHNOLOGIES LLC | $100,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project will explore the feasibility of using well dispersed nanocrystals with high thermal conductivity as functional fillers to improve the thermal and mechanical properties of electronic packaging materia | National Science Foundation | 6/01/2009 |
| ACCUSTRATA | $100,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project is focused on the development of a real-time optical monitoring technology able to reduce waste and improve the manufacturing yield and the conversion efficiency of the thin film solar cells and pane | National Science Foundation | 7/01/2009 |
| INPRIA CORPORATION | $100,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This SBIR Phase I project will assess the technical feasibility of developing a robust, high-speed inorganic electron-beam resist platform that will revolutionize the manufacture of electronic devices with feature sizes < 30 nm. The rest of the abstract | National Science Foundation | 6/08/2009 |
| SYPROSOFT, INC. | $99,235 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project will establish the feasibility of using multi-modality data mining for predicting the progression of critical diseases in an individual patient. Current practices in critical disease care focus on as | National Science Foundation | 5/29/2009 |
| LUMARRAY INC. | $468,979 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This SBIR Phase II project is a major step in the development of an optical-maskless-lithography technology that is capable of high resolution, high throughput, flexibility, low cost and extendibility. Current lithography technologies suffer from the pro | National Science Foundation | 8/06/2009 |
| INTERLAKEN TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION | $498,022 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Small Business Technology Transfer Research (STTR) Phase II project seeks to develop analytical techniques for finite element simulations of the warm hydroforming of aluminum, magnesium and other metals. This project will develop and test fixtures an | National Science Foundation | 8/17/2009 |
| INTERNATIONAL COMPUTER SCIENCE INSTITUTE | $400,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The research will be applicable to many types of visual media and online communities. New techniques for concise image description will enhance comummunties' ablilities to effectively browse, sort, search and share historical image archives, scientific im | National Science Foundation | 7/10/2009 |
| RECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA | $244,884 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The support of animals in ecosystems ultimately comes from two sources: primary production within an ecosystem (e.g. newly grown plant material) or primary production imported from other ecosystems (e.g. inputs of terrestrial material to an aquatic system | National Science Foundation | 7/14/2009 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $562,095 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This CAREER proposal presents a plan to use data and Monte Carlo from the Super-Kamiokande detector to optimize a 500-kiloton scale water Cherenkov (WC) detector sited at the Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory (DUSEL) for long-baseline ne | National Science Foundation | 6/09/2009 |
| OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $200,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The research is aimed at developing a better physical understanding of how atoms and molecules interact with laser light at extremely cold temperatures-including the synthesis of very cold molecules from very cold atoms, high precision study of the struct | National Science Foundation | 7/26/2009 |
| 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). Superstring Theory and its non-perturbative completion known as M-theory provide us with the only known framework unifying Einstein's gravity and other int | National Science Foundation | 7/26/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT WILMINGTON | $62,125 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Collaborative Research: Neutron Interferometry Experiments for Nuclear Physics: We are undertaking a series of measurements of the scattering lengths for the neutron-light nucleon systems. We have just completed measurement and analysis of the n+3He sys | National Science Foundation | 8/10/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE | $549,582 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Developmentally programmed cell death (PCD) is a key cellular event, removing obsolete cells and tissues or damaged cells. Thus PCD is absolutely required for the normal formation of an animal body. Compared to other somatic tissues, the central nervous | National Science Foundation | 6/08/2009 |
| FRANKLIN AND MARSHALL COLLEGE | $209,151 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The goal of the work supported by this grant is to study the response on the cellular level of the salt marsh mussel, Geukensia demissa, to environmental stresses. The work uses a proteomics approach to measure changes in the time course and magnitude of | National Science Foundation | 6/26/2009 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $317,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The uptake of water by roots and its transport through xylem are essential for plants to grow and survive, replace water lost during transpiration, prevent desiccation, and continue carbon uptake. While many studies have examined water transport character | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO | $560,536 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This study will investigate aspects of aerial respiration and amphibious capacity in mudskipper fishes (Family Gobiidae), which are renowned for their capacity to live out of water. The research will probe the genetic bases for the evolutionary progressio | National Science Foundation | 7/18/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, THE | $350,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Unequal Cleavage and D Quadrant Specification in the Leech Helobdella. This award funds basic research aimed at understanding how a relatively simple invertebrate animal develops. The research funded provides a cost-effective route to understanding vari | National Science Foundation | 7/13/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL | $630,518 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: AWard Title: L1 Interactions in Retino-collicular Targeting. This is a basic research grant to study the molecular mechanisms by which neurons of the retina are guided to the brain (superior colliculus), where they form synapses according to a topographi | National Science Foundation | 6/02/2009 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $150,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Chloroplast differentiation, as a vital part of the photomorphogenetic program in plants, is to establish photosynthetic plastids that enable plants for photoautotrophic growth in the light. This process is tightly controlled by environmental light cues, | National Science Foundation | 7/13/2009 |
| WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION | $304,367 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Collaborative Research: Dispersal and Life History Dynamics in Benthic Foraminifera | National Science Foundation | 6/09/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT WILMINGTON | $515,800 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Q-PCR and 15N isotope pairing analyses showed interesting patterns of anammox and denitrifying communities in the transplanted sediments at three sites in the CFRE. Denitrifying communities in freshwater sediments (IC) adapted to mesohaline and polyhaline | National Science Foundation | 6/01/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII SYSTEMS | $378,008 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is for a suite of comprehensive field observations to elucidate and quantify the mixing processes in the inner shelf and to directly examine the impact of these processes on inner shelf biological distributions. Predictive modeling of coastal f | National Science Foundation | 7/29/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND | $563,373 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Although the various pathways of nitrogen exchange at the sediment-water interface are critical to our understanding of ecosystem functions, existing nitrogen budgets underestimate the amount of nitrogen fixation taking place in the open ocean and marine | National Science Foundation | 9/18/2009 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $319,681 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Deciphering the origins of the giant large igneous provinces is a critical element for understanding mantle dynamics and its relation to terrestrial magmatism. Among a dozen or so large oceanic plateaus in the oceans Shatsky Rise is an important target be | National Science Foundation | 7/22/2009 |
| CARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON | $179,955 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Collaborative Research: Serpentinizationa and cycling of B, Nd and Sr in submarine hyrothermal systems: An experimental study on the effects of pH and temmperature. | National Science Foundation | 7/28/2009 |
| NMC, INC. | $382,428 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project addresses 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 or | National Science Foundation | 8/10/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO | $673,717 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award Oceanographic Instrumentation is for several instrument purchases to support the four UNOLS ships operated by SIO and equipment to be made available to a broad community of researchers on ships extending well beyond SIO. 1. Deep Ocean Enginee | National Science Foundation | 8/16/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND | $240,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The proposal requests numerous Shipboard Scientific Support (SSSE) items for the vessel operated by University of Rhode Island (URI); namely the R/V ENDEAVOR. The requests specifically include items that have been recommended from past NSF inspections, or | National Science Foundation | 9/10/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS | $425,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: In Situ Processing and Visualization for Peta- and Exa-Scale Simulations - Basic Research The proposed research will realize in-situ visualization at extreme scale, and deliver a feasible data-understanding solution to scientists whose work will rely on | National Science Foundation | 6/16/2009 |
| LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM | $263,745 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: In this project, the investigators propose to develop a programming environment for easing the development of portable high-performance applications for GPUs and accelerators by automatic generation of GPU code from annotated C programs provided by the us | National Science Foundation | 9/14/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE | $90,332 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Maintaining work-life balance (WLB) is particularly challenging for the IT professionals involved in globally distributed software development (GDSD), where the G?overlapsG? and G?conflictsG? between work and life are routine. One of the key objectives o | National Science Foundation | 9/11/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA | $400,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Organizations are restructuring into collaborative systems in order to address complex problems by combining expertise distributed across business functions, knowledge specialties, and geographic locations. Often times these systems face complex and multi | National Science Foundation | 9/14/2009 |
| THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY | $150,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This IRES award provides students associated with George Washington University, Montgomery College in Maryland, and the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth with the opportunity to participate in an international collaboration in experimental nuclear | National Science Foundation | 5/28/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, THE | $200,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This group project aims to delve into a broad range of problems stemming from the desire to understand gases of ultracold atoms and molecules in full detail, and how to manipulate these gases to engineer systems of interest. Of particular interest will be | National Science Foundation | 8/08/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, THE | $480,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The intellectual merit of this work stems from the desire to develop a new approach for scalable, neutral atom based, quantum computation and quantum simulation that exploits the electronic and nuclear degrees of freedom in alkaline-earth atoms. The uniqu | National Science Foundation | 7/07/2009 |
| NEW YORK UNIVERSITY | $1,980,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Support of NYU's collaboration on the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at the CERN Laboratory (Geneva, Switzerland) | National Science Foundation | 7/26/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, THE | $895,017 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: New enzymes can evolve by recruitment of enzymes that have a promiscuous ability to catalyze a newly needed reaction. This project addresses the early stages of evolution of a new activity using the promiscuous N-acetyl glutamyl phosphate (NAGP) reductase | National Science Foundation | 7/20/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF TUFTS COLLEGE INC | $510,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Intellectual merit: Coordinated transcriptional regulation of tissue-specific genes differentiation of totipotent stem cells into specialized cells and tissues during development. We and others discovered clustering of co-regulated tissue-specific genes o | National Science Foundation | 7/02/2009 |
| POMONA COLLEGE | $211,397 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Fusion genes are important markers of evolution and can also be used to aid in identifying protein function and protein interactions. This project will search for and analyze fused genes in eukaryotic genomes. In order to achieve this goal, two software p | National Science Foundation | 7/03/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL | $812,867 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This research project, entitled G?Control of Pre-mRNA Metabolism in DrosophilaG?, is an investigation of the nuclear processes that detect and degrade aberrant and potentially harmful RNAs, thereby helping to ensure that the genetic information being e | National Science Foundation | 7/20/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO | $723,443 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: DExD/H-box proteins are found in every living organism. They generally use the energy from hydrolyzing ATP to unwind double-stranded RNA or DNA to single strands in vitro. They also share several properties including a common structure of their helicase c | National Science Foundation | 7/27/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, THE | $750,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Agrobacterium tumefaciens is a bacterium that also serves as the most widely utilized vector for transferring DNA to plant cells. However, exactly how DNA and proteins are transported out of the bacterial cell and into the plant cell remains unclear. Ge | National Science Foundation | 2/22/2012 |
| NOEMA INC. | $100,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: NSF SBIR Phase I: Intelligent Word Completion for Indian Languages | National Science Foundation | 6/05/2009 |
| RHEONIX, INC. | $99,928 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This research project is focused on the development of a rapid, point-of-use biosensor for monitoring recreational waters for microbial contamination. It is anticipated that once a recreational water sample is obtained by the public health authority resp | National Science Foundation | 6/02/2009 |
| NOVOMER, INC. | $100,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: SBIR Phase I: Poly(ethylene carbonate) for Use in High Oxygen Barrier Films | National Science Foundation | 6/07/2009 |
| SYNERGENICS LLC | $99,914 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project explores a novel detection system for DNA microarrays, which are coin-size glass chips containing diverse molecules of genetic material. DNA microarrays have revolutionized basic research and | National Science Foundation | 5/29/2009 |
| SAND 9, INC. | $100,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project will develop a vibratory gyroscope with electrostatic actuation and capacitive (or piezoelectric) detection at 0.1 - 1 MHz, a much higher frequency than the ones used by current commercial MEM | National Science Foundation | 6/05/2009 |
| AGILTRON, INC. | $99,969 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Small Business Innovative Research Phase I program seeks to develop new functional materials for supercapacitors. Supercapacitors are indispensable energy storage devices because their performance bridges those of batteries and conventional capacitor | National Science Foundation | 6/01/2009 |
| DESERT BEAM TECHNOLOGIES, L.L.C. | $100,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project will develop a novel room temperature, narrow-line, high power vertical external-cavity semiconductor laser (VECSEL) THz source based on difference-frequency-mixing of high-power circulating d | National Science Foundation | 6/04/2009 |
| LAUNCHPOINT TECHNOLOGIES, INC. | $99,710 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The objectives of this grant were: 1. A formulation of the Virtual Zero Power magnetic bearing controller within the framework of robust controls. 2. A further generalization of the Robust VZP concept to include the ability to reject persistent disturbanc | National Science Foundation | 7/01/2009 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $210,952 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Terrestrial plants display remarkable variation in many aspects of leaf form. Leaves serve as main sites for photosynthesis, and are thus primary custodians of plant growth and ultimately, fitness. Previous work suggests that there are optimal values for | National Science Foundation | 6/06/2009 |
| LOYOLA UNIVERSITY | $628,694 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The overall purpose of the award is to understand the sequence of cellular interactions required for antibody repertoire diversification in rabbit GALT by identifying, localizing and analyzing B cell subpopulations that differ in chemokine receptor expres | National Science Foundation | 6/24/2009 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $525,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The consequences of global climate change, such as hot temperature and drought, will significantly affect crop production and plant ecosystems, inevitably impacting on the overall health of the human population.Thus, it is crucial to understand how plants | National Science Foundation | 7/01/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS | $963,426 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: A major goal of neuroscience is to understand the dynamics of neural circuits. In most circuits, ignorance of intrinsic neural properties and synaptic organization limits our ability to understand the circuits performance. This proposal exploits new dis | National Science Foundation | 6/09/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH THE | $470,914 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The nervous system exerts profound regulatory influence over peripheral physiology and this control is essential for homeostasis and coordinating adaptive changes across physiological systems. The regulatory oversight exerted by the brain necessary for th | National Science Foundation | 7/15/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS SYSTEM | $500,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Fungal diseases of crops are economically and environmentally costly because they reduce yields and require large-scale applications of fungicides. Many pathogenic fungi enter leaves through stomata, which are pores on leaf surfaces involved in gas exchan | National Science Foundation | 7/15/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL | $404,300 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Award Title: !Robusticity and perturbation compensation in animal flight! This ARRA funded project will fund investigation into the flight stability and control of animals, specifically the hawkmoth species Manduca sexta, a model organism for studies of a | National Science Foundation | 7/03/2009 |
| THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK | $588,172 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This research project explores a central question in physiology, 'what are the required levels of metabolic enzymes for the optimal performance of muscles?' Paradoxically, most studies suggest that muscles possess higher enzyme levels than is necessary fo | National Science Foundation | 6/26/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY | $389,628 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Social dilemmas characterize environments in which individuals' exclusive pursuit of their own material self-interest can produce inefficient aggregate outcomes. Two such environments are those characterized by public goods and common pool resources, in w | National Science Foundation | 7/15/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE | $160,681 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The quantum measurement problem encountered by the standard von Neumann-Dirac formulation of quantum mechanics results from the incompatibility of the deterministic unitary dynamics and the stochastic collapse dynamics that obtains only during measurement | National Science Foundation | 7/30/2009 |
| ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND, THE | $703,950 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: As a team, we plan to generate three different sets of deliverables including a rigorous theoretical analysis, a set of reusable market-based knowledge management tools, and an econometric analysis of the data we capture from our research sites. Analyti | National Science Foundation | 8/24/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, THE | $1,012,496 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Current data resurces do not permit satisfactory measurement and analysis of three key processes in our economy - globalization, technological change, and innovation. Consequently the impact of these forces on important outcomes, such as changes in the qu | National Science Foundation | 8/19/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, THE | $75,763 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The second part of the 20th century was notable for the development of earth observation systems providing an unparalleled view of a changing world. In the 21st century, a new frontier is real time monitoring biological systems and how those systems are c | National Science Foundation | 8/17/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY | $475,302 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project will improve the computerization of curatorial data, the physical storage and organization of specimens, and the on-line availability of research information for Indiana UniversityG??s two animal-based natural history collections, the William | National Science Foundation | 8/13/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT WILMINGTON | $314,609 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This funding will support improvements in the infrastructure and accessibility of the extensive natural history collections at the University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW) in conjunction with their movement into a newly renovated storage facility on | National Science Foundation | 8/13/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO | $430,892 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The objectives of this program are to provide: a) state of the art, hands-on training in the methods and logic of Molecular Biosciences and b) a co-curriculum that communicates the skills, information, and experiences required for successful transition to | National Science Foundation | 5/29/2009 |
| THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY | $3,948,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Funding is proposed to acquire a 900 MHz nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectrometer for installation into already-prepared space in the Biomolecular NMR Facility at Vanderbilt University. This spectrometer will be used primarily for multidimensional so | National Science Foundation | 7/18/2009 |
| PIEZO RESONANCE INNOVATIONS, INC. | $500,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Small Business Innovation Research Phase II project will continue development of the Tube-Clear? device to clear clogged and sluggish feeding tubes, satisfying a critical medical need and reaching a viable commercial market. When compromised patient | National Science Foundation | 8/03/2009 |
| EN'URGA INC. | $500,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This is a Phase II SBIR for the development of an In-Cylinder Diagnostic. | National Science Foundation | 7/29/2009 |
| ADA TECHNOLOGIES INC. | $499,837 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase II research project proposes to develop nanotechnology-enabled advanced lithium-ion batteries for elect | National Science Foundation | 8/03/2009 |
| ADVANCED THERMAL TECHNOLOGIES | $150,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The program is focused on the development of ultrahigh thermal conductivity carbon fiber for use in graphite-metal composites. The target end use applications for the graphite-metal composite material are high power electronic packaging. There is a crit | National Science Foundation | 6/25/2009 |
| ZYMERA INC | $150,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: STTR Phase I: Non-Toxic Nanoparticles for BRET-Based Molecular Imaging This Small Business Technology Transfer Phase I project will result in the demonstration of non-toxic multi-modality nanoparticle-based molecular probes for in vivo imaging. The objec | National Science Foundation | 6/15/2009 |
| AGILTRON, INC. | $149,975 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Small Business Technology Transfer Phase I program is developing new nanostructured materials for dry adhesives. Adhesives are materials that can adhere to a surface or bond two items together. Some modern adhesives are very strong and are becoming i | National Science Foundation | 6/15/2009 |
| ALD NANOSOLUTIONS, INC | $150,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Functionalized Nanocoatings for Filler Adhesion to Rubber Using Atomic Layer Deposition Rubber can be a multifunctional material that can be tuned by the addition of various fillers. For example, automobile tires must provide traction, durability, ride c | National Science Foundation | 7/01/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS SYSTEM | $565,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The purpose of this proposal is to start a new I/UCRC 'Grid-Connected Advanced Power Electronic Systems (GRAPES)' with a focus on developing the new knowledge, tools, hardware, software, and personnel that are required to pervasively insert power electron | National Science Foundation | 7/27/2009 |
| CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY | $1,359,881 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project aims to develop models, algorithms, and testbeds for robust intelligent manipulation that will enable supervisory control for robotic surgical assistants (RSAs). Drawing on the combined expertise of the investigators, the research is focusing | National Science Foundation | 6/22/2009 |
| SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSTIY FOUNDATION | $399,996 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The goal of this project is to develop computational models of the nonverbal behavior and interactive strategies observed during face-to-face teaching. These computational models will serve as a foundation for a new generation of embodied teaching agents | National Science Foundation | 8/10/2009 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $498,176 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Online social networking has become ubiquitous and its popularity continues to grow. A social network is a collection of people tied by common interests such as those resulting from friendship, family, work, hobby, or geography. Online social networks (OS | National Science Foundation | 8/13/2009 |
| SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSTIY FOUNDATION | $583,415 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The research proposed here on Boechera will integrate organismal, physiological, and genomic data. The specific aims of this project are to address if Boechera species vary in their ability to withstand high temperature stress, if heat stress decrease pho | National Science Foundation | 6/24/2009 |
| CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY AUXILIARY SERVICES, INC | $199,999 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Oxygen (O), carbon (C), phosphorus (P), nitrogen (N), and sulfur (S) are the key elements of life. The scientific community has generated a comprehensive understanding of the oxidation-reduction (redox) chemistry and biogeochemical cycling of all but one | National Science Foundation | 6/19/2009 |
| MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY STUDENT GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION SCHOLAR, THE | $419,453 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The project seeks to elucidate the molecular mechanisms of the DNA repair enzymes photolyase and cryptochrome DASH. These enzymes repair cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers (CPDs) that are formed in DNA upon exposure of cells or DNA by solar ultraviolet ra | National Science Foundation | 7/01/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY | $631,652 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Most, if not all, bacteria are able to live either as independent planktonic cells or as members of organized surface-anchored communities called biofilms. Biofilm formation is thought to be a developmental process that begins when a motile bacterium (the | National Science Foundation | 8/15/2009 |
| RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK | $680,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: RECOVERY ACT RESEARCH TO SUPPORT THE STUDY of Structure-function relationships of metal ion-binding in the spliceosomal U2-U6 snRNA complex | National Science Foundation | 7/07/2009 |
| EARTH AND SPACE RESEARCH | $245,912 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Collaborative Research: Mode Water Formation in the Lofoten Basin: A Key Element in Meridional Overturning Circulation. The project seeks to increase our understanding of a key process in the Earth's climate system, the Nordic Seas transformation pathw | National Science Foundation | 6/17/2009 |
| WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY | $74,785 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Using longitudinal data from the 1979 National Longitudinal Study of Youth (NLSY), the research outlined in this proposal will extend the investigators' previous research on the consequences of military service by examining the relationship between milita | National Science Foundation | 6/05/2009 |
| RECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA | $358,777 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Changes in the magnitude and seasonality of Arctic summer vegetation production over the past several decades have been documented. These changes will likely accelerate and have consequences for the entire Arctic terrestrial system, in particular energy a | National Science Foundation | 8/20/2009 |
| WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY | $281,109 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Observations of decadal-to-multidecadal climate variability challenge an understanding of climate dynamics. The North Pacific region reflects some of the most promininent expressions of such variability, yet an understanding of it remains in its infancy. | National Science Foundation | 6/04/2009 |
| RECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA | $100,886 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project seeks to computationally approach the Hopkins-Miller higher real K-theory spectra, the algebraic K-theory of structured ring spectra, and motivic homotopy. In all three cases, the computations themselves are strongly related: there is a subtl | National Science Foundation | 6/05/2009 |
| RECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA | $116,497 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Correlated data are seen in diverse fields of sciences and humanities, ranging from computational biology and geology to health and social studies. However, modern correlated data frequently present additional complications such as high-dimensionality, no | National Science Foundation | 6/16/2009 |
| OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY | $425,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). INTELLECTUAL MERIT: Silica aerogels are mesoporous materials formed as wet silica gels and dried by supercritical fluid extraction of the pore-filling gelat | National Science Foundation | 8/08/2009 |
| OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY | $175,941 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The project focuses on two well-known partial differential equations modeling geophysical fluids: the surface quasi-geostrophic (SQG) equation and the two-di | National Science Foundation | 6/15/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF OREGON | $712,356 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This joint project, between PIs(Principal Investigators) G. von Dassow of the University of Oregon and W. M. Bement of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, uses live cell labeling and physical and pharmacological manipulation experiments to explore the r | National Science Foundation | 7/20/2009 |
| CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY | $634,599 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The project will develop a unique instrument for the preparation and characterization of Composition Spread Alloy Films (CSAFs). These are thin alloy films deposited on the surfaces of various materials in such a way that there is a gradient in their com | National Science Foundation | 8/21/2009 |
| CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY | $418,710 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project aims to develop a methodology that will enable temporal coarse-graining of molecular dynamics (MD). Conventional numberical solution of MD with time-stepping is restricted to step sizes of femtoseconds. This makes if infeasible to predict m | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| RECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA | $500,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) provides three years of support for graduate study leading to research-based master's or doctoral degrees and is intended for students who are in the early stages of their graduate study. The Graduate Resear | National Science Foundation | 8/12/2009 |
| CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, DOMINGUEZ HILLS | $330,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Neutrino Physics, Baryon Number Non-Conservation, and Astrophysics at Super-Kamiolande and the T2K Long Baseline Experiment | National Science Foundation | 9/14/2009 |
| WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION | $562,569 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project concerns a laboratory investigation of ion heating processes that are hypothesized to occur in the acceleration region of the fast solar wind. These experiments will continue our studies of modifications to the ion velocity distribution funct | National Science Foundation | 6/05/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY | $111,908 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The proposed instrument, the Large-area multi-Institutional Scintillator Array (LISA), will consist of 128 plastic scintillator bars (2 m by 10 cm by 10 cm). LISA will determine neutron energy through time-of-flight and the interaction point along the bar | National Science Foundation | 9/17/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, THE | $610,286 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Warming of the upper Indian Ocean since the 1950s has been detected and shown to have a complex vertical structure: near-surface warming accompanies upper-thermocline cooling in the tropics and weaker warming underneath. Causes for the complex structure a | National Science Foundation | 8/03/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE | $299,798 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: It is well established that viruses play an important role in regulating the structure and function of marine ecosystems. However, we lack a mechanistic understanding of how bacteria cell receptors constrain virus infection, which has implications for the | National Science Foundation | 6/09/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND | $527,391 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The investigators hypothesize that: (1) sea sprays play an important role in modifying the near surface atmospheric turbulence and air-sea fluxes of momentum and heat at high wind speeds; (2) accurate predictions of sea spray generation must account for s | National Science Foundation | 8/10/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS | $662,663 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Given the growing global importance of water issues caused by dwindling water resources and global climate change, building and deploying a real-time sensing infrastructure across water bodies---including rivers, streams, and watersheds --- will be one of | National Science Foundation | 7/20/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS | $118,686 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 'This project is devoted to the rigorous investigation of statistical properties of dynamical systems and their applications to the physical sciences. The primary goal is to study hyperbolic systems with singularities. Most of those under study in the pro | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE | $313,803 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project seeks to improve the cycling of iron, aluminum and associated biogeochemical elements in the Biogeochemical Elemental Cycling (BEC) ocean model, which runs within the Community Earth System Model (CESM, formerly the Community Climate System M | National Science Foundation | 7/30/2009 |
| FLORIDA A & M UNIVERSITY | $257,306 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Collaborative Research Outwelling of Dissolved Organic Carbon from Salt Marshes | National Science Foundation | 7/31/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI | $160,126 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award was used to purchase 3.5 kHz depth sounding tranducers for operations aboard the University of Miami?s R/V F.G. Walton-Smith, Oregon State University?s R/V Wecoma, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution?s R/V Knorr, and Scripps Institute of Ocean | National Science Foundation | 9/15/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO | $2,418,745 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 'This award ''Shipboard Scientific Support Equipment'' is for several repairs, upgrades, overhauls and equipment purchases to improve safety operations onboard SIO vessels. 1. MONITORING AND CONTROL SYSTEM Roger Revelle $243,765 -- The shipG??s PMCS is | National Science Foundation | 8/14/2009 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, THE | $736,041 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: It is a joint project between Hopkins and MIT. The overarching purpose of the project is to develop kilometer-resolution, planetary-scale simulations of ocean circulation and sea-ice. The main configuration will include the Arctic Ocean, the Atlantic Ocea | National Science Foundation | 7/08/2009 |
| TEMPLE UNIVERSITY-OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION | $80,238 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: We plan to investigate how virtual and physical materiality are entangled in project-based design organizations. We further explore how these materiality evolve over time as the nature of design change. We will conduct ethnographic studies at four organiz | National Science Foundation | 9/14/2009 |
| OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $246,960 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Marine mammals of the Southern Ocean have evolved diverse life history patterns and foraging strategies to accommodate extreme fluctuations in the physical and biological environment. In light of ongoing climate change and the dramatic shifts in the exten | National Science Foundation | 7/06/2009 |
| WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION | $543,256 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Collaborative Research: Alternative Nutritional Strategies in Antarctic Protists | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE | $155,488 | 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 high elevations of East Antarctica are critical in localizing the initial Cenozoic glaciation and stabilizing it with respect to melting during warm inte | National Science Foundation | 8/18/2009 |
| GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY | $149,832 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: AN INITIATIVE TO PROMOTE CERT CAPACITY BUILDING IN AFRICA (International Cyber Security Initiative) | National Science Foundation | 9/22/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, THE | $533,416 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Researchers from the University of Colorado at Boulder will construct and deploy a number of low powered UV photometers to be placed on long duration stratospheric super pressure (constant volume) balloons to be launched during the joint US-French CONCORD | National Science Foundation | 5/22/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MAINE SYSTEM | $273,136 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The response of the Antarctic Ice Sheet to future climatic changes is recognized as the greatest uncertainty in projections of future sea level. Our proposed work will help quantify changes in grounded ice volume since the LGM, improve understanding of t | National Science Foundation | 8/10/2009 |
| PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE | $275,306 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Two models have been proposed to describe controls over microbial biogeography. One model proposes that microbes are ubiquitously distributed across the glo | National Science Foundation | 8/14/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, THE | $305,887 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Proxies in continuous deep-sea sedimentary archives document slow cooling through much of the Cenozoic until a threshold was crossed leading to the onset of Northern Hemisphere continental glaciation ca. 2.8 Ma ago. Glacial cyclicity followed the obliquit | National Science Foundation | 8/19/2009 |
| RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK | $1,147,782 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: ARRA - TRANS-NSF RECOVERY ACT RESEARCH Experience for Undergraduates including fieldwork in Barbuda, West Indies | National Science Foundation | 6/09/2009 |
| PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE | $373,268 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Stream networks are intimately connected to the landscapes through which they flow and significantly transform nutrients and organic matter that are in tra | National Science Foundation | 6/10/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA ANCHORAGE | $225,072 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Arctic soils have large stores of carbon (C) and may act as a significant CO2 source with warming. However, the key to understanding tundra soil processes is nitrogen (N), as both plant growth and decomposition are severely N limited. The current models | National Science Foundation | 7/09/2009 |
| PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE | $208,003 | 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 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 tran | National Science Foundation | 7/27/2009 |
| WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION | $196,846 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Plants form the base of arctic tundra food webs and are the determinants of terrestrial primary productivity in the Arctic. Given this central role, the response of tundra plants to climate change will have regional and global implications. This project | National Science Foundation | 8/03/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND | $446,247 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Funds are provided to collect baseline winter information on the overwintering physical and biological characteristics of three important Arctic Seas: The Bering Sea, the Chukchi Sea, and the Beaufort Sea. Understanding of seasonality, and particularly wi | National Science Foundation | 8/26/2009 |
| NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY | $315,789 | 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 CALIFORNIA, IRVINE | $617,647 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Arctic is undergoing structural and functional changes that appear to be the result of climate change, including shifts in vegetation distribution, increases in CO2 and CH4 efflux from ecosystems to the atmosphere, and the acceleration of dissolved or | National Science Foundation | 7/16/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC. | $314,049 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Intellectual merit: This project brings together three experienced investigators to jointly investigate the microbiological controls on the productivity of a coastal Arctic ecosystem. In the waters near Barrow, Alaska and with international collaboration | National Science Foundation | 8/14/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND | $42,994 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project supports innovative research to introduce a little studied and poorly understood group into Norse North Atlantic archaeological research - women. The research team will start in Icelandic museum collections and a western Icelandic elite archa | National Science Foundation | 7/17/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY | $681,439 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Dr. Rhode will carry out a multi-year, wide-field imaging survey of the globular cluster (GC) systems of giant galaxies. The primary objective is to determine the total number, specific frequency, spatial distribution, and color distribution of each galax | National Science Foundation | 8/10/2009 |
| GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY | $869,163 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: CAREER: Combining HI and Optical Galaxy Surveys: A Census of Baryons in the Local Universe. Astrophysics research on the baryonic content of the local universe and an effort to increase and improve the training of physics teachers at GMU. | National Science Foundation | 8/26/2009 |
| NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY | $329,158 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: We propose to use mature coherent integration techniques to demonstrate measurements of stellar radii, limb-darkening, binary stars, and pulsating stars with unprecedented accuracy using data from the Navy Prototype Optical Interferometer. With the help o | National Science Foundation | 5/22/2009 |
| GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY | $3,798,208 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Predictability of seasonal and interannual variation in a changing climate | National Science Foundation | 8/30/2009 |
| PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE | $457,061 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Our research goal is mainly to answer the following questions: ? How are OH and HO2 different in the biogenically active period of June and July compared to the water-stressed period of August and the cool period of September? Can models capture the obser | National Science Foundation | 6/22/2009 |
| PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE | $91,932 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Low-frequency atmospheric variability, with time scales from one week to a few months, will be studied by identifying a small number of flow states that per | National Science Foundation | 6/24/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII SYSTEMS | $228,676 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Funding is provided to combine paleoclimate and instrumental observations with a new Earth system Model of Intermediate Complexity (EMIC) to improve constraints on key climate parameters including those governing dynamical and potentially abrupt responses | National Science Foundation | 6/18/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS | $300,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The awarded project is within the scope of the Plasmasphere-Magnetosphere Interactions (PMI) session of the Geospace Environment Modeling (GEM) program supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF). The project is to develop an empirical electron den | National Science Foundation | 6/24/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO | $539,526 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Title: Measured Organic Particle Types with Molecular Modeling of their Volatility and Uptake Properties Project Description Aerosol particles play an important role in the radiative balance of the atmosphere, with their organic fraction representing on | National Science Foundation | 7/28/2009 |
| NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $1,314,315 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The grant is to support the building of a Cryogenic InfraRed Spectrograph (CIRS) for the New Solar Telescope (NST). CIRS will be the only fully cryogenic spectrograph at any solar observatory, and this kind of instrument is essential for the exploration | National Science Foundation | 8/24/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII SYSTEMS | $1,583,885 | 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 proposing team will develop a new instrument called the Mees Spectropolarimeter for the Photosphere and Chromosphere (MSPC). The MSPC will be integrated a | National Science Foundation | 8/26/2009 |
| THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK | $39,393 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Funding for this award will enable continuation for three years of a program of trace gas measurements in the middle atmosphere (stratosphere and mesosphere) over Thule Air Base, Greenland, using a ground-based millimeter-wave spectrometer (GBMS). The GBM | National Science Foundation | 9/01/2009 |
| GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC. | $295,541 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Wildfires cause great destruction including the loss of life and damage to property, infrastructure and the environment. The complexity of wildfire management arises from the uncertain dynamic interactions and dependencies among multiple system components | National Science Foundation | 9/18/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII SYSTEMS | $147,686 | 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 immediate goals of this project are to acquire and build two instrument packages that will be interfaced with IODP borehole observatories, known as CORKs, | National Science Foundation | 9/18/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI | $149,154 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project was funded to construct core instrumentation that will enable future transformative research as part of the overarching Mid-Atlantic Ridge Microbiological Experiments program (MARME) that already has significant support from the integrated Oc | National Science Foundation | 9/18/2009 |
| WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION | $166,739 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: A Synthesis of the Physical State of the Mantle Wedge in Costa Rica-Nicaragua and Izu-Bonin-Mariana | National Science Foundation | 6/10/2009 |
| WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION | $597,179 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Atmospheric Forcing of Marginal-Sea Overflows | National Science Foundation | 6/25/2009 |
| WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY | $57,930 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The WSU Principal Investigator will participate in the upcoming GEOTRACES North Atlantic cruise in order to construct a full depth, zonal section of mercury (Hg) species across an important ocean basin for which almost no Hg data exist currently. This ef | National Science Foundation | 8/19/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII SYSTEMS | $1,584,380 | 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 field experiment is proposed to examine wave-driven coastal inundation along vulnerable atoll shorelines in the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI). A go | National Science Foundation | 9/10/2009 |
| LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM | $257,380 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: We are investigating the magnitude of carbon export to the coastal ocean from a salt marsh ecosystem using an interdisciplinary approach that includes biogeochemistry, physical oceanography, coastal hydrology, and reactive transport modeling. My part of | National Science Foundation | 7/31/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII SYSTEMS | $200,286 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The international GEOTRACES program has been developed to produce a global framework of key trace elements and isotopes that will describe the contemporary distributions of these properties in the ocean. This information can then be used to constrain mode | National Science Foundation | 8/19/2009 |
| SKIDAWAY INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY | $404,833 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This study will contribute to our general understanding of iron speciation in the upper ocean by elucidating the interactions between iron and carbon limitations, carbon source and siderophore production. The gene regulatory network will be capable of id | National Science Foundation | 8/04/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII SYSTEMS | $356,191 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Submarine mid-ocean ridges are the most volcanically active places on the planet. Lavas erupted from them cover roughly 2/3 of the Earth's surface. This volcanism is a major outlet for heat and matter in Earth's interior and plays a significant role in oc | National Science Foundation | 7/28/2009 |
| WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION | $1,561,500 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 2009 Shipboard Scientific Support Equipment | National Science Foundation | 8/12/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND | $849,236 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award provides funds to support the Centers for Ocean Sciences Education Excellence (COSEE) Central Coordinating Office (CCO) in a set of projects that will focus on identifying best practices in ocean science education and developing internal and ex | National Science Foundation | 9/10/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI | $204,985 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 2009 Shipboard Scientific Support Equipment - The following items were replaced or upgraded: 1.The ship's crane cylinders 2.Generator upgrades that allow seamless generator power transfers and paralleling of electrical loads. 3.New propeller blades were f | National Science Foundation | 9/08/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII SYSTEMS | $861,092 | 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 requests numerous Shipboard Scientific Support (SSSE) items for the vessels operated by the University of Hawaii; namely the R/V KILO MOANA. The | National Science Foundation | 9/14/2009 |
| THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY | $375,395 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The nature of scientific computing is changing G?? it is becoming increasingly data-centric. We use AmdahlG??s Laws to quantify (i) what is a data-intensive computational problem, and (ii) what is a data-intensive computational architecture. Based on thes | National Science Foundation | 8/19/2009 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, THE | $1,809,437 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The objective of this Cyber-Enabled Discovery and Innovation proposal is to develop new techniques for modeling and analyzing human skilled manipulation from motion and video data. In particular, our hypothesis is that manipulative activities can be analy | National Science Foundation | 8/24/2009 |
| CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY AUXILIARY SERVICES, INC | $150,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The broad goal of this award is to establish an International Research Experiences for Students (IRES) program focusing on Applications in the Chemical Separations Sciences between the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at California State Universi | National Science Foundation | 6/15/2009 |
| OAKLAND UNIVERSITY | $149,290 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The proposed program seeks to address the nationwide concerns related to globalization, energy and pollution by providing meaningful international research experiences in the area of fuel cells to talented undergraduate and graduate students. The majority | National Science Foundation | 9/08/2009 |
| MISSOURI SYSTEM, UNIVERSITY OF | $149,298 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: SUMMARY This proposal requests 3-year funding from the International Research and Experience for Students (IRES) program of the National Science Foundation (NSF) to support research and educational activities for 9 undergraduate and 3 MS students (3 under | National Science Foundation | 8/15/2009 |
| NORTH CAROLINA AGRICULTURAL AND TECHNICAL STATE UNIVERSITY | $29,971 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Development and Characterization of Bio Binder from Swine Manure The objective of this proposal is to use swine manure to produce a bio binder to be used as partial replacement and modifier for asphalt binder on highways and airport pavements. Bio binder | National Science Foundation | 8/14/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, THE | $27,630 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: ' This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The most striking large-scale pattern in biological diversity is the dramatic increase in the number of species and higher taxa from the poles to the tropi | National Science Foundation | 3/02/2012 |
| THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK INC | $100,097 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Funds from this grant will support the acquisition of a powder x-ray diffractometer (XRD) to facilitate research and research training in the Departments of Geology and Chemistry at the State University of New York at Cortland (SUNY-Cortland). The XRD wil | National Science Foundation | 8/19/2009 |
| GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS COLLEGE | $246,820 | 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 proposal submitted to the Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) Program, the PIs request ~$247K to acquire an ICP-MS for water quality and geochemis | National Science Foundation | 8/20/2009 |
| BERKELEY GEOCHRONOLOGY CENTER | $299,949 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). High-resolution geochronology is instrumental in testing proposed causal links between continental-scale, short-term volcanic events and environmental crises | National Science Foundation | 8/31/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI | $75,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Acquisition of a Linux computer cluster for Space Geodetic Research at the University of Miami. This cluster can generate InSar time series within hours reducing the processing time by a factor of about 20, and move towards operational InSAR-GPS, integra | National Science Foundation | 8/07/2009 |
| GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY | $400,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Award title: High performance nanowire FETs for logic and memory. This proposal is to design and fabricate CMOS-compatible high performance nanowire field effect transistors and integrate them for logic and memory applications, which address the widely re | National Science Foundation | 7/01/2009 |
| PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE | $400,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The ultimate goal of this research is to lay a solid foundation for the development and application of a new generation of two-photon pumped lasers based on | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $330,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The objective of this research is to enable highly mobile computers and cellular phones with the image interpretation capabilities of large bench-top computers. The approach combines new event-based hardware and energy-efficient algorithms for the identif | National Science Foundation | 6/29/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, THE | $415,477 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Acquisition of High-Power Energy Storage System Test Equipment. The objective is to acquire instumentation for a new high-power energy storage system research laboratory facility. | National Science Foundation | 8/25/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA | $314,469 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The interfacial activity of copolymers and polymer functionalized nanoparticles in multiphase polymer systems holds deep scientific interest and enormous industrial importance. In addition to the variety of basic science questions they raise, these synthe | National Science Foundation | 7/27/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $299,998 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Proteins, DNAs and viruses have the capability to self-assemble into ordered morphologies due to interfacial interactions of these basic biological building blocks. Water-soluble inorganic nanoparticles (NPs) have similar dimensions, chemistries on their | National Science Foundation | 7/27/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, THE | $400,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: CAREER: Building Resilient Internet Services with Learning and ControlThis CAREER project concentrates on building Internet services that are resilient to challenges with machine learning and control techniques. | National Science Foundation | 7/25/2009 |
| SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSTIY FOUNDATION | $436,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: In this research we propose to develop a novel flash disk storage architecture, named FIT, which exploits the addition of RAM and dedicated software schemes to incorporate flash SSDs into enterprise-class storage systems. We plan to implement a simulation | National Science Foundation | 9/16/2009 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $400,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Internet was designed to operate in a trusted and closely knitted academic environment. Today, as the Internet has embraced more than a billion users worldwide, its old design faces significant security and economics challenges. First, it is extremely | National Science Foundation | 9/16/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $261,167 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project, entitled 'REU Site: EXPLORING OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE: DEVELOPMENT AND EFFICACY OF ONLINE LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE,' is under the direction of Thomas L. Naps, David Furcy, Kathy S. Faggiani, Robert G. Ball. | National Science Foundation | 6/26/2009 |
| PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE | $500,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Data centers using virtual machine (VM) consolidation are taking over old computer rooms run by individual companies. However, consolidating services and r | National Science Foundation | 8/12/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, THE | $138,122 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: For two decades now, virtually all systematic analysis of the contemporary Supreme Court and its members has relied on Harold J. Spaeth's U.S. Supreme Court Judicial Database. This holds for research conducted by social scientists and, increasingly, by le | National Science Foundation | 8/24/2009 |
| DICKINSON COLLEGE | $157,153 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). In the United States, crop loss due to infection by plant pathogens, including plant viruses, has been estimated to exceed thirty billion dollars per year. | National Science Foundation | 7/10/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA | $443,474 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: There is worldwide concern over increasing concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and its influence on global climate. Managing atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide requires understanding how ecosystems process carbon, and identifying | National Science Foundation | 7/17/2009 |
| MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY, THE | $535,108 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Animal vision was traditionally thought to be comprised of two distinct lineages of sensory cells that evolved separately in vertebrates vs. invertebrates. These photoreceptors differ fundamentally in the light sensor structure and the biochemistry to con | National Science Foundation | 7/29/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE | $498,424 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The ultraviolet radiation (UVR) spectrum of solar light represents a major environmental stressor, which is absorbed predominantly by the skin. This project will test the hypothesis that skin contains a sophisticated stress response system that is activat | National Science Foundation | 7/28/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA | $262,215 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Rhizobia are bacteria that can live in soil, but also symbiotically, inside root nodules on plants like soybean or alfalfa. Although many rhizobia provide their host plants with nitrogen, saving farmers billions in fertilizer costs, less beneficial strain | National Science Foundation | 7/30/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS | $432,209 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The overall purpose of this project is to understand: (1) how plant responses to elevated CO2 have affected earthworm populations, (2) whether earthworm-mediated soil mixing has increased or decreased in forests exposed to elevated CO2, and (3) how these | National Science Foundation | 8/12/2009 |
| WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY | $93,027 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The principal objective of this project is to understand how environmental and genetic factors affect local expansion of plant species' ranges. Although in recent years many models have been developed to address this issue, little has been done empiricall | National Science Foundation | 7/29/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA | $592,499 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project investigates the ecological and behavioral factors that promote genetic divergence in, and ultimately the evolution of, new species. It focuses on bird species in the isolated forest islands of the Caucasus. DNA sequences from mitochondrial a | National Science Foundation | 7/17/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT RIVERSIDE | $353,887 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project aims to develop reliable and efficient tools for computing ligand-receptor association rate constants and elaborating non-covalent binding kinetics. The new methods will enable detailed simulation of molecular encounter pathways and will gain | National Science Foundation | 6/04/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH THE | $225,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The ongoing project focuses on the study of keV sterile neutrinos as possible warm dark matter candidates, assessing their small scale clustering properties as possible alternatives to the cold dark matter paradigm. We have considered simple extensions be | National Science Foundation | 8/11/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA | $2,550,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Research and development for LIGO will be carried out in four main areas. First, work will be done on commissioning of enhanced LIGO during 2009?2010 and on risk mitigation for the input optics of Advanced LIGO. Second,several burst searches with coherent | National Science Foundation | 6/09/2009 |
| FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY | $200,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Study of black hole and neutron stars in binary systems. Main focus is on generation of gravitational radiation and investigation of neutron stars with spin. | National Science Foundation | 7/31/2009 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $480,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Low-Light-Level Nonlinear Optics via Recoil-Induced Resonance The primary goal of the proposed research program is to study recoil-induced resonances (RIRs) in the high gain regime, where the back-action between atomic motion and generated light fields be | National Science Foundation | 6/15/2009 |
| KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY | $120,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Understanding and controlling the effects of QCD is critical for performing precision tests of the standard model (SM) and detecting and identifying signals of new physics at hadron colliders. Perturbative QCD calculations are plagued by the dependence o | National Science Foundation | 7/02/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF TUFTS COLLEGE INC | $600,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Inflationary cosmology, combined with recent developments in string theory, is pointing to a major paradigm shift: from a nearly homogeneous and isotropic universe to an extremely inho-mogeneous 'multiverse', where much of the volume is still in the state | National Science Foundation | 6/09/2009 |
| MISSOURI SYSTEM, UNIVERSITY OF | $100,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The central theme of this project is research in quantum electrodymanics, knows as QED, a theory essentially founded in 1947 by Hans Bethe and others and based essentially on the idea of renormalized perturbation theory fo rth eelectromagnetic interaction | National Science Foundation | 7/02/2009 |
| BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY | $169,517 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Ion interferometers will be a completely new type of device, utilizing the quantum-wave nature of matter to detect electromagnetic fields with unprecedented sensitivity. In an ion interferometer a laser-cooled gas of atoms will interact with a pair of las | National Science Foundation | 6/14/2009 |
| RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK | $480,000 | 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 |
| PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE | $495,000 | 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 the same way that atoms consist of spinning protons, electrons and neutrons, held together by electrical forces, the proton consists of spinning quarks h | National Science Foundation | 8/31/2009 |
| TEMPLE UNIVERSITY-OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION | $54,253 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Photoassociation occurs in an ultracold gas when one of the atoms in a colliding pair absorbs a photon of laser light, coupling the free-atom continuum to the bound molecule. Likewise, ultracold magnetoassociation couples free atoms and bound molecules wh | National Science Foundation | 7/22/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI | $150,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Ongoing research at the University of Mississippi currently involves the PI, one postdoc (Jocelyn Read) and two graduate students (Barnabas Kipapa and Zhongyang Zhang). The research topics are: 1) gravitational wave source modeling and astrophysics, with | National Science Foundation | 8/17/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, THE | $612,493 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project aims toward developing an ultrafast (femtosecond), coherent, extreme ultraviolet (XUV) radiation source using beams produced by a laser-plasma-based accelerator. Coherent radiation can be generated via the free-electron laser (FEL) mechanism | National Science Foundation | 8/27/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND | $161,912 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: MRI: Acquisition of a Computing Cluster for Astrophysics and Nuclear Physics Research at the University of Richmond. This NSF award is for the purchase of a high-performance computing cluster to support co-operating research programs in astrophysics and | National Science Foundation | 9/09/2009 |
| RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY LLC | $18,520,393 | Contract | : Raytheon provides operational and logistics support to the National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Polar Programs in support of the United States Antarctic Program USAP. Our contract requires systems-type operations and project management skills and | National Science Foundation | 7/01/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY | $452,151 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Toddler word learning is a remarkable phenomenon. Starting from scratch, children progress knowing one or two words to several thousands in several short years. Most theories of learning have focused on macro level descriptions and folk-psychological cons | National Science Foundation | 8/19/2009 |
| ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND, THE | $299,551 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: In recent years, scholars and researchers have used the phrase 'new normal' to refer to the complex and multi-faceted outcomes of post-disaster recovery and reconstruction processes. Generally, the volatility and chaos occurring immediately after a trauma | National Science Foundation | 9/29/2009 |
| RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK | $553,241 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: NSF RECOVERY ACT RESEARCH SUPPORT IN Contextual Learning in the Adaptation of Saccadic Eye Movements | National Science Foundation | 9/14/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY CORPORATION, THE | $477,644 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Extensive research has demonstrated that early linguistic experience is critical for achieving native-like proficiency in a language. However, what remains unclear is whether early linguistic experience that is limited only to the very early years can sti | National Science Foundation | 8/24/2009 |
| ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND, THE | $768,443 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The ability to use spatial information is crucial to survival because space is such a basic feature of the world. Our brains are endowed with circuits that represent spatial information, which can then be used to guide intelligent behavior. The auditory s | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS | $680,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This research project investigates the learning mechanisms that underlie language acquisition. The project consists of a set of experiments that explore infants abilities to detect structure in language by tracking patterns present in linguistic input. Th | National Science Foundation | 7/22/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL | $457,220 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: One Movement or Two? Moral Logics and Food Action Networks in the Alternative Agrifoods Movement. The research project funded will investigate the cultural processes (moral logics) of food action networks of the alternative agrifoods movement (!local food | National Science Foundation | 8/19/2009 |
| PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE | $425,496 | 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 nature of telecommunications networks is rapidly changing. Commodity smart mobile phone frameworks such as Android and Openmoko invite developers and e | National Science Foundation | 9/24/2009 |
| WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY (INC) | $433,917 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: We propose a unified reinforcement learning approach, namely URL, for the online autoconfiguration purpose. The approach features three innovations: First is a reinforcement learning methodology for autoconfiguration of virtual machines on distributed co | National Science Foundation | 7/24/2009 |
| LEHIGH UNIVERSITY | $156,251 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The overall purpose and expected outcomes of the collaborative project are described as follows. Each node in a wireless ad hoc network can choose the power at which it makes its transmissions and thus control the topology of the network. Though well-st | National Science Foundation | 7/29/2009 |
| NORTH CAROLINA AGRICULTURAL AND TECHNICAL STATE UNIVERSITY | $384,330 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Consortium for Research Computing for the Sciences, Engineering and Technology, CRCSET. This award will provide the primary funding for a new high performance computing environment for the university. Among the groups at the university to utilize this r | National Science Foundation | 9/04/2009 |
| GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC. | $329,511 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The proposed research focuses primarily on behavior within two important social dilemma situations: the public goods game and the common-pool resource game. Each of these games has been individually studied in the laboratory and field under varying cont | National Science Foundation | 7/15/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT & STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE | $74,507 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: How has the civic and political participation of American citizens been changed by the growth of paid efforts to lobby the public? This project will help to answer this question by studying the activities of Professional Grassroots Lobbying Firms (PGLFs), | National Science Foundation | 7/10/2009 |
| THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK | $259,577 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: For two decades now, virtually all systematic analysis of the contemporary Supreme Court and its members has relied on Harold J. Spaeth's U.S. Supreme Court Judicial Database. This holds for research conducted by social scientists and, increasingly, by le | National Science Foundation | 8/24/2009 |
| MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY STUDENT GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION SCHOLAR, THE | $76,677 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Despite consensus that forensic interviewing techniques should be informed by eyewitness research, interviewers who obtain evidence from alleged victims of child physical and sexual abuse frequently use techniques that lack empirical support. This occurs | National Science Foundation | 8/06/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL | $280,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Optimizing Implicit Attitude Measurement | National Science Foundation | 9/13/2009 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY | $10,815 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: The Regulation, Circulation and Experiences of Novel Nutritive Substances: Rational Governance and the Gut in Contemporary South Africa. This doctoral dissertation research improvement grant--by the Science, Techno | National Science Foundation | 7/10/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY | $523,359 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The new digital edition of NewtonG??s papers on alchemical subjects with its searchable web interface has exceeded the lofty hopes of our original conception and project design. Perhaps the primary practical gain from all this effort and investment is the | National Science Foundation | 8/24/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL | $282,396 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This project is supported by the Science, Technology and Society program. Its goal is to develop a conceptual reorientation of certain aspects of the evolut | National Science Foundation | 7/28/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE | $144,560 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Industry analysts predict that the current global economic crisis will speed up the offshoring of knowledge work such as new product development (NPD) and software development. Firms use NPD and software development to create and bring new products to ma | National Science Foundation | 6/15/2009 |
| CORPORATION OF HAVERFORD COLLEGE, THE | $146,772 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The principal investigators propose to investigate flexibility and rigidity questions that are central to the character of symplectic and contact topology by exploring knotting phenomena of Lagrangian and Legendrian submanifolds. Approaching symplectic an | National Science Foundation | 7/26/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $215,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Earth's magnetic field is known to change annually in strength, orientation and in its location of the magnetic poles, which move on average some 3000 feet per month. These changes are readily observed by comparing the directions in which a compass ne | National Science Foundation | 6/15/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS | $259,559 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The PI proposes to leverage the ongoing ICORTAS (Ice-Covered Ocean Response to Atmospheric Storms) field observations by augmenting the existing scientific goals to include a modeling component that will capitalize on a model?s ability to resolve temporal | National Science Foundation | 7/17/2009 |
| OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY | $399,995 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award will support a reconstruction of the Holocene paleomagnetic record of the Arctic and investigate linkages with regional climate. The central focus of this project is to recover continuous 3 to 5 m-long sediment cores from lakes in NW and NE Ala | National Science Foundation | 8/14/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA | $127,810 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: With support from the National Science Foundation, Drs. Travis Doering and Lori Collins will organize a team of international researchers to conduct an archaeological project at the site of Takalik Abaj on the Pacific piedmont of Guatemala. Interdisciplin | National Science Foundation | 8/16/2009 |
| RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY | $500,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project explores reaction cascades that lead to facile C-H bond functionalization. The focus is on studying reaction cascades that are initiated by intra- or intermolecular hydride shift events that result in the formation of an electrophile/nucleoph | National Science Foundation | 7/09/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA | $162,335 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The boundary between Earth's rocky mantle and metallic core is home to a patchwork collection of partially molten structures. These structures, characterized by sharp peaks and valleys, are relatively thin (10s of km in thickness), dense (up to 10% denser | National Science Foundation | 7/01/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO | $312,619 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This proposal?s main goal is to experimentally determine the partial molar volume of CO2-total in silicate melts as a function of pressure and melt composition using the sink/float method in piston-cylinder and multi-anvil devices up to 20 GPa. The experi | National Science Foundation | 7/04/2009 |
| PURDUE UNIVERSITY | $375,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The problem of multiphase fluid flow in porous media is important in many areas, including ground water remediation, the extraction of oil & gas from subsurface reservoirs and carbon sequestration in geologic formations. The development of experimental an | National Science Foundation | 8/25/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS | $28,503 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The great 15 November 2006 Mw=8.3 and 13 January 2007 Mw=8.1 Kuril earthquakes rup-tured one of the most conspicuous gaps in subduction-zone seismic activity, a 600-km long Ku-ril arc segment that had not experienced a single great earthquake for about a | National Science Foundation | 7/28/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT | $259,059 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The PI is planning an experimental research program to investigate the growth of epitaxial crystalline oxide layers on semiconductor substrates by atomic layer deposition. Crystalline oxides are an important class of materials that exhibit a rich variety | National Science Foundation | 6/16/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA | $180,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Recent research has demonstrated the prevalence and importance of a large scale organization in turbulent boundary layers thought to be caused by packets of individual eddies. Given that packets appear to have a specific spanwise spacing, the PI hypothesi | National Science Foundation | 8/21/2009 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $325,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). A new reactor technology will be investigated that can potentially convert lower cost organic compounds into fuels, or other highly valued products. Specific | National Science Foundation | 8/19/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO | $300,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 'Title: Development of Renewable Biofuels Technology by Transcriptomic Analysis and Metabolic Engineering of Diatoms. Description: The goal of this project is to develop metabolic engineering approaches for diatoms to enable induction of lipid accumulati | National Science Foundation | 8/20/2009 |
| IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY | $266,048 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The objectives of this project are to 1) develop a novel laser-assisted non-contact technique to overcome the great challenges in thermal characterization of ceramic nanowires; and measure the porosity (F), thermal conductivity (k), and specific heat (v | National Science Foundation | 7/28/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS | $316,900 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: We propose to incorporate layers of metal nanoshells from solution deposition methods between two polymer solar cells layers. The metal nanoshells have a larger absorption coefficient than any organic and can therefore absorb more of the Suns light. The p | National Science Foundation | 8/12/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, THE | $257,382 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project will use mathematical and numerical tools to transform the way simulations of turbulent flow are performed by integrating advanced methods in adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) and turbulence modeling for large-eddy simulation (LES) on structured | National Science Foundation | 1/24/2012 |
| AUBURN UNIVERSITY | $287,553 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Light microscopy is the major biological research technology that enabled modern knowledge of structure and function of biological cells. With the discovery of super-resolution light microscopy in the late 1990s the size of observable features diminished | National Science Foundation | 8/20/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF TUFTS COLLEGE INC | $355,556 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project attacks nanomanufacturing from a computational thinking perspective. The computational aspect starts with mathematical models of the assembly process from basic units: small rigid units (rods, squares, cubes, etc.) with glues (binding sites) | National Science Foundation | 9/02/2009 |
| DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT | $550,000 | 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 CAREER project funded by the Inorganic, Bioinorganic, and Organometallic Chemistry Program of the Chemistry Division, Tomislav Pintauer of Duquesne U | National Science Foundation | 7/08/2009 |
| THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK | $380,350 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Organic and Macromolecular Chemistry Program in the Chemistry Division at the National Science Foundation supports Professor Dale G. Drueckhammer at the SUNY Stony Brook whose research will further develop and demonstrate a general computer-based meth | National Science Foundation | 7/26/2009 |
| THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK | $188,006 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Organic and Macromolecular Chemistry Program in the Chemistry Division at the National Science Foundation supports Professor Raymond C. Francis at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry. His research will continue to investigate the ch | National Science Foundation | 8/02/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS | $240,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This research award in the Inorganic, Bioinorganic and Organometallic Chemistry program supports work by Professor R. David Britt at the University of Califo | National Science Foundation | 7/26/2009 |
| RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK (INC) | $100,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: ARRA - TRANS-NSF RECOVERY ACT RESEARCH SUPPORT | National Science Foundation | 8/21/2009 |
| STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (INC) | $430,000 | 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 research objective of this Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award is to study the crystalline morphologies that naturally form (or can deliber | National Science Foundation | 7/14/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $310,000 | 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 research objective of this award is to more fully understand carbon nanotube (CNT)-liquid crystalline elastomer (LCE) nanocomposites and their actuation | National Science Foundation | 7/27/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $300,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Collaborative Projects 0856753 Junhong Chen University of Wisconsin/Milwaukee And 0856719 Steven Lewis University of Georgia This pair of collaborative projects will be awarded using funds made available by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2 | National Science Foundation | 7/09/2009 |
| MONTANA TECH OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA | $145,332 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Fiber-Optic Strain Monitoring of Rock Masses in large Underground Facilities | National Science Foundation | 8/07/2009 |
| MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY, INC | $342,413 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The development and characterization of new complex structures relies heavily upon woking across length and time scales as well as by non-contact methods. Funding from this grant will allow us to purchase instruments that add several new dimensions of syn | National Science Foundation | 7/17/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH THE | $150,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The purpose of the award is to stimulate innovative manufacturing research and industrial competitiveness in the U.S. by enabling the design of engineering components with custom designed microstructures. The award is expected to lead to manufactured meta | National Science Foundation | 7/16/2009 |
| LEHIGH UNIVERSITY | $746,691 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The project will develop a validated probabilistic, performance-based seismic design procedure for buildings with passive damping systems. In this procedure, the design of the damping system is integrated with the design of the associated seismic load res | National Science Foundation | 7/31/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY SYSTEM OF NEW HAMPSHIRE | $196,775 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The fitness effects of genetic mutations can differ depending on the external and genetic environments in which they occur. These interactions of mutations with the external and genetic environments determine the generality with which a potentially adapti | National Science Foundation | 6/04/2009 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $260,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Neotropical forests harbor high biodiversity, including fungi. Plant-mutualistic ectomycorrhizal (EM) fungi, however, are widely thought to be underrepresented in the neotropics. In contrast to temperate and boreal forests where EM fungi are nearly ubiqui | National Science Foundation | 8/17/2009 |
| PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE | $1,081,496 | 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 investigates exceptionally species-rich but poorly known fossil plant deposits in Patagonia, Argentina, dating from 66-47 million years old. Ap | National Science Foundation | 8/17/2009 |
| SCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTA, THE | $337,143 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Project will increase fundamental knowledge regarding sources and controls of carbon storage in these systems and determine whether shallow lakes can manage increased uptake and storage of atmospheric co2 | National Science Foundation | 7/17/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, THE | $574,436 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project provides an opportunity to train Berkeley graduate and undergraduate students to generate and analyze systematic data. Fieldwork in Hawai?i allows for participation of native Hawaiian high school students via our interaction with the Bishop M | National Science Foundation | 2/17/2012 |
| GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC. | $677,462 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: For almost 100 years, it has been known that nonhuman primates respond negatively when outcomes deviate from their expectations. Only in the last five years, however, has it been demonstrated that these expectations can be based on what another individual | National Science Foundation | 6/25/2009 |
| OHIO UNIVERSITY | $408,060 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Most formal models of decision-making treat it as a static process (i.e., how the current state of some set of variables affects the probability of a particular choice). This approach ignored the fact that each day individuals are faced with numerous deci | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, THE | $104,396 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Statistical models in social and natural sciences typically include a parameter of interest as well as other parameters that need to be estimated (nuisance parameters) using the data available to the researcher. Among these models, the so-called semiparam | National Science Foundation | 9/21/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS | $380,310 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project aims to improve our understanding of the mechanisms that lead to pro-cyclical mortality. Specifically, we are investigating the relationship between state-level unemployment rates (as proxies for the state of the economy) and mortality rates | National Science Foundation | 8/04/2009 |
| NEW YORK UNIVERSITY | $195,158 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: A Time-Series Cross-National Dataset on Intra-State Violence | National Science Foundation | 8/26/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $355,257 | 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 Science, Technology, and Society project investigates research ethics for Internet based studies. Research conducted on and through the Internet has exp | National Science Foundation | 8/06/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE,THE | $372,502 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: RUI: Evolution and Islam Acceptance of Biological Evolution and Perspectives on Science and Religion Among Muslim Physicians and Medical Students. | National Science Foundation | 9/13/2009 |
| RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK (INC) | $144,995 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: RECOVERY ACT RESEARCH SUPPORT to study the Distribution and Social Impact of Mortgage Foreclosures in the United States | National Science Foundation | 6/04/2009 |
| LEHIGH UNIVERSITY | $48,533 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Collaborative Research: A New Perspective on the Driving Forces of Controversial Middle Triassic Cyclostratigraphy: a Rock Magnetic Approach. The goal of this geological research is to investigate the origins of the dominant sedimentary cyclicity of an an | National Science Foundation | 9/24/2009 |
| NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $474,522 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project primarily will be for a Research Experience for Teachers (RET) program supporting the outreach activities of the NSF sponsored, four university Engineering Research Center on Structured Organic Particulate Systems (C-SOPS). It will involve tw | National Science Foundation | 8/31/2009 |
| NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY | $134,195 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This engineering education research award to Northern Arizona University will employ researchers to develop a web-based platform called 'microworlds' as the context for learning Java language programming. This platform will allow instructors to create a s | National Science Foundation | 8/03/2009 |
| GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY | $288,920 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Collaborative Research: USING INNOVATIONS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCE TO MONITOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF DESIGN THINKING IN ENGINEERING STUDENTS ? A LONGITUDINAL STUDY This project aims to monitor the development of engineering design thinking through a three-year, l | National Science Foundation | 7/01/2009 |
| PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE | $150,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5) This engineering education research award to Pennsylvania State University will employ researchers to develop and assess educational gaming capability for a | National Science Foundation | 8/03/2009 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $574,943 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Thurston will investigate several areas of low-dimensional geometry and topology and their interconnections with other areas of mathematics and science. He will continue a collaboration with Allen Hatcher to analyze the topology of the space of branched p | National Science Foundation | 6/12/2009 |
| THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC | $211,156 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Earthquakes strike without warning and are some of the most destructive and devastating forces of nature in terms of loss of life. In May, 2008 the Wenchuan earthquake in China killed 80,000 people with 20,000 still missing. The 2004 Sumatra earthquake ge | National Science Foundation | 9/12/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING | $204,421 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project is quantifying 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 su | National Science Foundation | 9/18/2009 |
| CENTER FOR SEVERE WEATHER RESEARCH INC, THE | $512,826 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Prior analysis of high-resolution mobile Doppler radar observations collected during Hurricane Fran (1996) has revealed evidence of highly organized sub-kilometer scale circulations termed boundary-layer 'rolls,' which embody organized rotation about a h | National Science Foundation | 9/18/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE | $375,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Research award in the Inorganic, Bioinorganic and Organometallic Chemistry program supports work by Professor Dean Wilcox at Dartmouth College to carry out fundamental studies of metal ions binding to proteins. The research provides new insight about | National Science Foundation | 7/08/2009 |
| ALLEGHENY COLLEGE | $108,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Professor David Statman of Allegheny College is supported by the Analytical and Surface Chemistry Program in the Division of Chemistry to study the interacti | National Science Foundation | 7/06/2009 |
| NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY | $1,523,686 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 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 systems and reduce the operational costs. This project proposes fundam | National Science Foundation | 9/03/2009 |
| ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY | $405,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Dmitry Matyushov of Arizona State University has an award from the Theoretical and Computational Program of the Chemistry Division to study the electrostatics at the interface of a polar liquid and a solute of nanoscale dimensions using a combination of n | National Science Foundation | 6/16/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH, THE | $276,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The project seeks to create new classes of metal-containing liquid crystalline materials and to build robust structure-property relationships linking molecular structure to observed properties of these materials. | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, THE | $413,351 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Core-Mantle Interaction and Evolution of the Geodynamo: The purpose of this research project is to understand the interaction between the two major regions of Earth's deep interior, the solid mantle and the mostly liquid metallic core. A large amount | National Science Foundation | 7/31/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI SYSTEM | $246,125 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The project will measure and compute heat transfer around igneous plutons. | National Science Foundation | 8/02/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, THE | $93,076 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The goal of this project is to develop physical models for the dynamics of the Earth's interior with the aim of providing a deeper understanding of plate tectonics. Several software packages will be created through this grant. All of this software will be | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY (INC) | $483,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The aim of the proposed research is to improve our understanding of the nonequilibrium and nonlinear dynamic processes for nanoscale phases in complex material systems. The focus will be put on two of the most promising areas in nanofabrication: 1) strain | National Science Foundation | 6/05/2009 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $320,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Complex systems that are far from equilibrium are ubiquitous in nature; common examples include fluid flows, weather systems, and many biological systems. Developing accurate and efficient models for these types of systems is very important, but has prove | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA CRUZ | $288,415 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Dr. Max will lead a project to use laser guide star adaptive optics at the Keck Observatory to study galaxy mergers involving at least one active galactic | National Science Foundation | 9/04/2009 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $243,003 | 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 experimental and theoretical studies geared toward detection and interpretation of 21-cm neutral hydrogen signatures of the Epoch o | National Science Foundation | 8/26/2009 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $900,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This research project will study the fundamental behavior of new devices made to study organic semiconductors using a newly discovered process called orthogonal lithography. Organic semiconductors used in thin, flexible electronic circuits offer the possi | National Science Foundation | 9/01/2009 |
| HARVARD COLLEGE, PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF | $722,275 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Dr. Jonathan Grindlay will continue his efforts to recover information from the pre-digital era of astronomical imaging. Under a previous award, his group has demonstrated a high speed scanner system that can quickly digitize astronomical images recorded | National Science Foundation | 9/08/2009 |
| BROWN UNIVERSITY IN PROVIDENCE IN STATE OF RI AND PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS | $305,678 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 'This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).' Intellectual Merit: Several lines of evidence suggest that melt generation and segregation regions in the mantle are heterogeneous and consist of chemical | National Science Foundation | 7/19/2009 |
| BROWN UNIVERSITY IN PROVIDENCE IN STATE OF RI AND PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS | $35,540 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The project investigates the role of deformation in the distribution of titanium (Ti) and other trace elements in quartz over a wide range of temperature an | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC | $255,968 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: A newly developed three dimensional numerical modeling code that can deal with elasto-visco-plastic deformation will be used to study the controls on faulting during oblique continental extension. This project is a two-phase study that focuses on the cont | National Science Foundation | 6/24/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON SYSTEM | $173,357 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The role of large strike-slip faults in the evolution of the Himalayan-Tibetan orogen is a topic of continued debate, with considerable focus on the Altyn Tagh and Karakorum fault systems. Two primary families of models have emerged regarding the importan | National Science Foundation | 7/28/2009 |
| OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $685,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: During embryogenesis, the single cell produced upon fusion of the sperm and egg cells develops into a complex, multicellular organism. For this process to occur properly, the developing embryo must turn genes on and off in distinct cells at the right tim | National Science Foundation | 6/24/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON SYSTEM | $724,572 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: How the brain works is an important and complicated question. One of the many functions of the brain is to regulate complex behaviors, such as behaviors that govern the interaction among individuals. It is known that behavior is guided by both genes and t | National Science Foundation | 6/06/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $292,783 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The atmosphere and the ocean are stratified in the density and background flows are often sheared. The variation of density enables the propagation of internal waves - waves in the interior of the fluid - not on its surface. These waves, as they propagate | National Science Foundation | 5/27/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $182,721 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Under this award, Dr. Snezana Stanimirovic (University of Wisconsin - Madison) will carry out a study of how the hot Galactic atmosphere shapes the evolutio | National Science Foundation | 8/26/2009 |
| DREXEL UNIVERSITY | $149,998 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Dr Goldberg, Dr Richards and their team will develop and use a new technique to improve mass estimates for galaxy clusters that are derived from gravitational lensing -- the way that the light of distant galaxies is bent by gravity while passing by the cl | National Science Foundation | 8/14/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE | $279,939 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Dr. Brian Chaboyer of Dartmouth College will undertake a theoretical investigation of the structure of M dwarfs, which are unevolved stars like the Sun but with less than half its mass. Observations have indicated for some time that theoretical models are | National Science Foundation | 6/05/2009 |
| BROWN UNIVERSITY IN PROVIDENCE IN STATE OF RI AND PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS | $262,449 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The proposed project, PI Anderson, will examine changing economic relations in northwestern Alaska over the past 3600 years. This research project will in | National Science Foundation | 6/29/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $286,111 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Relativistic jets are collimated beams of ultra-hot, magnetized plasma, shooting away at very close to the speed of light from black holes and neutron stars. Microquasars are X-ray binaries (neutron stars or black holes in orbit around a normal star) that | National Science Foundation | 9/01/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS | $397,728 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Dr. Wandelt will develop several methods for using the properties of cosmic voids to learn about dark energy, the most fundamental problem in modern cosmology. The equation of state of dark energy will be constrained using the number, size, and ellipticit | National Science Foundation | 6/08/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $413,118 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).The PIs propose to improve an existing seasonal ensemble forecasting system that they developed and use the system to predict sea ice conditions in the arctic | National Science Foundation | 7/22/2009 |
| SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE | $298,543 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Investigation of the Coupled Dynamics and Chemistry of Venus' Lower Atmosphere We will acquire telescopic infrared images and spectra to simultaneously track cloud-level winds and measure the abundances of cloud-forming gases in the Venus lower atmospher | National Science Foundation | 8/03/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING | $458,171 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Collaborative Research: Greenland Ice Sheet Basal Hydrology and Sliding Dynamics G?? The Proof of the Drill The strong increase in the area and duration of surface melt on the Greenland Ice Sheet is a well documented impact of recent arctic warming. Chang | National Science Foundation | 8/24/2009 |
| DREXEL UNIVERSITY | $254,938 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Our long-term goal is for 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 which chem | National Science Foundation | 8/31/2009 |
| ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY | $114,351 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Intellectual Merit: Kimberlites are the most deeply derived terrestrial magmas and have brought diamonds to the surface that contain minerals believed to originate in the transition zone or lower mantle. The causes and sources of kimberlite magmatism rema | National Science Foundation | 7/19/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS | $327,277 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Tibetan Plateau is the largest area of high topography on the planet. Is the Tibetan Plateau rising higher today? Is it growing taller due to ongoing contraction as India continues to collide with Eurasia? Is it collapsing due to extension driven by i | National Science Foundation | 6/17/2009 |
| METAL MATRIX CAST COMPOSITES LLC | $99,997 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The purpose of this SBIR Phase I project was to develop extremely high thermal conductivity heat sinks that are thermal expansion matched to advanced semiconductors for high performance electronic and electro-optical systems. With low cost natural graphi | National Science Foundation | 6/02/2009 |
| EVOLUTIONARY GENOMICS, INC. | $99,628 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project makes use of algorithms and expertise derived from the intersection of molecular biology and evolutionary biology, a field known as molecular evolution. The project uses the Ka/Ks algorithm to ident | National Science Foundation | 6/10/2009 |
| PHYCAL INC | $100,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Regulating Transgene Expression for Biosecure Microalgal Biofuel Production | National Science Foundation | 5/29/2009 |
| IONWERKS, INC. | $99,949 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project is to develop a secondary electron detector which can be co-axially mounted with a micro-focused ion beam. Backscattered neutral atoms (and ions) and secondary electrons will be analyzed to give a me | National Science Foundation | 6/01/2009 |
| EXELUS INC. | $100,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: SBIR Phase I: Advanced Biomass-to-Gasoline Process: This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project seeks to develop a breakthrough chemical process to convert cellulosic biomass into a gasoline substitute. This project addresses the urgent nee | National Science Foundation | 6/01/2009 |
| ECOSIL TECHNOLOGIES LLC | $98,730 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Research and development for Game changing novel coatings | National Science Foundation | 6/10/2009 |
| 2CIMPLE, INC. | $99,831 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: SBIR Phase I: Interactive video based Contextual & Dynamic Application Access | National Science Foundation | 6/01/2009 |
| NDM LABS INC. | $100,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project will investigate the potential of using call log data to assist the telecommunications industry in better serving its customers. Call logs (records of who called whom) can be viewed as social network | National Science Foundation | 6/05/2009 |
| FILTER SENSING TECHNOLOGIES, INC. | $100,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Small Business Innovation Research Phase 1 project will investigate the feasibility of using microwaves to measure the amount, type, and distribution of material collected on filters. Filter Sensing Technologies, Inc. (FST) has targeted diesel partic | National Science Foundation | 6/04/2009 |
| HUGEBROW | $100,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project focuses on creating a 3-dimensional human genome visualization for education and exhibition. The platform will be a 3-D visualization software toolkit designed to explore the genome's structure and | National Science Foundation | 6/04/2009 |
| WIDJAJA, YUNIARTO | $93,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project seeks to demonstrate the high-density feasibility of a novel memory, which has both volatile and non-volatile functionality. Such memory combines the non-volatile memory's ability to retain informati | National Science Foundation | 6/02/2009 |
| ASL ANALYTICAL INC | $99,991 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project will develop sensing technology capable of continuously monitoring concentrations of critical metabolites during protein expression with the yeast Pichia pastoris. Presently, continuous monito | National Science Foundation | 6/04/2009 |
| BROWN UNIVERSITY IN PROVIDENCE IN STATE OF RI AND PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS | $189,826 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Abstract at Time of Award: This proposal is awarded using funds made available by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5), The main part of this project will focus on developing and analyzing discontinuous Galerkin (DG) me | National Science Foundation | 8/02/2009 |
| NEVADA SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION | $198,216 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Geoscience Research at Storm Peak (GRASP) creates a field research experience for a diverse group of undergraduate students with the goal of helping participants develop skills in critical thinking and research techniques. This program has been designed t | National Science Foundation | 6/29/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, THE | $499,807 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Software security attack prevention, which addresses threats posed by software vulnerabilities and malicious software, is important for modern computing, especially for embedded systems. Despite widespread research efforts, the increasing complexity of so | National Science Foundation | 7/27/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN | $190,099 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: How does competition influence innovation? This project takes a unique approach to understand this question: It develops an evidence-based simulation platform to understand how competitive dynamics influences innovation. This approach contributes new know | National Science Foundation | 6/22/2009 |
| PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY | $244,403 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This research develops the algorithmic and computational framework needed for a judicious assessment of the observation impact in air quality modeling. Novel algorithms in the framework of model-constrained optimization will allow to account for the data | National Science Foundation | 7/17/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE | $149,991 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: NeTS:Small:Collaborative Research: An Integrated Environment-Independent Approach to Topology Control in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks Each node in a wireless ad hoc network can choose the power at which it makes its transmissions and thus control the topolog | National Science Foundation | 7/29/2009 |
| PURDUE UNIVERSITY | $300,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The goal of the proposed research is to further our understanding of algorithmic and quantitative semi-algebraic geometry, develop new techniques especially coming from algebraic topology and the theory of o-minimal structures, and broaden the application | National Science Foundation | 8/03/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, THE | $499,998 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Even in the US, many regions suffer poor Internet connectivity, due to high prices, capacity limitations, poor infrastructure, or low population density. Rural communities may be underserved because of DSL distance limits and the high cost of bringing fib | National Science Foundation | 7/20/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $450,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This research project will investigate novel technologies for the design of very-large scale integrated (VLSI) computer systems that achieve unprecedented levels of energy-efficient operation through energy recycling. In contrast to conventional computer | National Science Foundation | 8/04/2009 |
| VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE & STATE UNIVERSITY | $424,093 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project will develop a novel tool, named Sunshine, to effectively support joint evaluation and design of sensor network (sensornet) hardware and software. Intellectual Merit: A critical roadblock to the success of sensornets is the prohibitively slo | National Science Foundation | 8/13/2009 |
| PURDUE UNIVERSITY | $477,739 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) have emerged as a promising alternative in the transition of the computing industry to mainstream parallel computing. In order for enabling applications to benefit from their potential, GPU programming must be made access | National Science Foundation | 8/03/2009 |
| DREXEL UNIVERSITY | $249,861 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The project investigates the design of a novel network friendly approach for resolving collisions that result from network users who transmit information in an uncoordinated fashion. Traditionally collisions of transmitted packets have been treated as a h | National Science Foundation | 7/24/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA | $278,770 | 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 performance of wireless networks critically depends upon the careful design of networking protocols. Networking protocols are traditionally designed bas | National Science Foundation | 8/22/2009 |
| MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY, THE | $204,802 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Microbial Diversity Summer Course has been taught since 1971 at the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, MA, and is internationally recognized as one of the great advanced research courses in biology. This project will develop and implement new | National Science Foundation | 8/02/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA | $185,137 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: With National Science Foundation support, Dr. Leland Bement and an interdisciplinary team will conduct two years of research to substantiate or refute an exciting new claim that a comet or group of comets struck the earth 11,000 radiocarbon years ago. A t | National Science Foundation | 6/15/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $168,915 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Saprotrophic fungi are the primary agents of leaf litter decomposition in forest ecosystems. Fungal communities develop on millions of senescent leaves each year, providing an ideal opportunity to study how these biotic communities assemble and function. | National Science Foundation | 7/30/2009 |
| PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE | $934,750 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Graduate Research Fellowship Program | National Science Foundation | 8/12/2009 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $1,000,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The National Science Foundation's Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) helps ensure the vitality of the human resource base of science and engineering in the United States and reinforces its diversity. The program recognizes and supports outstandi | National Science Foundation | 8/12/2009 |
| MISSOURI SYSTEM, UNIVERSITY OF | $324,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This proposal concerns the properties of zero temperature quantum phase transitions occurring in a variety of quantum materials such as superconductors and quantum magnets. These transitions will be investigated using both large scale computer simulation | National Science Foundation | 8/28/2009 |
| THE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE | $300,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Collaborative Proposal: Physics of Ferromagnetic Nanorings in an External Azimuthal Field. Funding supports research on magnetic nanorings, exploring basic physics and applications for data storage. | National Science Foundation | 8/28/2009 |
| RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, THE | $299,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award supports theoretical research and education focused on electron-phonon kinetics and electric, thermal, and thermomagnetic transport in low-dimensional conductors, nanomaterials, and strongly correlated materials such as doped Mott dielectrics, | National Science Foundation | 9/14/2009 |
| NEW YORK UNIVERSITY | $767,788 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: MRI: Development of a Holographic Fabrication and Characterization Instrument for Materials Research and Educational Outreach | National Science Foundation | 9/14/2009 |
| RECINTO UNIVERSITARIO MAYAGUEZ | $184,871 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: In this nanotechnology-driven era, having the capability to undernstand the materials mechanical behavior at the nanometer-scale is not only ideal, but required. Nanoindentation is a state-of-the-art technique used for such characterization and therefore | National Science Foundation | 9/21/2009 |
| NEW YORK UNIVERSITY (INC) | $458,966 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: MRI:Acquisition of a Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope | National Science Foundation | 9/08/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, THE | $54,417 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The proposed research will extend the program initiated by the PI in recent work, namely (a) to study topological and enumerative properties of CW subcomplexes of highly symmetric polytopes, (b) to understand the relationships between these polytopal subc | National Science Foundation | 8/17/2009 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $400,161 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Intellectual merit. The analysis of and on high-dimensional point clouds, dynamical systems, and of large graphs is motivated by many important applications, such as the study of high-dimensional data sets and of statistical models with a large number of | National Science Foundation | 6/25/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY | $124,929 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The PI will use techniques from algebraic geometry, noncommutative algebra, and cat- egory theory to approach concrete algebraic and geometric questions as well as problems in mathematical physics. Proposed new activities. Three problems will be studied. | National Science Foundation | 8/12/2009 |
| LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY INC | $164,293 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project has two goals, both concerning graphs embedded in 3-space. The topological symmetry group of a graph embedded in 3-space is defined as the group of automorphisms of the graph which are induced by homeomorphisms of 3-space. Our first goal is t | National Science Foundation | 7/14/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF TUFTS COLLEGE INC | $221,216 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Many real world applications need to compress, sort, and otherwise manipulate large volumes of multidimensional data arrays (i.e., higher- order tensors), so there is an increasing need for theoretical and computational tools to deal with multiway data. | National Science Foundation | 6/12/2009 |
| NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY | $4,983,564 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The vision is: Teachers who complete the Institute will become intellectual leaders able to facilitate the creation of rich mathematics learning environments for teachers and students in schools and districts. The goals of the project are: Goal 1: Increa | National Science Foundation | 6/08/2009 |
| CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, BAKERSFIELD | $295,848 | 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 Great Valley Math and Science Partnership (MSP) is bringing together the largest 9-12 high school district in California with the local university to pro | National Science Foundation | 6/08/2009 |
| TUSKEGEE UNIVERSITY | $900,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Tuskegee University Robert Noyce Teaching Scholars in Mathematics and Science Education in the Alabama Black Belt. It is our purpose to award six scholarships per year to STEM majors who promise to teach in selected schools in the Black Belt of Alabama. | National Science Foundation | 6/23/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY ENTERPRISES, INC. | $66,983 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The purpose of this award is to assist California State University, Sacramento in completing No-Child-Left-Behind (NCLB)-compliant subject matter programs in the sciences, redesigning its post-baccalaureate credential program, completing the design of a n | National Science Foundation | 5/21/2009 |
| GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC. | $899,949 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The proposed Phase I project, Impacting Metro Atlanta Science Teaching (I-MAST), is a collaborative effort involving the College of Education (CoE) and the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S) at Georgia State University (Georgia State), Georgia Institute o | National Science Foundation | 5/21/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, THE | $250,061 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The relatively low shear modulus and high temperature of Earth's ultralow-velocity zones (ULVZ) imply that these thin (5-40 km thickness) regions at the core-mantle boundary (CMB) may be partly molten. In order to maintain the cooling rate necessary to dr | National Science Foundation | 7/19/2009 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, THE | $71,035 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The goal of this geological research is to investigate the origins of the dominant sedimentary cyclicity of an ancient carbonate platform (the Triassic Latemar massif, Dolomites, Italy) that accumulated during one of Earth?s major greenhouse periods, appr | National Science Foundation | 9/24/2009 |
| RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, THE | $105,557 | 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 are | National Science Foundation | 7/09/2009 |
| PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE | $164,000 | 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 grant supports acquisition of ground penetrating radar (GPR) equipment, a real-time kinematic GPS system, 3-D visualization software and field hardened | National Science Foundation | 7/26/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL | $302,505 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Collaborative Research: Understanding lithospheric suturing and passive margin- The broad goal of this proposal is to improve our understanding of lithospheric accretion processes and models of passive margin development. The Paleozoic Appalachian orogen | National Science Foundation | 8/14/2009 |
| PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE | $96,744 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Earth's climate is warming at a pace and magnitude unprecedented in recent times, with profound (but not easily predicted) consequences for terrestrial ecol | National Science Foundation | 8/19/2009 |
| IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY | $351,513 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project will establish a new Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Site Program focused on fundamental and applied research in biogeosciences at Iowa State University (ISU). The program will introduce a cohort of young scientists to research i | National Science Foundation | 8/19/2009 |
| CARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON | $675,005 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Renewal - Experimental Studies of Elasticity, Rheology, Volume, and Texture of Materials at Pressure-Temperature Conditions of the Earth's Mantle and Core | National Science Foundation | 7/20/2009 |
| PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE | $459,877 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Direct measurements of the deformational properties of actively deforming lithosphere remain elusive and lead to fundamental gaps in the understanding of ho | National Science Foundation | 9/08/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF TUFTS COLLEGE INC | $149,886 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This engineering education research awarded to Tufts University and Northwestern University will study the development of professional engineering skills in undergraduate engineering students. The goal is to create a rich educational environment that fos | National Science Foundation | 7/06/2009 |
| CLEMSON UNIVERSITY | $415,430 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This engineering education research CAREER award to Clemson University will advance fundamental knowledge of the social interactions that influence under-represented students' decisions to enter and persist in engineering. The research is very innovative | National Science Foundation | 9/02/2009 |
| NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES | $461,784 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The purpose of the project is to promote broad implementation by the engineering community of the findings and recommendations presented in the 2008 National Academy of Engineering (NAE) report, Changing the Conversation: Messages for Improving Public Und | National Science Foundation | 8/20/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO | $507,718 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project aims to create, improve, and disseminate advanced molecular modeling and prediction methods for the characterization and redesign of interactions within and between proteins. These modeling and prediction tools are intended to advance biologi | National Science Foundation | 7/18/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY | $1,425,995 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: We propose to improve and greatly enlarge the recently established prototype database for disordered proteins, DisProt. This database provides an essential depository of information about IDPs. Although this database was very recently established, it is | National Science Foundation | 8/26/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS CENTER FOR RESEARCH, INC. | $408,594 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Ecological niche modeling and macroecological research on the natural distributions of wild species are closely-related disciplines that aim to deduce geographic patterns of organisms and comprehend the environmental and historical determinants of those d | National Science Foundation | 7/29/2009 |
| IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY | $2,059,528 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Intellectual merit: This project will develop new bio-engineering technology for transforming the current liquid fuel industry from using fossil-carbon feedstocks to using biorenewable feedstocks that are at the chemical level identical to gasoline and di | National Science Foundation | 8/12/2009 |
| MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY | $899,514 | 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 engineering cooperative education model is being adapted to the completion of the requirements for certification of STEM teachers. The program shortens t | National Science Foundation | 6/02/2009 |
| THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC | $598,083 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project seeks better ways to use tree ring data to infer changes in climate. Annual growth rings in trees have long been used as a primary means of reconstructing climatic conditions over the past two millennia, extending our knowledge of climate bey | National Science Foundation | 9/14/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII SYSTEMS | $3,000,000 | 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 seeks to develop and demonstrate the capability of a Pacific Area Climate Monitoring and Analysis Network (PACMAN). PACMAN is expected to yield a | National Science Foundation | 8/28/2009 |
| ROWAN UNIVERSITY | $164,923 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Collaborative Research: AIS incremental Learning from Unbalanced Data in Nonstationary Environments The ultimate goal of computational intelligence has long been emulating brain-like-intelligence by discovering and learning patterns from data. However, | National Science Foundation | 8/20/2009 |
| SOUTH CAROLINA RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $300,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Multiscale Modeling of Bifunctional Catalysts for the Water-Gas-Shift Reaction Intellectual Merit A deeper molecular understanding of the metal support interaction, the role of catalyst supports, and the function of promoter metals in supported bimetall | National Science Foundation | 8/10/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON SYSTEM | $85,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Multi-functional and periodically-operated catalytic reactors are emerging, particularly in environmental and energy related applications. A common thread these catalytic reactors is the complex nonlinear interactions of multiple chemical and transport pr | National Science Foundation | 8/27/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT | $800,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Intragenomic conflict is thought to be the major selective force leading to parent-of-origin influences on gene expression in mammals and seed-bearing plants. Genes central to the molecular interaction of conflicting entities show extraordinarily rapid ra | National Science Foundation | 7/01/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN | $398,590 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Mutualistic alliances between different organisms generate common goods for the interacting organisms that often exceed the sum of the parts. For example, attine fungusgrowing ants provide their fungal cultivars with growth material, shelter, and protecti | National Science Foundation | 7/29/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO | $400,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Title: Imprinting Learning in Drosophila. The long term objective of this project is to understand the neural basis of olfactory imprinting. In particular, we seek to understand how neural circuits mediate the developmentally gated acquisition of olfa | National Science Foundation | 7/20/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON SYSTEM | $210,773 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The scaling of body parts is the quintessential feature of animal body form. Within species, organs need to be correctly proportioned to the body for the organism to function; larger individuals require larger hearts, longer limbs, etc., whereas smaller i | National Science Foundation | 7/28/2009 |
| ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY | $500,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The evolution of sociality is one of life's major transitions, similar to the merging of unicellular organisms to make multicellular life. In the highly social insect societies some individuals, the queens, specialize at reproduction while others, the wor | National Science Foundation | 6/19/2009 |