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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY | $489,992 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Intellectual Merit: Phytosterols have essential functions in plants and are used in human nutrition to lower blood cholesterol levels. They are important structural components of the cell membrane in plants and other higher organisms, and the derived ster | National Science Foundation | 7/30/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER | $460,581 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Why are there so many kinds of animals? Does evolutionary diversification tend to follow a similar trajectory in different groups of animals? Our work addresses both of these questions using an integrated analysis of DNA sequence data, laboratory experime | National Science Foundation | 7/30/2009 |
| BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC | $700,967 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Long after playing a game of squash or reading this abstract, the memory of playing and reading continues to be processed by the brain. These 'off-line' processes improve game performance and understanding of this abstract, and more generally, enhance ada | National Science Foundation | 8/19/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS | $420,233 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Immigration is transforming the face of urban, suburban, and rural America. In places like Chicago, immigrants often spend little time in the city itself, and instead move directly to suburban communities. At the same time, efforts to reform immigration p | National Science Foundation | 8/16/2009 |
| SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $96,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Fires in steep chaparral landscapes are often followed by catastrophic debris flows. Because of this threat, another potentially significant post-fire erosional process, wind erosion, has been under-appreciated. Observations from a burned area in Southern | National Science Foundation | 8/06/2009 |
| ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY | $365,897 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Little is known quantitatively about the climatic control on erosion rates at millennial or longer timescales. Although details vary, landscape evolution models all predict a positive, monotonic relationship between river discharge and erosion rate. Howev | National Science Foundation | 8/04/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $379,620 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Dr. Kelly M. Askew and Dr. Howard Stein (University of Michigan) will undertake research on the livelihood effects of planned transformation of local-level economic institutions in post-socialist contexts. The researchers will test the theory that giving | National Science Foundation | 8/26/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS | $165,616 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Green buildings are designed to reduce the consumption of water, energy, land, and building materials, as well as the production of stormwater runoff, chemical emissions, and light pollution. While these buildings are constructed under voluntary, flexible | National Science Foundation | 8/19/2009 |
| CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA (THE) | $415,938 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The primary purpose of this project is to use multivariate methods to econometrically estimate the extent to which ground-induced currents (GICs) contribute to Loop flows. Loop flows are unscheduled electricity flows or inadvertent flows that represent th | National Science Foundation | 8/31/2009 |
| MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY | $479,999 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: It is well known that mutations in a sequence of DNA can have profound physical (phenotypic) effects. However, it is less well appreciated that the phenotypic consequences of such mutations depend on more than just the changes in the DNA sequence of that | National Science Foundation | 7/30/2009 |
| CONCORDIA COLLEGE CORP | $134,756 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Studies of exotic nuclei (those with a large excess of neutrons) are a top priority to address a number of outstanding nuclear physics questions. These include measurements to explore changes of the nuclear structure in nuclei far from stability and react | National Science Foundation | 9/17/2009 |
| OBERLIN COLLEGE | $280,390 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Technical Abstract: Powder X-ray diffraction is one of the most powerful methods of characterizing the structures of solids and is fundamental to research across the physical sciences. Within the proposed project, a new diffractometer will be acquired a | National Science Foundation | 8/20/2009 |
| COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY | $30,435 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Wood plays a critical goal in regulating the flow dynamics of headwater streams in mountain areas. The pine beetle is currently making its way across the forests of the Colorado Rocky Mountains and threatens to change the amount and distribution of wood i | National Science Foundation | 6/01/2009 |
| LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY, THE | $2,558,188 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: A group of scientists and engineers from Stanford University seeks support to purchase a 3T magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner. The shared instrument will be the centerpiece of a new facility designed to advance scientific research and training on t | National Science Foundation | 8/16/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $146,143 | 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 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA | $300,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Radial patterning is a fundamental process in the development of all plants. Roots, stems, and flowers exhibit a radial pattern of organization, and this pattern is formed in the early embryo. The goal of this project is to understand how plant tissues be | National Science Foundation | 7/20/2009 |
| CALVIN COLLEGE | $487,470 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: With this award from the Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) program, Chad Tatko and colleagues Eric J. Arnoys, David E. Benson and Amy Wilstermann from Calvin College will acquire a 500 MHz NMR spectrometer. This instrument will support research in 1) b | National Science Foundation | 7/29/2009 |
| LEHIGH UNIVERSITY | $249,467 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The purpose of this grant is to purchase an Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) integrated with an inverted light microscope for advanced nanometer scale imaging, spectroscopy, lithography, and manipulation. Acquisition of this instrument will: (i) significantl | National Science Foundation | 8/20/2009 |
| NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY | $452,502 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: We propose to purchase an ABI SOLiDTM sequencing platform with ancillary equipment for sample preparation and array-based targeted genomic capture. The equipment brings deep-read sequencing technology to NCSU, which is needed for continued competitivenes | National Science Foundation | 8/25/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $1,757,162 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: With this award, a Plasma Dynamo Facility for investigating self-generation of magnetic fields and related processes in a large, weakly magnetized, fast flowing, and hot (conducting) plasma will be built . When completed, a major new, flexible plasma devi | National Science Foundation | 8/24/2009 |
| BROWN UNIVERSITY IN PROVIDENCE IN STATE OF RI AND PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS | $677,890 | 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 multi-collector inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer (MC-ICPMS) will be used to address cutting-edge questions related to solid earth, ocean, pla | National Science Foundation | 8/16/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA | $205,291 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This research analyzes the effectiveness of substantive political settlements in ending international conflict. The recent literature on peace agreements often concludes that treaty terms matter little in determining the durability of peace following inte | National Science Foundation | 7/04/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO | $1,259,954 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Cryo-Electron Microscopy (cryo-EM) is a technique that can be used for both single particle and tomographic three-dimensional reconstructions of large macromolecular assemblies. Cryo-EM is an essential tool in determining the structure of complexes that f | National Science Foundation | 8/11/2009 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $747,928 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: While metal polluted environments are a growing concern, much remains to be learned about the protective adaptations and mechanisms in all organisms. The ability to effectively develop bioremediation strategies for heavy metal-polluted environments is con | National Science Foundation | 7/30/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER | $784,436 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Amphibians are undergoing a world-wide decline; certain species are becoming extinct. We know that die-offs of some species are associated with certain viral pathogens, but we do not know why their immune systems are not protecting them. If amphibian die- | National Science Foundation | 7/01/2009 |
| WASATCH MICROFLUIDICS, LLC | $495,089 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This Small Business Innovation Research Phase II project will develop a 48 channel surface plasmon resonance (SPR) instrument and demonstrate a high through | National Science Foundation | 8/20/2009 |
| LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY, THE | $308,378 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Increase in global mean temperatures will amount to 1.1-6.4 degrees C by the end of this century, with US western regional changes even greater. Beyond shifting ranges, impacts to our native biota are only now beginning to be investigated. It is critical | National Science Foundation | 8/19/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS | $181,898 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: With the support of the National Science Foundation, Dr. Timothy Pauketat, Robert Boszhardt, and Danielle Benden will lead a team of specialists and students in a three-year archaeological investigation of a 950-year-old cultural complex in the upper Miss | National Science Foundation | 6/15/2009 |
| MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY | $394,753 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The presence of social, economic, and environmental considerations in decision making for international development point to the inevitability of some difficult tradeoffs; the need to give up something valued in order to gain something else that is also v | National Science Foundation | 7/26/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | $218,970 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The goal of the project is to develop a new psychological model of our access to our own propositional attitudes (our beliefs, desires, intentions, judgments, decisions, supposings, and the rest), integrating a wide range of results from across cognitive | National Science Foundation | 7/30/2009 |
| ZIENON | $500,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project aims to further develop the Tapping Finger Identification (TFI) technology investigated in Phase I. As mobile devices become more powerful and ubiquitous, text entry remains a major bottlenec | National Science Foundation | 8/11/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT HOUSTON | $257,471 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The overall aim of the proposed study is to determine how reflexive spatial attention works in the visual system. We will manipulate various aspects of shape and measure how it influences spatial reflexive attention. Using known neurophysiological constr | National Science Foundation | 8/30/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER | $402,998 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The present research project is a comprehensive historical linguistic study of American Sign Language (ASL), asking how constructions of ASL have arisen and changed over the first several generations of its use. The core of the project is an extensive set | National Science Foundation | 8/24/2009 |
| WILLIAM MARSH RICE UNIVERSITY | $350,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The objective of this research is to design and prototype mobile wireless hardware that retains high energy efficiency across a broad performance range. The approach is to systematically address the inefficiency in multiple layers of wireless hardware. Wi | National Science Foundation | 7/30/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES | $9,999,997 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Our proposed research on domain-specific computing will develop a methodology and customizable heterogeneous platform that includes: 1) a wide range of customizable computing elements, from heterogeneous fixed cores, to coarse-grain customizable c | National Science Foundation | 8/11/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA | $150,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The award supports participation of U.S. graduate and undergraduate students from the PI?s Mixed-Signal Nanometer VLSI Design Lab in a collaboration on the characterizations and design methodologies for integrated circuit (IC) under process variation impa | National Science Foundation | 9/04/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $514,084 | 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 an experimental investigation of oceanic circulation and mixing, particularly focused on the deep ocean at high latitude. Using several new te | National Science Foundation | 8/07/2009 |
| TEXAS ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT STATION | $174,999 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 'We propose to generate high porosity bone scaffolds that are both biodegradable and injectable using high internal phase emulsions (HIPEs). Current fabrication techniques can be used to generate either a porous scaffold or an injectable scaffold. A highl | National Science Foundation | 7/24/2009 |
| TEXAS A & M RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $292,215 | 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 |
| GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION | $175,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project seeks to develop a small, low power sensor based on the human vestibular sensor for a vestibular prosthesis. The vestibular system establishes a sense of body position, maintains balance, and helps to stabilize vision during movement. Dysfunc | National Science Foundation | 7/19/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON SYSTEM | $175,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The research objective of this BRIGE award is to study the colloidal electrohydrodynamics in dielectrophoresis (DEP)-directed fluidic assembly involving many (hundreds of) nanoscale entities. The nanoentity motion and the flow field driven by DEP will be | National Science Foundation | 7/19/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS | $288,811 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This grant provides funding for the development of a high performance computational method for the fast and accurate pricing of various option contracts with non-standard payoffs. The proposed research results will be used to price such option contracts i | National Science Foundation | 6/25/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $397,358 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: GEOTRACES is a newly initiated international oceanographic program to identify processes and quantify fluxes that control the distributions of key trace elements and isotopes in the oceans and to establish an understanding of the sensitivity of these dist | National Science Foundation | 8/19/2009 |
| MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY, THE | $262,558 | 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 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO | $885,836 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Intellectual Merit: The momentum and energy fluxes from the atmosphere to the ocean pass through the surface wave field before giving rise to surface currents and mixing locally, while some of the fluxes extend across the ocean basins through propagation | National Science Foundation | 8/10/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO | $903,928 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Marine Seismic Reflection and Refraction Study of the Salton Trough: The U.S. west coast is subject to significant risk of very large earthquakes, and heavily populated Southern California is particularly vulnerable owing to its proximity to the San Andre | National Science Foundation | 7/30/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $449,960 | 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 develop methods for innovation in science and engineering. The research investigates how designers use heuristics, | National Science Foundation | 7/13/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $320,090 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: PROJECT ABSTRACT: Experimental Investigation of Microstructural Effects on Deformation and Fracture Mechanisms in Nanostructured Metallic Materials This proposal will be awarded using funds made available by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of | National Science Foundation | 7/27/2009 |
| RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY | $112,536 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The current research in Bayesian model prediction and validation of computer models mainly focuses on computer experiments with single output and fixed input variables. The proposed research focuses on Bayesian approach for calibration, validation, predic | National Science Foundation | 7/27/2009 |
| TEXAS ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT STATION | $225,754 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 'This research aims to develop new fundamental theory and effective design methodologies to address practically important issues that existing control theories cannot effectively handle: specifically the proposal will develop methods for the design of fix | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS | $269,059 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The research objective of this award is to develop a method for system identification that is applicable to a general class of dynamical systems with nonlinear, time-varying and non-smooth effects. This is dictated by the realization that as engineering s | National Science Foundation | 7/20/2009 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | $300,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The research objective of this Grant Opportunity for Academic Liaison with Industry (GOALI) award is to explore the scientific bases and technologies for fabricating precision metal micro-features through the micro-stamping process. This research is motiv | National Science Foundation | 7/16/2009 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $300,287 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The objectives of this research are to i) gain an understanding of and ii) create a predictive methodology for crack initiation and overall crystal quality evolution for Aluminum Nitride (AlN) single crystals during processing. AlN has outstanding electri | National Science Foundation | 8/24/2009 |
| FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE | $380,710 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: In ecosystems such as forests and sea grasses that are dominated by one or a few plant species the number and genetic identity of individuals within those species can significantly impact the productivity of the plant itself as well as the community of or | National Science Foundation | 7/22/2009 |
| WILLIAM MARSH RICE UNIVERSITY | $380,793 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Bridge infrastructure owners are challenged to effectively manage risks not only from aging and deterioration but also from natural hazards, such as earthquakes or storm surge. These difficulties are stimulating an emerging trend of instrumentation and co | National Science Foundation | 7/15/2009 |
| ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY | $220,263 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The research objective of this Interdisciplinary Research Collaborative award is to develop a universal manufacturing method to fabricate composite functional structures/materials on three dimensional surfaces using laser dynamic forming. This research wi | National Science Foundation | 8/10/2009 |
| RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE | $353,398 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award supports an investigation of the deepwater circulation response to the opening of the Southern Ocean passages in the Eocene. The data generated will shed light on the relationship between ocean circulation changes and the alteration of the mari | National Science Foundation | 8/07/2009 |
| DREXEL UNIVERSITY | $119,297 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The research is using remote sensing, geotechnical investigations, and traditional reconnaissance information to collect, process, interpret, and digitally archive ground failure events (landslides and a massive, several km2 lateral spread) from an approx | National Science Foundation | 7/17/2009 |
| PURDUE UNIVERSITY | $83,171 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award will fund developing a Laser Decomposition Isotope Interface (LADII) for preparing very small (nanomolar) quantities of compounds for oxygen isotope analysis in sulfate and nitrate. The system to be developed will use a carbon dioxide laser to | National Science Foundation | 9/06/2009 |
| TITAN OPTICS & ENGINEERING | $150,000 | Grant | ARRA - Centers of Excellence: Small Business Technology Transfer | National Science Foundation | 7/01/2009 |
| PORIFERA, INC. | $149,941 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This Small Business Technology Transfer Phase I project addresses one of the key barriers for commercial development of the next generation membrane technol | National Science Foundation | 7/01/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $331,115 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).0930927MatsuokaAbout 700,000 Americans suffer from new or recurrent strokes each year, with some 500,000 being fortunate enough to survive (1). Over half of a | National Science Foundation | 8/26/2009 |
| PURDUE UNIVERSITY | $188,209 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Granted funds will support acquisition of a new gas chromatograph/mass spectrometer (GC-MS) and upgrade of an existing stable isotope mass spectrometer within the biogeochemistry laboratory of the principal investigator. The new quadrupole GC-MS will | National Science Foundation | 8/10/2009 |
| CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $170,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project will combine experiments and computations in the design of flexible propulsors, i.e., to reverse engineer a jellyfish. To successfully replicate the observed swimming performance of jellyfish, it is important to first understand the dynamical | National Science Foundation | 9/29/2009 |
| OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $1,499,883 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The objective of this research is to scale up the capabilities of fully autonomous vehicles so that they are capable of operating in mixed-traffic urban environments. Such environments are realistic large-city driving situations involving many other vehi | National Science Foundation | 8/13/2009 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $496,411 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This award will provide the funding to acquire a Thermal Ionization Mass Spectrometer (TIMS) for the Isotope Laboratory in the Department of Earth, Atmospher | National Science Foundation | 9/08/2009 |
| MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY | $1,906,221 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The development of dye-sensitized solar cells represents one of the most exciting new areas of solar energy science. Composed of light-absorbing molecules coupled to an inexpensive semiconductor, these devices offer the promise of high efficiency at low c | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE & STATE UNIVERSITY | $200,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This engineering education research award to Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University will employ researchers to develop a clearer understanding of the role that international students play in establishing the culture of a graduate engineering | National Science Foundation | 7/16/2009 |
| INDIANA STATE UNIVERSITY | $590,600 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Phase II project is awarding forty-one scholarships to twenty- three students fulfilling the requirements to become secondary mathematics and science teachers. Undergraduate scholarship recipients are selected from eligible mathematics majors and tho | National Science Foundation | 6/02/2009 |
| WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY | $899,947 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The primary goal of the TeachWashington Noyce Teacher Scholarships Program is to contribute to a larger vision to permanently increase the number of secondary mathematics and science teachers prepared at WWU without sacrificing the proven quality of our g | National Science Foundation | 6/16/2009 |
| SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY | $900,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Syracuse University Noyce Scholars Program for Science and Mathematics Teachers (SUNoyce) is a multi-faceted collaborative project involving the Syracuse University School of Education, College of Arts & Sciences, the Graduate School and partners incl | National Science Foundation | 5/22/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | $557,319 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This is a collaborative project involving a consortium of six premier U.S universities and one national laboratory to train graduate students in an area of anticipated manpower need: advanced acceleration techniques. In particular, students will be traine | National Science Foundation | 9/15/2009 |
| STEPHEN F AUSTIN STATE UNIVERSITY | $1,494,187 | 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 Texas Leadership Initiative: Mathematics Instruction Transformed (Texas LIMIT) project represents a partnership among Stephen F. Austin State University | National Science Foundation | 5/22/2009 |
| PURDUE UNIVERSITY | $150,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Over the past few months, our lab has been focused on implementing DfE (design for environment) principles within a classroom setting, by critiquing student design projects from an environmental standpoint. A study was conducted among mechanical engineeri | National Science Foundation | 7/19/2009 |
| KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY | $149,907 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This engineering education research award to Kansas State University will employ researchers to integrate the concepts of alternative energy and sustainability into the electrical and computer engineering (ECE) curriculum. These concepts will be part of r | National Science Foundation | 7/06/2009 |
| ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY | $150,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This engineering education research award to Arizona State University will employ researchers to develop cyber infrastructure to infuse sustainability concepts into electrical engineering courses. A central challenge in incorporating sustainability in a g | National Science Foundation | 8/03/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $638,327 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).This award is an outcome of the NSF 09-524 program solicitation ''George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) Research (NEESR)'' | National Science Foundation | 7/17/2009 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $200,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The Division of Chemistry supports Elizabeth R. Young of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as an American Competitiveness in Chemistry Fello | National Science Foundation | 9/06/2009 |
| NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY | $141,514 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Incentives and Barriers to U.S. Academics? Participation in International Collaboration | National Science Foundation | 7/20/2009 |
| BROWN UNIVERSITY IN PROVIDENCE IN STATE OF RI AND PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS | $200,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The Division of Chemistry supports Aaron Socha of Brown University as an American Competitiveness in Chemistry Fellow. Dr. Socha will investigate the biodeg | National Science Foundation | 9/04/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN | $200,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Division of Chemistry supports the PI at the University of Texas at Austin as an American Competitiveness in Chemistry Fellow. He will investigate the preparation, assembly and properties of one-dimensional type II CdSe/ZnTe semiconductor nanorods and | National Science Foundation | 8/18/2009 |
| NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY | $1,999,172 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This NSF EFRI HyBi will develop the technical feasibility and demonstrate scalability of a unique, multi-step catalytic process to convert a wide range of fats/oils/lipids into replacement transportation fuels that are chemically and physically similar to | National Science Foundation | 7/30/2009 |
| PURDUE UNIVERSITY | $2,000,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: In order to minimize the land area needed to grow biomass to meet our nation's liquid fuel demand for the transportation sector, it is essential that the efficiency of conversion of biomass carbon to liquid fuel be maximized. To this end the synergistic d | National Science Foundation | 7/30/2009 |
| TEXAS ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT STATION | $1,063,684 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 'Signal transduction pathways play a key role in many cellular functions as well as intercellular communication. However, elucidating the exact mechanisms involved in signal transduction pathways is non-trivial: crosstalk exists between different pathways | National Science Foundation | 8/28/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH | $917,124 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Scaling Up is a program of research and development that will enable virtual organizations in the Earth sciences to scale to massive interdisciplinary commun | National Science Foundation | 9/11/2009 |
| SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION | $144,371 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The SmithsonianG??s National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) has received a National Science Foundation award to host an ocean science lecture series and associated programming to promote public understanding of current issues in ocean science. Topics f | National Science Foundation | 9/18/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $1,875,831 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The STCI: Middleware for Monitoring and Troubleshooting of Large-Scale Applications on National Cyberinfrastructure project aims to provide robust and scalable workflow monitoring services that can be used to track the progress of workflow-based applicati | National Science Foundation | 8/19/2009 |
| SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $572,282 | 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 vessel operated by Moss Landing Marine Labs (MLML); namely the R/V POINT SUR | National Science Foundation | 9/10/2009 |
| LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY, THE | $3,000,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Graduate Research Fellowship Program | National Science Foundation | 8/13/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO | $2,000,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Graduate Research Fellowship Program | National Science Foundation | 8/12/2009 |
| NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY | $1,000,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: North Carolina State University has been selected to receive National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship support through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) in the amount of $1,000,000. The ARRA award (0946818) represent | National Science Foundation | 8/12/2009 |
| LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY, THE | $200,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Early Concept Grants for Exploratory Research (EAGER) project will develop dynamic resource allocation models for transportation systems. The focus will be on answering the question as to how should pricing schemes be developed for transportation net | National Science Foundation | 7/28/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO | $206,870 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: a. The Opportunities for Enhancing Diversity in Geosciences (OEDG) initiative is a collaborative effort between the University of San Diego and the Ocean Discovery Institute that builds on a five year pilot study. The pilot project, facilitated by the Oc | National Science Foundation | 9/10/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS | $49,818 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This is an award to cover the travel and expenses of 11 rural Alaskan students, most from underrepresented groups (Alaska Native) and 4 university faculty members to attend the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC): COP15 in Copen | National Science Foundation | 8/27/2009 |
| MISSOURI SYSTEM, UNIVERSITY OF | $40,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The research objective of this project is to evaluate pedestrian biomechanics of walking on pervious concrete, compared to traditional concrete pavement, in normal and adverse weather conditions. Pervious concrete is becoming a wide-spread stormwater man | National Science Foundation | 8/14/2009 |
| RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE | $56,577 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The objective of this research is to provide the scientific community with design and optimization techniques for novel PLL (phase-locked loop) topologies with superior performance compared to traditional architectures. The proposed approach can be employ | National Science Foundation | 8/14/2009 |
| ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY | $54,539 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The objective of this research is to utilize nanoscale transistors beyond the CMOS scaling roadmap for low power, high accuracy implementation of neural-inspired (neuromorphic) computing modules. These novel devices include feedback FETs, impact ionizatio | National Science Foundation | 8/07/2009 |
| PURDUE UNIVERSITY | $400,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This engineering education research CAREER award to Purdue University will examine early childhood precursors to engineering thinking in children between the ages of 3 and 5. This novel and comprehensive research in developmental engineering has three pha | National Science Foundation | 9/02/2009 |
| BIOSURFACES, INC. | $479,601 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase II project is focused on assessment of our novel siRNA-loaded nanofibrous polyester in a rat carotid artery endothelial cell denudation model, which has been historically used to evaluate the effects of | National Science Foundation | 8/10/2009 |
| S C SOLUTIONS INC | $476,695 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 'SBIR Phase II: Model-Based Control for Chemical-Mechanical Planarization of Copper/low-k Films.' | National Science Foundation | 8/06/2009 |
| MASSINGILL, JOHN | $461,786 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Small Business Technology Transfer Phase II project will change the paradigm that two-phase chemical reactions must use mechanical mixing to be commercially effective. The innovative Fiber Reactor? offers two orders of magnitude change in efficiency | National Science Foundation | 8/06/2009 |
| NANOSONIC INC. | $500,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This NSF Phase II SBIR program would develop and demonstrate large area and high performance nanocrystal thin film transistor (NC-TFT) based active matrix backplanes for flexible display applications at significantly reduced cost using organic, inorganic | National Science Foundation | 8/01/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS M D ANDERSON | $56,873 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This grant supports research in adapting and optimizing Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods to compute Bayesian models on large data sets resident on secondary storage, exploiting database systems techniques. The work will seek to optimize computations, pres | National Science Foundation | 7/30/2009 |
| RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK | $474,963 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: ARRA - TRANS-NSF RECOVERY ACT RESEARCH SUPPORT | National Science Foundation | 8/19/2009 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $115,065 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This International Research Experiences for Students (IRES) project, funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5), will support undergraduates in an intensive training program that includes an annual field expedition | National Science Foundation | 6/26/2009 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $367,268 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Dr. Casetti and her team will continue work on the Yale/San Juan Southern Proper Motion (SPM) survey, which measures the tiny motions of stars across the sky over multiple decades, to test models for the Milky Way's formation. In the present project they | National Science Foundation | 7/07/2009 |
| GRATINGS INC | $150,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This phase I STTR project proposes application of high aspect ratio, nm-scale, columnar, and crystalline Si structures as templates for high-quality growth of thin-film GaAs solar cells on low-cost flexible substrates. Sub-10-nm Si seed layers are expecte | National Science Foundation | 1/07/2009 |
| RESODYN CORPORATION | $150,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The purpose of this project is to develop a new way of synthesizing well-dispersed polyaniline (PANI) nanostructures on the surface of selected thermoplastic microparticles to form core-shell composites. Another purpose is to determine the feasibility of | National Science Foundation | 6/23/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI | $315,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Collaborative Research thru NSF I/UCRC Full Grant: Center for the Integration of Composites into Infrastructure (NSF award number 0933537). The primary objective of the new NSF I/UCRC, entitled G?Center for Integration of Composites into Infrastructure ( | National Science Foundation | 7/08/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS | $581,276 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: CAREER: Generative Models for Character Animation and Gesture in the New Age of Art and Electronic Interaction The motivating problem of this research is to determine how to build computational models of expressive human movement for use in character ani | National Science Foundation | 6/22/2009 |
| EXCELLIMS CORPORATION | $100,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project is focused on the development of a stand-alone electrospray ionization-ion mobility spectrometer/chiral ion mobility spectrometer (ESI-IMS/CIMS) for on-site separation, detection and identification o | National Science Foundation | 6/05/2009 |
| QUANTIFIND INC | $100,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project focuses on a novel approach to develop units-based numeric indexing and search tools. The goal is to extract numeric quantities from technical literature, identify each with a corresponding physical | National Science Foundation | 6/04/2009 |
| RAYDIANCE, INC. | $100,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project will focus on the development of a compact novel gain medium with application to a wide variety of pulsed lasers, including ultrashort pulse (USP) lasers, (less than 1 picosecond pulse length) and lo | National Science Foundation | 6/05/2009 |
| G. A. TYLER ASSOCIATES, INC. | $99,936 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project is a Small Business Innovative Research grant whose purpose is to develop a new deformable mirror calibration technique and control algorithm that will significantly improve the performance of an adaptive optics system. It is anticipated tha | National Science Foundation | 7/01/2009 |
| PRECISION ENERGY & TECHNOLOGY, LLC | $100,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I Project is focused on the high production, low cost manufacturing of fuel cell bipolar plates by using Metal Injection Molding Techniques. This project will build upon PETG??s recent experience in successful | National Science Foundation | 6/08/2009 |
| ADVANCED PHOTONICS GROUP | $100,000 | Contract | : Phase I SBIR award to explore next-generation fluorescence-based explosives detection. Application of surface plasmon-couple emission (SPCE) for improved detection and identification in a handheld sensor. | National Science Foundation | 7/21/2009 |
| MISSISSIPPI PACIFIC RESINS INCORPORATED | $100,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: New thermosetting wood composite binder resins having low formaldehdye emission potential | National Science Foundation | 7/01/2009 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $328,260 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Internet has traditionally combined many orthogonal functions into transport protocols, creating significant technical and administrative hurdles to transport service evolution. New or specialized transport protocols are now nearly undeployable becaus | National Science Foundation | 7/20/2009 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $188,528 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This first study to measure Cu binding ligand abundance across the full range of strength from very weak to very strong in two lakes would cover a range of pH, DOC (dissolved organic carbon) amount and composition, trophic status, and level of watershed d | National Science Foundation | 7/30/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY | $443,211 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: There is a growing realization within the behavioral and brain sciences that the embodiment and situatedness of intelligent agents plays an essential role in their behavior. However, it is still a significant open challenge to understand the complex inter | National Science Foundation | 7/10/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO | $490,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Present knowledge on what processes are necessary for organ regeneration is highly limited. This project uses an animal with striking regenerative capacities, the sea cucumber, to probe at the genes and signal pathways that are associated with regeneratio | National Science Foundation | 6/24/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA | $700,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award was made by NSF to sponsor a combination of original research, education and outreach. The research seeks to examine the neural substrates underlying mammalian vocal communication using a novel model species, Alston's singing mouse (Scotinomys | National Science Foundation | 6/24/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE | $166,555 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The independent evolution of the same traits in different organisms is strongly indicative of adaptation. However, similarities can also exist because of common genetic, developmental, scaling, and functional constraints and could only rarely arise becaus | National Science Foundation | 6/22/2009 |
| PRESIDENT & TRUSTEES OF WILLIAMS COLLEGE | $415,330 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Bacteria frequently cause disease in plants or animals by using secretion systems to deliver protein or DNA factors that manipulate normal cell functions and/or subvert host defenses. The soil bacterium Agrobacterium tumefaciens transports both protein a | National Science Foundation | 7/16/2009 |
| PRESIDENT AND BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF SANTA CLARA COLLEGE | $427,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: To learn more about the role of the transcription factor LIN-31 in C. elegans cell fate determination, we are continuing to use site-directed mutagenesis (SDM) and yeast two-hybrid (Y2H) analysis. This quarter, we made good progress in optimizing our qua | National Science Foundation | 7/28/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, THE | $55,947 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The major goals of this project are to determine which wavelengths of light induce fluorescence in spiders, to quantify the wavelengths of light emitted, to measure how brightly spiders fluoresce, to map body regions where fluorescence occurs, and to asce | National Science Foundation | 7/02/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS | $200,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Migratory birds travel between breeding and overwintering locations each year to take advantage of seasonal resources and to increase fitness. However, indications are clear that many of these species are rapidly declining worldwide. Reasons for such de | National Science Foundation | 8/15/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS | $375,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Proposal: IOS-0925038 Title: An economic view of reproductive decisions in a threatened species Abstract: Economists study negotiation as a series of events, including partner choice, information gathering, and haggling. The context in which these negoti | National Science Foundation | 7/16/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI SYSTEM | $599,630 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: PROJECT SUMMARY Genetic and Molecular Dissection of Meiotic Silencing by Unpaired DNA The overall goal of this project is to delineate the mechanism of Meiotic Silencing by Unpaired DNA (MSUD; Shiu et al., 2001, Cell 107: 905-916), a novel gene silencing | National Science Foundation | 7/29/2009 |
| HOPE COLLEGE | $466,724 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: System xc- is a cell transport system that allows for the exchange of cystine, an amino acid, on the outside of the cell for glutamate, an amino acid and neurotransmitter, on the inside in of the cell in a variety of cell types. The transporter is found | National Science Foundation | 6/08/2009 |
| CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY | $893,105 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Scientific Impacts: This CAREER project aims to understand the complex feedback network between bile acids and their cellular sensor, the farnesoid X receptor (FXR). Bile acids are ubiquitous physiologic small molecules present in all mammals and most ver | National Science Foundation | 6/19/2009 |
| MISSOURI SYSTEM, UNIVERSITY OF | $737,699 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Intellectual merit: Pseudomonas syringae is a bacterial pathogen that infects many important crop plants as well as the model plant Arabidopsis. During infection, P. syringae expresses a number of virulence genes that allow it to colonize and survive in p | National Science Foundation | 7/15/2009 |
| MOUNT ST MARY'S COLLEGE | $327,337 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: RUI:Genetic Control of Sensory Hair Cell Membrane Channels in Zebrafish | National Science Foundation | 7/07/2009 |
| GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC. | $516,632 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The basic helix?loop?helix (bHLH) transcription factors influence numerous developmental events, including the differentiation of neuronal and muscular tissues and the development of sensory organs. The C. elegans REF?1 family is unique in that each prote | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE | $587,546 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Sensing and processing environmental information into a coherent cellular response using signal transduction pathways is essential to the survival and growth of all organisms. Microorganisms possess simple two-component signal transduction systems, which | National Science Foundation | 6/18/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS | $204,894 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Most genes are very old and have been passed down through hundreds of millions of generations. However, a rare and interesting class of genes are recently evolved from non-genic sequence. The goal of this project is investigate the biological functions o | National Science Foundation | 9/29/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA | $520,520 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Intellectual Merit The iron-molybdenum cofactor (FeMo-co, 7Fe-9S-Mo-X-homocitrate), found within the active site of the enzyme nitrogenase, is among nature's most complex hetero-metallic cofactors and is required to catalyze the chemically difficult redu | National Science Foundation | 6/30/2009 |
| WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION | $346,808 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Collaborative Research: Kuroshio Extension System Study (KESS) Analysis - Mesoscale Processes | National Science Foundation | 6/04/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS | $282,010 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Intellectual Merit - The goal of this proposal is to develop an understanding of the basic interfacial and transport phenomena underlying a newly developed processing route for assembling amphiphilic block copolymers through hydrodynamic instabilities of | National Science Foundation | 7/07/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS | $500,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Viruses find numerous uses as tunable colloids and nanoscale scaffolds in materials science, where their potent ability to interact with living cells is an attractive property. Engineering these particles for biomaterials applications thus presents a nano | National Science Foundation | 8/05/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS | $228,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The College of Engineering at UMass Amherst will continue a college-wide, summer, REU site for 12 undergraduate students that focuses on interdisciplinary research and encompasses any of the engineering disciplines. The objectives of the program are to: | National Science Foundation | 7/01/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS | $499,829 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Many information needs can be more easily expressed using longer, sentence-length queries, but the inadequacies of current search engines force people to try to think up the right combination of keywords to find relevant documents. This can be very diffic | National Science Foundation | 7/13/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS | $200,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Efficient numerical methods, albeit classical, which were developed for atoms, to describe multi-electron systems which can not be treated by quantum methods, will be extended to molecules. Here the different electron and nuclear timescales add another le | National Science Foundation | 7/26/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC. | $166,159 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 'This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).' Dispersal and connectivity are fundamental processes known to underpin the health and stability of marine populations and communities. Effective dispersal | National Science Foundation | 6/09/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND | $374,630 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The traditionally central role played by the deep convective regions of the North Atlantic - the Labrador Sea and the Greenland Sea - in driving the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) and its associated poleward heat transport has been sev | National Science Foundation | 6/17/2009 |
| THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK | $496,689 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The ocean, which provides the largest global sink for anthropogenic CO2, has experienced large-scale changes in the surface ocean chemical equilibrium and elemental cycling due to decreases in seawater pH. CO2 related changes in the carbonate chemistry of | National Science Foundation | 7/02/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL | $197,803 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: REU Site Proposal: Environmental research to support management of human (especially military) activities on coastal barriers and nearby estuaries in North Carolina. This project will support 8 undergraduate students to participate in research at the In | National Science Foundation | 9/13/2009 |
| WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION | $536,093 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Collaborative Research: Were Protists the Beginning of the End for Stromatolites | National Science Foundation | 8/10/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA | $295,809 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Eocene/Oligocene boundary marks the initial development of continental ice sheets on Antarctica and the transition from the Cenozoic greenhouse to the icehouse. We request support to construct seawater Pb isotopic records across this transition for f | National Science Foundation | 8/05/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII SYSTEMS | $248,760 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The use of stable isotopes in biogenic calcium carbonate shells is a standard tool in paleoclimate studies. However, there are still outstanding issues that need to be addressed before this tool can be utilized to its full potential. Researchers at the Un | National Science Foundation | 6/25/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI | $307,345 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This particular award is to determine a suit of trace metals in seawater samples collected during the incoming GEOTRACES Atlantic zonal section cruise. The sample collection will be accomplished by a separate award at the University of Hawaii. The goal | National Science Foundation | 8/19/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI | $447,484 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The objective of this work is to continue a consensus reference material (CRM) program that was first developed in 1999 in support of consistent, high quality measurements of dissolved organic carbon by the international ocean chemistry community. With c | National Science Foundation | 7/21/2009 |
| HAMPTON UNIVERSITY | $755,352 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project is to continue to increase the number of under-represented minority students selecting careers in the aquatic sciences and to facilitate their earning advanced degrees in the field. The plan facilitates an ongoing relationship between minori | National Science Foundation | 9/21/2009 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $9,071 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The broader impact of this request is support of basic oceanographic research. The science being conducted on Cape Hatteras that is supported by NSF in 2009 has relevance to the basic understanding of the carbon cycle. Three of the four studies will conce | National Science Foundation | 7/24/2009 |
| ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $345,835 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award supports a research program to develop petascale numerical simulations of structure formation in the universe. This work will utilize the Adaptive Refinement Tree (ART) cosmological simulation code. Specific goals are: (1) to achieve petascale | National Science Foundation | 9/04/2009 |
| THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY | $374,974 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Collaborative award involving Georgetown, University of Minnesota, and The George Washington University for four years, starting from 09/15/09. The award was made fairly recently and we are now creating our team and organizing meetings with our counterpa | National Science Foundation | 9/15/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE | $10,000,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The guiding vision for our center is to adapt, deploy, and support a wide range of general and specific visualization and data analysis capabilities for the national scientific community through a comprehensive, integrated software environment, deployed a | National Science Foundation | 7/24/2009 |
| LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM | $495,514 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project aims to enhance the Stork data scheduler to mitigate the end-to-end data handling bottleneck in petascale distributed computing systems and make it available for a wide range of user community as production quality software. New functionaliti | National Science Foundation | 8/29/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE | $2,293,378 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The US National Science Foundation (NSF) has funded the Taj expansion to the Global Ring Network for Advanced Application Development (GLORIAD), wrapping another ring of light around the northern hemisphere for science and education. Connecting India, Sin | National Science Foundation | 8/12/2009 |
| CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FRESNO FOUNDATION INC | $460,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Search for New Physics at ATLAS with Leptons and Photons | National Science Foundation | 8/08/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH THE | $125,658 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The goal of this project is to implement a new computational method to study the properties of gravitational waves generated by black holes. The approach uses techniques for solving Einstein's equations which have been recently developed in collaboration | National Science Foundation | 7/07/2009 |
| ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND, THE | $359,999 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This grant supports precision measurements of neutron beta decay. The main focus is on determining the weak axial vector couplingconstant g_A, for which there is serious disagreement between recent experiments. Neutron decay parameters can be used to plac | National Science Foundation | 8/10/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF TUFTS COLLEGE INC | $240,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project will involve theoretical studies of several topics relating to quantum fluctuations and gravitation. Particular attention will be paid to issues relating to the correlation and anti-correlation of fluctuations of the quantum stress tensor. T | National Science Foundation | 8/08/2009 |
| RFCUNY - NYC COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY | $111,450 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: RECOVERY ACT RESEARCH SUPPORT IN Automated Computation of One-loop Scattering Amplitudes | National Science Foundation | 7/02/2009 |
| COLLEGE OF WILLIAM & MARY, THE | $900,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Precision Studies of Neutrino Interactions and Neutrino Mixing. | National Science Foundation | 8/31/2009 |
| PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE | $300,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This award supports development and implementation of new searches for gravitational waves with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO | National Science Foundation | 8/08/2009 |
| THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK | $140,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The award will fund the research program of Dmitri Tsybychev at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Stony Brook. The research program centers on the search for non-standard model effects in the decays of b-quark states at the D experiment at the Te | National Science Foundation | 6/05/2009 |
| LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM | $696,705 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The PACER project is being developed in response to science and engineering (S&E) workforce assessments by the National Science Board, and other U.S. institutions, that attracting and retaining students into S&E careers is of paramount importance if the U | National Science Foundation | 5/27/2009 |
| WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION | $360,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project addresses the theory of magnetic reconnection onset, focusing on the role of three-dimensional and diamagnetic effects in weakly collisional plasmas such as those in the solar corona and some fusion devices and laboratory experiments. The tw | National Science Foundation | 7/26/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF TUFTS COLLEGE INC | $60,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Cosmic strings connect fundamental theories of basic physics with observation of the universe on the largest scales. Cosmic strings are infinitesimally thin or even fundamental objects of cosmological length. They can arise from symmetry breaking in field | National Science Foundation | 8/11/2009 |
| LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM | $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 Community Infrastructure for General Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamics (CIGR) collaboration will create a modern, scalable, and open, community toolkit a | National Science Foundation | 9/18/2009 |
| RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, THE | $120,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The study of the fundamental physics that governs evolution of our universe is one of the most exciting research fields in modern physics. In the last two decades, technological advances have made possible a host of cosmological observations strongly cons | National Science Foundation | 6/08/2009 |
| ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (INC) | $70,000 | 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 award supports research to develop software infrastructure required to efficiently solve the Einstein Equations of General Relativity on the next genera | National Science Foundation | 8/21/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, THE | $624,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: In the past several years there has been tremendous progress on plasma-based accelerators. This includes the experimental demonstration of generating high quality electron bunches at 1 GeV with a laser-plasma accelerator at LBNL, and the energy doubling | National Science Foundation | 9/15/2009 |
| NEW RENAISSANCE INSTITUTE | $500,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Research & Development - Consumer Electronics and User Interface | National Science Foundation | 9/09/2009 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $259,216 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This proposal describes three empirical projects examining markets for perishable goods. The products (event tickets and broadcast commercial time) are perishable because they lose their value after a pre-specified date. They also share the characteristic | National Science Foundation | 6/18/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII SYSTEMS | $287,437 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).Fishing and fishery management is typically a complex system of human activities in which the properties of the system are not obvious from the properties of | National Science Foundation | 8/05/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, THE | $365,324 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 'That the availability of panel data, or multiple observations of eh same sampling unit (e.g., individual, firm, state etc.) over time, can help to control for the presence of unobserved heterogeneity is both intuitive and plausible. The inclusion of unit | National Science Foundation | 2/27/2012 |
| RFCUNY - JOHN JAY COLLEGE OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE | $367,988 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: ARRA - TRANS-NSF RECOVERY ACT RESEARCH SUPPORT | National Science Foundation | 7/26/2009 |
| PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE | $316,140 | 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 Correlates of War Project's Militarized Dispute Data (MID) set is the most prominent and heavily used collection in the study of international conflict. | National Science Foundation | 7/30/2009 |
| CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY | $674,937 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Understanding the inner workings of the brain remains one of the last frontiers in all of neurobiology. Large gaps in our knowledge exist, because of the inherent difficulty in studying brain function. Indeed, this organ, which contains trillions of neuro | National Science Foundation | 6/01/2009 |
| OHIO UNIVERSITY | $401,083 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Ohio University has recently expanded its research and education facilities to allow investigations into the dynamics of movement in large animals. This award will fund the acquisition of state-of-the-art equipment at this new facility and support the res | National Science Foundation | 8/25/2009 |
| ST. CATHERINE UNIVERSITY | $161,064 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award provides funds to St. Catherine University to acquire a suite of instrumentation for analysis of the nutrient content of soil, plant tissue, and water samples. This will make possible research emphasizing the relationship between nutrient cycli | National Science Foundation | 8/10/2009 |
| FRANCIS MARION UNIVERSITY | $124,616 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Equipment grant to enhance the research program for faculty and undergraduate students at Francis Marion University. | National Science Foundation | 8/10/2009 |
| RECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA | $425,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This CAREER award supports an integrated theoretical research and education program to study the interplay of Bose-Einstein condensation and magnetism in atoms trapped by beams of laser light and cooled down to temperatures of millionths of a degree on th | National Science Foundation | 6/08/2009 |
| HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY | $400,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: RUI: Nets: Small: A Collaborative and Secure k-Cover-Sense-Inform Framework(k-CSI) for Heterogeneous Deployment of Mission-Oriented Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks' | National Science Foundation | 7/24/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS | $498,186 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Cognitive radio (CR) has the potential to improve spectrum utilization and expand wireless communication services by opportunistically utilizing underutilized spectrum bands. This project designs advanced cognitive radio access and power control algorithm | National Science Foundation | 8/22/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS | $410,946 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This National Science Foundation (NSF) project is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The bottleneck for the transferring data at very high speeds often turns out to be the end-system performance. In the abs | National Science Foundation | 7/31/2009 |
| BBN TECHNOLOGIES CORP. | $10,453,855 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award funds three collaborating sets of academic / industrial research teams to integrate, operate, and host experiments on a suite of end-to-end prototype GENI infrastructure built from GENI-enabled commercial hardware across 13 university campuses, | National Science Foundation | 9/01/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI | $87,055 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: We propose to estimate the ratio of compressional- to shear-wave velocity (Vp/Vs) using the technique of Lin and Shearer (2007) to assess in-situ Poisson?s ratio. Work includes performing waveform cross-correlation and applying the in-situ method to sever | National Science Foundation | 8/05/2009 |
| VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY, THE | $261,031 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Intellectual Merit: Although zircon is widely used for dating geologic events and identifying the source (mantle versus recycled crust) of crustal rocks, it has not been developed as a tool for characterizing fluid-rock interaction. Zircon could potential | National Science Foundation | 6/05/2009 |
| LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM | $278,154 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award supports a project to identify and resolve the speciation of inorganic and organic sulfur species, including gases, which link geological and geochemical processes to biological processes. All of the research is being completed at the Louisiana | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA | $76,640 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Award is from the NSF under the Research Experience for Undergrauduates program. This project is a collaborative effort between UF, LSU, and MSU to conduct a field and laboratory-based educational experience for undergraduate students. The field portio | National Science Foundation | 8/30/2009 |
| RECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA | $350,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The objective of the research is to improve the distance-throughput product of ultraviolet communication systems by several orders of magnitude so that they may be used as inexpensive short-distance non-directed links, such as for voice and data. The appr | National Science Foundation | 8/21/2009 |
| OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY | $222,181 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This proposal addresses the most challenging problems of very-high-resolution Numerical Weather Prediction, obtaining the optimal state estimations for initi | National Science Foundation | 9/02/2009 |
| RECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA | $110,096 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Through their connection with mapping class groups, Lefschetz fibrations and related structures on 4-manifolds provide a group-theoretic means for studying symplectic and near-symplectic 4-manifolds. This project will use Lefschetz fibrations in conjuncti | National Science Foundation | 7/02/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF OREGON | $120,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Cosmological data have established that most of the energy density of the Universe is made of two mysterious components, dark energy and dark matter. The most promising candidate for dark matter is a new weakly interacting particle with a mass near the el | National Science Foundation | 6/04/2009 |
| RECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA | $61,890 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The University of Virginia is awarded a grant to winterize and further enhance the recent conversion of a farmhouse at the Blandy Experimental Farm into living quarters for graduate students and participants in educational workshops. This grant will incre | National Science Foundation | 8/25/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, THE | $1,200,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The project is to deploy a field-proven Fe Boltzmann temperature lidar to the U.S. Antarctic station McMurdo, and to conduct there multi-year observations pursuing the following scientific objectives: (a) To establish a temperature record throughout the p | National Science Foundation | 8/12/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII SYSTEMS | $324,060 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 'This Award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act 0f 2009 (Public Law 111-5).'Researchers from Scripps Inst of Oceanography (UCSD) and the University of Hawaii will continue an effort commenced in 1999 to use underway current profilin | National Science Foundation | 8/06/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO | $194,431 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: ' Collaborative Research: Southern Ocean Current Observations from the U. S. Antarctic Research Vessels This proposal builds upon a successful 10-year collaboration that developed the capability to routinely acquire, process and archive ocean current me | National Science Foundation | 8/06/2009 |
| BERKELEY GEOCHRONOLOGY CENTER | $279,657 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This award supports a project to find and date geologic evidence of past ice-marginal positions in the Pensacola Mountains, which border the Foundation Ice S | National Science Foundation | 8/04/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY SYSTEM OF NEW HAMPSHIRE | $195,423 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award supports a modeling study of the processes in West Antarctic grounding zones, the transition from ice resting on bedrock to ice floating on the ocean surface with an eye toward understanding the interrelated causes of rapid change in grounding | National Science Foundation | 5/22/2009 |
| TEMPLE UNIVERSITY-OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION | $388,242 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Most organisms meet their carbon and energy needs relying solely on photosynthesis (phototrophy) or solely on ingestion/assimilation of organic substances (heterotrophy). However, a nutritional strategy that combines phototrophy and heterotrophy ? mixotr | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY, INC | $2,640,575 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: An integrated investigation to examine distinct, but hydrologically related, subglacial enviroments using a combination of biogeochemical/genomic measurements to answer key questions directly relevant to subglacial hydrologic and sediment biodiversity and | National Science Foundation | 8/25/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC. | $289,806 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project brings together experienced US and Swedish investigators (trace metal and carbon chemists, phytoplankton physiologists, microbial and zooplankton ecologists, and physical oceanographers) to investigate climate controls on carbon uptake by one | National Science Foundation | 8/14/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE | $139,793 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: One of the most secure predictions for a measurable flux of ultra high energy neutrinos was made more than 30 years ago. These neutrinos, known as cosmogenic or GZK neutrinos, are produced indirectly by collisions between the very highest energy cosmic r | National Science Foundation | 5/21/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, THE | $400,001 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award supports a project to measure the concentration of the cosmogenic radionuclide, Beryllium-10 in the deep WAIS divide ice core. Since cosmogenic radionuclides are one of the key parameters used for absolute dating of the ice core and deriving pa | National Science Foundation | 6/19/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY SYSTEM OF NEW HAMPSHIRE | $149,928 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The PENGUIn team will continue investigating in depth a multi-scale electrodynamic system that comprises space environment of Planet Earth (geospace). Sever | National Science Foundation | 8/20/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, THE | $694,462 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award supports a field campaign that will expand the Arctic Observing Network (AON) by adding cloud, atmosphere, and precipitation measurements, and associated higher-order data products, to Summit, Greenland, at the top of the Greenland Ice Sheet. T | National Science Foundation | 7/02/2009 |
| GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY | $502,600 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project, entitled 'Collaborative Research:Sustaining and amplifying the ITEX AON through automation and increased interdisciplinarity of observations is under the direction of Robert D. Hollister, in collaboration with proposals: 0856628-Tweedie, 085 | National Science Foundation | 8/14/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA ANCHORAGE | $591,914 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The goal of this project is to maintain the existing ITEX AON and increase the applicability of the data collected to the greater scientific community. The International Tundra Experiment (ITEX) network has collected data on phenology, plant growth, comm | National Science Foundation | 8/14/2009 |
| BIGELOW LABORATORY FOR OCEAN SCIENCES | $104,337 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award will support a study that addresses the hypothesis that the expanding extent and duration of seasonal open water in the Arctic has the potential to reshape the properties and stratification of the upper ocean, dramatically altering mixed layer | National Science Foundation | 7/15/2009 |
| WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION | $497,366 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: A Change of Seasonality of the Upper Arctic Ocean in Response to Atmospheric and Sea-ice Forcing | National Science Foundation | 6/10/2009 |
| PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE | $295,099 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Alley 0909335 Pennsylvania State University The glaciology community lacks a quantitatively predictive understanding of sliding and bed deformation. The PI | National Science Foundation | 8/18/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA | $66,441 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Creative Arctic: Creative Capital for Regional Development in the Arctic (A Spatial Analysis) | National Science Foundation | 7/20/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS CENTER FOR RESEARCH, INC. | $266,004 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: In collaboration with the University of Maine, the PI will select radar flights suitable for the analysis and conduct initial pre-processing of these data, if needed. An investigator will advise on the order in which the data will be processed, based on t | National Science Foundation | 8/26/2009 |
| RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, THE | $845,796 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The ICCAP research project's main goals are 1) the extent to which the circumpolar area has been subject to varying trends of environmental change in the past and 2) the similarities and differences in human adaptations to these changes in different areas | National Science Foundation | 6/09/2009 |
| PACIFIC ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCES CENTER | $199,862 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The award was to implement the project activities associated with Increasing the Use of Community-based Mapping in the Russian Arctic and Mountainous Regions. This project involved working with partner groups on the ground to facilitate scientific-based | National Science Foundation | 9/03/2009 |
| YUKON RIVER INTER-TRIBAL WATERSHED COUNCIL | $41,808 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: WORKSHOP Partnership Proposal: Expanding Climate Change Research through a Multidisciplinary Multi-agency Approach | National Science Foundation | 8/17/2009 |
| NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY | $651,870 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project is to meet the object of the NSF PAARE program of enhancing diversity in astronomical research and education by establishing a partnership between the minority serving university, New Mexico State University (NMSU), the National Solar Observa | National Science Foundation | 7/07/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, THE | $598,870 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: A wide variety of research projects will be pursued with the computational power of a new 84 node/880 processor Beowulf Linux cluster. The science projects span cosmology and galaxy formation, star and planet formation, and the astrophysics of compact obj | National Science Foundation | 9/05/2009 |
| CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY | $332,605 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Dr Zehavi will analyze and model the clustering of galaxies in large surveys such as the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), to probe galaxy formation and the development of cosmic large-scale structure. She and others have shown that on small scales, dim re | National Science Foundation | 8/10/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, THE | $410,736 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The El Ni'o-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) corresponds to a sloshing of water in the equatorial upper Pacific: during an ENSO cycle water moves back and forth north to south and east to west. This suggests that the time-mean effects of ENSO are to homogenize | National Science Foundation | 6/05/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, THE | $77,451 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Airborne Campaign for Imaging Polar Mesospheric Clouds During the Deep Solar Minimum | National Science Foundation | 7/06/2009 |
| PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE | $550,146 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Despite significant progress in short-range hurricane track forecasts, over the past decade there has been virtually no improvement in predicting hurricane | National Science Foundation | 6/01/2009 |
| PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE | $541,184 | 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 VERMONT & STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE | $392,519 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The main objective of this project is to provide an improved fundamental understanding of the atmospheric aging cycle of organic aerosol (OA) derived from volatile organic compounds (VOCs) naturally emitted by trees. This so-termed secondary organic aeros | National Science Foundation | 9/14/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $366,409 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Climate depends strongly on processes related to clouds. Despite this, in current generation climate models, cloud-related processes typically interact with | National Science Foundation | 9/14/2009 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $226,379 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The objective of this research is to develop a new architecture for photovoltaic power conversion that provides substantial improvements over existing tec | National Science Foundation | 8/21/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA | $299,133 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The objective of this research is to develop an electrochemistry-based device for monitoring cavitation phenomena, such as microbubble dynamics, at solid/solution interfaces in a megahertz frequency sound field. These phenomena play a key role during mega | National Science Foundation | 9/01/2009 |
| EXPLORATORIUM | $100,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This Faculty Development Award supports the effective integration of research, teaching and outreach. The project goals are to investigate the efficacy of p | National Science Foundation | 7/27/2009 |
| WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY | $446,100 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Dr. Joyce V. Millen of Willamette University will undertake a three-year research and educational program to advance understanding of African diaspora-driven health philanthropy in the context of Africa's acute shortage of medical personnel. She will com | National Science Foundation | 8/12/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $893,463 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Macroalgae are a major component of autochthonous production in nearshore food webs. Much of the macroalgal production is annually exported to adjacent marin | National Science Foundation | 7/04/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA | $73,020 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Granted funds will support development of a cryostat capable of full vector magnetic remanence measurements in magnetic minerals to low temperatures (range 25 to 350 K). The cryostat design would mate to standard 2-G Enterprises RF and DC SQUID rock magne | National Science Foundation | 7/30/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING | $74,101 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Earthquakes are an emergent (system-level) behavior that arises from nonlinear, multiscale interactions within complex fault systems. Earthquake system science seeks a basic understanding of how matter and energy interact within the lithosphere to produ | National Science Foundation | 8/26/2009 |
| ECOLOGIC TECH COMPANY, INC. | $150,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This Small Business Technology Transfer Phase I project tested the feasibility of producing lightweight building materials from fly ash, suitable for making | National Science Foundation | 6/19/2009 |
| MW PHOTONICS INCORPORATED | $150,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: STTR Phase I: Nanomaterial Constructs With Controllable Catalytic Activity: Topic MM-Subtopic SM This Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I project seeks to develop nanoconstructs with catalytic activity which is controllable via an external t | National Science Foundation | 6/26/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $628,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 930411Ratner'This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).'Silicon photonics has revealed its potential to revolutionize label-free real-time biosensing. Through chemistries that can selectively function | National Science Foundation | 8/14/2009 |
| ADVANCED DIAMOND TECHNOLOGIES, INC. | $149,962 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This Small Business Technology Transfer Phase I project will develop ultrananocrystalline diamond (UNCD(R)) as a high frequency structural layer for piezoel | National Science Foundation | 6/15/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI SYSTEM | $202,730 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Individual Differences in Executive Functions and Expressions of Racial Biases: Behavioral and ERP Investigations | National Science Foundation | 7/15/2009 |
| RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, THE | $299,284 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The present award (NSF #0854299) builds on an earlier pilot project (NSF #0756035) which provided intensive linguistic training for the PIs and allowed for the filming of the traditional sun dance ceremonies and the recording of the accompanying sacred la | National Science Foundation | 8/03/2009 |
| RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK | $224,410 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: RECOVERY ACT RESEARCH SUPPORT In the Sociolinguistic Analysis of Variable Coda /s/ Weakening in Spanish | National Science Foundation | 8/16/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY | $123,802 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Tuberculosis (TB) infects up to 1/3 of the human population, with drug resistant strains increasing in prevalence. Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tb) and related species constituting the M. tuberculosis complex (MTC) are responsible for 2 million deaths a | National Science Foundation | 8/26/2009 |
| SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY | $162,799 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: To analyze and produce an estimate of global diffuse-use efficiency and investigate geographic variabilities. | National Science Foundation | 8/26/2009 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $330,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The objective of this study is to develop the fundamental understanding necessary to design carbon nanotubes with reduced risk to human health and the environment. Knowledge to support this goal will be gathered through biotoxicity testing of well-charact | National Science Foundation | 6/23/2009 |
| THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK | $240,521 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This study describes an integrated suite of activities for the precise manipulation of high-viscosity fluids in a sheath of immiscible less viscous fluids at the small-scale. Microfluidics is a fast developing field, yet investigations of multi-fluids flo | National Science Foundation | 8/21/2009 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $172,303 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This research will investigate electrochemical processes occurring within proof of concept nanostructured electrodes created using an integrated approach consisting of layer-by-layer (LbL) assembly technique and nanotemplating. The proof-of-concept electr | National Science Foundation | 7/29/2009 |
| RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, THE | $304,179 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: A recently developed technology, called opportunistic coding, can greatly improve the effciency of wireless networks. However, the problems of cooperation and security in opportunistic-coding-based (OCB) wireless networks have not received suffcient atten | National Science Foundation | 8/14/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, THE | $500,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: In contrast to software verification, software synthesis 'writes' programs rather than merely checks them for errors. While verification has recently reached the programmer, the success of synthesis remains in the hands of formally trained experts. To eas | National Science Foundation | 5/23/2012 |
| THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK | $495,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Organic and Macromolecular Chemistry Program in the Chemistry Division at the National Science Foundation supports Professors Joseph W. Lauher and Frank W. Fowler of the State University of New York (SUNY) at Stony Brook. Their research focuses on the | National Science Foundation | 7/29/2009 |
| TEMPLE UNIVERSITY-OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION | $405,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Spiridoula Matsika of Temple University is supported by an award from the Theoretical and Computational Chemistry program to develop and use theoretical models to understand photo-initiated phenomena in biologically relevant systems. In particular, she an | National Science Foundation | 7/06/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY ENTERPRISES, INC. | $655,125 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Purchase a 500 MHz NMR spectrometer with broadband, variable temperature, and gradient capabilities. This instrument will allow faculty and students to expand their horizons in NMR spectroscopy well beyond the current capabilities. | National Science Foundation | 7/29/2009 |
| SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY | $552,613 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: With this award from the Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) program, the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at South Dakota State will acquire an ultra high performance liquid-chromatography tandem mass-spectrometer for advanced analysis of small | National Science Foundation | 8/25/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, THE | $249,998 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Recycling concrete aggregates from demolished infrastructure is becoming an important research topic for sustainable development of the construction industry in the U.S. and the world. To addresses this issue, the objective of the present research is to i | National Science Foundation | 6/02/2009 |
| CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY | $110,272 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project integrates research and education to advance the state of knowledge of the mechanism of frost-induced damage in Portland cement concrete under freeze-thaw cycles. The primary objective of this research project is to combine expertise in micro | National Science Foundation | 6/02/2009 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $374,516 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: THE BIOLOGICAL BASIS OF MUSICAL TONALITY Music depends on periodically repeating sound stimuli (tones, notes) played in sequence as melodies, or in combination as harmonies. Any given theme or song entails a collection of tones that are formally referred | National Science Foundation | 7/20/2009 |
| TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY | $149,238 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: A Collaborative Research on Multivariable Fixed Order Controller Systhesis and Design for Data. | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| MANHATTAN COLLEGE CORP | $158,789 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: RUI: Understanding the Role of Flexible and Rigid Barriers in Mitigating Surface Blast Effects on Underground Structures | National Science Foundation | 8/04/2009 |
| GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC. | $425,234 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Large-scale spatial temporal systems such as wildfire are inherently difficult to study due to their complex and dynamical behavior. Computer modeling and simulation provide an important tool for understanding and predicting the dynamic behavior of these | National Science Foundation | 9/05/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS | $299,222 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: To provide support for projects/initiatives funded under The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA). These projects will provide economic stimulus to the nation while furthing the NSF mission to promote the progress of science, and to advan | National Science Foundation | 7/27/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO | $227,178 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: With the growth in the size of scientific applications the level of parallelism provided by existing techniques leads to suboptimal performance and, therefore, an integrated approach to parallelism is necessary. This research involves the acquisition of a | National Science Foundation | 7/29/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS | $200,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: NeTS: Medium: Collaborative Research: Towards Versatile and Programmable Measurement Architecture for Future Networks Traffic measurement is central to network operation, management, and security. Yet, support for measurement was not an integral part of | National Science Foundation | 8/01/2009 |
| PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE | $300,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Though perhaps unfortunate, as a practical matter software is often built with functionality as a primary goal, and security features are only added later, | National Science Foundation | 7/28/2009 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $249,991 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The edge of the Internet continues to spread rapidly over the wireless medium. To cope with the escalating demand, every available opportunity in wireless networking will have to be maximally exploited, particularly at the border of physical and higher la | National Science Foundation | 8/24/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, THE | $497,774 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Although the distribution of every species is limited to a particular range, the fundamental ecological processes that determine species' range boundaries are not understood well enough to predict how species will respond to environmental change. This pro | National Science Foundation | 7/31/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT & STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE | $800,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The goal of this project is to identify genes influencing development in an ant species in order to understand how genes interact with environmental cues to produce adult characteristics. The process of development is surprisingly plastic, allowing orga | National Science Foundation | 8/03/2009 |
| GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY | $171,185 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: NSF-DEB 0919179: ?Collaborative Research: Phylogeny, Diversification, and Evolutionary Trajectories in the ?Terebinthaceae? (Anacardiaceae and Burseraceae).? | National Science Foundation | 6/22/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS | $459,527 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Project title--Collaborative research: Consequences of habitat heterogeneity and seed dormancy for adaptation at the margins of a native plant population. This is a collaborative research project aimed to investigate potential mechanisms that shape plant | National Science Foundation | 7/29/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, THE | $184,434 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The sister plant lineages Anacardiaceae and Burseraceae are ecologically and economically important, taxonomically problematic, and evolutionarily fascinating. The sister families each contain approximately 750 species and are of the same age, but exhibit | National Science Foundation | 6/22/2009 |
| WORCESTER STATE UNIVERSITY | $199,710 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Opportunities for Enhancing Diversity in the Geosciences. Developing a comprehensive pipeline to the undergraduate Earth Science program at Worcester State College for inner city and disadvantaged students, through summer programs with Middle School teac | National Science Foundation | 7/22/2009 |
| SKIDAWAY INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY | $400,873 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The geosciences have the lowest diversity of any of the STEM areas with a persistent acute under-representation by African-Americans. Many obstacles that hinder efforts to increase the engagement of African-Americans in geosciences have been identified a | National Science Foundation | 8/02/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, THE | $604,327 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: To date, E. coli serves as the only cellular system for which a complete replication fork can be reconstituted from purified proteins. In this project, a highly divergent bacterium, Baccilus subtilis, will be explored to learn what principles established | National Science Foundation | 8/10/2009 |
| NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY | $60,848 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: DUSEL R&D: Testing Theories of Proton Stability and unification at DUSEL | National Science Foundation | 8/27/2009 |
| MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY, INC | $165,631 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project examines the relationships between the spatial patterns of vegetation, the morphology of the landscape and the resulting combined influence on streamflow generation. | National Science Foundation | 7/19/2009 |
| SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY | $97,566 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The PI and a graduate student will collect and analyze seismic waveform data in the eastern Tibetan plateau and its margins to obtain high resolution structural images of the crust and upper mantle. The results will help us to understand tectonic processe | National Science Foundation | 6/04/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY SYSTEM OF NEW HAMPSHIRE | $453,679 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Explosive volcanic eruptions are driven by the rapid growth of gas bubbles in magma that burst in the eruption column as they rapidly expand. By measuring the size of these bubbles just before they burst, it is possible to explore the processes that culmi | National Science Foundation | 6/05/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA | $456,782 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project proposes to test the hypothesis that natural tracers measured at temporal resolution similar to water fluxes (i.e., daily or sub-daily) can be used to predict coupling between riverine hydrology, surface water-groundwater mixing, and biogeoch | National Science Foundation | 7/19/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, THE | $75,980 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The aim of this research is to help resolve drivers of Holocene paleoclimate by providing a perspective on Southern Hemisphere glacial and climate changes. Hypotheses concerning how temporal and spatial variability of Southern Hemisphere climate compare w | National Science Foundation | 8/25/2009 |
| LEHIGH UNIVERSITY | $68,282 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This research group will give one of the first detailed accounts of the sedimentary basin response to oceanic spreading-ridge subduction, a common tectonic process that fundamentally reshapes and reorganizes convergent continental margins. Forearc basins, | National Science Foundation | 7/28/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO | $1,999,440 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The project establishes broad-based interdisciplinary research and teaching program built around a series of G?process studiesG? of the impact of global change on the marine environment and society. Its focus is on the scientific, economic, political, a | National Science Foundation | 8/25/2009 |
| VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY, THE | $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 outstand | National Science Foundation | 8/12/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, THE | $425,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This CAREER award will support an integrated research and education program in the field of theoretical biophysics, with interdisciplinary support from the Division of Materials Research, the Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosystems, and the Division | National Science Foundation | 7/31/2009 |
| GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY | $315,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Title: 'Structural Ordering and Vitrification of Multicomponent Metallic liquids'. The proposed project aims to use computational techniques, coupled with synchrotron x-ray scattering experiments, to reveal the details of atomic-level structural evolutio | National Science Foundation | 8/05/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, THE | $326,944 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: '1.1. The main problems addressed in the 1st part are: representations of quantized universal enveloping algebras at roots of unity with large center and with partially divided powers, the study of qKZ equations related to quantized affine algebras at ro | National Science Foundation | 6/10/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC. | $100,200 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). One difficulty facing today's survey statisticians is the increasingly complex structure of surveys. The U.S. is very well provided with various sorts of l | National Science Foundation | 7/02/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS | $209,035 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Dynamical Properties of Quantum Systems with Infinitely Many Degrees of Freedom | National Science Foundation | 6/12/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI SYSTEM | $150,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Bayesian mixture models are ubiquitous in statistical applications because of their ability to capture real-world complexities through relatively simple constructions. Mixture models such as finite mixtures, finite and infinite hidden Markov models, semip | National Science Foundation | 6/29/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS CENTER FOR RESEARCH, INC. | $120,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Most of statistical inferences are based on statistical models for data, so model selection plays a fundamental role in statistical inferences. There is huge amount of literature to develop model selection theory and methodologies such as AIC, BIC, boots | National Science Foundation | 6/30/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS CENTER FOR RESEARCH, INC. | $63,087 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Fronts are waves that look like a plateau moving with a constant velocity. Fronts arise in applied problems from various fields. This project is concerned with the stability analysis of fronts by means of dynamical systems methods. The main goal of the | National Science Foundation | 6/01/2009 |
| ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $260,300 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: We study the prediction and morphological control of two-phase microstructures in solid/liquid and solid/solid diffusional phase transitions that deal with transformations of melts into precipitates (and vice-versa) as well as the separation of solids int | National Science Foundation | 7/21/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY SYSTEM OF NEW HAMPSHIRE | $47,003 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The project develops fast and high-order accurate time-domain Partial Differential Equation (PDE) solvers for complex geometries, in particular focusing on unconditionally stable methods that utilize advanced Fourier series techniques for boundary conditi | National Science Foundation | 8/02/2009 |
| RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK | $221,150 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: ARRA - TRANS-NSF RECOVERY ACT RESEARCH SUPPORT | National Science Foundation | 9/04/2009 |
| WILLIAM PATERSON UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY FOUNDATION INC., THE | $899,469 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: William Paterson University's Robert Noyce project is recruiting at least 38 undergraduate science and mathematics majors and 8 professionals into K-12 teaching (specifically grades 5- 12). Those who intend to teach elementary or middle school receive a t | National Science Foundation | 6/02/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF LA VERNE | $899,746 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The La Verne Noyce Teacher Scholars (LVNTS) program is a collaborative effort between the University of La Verne's College of Arts & Sciences, the College of Education & Organizational Leadership, and local high-need school districts in Southern Californi | National Science Foundation | 5/28/2009 |
| CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, BAKERSFIELD | $183,440 | 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 focus of this RUI research project at California State University, Bakersfield (CSUB) is the recovery of a high-fidelity record of the Earth?s magnetic f | National Science Foundation | 8/02/2009 |
| PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE | $374,643 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This project will investigate slip on tectonic faults and important processes that occur during earthquakes. We will focus on the frictional strength of fau | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY, THE | $347,475 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 'Supereruptions' - explosive eruptions that produce >450 km3 of magma (dense rock equivalent), or ~1000 km3 of tephra - are arguably the most catastrophic of all natural processes on Earth. They play a central role in ongoing debates about the processes b | National Science Foundation | 8/03/2009 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY | $96,957 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Collaborative Research: Calibrating the paleosol carbonate CO2 barameter for vertic paleosols by monitoring soil CO2 in modern vertisols | National Science Foundation | 7/31/2009 |
| COLLEGE OF WILLIAM & MARY, THE | $98,606 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: A number of studies have recently been published with the common goal of understanding the coupled evolution of channel cross-sectional and longitudinal profile geometry. However, fieldbased studies aimed at understanding the controls on bedrock channel e | National Science Foundation | 7/26/2009 |
| LE MOYNE COLLEGE | $112,046 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Acquisition of A POWDER X-RAY DIFFRACTOMETER for multi-disciplinary student/faculty research and education | National Science Foundation | 8/19/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH THE | $185,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award provides resources to build a Regional Stable Isotope Laboratory for Earth and Environmental Science Research at the University of Pittsburgh. Provided funds will support a technician that will maintain a dedicated laboratory housing two gas s | National Science Foundation | 9/08/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE | $64,829 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The award represents funding to upgrade the trace gas interface for an existing stable isotope ratio mass spectrometer at the University of California, Irvine. The award was received in August of 2009 and since then the new product has been ordered and w | National Science Foundation | 7/30/2009 |
| TENNESSEE TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY | $400,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The objective of this research is to investigate methodologies for real time modeling and simulation, novel control structures, and intelligent integration technologies for high penetration of wind power. | National Science Foundation | 7/30/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC. | $300,009 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The objective of this research is to build a smart nanosystem with the capability of autonomous motion, recognition, and actuation through the orthogonal functionalization of heterostructured nanorods. The approach is to use glancing angle deposition to d | National Science Foundation | 7/30/2009 |
| IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY | $366,399 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The objective of this research is to develop a measurement-driven real-time wear-out model for the time-cumulative effects of electrothermal stress on the remaining life of multi-core systems. The approach is to develop highly efficient built-in sensors f | National Science Foundation | 8/06/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS | $225,002 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award was given for the development of semiconductor-based tunable mid-infrared plasmonic devices for liquid phase sensing applications. Surface plasmons, and plasmonic materials, have been studied continuously since the pioneering work of Ritchie, | National Science Foundation | 8/06/2009 |
| CONNECTICUT COLLEGE | $118,200 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This program will demonstrate semiconductor-based tuning mechanisms for active control of mid-infrared (mid-IR) plasmonic structures and the integration of these mechanisms with surface-plasmon based devices for sensing applications. This includes 1) deve | National Science Foundation | 8/06/2009 |
| NMC, INC. | $199,999 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Molecular motors are nanoscale machines capable of mechanical motion under energy input or external driving. Their importance for the future nanotechnological applications have been long anticipated. In fact, there are already prototypes of solar batterie | National Science Foundation | 8/25/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS | $330,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The emerging field of spintronics has already revolutionized information technology, particularly in the explosive growth of the magnetic recording areal density over the past decade. At the heart of spintronics are spin-valves that permits low magnetic f | National Science Foundation | 7/29/2009 |
| VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY | $70,705 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: In this proposal we address the area of Educational Opportunities Using Cyberinfrastructure and Virtual or Mixed Reality. The goal of this research project is to improve learning of and interest in the abstract concepts of nanotechnology/atomic scale phys | National Science Foundation | 8/05/2009 |
| NORTH CAROLINA AGRICULTURAL AND TECHNICAL STATE UNIVERSITY | $149,113 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: IEECI: Reforming Environmental Engineering Laboratories for Sustainable Engineering, REESE Initiative. Project Summary: Environmental Engineering is a subset of the Civil Engineering discipline which specifically addresses management of systems to prot | National Science Foundation | 7/07/2009 |
| AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR ENGINEERING EDUCATION | $2,665,991 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The ASEE/NSF Corporate Research Postdoctoral Fellowship Program provides 40 recent engineering PhD's opportunities to conduct research in an industrial setting. The program is a partnership between the federal government and interested industry sponsors. | National Science Foundation | 8/14/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO | $184,984 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Connecting Veterans to Customized Engineering Education at the University of San Diego (USD) is an innovative model of an undergraduate engineering program that capitalizes on the skills and military experience in planning, implementing and leading te | National Science Foundation | 8/20/2009 |
| CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY | $115,367 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project studies the impact of material incentives on the quantity, frequency and quality of blood donation, through a series of field experiments on multiple blood drives, in collaboration with the North East Ohio Chapter of the American Red Cross. T | National Science Foundation | 6/17/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $138,970 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Collaborative Research: Gender and Constitutions: A Comparative Analysis of the Effect of Gender Provisions. | National Science Foundation | 7/19/2009 |
| COLLEGE OF WILLIAM & MARY, THE | $810,670 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project funds the creation of a web-based digitizing system to allow school districts to create digital boundaries via a web page. | National Science Foundation | 8/30/2009 |
| NEW YORK UNIVERSITY | $223,109 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Collaborative Research: A Search - Theoretic Approach to Markets | National Science Foundation | 8/05/2009 |
| RAND CORPORATION, THE | $349,994 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Information Technology's growing power offers a potential revolution in new tools and methods to support and improve human decision-making. Scneario discovery is one promising new method that supports decisions under conditions of deep uncertainty by iden | National Science Foundation | 8/30/2009 |
| MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL, THE | $102,952 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The goal of the proposed research is to begin the integration of two young and rapidly progressing fields: the cognitive study of moral judgment and decision-making (moral cognition) and the study of how specific genetic variations moderate cognitive proc | National Science Foundation | 8/26/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA | $600,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Phase II Noyce Scholarship project is providing twelve $10,000 scholarships annually to junior and senior STEM majors seeking a career in secondary science or mathematics teaching, leading to 40 new teachers. High needs partner school districts are | National Science Foundation | 5/28/2009 |
| CAL POLY POMONA FOUNDATION INC | $597,520 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The goal of the California Polytechnic University, Pomona Phase II Noyce project is to increase the number of highly qualified elementary, middle, and secondary mathematics and science teachers in two partner districts (Pomona Unified School District and | National Science Foundation | 6/12/2009 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | $50,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This engineering education research award to Tufts University and Northwestern University will study the development of professional engineering skills in undergraduate engineering students. The goals is to create a rich educational environment that foste | National Science Foundation | 7/06/2009 |
| WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY | $149,742 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This engineering education research award to Washington State University will develop an integrated design experience focused on sustainability engineering. The goal of the project is to establish a replicable model for faculty development and student eng | National Science Foundation | 7/06/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN | $299,930 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The PIs propose to develop a new, high-resolution (annual to sub-decadal) paleoclimate record (0-1,000 y) from sediment cores taken on the Arctic inner continental shelf. The proposal is a follow-up to a regular Arctic Natural Sciences panel submission th | National Science Foundation | 6/30/2009 |
| PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE | $449,782 | 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 concerned with retrieval of information contained in the tables, figures and references contained in digital document on the web. At present | National Science Foundation | 6/17/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE | $632,046 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: We envision a new display paradigm where displays are not mere carriers of information, but active members of the workspace interacting with data, user, environment and other displays. The goal is to integrate such active displays seamlessly with the envi | National Science Foundation | 6/22/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO | $5,000,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) will create the Center on Simulation, Visualization and Real-Time Prediction (SiViRT Center) to integrate the simulation-based research activities in the Colleges of Engineering and Sciences at UTSA, provide c | National Science Foundation | 8/17/2009 |
| PASCALE INDUSTRIES, INC. | $149,900 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Goals- The main focus of this program is to develop electrochemically active micro fibers comprising two core conductors embedded in smart polymer electrolytes. These fibers are known to respond to physical/chemical changes such as flexing, straining, or | National Science Foundation | 6/10/2009 |
| KONA BLUE WATER FARMS, LLC | $99,724 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Phase I project will expand open ocean aquaculture by developing technology for mobile, drifting fish pens to be entrained in regional oceanic gyres. This research will primarily address the needs described in Biotechnology topic A.4.: M | National Science Foundation | 7/01/2009 |
| LUMARRAY INC. | $99,964 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: SBIR PHASE I - NANOMETER-LEVEL FIDELITY IN MASKLESS LITHOGRAPHY | National Science Foundation | 7/01/2009 |
| ULTRAWAVE LABS | $77,715 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The pupose of the award to fund research in a novel medical imaging technology that combines ultrasound and microwave technologies to achieve MRI-quality imaging and diagnostic capability. The outcome of the project will be a breast imaging technology tha | National Science Foundation | 6/06/2009 |
| ALDITRI TECHNOLOGIES, INC. | $100,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: SBIR Phase I: Nano-enhanced Fibrous Structures for Pathogenic Virus Elimination from Biopharmaceutical Products | National Science Foundation | 5/29/2009 |
| VIDEO SEMANTICS LLC | $100,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project aims to develop methodology and software for highly accurate and efficient semantic video retrieval and summarization. Video Semantics will, provide personalized summaries of video content tha | National Science Foundation | 5/29/2009 |
| SANTORO WIND HARVESTER, INC. | $94,479 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: SBIR Phase I: NSF 08-548, Electronics, Components & Engineering (EL), Subtopic: F, Energy and jPower Management, F.3 Systems for harvesting alternate energy sources.. | National Science Foundation | 6/08/2009 |
| LOUISVILLE BIOSCIENCE, INC | $99,801 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project is to develop and commercialize a powerful new diagnostic assay platform for quantitative analysis of plasma from human blood using Differential Scanning Calorimetry. The platform will form the basis | National Science Foundation | 6/03/2009 |
| CORINNOVA INC | $100,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: SBIR Phase I: Pre-clinical Development of Device to Guide Heart Recovery via Assist and Support. | National Science Foundation | 6/08/2009 |
| PRISM SOLAR TECHNOLOGIES INCORPORATED | $99,837 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Summary of Intellectual Merits This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project provides Prism Solar Technologies, Inc. the opportunity to apply its proprietary Holographic Planar Concentrator technology (HPC) -- that uses volume holograms on holo | National Science Foundation | 6/23/2009 |
| VISIONARY PRODUCTS, INC. | $99,999 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I research project involves the development of inexpensive, reconfigurable force-reflective telerobotic manipulators. Incorporating dexterous manipulators onto available mobile robotic platforms greatly expand | National Science Foundation | 6/04/2009 |
| INSCENT INC | $99,881 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I Project concerns a novel, rapid and cost-effective detection system for fecal contamination in water supplies. The need for better water safety screening is exemplified by the outbreak of E. coli serotype O1 | National Science Foundation | 7/01/2009 |
| PARADIGM OPTICS, INCORPORATED | $499,970 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) Phase II project will create innovations in the science and application of polymer doping, fiber drawing, and bundling technology. Research will be conducted to shrink fiber diameter limits to submicron dimen | National Science Foundation | 9/14/2009 |
| ADVANCED MATERIALS AND DEVICES | $500,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Small Business Technology Transfer Research (STTR) Phase II project seeks to develop and commercialize an optimized technique to produce durable nano-porous surfaces (NPS) for heat transfer applications using an inexpensive electrochemical process. T | National Science Foundation | 7/27/2009 |
| OSHKOSH NANOTECHNOLOGY, LLC | $149,824 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Small Business Technology Transfer Phase I project explores the use of multifunctional nanophase mixed ionic/electronic ceramic (MIEC) conductors in double-layer electrical energy storage (EES) devices. Intellectual merits. Electrodes made from MIEC | National Science Foundation | 6/10/2009 |
| ADVANCED PHOTONIC CRYSTALS, LLC | $149,961 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Small Business Technology Transfer Phase I project will address the problem of a multifunctional wide band-gap aluminum gallium nitride single crystal substrate that will enable low-defect, high-performance epitaxial growth. Since much of the energy | National Science Foundation | 6/11/2009 |
| ADVANCED MATERIALS AND DEVICES | $150,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Title: STTR Phase I: Compressible Magnetorheological Fluids. This Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I project aims at developing stable and optimal compressible magneto-rheological fluids (CMRFs) and performing device tests on such fluids | National Science Foundation | 6/10/2009 |
| AMEROM LLC | $149,299 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Skutterudite group (e. g., CoSb3) thermoelectric materials are used to generate electrical power from different heat sources (e. g., stove top generators, engine exhaust powered alternator replacement, self-powered appliances), but the current market is l | National Science Foundation | 6/23/2009 |
| QUANTTERA LLC | $150,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Broadband Silicon-Germanium Based Quantum Dot Materials: Multifunctional materials are expected to bring important breakthroughs in various technological fields. QuantTera and the University of Delaware are proposing to develop silicon-germanium based qua | National Science Foundation | 6/16/2009 |
| HI-Z TECHNOLOGY, INC. | $150,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: STTR. Phase I Materials for Sustainability | National Science Foundation | 6/17/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, THE | $608,962 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The increase in obesity and related chronic illnesses has motivated academic, government, and commercial sectors to address this epidemic. Assistive technology interventions provide an inexpensive method to disseminate information, track health metrics, a | National Science Foundation | 7/10/2009 |
| RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, THE | $539,086 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: From representation to learning to inference, effective use of high-level semantic knowledge in computer vision remains a challenge in bridging the signal-symbol gap. This research investigates the role of semantics in visual inference through the general | National Science Foundation | 6/26/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, THE | $500,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The origin of flowering plants represents one of the most significant evolutionary radiations of plants during the last 475 million years. With over 250,000 extant species, angiosperms are the largest and most diverse group of plants to have evolved. It h | National Science Foundation | 7/16/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | $629,748 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Powdery mildew fungal pathogens penetrate the plant cell wall and develop a feeding structure named the haustorium to steal photosynthetate from the host cell. The haustorium is encased by an enigmatic extra-haustorial membrane (EHM) believed to be derive | National Science Foundation | 3/28/2010 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, THE | $854,753 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). According to contemporary understanding, the only route to production of male reproductive structures, in humans and other mammals, involves the action of m | National Science Foundation | 2/21/2012 |
| VASSAR COLLEGE | $400,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: In our previous NSF-supported work in computational and experimental robotics, we found that selection for enhanced foraging and predator avoidance in a population of autonomous swimming robots evolved vertebral columns (VC) with more vertebrae and stiffe | National Science Foundation | 7/13/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT RIVERSIDE | $391,627 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The ability of an animal to maneuver can determine its success at avoiding predators, catching food, and other fundamental behaviors that define the margin between life and death. Most biomechanical research has focused on the initiation or maintenance of | National Science Foundation | 7/03/2009 |
| COKER COLLEGE | $502,416 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: CAREER: Identification and Characterization of Genes Involved in Asexual Reproduction in Filamentous Fungi | National Science Foundation | 8/15/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS | $360,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Obtaining physiological/behavioral data from human subjects in their natural environments is essential to conducting ecologically valid social and behavioral research. While several body area wireless sensor network (BAWSN) systems exist today for physiol | National Science Foundation | 8/26/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS | $450,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Many sensor network deployments are in harsh terrain that lack infrastructure but also need to use solar energy harvesting for self-sustained operation. The design of harvesting-aware solar sensor networks raises numerous systems and networking challenges | National Science Foundation | 7/28/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS | $325,250 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 'Various studies over the past decade have shown that network availability on the Internet is about 99%, which pales in comparison to other utility services such as power grids and telephone networks. The primary cause of network unavailability today is d | National Science Foundation | 7/24/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS | $400,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The goal of this project is an enhanced understanding of the mechanisms by which plants acquire and then maintain the correct levels of iron and other metal nutrients. Currently, little is known about molecules involved in the movement of metals on a larg | National Science Foundation | 6/24/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, THE | $184,400 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: A theoretical study of magnetic reconnection involving magnetic field approaching and exceeding the quantum critical field of 40 terraGauss is the subject of this award. This is a fundamental plasma physics problem with important applications in high-ener | National Science Foundation | 9/07/2009 |
| PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE | $199,896 | 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 RUI project involves several topics, including (1) single and double excitation, ionization, and electron transfer reactions in collisions between hydr | National Science Foundation | 7/31/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, THE | $708,000 | 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 funds will be used to accomplish the following scientific objectives: (1) Search for neutrinos associated with supernovae whose core collapsed produces T | National Science Foundation | 9/02/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA | $120,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: A two-year NSF grant to study optical coating materials via first-principles simulations | National Science Foundation | 8/21/2009 |
| RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK | $211,127 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: RECOVERY ACT RESEARCH SUPPORT IN Soft Scattering, Integrability and Confinement inquantum chromodynamics (QCD) | National Science Foundation | 6/18/2009 |
| STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (INC) | $180,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The project is devoted to theoretical studies of optical frequency comb interaction with molecules. The excitation of two-photon Raman transitions will be investigated, induced by two pulse trains with locked phase, and also by crafted femtosecond pulse t | National Science Foundation | 7/06/2009 |
| GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY | $287,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: CP Violation and Rare-Decay Studies. Particle physics experiment | National Science Foundation | 8/10/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH THE | $183,623 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: To prepare future scientists and engineers for the demands of the high-tech workplace with its growing dependence on quantum phenomena, continued development, assessment, and dissemination of Quantum Interactive Learning Tutorials (QuILT) for the advanced | National Science Foundation | 8/11/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII SYSTEMS | $443,595 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is a key component of the global climate system. Paleo-evidence suggests that this circulation has experienced rapid reorganizations, particularly during the last glacial period. Understanding the dri | National Science Foundation | 6/01/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND | $330,944 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project concerns the ecological physiology of Dosidicus gigas, a large squid endemic to the eastern Pacific where it inhabits both open ocean and continental shelf environments. Questions to be addressed include: 1) How does utilization of the OML by | National Science Foundation | 7/31/2009 |
| WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION | $449,998 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Testing New Paradigms: The Sea Level Record of Past Interglacials | National Science Foundation | 6/08/2009 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $272,660 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Does global warming increase the vigor of the hydrological cycle? This question forms the overall research theme of this study, which investigates the role of hydrological cycle feedbacks in climate change using a combination of proxy reconstructions and | National Science Foundation | 7/29/2009 |
| SKIDAWAY INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY | $44,564 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This request is to fund additional and back-up instrumentation for the R/V Savannah. The R/V Savannah is a 92 foot coastal research vessel, delivered from Washburn and Doughty shipbuilders to Skidaway Institute of Oceanography in 2001. This ship is one | National Science Foundation | 7/10/2009 |
| WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION | $392,596 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Collaborative Research: The dynamics of sediment-laden river plume and initial deposition off small mountainous rivers | National Science Foundation | 7/29/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, THE | $388,396 | 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 | 4/23/2012 |
| THEISS RESEARCH | $120,802 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Collaborative Research: Reorganization of deepwater circulation in response to the opening of Southern Ocean passages in the middle/late Eocene (40-33 Ma) | National Science Foundation | 8/07/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS | $328,384 | 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 hierarchy of numerical modeling studies will be performed to examine the processes by which nutrients are advected into the euphotic surface layer of t | National Science Foundation | 8/10/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE | $377,740 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The supply of sediment to marshes is controlled by a long chain of dynamical processes that disperse suspended mater and cause it to deposit in subtidal and intertidal environments. | National Science Foundation | 7/22/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA | $412,866 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: DISSOLVED DMSP (DMSPD) IS RAPIDLY CYCLED AND IS THOUGHT TO BE A MAJOR SOURCE OR CARBON AND SULFUR FOR MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES AND A MAJOR PRECURSOR OF THE CLIMATE ACTIVE GAS DMS. EARLIER CONCLUSIONS ABOUT DMSPD, HOWEVER MIGHT BE IN ERROR BECAUSE OF INACCURA | National Science Foundation | 6/25/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE | $36,471 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The goal of the Integrated Studies theme of the Ridge 2000 (R2K) Program is to understand the interdependence of component linkages of the mid-ocean ridge system, including the impact of hydrothermal fluid flux on the overlying biological system. In 2003 | National Science Foundation | 8/02/2009 |
| WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION | $1,742,935 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Oceanographic Instrumentation - 2009 | National Science Foundation | 8/16/2009 |
| PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE | $275,000 | 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 will address critical issues through a collective research effort to develop new algorithms and high-performance software development for data | National Science Foundation | 8/28/2009 |
| PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE | $397,913 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Virtual organizations - work organizations that rely fundamentally on the Internet rather than physical proximity for conducting their operations - promise t | National Science Foundation | 9/03/2009 |
| SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSTIY FOUNDATION | $148,851 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project is to immerse four geophysics students per year in one of the world's premier organizations committed to sustainable management of renewable geothermal energy, namely the New Zealand Government's GNS Science organization. The GNS Natural Res | National Science Foundation | 9/04/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL | $150,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The medical industry increasingly relies on knowledge of novel materials and fabrication processes in order to develop replacements for biological tissues as well as advanced medical devices. Rapid prototyping technologies have attracted significant inter | National Science Foundation | 7/11/2009 |
| RFCUNY - NYC COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY | $111,450 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: RECOVERY ACT RESEARCH SUPPORT IN Automated Computation of One-loop Scattering Amplitudes | National Science Foundation | 7/02/2009 |
| TEMPLE UNIVERSITY-OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION | $231,209 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Jefferson Laboratory in Newport News (Virginia), the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider in Brookhaven (New York), and other facilities throughout the world already (and plan to) explore a variety of high energy collisions involving strongly interacting p | National Science Foundation | 6/18/2009 |
| THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK | $429,483 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Quantum spin systems are an important topic in condensed-matter, statistical and mathematical physics, and form basic building blocks in quantum information science. This ultracold-atomic physics project focuses on the implementation of quantum spin-1/2 s | National Science Foundation | 6/04/2009 |
| MUHLENBERG COLLEGE | $153,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Scientific equipment purchase, faculty stipend and transportation to research facility. | National Science Foundation | 8/02/2009 |
| WESTMONT COLLEGE | $114,834 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: MRI-Consortium: Development of a Neutron Detector Array by Undergraduate Research Students for Studies of Exotic Nuclei. Studies of exotic nuclei (those with a large excess of neutrons) are a top priority to address a number of outstanding nuclear physics | National Science Foundation | 9/17/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $406,696 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Awardee: UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM Doing Business As Name: University of Wisconsin-Madison PD/PI: Marzena J Rostek 608-262-3822 [email protected] co-PD(s)/co-PI(s) Marek Weretka Award Date: 06/15/2009 Estimated Total Award Amount: $40 | National Science Foundation | 6/15/2009 |
| VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE & STATE UNIVERSITY | $302,157 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Virginia Tech REU Site will provide a research program for undergraduates during the summers of 2009-2011. Ten students will be selected each year to participate in an intensive 10-week research program in microbiology. The program will introduce part | National Science Foundation | 6/01/2009 |
| RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY | $180,958 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This research will assess the utility of Nd-isotopes(defined as ?Nd) measured in foraminifera as a water mass proxy. The first component of the work is a calibration study that takes advantage of a large set of surface sediments and overlying water sample | National Science Foundation | 6/19/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS | $357,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The security and economic well-being of our society rests upon the trustworthiness of a vast complex of networked information systems that provide communications, computing, and control to manage our nation?s critical infrastructure systems (power, transp | National Science Foundation | 6/10/2009 |
| WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, THE | $280,350 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Goals: The REU Site: Cellular and Developmental Biology Research Apprenticeship Program at Washington University in St. Louis (CD-BioRAP) will provide a 10-week summer internship for 10 undergraduates from disadvantaged backgrounds historically underrepre | National Science Foundation | 5/28/2009 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $360,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The research proposed centers on investigations of the structures of sets and functions ordered by relative complexity of computation. Particular emphasis will be placed on issues of definability and automorphisms. Also included in this area is the analys | National Science Foundation | 7/02/2009 |
| WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY | $245,851 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: A promising candidate for compact electricity generation and refrigeration is a thermoacoustic engine integrated with a heat source and an electroacoustic transformer. Thermoacoustic systems are environmentally friendly, highly reliable due to their simpl | National Science Foundation | 6/23/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | $300,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Cell membranes and membrane based organelles actively mediate several intracellular signaling and trafficking decisions. A growing number of applications rely on cooperative interactions between molecular assemblies and membranes. While a coherent and com | National Science Foundation | 6/24/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA | $229,997 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project will investigate the fundamental molecular mechanisms that can result in fluid slip at a solid-fluid interface and how exactly, if at all, fluid slip affects the structure of turbulence away from the viscous wall sublayer. It has been recentl | National Science Foundation | 8/21/2009 |
| RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE | $255,534 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project investigates a new gel medium that is formed by self-association of guanosine compounds to resolve same length DNA with different sequences. Combining the new gel with conventional sieving gels in capillary gel electrophoresis will lead to un | National Science Foundation | 6/24/2009 |
| BROWN UNIVERSITY IN PROVIDENCE IN STATE OF RI AND PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS | $432,676 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 Public Law 111-5). Flame retardant chemicals, such as polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), are ubiquitous in daily life, and biological and environmental accumulation will pe | National Science Foundation | 7/30/2009 |
| ENERGY RESEARCH COMPANY | $499,998 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project seeks to develop an analysis method based on plasma physics with unique advantages for in sit | National Science Foundation | 8/13/2009 |
| BREWER SCIENCE, INC | $467,287 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Project focuses on developing a commercially viable process for producing a passive radio frequency identification (RFID) tag with virtually unbounded versatility. Existing passive tag technologies have many limitations that hinder their widespread use. T | National Science Foundation | 9/14/2009 |
| SPECTRUM SCIENTIFIC INC | $499,636 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: STTR Phase II: Diffractive Imaging Micro-Spectrometer | National Science Foundation | 8/01/2009 |
| OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $432,302 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project builds on the successful collaboration of a group of scholars from diverse backgrounds (African American, Asian, Latino, and White), disciplines (Criminology or Criminal Justice, Family Relations, Law, Public Policy, Political Science, Socia | National Science Foundation | 8/04/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $326,935 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Much of the land area of Washington, Oregon, and California was added to continental North America during the last 200 million years. Exactly how this dominantly oceanic lithosphere accreted to the continent is not well understood, although it is clear th | National Science Foundation | 6/17/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON SYSTEM | $411,050 | 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 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $430,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The research objective of this Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) project is to provide a stochastic optimization modeling framework for disease screening diagnosis. The proposal particularly focuses on two broad areas of research in breast cancer | National Science Foundation | 6/30/2009 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $329,713 | 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 process of sentence comprehension involves incrementally accessing the meaning of individual words and combining them into larger representations. In | National Science Foundation | 6/24/2009 |
| CONSORTIUM FOR OCEAN LEADERSHIP INC | $25,000,000 | Contract | : To purchase 251 days of ship operations and fuel in support of the USIO expeditions | National Science Foundation | 9/04/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $650,001 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This proposal involves an experimental investigation into the characteristics and dynamics of the huge magnetic fields generated during high intensity laser interactions with solid density plasmas. Previously, proof-of-principle measurements of magnetic f | National Science Foundation | 8/08/2009 |
| MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY | $510,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The project is to upgrade (refurbish) or replace the obsolete Bruker AMX 600 MHz NMR housed in the Department of Chemistry's NMR Center at Mississippi State University with a High Performance Digital 600 MHz NMR System. | National Science Foundation | 8/02/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF OREGON | $1,125,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Oregon experimental relativity group continues its vigorous efforts within the LIGO Scientific Collaboration (LSC) to search for burst sources of gravitational radiation (GWBs). The group will continue to focus a significant fraction of its effort on | National Science Foundation | 6/12/2009 |
| THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC | $118,657 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Building off geometric constructions of Beilinson, Lusztig, and MacPherson, the PI in collaboration with Mikhail Khovanov categorified quantum sl(n), as well as the quantum deformation of the universal enveloping algebra of the ``lower-triangular'' subalg | National Science Foundation | 6/04/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE | $762,372 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Dance.Draw: Embodiment as Input for Collaborative, Creative Expression In this project the PI will study lightweight embodiment as an input for collaborative creative interaction, specifically applied to the domain of dance. The PI and her team of techn | National Science Foundation | 6/17/2009 |
| SOUTH CAROLINA RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $1,725,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Study of Nuclear Physics with Intermediate Energy Probes Summary A major goal of present day hadronic physics is to understand the transition between the two experimentally verified quantum field theories that describe nuclear phenomena: perturbative | National Science Foundation | 8/17/2009 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $659,137 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The G?A TeraGrid MATLAB Cluster G?? Exploring New Services for an XD FutureG? project will establish an analysis resource consisting of a cluster equipped with MATLAB on the TeraGrid. This will provide a valuable addition for TeraGrid users pre and post-p | National Science Foundation | 7/25/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $400,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Digital communication technology is central to the establishment and enhancement of global on-line communities. Increasingly, data networks convey delay-sensitive streaming content for voice, video, control, and interactive applications; data with charact | National Science Foundation | 6/05/2009 |
| GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION | $616,500 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Inorganic, Bioinorganic and Organometallic Chemistry Program supports the research of Professor Jake Soper of the Georgia Institute of Technology (GIT) to examine the development of more cost-effective 3d metal catalysts as surrogates for expensive pl | National Science Foundation | 7/15/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS | $91,039 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project consists of test excavations at the Little Delta Dune Site, a Late Pleistocene-Early Holocene site in central Alaska. The cultural remains consist of stone tools and animal remains associated with hearth features. At least four prehistoric oc | National Science Foundation | 8/14/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN | $282,683 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This study seeks to understand and quantify the role of large woody debris (LWD) in driving hydrologic connections and exchanges of fluid, mass, and energy b | National Science Foundation | 6/05/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $1,297,349 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The University of Wisconsin Algebraic Geometry and Number Theory Research Training Grant will integrate the research activities of this core part of the faculty into a unified training program involving postdoctoral faculty, graduate students, and undergr | National Science Foundation | 6/12/2009 |
| CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $388,215 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Volcanoes are places where molten rock erupts on the surface of the Earth; they are both major natural hazards and fascinating targets for scientific study because they are messengers from the interior of our planet, where melting of rocks takes place. Th | National Science Foundation | 6/04/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $591,345 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Stone/0838818This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).This award supports a project to study the former thickness and retreat history of Shackleton and Beardmore Glaciers which flow through the Trans | National Science Foundation | 8/10/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO | $633,455 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The LISSARD project (Lake and Ice Stream Subglacial Access Research Drilling) is one of three research components of the WISSARD integrative initiative (Whil | National Science Foundation | 8/25/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $668,324 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The proposal seeks funding to continue investigations of the dynamical coupling between the stratosphere and the upper regions of the atmosphere, such as the | National Science Foundation | 5/21/2009 |
| WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, THE | $249,999 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Intellectual Merit: The high elevations of East Antarctica were likely critical in localizing the initial Cenozoic glaciation at -34 Ma and stabilizing it with respect to melting during warm interglacials. However, the geological history for this region a | National Science Foundation | 8/18/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA | $169,533 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Langmuir circulation (LC) in the upper ocean mixed layer (UOML) is a feature most familiarly observed as linear stripes or sea surface streaks approximately parallel to the wind direction. These result from helical (ovoid) water cells rotating clockwise a | National Science Foundation | 5/26/2009 |
| RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY | $837,893 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: An interdisciplinary team of researchers will focus on describing the high productivity patchiness observed in phytoplankton blooms in the mid to late summer in the Ross Sea, Antarctica. Key hypotheses to be tested and extended are that intrusions of nutr | National Science Foundation | 8/18/2009 |
| SIENA COLLEGE (INC) | $2,042,457 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The PENGUIn team will continue investigating in depth a multi-scale electrodynamic system that comprises space environment of Planet Earth (geospace). Several science topics important to the space physics and aeronomy are outlines in this proposal that ca | National Science Foundation | 8/20/2009 |
| RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY | $69,001 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Collaborative Research: Synthesis and Integration of Magmagenetic Controls for Subduction Factory focus sites Intellectual Merit: The MARGINS program ends in 2009, and the organization, synthesis, and integration of the most important results is a high pr | National Science Foundation | 7/20/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE | $130,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The PENGUIn team will continue investigating in depth a multi-scale electrodynamic system that comprises space environment of Planet Earth (geospace). Several science topics important to the space physics and aeronomy are outlines in this proposal that ca | National Science Foundation | 8/20/2009 |
| CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $26,971 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) is the dominant form of atmospheric intraseasonal variability in the climate system. It interacts with and influences a wide range of physical weather and climate phenomena (e.g., monsoon onsets and breaks, El Nino-Sou | National Science Foundation | 5/28/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA CRUZ | $69,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Collaborative Research: Synthesis and Integration of Magmagenetic Controls for Subduction Factory focus sites Intellectual Merit: The MARGINS program end | National Science Foundation | 7/20/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $537,701 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Interactions between browsing mammals and trees play key roles in shaping North American forest ecosystems. The nature of these interactions is likely govern | National Science Foundation | 8/18/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, THE | $766,502 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This proposal seeks ~$767K (~1/3 of the total needed) in funding to implement a canted undulator upgrade for the GeoSoilEnviroCARS (GSECARS) national user fa | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE | $494,603 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Sturgeons, paddlefishes and their fossil relatives form a small group that is thought to have split off from other fishes early in the evolutionary history of ray-finned fishes, the group that contains approximately half of all vertebrate species alive to | National Science Foundation | 8/18/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE | $528,450 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Invasive species are a leading component of environmental change and a major factor associated with biodiversity loss worldwide. There is growing recognition that plant invaders can affect competitive and mutualistic interactions among native species, but | National Science Foundation | 7/25/2009 |
| VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE & STATE UNIVERSITY | $943,737 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Research. Animal cells maintain a correct chromosome number by equally partitioning their chromosomes into two daughter cells at each mitotic division. Upon mitotic entry, each chromosome is composed of two sister chromatids, each possessing a specialized | National Science Foundation | 6/18/2009 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $937,104 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Cholesterol is the single most abundant lipid species in mammalian plasma membranes. Nonetheless, the underlying nature of its interactions with neighboring membrane molecules has remained obscure, as have its effects on membrane biochemistry. Cholesterol | National Science Foundation | 6/09/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $807,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Intellectual Merit: Protein-protein interactions help to organize complex pathways of intercellular communication, promote efficient handling of essential nutrients within cells, and control the action of enzymes utilized by all living organisms. This pro | National Science Foundation | 6/04/2009 |
| CAL POLY CORPORATION | $110,149 | 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 ROCHESTER | $678,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: In this project supported by the Experimental Physical Chemistry Program, Professor David McCamant of the University of Rochester will develop femtosecond stimulated Raman spectroscopy (FSRS) to study ultrafast processes in photochemistry and photobiology | National Science Foundation | 7/15/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF UTAH, THE | $732,666 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The main objective of this project is to develop an optical microscope that is capable of deciphering the organization of intact biomolecular networks at the | National Science Foundation | 5/28/2009 |
| DREXEL UNIVERSITY | $400,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Achieving high quality synchronization with low power dissipation is a major objective in synchronous VLSI circuit design at high frequency regimes. In order to meet this objective, conventional clock design methodologies are constantly being improved. A | National Science Foundation | 9/17/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA | $498,560 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: In this project supported by the Experimental Physical Chemistry Program, Professor Kenneth Leopold and his group at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities will employ Fourier Transform microwave spectroscopy (FTMW) to investigate the intermolecular in | National Science Foundation | 7/17/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | $499,495 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Despite their ubiquitous importance in human life, we currently lack a formal method for analyzing and understanding the feel of tool mediated interactions with physical objects. Computer controlled haptic interfaces have been developed to enable users to | National Science Foundation | 7/10/2009 |
| SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY | $430,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The overarching research goal of this award is to develop a new field of study, namely nonamphiphilic colloidal science. The new knowledge is being used to make functional materials. In this quarter, we make progress on collaboration with a theoretical ch | National Science Foundation | 7/08/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA CRUZ | $1,179,483 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The University of California, Santa Cruz is awarded a career-development grant to create new algorithms for discovering causal genetic interactions and exte | National Science Foundation | 8/12/2009 |
| DREXEL UNIVERSITY | $679,704 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Dr. Rosen is developing a computational framework which enables identification and comparison of microorganisms to the environmental factors in their habitats. With recent technologies, DNA can be extracted directly from the millions of cells in any envir | National Science Foundation | 8/10/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE | $646,982 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: CAREER: Educational Data Mining for Student Support in Interactive Learning Environments CREATING intelligent learning technologies from data has unique potential to transform the American educational system, by building a low cost way to adapt learning | National Science Foundation | 6/22/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN | $424,840 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This research seeks to develop a new class of bio-inspired,single phase liquid cooling systems for application in three-dimensional integrated circuitry. The novel features of the research are twofold: (i) use of coolant flow channel patterns commonly fou | National Science Foundation | 7/24/2009 |
| RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE | $425,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This research will advance the field of magnetically-mediated cancer hyperthermia and may lead to novel biomedical procedures such as molecular surgery and nanoparticle based gene therapy. | National Science Foundation | 7/29/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $492,374 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Research and Education Objectives: Balance impairments affect a large population of individuals including the elderly and those with vestibular deficit, peripheral neuropathy, traumatic brain injury, and stroke. Recognizing this reduced quality of life, t | National Science Foundation | 7/29/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO | $430,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The project includes the study hybrid, multifunctional composites using surface grown carbon nanotubes on carbon fibers yarns. The resulting hybrid composites offer better alternatives to both fiber reinforced composite and carbon nanotubes based composit | National Science Foundation | 6/19/2009 |
| GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION | $399,951 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The project described in this proposal seeks to improve the stability and robustness of computer vision algorithms used in closed-loop systems. The research Endeavour examines the role control theory may play in enhancing closed-loop computer vision algor | National Science Foundation | 8/17/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS | $505,529 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The long-term outcome of this funded research is to establish material design paradigms to fabricate nanoscale material systems, such as nanowires, with stable material properties. Nanowires must have stable material properties for at least 10 years if th | National Science Foundation | 7/06/2009 |
| VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE & STATE UNIVERSITY | $550,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: ****Non Technical Abstract**** This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). We are living in a fast-paced world of modern quantum technology where better understanding of the quantum states and interact | National Science Foundation | 8/04/2009 |
| SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY | $428,471 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Much research on migration examines conditions in countries of origin, immigrant experiences in host societies, or both. In contrast, there has been little consideration of zones of transit and transition between country of origin and final destination, t | National Science Foundation | 7/15/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN | $400,053 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Future discovery and control in biology and medicine will come from the mathematical modeling of large-scale molecular biological data, such as DNA microarray data, just as Kepler discovered the laws of planetary motion by using mathematics to describe tr | National Science Foundation | 8/11/2009 |
| PURDUE UNIVERSITY | $550,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: To explore new instrumentation configurations for mass analysis. Theoretical modeling, numeric simulation, and experimental characterization are used to develop methods and devices for high efficiency ion transfer and mass analysis, challenging the sensit | National Science Foundation | 7/02/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT | $575,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Organic and Macromolecular Chemistry Program in the Chemistry Division at the National Science Foundation supports Professor Nicholas E. Leadbeater at the University of Connecticut who will examine microwave heating as a tool in synthetic organic chem | National Science Foundation | 7/26/2009 |
| NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC. | $400,825 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This proposal outlines a long-term research and teaching agenda related to the economics of financial distress and bankruptcy. For the past several years the PI has been interested in understanding the various factors that shape financial contracts, finan | National Science Foundation | 8/27/2009 |
| GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION | $500,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: INTELLECTUAL MERIT: This proposal is concerned with implementing a dynamic stealth-to-targeting switch in model colloidal carriers. Specific motivation for this work lies in the therapeutic limitations of current drug delivery vehicles possessing either s | National Science Foundation | 8/08/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO, THE | $728,970 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This grant funds two major activities: (1) astronomical research related to understanding the stars and star clusters in nearby galaxies, and (2) the development of two new astronomy-related public outreach programs at the University of Toledo. The resea | National Science Foundation | 8/10/2009 |
| OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $425,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This CAREER award supports theoretical research and education to discover and explore novel phenomena involving the proximity effect and related materials in high-correlated systems. Because of recent improvements in controlling systems properties at t | National Science Foundation | 6/09/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $740,000 | 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 CAREER award supports an experimental research program to produce polar molecular gases with the goal of investigating quantum matter with strong and lon | National Science Foundation | 6/04/2009 |
| WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY | $200,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The Inorganic, Bioinorganic, and Organometallic Chemistry Program supports the efforts of Dr. Aurora E. Clark of Washington State University for the rational | National Science Foundation | 7/15/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $381,472 | 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 funds a Small Grant for Training and Research in Neuroscience and Public Policy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison). Three graduat | National Science Foundation | 7/07/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA | $337,055 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award supports opportunities for undergraduate students to participate in ongoing research projects in experimental physics are structured in a summer REU program at the University of Arizona. Students may choose from a wide variety of forefront phys | National Science Foundation | 5/22/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $81,600 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Political, social and economic phenomena take place within a spatial context: the actions and interactions of decision-makers are conditioned by characteristics of the places in which they occur. Various methods have been developed to model and measure sp | National Science Foundation | 6/23/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA | $45,331 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project will address the development and timing of dune activity in the state of Wisconsin. The objectives of this project are 1) to provide students with significant field and laboratory training in geomorphology and geochronology including: field r | National Science Foundation | 8/24/2009 |
| AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, THE | $475,500 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The American Museum of Natural History is an inspirational place for young scientists to work, and an REU program is a wonderful way to bring a critical mass of bright young scholars into our departments and expose them to the challenge and excitement of | National Science Foundation | 6/26/2009 |
| LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY, THE | $380,663 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project concerns the ecological physiology of the Humboldt squid (Dosidicus gigas), a large squid endemic to the eastern Pacific where it inhabits both open ocean and continental shelf environments. D. gigas provides an important trophic connection b | National Science Foundation | 7/31/2009 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $153,955 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Recent work by this team shows that geothermal springs in major river valleys near the Main Central Thrust zone of the Himalayan front are significant sources of carbon dioxide. To date we have shown that this source of CO2 exceeds the consumption of CO2 | National Science Foundation | 8/24/2009 |
| MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY | $185,086 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Absolute dates and ages for key geomorphic events in the Midwest U.S. are sorely lacking, mainly because of the paucity of wood in glacial deposits for radiocarbon dating. This collaborative research project will address the paucity of geochronologic info | National Science Foundation | 8/05/2009 |
| OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY | $463,873 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project concerns the ecological physiology of Dosidicus gigas, a large squid endemic to the eastern Pacific where it inhabits both open ocean and continental shelf environments. Questions to be addressed include: 1. How does utilization of the OML by | National Science Foundation | 7/31/2009 |
| DREXEL UNIVERSITY | $300,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This REU Site proposal is designed to provide its participants with an exceptional opportunity by exposing them to the entire exploration process of creating a viable sensor and sensor network. The SENSORS REU site, which provides a 10-week summer researc | National Science Foundation | 7/20/2009 |
| DREXEL UNIVERSITY | $300,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Engineering Cities REU site will consist primarily of an intensive research experience in which each student will work closely with a selected faculty mentor and his/her research group on a specific research project. Students who participate in the pr | National Science Foundation | 6/18/2009 |
| OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $300,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This research objective of this project is to create new brain mimetics and migration models to explore the effect of the extracellular matrix (ECM) on glioma cell migration. The mimetics consist of hydrogels; swollen, cross-linked, yet insoluble, polyme | National Science Foundation | 6/09/2009 |
| TEXAS ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT STATION | $299,927 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 'The research and education plan centers on understanding and manipulating energy transport phenomena within nanostructured complex oxide materials, as well as educating a broad spectrum of students including graduate, undergraduate, and K-12 students in | National Science Foundation | 6/25/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA | $362,857 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project will document Chippewa [ciw] (Ojibwe)conversation and other non-narrative speech genres in at least three distinct varieties, filling a gap in the current documentation of the language. The research team will work with six Chippewa Elders to | National Science Foundation | 7/26/2009 |
| JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY | $113,229 | 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. Th | National Science Foundation | 6/12/2009 |
| MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY | $250,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The investigator and her colleagues propose to develop a new regularization method for ill-posed inverse problems, a method which is an extension of the ideas of the classical 'simplified regularization method' (or 'Lavrentiev's method') and the newer met | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY, THE | $187,046 | 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 |
| COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY | $128,366 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The focus of the proposed research is to design, analyze, and implement accurate and efficient numerical methods for flow problems. As is well known, incompressibility and convection-dominance in flow problems pose significant challenges to numerical simu | National Science Foundation | 8/31/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA SYSTEM | $578,295 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project proposes to examine how mammalian and avian predators, as a group, influence the abundance of a relatively simple assemblage of small mammal consumers consisting of deer mice, montane voles and Columbian ground squirrels. In-turn, we will ex | National Science Foundation | 8/14/2009 |
| CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $479,100 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 'Intellectual Merit: We propose to build an event-driven network, a continuation of the NSF VOEventNet, applying the event-driven technology to Astronomy. There are many large surveys coming online (CRTS, PTF, LOFAR, LIGO, LSST, SKA etc) that are scanni | National Science Foundation | 9/11/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | $376,430 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Embedded systems, consist of a collection of interacting software modules reacting to a continuously evolving environment. Model based design offers an approach to detecting and correcting errors in early stages of design. Emerging theory of hybrid system | National Science Foundation | 7/20/2009 |
| PURDUE UNIVERSITY | $281,065 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Work in variation-aware SoC performance analysis includes developing an emulation-based framework for performance analysis of SoCs under the impact of process variations. The team has focused on SoCs with multiple frequency and voltage islands. During th | National Science Foundation | 8/12/2009 |
| OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $71,167 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: To examine whether the observed positive effects of debt continue with age, we examine three age groups, corresponding to important stages in the transition to adulthood: 1) the six years after high school at ages 18-24, when most who will complete colleg | National Science Foundation | 6/15/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN | $499,996 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Network matrices, such as traffic matrices, delay matrices, adjacency matrices, and social proximity matrices, are essential inputs to a wide range of network applications. Network matrices and the underlying network often exhibit a multi-faceted scaling | National Science Foundation | 8/13/2009 |
| RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE | $317,800 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The project is expected to revolutionize licensed radio spectrum band trading by facilitating the design of secondary spectrum markets and spectrum regulation policies. | National Science Foundation | 8/29/2009 |
| CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY | $399,189 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Science and engineering work is increasingly accomplished by teams of interdependent people performing at different times and places within and across organizations. Prior research shows that it is particularly difficult for members of these 'virtual' tea | National Science Foundation | 9/21/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $286,997 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5)This engineering education research award to the University of Washington will employ researchers to develop a number of assessment techniques for use by both | National Science Foundation | 8/20/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $65,500 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award provides funds to conduct workshops aimed at improving the broader impacts efforts of scientists. Through professional development workshops, scientist-graduate student teams will produce interactive materials based on the ?Ocean Literacy? and | National Science Foundation | 9/10/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS | $1,757,640 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The project will integrate, deploy and support an open source, standards-based CyberIdentity service to leverage the InCommon Federation for identity management, providing the NSF research community with credentials used for authentication and authorizati | National Science Foundation | 8/19/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA | $152,271 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 'The objective of this exploratory effort is to investigate photovoltaic effects in nanoscale ferroelectric films. The approach is to demonstrate higher photovoltaic conversion efficiency in solar cells made from nanoscale ferroelectric films. Compared to | National Science Foundation | 8/27/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | $275,171 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The PIs will study some fundamental problems in algebraic number theory, particularly problems related to the deep links between Galois representations and special values of L-functions (as conjectured in the Birch-Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture and the Bloch | National Science Foundation | 6/18/2009 |
| DREXEL UNIVERSITY | $609,646 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Software Defined Radio (SDR) offers an ideal platform for research and development with wireless communications systems. While there have been numerous successful SDR efforts, none of these platforms have the capability to implement high data rate radio | National Science Foundation | 7/29/2009 |