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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TEXAS ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT STATION | $75,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This engineering education research award to Drexel University in collaboration with Purdue University, Texas Engineering Experiment Station, and Northeastern University will employ researchers to evaluate the effectiveness of using a fully instrumented r | National Science Foundation | 7/22/2009 |
| NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY INC | $1,000,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The award will fund the Northern Illinois University (NIU) group in their research activities in the DO experiment at FNAL, the ATLAS experiment at CERN, de | National Science Foundation | 8/10/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $1,117,581 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Research under this award will focus on a number of areas related to the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) Experiment: 1) co-leading the ongoing collaboration search for periodic sources of gravitational waves; 2) developing new a | National Science Foundation | 6/16/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $360,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Optics and optical tools have played a key role in the scientific development over the last century. In this project, the next generation of optical tools is developed. Specifically, a method to construct the world's first arbitrary optical waveform gener | National Science Foundation | 6/05/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY | $882,361 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). In this project the PIs proposes to investigate the structure of the cerebral cortex with noninvasive diffusion-sensitive Magnetic Resonance imaging (MRI). | National Science Foundation | 9/03/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA | $489,208 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Vortex dynamics in fluids and superfluids lie at the hearts of many important phenomena in physics, including turbulence and the breakdown of superconductivity. While successful models of the bulk properties of such phenomena have been produced, detailed | National Science Foundation | 6/09/2009 |
| LOUISIANA TECH UNIVERSITY | $120,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The two aspects of the search for gravitational wave signals in LIGO data are the search for transient signals in the gravity wave channel, and veto analyses, which aim to eliminate signals that probably have terrestrial causes. The Louisiana Tech group i | National Science Foundation | 8/17/2009 |
| SEATTLE UNIVERSITY | $148,676 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: In this project we study two topics in theoretical nuclear physics related to the structure of hadrons (e.g. protons, neutrons and their antiparticles) and to their interactions. The first topic is the fundamental question of how the properties of a hadr | National Science Foundation | 7/31/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF THE COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES | $510,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). It will support the CSM group to work on the Pierre Auger Observatory (PAO) Cosmic Ray experiment. The high-energy cumulative exposure of the PAO has surp | National Science Foundation | 7/07/2009 |
| VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE & STATE UNIVERSITY | $230,452 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The research objective of this award is to elucidate important self-assembly mechanisms and peptide molecular interactions in nature that could be easily exploited to make high performance materials. These materials could have properties meeting or exceed | National Science Foundation | 8/06/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA | $300,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The research objective of this project focuses on sub-centimeter sized battery-less wireless interface pressure sensors for biomedical application. Compartment Syndrome is a very serious complication that occurs in a cast due to swelling and can cause isc | National Science Foundation | 7/08/2009 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | $481,988 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Understanding the chemistry of organic compounds that are part of atmospheric aerosols is crucial for assessing the impact that aerosols have on climate and the chemical composition of the atmosphere. Given the rich, well documented organic C=C double bon | National Science Foundation | 6/25/2009 |
| WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY | $162,350 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 'Collaborative Research: Tribologically Durable UHMWPE Nanocomposites for Total Joint Replacements: Nano-mechanics and Biotribological Modeling This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The research | National Science Foundation | 5/26/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA | $202,691 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The expressive power of nonlinear programs allows the formulation of a remarkable number of application problems from business, science, engineering, and economics. In the presence of nonconvexity, global optimization of such programs poses unmistakable c | National Science Foundation | 6/15/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $607,660 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: AbstractToroThis award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).The theme of this proposal is the strong relationship that exists between the questions of how the geometry of a domain can be recovered from the | National Science Foundation | 5/29/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA | $391,056 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Developing electronic nanodevices is the next step to improving electronic components because reducing the size of the devices makes them operate faster, at lower power, and at less cost. Nanodevices incorporating one dimensional (1D) nanomaterials, such | National Science Foundation | 7/22/2009 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | $90,549 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The aim of this project is to investigate some mod p aspects of the Langlands program. For GL_2 over the rational numbers, Serre's conjecture, now a theorem of Khare-Wintenberger and Kisin, predicts the modularity of certain mod p Galois representations. | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY | $180,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Casimir effects are macroscopic manifestations of changes in the energy of the quantum ground state. They result from changes in boundary conditions or of classical backgrounds for quantized fields. The corresponding Casimir forces can dominate at micro- | National Science Foundation | 7/31/2009 |
| MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY, THE | $180,926 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Arctic soils have large stores of carbon (C) and may act as a significant CO2 source with warming. However, the key to understanding tundra soil processes is nitrogen (N), as both plant growth and decomposition are severely N limited. However, current mod | National Science Foundation | 7/09/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF IOWA, THE | $272,504 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award will support acquisition of laser illumination/high-speed video imaging instruments that will allow for the study of particle motion in 3D particle suspensions and the collective behavior of dusty plasmas, i.e., studies of wave modes, includes | National Science Foundation | 8/12/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME DU LAC | $497,273 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This proposal requests funds for development of a new Ge detector array, GEORGINA, for use in research at the University of Notre Dame?s (ND) Nuclear Science Laboratory (NSL). NSL operates world-renowned scientific programs in nuclear astrophysics and nuc | National Science Foundation | 9/15/2009 |
| RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY | $540,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: With this award from the Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) program, Piotr Piotrowiak and his research group from Rutgers University - Newark will develop an ultrafast fluorescence microscope. The proposed microscope will combine ultrafast laser technol | National Science Foundation | 7/28/2009 |
| ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY | $381,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Project Title: MRI: Acquisition of an Electron Scanning Microscope for Multidisciplinary Research, Research Training and Undergraduate Education (NSF Award #0923398; PI Jeffrey Chiarenzelli). Funds from this grant will support the acquisition of a scannin | National Science Foundation | 8/12/2009 |
| ST. OLAF COLLEGE | $576,780 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: We are requesting instrumentation that will allow us to use stable isotopes to pursue research projects ranging from carbon and nitrogen biogeochemistry, to food web dynamics, to paleoecological and forensic analyses. These projects will contribute signif | National Science Foundation | 8/10/2009 |
| NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY | $733,503 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Summary. Interaction between hormonal and developmental signals is emerging as a critical mechanism in the generation of the tremendous phenotypic plasticity characteristic of plants. A good example is response to ethylene that depends on tissue type, dev | National Science Foundation | 7/02/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, THE | $807,950 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: RNA, normally thought of as a conduit in gene expression, has a novel mode of action in ciliated protozoa. The PI's lab has shown that maternal RNA templates provide both an organizing guide for DNA rearrangements in Oxytricha and a template that can tran | National Science Foundation | 8/12/2009 |
| IONOGRAPHICS, INC. | $500,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Microfabrication of small quantities of micro-scale metal parts is expensive and time consuming. A computer-aided manufacturing technology (CAM) tool would | National Science Foundation | 7/27/2009 |
| NBE TECHNOLOGIES, LLC | $499,982 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase II project is to accelerate commercialization of NBE?s nanoTach-? technology for joining power semiconductor chips to achieve 5x higher performance, 3x better reliability, and device junction temperatur | National Science Foundation | 7/17/2009 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $99,202 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The project is aimed at the study of geometric evolution equations and related topics, especially the Ricci flow. We study Li-Yau-Hamilton type Harnack inequalities, their relations with PerelmanG??s entropy functional, and their applications to geometric | National Science Foundation | 7/31/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA | $375,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: With the advent of new supercomputers that employ hundreds of thousands of processors and can compute at speeds approaching one quadrillion operations per second, many grand challenge science problems can be solved which were unsolvable even a few years a | National Science Foundation | 9/15/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, THE | $750,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This research proposes a new network architecture, SCAFFOLD, that directly supports the need of wide-area services. SCAFFOLD treats service-level objects (rather than hosts) as first-class citizens and explores a tighter coupling between object-based nami | National Science Foundation | 8/01/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS | $240,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The project develops cryptographic protocol reasoning techniques that take into account algebraic properties of cryptosystems. Traditionally, formal methods for cryptographic protocol verification view cryptographic operations as a black box, ignoring the | National Science Foundation | 7/14/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $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 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | $1,049,842 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The primary objective of this collaborative study is to develop petascale tools applicable to multi-body, fluid-structure interactions in laminar and turbulent flows. Numerical simulations of fluid flows interacting with dynamically, complex-shaped, movin | National Science Foundation | 8/19/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, THE | $449,530 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The primary objective of this collaborative study is to develop petascale tools applicable to multi-body, fluid-structure interactions in laminar and turbulent flows. Numerical simulations of fluid flows interacting with dynamically, complex-shaped, movin | National Science Foundation | 8/19/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS | $831,301 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This proposal seeks to address a wide range of research challenges involving OLAP (OnLine Analytical Processing). This collaborative project is concerned with increasing the ability for analytical processing for information networks. Information networks | National Science Foundation | 7/14/2009 |
| WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, THE | $520,791 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Introduction. Despite large acoustic differences in the speech of various talkers, humans are generally able to understand each other very quickly. The mechanisms by which we are able to map the great acoustic variability we encounter onto a small set of | National Science Foundation | 7/14/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $378,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Proposal Title: RI: Medium: Collaborative Research: Explicit Articulatory Models of Spoken Language, with Application to Automatic Speech Recognition Institution: Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago Abstract Date: 05/22/09This award is funded under | National Science Foundation | 6/26/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN | $382,355 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project determines the fundamental limits of network secrecy from a network coding perspective, and then applies this theory to improve security guarantees in peer-to-peer and wireless networks. As network coding gains prominence as an important stra | National Science Foundation | 7/24/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT RIVERSIDE | $887,433 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The UC Riverside Noyce Scholarship Program focuses on the University's internal partnership among the College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, the Graduate School of Education and the ALPHA Center for Academic Partnerships with the rapidly growing, l | National Science Foundation | 6/01/2009 |
| MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY | $899,665 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: In addition to Michigan Technological Institution, this project includes Saginaw Valley State University, Grand Valley State University, Delta College, and Grand Rapids Community College and two school districts: Saginaw Public Schools and Grand Rapids Pu | National Science Foundation | 5/26/2009 |
| DOWLING COLLEGE | $599,920 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Dowling College Robert Noyce Scholarship Program Phase II Project Summary A shortage of science and math teachers exists statewide in New York, and retention of teachers in high-need schools is low. To address this need, the Dowling College Phase II progr | National Science Foundation | 6/01/2009 |
| VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE & STATE UNIVERSITY | $111,080 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This engineering education research award to VA Polytechnic Inst & State University will study the development of engineering design thinking in undergraduate engineering students using innovations in cognitive science and new methods of analysis. The stu | National Science Foundation | 7/01/2009 |
| TRINITY UNIVERSITY | $1,487,725 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Noyce Teaching Fellows at Trinity University is a partnership among Trinity University; eight San Antonio area school districts; the non-profit Zachry Foundation; the Howard Hughes Medical Institute; and Educational Service Center-Region 20 to support | National Science Foundation | 6/10/2009 |
| DREXEL UNIVERSITY | $403,148 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: We will establish static and dynamic cultures of Trichodesmium erythraeum to determine the potential role that the tri-glycine repeat length of Trichodesmium erythraeumG??s unique collagen plays in nanoscale to colony-scale mechanics. Specifically, we hyp | National Science Foundation | 5/26/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $132,552 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Principal Investigator will work on problems relating arithmetic properties of classical objects of study in algebraic geometry, i.e., so-called rational and nearly rational varieties, to their geometry by means of extremely refined invariants rooted | National Science Foundation | 6/12/2009 |
| CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY | $550,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). It will provide support for the research activities of this group with the Pierre Auger Observatory (PAO) in pursuit of the origins of the highest energy cos | National Science Foundation | 9/07/2009 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $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 objective of this proposal is to explore the fundamental limits for timing jitter in femtosecond (fs) lasers and develop a new technology for optica | National Science Foundation | 6/19/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $126,764 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Residue currents are multivariate generalizations of one complex variable residues, which have found many applications in algebra and analysis, including effective versions of Hilbert?s Nullstellensatz, Brian on-Skoda type theorems, and explicit versions | National Science Foundation | 7/01/2009 |
| HARVARD COLLEGE, PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF | $122,771 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The moduli space of stable curves gives a beautiful compactification of the moduli space of compact Riemann surfaces, and is one of the most studied objects in algebraic geometry. The PI will investigate alternate compactifications, with the long-term goa | National Science Foundation | 6/23/2009 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | $150,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The proposed research program addresses topological questions in algebraic geometry and representation theory. The focus is on the structure of categories of sheaves on moduli spaces arising in gauge theory. The goal is to apply topological field theory a | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, THE | $291,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: In this project, Antonio Montalban studies problems in both pure and applied Computability Theory. The problems in pure computability theory are part of the ongoing program to understand the structure of the Turing Degrees. As for applied computability th | National Science Foundation | 8/30/2009 |
| PURDUE UNIVERSITY | $91,157 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: If a polynomial ring admits a symmetric group action, it is natural to consider alternating polynomials, that is, polynomials which change sign when acted on by any transposition. In natural situations, the families of alternating polynomials and related | National Science Foundation | 8/12/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT | $359,997 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The behavior of harmonic functions and potential functions for processes that have jumps will be studied. In particular, how does smoothness in the coefficients of the operators translate to the smoothness of harmonic and potential functions? Secondly, un | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA | $325,010 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The project involves a study of operations in the Galois cohomology of number fields and their application in Iwasawa theory. The PI has conjectured an explicit relationship between the values of a cup product on cyclotomic p-units and p-adic L-values, ta | National Science Foundation | 5/29/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY | $239,537 | 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 highly sensitive, mechanically robust and mass producible gas micro-detector, designed for integration into a | National Science Foundation | 6/29/2009 |
| GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION | $320,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The objective of this research is to develop functional integrated wireless structures using phononic crystals. To achieve this goal, a combined theoretical and experimental effort in phononic crystals including the following high-level research tasks is | National Science Foundation | 8/20/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY | $567,631 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Professor Wayne will study the behavior of infinite dimensional dynamical systems such as the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam model, the Navier-Stokes equations and the Eul | National Science Foundation | 6/10/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO | $360,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Research award in the Inorganic, Bioinorganic and Organometallic Chemistry program supports work by Professor F. Akif Tezcan at the University of California, San Diego to carry out fundamental/basic studies on the self-assembly of supramolecular prot | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | $407,248 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The PI will extend his work on the statistics of dark matter halos, to address halos that form in surroundings that are described by an ellipsoidal, rather than a spherical, perturbation of the dark matter density. The research will be largely analytic, c | National Science Foundation | 9/14/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | $210,856 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: In 2003, the PI showed that the effective optical depth in the Ly alpha forest region of 1061 low resolution QSO spectra drawn from the SDSS database decreases with decreasing redshift over the range 2.5 z 4. Although the evolution is relatively smooth, | National Science Foundation | 6/05/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $295,577 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The current filamentation instability (CFI, akin to the Weibel instability) may play an important role in astrophysical phenomena, such as gamma ray burst (GRBs) and magnetic field generation, as well as in inertial confinement fusion (ICF), where fluxes | National Science Foundation | 8/11/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, THE | $400,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The goal of this proposal is to develop efficient high-order numerical algorithms and methodology for simulating stiff systems of differential equations on large scale parallel computer architectures. A large number of natural problems in nonlinear physi | National Science Foundation | 9/08/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON SYSTEM | $116,550 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This collaborative investigation into the forest atmosphere photochemistry will apply a unique set of collaborative approaches, focused on the chemistry occurring in the near-canopy environment. It is now well known that forests emit biogenic volatile org | National Science Foundation | 9/11/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $421,158 | 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 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA CRUZ | $489,090 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). As our society stores ever-increasing quantities of digital data and abandons analog storage, we must be able to manage, organize, and preserve digital data | National Science Foundation | 7/25/2009 |
| BROWN UNIVERSITY IN PROVIDENCE IN STATE OF RI AND PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS | $799,440 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Although precipitation is assumed to be the major control of the production of plants in arid and semiarid regions, annual precipitation explains only 20-40 | National Science Foundation | 7/20/2009 |
| CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $405,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 'The thrust of this research effort will focus on the advancement of a unique experimental capability for generating earthquake-like ruptures under controlled laboratory conditions. The experiment features a model specimen with an interface that simulate | National Science Foundation | 6/14/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA SYSTEM | $55,466 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The purpose of the study is to evaluate controversial Precambrian plate tectonic restorations that join the ancient Siberian craton with the ancient North American craton in the hypothetical supercontinent Rodinia. The study aims to produce paleomagnetic | National Science Foundation | 7/26/2009 |
| ARBOR FUEL INC. | $100,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This SBIR Phase I project is for the engineering of a novel recombinant Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain containing a butanol biosynthetic pathway. Currently, most butanol technology development focuses on the genetic manipulation of the Acetone-Butanol-E | National Science Foundation | 6/15/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA | $269,740 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The objective of this research is to advance inertial sensing in combination with remote RF interrogation technologies. This work will leverage developments in wireless devices, inertial sensors, and system design to realize a new class of wireless sensor | National Science Foundation | 7/06/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $352,147 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project focuses on process control and variation reduction issues of the ultrasonic cavitation based nanocomposite fabrication process and targets bringing this process from lab environment to a scale-up industrial environment. The ultrasonic cavitat | National Science Foundation | 6/23/2009 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $623,139 | 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 international GEOTRACES program has been developed to produce a global framework of key trace elements and isotopes that will describe the contemporar | National Science Foundation | 8/26/2009 |
| GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY (THE) | $450,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Analytical and Surface Chemistry Program at NSF Division of Chemistry will support the international collaborative research project of Prof. YuYe Tong of Georgetown University. A Collaborator in the project is Prof. Shi-Gang Sun of Xiamen University, | National Science Foundation | 8/11/2009 |
| BLUEFIN LAB, INC. | $497,550 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: SBIR Phase II Award. The National Science Foundation (NSF), an independent agency of the Federal Government, invites (by solicitation) eligible small business concerns to participate in the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Busi | National Science Foundation | 8/03/2009 |
| INDUSTRIAL OPTICAL MEASUREMENT SYSTEMS | $500,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The complete abstract for this award is available at www.research.gov | National Science Foundation | 7/17/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES | $361,900 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Title: Altered Nociception and Neuronal Migration. Reelin binds to neurons that express the lipoprotein receptors Vldlr and Apoer2, and induces tyrosine phosphorylation of the adaptor protein Disabled1 (Dab1) by Src-family kinases. Mice with mutations in | National Science Foundation | 7/16/2009 |
| RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE | $378,154 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The objective of this work is to demonstrate a more efficient method for kinetic to electrical energy conversion based on variable capacitors. The approach is to actively control the dielectric medium of the capacitors and switch from air to liquid durin | National Science Foundation | 7/01/2009 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $329,936 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Where should ambulances be placed to minimize the time required to reach calls for help? Emergency Medical Services (EMS) providers increasingly rely on sophisticated operations research (OR) models for such ambulance-deployment questions. These models de | National Science Foundation | 6/23/2009 |
| TEXAS ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT STATION | $175,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 'The research objective of this BRIGE award is to establish a performance-based design methodology to reflect the response of a bridge system prestressed with aramid fiber reinforced polymer (AFRP) tendons and subjected to service, cyclic (fatigue), and u | National Science Foundation | 7/06/2009 |
| LAMAR UNIVERSITY | $167,451 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Gas turbine engines have been widely used in power generation and aircraft propoulsion. Any increase of the gas turbine efficiency can lead to a significant saving of energy. To improve the efficiency, the turbine inlet temperature is usually elevated to | National Science Foundation | 7/24/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO | $914,696 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The PIs request funding to develop the next generation of mini-floats for in situ measurement of currents and environmental variables (fluorescence, temperature, PAR). The principal objective of these mini-floats is to sample oceanic processes at high tem | National Science Foundation | 9/18/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS | $301,350 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project addresses multi-scale characterization and modeling bone, with a focus on identifying the differences between normal and osteoporotic bone. Osteoporosis is a silent bone disease which is characterized by low bone density and deterioration of | National Science Foundation | 6/15/2009 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $200,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This study plans to investigate energetic costs in the steady free flight of Drosophila, and how the mechanical stability of 3D flapping flight affects maneuvering. The PIs will further investigate the trade-off between energetic demands and maneuverabili | National Science Foundation | 8/17/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA | $140,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The PI plans to develop a novel hybrid wall-modeling strategy for large-eddy simulation (LES) of compressible wall-bounded flows, After formally developing the model, hybrid LES of attached compressible boundary layers will be performed. The model will be | National Science Foundation | 8/20/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING | $149,961 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The purpose of this project is to test the hypothesis that shifts in the seasonality of warm-season precipitation could be a key driver of the boreal forestG??s responses to climate changes over the coming century. In the boreal forest, moisture availabil | National Science Foundation | 6/25/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $217,297 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Funding is provided to obtain new ice core accumulation records from Combatant Col, Mt. Waddington, in southwestern British Columbia (BC), Canada. Combatant Col is located significantly farther south than other existing ice core sites along the west coast | National Science Foundation | 6/04/2009 |
| PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE | $151,459 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Recent developments in the understanding of Pleistocene glacial records in the western U.S. reveal spatial variability in the onset of the last glacial-interglacial transition (GIT; the time ~17-10 ka) among the northern, middle, southern Rocky Mountains, | National Science Foundation | 9/12/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA | $454,632 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award supports analyses of two cores recovered in 2005 from the floor of Lake Malawi, in Africa. These cores contain approximately 350,000 years of temperature and rainfall proxies from the central basin of Lake Malawi. Initial results from the Lake | National Science Foundation | 8/26/2009 |
| HARVARD COLLEGE, PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF | $461,147 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Funding is provided to investigate equator-to-pole temperature differences and high-latitude seasonality during the equable climate of the Eocene Period when both were much smaller than they are today. These circumstances are difficult to explain within t | National Science Foundation | 6/09/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA | $233,724 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This grant supports a collaborative project between the University of New Mexico, Northern Arizona University and the University of Minnesota, Duluth which will conduct detailed analyses of a unique 82-m long lacustrine sediment core (VC-3) from the Valle | National Science Foundation | 8/26/2009 |
| CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY | $253,233 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Paleoclimate research has yielded a number of proxy records from a variety of sources (e.g. tree rings, cave deposits, shorelines, beach deposits, and lake sediments etc.) in the American Southwest and provided important information of southwest climate f | National Science Foundation | 8/26/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS | $156,981 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Funding is provided to obtain new ice core accumulation records from Combatant Col, Mt.Waddington, in southwestern British Columbia (BC), Canada. Combatant Col is located significantly farther south than other existing ice core sites along the west coast | National Science Foundation | 6/04/2009 |
| KENT STATE UNIVERSITY | $2,756,719 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training (IGERT) project represents an interdisciplinary, dual-institution (Kent State and Miami University) program focused on environmental aquatic resource sensing. The purpose of the program is to train | National Science Foundation | 7/09/2009 |
| FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE | $366,378 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The proposed project will provide a detailed assessment of non-Gaussian atmospheric variability in order to understand and predict the probability of extreme events in the atmosphere. In non-technical terms, an extreme event is a high-impact, hard-to-pred | National Science Foundation | 6/25/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE | $299,999 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Quantum information processing holds the potential to revolutionize our understanding of computational complexity and solve problems in physics simulations, combinatorial analysis, and secure communications with unprecedented efficiency. While the prospec | National Science Foundation | 7/14/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $149,845 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Recent advances in computing and measurement technologies have given subject-matter scientists opportunities to develop large scale experiments and ambitious information collection schemes that have led to various types of high-dimensional correlated data | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS | $416,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Although the world is very much three-dimensional, most of today's approaches to visual object recognition essentially reduce the problem to one of 2D pattern classification, where rectangular image patches are independently compared to stored templates t | National Science Foundation | 6/22/2009 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $863,783 | 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 Petascale Arctic-Atlantic-Antarctic Virtual Experiment (PAVE) will be a kilometer resolution, planetary scale ocean and sea ice simulation that will f | National Science Foundation | 7/08/2009 |
| THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC | $835,243 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The researchers are developing new theoretical models and technology to automatically convert descriptive text into 3D scenes representing the text?s meaning. They do this via the Scenario-Based Lexical Knowledge Resource (SBLR), a resource they are creat | National Science Foundation | 6/10/2009 |
| DREXEL UNIVERSITY | $199,999 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: There is a growing need for wireless networks that can sustain high data rates, are robust to interference, make efficient use of battery resources, and offer secure communications. This project introduces cooperative beamforming (CB), a novel technique t | National Science Foundation | 9/03/2009 |
| PURDUE UNIVERSITY | $300,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Though perhaps unfortunate, as a practical matter, software is often built with functionality as a primary goal, and security features are only added later, often after vulnerabilities have been identified. To reduce the cost and increase assurance in the | National Science Foundation | 7/28/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN | $950,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: We increasingly rely on MAD Services, systems that span Multiple Administrative Domains. Examples include cloud computing, peer-to-peer streaming, Internet routing, and wireless mesh routing. Unfortunately, when different parties control a system's nodes, | National Science Foundation | 7/27/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, THE | $127,808 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: In this proposal, the PI plans to study various problems at the intersection of low dimensional topology and low dimensional dynamics on the one hand, and symplectic geometry and topology on the other hand. The purpose is to improve our understanding of c | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $576,782 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 'Telescopes on the ground must observe objects in deep space through the interference of the earth's atmosphere. As light passes through the atmosphere it gets spread out by turbulence due to wind shear and changes in temperature and pressure within the | National Science Foundation | 8/06/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON | $132,717 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The purpose of this project is to study mathematical models of nonlinear dispersive waves that occur in fluids, plasmas, and are encounters in many physical phenomena. Research will be conducted on the stability and instability of solitary waves in nonlin | National Science Foundation | 6/16/2009 |
| TEXAS A & M RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $129,120 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The object of the proposed research is the study of the distribution of mass of high dimensional convex bodies or more general of log-concave probability measures. Recently, several classical results from probability theory have been extended to the broad | National Science Foundation | 6/16/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $510,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Solar energy is the most likely global solution to the world?s long-range energy needs. Solar energy can be either directly converted to electricity or catalytically converted into fuels that store the energy for later use. One of the most promising metho | National Science Foundation | 8/07/2009 |
| LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY, THE | $1,205,685 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Scientific practice in fields ranging from computational biology to image understanding generates ever more datasets in which massive numbers of features are measured per observational unit. The resulting high-dimensional datasets are often mined for feat | National Science Foundation | 6/12/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $0 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Improvements in the energy efficiency of a wide spectrum of advanced engineering systems that utilize structural, load-bearing materials are an essential element of the future economic health and well-being of society. Higher temperature / lighter weight | National Science Foundation | 5/27/2009 |
| THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC | $75,429 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award by the Biomaterials program in the Division of Materials Research to Columbia University is study the use of molecular engineering to create novel bifunctional enzymes that can self-assemble into hydrogels and support an intra-gel metabolic pat | National Science Foundation | 7/07/2009 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | $440,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: TECHNICAL SUMMARY The ability of flow fields to strongly perturb molecular-scale structure in polymers has profound scientific and technological consequences. The nonlinear rheology of polymers is directly attributed to stretching and alignment of polyme | National Science Foundation | 6/05/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO | $300,560 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is supporting a scientific investigation to substantially lower the manufacturing cost of highly efficient solar cells. These solar cells, made from chemical elements from Group III and V of the periodic table, boast well over 40% solar-to-ele | National Science Foundation | 6/18/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | $345,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Dynamic contact networks in granular systems: New insights into fracture & segregation. Understanding how and when particulate matter such as sand or gravel will respond to stress and start to flow is an important problem in a wide range of fields such | National Science Foundation | 8/13/2009 |
| VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE & STATE UNIVERSITY | $337,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project has three main goals. The first is to develop new techniques in time-dependent molecular quantum mechanics that are specifically designed to describe proton transfer reactions. These reactions are fundamental to many chemical and biological p | National Science Foundation | 6/17/2009 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | $560,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: TECHNICAL SUMMARY: Novel experimental techniques are developed to investigate size-scale plasticity in one dimensional metallic nanostructures. Additionally, atomistic models of the experiments are proposed to pursue one-to-one comparison of deformation f | National Science Foundation | 5/27/2009 |
| PURDUE UNIVERSITY | $260,853 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The present project includes three focused directions of research. In the first direction of research, the PI will study stochastic differential equations driven by fractional Brownian motions. Such equations naturally arise as candidates for the evolutio | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON SYSTEM | $348,645 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The goals of this research are to achieve greater understanding of synthesis and processing of new types of crystalline silicon and silicon nanostructures, to characterize their basic electronic and optical properties, and to explore their utility in prot | National Science Foundation | 5/27/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | $221,500 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: PI proposes three main lines of research all within the general framework of reductive algebraic groups and geometry. In the first main line the PI continues his project of using the theta correspondence and differential geometry to construct Siegel (res | National Science Foundation | 8/02/2009 |
| WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, THE | $240,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Fractional quantum Hall liquids are among the most fascinating states of matter, and are one of the landmark discoveries of the past twenty five-years. Recent numerical and experimental evidence indicates the possibility of an even more exotic variant of | National Science Foundation | 7/07/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER | $289,134 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Dr. Alice Quillen (University of Rochester) will lead a theoretical study of the orbital dynamics of the early phases of planet formation. She will focus on the gravitational interactions of protoplanets and small bodies, and will relate dust production a | National Science Foundation | 8/11/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING | $399,249 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This is a 4-year scientific research program in the field of observational astronomy conducted at the University of Wyoming. This program will result in a better understanding of the formation of stars, and will train undergraduate and graduate students | National Science Foundation | 7/26/2009 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $631,579 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Our knowledge of how crustal magma chambers evolve and how these magma chambers relate to plutons and eruptions is inadequate, largely because nobody has yet conducted a comprehensive study of an active crustal magma chamber. This project provides a uniqu | National Science Foundation | 7/02/2009 |
| TEXAS ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT STATION | $500,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 'This award provides funding for a 3 year standard award to support a Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) in Engineering Site program at Texas A&M University (TAMU) entitled, 'RET Site: Enrichment Experiences in Engineering (E3) for Teachers Summer Re | National Science Foundation | 8/11/2009 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $668,600 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Dr. Loredo and his team will develop Bayesian multi-level modeling for astrophysical problems. Bayesian multi-level models decompose the random variation in measured quantities into distinct layers, each representing a different contribution: layers 'clos | National Science Foundation | 9/03/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON SYSTEM | $152,772 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Principle Investigator (PI) will study the generic behaviors of periodically forced Hopf oscillators, based on a more general form, in the analysis of the mammalian auditory system. This includes gaining an understanding of the implication of multipl | National Science Foundation | 6/09/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA | $100,376 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The investigator studies some mathematical models that occur in three specific areas: electromagnetism, solid mechanics, and fluid mechanics. In the first pr | National Science Foundation | 5/27/2009 |
| CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY | $450,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Materials World Network program award by the Biomaterials program and Office of Special Programs in the Division of Materials Research to Cleveland State University (CSU) is to study responsive hydrogel materials that can exhibit drastic changes in t | National Science Foundation | 7/31/2009 |
| MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY | $500,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This RET Site program aims to establish a strong partnership between MSU, the hosting institution, the NSF Engineering Research Center (ERC) for Wireless Integrated MicroSystems (WIMS), the co-hosting institution, school districts, and industry on advanci | National Science Foundation | 7/24/2009 |
| OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $750,632 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project will undertake a unique, wide-ranging, and systematic study of the deaths of massive stars in the local universe, including supernovae, failed supernovae, and the properties of their progenitors. The first part is a new survey to monitor mas | National Science Foundation | 9/01/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA CRUZ | $443,795 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Our knowledge of how crustal magma chambers evolve and how these magma chambers relate to plutons and eruptions is inadequate, largely because nobody has y | National Science Foundation | 7/02/2009 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $481,961 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Dr Chakrabarty and his team will use the Murchison Widefield Array, an innovative low-frequency radio telescope currently under construction in Western Au | National Science Foundation | 8/20/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN | $566,803 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Dr. Michael Montgomery of the University of Texas will lead a combined observational and theoretical project to study pulsating white dwarf stars. They will use the Argos timeseries photometer on the 2.1m at McDonald Observatory, supplemented by the 4.1m | National Science Foundation | 6/09/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN | $344,845 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Funds are provided to examine the nature and cause of shortterm ice sheet velocity changes. The work field would occur near Swiss Camp, Greenland and focus on the interactions between the ice sheet, the atmosphere and the bed through an integrated observa | National Science Foundation | 8/28/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA SYSTEM | $474,340 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This research wil make a direct test of the hypothesis that surface melt water penetrates to the bed of the ice sheet where it directly influences ice sliding rates. Further, this work will test the notion that observations and descriptions of processes | National Science Foundation | 8/24/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA | $730,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). In this award funded by the Experimental Physical Chemistry Program of the Division of Chemistry, Professor Michael Bowers of University of California, Santa | National Science Foundation | 7/22/2009 |
| LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY, THE | $250,326 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Understanding seismic ground motion in the high frequency range (>1 Hz) is of substantial interest to the engineering community since the resonance frequency of most man-made structures lies within it. In this frequency range, ground motion is relatively | National Science Foundation | 8/31/2009 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $530,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Intellectual Merit A long tradition links the modeling and analysis of rainfall extremes to Gumbel's extreme-value (EV) theory (and more recently Pickan | National Science Foundation | 7/19/2009 |
| THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC | $142,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project involves an investigation of different technical approaches used to image the Earth's interior. Much of what is known about the structure, composition and temperature of the deep Earth comes from mapping of elastic properties using seismic wa | National Science Foundation | 8/20/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY | $94,822 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: In the time since the previous American Recovery and Reinvestment Act report (July 2010), I have been implementing a version of the finite-frequency kernels that accounts for the fact that a single surface-wave observation represents sensitivity to freque | National Science Foundation | 8/20/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE | $2,999,999 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Technology infrastructure in the healthcare realm requires secure and effective systems to meet two of its most significant challenges of the 21st century: improving the quality of care and controlling costs. Yet developing, deploying and using informatio | National Science Foundation | 7/10/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH | $189,379 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The project entails quantifying how rapid, extensive changes in forest structure and composition associated with Mountain Pine Beetle (MPB) infestation of western montane forests affect the coupling of water, carbon, and nitrogen cycles. MPB infestation a | National Science Foundation | 9/18/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA CRUZ | $92,390 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: A foundation of Earth Sciences is the ability to relate spatial arrangements of geologic features such as tectonic plate boundaries, earthquake-related ruptures, mountain uplifts and fault patterns in general to their causative forces. In this regard, geo | National Science Foundation | 7/19/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA | $600,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Analytical and Surface Chemistry (ASC) program of the Division of Chemistry will support the research program of Prof. Julia Xiaojun Zhao of University of North Dakota. Prof. Zhao and her students will develop a series of new near-infrared fluorescent | National Science Foundation | 7/19/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA | $391,382 | 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 margins of continents have been subducted to profound depths (more than 100 km) deep within Earth?s interior many times throughout the last 500 million | National Science Foundation | 7/04/2009 |
| WIOPTIX, INC. | $99,987 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: SBIR Phase I: Development of Miniature Endoscopic Imaging Probe for In Vivo Noninvasive Optical Imaging for Early Diagnosis of Lung Cancers | National Science Foundation | 6/03/2009 |
| INTELLIGENT BUILDING UTILITY CONSERVATION SYSTEMS, LLC | $99,990 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: SBIR Phase I: Isolating Specific Appliance Energy Usage from Whole Building Energy Consumption | National Science Foundation | 7/01/2009 |
| IMAGINE RESEARCH | $100,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project will research sound-object recognition algorithms for use by professional and consumer audio recording and live sound engineers. Algorithms for robust off-line instrument recognition, music loop retr | National Science Foundation | 6/09/2009 |
| TEXAS AGRILIFE RESEARCH | $406,885 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The transmission cycle of many important infectious agents includes not only the hosts but also their environments. After infection of a host with a pathogen like Escherichia coli, Listeria monocytogenes, or Salmonella spp, large numbers of the pathogen m | National Science Foundation | 7/14/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA | $154,610 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The University of Arizona (UA) is replicating components of a successful outreach, mentoring, networking and research program that engages underrepresented high school and undergraduate students in the geosciences. The Southern Arizona Geosciences Union f | National Science Foundation | 8/16/2009 |
| COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY | $159,601 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The methods of numerical algebraic geometry extend the reach of algebraic geometry to problems for which existing symbolic methods are not well suited, e.g., due to the number of variables or the inexactness of the coefficients. The value of these methods | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS | $273,650 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The investigator and his colleagues will continue the study on diffeomorphic deformation of shapes. This framework supplies a rigorous mathematical metric on the shape space, a valuable quantitative measurement of the similarities between shapes. In the p | National Science Foundation | 8/11/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF OREGON | $584,551 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Thermal Adaptation in Animals in the Temperate Zone - A Response to Rapid Climate Warming in Nature? Summary: In general, when scientists and the lay public consider rapid climate warming, they immediately think of the direct effects of temperature on th | National Science Foundation | 8/01/2009 |
| KENT STATE UNIVERSITY | $329,404 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Saprotrophic fungi are the primary agents of leaf litter decomposition in forest ecosystems. Fungal communities develop on millions of senescent leaves each | National Science Foundation | 7/30/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | $148,282 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This proposal requests funds to support research by a Ph.D. student, who is working to establish a record of sulfur isotope ratios (involving all four sulfur isotopes) using carbonate associated sulfate as a proxy of seawater sulfate and using this record | National Science Foundation | 7/26/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $63,379 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Accurate predictions of community and ecosystem responses to climate change will require identifying not only the direct effects of altered climate on species, but also the indirect effects that occur through biotic interactions or as a result of species | National Science Foundation | 7/13/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA | $600,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Although fusion of sperm and egg to form a new organism was first observed microscopically over 160 years ago, the proteins on the surface of the sperm and egg that facilitate this process are still largely unknown. Over the last decade, the small (~1mm) | National Science Foundation | 6/24/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES | $337,346 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: While the factors that determine the distribution of species in natural ecosystems are relatively well understood, we are lacking a strong conceptual framework for the spatial distribution, diversity, and function of urban plants. This study of the bioge | National Science Foundation | 8/12/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE | $759,830 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Lakes, estuaries, and coastal marine waters throughout the world have been degraded by over-enrichment with plant nutrients such as nitrogen (N) that cause algal blooms, and eventually deplete dissolved oxygen. Nitrogen exports to aquatic ecosystems have | National Science Foundation | 7/16/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA SYSTEM | $3,000,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This collaborative project between two EPSCoR jurisdictions (Montana and Kentucky), and partners from industry and the public sector, will develop an integrated sensor and ecological informatics system through the use of modern cyberinfrastructure resourc | National Science Foundation | 8/17/2009 |
| PURDUE UNIVERSITY | $1,042,558 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Numerous plant compounds, including natural plant growth regulators, defensive compounds, pathogen-induced phytoalexins, pollinator attractants and flavor compounds, contain benzoyl moieties derived from benzoic acid and play crucial roles in plant surviv | National Science Foundation | 8/11/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY | $400,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Cytokinins are hormones vital for plant growth. They control cell division, the development of water and nutrient transport systems and the aging process of leaves and stems. This project aims to investigate how plant cells respond to cytokinin, and it w | National Science Foundation | 6/24/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA | $392,796 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Fungal cells exhibit a diverse array of shapes, ranging from highly polarized hyphae that grow solely by apical extension, to ovoid yeast cells that undergo alternating cycles of apical and isotropic growth. Nevertheless, annotation of multiple genome seq | National Science Foundation | 6/24/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | $56,718 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The projects in this proposal involve conducting economic experiments to provide a better understanding of how individuals respond to life-time wage profiles as well as how they respond to wage inequality among peers. Although critical to understanding fi | National Science Foundation | 8/24/2009 |
| TEXAS A & M RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $47,286 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Existing beach-dune models do not consider how and when sediment gets transferred to the backshore where they become available for transport by the wind. Rather, existing models largely ascribe regional variations in dune morphology to fixed constraints o | National Science Foundation | 8/16/2009 |
| NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC. | $608,400 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Intellectual Merit of the Proposed Activity Traditionally, the key intellectual framework for examining the distributional consequences of trade has been the Stolper-Samuelson Theorem of the Heckscher-Ohlin model. Recently, however, several limitations ha | National Science Foundation | 8/04/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES | $47,240 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Collaborative Research: Identification and estimation of semiparametric panel data models | National Science Foundation | 7/22/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA | $725,195 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: While the mechanisms and genetics of aerobic hydrocarbon biodegradation have been explored for decades, very little is known about the comparable activities of these environmentally important processes in anaerobic bacteria, which are difficult to isolate | National Science Foundation | 7/20/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $152,306 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project will investigate the origin of large, striking landforms that occur in areas of thick loess (sediment formed by deposition of wind-blown dust), in North America, northern China, and central Europe. These landforms may extend for tens of kilom | National Science Foundation | 6/24/2009 |
| NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY | $297,256 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The perceived environmental roles of siderophores, biogenic chelating agents exuded by organisms to increase the bioavailability of iron by complexation, has traditionally excluded other important trace metals and focused largely on biologically facilitat | National Science Foundation | 7/31/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE | $250,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: LiT: Interactive Effects of Multiple Environmental Stressors on Mitochondrial Metabolism and Bioenergetics in a Model Marine Ectotherm, Crassostrea virginica While among the most productive areas of the ocean, estuaries and coastal zones often suffer a h | National Science Foundation | 8/14/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN | $599,680 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The goal of this project is to extend current models of marital development by examining the links between external stress and relationship behaviors through the assessment of marital quality, and relationship skills of couples over the early years of mar | National Science Foundation | 8/16/2009 |
| OHIO UNIVERSITY | $152,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The goal of this project is to assess the long-term impacts of invasive species on speciation, extinction, and community reorganization by analyzing a particularly well characterized interval of intense invasive activity preserved in the Late Ordovician s | National Science Foundation | 7/26/2009 |
| PURDUE UNIVERSITY | $335,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Perhaps the most important unanswered question facing the climatologists, policy makers, and humanity at large is how will the anticipated global warming impact regional rainfall patterns? Our best tool for assessing how precipitation patterns in arid reg | National Science Foundation | 7/30/2009 |
| OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY | $145,753 | 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 |
| WABASH COLLEGE | $132,718 | 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 |
| HOPE COLLEGE | $416,767 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: These funds will be utilized to acquire a 400 MHz NMR spectrometer to support primarily undergraduate research that includes mechanistic elucidation of transition metal-catalyzed carbon-carbon bond activation methodology, design of prodrugs for possible a | National Science Foundation | 7/29/2009 |
| CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY | $69,086 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE ON CASUALTY RECORDING AND ESTIMATON - Civilized societies maintain orderly, accessible records of casualties, preserving the identity of those who have suffered in a respectful manner, and estimating their numbers as measures of soci | National Science Foundation | 6/05/2009 |
| COLLEGE OF SAINT BENEDICT | $364,681 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: With this award from the Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) program, Edward J. McIntee, Kate Graham, Brian Johnson, Thomas Jones and Chris Schaller from the College of Saint Benedict will acquire a 400 MHz NMR spectrometer to support chemical research o | National Science Foundation | 8/07/2009 |
| FLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY | $449,313 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Investigators at Florida Gulf Coast University (FGCU) are requesting funding from the National Science Foundation to purchase an inverted confocal microscope to be housed in Holmes Hall, the new home of the recently-formed (2005) U.A. Whitaker School of E | National Science Foundation | 8/03/2009 |
| SOUTH CAROLINA RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $591,351 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Linking infaunal hydraulic activities, porewater flow and biogeochemical processes in marine sediments Intellectual Merit: Most of the oceanic seafloor is pervaded by burrows and tubes of infauna. Activities of these animals, such as burrowing, feeding, a | National Science Foundation | 9/18/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA | $180,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The research objective of this Grant Opportunity for Academic Liaison with Industry (GOALI) Collaborative Research award is to develop capabilities for engi | National Science Foundation | 7/16/2009 |
| RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY | $497,513 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The island of Barbados provides an excellent approximation of the global sea level history. Uranium series and radiocarbon dating of fossil corals from wire line drill cores have already provided a sea level record for the deglacial and an expanded record | National Science Foundation | 6/29/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY | $462,651 | 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 the | National Science Foundation | 8/10/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS | $4,994,911 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Chicago Transformation Teacher Institutes (CTTI), which involves five institutions of higher education (University of Illinois at Chicago, DePaul University, Illinois Institutes of Technology, Loyola University Chicago, and Northwestern University) an | National Science Foundation | 5/28/2009 |
| FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY | $150,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The objective of this project is to develop innovative methods for simple and accurate large-scale aerodynamic testing of low-rise buildings. The research will seek answers to fundamental bluff body aerodynamics issues of interest in civil engineering app | National Science Foundation | 7/31/2009 |
| CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY | $1,206,078 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The objective of this research is to develop a cyber-physical system composed of accelerometers and novel machine learning algorithms to analyze data in the context of a set of driving health care applications. The approach is to develop novel machine lea | National Science Foundation | 9/05/2009 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | $196,645 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This NSF award by the Biosensing /CBET program supports work by Professor Hooman Mohseni at Northwestern University to study a novel nano-structure called 'Plasmon-Polariton Crystal' and to explore the possibility of detecting single molecules without att | National Science Foundation | 8/19/2009 |
| CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $200,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This proposal describes a research plan to develop methods that use earth-abundant materials and sunlight to enable the reduction of carbon dioxide to chemical fuels that are thermodynamically active but kinetically stable. The development of efficient m | National Science Foundation | 8/16/2009 |
| PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY | $117,116 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Seafloor hydrothermal vents that expel fluids with temperatures from ~2C to less than 400C, provide habitats for a diversity of microbes that subsist off geochemical fluxes from Earth's interior as opposed to making food from sunlight. Many vent micro-org | National Science Foundation | 7/22/2009 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $5,200,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award supports Cornell University to perform accelerator and X-ray technology R&D for an ultrahigh spectral brightness, hard x-ray synchrotron radiation source based on the Energy Recovery Linac (ERL) principle. The high coherence and temporal proper | National Science Foundation | 8/17/2009 |
| NEVADA SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION | $55,581 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This RAPID project is a study of the changes in volatile organic carbon (VOC) emissions from Lodgepole pine trees (Pinus contorta var. latifolia) as a result of the rapidly expanding infestation of pine bark beetles (Dendroctonus ponderosae) in the Wester | National Science Foundation | 6/17/2009 |
| FLORIDA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, INC. | $199,971 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This proposal describes the creation of a unique and innovative Nanoscience and Technology (NST) Minor program at the Florida Institute of Technology (Florida Tech). The success of this NSF-funded NST Minor program will be due to these unique features: | National Science Foundation | 9/01/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $31,860 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).Dr. Jason De Leon (University of Washington) will undertake research on the relationship between shifts in recent United States Border Patrol security measure | National Science Foundation | 6/23/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS | $148,070,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (P.L. 111-5). The award is made to the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) for the construction of the Alaska Region Research Vessel (ARRV) based on the approval to proceed rec | National Science Foundation | 5/27/2009 |
| GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION | $2,499,996 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Georgia Institute of Technology proposes an innovative program - Operation Reboot - that assists both unemployed IT workers who wish to make a career switch into high school teaching and existing high school teachers who wish to become more proficient in | National Science Foundation | 8/15/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF OREGON | $299,758 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The ability to modulate specific steps in gene expression via 'designer' regulatory elements has broad application in basic research and biotechnology. Ribonucleic acid (RNA) binding proteins can modulate RNA-mediated events, but most RNA binding proteins | National Science Foundation | 7/30/2009 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $284,444 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Efficient nanomanufacturing of arbitrary structures is a major scientific challenge and a mjor technological opportunity. This concept of this proposal is that computational thinking will bootstrap any technology for constructing basic building blocks and | National Science Foundation | 9/02/2009 |
| SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY | $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 project is a two-phase theory-based study of virtual organizations that enable massive virtual collaboration in scientific research. The virtual organiz | National Science Foundation | 9/11/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN | $1,000,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The project is funded to support current 3 year Graduate Fellows on tenure in science and engineering fields. | National Science Foundation | 8/11/2009 |
| CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY | $1,000,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The National Science Foundation aims to ensure the vitality of the human resource base of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics in the United States and to reinforce its diversity by offering approximately 1,654 graduate fellowships in this co | National Science Foundation | 8/13/2009 |
| HARVARD COLLEGE, PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF | $52,739 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The proposed EaGER (Early Grant for Exploratory Research) is designed to facilitate the application of a new geochemical tool (Ca isotopes) to the field of mantle geochemistry using the well-studied Hawaiian lavas as a case study. This is an exploratory s | National Science Foundation | 8/19/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA | $378,368 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: We plan high spatial resolution mid-IR (MIR, 7 ? 26?m) imaging, spectroscopy, and polarimetry of nearby active galactic nuclei (AGN) and their host galaxies, exploiting the sub-arcsecond resolution 8-10m telescopes afford. The fueling of black holes occu | National Science Foundation | 9/05/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, THE | $889,822 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The intent of this research is to develop general-purpose low-cost astronomical instrumentation that can be used by interested members of the community. Traditional radio astronomy instrumentation is highly specialized one-off type of hardware. This resea | National Science Foundation | 9/05/2009 |
| WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION | $267,983 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Globular clusters are dense conglomerations of old stars that orbit the halo of our galaxy, the Milky Way. With an average number of stars in a given region of space that can be hundreds of times greater than in the Milky Way itself, globular clusters rep | National Science Foundation | 7/28/2009 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, THE | $553,311 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Radial Velocity Experiment (RAVE) is an unprecedented, large spectroscopic survey to measure radial velocities and stellar atmosphere parameters (temperature, metallicity, surface gravity), and hence distances, for up to one million (bright) stars in | National Science Foundation | 9/01/2009 |
| OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $287,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award from the Condensed Matter and Materials Theory program supports research and education in theoretical condensed matter, atomic, and optical physics. The central core of the proposed effort will seek an improved understanding of the phases, ex | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $300,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Intellectual merit. The project will test the hypothesis that nutrient transporters possess functional versatility and genetic malleability that allow them to serve as wedges in the evolutionary divergence of bacteria. Individual transporter genes will be | National Science Foundation | 7/10/2009 |
| RECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA | $499,771 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Heterogeneous architectures with specialized coprocessors are gaining momentum due to compelling performance and energy-efficiency benefits. Heterogeneity introduces two main challenges: how to select the best coprocessor for a particular task, and how to | National Science Foundation | 7/27/2009 |
| CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY | $490,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: We will acquire two instruments in order to probe the complex interactions between gas-phase organic oxidation chemistry and the evolution of organic particulate matter (PM). One instrument is a Chemical Ionization Mass Spectrometer (CIMS) designed for fl | National Science Foundation | 8/21/2009 |
| RECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA | $474,754 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The use of x-rays impacts countless lives across multiple disciplines, most notably in medicine. In addition to familiar radiological applications, x-rays also provide critical information regarding the structure of materials over a range of sizes dependi | National Science Foundation | 9/14/2009 |
| RECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA | $289,136 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project is supported by the Science, Technology and Society program. Its goal is to develop a conceptual reorientation of certain aspects of the evolution of communication. Central to that reorientation is a close study of a type of behavior which bi | National Science Foundation | 7/28/2009 |
| CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY | $329,999 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project involves the development of novel materials and processes for the rapid electrophoretic separation of DNA, as required for DNA sequencing applications. The proposed methos uses dilute suspensions of nanoemulsion droplets that transiently bin | National Science Foundation | 7/27/2009 |
| OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY | $199,914 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Thermoelectric materials have the potential to directly convert waste heat into electrical energy. Nanocomposite bulk thermoelectric materials can be fabrica | National Science Foundation | 7/29/2009 |
| CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY | $349,968 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project will develop and apply a suite of freely-available internet chat-based tutorials for integrating computer modeling and design skills within any mechanical engineering undergraduate program. These tutorials will not only allow students to nav | National Science Foundation | 7/22/2009 |
| PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE | $238,622 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Dr. Kargaltsev (University of Florida) and Dr. Pavlov (Pennsylvania State University) will undertake a systematic analysis of the multiwavelength propertie | National Science Foundation | 7/02/2009 |
| PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE | $295,596 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Dr. Richard Wade will carry out a program of multi-epoch radial velocity observations of subdwarf B stars in binaries to establish whether their orbits are | National Science Foundation | 9/08/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS | $305,256 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Title: Measuring Mass Distributions in Moderate-Redshift Galaxies Through Gravitational Lensing. The main scientific aim of this program is to obtain observations of the mass distributions in moderate-redshift galaxies, ranging from the large-scale halo | National Science Foundation | 8/17/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE | $228,612 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The search for ``first light'' is the search for the origin of structure in the universe, the epoch when galaxies formed in the darkness. These galaxies illuminated the neutral universe, ionizing the intergalactic medium. Recent breakthroughs in cosmolog | National Science Foundation | 8/26/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, THE | $463,926 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This is a project to survey the sky using the Allen Telescope Array, a radio telescope designed and constructed jointly by UC Berkeley and the SETI Institute. A key science project with the ATA is the Five GHz Sky Survey (FiGSS), that will cover one thir | National Science Foundation | 8/28/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII SYSTEMS | $97,412 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).Telescopes on the ground must observe objects in deep space through the interference of the earth's atmosphere. As light passes through the atmosphere it gets | National Science Foundation | 9/21/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, THE | $99,621 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This collaborative team plans to investigate the evolution of interplanetary coronal mass ejections (ICMEs) at large distances from the Sun. They expect to identify the reasons that existing models do not accurately describe this ICME evolution. With this | National Science Foundation | 9/17/2009 |
| RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, THE | $353,566 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The westerly wind phase of the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) often triggers oceanic Kelvin waves in the equatorial West Pacific Ocean. Occasionally these waves are associated with eastward moving warm sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies. The anomalo | National Science Foundation | 6/15/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY | $145,915 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: It is now known that forests emit organic compounds (BVOCs) that impact the physical (e.g. aerosols) and chemical (e.g. ozone) composition of the overlying atmosphere, and that this in turn impacts forest productivity. However, recent measurements of HOx | National Science Foundation | 9/11/2009 |
| PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE | $161,427 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Chemical signals consisting of volatile organic compounds emitted by plants play important roles in ecological interactions and atmospheric chemistry. Recen | National Science Foundation | 6/17/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND | $265,426 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This nano related collaborative research program develops a new device integrating a microfluidic chip with a controlled environment vitrification system (CEVS) to understand self assembly of organic and inorganic nanostructures in important, but previous | National Science Foundation | 7/17/2009 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $299,775 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Intellectual Merit Wastewater treatment processes do not efficiently remove all types of contaminants. The accumulation of these contaminants in biosolids is a growing concern because approximately 50% of biosolids in the United States are currently land- | National Science Foundation | 6/25/2009 |
| OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $255,624 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Advancements in nanotechnology and nanofluidics require an understanding of mass, momentum and energy transport in liquids confined in nanoscale enclosures or channels. Specifically, there exists a need for (a) fundamental understanding and modeling of t | National Science Foundation | 7/29/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, RENO | $320,764 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The award is intended for the purchase of an electron paramagentic resonance spectrometer to improve the research infrastructure of the University of Nevada, Reno Chemistry Department. With the instruments purchase we will be able to probe molecules with | National Science Foundation | 7/28/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA | $500,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: With support from the Chemistry Research Instrumentation and Facilities: Multiuser program (CRIF:MU), the Department of Chemistry at the University of Central Florida will acquire a broadly tunable kHz femtosecond laser system. The laser system will be us | National Science Foundation | 8/02/2009 |
| CLEMSON UNIVERSITY | $550,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This CAREER award by the Organic and Macromolecular Chemistry Program in the Chemistry Division at the National Science Foundation supports Professor Rhett C. Smith at Clemson University to develop and study two exciting new classes of materials featuring | National Science Foundation | 6/22/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE | $420,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Because naturally occurring organic peroxides display potent biological activities against diseases such as malaria, leukemia, and cancer, it might be anticipated that these compounds would have attracted the attention of synthetic organic chemists and me | National Science Foundation | 7/30/2009 |
| LUCIGEN CORPORATION | $100,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The goal of this project is an integrated system of diagnosis and biocontrol for Enteric Septicemia of Catfish (ESC) due to Edwardsiella ictaluri, which is the most common pathogen for farmed catfish and is responsible for millions of dollars in losses to | National Science Foundation | 7/01/2009 |
| KONA BLUE WATER FARMS, LLC | $99,724 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Phase IB 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.: Marine and Aq | National Science Foundation | 12/28/2009 |
| WHOLE TREE, INC | $100,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project will demonstrate the feasibility of replacing polypropylene/polyester composite materials used for trunk liners with more environmentally friendly coir fiber based fabric composites. The environmenta | National Science Foundation | 5/29/2009 |
| BARRETT TECHNOLOGY INC | $100,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project proposes a portable, interactive Coordinate Measuring Machine (CMM) for geometric data collection consistent with statistical sampling of a series of parts. The innovation exploits a characteristic o | National Science Foundation | 6/04/2009 |
| METROZET LLC | $99,077 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This NSF Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project entitled Seismic Inertial Data Fusion provides the foundational work for a novel data fusion method that corrects rotational effects in seismic data. | National Science Foundation | 6/02/2009 |
| METAL OXYGEN SEPARATION TECHNOLOGIES, INC. | $100,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project will develop a mathematical model of the Solid Oxide Membrane (SOM) electrolysis process for producing magnesium metal from its oxide. This model will simulate fluid flow and heat and mass transfer i | National Science Foundation | 7/01/2009 |
| REHABTEK LLC | $99,503 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The purposes of This 6-month NSF SBIR Phase I project are to develop an injury rehabilitation/prevention program including a novel pivoting-sliding elliptical system to address the specific injury biomechanics in high-risk pivoting sports and combine the | National Science Foundation | 5/21/2009 |
| ALLOPARTIS BIOTECHNOLOGIES, INC. | $100,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: SBIR Phase I: Coupling high-throughput evolution and expression screening for industrial production of biofuel enzymes | National Science Foundation | 6/10/2009 |
| ANTEOS INC | $361,416 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Development of technology for holographic recording of infrared diffractive optics on semiconductor materials | National Science Foundation | 8/13/2009 |
| M. V. SYSTEMS, INC. | $403,414 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Fabrication of low band gap nano-crystalline SiGEC thin films using the plasma enhanced chemical deposition technique. | National Science Foundation | 8/20/2009 |
| OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY | $149,924 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Professor Eliot Atekwana of Oklahoma State University will conduct an International Research and Experience for Students (IRES) program to support research | National Science Foundation | 9/02/2009 |
| RECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA | $684,691 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Membrane proteins are the gatekeepers of the cell and selectively mediate the flow of information and nutrients across the membrane (walls) of the cell. Membrane proteins are abundant (~25% of a typical genome). However, investigations of membrane protein | National Science Foundation | 7/28/2009 |
| CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY | $415,263 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Carnegie Mellon University REU Site for Undergraduate Research Experiences in Cellular and Molecular Biosciences will provide a research program for undergraduates during the summers of 2009-2012. Ten students will be selected each year to participate | National Science Foundation | 5/28/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF OREGON | $410,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This research project aims to achieve a better understanding of the Casimir-Polder potential-the force between an electrically neutral atom and a surface due solely to fluctuations of the quantum- mechanical vacuum-in regimes of novel geometries and mater | National Science Foundation | 8/04/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, THE | $72,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The award is for a pilot program to explore two areas related to OH masers: an OH maser survey of the Andromeda galaxy (M 31) to study the dark matter distribution and kinematics in the Local Group, and an OH megamaser survey at redshift ~1 close to the p | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY AUXILIARY SERVICES, INC | $429,449 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The collaboration between JPL and Los Angeles urban colleges enables the CURE REU site to recruit approximately 18 mostly minority and women students per year for research experiences in cutting-edge projects in astronomy, astrophysics, and planetary scie | National Science Foundation | 6/26/2009 |
| PACIFIC LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY INC | $122,250 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). | National Science Foundation | 8/04/2009 |
| PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE | $394,000 | 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 RAGES project (Robotic Access to Grounding zones for Exploration and Science) is one of three research components of the WISSARD (Whillans Ice Stream Sub | National Science Foundation | 8/21/2009 |
| ST. OLAF COLLEGE | $331,684 | 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 |
| WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION | $605,008 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: WAPflux - New Tools to Study the Fate of Phytoplankton Production in the West Antarctic Peninsula | National Science Foundation | 8/05/2009 |
| WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION | $319,998 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Collaborate Research: Modified Circumpolar Deep Water Intrusions as an Iron Source to the Summer Ross Sea Ecosystem | National Science Foundation | 8/18/2009 |
| CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY | $600,001 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Since 1976, under the auspices of an inter-agency agreement between NSF, NASA and the Smithsonian Institution, the Antarctic Search for Meteorites program (ANSMET) has recovered over 17,500 meteorite specimens from locations along the Transantarctic Mount | National Science Foundation | 7/31/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, THE | $566,517 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project is an interdisciplinary effort to systematically document, model, and interpret key linkages between physical, biological and human systems in the context of changing seasonality (phenology) due to global and local climate change. In line wit | National Science Foundation | 8/14/2009 |
| WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION | $2,317,495 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Collaborative Proposal: An interdisciplinary monitoring mooring in the western Arctic boundary current: Climatic forcing and ecosystem response | National Science Foundation | 8/04/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO | $898,138 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: INTELLECTUAL MERIT Clouds play key roles in both the surface energy and ice mass balances in Polar regions. These roles are largely defined by cloud macro- and microphysical properties which are intimately tied to atmospheric thermodynamics and dynamics o | National Science Foundation | 7/02/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND | $108,539 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Significant seasonal changes in arctic sea ice have been observed in recent years, characterized by unprecedented summer melt-back because of the lengthening of the summer melt season with earlier melt and later freeze onsets. As summer sea ice extent shr | National Science Foundation | 8/12/2009 |
| IDAHO STATE UNIVERSITY | $136,780 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: A major goal of the Arctic System Science (ARCSS) Program is to understand the variability of the Arctic system and the feedbacks that lead to pronounced system changes, such as those that are currently taking place. Rapid changes in the Arctic climate s | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MAINE SYSTEM | $161,550 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The presence of water between an ice sheet and its bed has a profound effect on its flow and dynamics. Since the ice/bed interface is inaccessible, direct knowledge of its state, whether frozen or liquid, is difficult to acquire. Radio echo sounding has p | National Science Foundation | 8/26/2009 |
| ATMOSPHERIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH, INC. | $180,389 | 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 work will document observed changes in the hydroclimatology of the Siberian region, attribute these changes to specific physical mechanisms in the cont | National Science Foundation | 8/20/2009 |
| RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, THE | $300,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This research project investigates climatic change from a global perspective through archaeological excavation and survey in the Puuc region of Yucatan, Mexico and at the Maya center of Xcoch. Climate change in the Arctic is not just a contemporary phenom | National Science Foundation | 9/28/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, THE | $58,667 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: In 2007 the National Science Foundation granted funding (BCS 0716333) to purchase a new Thermo Scientific Quant?X EDXRF spectrometer, and set-up this new lab in the Department of Anthropology. The instrument is installed and calibrated and a number of un | National Science Foundation | 8/10/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, THE | $211,844 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: To what degree did California Indians employ landscape management practices to increase the productivity and diversity of economic plants and animals in local regions? There is considerable debate among Native scholars, ecologists, ethnographers, and arc | National Science Foundation | 8/10/2009 |
| THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK | $181,406 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: With National Science Foundation support, Dr. Elizabeth Stone will explore the organization of settlements associated with ancient Mesopotamia, where the first known complex societies developed. Commercial satellite imagery available from the Digital Glob | National Science Foundation | 7/01/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, THE | $280,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The proposed research will provide new fundamental insights into the transport and rejection behavior of solutes through uniform pores on the sub-1-nm size regime (i.e., the realm of individual small molecules). Currently, very little is known or experime | National Science Foundation | 6/16/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, THE | $275,233 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The formation of crosslinked thermosetting polymers is ubiquitous in our society in applications such as coatings, adhesives, composite materials, dental materials and rapid prototyping. Unfortunately, the same crosslinked structure that is the origin of | National Science Foundation | 6/17/2009 |
| NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $159,793 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Suspensions of soft particles (such as viscous drops or elastic filaments) are ubiquitous in micro-, nano- and bio-fluidic applications. Quantification of their dynamical response to simple flows and external forcing (such as gravity or electric field) is | National Science Foundation | 8/20/2009 |
| SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, THE | $425,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The goal of this project is to develop practical methods for the selective synthesis of heterocyclic molecules by transition metal-catalyzed activation 0 alkynes with an emphasis on the synthesis of five-membered azole heterocycles. The studies will invol | National Science Foundation | 8/07/2009 |
| IONA COLLEGE | $157,705 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Analytical and Surface Chemistry (ASC) program of the Division of Chemistry will support the research program of Prof. Sunghee Lee of Iona College. Prof. Lee and Iona College undergraduate students will study the role of surfactants in monolayer-direc | National Science Foundation | 9/02/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE | $359,999 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The PI is supported by an award from the Theoretical and Computational Chemistry program to carry out research on the development of electron correlation methods based on the random phase approximation (RPA). This method uses highly efficient wave functio | National Science Foundation | 6/14/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH THE | $495,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: In this research project supported by the Experimental Physical Chemistry Program, Professors Hrvoje Petek and Jin Zhao will study the electronic structure of graphene, a single atom thick, sheet-like allotrope of the element carbon. The study will focus | National Science Foundation | 8/06/2009 |
| MINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY MOORHEAD | $420,363 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Extensive research on the capabilities of available spectrometers has been conducted. Numerous communications with vendors have proceeded. Visits to instruments in local market and interviews and emails with users have been conducted. Live visits to two | National Science Foundation | 8/16/2009 |
| MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY | $1,831,600 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The acquisition of a single-crystal neutron diffractometer is proposed by a consortium formed by Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU), North Caroline State University (NCSU), Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute (HWMRI) and Oak Ridge National | National Science Foundation | 7/28/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF UNION COLLEGE IN THE TOWN OF SCHENECTADY IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK | $259,992 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: MRI:Acquisition of a Liquid Chromatography-Tandem Mass Spectrometry Instrument for Research and Teaching in the Sciences at Union College. | National Science Foundation | 7/29/2009 |
| TEMPLE UNIVERSITY-OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION | $431,480 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: With this award from the Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) program, the Department of Chemistry at Temple University will acquire a Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM) for use in interdisciplinary nanomaterials research. Specific examples of researc | National Science Foundation | 8/05/2009 |
| WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY | $225,889 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Principal Investigator will build upon prior optimal control theory research, extending pulse capabilities to address (i) the extreme RF inhomogeneity seen in toroid cavity probes; and (ii) the extreme bandwidths required in electron paramagnetic reso | National Science Foundation | 7/29/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, THE | $495,093 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The U.S. is currently pursuing technologies to improve the energy efficiency of buildings. One approach, which is the focus of this research, involves embedding geothermal heat exchange systems within deep foundations to gain improved energy efficiency of | National Science Foundation | 7/31/2009 |
| MISSOURI SYSTEM, UNIVERSITY OF | $143,940 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Automated measurements provide a promising alternative solution to the task of measuring discontinuity orientations on rock cuts, to provide input to stability modeling programs. Two methods are available; optical image processing and LIDAR (LIght Detecti | National Science Foundation | 7/28/2009 |
| LEHIGH UNIVERSITY | $315,845 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This research effort focuses on the development of thermoformed composite structures containing knitted fiber reinforcement. The knitted reinforcement mesh will be engineered to improve formability in conventional thermoforming machines, as well as helpin | National Science Foundation | 6/15/2009 |
| RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, THE | $299,999 | 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 aim of this project is to develop new structural architectures for resisting and mitigating the effects of impulsive loadings, such as blast and high velo | National Science Foundation | 6/02/2009 |
| CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY | $339,178 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Case Western Reserve University will develop a versatile state-of-the-art in situ test and characterization tool for simultaneous nano-mechanical electrical and thermal (NMET) property measurements in nanostructured materials inside a ultra-high resolutio | National Science Foundation | 8/10/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH THE | $278,040 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award provides funding to acquire a high-power, high-repetition-rate, wavelength-tunable, femtosecond ultrafast laser system to study laser material interaction and to fabricate three-dimensional photonic devices. The ultrafast laser processing defin | National Science Foundation | 7/17/2009 |
| NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY | $270,208 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The acquisition of a multi-axial dynamic testing system will significantly enhance the research capabilities at Northern Arizona University. The equipment will be used for the characterization of novel magnetic, composite and biologically-derived material | National Science Foundation | 8/04/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH THE | $280,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Using theory and simulation, our goal is to design coatings that permit the controlled spatial-temporal modulation of surface properties and thereby, impart biomimetic functionality to a broad range of systems. In these studies, we will take advantage of | National Science Foundation | 7/27/2009 |
| RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, THE | $299,688 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The main research objective of this award is the development of a framework for accurate estimation of tumor target dynamics which enables safe and effective ?Adaptive Conformal Radiation Therapy? for cancer treatment. Two specific aims of this research a | National Science Foundation | 6/29/2009 |
| PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE | $350,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the Americproan Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The research objective of this award is to provide substantive and empirical evidence of the ability to enhance engineering design creativity through the | National Science Foundation | 7/27/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $32,791 | 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 the EAGER project is to validate a completely new and untested concept: the superhydrophobic hybridization of concrete. This concept engage | National Science Foundation | 8/06/2009 |
| LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM | $30,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The objective of this EAGER project is to explore a novel concept - shape memory alloy (SMA) z-pinned sandwich with an integrated, grid stiffened shape memory polymer (SMP) based syntactic foam core for healing impact damage autonomously, repeatedly, and | National Science Foundation | 8/06/2009 |
| RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK | $345,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: RECOVERY ACT RESEARCH Experience for Undergraduates in robot research at an urban public college | National Science Foundation | 6/22/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS | $304,691 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: For every species, there are limits to where it is found. However, the fundamental ecological processes that determine species' range boundaries are not understood well enough to predict how they will respond to environmental change. This proposal will | National Science Foundation | 7/31/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS | $597,094 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Title: The role of herbivores and competitors in edaphic specialization Activities overall: Processes that restrict the niches of ecologically specialized species are central to understanding species diversity. Ecologically specialized species are ofte | National Science Foundation | 6/11/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL | $675,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Award title: Predicting disease risk from community context and host phenotype: a trait-based approach. The overall purpose of this project is to test whether an individualG??s risk of acquiring an infectious disease is determined by a handful of easil | National Science Foundation | 8/15/2009 |
| GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY | $418,132 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: TC: Medium: Collaborative Research: Towards Self-Protecting Data Centers: A Systematic Approach. We have hired three students to work on this project, one graduate student (Charalmapos Andrianakis) who plans to pursue his Ph.D. and two undergraduate stud | National Science Foundation | 8/12/2009 |
| HARVEY MUDD COLLEGE | $80,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project is a small component of a large 5-year NSF grant that began in July 2009. During the 2010-11 academic year, two students at Harvey Mudd College is investigating the minimum reliable operating point for sequential elements. The hypothesis is | National Science Foundation | 7/27/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE | $219,516 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: High-performance real-time embedded systems have stringent requirements for key performance properties, such as end-to-end timeliness and reliability, in order to operate properly. In recent years, with the continuously decreasing feature size and increas | National Science Foundation | 7/27/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE | $469,064 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The objective of this research is considering security and timing as primary concerns, re-envisioning computer architecture and network algorithms to provide a robust foundation for CPS. The approach is rethinking the hardware and software divide, providi | National Science Foundation | 9/09/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, RENO | $599,970 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The objective of this research project is to investigate how to replace human decision-making with computational intelligence in applications such as manufacturing, transportation, power-systems and bio-sensors. The approach is to build upon recent contri | National Science Foundation | 9/09/2009 |
| OHIO UNIVERSITY | $494,019 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This three-year award builds infrastructure for significant plant collections in Appalachian Ohio, completes databasing/imaging projects at four academic institutions and two Wayne National Forest districts, and establishes the online Appalachian Ohio Her | National Science Foundation | 8/12/2009 |
| BLACK HILLS STATE UNIVERSITY | $499,844 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The region comprising the Missouri Plateau (also known as the Northwestern Great Plains and Northwestern Glaciated Plains, EPA 2007) is not well known botanically. The area consists of approximately 1/12th of the land area in the 48 contiguous states. T | National Science Foundation | 8/12/2009 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $564,635 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Organization for Tropical Studies (OTS)-Duke University REU Site will provide a research program for undergraduates during the summers of 2009-2014. A diverse group of 10 students will be selected each year to participate in an intensive eight-week m | National Science Foundation | 6/30/2009 |
| MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY | $269,392 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The long term goal of the Biology Department at MTSU is to maintain faculty who conduct contemporary research, obtain competitive external funding to maintain their research programs and engage graduate and undergraduate in research and instruction. Among | National Science Foundation | 7/18/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE | $184,188 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: A grant has been awarded to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga to acquire a laser confocal microscopy system to enhance faculty and student research and research training in the departments of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Chemistry. T | National Science Foundation | 8/26/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO | $255,762 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Confocal Imaging Facility at University of Puerto Rico (CIF-UPR, www.cifupr.org) is located at the R+?o Piedras Campus (UPR-RP). CIF-UPR began operations on August 2001 sponsored by EPSCoR and NIH/NCRR grants and since then has strengthened research a | National Science Foundation | 6/12/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII SYSTEMS | $421,886 | Grant | Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support: The Hawaiian Islands are recognized as an important model for understanding general patterns of diversification, evolution and ecology. The endemic moth genus Hyposmocoma contains over 400 species, representing perhaps the most ecologically diverse Hawaii | National Science Foundation | 6/26/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, THE | $265,801 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Glacial erosion is accomplished by quarrying of rock from rough edges of the subglacial bed, and abrasion of rock that smoothes and polishes the bed. Yet there is little quantitative data how rock hardness and the degree of rock fracturing govern quarryin | National Science Foundation | 7/19/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, THE | $5,004,250 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The National Science Foundation aims to ensure the vitality of the human resource base of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics in the United States and to reinforce its diversity by offering approximately 1,654 graduate fellowships in this co | National Science Foundation | 8/13/2009 |
| CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY | $320,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award establishes a new Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Site program in Physics at Case Western Reserve University (Case). Ten students from outside Case majoring in physics or a related field will be recruited for the ten week summer pr | National Science Foundation | 5/28/2009 |
| ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND, THE | $460,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The density functional theory of Kohn and Sham is now the most widely-used method of electronic structure calculation in condensed matter physics and quantum chemistry, and is increasingly useful in materials engineering. The many users of this theory m | National Science Foundation | 7/26/2009 |
| LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM | $312,762 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Description: We will use a combined experimental approach integrating scanning probe lithography, imaging, and current measurements to investigate questions about the role of molecular structure and coordinated magnetic atoms for electron transfer for por | National Science Foundation | 8/31/2009 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $405,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Knowledge of the link between phase transformations, microstructure, and mechanical properties will be studied in thin films by observing a new class of materials that undergo a martensitic (i.e. displacive) transformation. From this work, we will improve | National Science Foundation | 5/21/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE | $420,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The recently discovered gene silencing effects of small interference RNA (siRNA) presents tremendous potential as a new approach in gene therapy for various disease treatments. One major barrier for its clinical use is the lack of efficient delivery of si | National Science Foundation | 7/31/2009 |
| XAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA | $3,000,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Partnerships for Research and Education in Materials | National Science Foundation | 8/24/2009 |
| RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK | $3,000,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: RECOVERY ACT RESEARCH SUPPORT for a City College-Chicago Partnership on the Dynamics of Heterogeneous and Particulate Materials | National Science Foundation | 8/24/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, THE | $90,912 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project will apply the geometric theory of exterior differential systems and Cartan\\\'s method of equivalence to a variety of problems arising in differential equations. Clelland will continue the study of sub-Finsler geometry, originally introduced | National Science Foundation | 8/07/2009 |
| RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK | $400,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: ARRA - TRANS-NSF RECOVERY ACT RESEARCH SUPPORT | National Science Foundation | 7/19/2009 |
| HOWARD UNIVERSITY, INC. | $202,182 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This stipend and travel support for graduate students. The funding will help alleviate the severe shortage of minority mathematicians. | National Science Foundation | 7/01/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS SYSTEM | $95,602 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The principal investigator will undertake a study of regularity properties and decay estimates of solutions to the weighted Cauchy-Riemann equations in several variables as well as the tangential Cauchy-Riemann equations on the boundaries of pseudoconvex | National Science Foundation | 6/05/2009 |
| LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM | $110,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded to investigate several problems stemming from a class of quasi-linear and fully nonlinear elliptic equations of Lane-Emden and Riccati type with singular coefficients and measure data, and with nonlinear source terms that involve both | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY SYSTEM OF NEW HAMPSHIRE | $135,244 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The PI will apply Voiculescus 'non-commutative' (or 'free') probability theory to the subject of operator algebras, which includes von Neumann algebras and C*-algebras. The study of operator algebras is often viewed as the study of 'non-commutative measur | National Science Foundation | 6/10/2009 |
| VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY, THE | $124,261 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The theory of von Neumann algebras is a non-commutative integration theory which was _rst developed as a tool for understanding representation theory for groups as well as providing a mathematical framework for quantum mechanics. Recently the appearance | National Science Foundation | 6/16/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, THE | $52,729 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Principal Investigator and Co-Principal Investigator propose to study how the local and global p-adic extensions of the Langlands philosophy to reflect each other and are compatible. This field has seen an explosion in activity over the last ten years. | National Science Foundation | 6/29/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA | $89,521 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: THE PROPOSED RESEARCH LIES IN THE AREA OF HYPERBOLIC DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS. THE MAIN GOAL IS TO INVESTIGATE THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN VARIOUS RIGIDITY PROPERTIES OF THESE SYSTEMS AND THE EXISTANCE OF INVARIANT GEOMETRIC STRUCTURES. THE PI IS PARTICULARLY INT | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY | $117,356 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Quaternionic analysis can be thought of as a higher dimensional analogue of complex analysis. It was signifcantly developed by Fueter who produced the first key result of quaternionic analysis, an exact quaternionic counterpart of the Cauchy integral form | National Science Foundation | 8/12/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM | $133,230 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project supports research in the mathematical sciences. | National Science Foundation | 9/02/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY | $404,055 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The investigator and his colleagues study nonlinear problems from meteorology, oceanography, and fluid mechanics, using the mathematical tools offered by analysis, the theory of nonlinear partial differential equations, dynamical systems theory, and compu | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH THE | $196,354 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). In this proposal, the investigator describes three projects on association analysis of multivariate competing risks data which arise frequently in genetic f | National Science Foundation | 7/02/2009 |
| NEW YORK UNIVERSITY | $344,824 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Collaborative Research (with Paul A. Milewski, from the University of Wisconsin at Madison) on Conservation Laws, Simple Waves and Mixing in Startfield Fluids. | National Science Foundation | 5/27/2009 |
| NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY | $184,220 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: To accurately and efficiently compute complex gas flows with multi-scales and multiple-physics is a very challenging task which calls for significant computing resources, hence new schemes are always favored. For example, hypersonic flows around an entry | National Science Foundation | 7/13/2009 |
| CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, FULLERTON | $2,094,045 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Teachers Assisting Students to Excel in Mathematic (TASEL-M) 2 is a partnership between CSUF, GGUSD & the OCDE that will provide professional development for all grades(7-12) Algebra Teachers in the Garden Grove Unified School District from 8 high schools | National Science Foundation | 8/03/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY | $599,963 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This proposed project is Phase II of a current grant entitled G?Urban Educators: Robert Noyce Scholarship for Mathematics and Science Teachers,G? NSF Award Number DUE-0531598. This proposed Phase II project is targeted at individuals who have completed a | National Science Foundation | 6/01/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE | $897,897 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Early Start STEM is a Noyce Pase I project that combines the efforts of the University of Louisville (UofL) , the Jefferson County Public School System (JCPS) and Teach Kentucky to recruit and retain a highly qualified, diverse cohort of STEM majors to en | National Science Foundation | 6/08/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO | $1,500,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The University of Puerto Rico in Rio Piedras (UPRRP), in collaboration with the University of Puerto Rico in Cayey, the Puerto Rico Department of Education (PRDE) and the Puerto Rico Community Foundation, a non-profit organization, is certifying ten 7-12t | National Science Foundation | 6/12/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA | $899,962 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: PATHWAY TO SCIENCE (PTS) IS AN INNOVATIVE PHASE ONE PROJECT INVOLVING THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA COLLEGE OF EDUCATION, COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES, AND THE MOBILE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM (MCPSS). THE LARGEST SCHOOL DISTRICT IN ALABAMA AND THE 39 | National Science Foundation | 6/01/2009 |
| RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, THE | $899,964 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The SUNY Oneonta Noyce Scholars Program is a unique collaboration between Oneonta's Adolescence Science Education Program and the Departments of Biology, Chemistry, Earth Sciences and Physics. The project is to increase the number of Adolescence Education | National Science Foundation | 6/02/2009 |
| CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, FULLERTON | $899,998 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: California State University Fullerton (CSUF) will collaborate with Anaheim Union High School District (AUHSD), Mount San Antonio College (MSAC) & University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) to implement Teaching as a Primary Profession (TAAP) in Biolog | National Science Foundation | 5/26/2009 |
| APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY | $145,935 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The intersection of vegetation organization and watershed topology; Basic research and educational outreach on generation of runoff and streamflow in forested mountain watersheds of North Carolina and Montana | National Science Foundation | 7/19/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MAINE SYSTEM | $339,354 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The objective of the proposed research is to test if leading hypotheses about drivers of global ice ages explain glacial climate change in the Southern Hemisphere mid-latitudes. We will establish the timing, magnitude, and structure of southern mid-latitu | National Science Foundation | 8/31/2009 |
| LEHIGH UNIVERSITY | $259,921 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Warming temperatures associated with global climate change are expected to lead to more frequent and intense droughts in many mid-latitude regions. Understanding spatial patterns, magnitudes, and frequencies of past decadal-to-multidecadal droughts, and l | National Science Foundation | 8/25/2009 |
| NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY | $201,932 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This grant supports a collaborative project between the University of New Mexico, Northern Arizona University and the University of Minnesota, Duluth which will conduct detailed analyses of a unique 82-m long lacustrine sediment core (VC-3) from the Valle | National Science Foundation | 8/26/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND | $109,849 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Many large volcanoes are ice-covered and, consequently, when they erupt there is the potential for the interaction of high temperature magma and melt-water, such as in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. This may result in the generation of | National Science Foundation | 6/23/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MAINE SYSTEM | $143,093 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Estimating kinematic flow parameter in deformed rocks is of first-order importance to the structure and tectonics community, allowing us to test hypotheses in relation to such topics as lower-crustal channel flow and exhumation of ultra high pressure rock | National Science Foundation | 7/29/2009 |
| SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSTIY FOUNDATION | $132,793 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The origin of the Chocolate Mountains anticlinorium (CMA) and its significance to the Tertiary structural and tectonic history of the southwestern United States remains enigmatic. Discontinuously exposed throughout southeastern California, these Mesozoic | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| SWARTHMORE COLLEGE | $29,401 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Confidence Intervals for the Duration of a Mass Extinction - Steve Wang, Swarthmore College - This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The Signor-Lipps effect holds that a truly sudden (simultaneou | National Science Foundation | 8/19/2009 |
| APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY | $43,495 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Enhance geology facilities at Appalachian State University with the Acquisition of a Cathodoluminescence Microscope System | National Science Foundation | 7/19/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI | $319,703 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Acquisition of a NEw Stable Isotope Mass spectrometer | National Science Foundation | 8/06/2009 |
| APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY | $79,959 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Assessing the potential for downstream release of contaminated sediments associated with the Dec 22, 2008 fly ash spill in Tennessee. | National Science Foundation | 7/21/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS | $75,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The purpose of this grant is to purchase a high performance computing cluster to facilitate numerical modeling of plate tectonics. | National Science Foundation | 8/07/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS | $400,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The objective of this research is to deliver nano-biomaterial solutions with both electrical and biochemical activations for investigating cellular responses at bio-nano interfaces. The approach is to develop photopatternable multifunctional nanocomposite | National Science Foundation | 7/01/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, THE | $400,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This proposal aims at establishing the foundational knowledge that will enable us to build chemical interfaces to synthetic multi-cellular machines. The researchers will design, fabricate and test a series of hybrid systems consisting of genetically modif | National Science Foundation | 6/19/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF UNION COLLEGE IN THE TOWN OF SCHENECTADY IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK | $265,255 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The objective of this project is to set up a multi-disciplinary acoustics laboratory that enables research in speech and musical acoustics, as well as the d | National Science Foundation | 8/24/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT & STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE | $135,999 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This research will realize a new class of wireless sensors that are near-passive in energy needs. Synergistic design practices are being used to achieve increased activation/communication ranges as compare to existing technologies. The result will enable | National Science Foundation | 7/06/2009 |
| LEHIGH UNIVERSITY | $350,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The objective of this research is to develop and implement scalable bilinear algorithms for convolutions and transforms over the real field and finite fields. The approach is to first obtain bilinear algorithms by identifying cyclic structures and combini | National Science Foundation | 7/30/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND | $1,383,980 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The objective of this research is to develop a trustworthy and high-performance neural-machine interface (NMI) that accurately determines a user?s locomotion mode in real-time for neural-controlled artificial legs. The proposed approach is to design the N | National Science Foundation | 8/13/2009 |
| AUBURN UNIVERSITY | $283,988 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Collaborative Research: Development and testing of Presage-Pedagogy-Process-Product Model to Assess the Effectiveness of Case Study Methodology in Achieving Learning Outcomes - In this project, we integrate organizational, engineering education, and edu | National Science Foundation | 6/29/2009 |
| SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSTIY FOUNDATION | $200,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The purpose of the research is to develop a model program to support the transition of military veterans into engineering careers. The long term goal of this 'Transitioning Troops to Engineers' program is to help address the shortage of qualified enginee | National Science Foundation | 8/19/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII SYSTEMS | $197,278 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Center for Microbial Oceanography: Research and Education (C-MORE), based at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, is partnering with the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology (HIMB) to offer Ocean FEST (Families Exploring Science Together). This ocean-them | National Science Foundation | 7/04/2009 |
| NORTH CAROLINA AGRICULTURAL AND TECHNICAL STATE UNIVERSITY | $671,587 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Collaborative Research: Track 2 Enhancing diversity in the geosciences through the AfricaArray Educational Alliance. The proposed project will create through AA a preeminent and sustainable pipeline program for increasing the representation of African Am | National Science Foundation | 8/17/2009 |
| NORTHEASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY | $189,145 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Northeastern Illinois University (NEIU) is developing new strategies to recruit more underrepresented (laregely Hispanic) students to undergraduate Earth Sciences programs by capitalizing on a required First-Year Experience (FYE) curriculum. NEIU is an u | National Science Foundation | 8/02/2009 |
| STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (INC) | $762,072 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Innovation is a goal, sometimes elusive, of design. Here, in the context of a MasterG??s course in information system design, we construct and test a series of exercises aimed at promoting innovative designs, inspired by thinking about creative processes | National Science Foundation | 6/17/2009 |
| APPLIED NANOFEMTO TECHNOLOGIES LLC | $147,319 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: STTR Phase I: Developing Coupled Quantum Dot Multi-Functional Materials for Optoelectronics Integrated Circuits The proposed research aims to develop semiconductor based multifunctional materials with significantly enhanced EO coefficient and wavelength t | National Science Foundation | 6/09/2009 |
| HYPRES, INC. | $149,998 | 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 Technology Transfer Phase I project, a collaborative effort between HYRPES, and the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE) o | National Science Foundation | 7/01/2009 |
| ISOSCELES, LLC | $100,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: SBIR Phase I - Development of highly efficient photovoltaic polymers | National Science Foundation | 7/01/2009 |
| WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION | $570,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The primary objective of the proposed NSF I/UCRC, entitled ?Center for Integration of Composites into Infrastructure (CICI)? is to usher applications and cost effective rehabilitation schemes using composites in civil and military structures to the next l | National Science Foundation | 7/08/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS CENTER FOR RESEARCH, INC. | $499,972 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The objective of this proposal is to develop an integrated research and education program for advancing the underlying theoretical and computational principles of data mining in the emergent chemical genomics databases. The core technical innovations that | National Science Foundation | 6/29/2009 |
| OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE | $128,834 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Symbiont separation and investigation of the novel heterotrophic Osedax symbiosis using comparative genomics: The diversity and pervasiveness of bacterial partnerships with animals is only now being fully appreciated. In many marine environments these sy | National Science Foundation | 7/28/2009 |
| POMONA COLLEGE | $519,925 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: To build a nervous system, neurons establish functional synaptic connections with specific post-synaptic partners. Many of the proteins involved in axon guidance and synaptogenesis have been identified, yet, our understanding of the interactions between | National Science Foundation | 7/13/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII SYSTEMS | $210,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Honeybees are in the news these days as they are increasingly threatened by parasites and disease. The news is not all bad, however. Scientific advances as well as the growing awareness of their place in the food chain have coalesced to produce an explosi | National Science Foundation | 6/13/2009 |
| UMDNJ-ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL | $400,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This proposal aims to elucidate how secreted factors in the brain help maintain stable function during periods of change such as development and alterations in synapse strength following neuronal activity. Changes in neuronal morphology are critical for | National Science Foundation | 6/05/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $150,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The ability to perceive and respond to light is vital to plant growth and development. Previous work by the Principal Investigator has identified 2 genes LRB1 and LRB2 in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana that have roles in light responses. Plants wi | National Science Foundation | 7/13/2009 |
| SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY | $199,999 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Marine intertidal zone organisms have evolved elevated thermal tolerance limits in response to thermal stress associated with times that low tide coincides with heat waves. Climate-change projected increases in the frequency and severity of such events ar | National Science Foundation | 7/29/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI | $200,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: TITLE. RIG:Role of Cdx transcription factors in the control of neural plate competence to FGF patterning signals. DESCRIPTION. During the development and adult life of any organism, a relatively small number of signaling molecules control and coordinate c | National Science Foundation | 7/02/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, THE | $300,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The neuropeptide gonadotropin-releasing hormone-I (GnRH-I) is critical for the regulation of reproduction in all vertebrates. Study of the regulation of GnRH-I in passerine songbirds has been the focus of studies on subjects as diverse as photoperiodism, | National Science Foundation | 8/11/2009 |
| OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY | $460,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The main objective of this project is to investigate the developmental role of a newly discovered class of membranous protrusions interconnecting blastomeres of early, cleavage-stage Xenopus laevis embryos. Time lapse confocal microscopy of live, surgical | National Science Foundation | 6/13/2009 |
| ST. OLAF COLLEGE | $45,376 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Dopamine (DA) is an important and universal modulator of motor control, but neuroscientists have yet to determine precisely how DA-containing neurons regulate specific motor programs. This has been an especially daunting task in studying the control and | National Science Foundation | 7/29/2009 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $113,200 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This proposal requests purchase of the machinery equipment for the ship's on-shore workshop to provide better customer service by enabling ship's personnel to complete on-site machinery fabrications for configuring and repairing data sampling equipment th | National Science Foundation | 9/08/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC. | $166,487 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Intertidal environments have declined rapidly over the past century because of human pressures (e.g. development, sewage inputs, groundwater withdrawal). As the habitats have changed, ever-smaller quantities of detritus are available for the formation and | National Science Foundation | 7/31/2009 |
| WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION | $112,402 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Collaborative Research: Integrating Geological, Chemical, and Biological Processes: Implications for Ecological Succession on the East Pacific Rise | National Science Foundation | 8/02/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MAINE SYSTEM | $305,603 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: An important component of the proposed work is development of an ?Online Community Center.? This new feature will document how COSEE and its Network-level partners bring scientists and educators together to participate in high-quality interactions. This | National Science Foundation | 9/10/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, THE | $357,357 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Scaling Up is a program of research and development that will enable virtual organizations in the Earth sciences to scale to massive interdisciplinary 'communities of communities.' A key element is commodity governance, which encodes social and technical | National Science Foundation | 9/11/2009 |
| INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY | $77,762 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Collaborative Research: Towards Petascale Cosmological Simulations | National Science Foundation | 9/04/2009 |
| PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE | $262,438 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This proposal will be awarded using funds made available by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Energy efficiency, the environment, and human health can be affected by combustion-generated soot, so controlling soot is | National Science Foundation | 8/22/2009 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, THE | $354,018 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The nature of high performance computing is rapidly changing. A few years ago, much of high-end computing involved maximizing the CPU cycles/sec allocated for a given problem. Today, it revolves around performing computations over large data sets. This me | National Science Foundation | 8/19/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE | $782,240 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project is designed to dissect dynamic, thermodynamic, and structural properties of various enzyme-aminoglycoside complexes with the ultimate goal of understanding the molecular properties of these promiscuous enzymes as a whole group. Aminoglycosid | National Science Foundation | 7/07/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE | $410,277 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Motions in and between proteins play a key role in their function. The research here will provide a framework for understanding correlated functional dynamics by integrating computer simulation with dynamic neutron scattering experiments on the next-gene | National Science Foundation | 6/10/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $410,478 | 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 Pacheco-Schmidt research groups are studying three proteins that allow certain bacteria to interconvert ammonia and nitrite. Without these proteins, suc | National Science Foundation | 7/07/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC. | $557,428 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Heme is an essential cofactor for a wide variety of biologically important proteins including globins, cytochromes, transcription factors, peroxidases, catalases, and others. With few exceptions, organisms that possess heme-containing proteins possess the | National Science Foundation | 6/30/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH AT GALVESTON | $407,968 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Gene-regulation by DNA-binding proteins is vital for living systems. Such proteins control gene expression by binding to particular DNA sequences, and the association must be rapid for quick response to cellular signals. The overall objective of this proj | National Science Foundation | 6/02/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY | $632,852 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The microtubule cytoskeleton plays a fundamental role in orchestrating the morphogenesis of flowering plants. The interphase microtubules, resident at the cell cortex, form patterns that direct the subsequent patterning of cellulose microfibrils in the ce | National Science Foundation | 7/03/2009 |
| UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY | $575,200 | Grant | Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support: Protein Arginine Methylation by PRMT1 Intellectual Merit: Posttranslational modifications allow an organism to expand upon the function of a limited genome and are signatures of cellular communication. The S-adenosylmethionine-dependent methylation of p | National Science Foundation | 6/30/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT | $760,786 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Messenger RNAs that contain inverted repeats in their 3G??-untranslated regions (3G??-UTRs) are susceptible to RNA editing in the nucleus. Editing frequently results in the conversion of adenosines to inosines in the RNA backbone and is associated with in | National Science Foundation | 8/10/2009 |
| RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | $299,999 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: We will collect and study electrical properties of marine dinoflagellates. This research will further knowledge and provide a basis for future studies. The sub-award at Emory University is aimed at identitying a dinoflagellate proton channel gene. | National Science Foundation | 8/07/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS | $300,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Intellectual Merit. This project supports for a research program on development and application of modeling techniques that can simultaneously describe both thermodynamic and dynamic transport phenomena for fluids confined in porous materials. The scienti | National Science Foundation | 7/17/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS | $330,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 'Current multi-core chips have been successful in limiting the expected increase in power density but they have not resolved some existing and emerging problems. The first problem is the continuing increase in the total power and energy consumption of pro | National Science Foundation | 8/03/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS | $169,820 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Soil erosion is the main cause of failure for dams and levees and can have disastrous consequences, such as the catastrophes in New Orleans in 2006 and in Iowa in 2008. According to the latest Report Card for Americas Infrastructure, issued in 2009 by the | National Science Foundation | 7/07/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS | $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). Ferromagnetic nanorings exhibit unique magnetic states as the dimensions approach the scale of a single magnetic domain. The closed-flux vortex state exists | National Science Foundation | 8/28/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS | $510,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). It will provide funding to participate in the search for neutrino-less double beta decay in 136-Xe with the EXO-200 experiment, currently being installed at | National Science Foundation | 7/07/2009 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $281,181 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Intellectual Merit. Despite encompassing more than 90% of the livable space on the planet, the midwater environment and its inhabitants are among the least studied on the planet, primarily due to their remoteness and technological limitations that have | National Science Foundation | 6/01/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE | $425,541 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Photoheterotrophic microbes in the West Antarctic Peninsula marine ecosystem Impact on Basic Science: The primary purpose of this award is to support oceanographic, ecological research that examines-? specific aspects of marine microbiology in Antarct | National Science Foundation | 8/13/2009 |
| WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION | $269,702 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Collaborative Research: SERPENT: Serpentinite, Extension and Regional Porosity Experiment across the Nicaraguan Trench | National Science Foundation | 8/07/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO | $361,323 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: North Pacific Subtropical Mode Water formation rates were estimated from a Walin (1982) analysis by integrating daily air-sea buoyancy fluxes over the daily isopycnal outcrop windows for years 1995-2003 from the Maltrud and McClean (2005) dipole 0.1-degre | National Science Foundation | 6/04/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND | $210,568 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Despite encompassing more than 99% of the livable space on the planet, the midwater environment and its inhabitants are among the least studied on the planet, primarily due to their remoteness and the technological limitations that have precluded direct s | National Science Foundation | 6/01/2009 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $17,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Intellectual Merit This proposal requests a flow-through fluorometer to replace a 12-year old model. The fluorometer is used to measure surface chlorophyll a on R/V Cape Hatteras, a 136-ft long research vessel owned by the National Science Foundation and | National Science Foundation | 7/31/2009 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $173,888 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This study will quantitatively reconstruct deep ocean carbonate chemistry changes across the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum to determine the degree of ocean acidification during a past period of high CO2 and extreme warming. The PIs will generate record | National Science Foundation | 6/25/2009 |
| LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM | $300,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 2009 Shipboard Scientific Support Equipment | National Science Foundation | 9/10/2009 |
| CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, DOMINGUEZ HILLS | $150,677 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Collaborative Research: US - Costa Rica International Research Experiences for Students: Tropical Ecology Mentorship Program of Southern California | National Science Foundation | 5/20/2009 |
| WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC | $149,364 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Removeable surfactant phases on particles and membranes between Western Kentucky University and National Chung Hsing University in Taiwan. | National Science Foundation | 9/08/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA | $472,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The project funded by the award aims at impoving the capabilities of particle detectors used in the search for dark matter. The SuperCDMS experiment, which makes use to these detectors, is an approximately 10 institution collaboration across the US and is | National Science Foundation | 9/01/2009 |
| AMHERST COLLEGE, TRUSTEES OF | $469,086 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: At extremely low temperatures, the properties of physical systems can manifest unusual and striking behavior. One such behavior is superfluidity, which is a coordinated fluid flow without any viscosity. The fundamental properties of collisions between ato | National Science Foundation | 7/07/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA | $170,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: When a small black hole orbits a much larger one, it emits gravitational waves and slowly spirals inward. This effort focuses on the rate of inspiral of such systems and related features which are imprinted into the gravitational waves. Careful theoretica | National Science Foundation | 8/17/2009 |
| RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, THE | $910,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: It will fund the research work of the High Energy Group at the State University of New York at Buffalo. The group main research activities are on the D0 experiment at the Tevatron, the CMS experiment at LHC, and the outreach program through QuarkNet. The | National Science Foundation | 6/05/2009 |
| IDAHO STATE UNIVERSITY | $910,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award provides support for a program using electromagnetic probes to study hadronic matter on a fundatmental level at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility. Although the group recently formed at Idaho State University, each of the senio | National Science Foundation | 9/14/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY | $420,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: One of the most enduring mysteries in astrophysics is the explanation for the compelling evidence that, on virtually all scales above the size of a star, far more gravitating material exists in an invisible form than that which can be detected by all know | National Science Foundation | 7/26/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS | $160,560 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). It supports a project to explore the use of alternative technologies, such as the Sony Playstation 3 gaming console, multimedia workstations and similar hard | National Science Foundation | 9/02/2009 |
| JOHN BROWN UNIVERSITY | $74,521 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Localized bipolar electric field pulses have been observed by many satellite missions throughout Earth's plasma environment including the auroral ionosphere, regions of the magnetosphere (e.g., the cusp, the magnetosheath, and the magnetotail), and in the | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| WOODROW WILSON INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR SCHOLARS | $25,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project will explore the application of a prediction market to an emerging field of science ? synthetic biology ? where a better understanding of future development and directions in the field could be of significant value to funders, policymakers, a | National Science Foundation | 8/17/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY CORPORATION, THE | $222,618 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Intellectual Merit: The Pacific-North America plate boundary in southern California is one of the only examples of recorded subduction of an oceanic spreading center in geological history, but this process is likely to be a common component of Earth histo | National Science Foundation | 9/10/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $279,719 | 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 |
| NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY | $499,991 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This research grant from the Office of Polar Programs, National Science Foundation is entitled G?Mount Erebus Volcano Observatory III (MEVO III); Conduit Processes and SurveillanceG?. Mount Erebus is AntarcticaG??s most active volcano and has been in a pe | National Science Foundation | 8/07/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $584,822 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Antarctic Meteorological Research Center, located within the Space Science and Engineering Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is focused on Antarctic meteorological data stewardship and observational research. Activities that are a part of | National Science Foundation | 6/01/2009 |
| MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY, INC | $630,475 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Collaboration between the Desert Research Institute, Montana State University, University of California to develop new protocols for working with ice core samples. | National Science Foundation | 6/10/2009 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $114,741 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Method versus Preference Learning in Decision Analytic Preference Assessment Society faces problems in the 21st century that are different from what we have seen in the past. Policy makers and decision makers must make decisions in novel situations for w | National Science Foundation | 6/17/2009 |
| THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK | $260,663 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The project is an historical study of select industrial hazards in the United States and Mexico, from the Great Depression to just prior to the North American Free Trade Agreement (1994). The project is a direct outgrowth of NSF-funded conferences that ha | National Science Foundation | 8/11/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS | $850,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The cryptographic community has a very particular disciplinary culture, and this culture shapes the set of problems that tend to be noticed and the style of solutions that tend to emerge. This is of course true in any scientific field, but, with cryptogra | National Science Foundation | 8/12/2009 |
| PLASMA TECHNOLOGY INCORPORATED | $150,000 | Grant | National Clean Diesel Funding Assistance Program: The Small Business Technology Transfer Research (STTR) Phase I project will develop a functionally graded nanostructured thermal barrier/environmental barrier coating (TBC/EBC) system for aerospace and power generation gas turbines. Introducing ceramimic co... Show more | National Science Foundation | 6/16/2009 |
| ALASKA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY | $79,786 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Collaborative research: Nonlinearities in the Arctic climate system during the Holocene. 'The complete abstract for this award is available in Research.gov.' | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| BC GENESIS, LLC | $100,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: NSF SBIR Phase I | National Science Foundation | 7/01/2009 |
| FRIENDS OF THE NORTH CAROLINA | $285,048 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project was funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 through the Division of Biological Infrastructure, Biological Research Collections Program, of the National Science Foundation. The project aims to accomplish the complete c | National Science Foundation | 9/10/2009 |
| FLORIDA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, INC. | $400,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: CAREER: Micro and Nano Methods to Reveal Cell Sensitivities to Local Stiffness | National Science Foundation | 6/30/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $89,511 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Lo`ihi is an active submarine volcano and the newest volcano in the Hawaiian Chain. As the only example of the submarine phase of Hawaiian volcanism, Lo`ihi | National Science Foundation | 8/16/2009 |
| MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY, INC | $268,429 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Research experience for undergraduate students site project to study the ancient crystalline rocks exposed in the northern part of Yellowstone National Park. Students will spend one month in the summer mapping and sampling in the field, visit an analytica | National Science Foundation | 8/30/2009 |
| SETI INSTITUTE | $597,600 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: These funds will allow for the continuation of the Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site at the SETI Institute (SI), with a focus on astrobiology and the study of the living universe. Astrobiology is cross-disciplinary, ranging from astronomy | National Science Foundation | 6/09/2009 |
| NAVAJO LANGUAGE ACADEMY, INC | $299,699 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Workshop and Navajo language documentation | National Science Foundation | 9/28/2009 |
| TABLE BLUFF RESERVATION | $65,904 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Documenting Endangered Languages Grant 'Wiyot Language Materials Project' Funding received through ARRA via the NSF's Documenting Endangered Languages grant is being used to create a single comprehensive resource for the Wiyot language, whose last known f | National Science Foundation | 8/25/2009 |
| ADLER PLANETARIUM, THE | $411,608 | 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 Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System (VERITAS), located at the Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory basecamp of Mt. Hopkins, AZ, became f | National Science Foundation | 9/02/2009 |
| SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY | $451,353 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This major research instrumentation (MRI) proposal provides the justification to develop a state-of-the-art photoactivated scanning probe microscope(p-SPM) to enhance research and educational activities of the NSF-EPSCoR supported PANS (Photoactive Nanosc | National Science Foundation | 9/14/2009 |
| TRUMAN STATE UNIVERSITY | $196,304 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The National Science Foundation Major Research Instrumentation award will enhance microscopy-intensive undergraduate research and training at Truman State University through support for the acquisition of a spinning disc confocal microscope. The Truman St | National Science Foundation | 9/01/2009 |
| NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN, THE | $420,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Functional Evolution of the APETALA1/FRUITFULL gene lineage | National Science Foundation | 6/24/2009 |
| ZT SOLAR, INC. | $500,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II seeks to develop a surface texturing technique that will significantly improve sunlight coupling into various types of solar cells. Surface textures are mandatory to record efficiencies in solar cell | National Science Foundation | 9/10/2009 |
| WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION | $226,803 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Collaborative Research: GEOTRACES Atlantic Section: Mercury Speciation Along a Zonal Section in the North Atlantic | National Science Foundation | 8/19/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT RIVERSIDE | $259,544 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Multicore (also known as so-called chip-multiprocessors (CMP)) architectures are the trend for current and future microprocessor designs. They provide better performance via thread-level parallelism, better power/thermal scaling, and easy design by design | National Science Foundation | 8/03/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO | $3,191,896 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Title: IGERTG??Global Change, Marine Ecosystems, and Society. 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 s | National Science Foundation | 8/25/2009 |
| POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE OF NEW YORK UNIVERSITY | $535,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: NeTS: Medium: Collaborative Research: Unlocking Capacity for Wireless Access Networks through Robust Cooperative Cross-Layer Design | National Science Foundation | 8/04/2009 |
| BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | $133,284 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The properties of the main belt asteroids provide critical tests for models of the formation and dynamical evolution of our solar system. Of special interest are the X/M/E class asteroids, which represent 20% of the inner mail belt asteroids, in part bec | National Science Foundation | 9/18/2009 |
| GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND SERVICE FOUNDATION, INC. | $112,255 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Intellectual merit. In this proposal we consider a broad based study of galactic disk formation and evolution in an environment of dark matter and baryonic substructure. We shall examine the emergence of a new paradigm, where massive disk galaxies asse | National Science Foundation | 7/02/2009 |
| LEHIGH UNIVERSITY | $128,175 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The 12 PIs of this collaborative project will use lacustrine sediments to produce 13 new high-resolution climate records of the past 8000 years. The study sites form two focus regions (eastern Beringia and the NW Atlantic) that generally coincide with the | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS | $359,658 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The magnification of climate warming in high-latitude ecosystems poses a variety of challenges to arctic peoples. In Alaska and elsewhere in the Arctic, climate change have been linked to reduced subsistence opportunities and increased difficulties of pre | National Science Foundation | 9/17/2009 |
| WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION | $100,662 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Collaborative Research: Enhancing the sustainability of groundwater pumping from low-arsenic aquifers in southern Asia - a case study in Vietnam south of Hanoi : Proposal addresses two key issues for assessing the vulnerability of low-As aquifers as su | National Science Foundation | 9/30/2009 |
| NN-LABS, LLC | $99,981 | Contract | : Project Title: Highly Luminescent Manganese-Doped Zinc Selenide Quantum Dots to Enhance Silicon Solar Cell Efficiency through Spectral Down-Conversion. This Small Business Innovation Research Phase 1 project intends to demonstrate a spectral down-convert | National Science Foundation | 5/29/2009 |
| ULTRAWAVE LABS | $77,715 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The purpose 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 th | National Science Foundation | 7/01/2009 |
| SHEETA GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY CORP | $99,969 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This NSF Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project aims at developing a novel diamondoid/promoter/carbonaceous nanostructure with enhanced hydrogen storage capability, through simultaneously increasing their porous sizes and hydrogen binding abil | National Science Foundation | 6/04/2009 |
| POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE OF NEW YORK UNIVERSITY | $400,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: NeTS:Small:View-Upload Decoupling: A Redesign of Multi-Channel P2P Video Systems | National Science Foundation | 7/20/2009 |
| ITHACA COLLEGE | $60,638 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Collaborative Research: The Kalavasos and Maroni Built Environments Project. Investigating Social Transformation in Late Bronze Age Cyprus. The Kalavasos-Maroni Built Environments Project is an interdisciplinary investigation of the relationships between | National Science Foundation | 8/16/2009 |
| BERMUDA INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCES (BIOS), INC | $463,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The award is to fund numerous shipboard Scientific Support items for the vessel operated by the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS), namely the RV Atlantic Explorer. The funding specifically includes items that have been recommended from past NSF | National Science Foundation | 8/19/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $69,240 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The cause of the end-Permian mass extinction remains controversial. However, some combination of CO2 or H2S toxicity and/or climate change, triggered or catalyzed by the eruption of the Siberian Traps, appears to be the most likely kill mechanism. The bio | National Science Foundation | 9/24/2009 |
| NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN, THE | $291,703 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: MRI: Acquisition of a High Performance Computer Cluster for The New York Botanical Garden. Over the last 15 years, a variety of molecular techniques have been added to the research repertoire of The New York Botanical Garden (NYBG)?DNA sequencing for | National Science Foundation | 8/25/2009 |
| BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY | $355,662 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The NSF-MRI grant entitled 'Development of a Multimode Microscope for Imaging Structure and Dynamics of Soft Materials' is a highly integrated and collaborative project which is being carried out by scientists at Brandeis University located in Waltham, Ma | National Science Foundation | 9/08/2009 |
| WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION | $1,321,055 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Quantification of Trichodesmium spp. vertical and horizontal abundance patterns and nitrogen fixation in the western North Atlantic | National Science Foundation | 7/04/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA | $330,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The objective of this program is to investigate tandem two-photon absorption (2PA) stimulated emission depletion (STED) processes for high density, nanoscopic write-once read-many (WORM) 3D optical data storage (ODS). The intellectual merit is developing | National Science Foundation | 7/30/2009 |
| BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY | $449,993 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The grant is designed to continue training for PhD Students in cultural anthropology through a summer fields method training course that takes place in Bolivia. The project has been offered anually since 2004 and will be offered again until 2013 with the | National Science Foundation | 9/25/2009 |
| NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY | $179,997 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The objective of this research is to fill the technological 'gap' at the THz spectral region, by developing the first generation of THz graphene-based photodetectors with exceptional sensitivity, dynamic range, response rate and non-cryogenic operating te | National Science Foundation | 7/06/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI | $319,703 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Acquisition of a new Stable Isotope Mass spectrometer. | National Science Foundation | 8/06/2009 |
| WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION | $592,297 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: GEOTRACES Atlantic Section: Measurement of Helium Isotopes and Tritium | National Science Foundation | 9/18/2009 |
| WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION | $789,995 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Larval Dispersal and Retention Among Sub-populations of Coral Reef Fishes: A Multi-Technique Approach | National Science Foundation | 8/06/2009 |
| STRUCTURED MATERIALS INDUSTRIES, INC. | $150,000 | Grant | Science, Recovery Act: STTR Phase I Project to develop Graphene Based NOx Detector. The abstract is available at www.research.gov | National Science Foundation | 6/18/2009 |
| LIFESCITECH, LLC | $150,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This is a STTR Phase I projoect awarded by NSF to develop ACC Synthesis - a Way to Create Safer, Efficacious and Inexpensive Single Enantiomers. The synthesis of single enantiomer drugs is an extremely important aspect of drug development. Unfortunately, | National Science Foundation | 7/01/2009 |
| WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION | $660,035 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: CMG Research: Making inferences about planktonic ecosystems with models and observations: use of emulators to make complex multidimensional applications tractable | National Science Foundation | 9/18/2009 |
| ROWAN UNIVERSITY | $199,986 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Empowering Students with Engineering Literacy and Systematic Problem Solving through Interactive and Cost effective games | National Science Foundation | 8/03/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT RIVERSIDE | $399,695 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Instructors of undergraduate engineering courses have long been perplexed by the fact that students often struggle to solve problems that differ only superficially from ones they have already solved. For example, rotating the diagram for a statics problem | National Science Foundation | 7/07/2009 |
| ADLER PLANETARIUM, THE | $1,889,993 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 'Scientists and researchers from fields as diverse as oceanography and ecology, astronomy and classical studies face a common challenge. As computer power and technology improve, the sizes of data sets available to us increase rapidly. The goal of this pr | National Science Foundation | 9/17/2009 |
| SKIDAWAY INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY | $210,268 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This request is to fund Shipboard Scientific Support Equipment 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 | 9/08/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL | $1,000,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: GRADUATE RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM | National Science Foundation | 8/13/2009 |
| ASSOCIATED UNIVERSITIES, INC. | $5,400,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This award supports infrastructure upgrades at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) that will ensure the viability of current NRAO assets for sup | National Science Foundation | 9/30/2009 |
| MARSHALL UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION | $930,058 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Scientists at Marshall University want to monitor physiological changes in cells as they happen. To achieve this and other aims they propose to replace a 13-year-old confocal microscope with a new, vastly more capapble confocal and multiphoton system. A | National Science Foundation | 12/10/2009 |
| CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY (INC) | $349,997 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project requests funds to acquire a physiological monitoring and biofeedback system, a sweating thermal manikin and a guarded sweating hotplate. This instrumentation enables the researchers to empirically measure temperature and humidity flow from th | National Science Foundation | 12/18/2009 |
| GETTYSBURG COLLEGE | $159,756 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Gettysburg College has received support from the NSF MRI-R2 program to support the acquisition of a Nikon Eclipse 90i microscope plus digital imaging and software technology. This microscope will enable new research initiatives for six faculty, and broade | National Science Foundation | 12/10/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO | $516,658 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: 'The goal of this project is to acquire high-throughput crystallization instrumentation, including a crystallization robot and automated imaging system, to enhance the Macromolecular X-ray Crystallography facility (MXCF) of the University of Puerto Rico ( | National Science Foundation | 12/23/2009 |
| GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND SERVICE FOUNDATION, INC. | $310,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This equipment will be used to create accurate and realistic three-dimensional computer models of natural features and built structures. Modern, highly-accu | National Science Foundation | 12/09/2009 |
| MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY, THE | $418,048 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Funding from the NSF MRI-R2 program has been awarded to the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) to support the purchase of two Campbell Scientific TGA200 in situ trace gas analyzer systems for deployment at field sites and an Agilent Technologies G3242A/G3 | National Science Foundation | 12/23/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT | $407,672 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Funds from the NSF MRI-R2 program have been awarded to the University of Connecticut to support the purchase of an Applied Biosystems SOLiD3 massively parallel nucleic acid sequencer. The new sequencer supports research endeavors in a broad range of tradi | National Science Foundation | 12/22/2009 |
| LAKE SUPERIOR STATE UNIVERSITY | $45,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: MMI-R2: Acquisition of a Thermal Cycler and QPCR Instrument to Incorporate Molecular Biochemistry into Undergraduate Research and Education - The funding of a thermal cycler and quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) instrumentation allows the Envi | National Science Foundation | 12/15/2009 |
| NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY | $500,667 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Major Research Instrumentation-Recovery and Reinvestment (MRI-R2) award provides funds to support the acquisition of a Zeiss PALM MicroBeam IV Laser Microdissection Pressure Catapulting System (LMPCS) that enables and enhances life sciences research | National Science Foundation | 12/23/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS | $27,799 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This micro-tensile tester will be used in testing various materials inside an atomic force microscope (AFM) to understand nano-scale material deformation | National Science Foundation | 12/18/2009 |
| HARVARD COLLEGE, PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF | $417,856 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This Major Research Instrumentation-Recovery and Reinvestment award funds the development of a multipoint, dual color fluorescence fluctuation spectroscopy (FFS) at Harvard University. The instrumentation enables new research on the spatial regulation of | National Science Foundation | 12/22/2009 |
| RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK | $61,733 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: ARRA - TRANS-NSF RECOVERY ACT RESEARCH SUPPORT | National Science Foundation | 12/10/2009 |
| LYCOMING COLLEGE | $327,913 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Support from the NSF MRI-R2 program allowed Lycoming College to acquire a microbial ID system for the identification of bacterial species, a high performance Liquid Chromatograph, and a combination automated microplate reader and incubator. These systems | National Science Foundation | 12/09/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA SOUTHEAST | $323,023 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Funds from the NSF MRI-R2 program have been award to the University of Alaska Southeast (UAS) for the purchase of analytical equipment that builds capacity | National Science Foundation | 12/22/2009 |
| SEATTLE UNIVERSITY | $127,114 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Seattle University (SU) has received an award from the NSF MRI-R2 program to purchase a large-volume preparative ultracentrifuge to support programs in undergraduate research and education. The large-volume preparative ultracentrifuge is initially being u | National Science Foundation | 12/10/2009 |
| RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK | $691,869 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: ARRA - TRANS-NSF RECOVERY ACT RESEARCH SUPPORT | National Science Foundation | 12/22/2009 |
| MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY | $156,447 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Schramm Loewner evolution (SLE) introduced by Oded Schramm in 1998 has been used with great success to prove some outstanding conjectures and predictions from probability and statistical physics. So far many statistical physics lattice models, e.g., p | National Science Foundation | 7/29/2009 |
| WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION | $1,310,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Operation of the Ocean Bottom Seismic Instrumentation Pool at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution for the Marine Geosciences Community | National Science Foundation | 9/25/2009 |
| SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC | $57,300 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The objective of this project is to realize silicon neurons as physical circuits. A key requirement is to match the internal dynamics of the circuit, includ | National Science Foundation | 9/10/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES | $154,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: Global well-posedness for dispersive partial differential equations at critical regularity | National Science Foundation | 10/29/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $349,910 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). In recent years, graphics processing units( GPUs)have emerged as a powerful alternative to CPU based computing, especially for scientific computing. However, | National Science Foundation | 11/04/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS | $120,000 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: When a smooth complex surface degenerates to a singular surface with an ordinary double point there is a so called vanishing cycle: a two dimensional sphere which collapses to a point. However, in the theory of moduli of surfaces, more complicated degener | National Science Foundation | 11/05/2009 |
| THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK | $100,641 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The principal investigator is interested in the study of the geometry of moduli spaces, especially those that are birational to modular varieties of orthogonal or unitary type (examples include the moduli space of K3 surfaces or low genus curves). Laza's | National Science Foundation | 10/15/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE | $434,273 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Funds supplied by the NSF MRI-R2 program have helped to support the establishment of a facility for state of- the-art stable isotope measurements at the Univ | National Science Foundation | 12/22/2009 |
| FORT LEWIS COLLEGE | $409,117 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This research will explore how the changing seasonal pattern that drives the crash in N availability in tundra soils will alter overall tundra C-cycling and its role as a source or sink of C and through this its role in the global climate system. | National Science Foundation | 12/08/2009 |
| THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY | $1,662,201 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: The Circumpolar Active Layer Monitoring (CALM) program is concerned with observing the response of the active layer and near-surface permafrost to climate change at multi-decade time scales. The present active-layer network of 168 sites represents the onl | National Science Foundation | 11/04/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS SYSTEM | $85,366 | Grant | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support: This project will study solutions to the Cauchy-Riemann equations on domains with corners. The Cauchy-Riemann equations are the fundamental differential equations in several complex variables, and their study involves tools from potential theory, complex | National Science Foundation | 11/16/2009 |