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Jefferson County, Ala., funds by National Science Foundation

Listing $1,990,600.00 in stimulus funds from National Science Foundation for Jefferson

Note: For some programs where states do not report where money will be distributed across the state, we do not have the allocation for individual counties. Those programs include: Medicaid, unemployment benefits and food stamps. Those amounts are included in the totals for where the state agency receiving that money is located.

Amount refers to both the amount of stimulus funding going toward the project and the face value of the loan.

Recipient Amount Description Federal Dept./Agency Date
UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM $703,313 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This project provides an evaluation of the importance of mesograzers and macroalgal endophytes in western Antarctic Peninsula marine communities. It examines the role of mesoherbivores in structuring macroalgal communities and attempts to elucidate the e National Science Foundation 8/13/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM $545,997 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The goal of this research is to determine the mechanism of polypeptide translocation catalyzed by the hexameric E. coli ClpA motor protein. Motor proteins are essential enzymes for a variety of cellular processes that require mechanical work. Therefore, National Science Foundation 6/06/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM $431,200 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is for the acquisition of an imaging X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) microprobe surface analysis system to support diverse multi-departmental program at University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) in nanostructured, compositionally graded, National Science Foundation 9/08/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM $148,860 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Global climate change is altering polar marine ecosystems through rising temperatures and ocean acidification. Benthic communities in Antarctica face an additional threat: the unprecedented, climatically driven invasion of predators from temperate and sub National Science Foundation 8/18/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM $133,230 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This project supports research in the mathematical sciences. National Science Foundation 9/02/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM $28,000 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project applies tomaterial & process development of products from scrap (recycled) thermoplastic composite materials with microballoon fillers.
This spending item is part of a $100,000 allocation. See details
National Science Foundation 6/01/2009