Maricopa County, Ariz., funds by National Science Foundation
Listing $20,880,505.17 in stimulus funds from National Science Foundation for Maricopa
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 |
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| ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY | $3,267,586 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support With this award from the Major Research and Instrumentation (MRI) program, Peter Williams, Ariel D. Anbar, James R. Anderson, Richard L. Hervig and Willem F. Vermaas will acquire an imaging secondary ion mass spectrometer (SIMS) instrument. This novel and | National Science Foundation | 2/11/2010 |
| HUNTER CONTRACTING CO. | $1,002,086 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Infrastructure Improvements at the National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO): NOAO, a Federally Funded Research and Development Center under a Cooperative Agreement with the National Science Foundation, is charged with the oversight and management o
This spending item is part of a $5,600,000 allocation.
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National Science Foundation | 9/03/2009 |
| ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY | $884,357 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This Focused Research Group (FRG) project explores energy applications of group-IV (Si, Ge) semiconductor materials incorporating Sn. The combination of Sn with Si and Ge may allow desirable structural and electronic properties with advantageous opportuni | National Science Foundation | 8/28/2009 |
| ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY | $874,484 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support A recent study by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) documented over 32,000 mostly surgery-related deaths, costing nine billion dollars and accounting for 2.4 million extra days in hospital in 2000. At the same time, economic pressures | National Science Foundation | 7/10/2009 |
| ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY | $865,914 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Water and energy are essential ingredients of life and key commodities for humans and other living organisms that make up food webs. Curiously, although the role of energy in determining the inner workings of food webs has been thoroughly explored, water | National Science Foundation | 8/17/2009 |
| ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY | $705,507 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Moore's law promises consistent increasing transistor densities for the foreseeable future. However, device scaling no longer delivers the energy gains that drove the semiconductor growth of the past several decades. This has created a design paradox: mor | National Science Foundation | 7/27/2009 |
| ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY | $700,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support More rapid development of solar energy is stymied by the high (but declining) costs of solar energy systems, the relatively low efficiencies of such systems, regulatory hurdles that impede development, and uncoordinated governmental policies. Overcoming s | National Science Foundation | 5/13/2010 |
| CATHOLIC HEALTHCARE WEST | $626,505 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support People are often surprised to learn that their eyes never stop moving, even when they fixate their gaze. Even more surprising: if their eyes did stop moving, they would become blind to stationary objects due to a brain process called ?neural adaptation?. | National Science Foundation | 9/25/2009 |
| ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY | $576,356 |
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
This spending item is part of a $799,440 allocation.
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National Science Foundation | 7/20/2009 |
| ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY | $573,548 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Rivers are the dynamic link between terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. The biogeochemical processes that produce, consume, and transform organic carbon in rivers are critical to understanding regional carbon budgets, the controls on river water quality, | National Science Foundation | 9/02/2009 |
| ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY | $569,117 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This project will investigate the fate of organic matter in a cloud/fog system. First, scavenging efficiencies of particulate organic matter by fogs and clouds will be determined and parameterized based on simple measurable quantities like cloud liquid wa | National Science Foundation | 9/13/2009 |
| ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY | $550,000 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network (NNIN) is a partnership of 14 institutions (Cornell University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Harvard University, Howard University, , Pennsylvania State University, Stanford University, University of
This spending item is part of a $10,000,000 allocation.
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National Science Foundation | 9/17/2009 |
| ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY | $521,875 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Microbial habitats in extreme environments and organic transformations at ridge-crest hydrothermal systems are receiving increased attention as the novel properties of microbes that live in these environments become increasingly important in terms of biop | National Science Foundation | 8/06/2009 |
| ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY | $473,678 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Quantifying the global fossil fuel carbon dioxide (CO2) flux at high space/time resolution has emerged as a critical need in both carbon cycle and climate change science. The Vulcan Project led by the Principal Investigator (PI) has recently completed suc
This spending item is part of a $647,073 allocation.
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National Science Foundation | 8/16/2009 |
| ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY | $449,298 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Because climate and water are intimately linked in deserts, desert streams are well suited for observing consequences of both natural climate variability and human-caused climate change. Here, researchers propose to study how stream ecosystem structure ch | National Science Foundation | 7/25/2009 |
| ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY | $444,137 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The evolution of sociality is one of life's major transitions, similar to the merging of unicellular organisms to make multicellular life. In the highly social insect societies some individuals, the queens, specialize at reproduction while others, the wor
This spending item is part of a $500,000 allocation.
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National Science Foundation | 6/19/2009 |
| ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY | $405,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Dmitry Matyushov of Arizona State University has an award from the Theoretical and Computational Program of the Chemistry Division to study the electrostatics at the interface of a polar liquid and a solute of nanoscale dimensions using a combination of n | National Science Foundation | 6/16/2009 |
| ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY | $400,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The fundamental differences between multi-hop networks and point-to-point settings indicate that leveraging MIMO gains in multi-hop networks requires a paradigm shift from high SNR regimes to interference-limited regimes. This project undertakes a broad r | National Science Foundation | 7/24/2009 |
| ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY | $400,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This engineering education research award to Arizona State University will undertake an experiment to evaluate active learning techniques and how such knowledge can be utilized to develop more effective classroom teaching for materials engineering and nan | National Science Foundation | 7/19/2009 |
| ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY | $389,416 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support An award has been made to the herbaria (museum plant collections) of Arizona State University (ASU) and the Desert Botanical Garden (DES), under the direction of Drs. Leslie R. Landrum and Andrew M. Salywon respectively, to expand the Southwest Environmen | National Science Foundation | 8/18/2009 |
| ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY | $375,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Neutrinos offer a new way to look at the sky. As a new generation of experiments is being developed, the detection of neutrinos from core collapse supernovae and stellar jets finally is within reach, with unprecendented potential to learn about these sour | National Science Foundation | 9/03/2009 |
| ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY | $365,897 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Little is known quantitatively about the climatic control on erosion rates at millennial or longer timescales. Although details vary, landscape evolution models all predict a positive, monotonic relationship between river discharge and erosion rate. Howev | National Science Foundation | 8/04/2009 |
| ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY | $348,315 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This grant provides funding for developing experimental design theories and techniques for product and process reliability responses that will fill the gap that currently exists in design for reliability. Direct application of traditional design of experi | National Science Foundation | 6/23/2009 |
| ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY | $339,574 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Wireless networks operate under hostile conditions and often exhibit multi-scale stochastic dynamics. In such dynamic environments, network algorithms for quality of services (QoS) provisioning hinge heavily on state information exchange, and network func | National Science Foundation | 9/22/2009 |
| ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY | $328,821 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Probabilistic and decision-theoretic planning, which operates under conditions of uncertainty, has important applications in science and engineering, but such stochastic methods have been under-utilized because these planners do not scale to large, compli | National Science Foundation | 6/22/2009 |
| ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY | $325,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The interaction of thermal radiation with nanofluids, which are nanoscale colloidal suspensions, has not been extensively examined. This research deals with fundamental thermal transport phenomena that occur when sufficiently intense thermal radiation is | National Science Foundation | 8/11/2009 |
| ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY | $316,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The cost of solar cells must be reduced by a factor of two in order to achieve grid parity. There are a number of new technologies which can achieve this goal, including advanced silicon, thin film (CdTe or CIGS), organic solar cells, or, in the longer te | National Science Foundation | 7/20/2009 |
| ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY | $293,851 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Through plate tectonics and subduction, Earth recycles oceanic crust and lithosphere into its mantle. The down going oceanic crust carries H2O, which, when released into the overlying mantle wedge, causes melting that results in arc volcanism. If the mant | National Science Foundation | 6/05/2009 |
| ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY | $287,040 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The theory of graph packing provides a general framework for organizing many areas of graph theory. Two famous results that can be phrased in this language are Dirac's Theorem on the existence of Hamiltonian cycles and the Hajnal-Szemer+?di Theorem on equ | National Science Foundation | 6/12/2009 |
| ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY | $250,464 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The project supports the design and development of a sensitive, broadband antenna and receiver to observe the evolution with redshift of highly redshifted neutral hydrogen, throughout the epoch of reionization. The system, operating in the 45 - 200 MHz r
This spending item is part of a $392,466 allocation.
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National Science Foundation | 9/03/2009 |
| ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY | $236,003 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This project is defining the basis for lower-complexity robotic hands that can grasp a wide variety of objects in noisy and unstructured environments. The new generation of mobile and humanoid robots still lacks basic ?hands? that can reliably grasp objec | National Science Foundation | 6/26/2009 |
| ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY | $233,014 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Domain specific multi-core processors (DSMPs) are aimed at high performance embedded system applications (image/signal processing, networking, graphics, medical instrumentation, and so on). DSMPs incorporate several architectural innovations including sym | National Science Foundation | 8/26/2009 |
| ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY | $224,272 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The world today functions in an age of international migration and financial globalization, not only in terms of the century-old phenomenon of people and money crossing national borders, but also in the unprecedented scope and complexity that these crossi | National Science Foundation | 6/09/2009 |
| ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY | $220,263 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The research objective of this Interdisciplinary Research Collaborative award is to develop a universal manufacturing method to fabricate composite functional structures/materials on three dimensional surfaces using laser dynamic forming. This research wi | National Science Foundation | 8/10/2009 |
| ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY | $215,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are becoming pervasive in both civilian and military domains. Low cost and ease of deployment of these networks necessitate the use of batteries as the primary source of power. As a result, battery capacity has emerged as a | National Science Foundation | 7/25/2009 |
| ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY | $209,318 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Nationally visible cases of convicted criminals who lapsed back into criminal activity following their release into the community have prompted state and federal legislators and local communities to focus on the public safety risk posed by offenders and t | National Science Foundation | 8/26/2009 |
| ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY | $179,927 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The aim of the proposed research is to explore cyber-infrastructure that will enable and promote large scale collaboration in building, maintaining, and using (towards discovery) scientific knowledge bases that are grounded in published literature. Althou | National Science Foundation | 8/31/2009 |
| ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY | $175,590 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Granted funds will support acquisition of a Planar Laser-Induced Fluorescence (PLIF) imaging system and shock wave tube to study the dynamics of simulated volcanic eruptions in laboratory experiments. Laser-based multi-phase fluid dynamic diagnostic capab | National Science Foundation | 8/20/2009 |
| ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY | $155,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Many liquid/gas two-phase flows involve topology changes, where atomization of the liquid is governed by the dynamics of the phase interface. Although atomization is crucial in many technical applications ranging from energy conversion to pharmaceutical s | National Science Foundation | 8/20/2009 |
| ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY | $150,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This engineering education research award to Arizona State University will employ researchers to develop cyber infrastructure to infuse sustainability concepts into electrical engineering courses. A central challenge in incorporating sustainability in a g | National Science Foundation | 8/03/2009 |
| ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY | $145,459 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The primary objectives of this collaborative research study are to 1) better understand the interactive roles played by lane-changing and car-following, 2) quantify their effects on oscillations, and 3) develop a mathematical simulation model that accurat | National Science Foundation | 7/21/2009 |
| ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY | $125,913 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This proposal seeks ~$126K funding to purchase a second multi-anvil high pressure device. The current multi-anvil systems are fully booked ? and have been so for the past four years. Requested is a 1000 ton capacity, 8800 psi press with a 15' vertical and | National Science Foundation | 6/17/2009 |
| ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY | $114,351 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Intellectual Merit: Kimberlites are the most deeply derived terrestrial magmas and have brought diamonds to the surface that contain minerals believed to originate in the transition zone or lower mantle. The causes and sources of kimberlite magmatism rema | National Science Foundation | 7/19/2009 |
| DESERT BOTANICAL GARDEN, INC., THE | $110,548 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The Southwest Environmental Information Network (SEINet) was initiated at the Global Institute of Sustainability (GIOS) at Arizona State University. It was created to serve as a gateway to distribute data resources of interest for the environmental rese | National Science Foundation | 7/02/2009 |
| ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY | $108,915 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Transformative Behavior of Energy, Water and Carbon in the Critical Zone: An Observatory to Quantify Linkages among Ecohydrology, Biogeochemistry, and Landscape Evolution We are developing an interdisciplinary observatory in the southwestern US that will
This spending item is part of a $4,350,000 allocation.
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National Science Foundation | 9/02/2009 |
| KX2 HOLDINGS, LLC | $91,215 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Infrastructure Improvements at the National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO): NOAO, a Federally Funded Research and Development Center under a Cooperative Agreement with the National Science Foundation, is charged with the oversight and management o
This spending item is part of a $5,600,000 allocation.
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National Science Foundation | 9/03/2009 |
| QUANTTERA LLC | $75,000 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Broadband Silicon-Germanium Based Quantum Dot Materials: Multifunctional materials are expected to bring important breakthroughs in various technological fields. QuantTera and the University of Delaware are proposing to develop silicon-germanium based qua
This spending item is part of a $150,000 allocation.
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National Science Foundation | 6/16/2009 |
| EARLHAM COLLEGE | $55,863 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The evolution of sociality is one of life's major transitions, similar to the merging of unicellular organisms to make multicellular life. In the highly social insect societies some individuals, the queens, specialize at reproduction while others, the wor
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National Science Foundation | 6/19/2009 |
| ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY | $54,539 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The objective of this research is to utilize nanoscale transistors beyond the CMOS scaling roadmap for low power, high accuracy implementation of neural-inspired (neuromorphic) computing modules. These novel devices include feedback FETs, impact ionizatio | National Science Foundation | 8/07/2009 |
| ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY | $49,444 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This project is conducted by the United States affiliates of World Wide Views on Global Warming, in collaboration with the global project organizer, the Danish Board of Technology, and approximately 10 additional partners at sites where WWViews deliberati
This spending item is part of a $234,955 allocation.
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National Science Foundation | 8/26/2009 |
| Abbey Home Elevator of Arizona | $29,970 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Infrastructure Improvements at the National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO): NOAO, a Federally Funded Research and Development Center under a Cooperative Agreement with the National Science Foundation, is charged with the oversight and management o
This spending item is part of a $5,600,000 allocation.
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National Science Foundation | 9/03/2009 |
| COMFORT SYSTEMS USA (SOUTHWEST), INC. | $12,075 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Infrastructure improvements at the National Solar Observatory (NSO). NSO is a Federally Funded Research Center that operates telescopes and research facilities on Kitt Peak on property leased from the Tohono O'odham Nation in the Quinlan Mountains in Ariz
This spending item is part of a $1,400,000 allocation.
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National Science Foundation | 9/03/2009 |