Prince George's County, Md., funds by National Science Foundation
Listing $31,863,920.00 in stimulus funds from National Science Foundation for Prince George's
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.
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| INSTITUTE OF GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIETY, INC. | $7,202,295 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The proposed work by the Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studie | National Science Foundation | 8/30/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | $1,936,855 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Studying activity of the human brain non-invasively is a major scientific challenge, yet it is essential for enhancing our understanding of the neural bases of action, emotion, and thought. A major technological advancement in studying the neural basis of | National Science Foundation | 8/16/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | $1,848,083 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support A Collaborative Proposal Involving CMU, CUNY, NYU, Stony Brook, UMD, Cornell, JPL This Expedition, under the directorship of Lead PI Edmund M. Clarke, will develop new computational tools to help scientists and engineers analyze and understand the beh | National Science Foundation | 8/11/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | $1,500,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This project is to renovate outdated laboratory suites in the Biology/Psychology Building on the campus of the University of Maryland - College Park to create the Joint Center for Cognitive, Social, Computational, and Mathematical Neuroscience. The Center | National Science Foundation | 8/27/2010 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | $1,442,919 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The Mid-Atlantic Crossroads (MAX) project involves enhancing existing Research and Education (R&E) metro network facilities with emerging 100 Gigabits per second (100Gb/s) equipment to support data intensive science exploration, modeling, and discovery. | National Science Foundation | 8/11/2010 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | $1,049,842 | 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 MARYLAND | $980,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Modeling the Dynamics and the Gravitational-Wave Emission of Coalescing Compact Binary Systems. This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The research spans several topics in gravitational-wave theor | National Science Foundation | 7/31/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | $799,956 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support African cichlid fishes provide a unique system for understanding how genomic information (DNA) is converted into whole organism variation (e.g., differences in size, shape, color). There are more than 2000 species of cichlid fishes, making them some of th | National Science Foundation | 7/01/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | $720,560 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). One of the most outstanding questions in astronomy and astrophysics addresses the origin and evolution of the cosmic accelerators that produce the highest en
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National Science Foundation | 4/20/2010 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | $662,331 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The University of Maryland College Park is awarded a grant to develop new algorithms and a suite of software tools based on a general and flexible definition of a 'network module' in order to extract meaningful biological clusters from noisy and incomplet | National Science Foundation | 8/07/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | $629,748 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Powdery mildew fungal pathogens penetrate the plant cell wall and develop a feeding structure named the haustorium to steal photosynthetate from the host cell. The haustorium is encased by an enigmatic extra-haustorial membrane (EHM) believed to be derive | National Science Foundation | 3/28/2010 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | $557,319 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This is a collaborative project involving a consortium of six premier U.S universities and one national laboratory to train graduate students in an area of anticipated manpower need: advanced acceleration techniques. In particular, students will be traine | National Science Foundation | 9/15/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | $523,421 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Stochastics and Dynamics: Asymptotics Problems - Mathematical models taking both deterministic and stochastic factors into account are becoming increasingly important in science and technology. These models, as a rule, are rather complicated. Oftentimes, | National Science Foundation | 5/29/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | $499,900 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Nearly one hundred years after the discovery of cosmic rays, neutrino telescopes are becoming an integral part of a multi-messenger approach to discovering their still elusive origins. Neutrinos are unique astronomical messengers which may provide critica | National Science Foundation | 7/31/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | $499,344 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Communication protocols on the Internet are typically designed first to work, then to interoperate and evolve, and eventually to be resilient to misbehavior and selfishness. Unfortunately, these extensions to protocols often sacrifice backward compatibili | National Science Foundation | 8/01/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | $450,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Loss and Rescue of Regeneration in Naidine Annelids. Animals vary tremendously in their ability to replace lost body parts. While some animals, such as humans, cannot re-grow most body parts, others, such as some segmented worms, can re-grow an entire bo | National Science Foundation | 6/09/2009 |
| ACCUSTRATA | $432,016 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project is directed at developing a real time process control system, TF Auto-Pilot, for improving manufacturing of thin film products such as thin film solar panels, flat panel displays, optics and | National Science Foundation | 9/16/2010 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | $422,253 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Research has shown that being excluded from social groups is endemic to peer interactions, relationships, and groups from early childhood through to adulthood. In fact, exclusion constitutes a basic feature of group dynamics that derives from the processe | National Science Foundation | 8/24/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | $400,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award funds research to conduct laboratory experiments that will compare the outcomes of different auction mechansims. One of the most fruitful areas of theoretical auction research has been the comparison of static auction mechanisms with dynamic au | National Science Foundation | 8/26/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | $400,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This CAREER award supports fundamental theoretical condensed matter physics research and education aiming to extend our understanding of superconductivity a state of matter where electrons pair together and act in concert as reflected by an absence of any | National Science Foundation | 6/22/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | $398,729 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The proposed research is designed to fill critical gaps in our knowledge concerning the magmatic partitioning of selected elements among sulfides, Fe-(Cu)-S-O melts, and selected oxides and silicates. These elements fall into two important groups found in | National Science Foundation | 7/19/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | $360,001 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Liquid crystals are important both for device and biological application. Liquid crystals are in TVG??s, clocks and many other applications. They are also the phases of the walls of every living creature cell. The interaction of nanoparticles with liquid | National Science Foundation | 8/26/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | $349,058 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This project focuses on the development of a new binary rewriter that can be use to statically transform binary code that does not have relocation information and to do so without the overhead of dynamic binary rewriting. Binary rewriters are pieces of so | National Science Foundation | 7/27/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | $345,000 | 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 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | $344,606 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Lithium ion batteries have been recognized as a critical technology to enable the advanced electric vehicles (EV) and hybrid electric vehicles (HEV). An obstacle of the traditional Li-ion batteries to the EV/HEV applications is their low peak power. Recen | National Science Foundation | 6/30/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | $316,822 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This NSF award by the Biosensing /CBET program supports work by PI at University of Maryland College Park to develop a label-free biosensor that uses optical waveguides and resonant cavities comprised of nanoporous silicon. Nanoporous silicon is a unique | National Science Foundation | 8/05/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | $308,050 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support PI is continuing his research in model theory, which is a branch of mathematical logic. The bulk of his research is organized around the theme of obtaining better structure theorems in three distinct settings. He will continue his investigations of the f | National Science Foundation | 5/28/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | $300,000 | 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 MARYLAND | $300,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The objective of this research is to test Newton's inverse-square law of gravitation to 1% at a 100-micrometer range and to search for extra dimensions or other new physics down to a few tens of micrometers. This research will explore the very nature of | National Science Foundation | 8/08/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | $300,000 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5)'. This project will investigate why many small molecules self-assemble in dilute solution to form very long '1-dimensional' (1D) objects, thinner than a huma
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National Science Foundation | 7/22/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | $299,705 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support CPS:Small:Fundamental Advances in Control of Wireless Sensor and Robotic Networks The objective of this project is to investigate fundamental issues in network control and distributed coordination of wireless sensor and robotic networks. The study o | National Science Foundation | 8/19/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | $295,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This program involves the development of a new reactor that is designed to provide access to a new class of cluster materials. Clusters of rare-earth elements are currently unknown and would represesent a major breakthrough in cluster science. | National Science Foundation | 9/21/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | $282,500 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Objective The objective of this program is to provide new breakthroughs in the areas of stochastic control and global optimization through insights gained from particle filtering and from additional recent results in nonlinear filtering. With a focus on a
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National Science Foundation | 8/20/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | $280,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The research objective of this award is to develop fundamental understanding of the effect of probe-sample thin-fluid-film forces on the accuracy of dynamic atomic force microscopy (AFM) images acquired in ambient air. In particular, the work will quantif | National Science Foundation | 7/28/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | $275,001 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The research objective of this project is to construct an analytical framework to reduce uncertainty in forecasts of hurricane intensity by optimally targeting a coordinated observing network of unmanned aircraft using ensemble-based adaptive sampling and | National Science Foundation | 7/16/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | $262,452 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Collaborative Research: Petascale Computing, Visualization, and Science Discovery of Turbulent Sooting Flames Energy efficiency, the environment, and human health can be affected by combustion-generated soot, so controlling soot is a major technological | National Science Foundation | 8/22/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | $255,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The objective of this research project is the investigation and the mathematical analysis of a wide class of asymptotic problems for stochastic partial differential equations, with emphasis on the study of averaging principle, large deviation principle, s | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | $250,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Award Title: Molecular mechanisms of ABA biosynthesis under drought stress Award descrition: Drought resulting from soil water deficit is one of the most common environmental factors that lead to substantial losses in productivity of crops worldwide. The | National Science Foundation | 7/03/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | $249,690 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The boundary between Earth's rocky mantle and metallic core is home to a patchwork collection of partially molten structures. These structures, characterized by sharp peaks and valleys, are relatively thin (10s of km in thickness), dense (up to 10% denser | National Science Foundation | 7/01/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | $249,676 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Intellectual merit - Fluid flow in subduction zones has broad affects the generation of arc magmas, the formation of continental crust, the geochemical evolution of the mantle, and the generation of Benioff zone seismicity. Yet many outstanding questions | National Science Foundation | 7/19/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | $221,500 | 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 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | $218,970 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The goal of the project is to develop a new psychological model of our access to our own propositional attitudes (our beliefs, desires, intentions, judgments, decisions, supposings, and the rest), integrating a wide range of results from across cognitive | National Science Foundation | 7/30/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | $210,600 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This project combines a theoretical and numerical study of one of the mechanisms that may initiate magnetic reconnection in a geomagnetic substorm. The general mechanism is an enhancement in the electrical resistivity of the plasma brought on by a plasma | National Science Foundation | 6/23/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | $173,507 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Collaborative Research: Physics Based Modeling of Blue Jets. This project will focus on further development of a model of upper atmospheric phenomena known as Blue Jets, Blue Starters, and Gigantic Blue Jets. Blue Jets are narrow cones of blue light that | National Science Foundation | 6/15/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | $173,181 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award will facilitate the purchase of a continuous flow isotope ratio mass spectrometer. Requested is a Thermo Delta V with Conflo-IV interface. This instrument is being requested to increase sample sensitivity (and thereby decrease necessary sample | National Science Foundation | 8/06/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | $163,995 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support PI will continue his work to determine the masses of the different components of disk galaxies, in particular the stellar disk, the gaseous disk and the dark halo. He will assemble velocity-resolved maps in the H-alpha line of ionized gas and in neutral h | National Science Foundation | 8/08/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | $153,289 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Large-eddy simulation (LES) is one of the most promising numerical techniques for modeling complex turbulent flows in a variety of applications ranging from engineering to geophysical flows. Today, one of the main obstacles to the widespread use of LES to | National Science Foundation | 8/24/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | $150,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support There is tremendous current interest in molecular machines: nanoscale systems that carry out specific tasks of mechanical work, microscopic assembly, or information processing. Alongside rapid progress revealing the details of biological molecular machine | National Science Foundation | 8/25/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | $148,426 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Investigators will conduct a series of 3-D magnetohydrodynamic simulations, to study how outflows from radio galaxies affect the surrounding gas, and to better understand the role of magnetic fields in regulating the temperature of the X-ray-emitting gas | National Science Foundation | 8/27/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | $148,282 | 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 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | $133,772 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Millard Alexander of the University of Maryland is supported by an EAGER award from the Theoretical Chemistry and Computational program to conduct exploratory research on advanced methods for the study of chemical dynamics of multiple potential energy su | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | $129,017 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This Science, Technology, and Society project supports scholarship that will result in a book about ethics and ecology, in particular, the concept of harm to nature. The conceptual and normative analysis will focus on the recent history of attempts to ide | National Science Foundation | 8/04/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | $115,814 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support 'A Long Baseline Investigation of Clouds, Haze, and Methane Distributions on Titan.' The primary goals are to retrieve Titan's time-dependent distributions of methane and haze using ground-based, Hubble Space Telescope, and the Cassini Imaging Science Sub
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National Science Foundation | 9/08/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | $100,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Currently plasmon resonances are mostly studied numerically or experimentally by using a trial-anderror approach, i.e., by probing nanoparticles with radiation of various frequencies and polarizations. The goal of this project is to advance novel techniqu | National Science Foundation | 8/22/2009 |
| ACCUSTRATA | $100,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project is focused on the development of a real-time optical monitoring technology able to reduce waste and improve the manufacturing yield and the conversion efficiency of the thin film solar cells and pane | National Science Foundation | 7/01/2009 |
| PIXELLIGENT TECHNOLOGIES LLC | $100,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project will explore the feasibility of using well dispersed nanocrystals with high thermal conductivity as functional fillers to improve the thermal and mechanical properties of electronic packaging materia | National Science Foundation | 6/01/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | $97,543 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Collaborative Research: Computation-driven small area inference with applications. This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). There is a growing demand to assess various measures of human well-being | National Science Foundation | 8/24/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | $90,177 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support A four-pixel prototype heterodyne focal plane array based on Monolithic Millimeter Integrated Circuit technology will be built. The purpose is to demonstrate the feasibility of a scalable focal plane array technology based largely on technology developed
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National Science Foundation | 8/19/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | $90,000 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This project, developing a next generation of immersive display instrument (called 'Reality Deck'), aims to explore and visualize data from many fields. To satisfy the need driven by the explosive growth of data size and environments already at the instit
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National Science Foundation | 4/23/2010 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | $61,392 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support In the United States, crop loss due to infection by plant pathogens, including plant viruses, has been estimated to exceed thirty billion dollars per year. In the environment, the genomes of plant viruses, as well as small, virus-associated (subviral) RNA | National Science Foundation | 7/10/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | $56,718 | 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 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | $22,661 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The PIs will study some fundamental problems in algebraic number theory, particularly problems related to the deep links between Galois representations and special values of L-functions (as conjectured in the Birch-Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture and the Bloch
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National Science Foundation | 6/18/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | $14,000 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The PENGUIn team will continue investigating in depth a multi-scale electrodynamic system that comprises space environment of Planet Earth (geospace). Several science topics important to the space physics and aeronomy are outlines in this proposal that ca
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National Science Foundation | 8/20/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | $12,944 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This Long-Term Research in Environmental Biology project capitalizes on 35 years of existing data to investigate how climate change is affecting the phenology (timing) and abundance of flowering by nearly 100 species of alpine wildflowers. Researchers fro
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National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |