Hampshire County, Mass., funds by National Science Foundation
Listing $14,196,469.00 in stimulus funds from National Science Foundation for Hampshire
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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| UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS | $1,998,601 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This program has two parts 1. Conversion of biomass-derived feedstocks and derivatives to fuels Catalytic fast pyrolysis CFP is used to convert solid biomass into gasoline-range aromatics in a single-step process. CFP begins with the pyrolysis of the sol | National Science Foundation | 7/30/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS | $684,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Proteins are nanometer-scale (one billionth of a meter) machines found inside of cells. In order to see such tiny objects we need microscopy. An electron microscope has good resolution to allow visualization of such small objects, but the samples (usually | National Science Foundation | 7/22/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS | $662,663 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Given the growing global importance of water issues caused by dwindling water resources and global climate change, building and deploying a real-time sensing infrastructure across water bodies---including rivers, streams, and watersheds --- will be one of | National Science Foundation | 7/20/2009 |
| AMHERST COLLEGE, TRUSTEES OF | $626,024 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award supports acquisition of a state-of-the-art high-resolution proton-transfer time-of-flight mass spectrometer (PTR-ToF-MS) that will be used to further understanding of the atmospheric chemistry of biogenic volatile organic compounds (BVOCs). Thi | National Science Foundation | 4/27/2010 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS | $552,908 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The objective of this work is to study biomolecular interactions individually, even when they are transient and irreversible. To this end, a droplet-based method for molecular confinement and mixing will be adapted to make possible the use of single-molec | National Science Foundation | 6/22/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS | $511,143 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The award is to acquire a high-resolution scanning electron microscope (HR SEM). The instrument will be located in a new electron microscopy facility at the University of Massachu-setts Amherst that will serve both life and materials sciences. For scienti | National Science Foundation | 8/12/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS | $510,000 | 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 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS | $500,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Viruses find numerous uses as tunable colloids and nanoscale scaffolds in materials science, where their potent ability to interact with living cells is an attractive property. Engineering these particles for biomaterials applications thus presents a nano | National Science Foundation | 8/05/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS | $499,829 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Many information needs can be more easily expressed using longer, sentence-length queries, but the inadequacies of current search engines force people to try to think up the right combination of keywords to find relevant documents. This can be very diffic | National Science Foundation | 7/13/2009 |
| AMHERST COLLEGE, TRUSTEES OF | $469,086 | 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 |
| FIVE COLLEGES INCORPORATED | $450,010 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This proposal seeks to acquire an RFID testbed. The instrumentation in the proposed testbed consists of several parts including conventional UHF RFID readers, conventional RFID tags, mounting assemblies to attach B33RFID readers, biological instrumentati | National Science Foundation | 9/22/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS | $450,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Many sensor network deployments are in harsh terrain that lack infrastructure but also need to use solar energy harvesting for self-sustained operation. The design of harvesting-aware solar sensor networks raises numerous systems and networking challenges | National Science Foundation | 7/28/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS | $424,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support As our reliance on online services continues to grow, the need for maintaining high availability of these services has become a pressing need as well as a challenge. The challenges include hardware failures, software bugs, operator error, malicious break- | National Science Foundation | 7/31/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS | $411,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This CAREER award supports an integrated theoretical research and education program to study the controlled formation of complex, three-dimensional structures. Analytical and numerical methods will be used for two related research topics. The first topic | National Science Foundation | 6/05/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS | $400,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The goal of this project is an enhanced understanding of the mechanisms by which plants acquire and then maintain the correct levels of iron and other metal nutrients. Currently, little is known about molecules involved in the movement of metals on a larg | National Science Foundation | 6/24/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS | $360,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Obtaining physiological/behavioral data from human subjects in their natural environments is essential to conducting ecologically valid social and behavioral research. While several body area wireless sensor network (BAWSN) systems exist today for physiol | National Science Foundation | 8/26/2009 |
| AMHERST COLLEGE, TRUSTEES OF | $350,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The deposition of high-quality metallic films is indispensable for a variety of research purposes, including superconducting-device physics, the production of research-grade specialized optics and in many aspects of materials science and nanoscience. This | National Science Foundation | 2/22/2010 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS | $330,000 | 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 | $325,250 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support 'Various studies over the past decade have shown that network availability on the Internet is about 99%, which pales in comparison to other utility services such as power grids and telephone networks. The primary cause of network unavailability today is d | National Science Foundation | 7/24/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS | $310,847 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Colloidal particles with attractive interparticle potentials are important from both a fundamental and applications standpoint. Much of the research to date has focused on colloids with short-range attractions, which may form either attractive colloidal g | National Science Foundation | 9/02/2009 |
| THE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE | $300,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Collaborative Proposal: Physics of Ferromagnetic Nanorings in an External Azimuthal Field. Funding supports research on magnetic nanorings, exploring basic physics and applications for data storage. | National Science Foundation | 8/28/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS | $300,000 | 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 | $282,010 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Intellectual Merit - The goal of this proposal is to develop an understanding of the basic interfacial and transport phenomena underlying a newly developed processing route for assembling amphiphilic block copolymers through hydrodynamic instabilities of | National Science Foundation | 7/07/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE,THE | $256,474 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support RUI: Evolution and Islam Acceptance of Biological Evolution and Perspectives on Science and Religion Among Muslim Physicians and Medical Students.
This spending item is part of a $372,502 allocation.
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National Science Foundation | 9/13/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS | $247,150 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Conflict between the sexes over control of fertilization is expected to be widespread among organisms, but its evolutionary consequences are still poorly understood particularly in vertebrate animals. Waterfowl have complex breeding systems that include f
This spending item is part of a $384,949 allocation.
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National Science Foundation | 8/04/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS | $228,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The College of Engineering at UMass Amherst will continue a college-wide, summer, REU site for 12 undergraduate students that focuses on interdisciplinary research and encompasses any of the engineering disciplines. The objectives of the program are to: | National Science Foundation | 7/01/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS | $209,087 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Rapid changes in the arctic climate system that occurred in the relatively recent past can be compared with the output of climate models to improve the understanding of the processes responsible for nonlinear system change. This study focuses on the trans | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS | $200,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Efficient numerical methods, albeit classical, which were developed for atoms, to describe multi-electron systems which can not be treated by quantum methods, will be extended to molecules. Here the different electron and nuclear timescales add another le | National Science Foundation | 7/26/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS | $191,602 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Intellectual Merit. The Athabasca granulite terrane, Saskatchewan, Canada is one of Earths largest exposures of intact lower continental crust, and offers the opportunity to see first-hand the complexity of magmatic processes that contributed to formation | National Science Foundation | 7/19/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS | $169,820 | 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 | 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 |
| AMHERST COLLEGE, TRUSTEES OF | $147,914 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This project concerns topics surrounding two key conjectures that have arisen in recent years in the field of number-theoretic dynamics. The first conjecture, stated by Morton and Silverman in 1994, predicts that there is some uniform upper bound for the | National Science Foundation | 8/21/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS | $120,000 | 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 |
| TRUSTEES OF HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE,THE | $119,908 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Acquisition of a 213 nm UV Laser Ablation System to Advance Micro Spatial Trace Element Research and Research Training Across Fields. | National Science Foundation | 12/10/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS | $119,188 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This RAPID award was made to take advantage of a unique opportunity to add a basic research component to an existing industry testing program that is about to begin. By taking advantage of a project being planned by the Transportation Technology Center, I | National Science Foundation | 8/10/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS | $118,686 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support 'This project is devoted to the rigorous investigation of statistical properties of dynamical systems and their applications to the physical sciences. The primary goal is to study hyperbolic systems with singularities. Most of those under study in the pro | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS | $85,426 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The icePod system will consist of a suite of imaging sensors mounted in an external pod installed and operated on New York Air National Guard LC-130 aircraft during routine and targeted missions across Antarctica and Greenland. This system will be operate
This spending item is part of a $4,140,323 allocation.
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National Science Foundation | 5/01/2010 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS | $75,000 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Spray-on Nanostructured Metal Oxide Films for Efficient Solar Energy Conversion.
This spending item is part of a $150,000 allocation.
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National Science Foundation | 7/01/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE, THE | $50,843 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Microbial structures in Neoproterozoic cap carbonates Tanja Bosak MIT, EAR-0843358 ABSTRACT Life on our planet endured extreme glacial conditions
This spending item is part of a $249,829 allocation.
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National Science Foundation | 8/19/2009 |