Middlesex County, Mass., funds by National Science Foundation
Listing $99,046,700.84 in stimulus funds from National Science Foundation for Middlesex
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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| BBN TECHNOLOGIES CORP. | $9,730,474 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award funds three collaborating sets of academic / industrial research teams to integrate, operate, and host experiments on a suite of end-to-end prototype GENI infrastructure built from GENI-enabled commercial hardware across 13 university campuses,
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National Science Foundation | 9/01/2009 |
| HARVARD COLLEGE, PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF | $8,540,512 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Title: Collaborative Research: RoboBees: A Convergence of Body, Brain and Colony. With impacts ranging from industrial automation to household chores, robots are poised to become an integral part of modern life. Technological progress over the past severa
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National Science Foundation | 8/11/2009 |
| RAYTHEON BBN TECHNOLOGIES CORP. | $6,934,214 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This funding enables three types of network infrastructure to handle large-scale experiments. One type uses the OpenFlow protocol developed by Stanford University to allow deep programming of Ethernet switches. Another type of GENI-enabled infrastructure
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National Science Foundation | 9/09/2009 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $5,000,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) provides opportunities for graduate education that prepare students for a broad range of careers through its strategic investment in intellectual capital. So that the nation can build upon the strength | National Science Foundation | 8/13/2009 |
| RAYTHEON BBN TECHNOLOGIES CORP. | $4,805,694 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The Global Environment for Network Innovations (GENI) is a novel suite of infrastructure now being designed to support experimental research in network science and engineering. The majority of this award is to fund 38 subcontractors, consisting of collabo
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National Science Foundation | 9/02/2009 |
| HARVARD COLLEGE, PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF | $3,000,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The National Science Foundation provides graduate fellowship support under the Graduate Research Fellowship Program. Potential fellows apply to the National Science Foundation. Outstanding applicants are selected for graduate study leading to research-bas | National Science Foundation | 8/20/2009 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $2,293,183 | 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 is for an equipment acquisition program to establish the LAMP Facility at MIT, to provide intense, ultra-stable, optical sources from the near ul | National Science Foundation | 3/11/2010 |
| TRUSTEES OF TUFTS COLLEGE INC | $1,568,929 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The overall goal of the renovation proposal is to create a state-of-the-art Environmental Sustainability Laboratory (ESL) that will support multi-disciplinary experimental and mathematical modeling research to advance our fundamental understanding of the | National Science Foundation | 8/31/2010 |
| Barr & Barr, Inc. | $1,471,681 |
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 will provide support for the renovation of laboratory space for the establishment of the Nanostructured Materials Growth and Metrology Laboratori
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National Science Foundation | 8/27/2010 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $1,166,000 | 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 fund neutrino studies at MIT as a tool to search for signatures of Beyond the Standard Model Physics. Over the past decade, neutrino studies have pro | National Science Foundation | 6/12/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS | $1,150,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support 'University of Massachusetts at Lowell (UML) requests support for the acquisition of a state-of-the-art Auriga CrossBeam Focused Ion Beam -Scanning Electron Microscope (FIB-SEM) workstation from Carl Zeiss for research and research training that are criti | National Science Foundation | 7/27/2010 |
| SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION | $1,107,627 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support There are at least four ways to detect a planet orbiting a star. By far the most successful means to date has been to very carefully monitor the velocity of the star. If the velocity tends to vary regularly about its average value, then it is possible tha | National Science Foundation | 3/11/2010 |
| HARVARD COLLEGE, PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF | $1,048,994 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Title: MRI: Development of a New Instrument to Observe Isotopic Fluxes of CH4 and CO2 from Arctic Melt Regions, to Link Carbon Fluxes, Climate Feedbacks and Sea Level Rise. New developments in the physical sciences are poised to make critically important | National Science Foundation | 8/03/2009 |
| HARVARD COLLEGE, PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF | $950,001 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The foreseeable future research of the PI will concentrate on differential topology questions and on also mathematical physics. What follows lists six specific topics of concentration: - Using the Seiberg-Witten equations to study the dynamics of vector f | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $863,783 | 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 |
| AERODYNE RESEARCH, INC. | $813,606 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Nitrous oxide (N2O) is both a significant greenhouse gas (radiative forcing in 2009 is approximately 0.17 W/m2) and a large contributor to the catalytic des
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National Science Foundation | 5/19/2010 |
| HARVARD COLLEGE, PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF | $800,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Under this CAREER award the PI will develop and test general theories of cytoskeletal organization, and thereby obtain an understanding of the architecture and dynamics of the metaphase spindle. The project will use fluorescence and polarized light micros | National Science Foundation | 7/17/2009 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $793,063 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This project will support the development of middleware that will enable numerical models to be run on commercial compute farms via cloud computing and exploited in ongoing and future classroom educational activities. The intellectual merit of this wor | National Science Foundation | 8/29/2009 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $750,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Magnetic reconnection plays a fundamental role in nearly all magnetized plasmas as it enables magnetic energy to be converted into high speed flows, and t | National Science Foundation | 7/24/2009 |
| HARVARD COLLEGE, PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF | $737,184 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The Principal Investigator plans to do research on the boundary between representation theory and number theory, exploring the implications of the local and global Langlands correspondence. He expects to extend his conjectures on restriction from SO(n) to | National Science Foundation | 6/12/2009 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $724,863 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The project will develop a new framework for mathematical modeling of rechargeable batteries, taking into account statistical thermodynamics, concentrated | National Science Foundation | 8/06/2009 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $723,287 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The project addresses fundamental questions in the realm of symplectic topology (the mathematical structure behind classical mechanics) and its interactio | National Science Foundation | 6/19/2009 |
| HARVARD COLLEGE, PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF | $722,275 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Dr. Jonathan Grindlay will continue his efforts to recover information from the pre-digital era of astronomical imaging. Under a previous award, his group has demonstrated a high speed scanner system that can quickly digitize astronomical images recorded | National Science Foundation | 9/08/2009 |
| HARVARD COLLEGE, PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF | $702,452 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Population genetics provides powerful, well-tested theory for the fate of existing versions of genes in a population during evolution. In contrast, no strong quantitative framework exists to predict how new versions of genes arise and take over due to nat | National Science Foundation | 7/17/2009 |
| NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC. | $672,369 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Intellectual Merit Anyone interested in studying price movements in any asset market needs first to understand how information moves through agents in the market, and ultimately into prices. A critically important, and yet understudied, mechanism for this | National Science Foundation | 8/27/2009 |
| EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT CENTER, INC. | $635,854 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Focus on Mathematics (FoM) has, since 2003, been a project of NSF's Math and Science Partnership program that engaged Boston University, the Education Development Center, Inc., the University of Massachusetts at Lowell, and an array of Massachusetts publi
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National Science Foundation | 7/07/2009 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $623,139 | 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 |
| NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC. | $608,400 | 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 |
| TRUSTEES OF TUFTS COLLEGE INC | $600,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Inflationary cosmology, combined with recent developments in string theory, is pointing to a major paradigm shift: from a nearly homogeneous and isotropic universe to an extremely inho-mogeneous 'multiverse', where much of the volume is still in the state | National Science Foundation | 6/09/2009 |
| HARVARD COLLEGE, PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF | $593,304 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Why are there so many kinds of animals? Does evolutionary diversification tend to follow a similar trajectory in different groups of animals? Our work addresses both of these questions using an integrated analysis of DNA sequence data, laboratory experime | National Science Foundation | 7/30/2009 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $578,660 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Quantum computing is a scientific field that combines some of the deepest intellectual concerns of computer science and physics. Ultimately, we want to kn | National Science Foundation | 6/01/2009 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $570,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Great progress has been made in recent years in detecting massive planets orbiting other stars. These exciting discoveries are an important step toward un | National Science Foundation | 9/04/2009 |
| HARVARD COLLEGE, PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF | $570,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Trustworthy Computing (TC): Large: Collaborative Research: Combining Foundational and Light weight Formal Methods to Build Certifiably Dependable Software. This National Science Foundation award is a part of a collaborative research with Princeton Univers | National Science Foundation | 7/01/2009 |
| HARVARD COLLEGE, PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF | $551,873 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Professor Adam E. Cohen of Harvard University is supported by an award from the Experimental Physical Chemistry Program to develop a trap capable of suppressing the Brownian motion of single small molecules in solution, with molecular diameters as small a | National Science Foundation | 7/06/2009 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $550,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Non-Technical abstract: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This CAREER award funds a project to understand the mechanism of superconductivity in cuprates by studying dynamics of ultrafast e | National Science Foundation | 8/28/2009 |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | $547,000 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support NSF/NCAR C-130 Modernization:To ensure that the NSF/NCAR C-130 remains a premier research platform, able to operate safely for the next 20 years, very important modernization efforts are planned: 1) Replace avionics to be compatible with the next generat
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National Science Foundation | 7/20/2009 |
| HARVARD COLLEGE, PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF | $545,914 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Title: Research and Education in Physical Mathematics. This research focuses on the coupling of the analytical methods of applied mathematics to numerical computation, in the context of both research and education. It addresses a range of problems in engi | National Science Foundation | 8/16/2009 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $530,000 | 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 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $526,291 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This research project involves a comprehensive study of galactic foreground emission for removal from sensitive maps of the Cosmic Microwave Background ( | National Science Foundation | 8/28/2009 |
| SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION | $526,291 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The research project involves a comprehensive study of galactic foreground emission for removal from sensitive maps of the Cosmic Microwave background (CMB), necessary to produce useful images of the CMB. Polarized and unpolarized galactic emission from 1 | National Science Foundation | 2/23/2010 |
| HARVARD COLLEGE, PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF | $516,154 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Through research in the past two decades, the science community has seen a revolution in the understanding of marine microbial diversity. Molecular sequencing has revealed several previously unknown major groups of Bacteria and Archaea, yet total marine m | National Science Foundation | 7/28/2009 |
| MASSACHUSETTS, UNIVERSITY OF | $507,980 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The objective of this project is to utilize an innovative nanoimprint lithography (NIL) technique for research and training in prototyping and fabrication of micro/nano sensors/actuators, nano devices, nanostructures and nanoscale tooling for nanomanufact | National Science Foundation | 7/31/2009 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $500,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This ARRA award will fund research on multicore computing. It is primary output will be scientific publications, trained students, and software to make application run better on multicore computers. Multicore chips with hundreds of cores will likely | National Science Foundation | 8/15/2009 |
| LUMARRAY INC. | $499,868 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project aims to develop a maskless photolithography system by ensuring that the patterns it writes are free of positional error (i.e., distortion) to the sub-1 nm level. In traditional photolit | National Science Foundation | 2/01/2011 |
| BLUEFIN LAB, INC. | $497,550 | 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 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $496,411 | 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 will provide the funding to acquire a Thermal Ionization Mass Spectrometer (TIMS) for the Isotope Laboratory in the Department of Earth, Atmospher | National Science Foundation | 9/08/2009 |
| BOSTON COLLEGE, TRUSTEES OF | $479,903 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Although the advent of large-scale functional genomics studies has led to major advances in the study of gene regulation, many of the regulatory sequences in eukaryotic genomes are still not understood. In particular, regulatory sequences within coding DN
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National Science Foundation | 7/28/2009 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $477,976 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Quantitative measurements of the global electric circuit, in which lightning plays a key role, are important both in terms of basic description of the ear | National Science Foundation | 7/20/2009 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $470,721 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The plasmasphere boundary layer (PBL) is a critical region for dynamic processes in the mid-latitudes that couple the Earth's ionosphere and magnetosphere | National Science Foundation | 8/19/2009 |
| LUMARRAY INC. | $468,979 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This SBIR Phase II project is a major step in the development of an optical-maskless-lithography technology that is capable of high resolution, high throughput, flexibility, low cost and extendibility. Current lithography technologies suffer from the pro | National Science Foundation | 8/06/2009 |
| HARVARD COLLEGE, PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF | $458,815 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Generalized geometries form a class of almost complex manifolds with reduced structure groups, which have become of central importance to the study of realistic string theory models. These are natural generalizations of Calabi-Yau manifolds and are of mat | National Science Foundation | 6/19/2009 |
| WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIO-MEDICAL RESEARCH | $458,238 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support In this project the PI proposes to measure, analyze, and model chromosome conformation based on the imaging of an extensive collection of fluorescently-labeled strains in prokaryotic cells. The PI will also introduce the co-variance matrix for loci displa
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National Science Foundation | 7/26/2009 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $446,124 |
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
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National Science Foundation | 8/20/2009 |
| HARVARD COLLEGE, PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF | $435,351 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Title: RI: Medium: Collaborative Research: Robotic Hands: Understanding and Implementing Adaptive Grasping. This NSF award is a collaborative research with Columbia University and Arizona State University. This research is aimed at alleviating the glaring | National Science Foundation | 6/26/2009 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $420,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Atomic clocks are the most accurate devices ever made by mankind, and have many important technological applications. The best atomic clocks are currently | National Science Foundation | 6/16/2009 |
| HARVARD COLLEGE, PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF | $417,856 | 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 |
| ATMOSPHERIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH, INC. | $416,251 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support 'This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).' Severe thunderstorms and associated local extreme weather events (e.g., tornadoes, floods and lightning) significantly threaten life and property but rema | National Science Foundation | 9/14/2009 |
| HARVARD COLLEGE, PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF | $411,147 |
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
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National Science Foundation | 6/09/2009 |
| NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC. | $400,825 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This proposal outlines a long-term research and teaching agenda related to the economics of financial distress and bankruptcy. For the past several years the PI has been interested in understanding the various factors that shape financial contracts, finan | National Science Foundation | 8/27/2009 |
| HARVARD COLLEGE, PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF | $400,302 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Funding is provided to explore the variability in temperature and precipitation and their inter-relationship through Bayesian analysis of a combination of instrumental and proxy records. The premise of the research is that, climatologically, variability i | National Science Foundation | 5/21/2009 |
| HARVARD COLLEGE, PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF | $400,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The goal of this CAREER proposal is to understand the limits and predictive power of string theory by: (1) investigating fundamental questions such as: Are there consistent models of quantum gravity that are not described by string theories? And if so, wh | National Science Foundation | 6/09/2009 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $400,000 | 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 overcome the limited bandwidth density and energy scaling of electrical interconnects, which have caused a slow-down | National Science Foundation | 9/13/2009 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $400,000 | 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 push the limits of electronics to THz frequencies and to increase society's awareness to the new possibilities offere | National Science Foundation | 7/01/2009 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $400,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The Principal Investigator (PI) plans to develop a Geospace Science Center which will provide control, operation, and science integration of the Millstone | National Science Foundation | 9/01/2009 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $400,000 | 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 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $399,771 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Recent research has established that much and perhaps most of the interannual to interdecadal variation of tropical cyclone activity integrated over ocean | National Science Foundation | 6/18/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS | $399,629 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Engineering for the Common Good | National Science Foundation | 6/29/2009 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $399,546 | 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 co-supported by the Petrology & Geochemistry and Tectonics programs of the Division of Earth Sciences, and sponsored also by the Office of | National Science Foundation | 7/19/2009 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $391,444 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This project takes on two problems: (1) deciphering ancient texts using computers, and (2) training automated language translation systems without using parallel texts. Statistical language processing software has played little role to date in the analysi
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National Science Foundation | 7/10/2009 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $390,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This is a joint project between the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT- USA) and the University of Bayreuth (UB- Germany). Catalysts have played a c | National Science Foundation | 8/07/2009 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $389,616 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The transport of tracers in baroclinic flows will be investigated, using the perspective of the modified Lagrangian mean approach of Nakamura. The approac | National Science Foundation | 6/17/2009 |
| BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY | $385,512 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Generalized geometries form a class of almost complex manifolds with reduced structure groups, which have become of central importance to the study of realistic string theory models. These are natural generalizations of Calabi-Yau manifolds and are of mat | National Science Foundation | 6/19/2009 |
| SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION | $378,630 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Dr. Di Stefano and her co-investigators will use gravitational lensing to explore the local neighborhood of the Galaxy, the region within 1 kiloparsec.and will develop methods to identify local neuron stars, to measure their masses and transverse velociti | National Science Foundation | 9/28/2009 |
| HARVARD COLLEGE, PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF | $378,426 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support In recent years, technological advances have dramatically increased the quality and quantity of data available to astronomers. Newly launched or soon-to-be launched space-based telescopes are tailored to data-collection challenges associated with specific | National Science Foundation | 7/19/2009 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $375,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The project will develop a new framework for mathematical modeling of rechargeable batteries, taking into account statistical thermodynamics, concentrated | National Science Foundation | 5/29/2009 |
| HARVARD COLLEGE, PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF | $369,250 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The inert nature of the noble gases makes them ideally suited to trace the volatile evolution on Earth. In particular, the Iodine-Xenon and Plutonium-Uranium-Xenon radioactive decay systems are the only ones that can provide constraints on the timing and | National Science Foundation | 7/29/2009 |
| BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY | $355,662 | 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 |
| TRUSTEES OF TUFTS COLLEGE INC | $355,556 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This project attacks nanomanufacturing from a computational thinking perspective. The computational aspect starts with mathematical models of the assembly process from basic units: small rigid units (rods, squares, cubes, etc.) with glues (binding sites) | National Science Foundation | 9/02/2009 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $353,355 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The main objective of our research is to improve our understanding of the structure and deformation of Earth?s crust and lithospheric mantle beneath SE Ti | National Science Foundation | 6/05/2009 |
| SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION | $347,988 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support REU Program in Solar Physics. The students' main activity is carrying out individual research projects in Solar Physics under the supervision of CFA staff scientist for ten weeks during the summer. Most of the projects involve the analysis of data from sp | National Science Foundation | 6/24/2009 |
| HARVARD COLLEGE, PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF | $337,752 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support We can not perceive other minds the way we perceive our own. So, we can not look into the mind of a patient in a persistent vegetative state to see if 'someone is home,' just as we can not really know what is going on in the mind of an infant or an animal | National Science Foundation | 6/09/2009 |
| HARVARD COLLEGE, PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF | $334,695 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Title: HCC: Medium: Collaborative Research: Computer Vision and Online Communities: A Symbiosis. The project represents a new paradigm for research in computer vision related to content-based image management--one that exploits a symbiosis between this te | National Science Foundation | 7/10/2009 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $330,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Integrated Actuation, Alignment, and Latching for Reconfigurable Assembled 3D MEMS Principal Investigators Carol Livermore and George Barbastathis 'This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).' | National Science Foundation | 7/29/2009 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $330,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The coming years will see the emergence of location-aware applications with sub-meter accuracy and minimal infrastructure requirements, operational in har | National Science Foundation | 6/30/2009 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $329,713 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The process of sentence comprehension involves incrementally accessing the meaning of individual words and combining them into larger representations. In | National Science Foundation | 6/24/2009 |
| EARTHGENES PHARMACEUTICALS LLC | $327,161 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The overall purpose of the award is to further extend and ultimately to commercialize our phase I efforts to develop a novel and fruitful approach to natural product drug discovery. Our unique technology encompasses screening environmental DNA libraries f
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National Science Foundation | 7/30/2009 |
| HARVARD COLLEGE, PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF | $324,000 |
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
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National Science Foundation | 9/17/2009 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $315,000 | 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 research seeks to develop terahertz quantum-cascade lasers (THz QCLs) that operate at high temperatures. Specifically, by end of the proposed | National Science Foundation | 6/19/2009 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $315,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This Award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). TECHNICAL SUMMARY: This project seeks to develop a new mathematical framework for the description of crystal orientations, as well as misorientations b | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| SCIENTIFIC SOLUTIONS INC | $302,433 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This research develops a solid state, frequency-agile, imaging spectrometer based on an electronically tunable optical filter. The instrument--referred to as the Liquid-Crystal (LC) Hyperspectral Imager (LCHSI)--solves the difficult problem of imaging tra
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| HARVARD COLLEGE, PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF | $300,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The overall goal of the proposed research is to functionalize Si nanoparticles to target common cancers, enhance the nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) signal of these particles using dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP), and characterize the hyperpolarized p | National Science Foundation | 8/25/2009 |
| SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION | $300,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The overall goal of the proposed research is to functionalize Si nanoparticles to target common cancers, enhance the NMR signal of these particles using dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP), and characterize the hyperpolarized particles in vitro. These are | National Science Foundation | 8/25/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS | $300,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The awarded project is within the scope of the Plasmasphere-Magnetosphere Interactions (PMI) session of the Geospace Environment Modeling (GEM) program supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF). The project is to develop an empirical electron den | National Science Foundation | 6/24/2009 |
| HARVARD COLLEGE, PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF | $299,983 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support In the nematode C. elegans, experimentally introduced double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) mediates specific gene silencing that spreads between cells and tissues of the animal (and can even be transmitted to progeny). This remarkable spreading phenomenon is known | National Science Foundation | 7/30/2009 |
| ATMOSPHERIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH, INC. | $299,940 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Abstract The leading statistical mode of winter climate variability for the extratropical Northern Hemisphere, a same-signed height anomaly stretched acros | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| HARVARD COLLEGE, PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF | $291,458 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The origin of flowering plants represents one of the most significant evolutionary radiations of plants during the last 475 million years. With over 250,000 extant species, angiosperms are the largest and most diverse group of plants to have evolved. It h
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National Science Foundation | 7/16/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS | $286,824 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support 'The objective of this program is to develop a systematic and numerically tractable Lyapunov approach for evaluation of the magnitude of nonlinear oscillations. Intellectual merit: The intellectual merit is that the Lyapunov approach provides a quantitat | National Science Foundation | 8/21/2009 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $284,444 | 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 |
| HARVARD COLLEGE, PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF | $279,965 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) observations hold a remarkable wealth of information about the early Universe and they recently transformed cosmology i
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National Science Foundation | 3/17/2010 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $270,972 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Microbial mats are conspicuous components of many benthic marine and aquatic settings. A subset of these microbial mats binds sediments to form potentiall | National Science Foundation | 8/10/2009 |
| HARVARD COLLEGE, PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF | $265,543 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Great progress has been made in recent years in detecting massive planets orbiting other stars. These exciting discoveries are an important step toward understanding the evolution of other solar systems and whether or not they may harbor life. Tantalizing
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National Science Foundation | 9/04/2009 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $250,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). NON-TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION: The methods for production of most ceramic materials depend on a small amount of chemical additions that distribute non-unifo | National Science Foundation | 8/05/2009 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $250,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This research applies argumentation theory to large-scale (hundreds to thousands of users), asynchronous, and geographically dispersed virtual organizations. | National Science Foundation | 9/11/2009 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $250,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Wireless Mesh Networks have emerged as a solution for providing last-mile Internet access. By exploiting advanced communication technologies, they can ac | National Science Foundation | 7/29/2009 |
| HARVARD COLLEGE, PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF | $249,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Dr. Stella Offner is awarded an NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowship to carry out a program of research and education at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Dr. Offner will: (1) perform simulated observations of adaptive mes | National Science Foundation | 6/15/2009 |
| BIOSURFACES, INC. | $247,601 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase II project is focused on assessment of our novel siRNA-loaded nanofibrous polyester in a rat carotid artery endothelial cell denudation model, which has been historically used to evaluate the effects of
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National Science Foundation | 8/10/2009 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $243,003 | 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 involves experimental and theoretical studies geared toward detection and interpretation of 21-cm neutral hydrogen signatures of the Epoch o | National Science Foundation | 8/26/2009 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $240,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This NSF award by the Chemical and Biological Separations program supports work by Professor Jongyoon Han at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to | National Science Foundation | 6/24/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF TUFTS COLLEGE INC | $240,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This project will involve theoretical studies of several topics relating to quantum fluctuations and gravitation. Particular attention will be paid to issues relating to the correlation and anti-correlation of fluctuations of the quantum stress tensor. T | National Science Foundation | 8/08/2009 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $235,000 |
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 award is to model the preference information embedded in natural language engineering design texts in order to identify lingui
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National Science Foundation | 6/23/2009 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $230,740 |
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 will provide support for the renovation of laboratory space for the establishment of the Nanostructured Materials Growth and Metrology Laboratori
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National Science Foundation | 8/27/2010 |
| TRUSTEES OF TUFTS COLLEGE INC | $227,428 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Despite the rapid development of nanotechnologies over the past decade, our current understanding of nanomaterial fate and transport in the environment remains quite limited. For example, it is not known how most engineered nanomaterials will interact wi
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National Science Foundation | 6/17/2009 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $226,379 | 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 new architecture for photovoltaic power conversion that provides substantial improvements over existing tec | National Science Foundation | 8/21/2009 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $222,239 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Nitrous oxide (N2O) is both a significant greenhouse gas (radiative forcing in 2009 is approximately 0.17 W/m2) and a large contributor to the catalytic des
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National Science Foundation | 5/19/2010 |
| TRUSTEES OF TUFTS COLLEGE INC | $221,216 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Many real world applications need to compress, sort, and otherwise manipulate large volumes of multidimensional data arrays (i.e., higher- order tensors), so there is an increasing need for theoretical and computational tools to deal with multiway data. | National Science Foundation | 6/12/2009 |
| BOSTON COLLEGE, TRUSTEES OF | $215,027 | Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support We investigated the structural and metamorphic history of the Foxe Fold Belt (FFB) in Nunavut, Canada. Orientations of fold hinge lines and related structures yield invaluable information about past relative movements of tectonic domains. These structures | National Science Foundation | 6/21/2009 |
| BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY | $211,704 |
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
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National Science Foundation | 9/25/2009 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $200,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The Division of Chemistry supports Elizabeth R. Young of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as an American Competitiveness in Chemistry Fello | National Science Foundation | 9/06/2009 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $198,986 |
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
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| HARVARD COLLEGE, PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF | $194,423 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The Iodine-Xenon and Plutonium-Uranium-Xenon radioactive decay systems are the only ones that can provide constraints on the timing and rates of degassing from the Earth's mantle during the first couple hundred million years of the Earth's history. Dissec | National Science Foundation | 6/05/2009 |
| TECHNICAL EDUCATION RESEARCH CENTERS, INC. | $189,557 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support TERC in partnership with Vcom3D is using the Signing Avatar-? assistive technology to research and develop a unique, state-of-the art, illustrated, interactive 3D dictionary of at least 750 standards-based Earth science terms for high school students who | National Science Foundation | 7/22/2009 |
| HARVARD COLLEGE, PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF | $189,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This action funds an NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship for FY 2009 using funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The research and training plan is for Matthew K. Fujita and is entitled Genome structure and its | National Science Foundation | 7/01/2009 |
| ATMOSPHERIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH, INC. | $180,389 | 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 |
| LESLEY UNIVERSITY | $180,000 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Focus on Mathematics (FoM) has, since 2003, been a project of NSF's Math and Science Partnership program that engaged Boston University, the Education Development Center, Inc., the University of Massachusetts at Lowell, and an array of Massachusetts publi
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| HARVARD COLLEGE, PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF | $176,836 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This proposal addresses a compelling contemporary question in human biology: How do development and energetics determine the pace and trajectory of reproductive maturation? This project takes advantage of a unique opportunity in The Gambia to directly add | National Science Foundation | 8/24/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS | $175,150 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The goals of this project are to document observed changes in the hydroclimatology of the Siberian region, to attribute these changes to specific physical mechanisms in the context of climate change, and to study the impact of those changes from the regio | National Science Foundation | 8/20/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF TUFTS COLLEGE INC | $172,839 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The overall purpose of the award is to further extend and ultimately to commercialize our phase I efforts to develop a novel and fruitful approach to natural product drug discovery. Our unique technology encompasses screening environmental DNA libraries f
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National Science Foundation | 7/30/2009 |
| MAGNOLIA OPTICAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC. | $149,999 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The goal of this Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I project is to establish the technical and commercial feasibility of an innovative approach for improving the performance and lowering the costs of photovoltaic solar-electric power convers | National Science Foundation | 6/15/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF TUFTS COLLEGE INC | $149,886 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This engineering education research awarded to Tufts University and Northwestern University will study the development of professional engineering skills in undergraduate engineering students. The goal is to create a rich educational environment that fos | National Science Foundation | 7/06/2009 |
| APPLIED NANOFEMTO TECHNOLOGIES LLC | $147,319 | 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 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $142,791 | 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 aims to define and apply non-commutative analogues of the Heisenberg and Weil representations of the symplectic group acting on integrable co | National Science Foundation | 7/21/2009 |
| BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY | $141,762 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support In this project the PI proposes to measure, analyze, and model chromosome conformation based on the imaging of an extensive collection of fluorescently-labeled strains in prokaryotic cells. The PI will also introduce the co-variance matrix for loci displa
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National Science Foundation | 7/26/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS | $138,002 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award was given for the development of semiconductor-based tunable mid-infrared plasmonic devices for liquid phase sensing applications. Surface plasmons, and plasmonic materials, have been studied continuously since the pioneering work of Ritchie,
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National Science Foundation | 8/06/2009 |
| IMAI KELLER MOORE ARCHITECTS, INC. | $135,000 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This award will provide support for the renovation of laboratory space for the establishment of the Nanostructured Materials Growth and Metrology Laboratori
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National Science Foundation | 8/27/2010 |
| HARVARD COLLEGE, PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF | $133,238 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The Principal Investigator will conduct research on applications of algebra-geometric methods to Asymptotic Group Theory. The main goals of this project are twofold. One objective is to show that some group theoretic invariants (representation zeta functi | National Science Foundation | 8/02/2009 |
| HARVARD COLLEGE, PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF | $130,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support During the last quarter of a century many 3-D models of the mantle, or its part, have been derived. However, most of them describe only one parameter (for example, S-velocity) and are based on a data set that is limited to a narrow range of frequencies. T | National Science Foundation | 7/31/2009 |
| HARVARD COLLEGE, PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF | $130,000 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Dr Coil, Dr Blanton and Dr Eisenstein will analyze their large survey of 300,000 galaxies, to understand the growth and evolution of the stellar bodies of galaxies over the past several billion years in the context of the current standard Cold Dark Matter
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National Science Foundation | 9/08/2009 |
| BOSTON COLLEGE, TRUSTEES OF | $123,120 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The principal investigator will probe the connection between Heegaard Floer homology and Khovanov homology, two theories, inspired by ideas in physics, that have transformed the landscape of low-dimensional topology during the past decade. The research c | National Science Foundation | 8/20/2009 |
| HARVARD COLLEGE, PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF | $122,771 | 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 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS | $122,498 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The research experiences for undergraduates (REU) Site will support 10 undergraduates - split between the University of Massachusetts Lowell, Northeastern University, and the University of New Hampshire - for 10-week-long research experiences in summers 2
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National Science Foundation | 6/19/2009 |
| BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY | $121,512 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The proposed research has two main parts. The first part concerns producing new smooth and symplectic closed four-manifolds so as to address a variety of problems that range from constructing non-diffeomorphic copies of standard four-manifolds with small | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| HARVARD COLLEGE, PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF | $117,800 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The Cooperative Congressional Election Study is a collaboration of research teams from over 50 universities and colleges. Collectively these research teams have fielded national, stratified-sample surveys of 35,000 persons in 2006 and 37,000 persons in 20
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National Science Foundation | 9/14/2009 |
| TECHNICAL EDUCATION RESEARCH CENTERS, INC. | $110,018 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support To create The Atlantic Partnership for the Biological Sciences, a partnership for effective lab and field-based science between Salem State College (SSC) and the University of Puerto Rico at Humacao (UPRH) which has seven goals: 1) conduct a needs assess
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National Science Foundation | 8/20/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS | $100,607 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support MRI: Acquisition of the Multi-Probe Wide-Temperature Parameter Analysis System for Low-Voltage Low-Noise Measurements. The Electrical and Computer Engineering department at the University of Massachusetts Lowell will use the funding toward the acquisitio | National Science Foundation | 8/25/2009 |
| KSPLICE, INC. | $100,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project aims to demonstrate the feasibility of fundamental improvements to OS update technology. These improvements would allow system administrators to apply OS patches faster than current practice, which w | National Science Foundation | 6/09/2009 |
| FILTER SENSING TECHNOLOGIES, INC. | $100,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This Small Business Innovation Research Phase 1 project will investigate the feasibility of using microwaves to measure the amount, type, and distribution of material collected on filters. Filter Sensing Technologies, Inc. (FST) has targeted diesel partic | National Science Foundation | 6/04/2009 |
| BARRETT TECHNOLOGY INC | $100,000 | 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 |
| METAL OXYGEN SEPARATION TECHNOLOGIES, INC. | $100,000 | 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 |
| METAL MATRIX CAST COMPOSITES LLC | $99,997 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The purpose of this SBIR Phase I project was to develop extremely high thermal conductivity heat sinks that are thermal expansion matched to advanced semiconductors for high performance electronic and electro-optical systems. With low cost natural graphi | National Science Foundation | 6/02/2009 |
| AGILTRON, INC. | $99,975 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This Small Business Technology Transfer Phase I program is developing new nanostructured materials for dry adhesives. Adhesives are materials that can adhere to a surface or bond two items together. Some modern adhesives are very strong and are becoming i
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National Science Foundation | 6/15/2009 |
| AGILTRON, INC. | $99,969 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This Small Business Innovative Research Phase I program seeks to develop new functional materials for supercapacitors. Supercapacitors are indispensable energy storage devices because their performance bridges those of batteries and conventional capacitor | National Science Foundation | 6/01/2009 |
| LUMARRAY INC. | $99,964 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support SBIR PHASE I - NANOMETER-LEVEL FIDELITY IN MASKLESS LITHOGRAPHY | National Science Foundation | 7/01/2009 |
| CYPHY WORKS, INC | $99,865 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I research project will develop underlying technologies that will enable Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAV) to navigate inside houses and buildings. This technology, applied to emergency response situations, will sav | National Science Foundation | 6/04/2009 |
| AQUA BOUNTY FARMS, INC. | $99,840 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project will investigate a new transgenic approach to inducing sterility in economically important species, with initial application in aquaculture. There is a need for improved performance and reproductive | National Science Foundation | 6/11/2009 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $98,852 |
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 proposes research on two subjects: 1) Representation theory of W-algebras, 2) uniqueness properties for algebraic group actions. W-algebras (
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National Science Foundation | 6/01/2009 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $96,486 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This project partners researchers at Drexel, Carnegie-Mellon, MIT, Ohio State, Penn, Purdue, USC, and Virginia Tech to develop a new platform for humanoid robotics research, enabling roboticists in the US to work for the first time with a common instrumen
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National Science Foundation | 7/08/2010 |
| LESLEY UNIVERSITY | $90,000 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The Math for America Boston: Teacher Scholars Program represents a partnership among Boston University, seven high needs school districts in the Boston area
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National Science Foundation | 6/10/2009 |
| HARVARD COLLEGE, PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF | $85,042 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Moral cognition is the study of moral judgment from the perspective of cognitive science, which views the brain as an information processor. Cognitive genetics is the study of how specific genetic variations affect how the brain processes information. The | National Science Foundation | 8/26/2009 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $82,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Nature displays a prodigious diversity of propulsion mechanisms in fluid systems. We have discovered a remarkable new one that operates in density-stratified environments. The underlying mechanism is a little-studied phenomenon, diffusion-driven flow, fir | National Science Foundation | 8/27/2009 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $81,384 |
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
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National Science Foundation | 9/03/2009 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $77,000 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support With the requested funding from this proposal, Dr. Michael Kohl, a new assistant professor in the experimental nuclear physics group of Hampton University, will be able to pursue two fundamental and exciting new precision experiments, OLYMPUS and TREK, an
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National Science Foundation | 2/16/2010 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $75,000 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support STTR Phase I: Large-scale Manufacture of Exclusively Metallic or Semiconducting Single-walled Carbon Nanotubes. The aim of the project is the development of technology allowing for the large-scale manufacturing of a) semi-conducting and b) metallic singl
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National Science Foundation | 6/15/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF TUFTS COLLEGE INC | $73,326 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This engineering education research award to Tufts University in collaboration with University of Colorado-Boulder and Michigan Technological University wil | National Science Foundation | 7/17/2009 |
| EXCELLIMS CORPORATION | $70,877 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project is focused on the development of a stand-alone electrospray ionization-ion mobility spectrometer/chiral ion mobility spectrometer (ESI-IMS/CIMS) for on-site separation, detection and identification o
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National Science Foundation | 6/05/2009 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $68,416 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). There is increasing evidence that iron is important in regulating bulk phytoplankton production in large regions of the world oceans and also influences | National Science Foundation | 7/31/2009 |
| SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION | $64,457 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Great progress has been made in recent years in detecting massive planets orbiting other stars. These exciting discoveries are an important step toward understanding the evolution of other solar systems and whether or not they may harbor life. Tantalizing
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National Science Foundation | 9/04/2009 |
| HARVARD COLLEGE, PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF | $63,084 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The goal of this research project is to investigate a number of topics in the intersection of geometry, the analysis of nonlinear partial differential equations (PDE's) and general relativity (GR). These topics share a common theme: to investigate solutio
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National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| TRUSTEES OF TUFTS COLLEGE INC | $60,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Cosmic strings connect fundamental theories of basic physics with observation of the universe on the largest scales. Cosmic strings are infinitesimally thin or even fundamental objects of cosmological length. They can arise from symmetry breaking in field | National Science Foundation | 8/11/2009 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $56,000 |
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 award is to develop algorithms and experimental demonstrations for partially automated cooperative active safety systems at tr
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National Science Foundation | 7/15/2009 |
| HARVARD COLLEGE, PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF | $52,739 | 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 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $49,999 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Emphasis on the elevated level of arsenic in groundwater tapped by millions of shallow tubewells across southern Asia over the past two decades has tended to obscure that anoxic aquifers that are low in As are also widespread and often within reach of dri
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National Science Foundation | 9/30/2009 |
| HARVARD COLLEGE, PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF | $30,612 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The PI will explore three related projects in total positivity, cluster algebras, and statistical mechanics. The first project seeks to develop and apply combinatorial tools to the study of totally positive varieties; in particular, to understand their to
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National Science Foundation | 6/29/2009 |
| INTERCULTURAL CENTER FOR RESEARCH & EDUCATION | $20,534 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support To create The Atlantic Partnership for the Biological Sciences, a partnership for effective lab and field-based science between Salem State College (SSC) and the University of Puerto Rico at Humacao (UPRH) which has seven goals: 1) conduct a needs assess
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National Science Foundation | 8/20/2009 |
| HARVARD COLLEGE, PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF | $16,807 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award will provide partial support for the completion of Harvard's helium recovery and reliquefaction infrastructure . The project includes helium gas recovery piping from a multi-user nuclear magnetic resonance facility and from the labs of 15 facul
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National Science Foundation | 9/27/2010 |