Lancaster County, Neb., funds by National Science Foundation
Listing $12,625,241.85 in stimulus funds from National Science Foundation for Lancaster
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 NEBRASKA | $1,868,011 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support ANDRILL (ANtarctic geological DRILLing) is an international, multidisciplinary program designed to investigate Antarctica's role in Cenozoic global environmental change. After two successful drilling projects, ANDRILL proposes to move northeastward and ou
This spending item is part of a $2,684,370 allocation.
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National Science Foundation | 8/19/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA | $1,825,345 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award supports a renovation project to provide infrastructure improvements needed to expand the existing Extreme Light Laboratory into a multi-disciplinary shared core facility, the High Power Laser Science Collaboratory (HPLSC). It will house a new | National Science Foundation | 9/14/2010 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA | $1,300,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This project will enable a transmission electron microscope, well-equipped for characterization of nanomaterials G?? in small-probe, scanning, energy-loss spectroscopy and mapping, tomography and other modes G?? to be installed in the Central Facility for | National Science Foundation | 4/15/2010 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA | $1,176,470 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Nebraska will invest in the foundation for a statewide cyber backbone for high speed data and video transfer that will be created by expansion of the Nebraska University Regional Optical Netowrk (NURON), a fiber ring between Lincoln and Omaha with connec | National Science Foundation | 8/18/2010 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA | $741,907 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support An integrated investigation to examine distinct, but hydrologically related, subglacial enviroments using a combination of biogeochemical/genomic measurements to answer key questions directly relevant to subglacial hydrologic and sediment biodiversity and
This spending item is part of a $2,640,575 allocation.
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National Science Foundation | 8/25/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA | $741,906 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 11-5). The RAGES project (Robotic Access to Grounding zones for Exploration and Science) is one of three research components of the WISSARD (Whillans Ice Stream Subg
This spending item is part of a $2,175,868 allocation.
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National Science Foundation | 8/21/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA | $741,906 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The LISSARD project (Lake and Ice Stream Subglacial Access Research Drilling) is one of three research components of the WISSARD integrative initiative (Whil
This spending item is part of a $1,899,641 allocation.
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National Science Foundation | 8/25/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA | $610,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This proposal details a plan to study collisions between polarized electrons and chiral molecules, as well as simple diatomic molecules. The proposed experiments address physics questions about the dynamics of electronG??molecule scattering, particularly | National Science Foundation | 8/08/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA | $392,796 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Fungal cells exhibit a diverse array of shapes, ranging from highly polarized hyphae that grow solely by apical extension, to ovoid yeast cells that undergo alternating cycles of apical and isotropic growth. Nevertheless, annotation of multiple genome seq | National Science Foundation | 6/24/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA | $391,056 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Developing electronic nanodevices is the next step to improving electronic components because reducing the size of the devices makes them operate faster, at lower power, and at less cost. Nanodevices incorporating one dimensional (1D) nanomaterials, such | National Science Foundation | 7/22/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA | $360,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This project will establish an REU site in nanometerials at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, sponsored by the Nebraska Center for Materials and Nanoscience. The primary objectives will be to (1) create an atmosphere within which students can develop in | National Science Foundation | 6/22/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA | $263,430 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support We request support for a three year period for research and development activities that will aid in the design of the phase 1 upgraded silicon pixel detector for the CMS experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC). We propose to undertake R&D activ
This spending item is part of a $1,694,428 allocation.
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National Science Foundation | 4/15/2010 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA | $231,857 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The band gap energy range of the InGaN alloys system uniquely covers the optical solar spectral emission window at earth. InGaN could be immediately employed for realization of a new generation of so elegantly less complex to manufacture, cost-effective, | National Science Foundation | 5/22/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA | $224,956 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The plant innate immune system represents an important barrier that pathogens need to circumvent in order to cause disease. It relies on a receptor-based surveillance that detects the presence of conserved molecules of microorganisms outside the plant cel
This spending item is part of a $299,929 allocation.
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National Science Foundation | 7/08/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA | $220,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This proposal concerns the development of a means for efficient computerized search for combinatorial objectswith a specified isomorph-invariant property. One of themost powerful techniques developed by the computer science and operations research communi | National Science Foundation | 7/31/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA | $182,898 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support the Navier-Stokes equations, which evolve on its G?fluidG? domain, coupled to the Lam+? system of elasticity, which evolves on its G??solidG? domain. The coupling between the two disparate fluid and solid dynamics takes place between the boundary interfac | National Science Foundation | 8/02/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA | $172,086 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support There is a high degree of interest in using organic thin films for lightweight, rugged, and flexible solar cells. Conjugated polymers are being considered as a major enabler of such applications. Due to a small dielectric constant in these organic materia
This spending item is part of a $300,002 allocation.
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National Science Foundation | 6/15/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA | $169,916 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Technical. The goal of this focused research group (FRG) proposal is to achieve an atomic-level understanding of the growth and novel properties of switchable oxide hetero-interfaces, with advanced properties and new functionalities. The idea is to create
This spending item is part of a $1,212,001 allocation.
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National Science Foundation | 6/18/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA | $149,851 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Need for the Study: The number of doctoral degrees earned in engineering increased from 3,166 in 1995 to 6,404 in 2005. While this overall increase is positive, growth in degrees awarded to international students (163% increase) significantly outpaced gro | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA | $144,108 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The United States faces an urgent and increasing need to educate and produce scientists and engineers. Within the context of a global marketplace of ideas and products, the competitiveness of our economy and the supporting innovation and development is vi | National Science Foundation | 5/28/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA | $140,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This proposal requests partial support for research on Experimental Particle Physics at the CMS experiment at the LHC. The focus of the proposal is the upgrade of the Level 1 (L1) trigger of CMS by including information from the Pixel Detector. It has lon | National Science Foundation | 6/04/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA | $122,572 |
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
This spending item is part of a $350,000 allocation.
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National Science Foundation | 6/17/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA | $109,635 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The concept of a neural network is central to the way we think about the brain, and has permeated research in many disciplines. It is widely believed that the activity of a population of neurons emerges from the dynamics of neural circuits. On the other h | National Science Foundation | 9/13/2009 |
| GOLDFINCH SOLUTIONS, LLC | $100,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project seeks to determine the feasibility of a multispectral imaging technology, to provide real time beef tenderness prediction. The hypothesis is that it is possible to predict the tenderness of beef usin | National Science Foundation | 6/05/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA | $96,436 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Intellectual merit. This proposal centers on control theory of partial differential equations (PDEs). While offering mathematically varied and challenging directions of research, the field of control is primarily application-driven, with an impact on a va | National Science Foundation | 8/02/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA | $45,730 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This project will test two hypotheses to explain striking landforms found in thick loess of the Great Plains and other regions, including large, apparently wind-aligned linear scarps and troughs. The broader significance of these landforms lies in the in | National Science Foundation | 6/24/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA | $45,331 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This project will address the development and timing of dune activity in the state of Wisconsin. The objectives of this project are 1) to provide students with significant field and laboratory training in geomorphology and geochronology including: field r | National Science Foundation | 8/24/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA | $31,036 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This proposal supports the acquisition of a UIC, Inc. Carbon Analyzer system for determination of concentrations of total carbon, total inorganic carbon, and total organic carbon in sedimentary materials. The instrument will support the work of the PI, he | National Science Foundation | 7/30/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA | $26,003 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The region comprising the Missouri Plateau (also known as the Northwestern Great Plains and Northwestern Glaciated Plains, EPA 2007) is not well known botanically. The area consists of approximately 1/12th of the land area in the 48 contiguous states. T
This spending item is part of a $499,844 allocation.
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National Science Foundation | 8/12/2009 |