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Tompkins County, N.Y., funds by National Science Foundation

Listing $56,711,277.00 in stimulus funds from National Science Foundation for Tompkins

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
CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC $7,785,000 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This request concerns infrastructure used for R&D in microwave superconductivity, both basic studies and technology development. A central activity in these investigations is the testing of single- and multi-cell microwave cavities. The working fluid fo National Science Foundation 7/31/2009
CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC $7,200,000 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This project will continue to operate, develop, and improve the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS). CHESS is a unique national synchrotron radiation user facility that operates parasitically on the Cornell Electron Storage Ring (CESR), produci National Science Foundation 8/24/2009
CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC $5,200,000 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award supports Cornell University to perform accelerator and X-ray technology R&D for an ultrahigh spectral brightness, hard x-ray synchrotron radiation source based on the Energy Recovery Linac (ERL) principle. The high coherence and temporal proper National Science Foundation 8/17/2009
CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC $3,187,165 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) award supports the development of a multidisciplinary graduate training program of education and research in food systems as they relate to poverty reduction. Most people suffering chron National Science Foundation 7/13/2009
CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC $3,100,000 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Under the term of this award, the National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center (NAIC) will perform infrastructure improvements to facilities of the Arecibo Observatory in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, at which the cornerstone research instrument is the 1000-ft diamet National Science Foundation 9/30/2009
CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC $2,500,000 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships in support of doctoral students at Cornell University. National Science Foundation 8/13/2009
CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC $1,544,000 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network (NNIN) is a partnership of 14 institutions (Cornell University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Harvard University, Howard University, , Pennsylvania State University, Stanford University, University of
This spending item is part of a $10,000,000 allocation. See details
National Science Foundation 9/17/2009
CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC $1,473,121 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The objective of this research is to develop truly intelligent, automated driving through a new paradigm that tightly integrates probabilistic perception and deterministic planning in a formal, verifiable framework. The interdisciplinary approach utilizes National Science Foundation 8/15/2009
CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC $1,000,000 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The goal of the project is to harness the information contained in users' interactions with information systems (e.g., query reformulations, clicks, dwell time) to train those systems to better serve their users' information needs. The key challenge lies National Science Foundation 8/19/2009
CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC $971,247 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Cornell University will establish am Undergraduate Research and Mentoring (URM) program to engage under-represented minority students in intensive mentoring and research experience and prepare them for graduate studies in the biological sciences. The Corn National Science Foundation 8/14/2009
CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC $937,104 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Cholesterol is the single most abundant lipid species in mammalian plasma membranes. Nonetheless, the underlying nature of its interactions with neighboring membrane molecules has remained obscure, as have its effects on membrane biochemistry. Cholesterol National Science Foundation 6/09/2009
CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC $900,000 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This research project will study the fundamental behavior of new devices made to study organic semiconductors using a newly discovered process called orthogonal lithography. Organic semiconductors used in thin, flexible electronic circuits offer the possi National Science Foundation 9/01/2009
CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC $882,610 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This project proposes to investigate and implement a variety of tools for enhancing the very widely used and popular Arxiv.org infrastructure, based on information filters for assisted service discovery and selection, text-mining, information genealogy, a National Science Foundation 9/02/2009
CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC $800,000 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This CAREER proposal describes a research program that will explore the opportunities for new discoveries at the Large Hadron Collider( LHC) at CERN using the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector. With pp collisions at 14 TeV, the LHC is expected to open National Science Foundation 6/02/2009
CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC $747,928 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support While metal polluted environments are a growing concern, much remains to be learned about the protective adaptations and mechanisms in all organisms. The ability to effectively develop bioremediation strategies for heavy metal-polluted environments is con National Science Foundation 7/30/2009
CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC $699,999 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Biotechnology is widely recognized as one of the key enabling technologies of the 21st century with potential applications in numerous diverse industries including health and medicine (diagnosing, treating and preventing disease), agriculture (genetic eng National Science Foundation 5/07/2010
CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC $675,176 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This instrument development project creates a new type of 3D fluorescence and phosphorescence lifetime imaging microscope based on a novel decay time measurement technique that operates in real-time. The decay time or lifetime is the time a molecule rema National Science Foundation 7/16/2009
CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC $668,600 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Dr. Loredo and his team will develop Bayesian multi-level modeling for astrophysical problems. Bayesian multi-level models decompose the random variation in measured quantities into distinct layers, each representing a different contribution: layers 'clos National Science Foundation 9/03/2009
CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC $650,000 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Moderate temperature variations have large effects on various plant processes including defense responses. Often, an elevated growth temperature above the norm renders an otherwise resistant plant susceptible to pathogens. This project aims at revealing t National Science Foundation 7/16/2009
CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC $646,700 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Nonlinear internal waves (NLIWs), ubiquitous features of the coastal ocean and lakes, are on the receiving end of an energy cascade initiated at large scales by the winds and tides in stratified natural water bodies. These waves transport this energy over National Science Foundation 7/20/2009
CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC $616,000 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support In this project funded by the Inorganic, Bioinorganic, and Organometallic Chemistry Program of the Chemistry Division, Roald Hoffmann of Cornell University will use theoretical methods to understand structure and bonding in solids under high pressure and National Science Foundation 7/06/2009
CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC $574,943 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Thurston will investigate several areas of low-dimensional geometry and topology and their interconnections with other areas of mathematics and science. He will continue a collaboration with Allen Hatcher to analyze the topology of the space of branched p National Science Foundation 6/12/2009
CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC $536,700 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Current concepts of ecosystem ecology center on the coupling between nitrogen availability and biotic demand in controlling retention of nitrogen by ecosystems. Increased nitrogen loss is expected from ecosystems when the nutritional demands of plants are National Science Foundation 8/05/2009
CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC $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). The research funded by this CAREER award will probe exotic states of matter in artificially engineered materials. In particular, this project will utilize an National Science Foundation 8/19/2009
CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC $516,392 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support A current challenge for genetics and genomics research is discovering DNA sequences that alter the expression of genes operating during development and various physiological processes. This project will develop the statistical method of structural equatio National Science Foundation 6/06/2009
CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC $504,963 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Coral reef ecosystems are highly endangered by recent increases in temperature and by projected increases in ocean acidification. Although temperature has been identified as a driver of some coral disease outbreaks, nothing is known about direct effects o National Science Foundation 8/14/2009
MUSEUM OF THE EARTH AT THE PALEONTOLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTION $497,100 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The Paleontological Research Institution (PRI) collection includes more than 2.5 million specimens and is among the 10 largest and most scientifically important fossil collections in the US. Allowed to deteriorate and become largely inaccessible for many National Science Foundation 9/22/2009
CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC $494,805 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support To identify the source of pollutants once they reach receiving water is one of the major problems of nonpoint-source pollution management. The principal objective of this project is to develop a tracer-system for identifying and characterizing different f National Science Foundation 6/18/2009
CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC $491,250 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This project investigates exceptionally species-rich but poorly known fossil plant deposits in Patagonia, Argentina, dating from 66-47 million years old. Approximately 80% of more than 500 species so far collected are new to science, and the time interval National Science Foundation 8/17/2009
CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC $452,534 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Our knowledge of how crustal magma chambers evolve and how these magma chambers relate to plutons and eruptions is inadequate, largely because nobody has yet conducted a comprehensive study of an active crustal magma chamber. This project provides a uniqu
This spending item is part of a $631,579 allocation. See details
National Science Foundation 7/02/2009
CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC $451,282 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Desert dust aerosols impact the climate and biogeochemistry. This project seeks to improve our understanding of the spatial and temporal variability of desert dust and desert response to climate and human perturbation. It will address the following two qu National Science Foundation 8/30/2009
CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC $408,400 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Low complexity dynamical systems include symbolic systems such as Sturmian sequences and the Morse sequence; horocycle flows and other unipotent flows on spaces of algebraic origin; rational polygonal billiards and related systems such as linear flows on National Science Foundation 7/02/2009
CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC $400,000 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The PI proposes to develop tools to enable the introduction of exogenous DNA into specifically targeted cells in the brain of a live rodent, opening the door to cell-targeted genetic manipulation. This new capability will extend the power of genetic manip National Science Foundation 7/07/2009
CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC $400,000 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Intellectual Merit: This project will provide tools and methodologies that will enable advancements in the formulation, identification and analysis of mechanistic mathematical models of protein-protein and protein-DNA interaction networks. Although the National Science Foundation 6/19/2009
CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC $393,523 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The Virtual Research Data Center at Cornell University has been a successful research support tool for users of many of the Census Bureau large-scale confidential data products including, but not limited to, those that are accessible via the Census Resear National Science Foundation 7/08/2009
CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC $388,994 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The research objective of this award is to consider how people manage their attention in multi-cultural collaborations between geographically distributed individuals. G?Virtual organizationsG?-- aggregations of individuals, facilities and resources that s National Science Foundation 9/03/2009
CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC $382,923 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The G?A TeraGrid MATLAB Cluster G?? Exploring New Services for an XD FutureG? project will establish an analysis resource consisting of a cluster equipped with MATLAB on the TeraGrid. This will provide a valuable addition for TeraGrid users pre and post-p
This spending item is part of a $659,137 allocation. See details
National Science Foundation 7/25/2009
CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC $379,000 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support TECHNICAL SUMMARY: This award supports theoretical research and education focused mainly on the light elements, including hydrogen under conditions of high pressure and high temperature. The PI aims to elucidate quantum orderings, both in hydrogen and in National Science Foundation 7/06/2009
CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC $360,000 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The research proposed centers on investigations of the structures of sets and functions ordered by relative complexity of computation. Particular emphasis will be placed on issues of definability and automorphisms. Also included in this area is the analys National Science Foundation 7/02/2009
CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC $329,936 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Where should ambulances be placed to minimize the time required to reach calls for help? Emergency Medical Services (EMS) providers increasingly rely on sophisticated operations research (OR) models for such ambulance-deployment questions. These models de National Science Foundation 6/23/2009
CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC $328,551 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Why do some children in susceptible families become autistic when others do not? How can understanding what goes wrong in autistic brain development help us to understand what goes right in normal brain development? And how might this knowledge lead to in
This spending item is part of a $700,000 allocation. See details
National Science Foundation 7/08/2009
CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC $325,000 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). A new reactor technology will be investigated that can potentially convert lower cost organic compounds into fuels, or other highly valued products. Specific National Science Foundation 8/19/2009
Holt Architects, P.C. $324,000 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This project, which substantially renovates and reorganizes existing laboratory spaces, will improve in numerous ways the ability of PRI's research staff and associated students to carry out collaborative original research and research training, which are
This spending item is part of a $350,000 allocation. See details
National Science Foundation 9/15/2010
CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC $317,930 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support It is widely acknowledged that making decisions often involves the consideration of both 'rational' and 'intuitive' inputs. This program of research will examine how people decide the amount of weight to assign rational considerations and intuitive impuls National Science Foundation 8/20/2009
CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC $307,716 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The objective of this research is to develop general-purpose algorithms for automatically identifying principles underlying observed phenomena, in fields ranging from physics to biology. For centuries, scientists have attempted to identify and document an
This spending item is part of a $597,716 allocation. See details
National Science Foundation 8/28/2009
CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC $300,287 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The objectives of this research are to i) gain an understanding of and ii) create a predictive methodology for crack initiation and overall crystal quality evolution for Aluminum Nitride (AlN) single crystals during processing. AlN has outstanding electri National Science Foundation 8/24/2009
CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC $281,039 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Intellectual Merit Nanoparticles catalyze many chemical transformations in organic synthesis, pollutant removal, and energy production; intense efforts are thus made to characterize the structure and understand the catalytic properties of nanoparticle cat National Science Foundation 7/27/2009
CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC $262,246 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The Kuroshio brings warm waters northward in an intense current along the western boundary of the North Pacific. The current departs the Japanese coast to flow eastward as the Kuroshio Extension. This strong jet creates a front between warm subtropical an National Science Foundation 6/04/2009
CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC $255,150 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The Salton Trough/Imperial Valley in Southern California spans the transition from strike-slip faulting within the San Andreas Fault system to oceanic spreading within the Gulf of California. The region exhibits a wide range of deformation behaviors both National Science Foundation 7/23/2009
CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC $254,924 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Summary: Formal Analysis of Complex Systems A Collaborative Proposal Involving CMU, CUNY, NYU, Stony Brook, UMD, Cornell, JPL This Expedition, under the directorship of Lead PI Edmund M. Clarke, will develop new computational tools to help scientists and
This spending item is part of a $1,858,340 allocation. See details
National Science Foundation 8/11/2009
CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC $250,481 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) is the dominant form of atmospheric intraseasonal variability in the climate system. It interacts with and influences a wide range of physical weather and climate phenomena (e.g., monsoon onsets and breaks, El Nino-Sout National Science Foundation 5/28/2009
CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC $245,686 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Polyploidy (whole genome duplication) is one of the most important genetic phenomena in plants. Immediately after its formation, a polyploid plant can be identified simply by counting its chromosomes, because it has twice as many as a diploid. However, af National Science Foundation 8/15/2009
CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC $236,236 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support We propose a study of magnesium isotope variations produced by weathering processes and biogeochemical cycling in the surface environment of Hawaii. Recent work has demonstrated Mg isotopic variations among fresh rocks, soils, stream, spring and ground wa National Science Foundation 7/23/2009
CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC $229,081 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This project would contribute to the literature on identification and inference in incomplete econometric models. An econometric model may be incomplete when, for example, sample realizations are not fully observable, or when the model asserts that the re National Science Foundation 7/07/2009
CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC $219,999 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The objective of this research is to develop an automated design environment for enabling the integration of emerging nanoscale silicon photonic optical interconnect device technologies in next-generation multicore computing architectures. The approach in
This spending item is part of a $470,000 allocation. See details
National Science Foundation 8/06/2009
CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC $200,000 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This study plans to investigate energetic costs in the steady free flight of Drosophila, and how the mechanical stability of 3D flapping flight affects maneuvering. The PIs will further investigate the trade-off between energetic demands and maneuverabili National Science Foundation 8/17/2009
CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC $194,439 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The objective of the proposed work is to provide fundamental understanding of the nonlinear dynamics of electrostatically actuated doubly-clamped carbon nanotubes,including the effect of slack, and explore in depth the consequences, advantages, and disadv National Science Foundation 8/19/2009
CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC $192,725 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The Division of Chemistry supports Eric Spitler of Cornell University as an American Competitiveness in Chemistry Fellow. Dr. Spitler will investigate the potential for covalent organic frameworks (COFs) to efficiently generate and separate electron-hole National Science Foundation 9/04/2009
CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC $169,778 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This project develops new methods for analysis and optimization of Markov Decision Processes with general state and action sets. In the case of continuous time Markov Decision Processes, this project also studies problems with unbounded transition rates. National Science Foundation 6/12/2009
CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC $153,955 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Recent work by this team shows that geothermal springs in major river valleys near the Main Central Thrust zone of the Himalayan front are significant sources of carbon dioxide. To date we have shown that this source of CO2 exceeds the consumption of CO2 National Science Foundation 8/24/2009
ITHACA COLLEGE $140,836 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support We propose to continue our multi-wavelength observational campaign of X/M/E class asteroids using the Arecibo radar and NASA Infrared Telescope Facilities (IRTF). Our research objectives are to (1) physically characterize the M and E asteroids, (2) search National Science Foundation 9/18/2009
CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC $132,985 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Dogs descended from Eurasian gray wolves, but where and how this process occurred is poorly understood. Much genetic research has focused on breed dogs, but the diverse populations of semi-feral village dogs are likely an important key for understanding d
This spending item is part of a $296,385 allocation. See details
National Science Foundation 8/17/2009
MUSEUM OF THE EARTH AT THE PALEONTOLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTION $110,000 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The Paleontological Research Institution (PRI) will purchase a benchtop scanning electron microscope for use in research and education. PRI has one of the most significant research collections of fossils in North America, including an outstanding collecti National Science Foundation 8/14/2009
CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC $107,570 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The Kalavasos and Maroni Built Environments Project is an interdisciplinary and collaborative effort by Cornell University and Ithaca College to investigate the relationships between architecture, social interaction and social change in Late Bronze Age (c National Science Foundation 8/16/2009
CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC $107,500 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This project is in the field of Commutative Algebra. The proposed research deals with the structure of graded free resolutions, their numerical invariants, and applications. The general research goal is to study graded free resolutions using a variety of National Science Foundation 7/19/2009
NOVOMER, INC. $100,000 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support SBIR Phase I: Poly(ethylene carbonate) for Use in High Oxygen Barrier Films National Science Foundation 6/07/2009
RHEONIX, INC. $99,928 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This research project is focused on the development of a rapid, point-of-use biosensor for monitoring recreational waters for microbial contamination. It is anticipated that once a recreational water sample is obtained by the public health authority resp National Science Foundation 6/02/2009
CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC $99,202 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The project is aimed at the study of geometric evolution equations and related topics, especially the Ricci flow. We study Li-Yau-Hamilton type Harnack inequalities, their relations with PerelmanG??s entropy functional, and their applications to geometric National Science Foundation 7/31/2009
ITHACA COLLEGE $60,638 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Collaborative Research: The Kalavasos and Maroni Built Environments Project. Investigating Social Transformation in Late Bronze Age Cyprus. The Kalavasos-Maroni Built Environments Project is an interdisciplinary investigation of the relationships between National Science Foundation 8/16/2009
MUSEUM OF THE EARTH AT THE PALEONTOLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTION $26,000 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This project, which substantially renovates and reorganizes existing laboratory spaces, will improve in numerous ways the ability of PRI's research staff and associated students to carry out collaborative original research and research training, which are
This spending item is part of a $350,000 allocation. See details
National Science Foundation 9/15/2010