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Portage County, Ohio, funds by National Science Foundation

Listing $4,129,202.00 in stimulus funds from National Science Foundation for Portage

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
KENT STATE UNIVERSITY $1,733,421 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training (IGERT) project represents an interdisciplinary, dual-institution (Kent State and Miami University) program focused on environmental aquatic resource sensing. The purpose of the program is to train
This spending item is part of a $2,756,719 allocation. See details
National Science Foundation 7/09/2009
NORTHEAST OHIO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY $583,523 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support With support from the National Science Foundation, the Skeletal Biology Research Focus Area (SBRFA) centered at the Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine and Pharmacy (NEOUCOM) will acquire three major research instruments: 1) a high-resolu National Science Foundation 3/23/2010
KENT STATE UNIVERSITY $415,326 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This project will develop a software traceability instrument designed to empower future traceability research, through facilitating innovation and creativity, increasing collaboration between traceability researchers, decreasing the startup costs and effo
This spending item is part of a $2,000,000 allocation. See details
National Science Foundation 5/25/2010
KENT STATE UNIVERSITY $329,404 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Saprotrophic fungi are the primary agents of leaf litter decomposition in forest ecosystems. Fungal communities develop on millions of senescent leaves each National Science Foundation 7/30/2009
KENT STATE UNIVERSITY $289,872 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Little is currently known about how human and animal brains differ. While the human brain is unusually large, it is also known that even small structural cha National Science Foundation 8/10/2009
KENT STATE UNIVERSITY $277,903 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Liquid crystals are the key material in many modern technologies. As stated by the Nobel Prize winner P.G. de Gennes, ''...the study of liquid crystals is complicated because it involves...a certain sense of vision in three-dimensional space in order to v National Science Foundation 8/27/2009
KENT STATE UNIVERSITY $235,416 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This grant produces paleoclimate datasets recording the timing, duration, frequency and magnitude of aridity cycles on a network of paired open and closed micritic basins along the western cordillera of North America from the Pacific NW to the Canadian Ar National Science Foundation 8/19/2009
KENT STATE UNIVERSITY $139,527 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This collaborative investigation into the forest atmosphere photochemistry will apply a unique set of collaborative approaches, focused on the chemistry occurring in the near-canopy environment. It is now well known that forests emit biogenic volatile org National Science Foundation 9/11/2009
KENT STATE UNIVERSITY $124,810 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support With this award from the Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) program, Professor Arne Gericke and his colleague Edgar A. Kooijman will acquire a surface plasmon resonance (SPR) instrument. The research uses include projects aimed at studying: 1) lipid med National Science Foundation 9/08/2009