Allegheny County, Pa., funds by National Science Foundation
Listing $45,463,186.00 in stimulus funds from National Science Foundation for Allegheny
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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| L-3 COMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION | $6,568,000 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The construction of an Advanced Technology Solar Telescope (ATST) is consistent with this mission and was a specific or tacit recommendation of three National Academy of Sciences reports. The ATST would be the world's flagship facility for the study of ma
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National Science Foundation | 1/15/2010 |
| CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY | $3,132,935 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Collaborative Research with Carnegie Mellon University, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and the University of Pittsburgh. The goal of the proposed Expedition is to develop the next generation of model-checking and abstract-interpreation technology so that for
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National Science Foundation | 8/11/2009 |
| CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY | $1,535,012 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The project will renovate the regional research and education network facilities operated by the Three Rivers Optical Exchange (3ROX), a small regional network serving research institutions in Pennsylvania and West Virginia. 3ROX connects the campus netwo | National Science Foundation | 8/20/2010 |
| CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY | $1,499,983 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The objective of this research is to develop methods to monitor and ensure the robustness of a class of cyber-physical systems termed 'physical networks,' such as electric, water, sewage, and gas networks. The approach is to analyze such networks using t | National Science Foundation | 8/18/2009 |
| CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY | $1,206,078 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The objective of this research is to develop a cyber-physical system composed of accelerometers and novel machine learning algorithms to analyze data in the context of a set of driving health care applications. The approach is to develop novel machine lea | National Science Foundation | 9/05/2009 |
| DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT | $1,090,303 |
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 will renovate and upgrade specific existing research laboratories and facilities in the Richard King Mellon Hall of Science at Duquesne Univers
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National Science Foundation | 9/09/2010 |
| CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY | $1,000,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The National Science Foundation aims to ensure the vitality of the human resource base of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics in the United States and to reinforce its diversity by offering approximately 1,654 graduate fellowships in this co | National Science Foundation | 8/13/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH THE | $932,252 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The goal of this project is to build and use computational tools for elucidating the nature of membrane protein's interactions with the membrane and to increase the mathematical fluency of undergraduate and high school students. | National Science Foundation | 6/05/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH THE | $932,252 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The goal of this project is to build and use computational tools for elucidating the nature of membrane protein's interactions with the membrane and to increase the mathematical fluency of undergraduate and high school students. | National Science Foundation | 6/05/2009 |
| CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY | $897,502 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The purpose of this contract is to create a set of services to the Spoken Dialogue research community. DialRC is committed to furnishing data, running studies, providing educational material and organizing a Challenge for researchers around the world. At | National Science Foundation | 8/19/2009 |
| CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY | $883,982 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The objective of this interdisciplinary research program is to experimentally and theoretically characterize heat transfer and fluid flow in carbon nanotube (CNT) aerogels. Aerogels are ultra-light, highly porous materials. Our team has the unique capabil
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National Science Foundation | 8/21/2009 |
| CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY | $855,259 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Successful completion of the effort of this proposal will make significant contributions to both theory and practice in multiagent systems, search, integer programming, planning under uncertainty, exchange design, electronic commerce, and transplation. | National Science Foundation | 6/22/2009 |
| CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY | $798,981 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support RI: Medium: Collaborative Research: Physically Grounded Object Recognition Most of todayG??s approaches to visual object recognition essentially reduce the problem to one of 2D pattern classification, where rectangular image patches are independently com | National Science Foundation | 6/22/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH THE | $750,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Experimental and Theoretical Investigations of Electrostatic Interactions and Ordering in Highly Charged Colloidal Assemblies We aim to unveil the form of the fundamental electrostatic interactions by direct measurements of electrostatic interactions usi | National Science Foundation | 7/02/2009 |
| CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY | $750,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The proposed project will turn the wireless emulator testbed into a shared community resource. The project has three thrusts. First, we propose to make two professionally-supported wireless emulator testbeds available as the core of a community testbed a | National Science Foundation | 7/20/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH THE | $750,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Experimental and Theoretical Investigations of Electrostatic Interactions and Ordering in Highly Charged Colloidal Assemblies We aim to unveil the form of the fundamental electrostatic interactions by direct measurements of electrostatic interactions usi | National Science Foundation | 7/02/2009 |
| CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY | $723,789 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support TC: Medium: Collaborative Research: User-Controllable Policy Learning; Research being conducted with this award involves developing and evaluating a new family of user-oriented machine learning technologies to help users refine a wide range of security an | National Science Foundation | 9/22/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH THE | $654,534 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Transcriptional elongation, splicing and polyadenylation are tightly controlled and coupled processes that are subject to targeted regulation. In up to 20% of the genes of higher mammals there is a competition between a polyadenylation site versus an upst | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY | $634,599 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The project will develop a unique instrument for the preparation and characterization of Composition Spread Alloy Films (CSAFs). These are thin alloy films deposited on the surfaces of various materials in such a way that there is a gradient in their com | National Science Foundation | 8/21/2009 |
| DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT | $550,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). In this CAREER project funded by the Inorganic, Bioinorganic, and Organometallic Chemistry Program of the Chemistry Division, Tomislav Pintauer of Duquesne U | National Science Foundation | 7/08/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH THE | $550,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This CAREER Award funds a combined research and education program that will explore methods to control quantum coherence and entanglement of quantum systems in complex environments. The research program will study the fundamental properties of quantum ent | National Science Foundation | 7/26/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH THE | $550,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This CAREER Award funds a combined research and education program that will explore methods to control quantum coherence and entanglement of quantum systems in complex environments. The research program will study the fundamental properties of quantum ent | National Science Foundation | 7/26/2009 |
| CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY | $515,079 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Robot hands are usually simple, with just two or three fingers, perhaps a single actuator, and most often no sensors at all. These simple hands are also very specific in their function, such as picking up a specific part. Research on more general robot ha | National Science Foundation | 8/08/2009 |
| KURT J. LESKER COMPANY | $500,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support At successful completion of the project KJLC intends to introduce a turn key, sputter deposition tool, for low temperature TCOG??s. A key component of the tool will be a fully integrated deposition process. The sales price of these tools will range betwee | National Science Foundation | 7/31/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH THE | $495,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support In this research project supported by the Experimental Physical Chemistry Program, Professors Hrvoje Petek and Jin Zhao will study the electronic structure of graphene, a single atom thick, sheet-like allotrope of the element carbon. The study will focus | National Science Foundation | 8/06/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH THE | $495,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support In this research project supported by the Experimental Physical Chemistry Program, Professors Hrvoje Petek and Jin Zhao will study the electronic structure of graphene, a single atom thick, sheet-like allotrope of the element carbon. The study will focus | National Science Foundation | 8/06/2009 |
| CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY | $490,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support We will acquire two instruments in order to probe the complex interactions between gas-phase organic oxidation chemistry and the evolution of organic particulate matter (PM). One instrument is a Chemical Ionization Mass Spectrometer (CIMS) designed for fl | National Science Foundation | 8/21/2009 |
| CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY | $487,108 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Research is proposed to extend the scale and generality of separation logic and grainless semantics to become applicable to more complex and varied softward systems. Specifically the following will be investigated: Higer-Order Desgn Patterns, Procedures | National Science Foundation | 6/22/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH THE | $470,914 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The nervous system exerts profound regulatory influence over peripheral physiology and this control is essential for homeostasis and coordinating adaptive changes across physiological systems. The regulatory oversight exerted by the brain necessary for th | National Science Foundation | 7/15/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH THE | $470,914 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The nervous system exerts profound regulatory influence over peripheral physiology and this control is essential for homeostasis and coordinating adaptive changes across physiological systems. The regulatory oversight exerted by the brain necessary for th | National Science Foundation | 7/15/2009 |
| CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY | $439,990 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Building information models (BIMs), which represent the three dimensional (3D) geometry and high-level semantics of a facility, are increasingly used in the Architecture, Engineering, Construction, and Facility Management (AEC/FM) industry. Most BIM work | National Science Foundation | 7/15/2009 |
| CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY | $430,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This career development plan seeks to build the foundation of the PI's long-term career on integrated research and education regarding sketch-based construction and interaction with geometric content in creative design environments. Studies in engineering | National Science Foundation | 7/15/2009 |
| CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY | $418,710 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This project aims to develop a methodology that will enable temporal coarse-graining of molecular dynamics (MD). Conventional numberical solution of MD with time-stepping is restricted to step sizes of femtoseconds. This makes if infeasible to predict m | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY | $415,263 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The Carnegie Mellon University REU Site for Undergraduate Research Experiences in Cellular and Molecular Biosciences will provide a research program for undergraduates during the summers of 2009-2012. Ten students will be selected each year to participate | National Science Foundation | 5/28/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH THE | $400,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The proposed research, which is focused on electron injection from metal nanoparticles into the surrounding TCO matrix, broadens the arena for fundamental nanoscale research on potentially new and novel carrier conduction mechanisms and opens a new area f | National Science Foundation | 6/16/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH THE | $400,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The proposed research, which is focused on electron injection from metal nanoparticles into the surrounding TCO matrix, broadens the arena for fundamental nanoscale research on potentially new and novel carrier conduction mechanisms and opens a new area f | National Science Foundation | 6/16/2009 |
| CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY | $399,928 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Project-based learning, especially in courses where students work in groups on real-world problems for industry sponsors, is common in engineering curricula. These courses offer students the opportunity to move forward in their trajectory from being a stu | National Science Foundation | 7/08/2009 |
| CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY | $399,189 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Science and engineering work is increasingly accomplished by teams of interdependent people performing at different times and places within and across organizations. Prior research shows that it is particularly difficult for members of these 'virtual' tea | National Science Foundation | 9/21/2009 |
| CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY | $381,702 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support One of the grand challenges in robotics is to achieve dexterity, especially dexterity in manipulation. The equipment funded by this project ? a robot torso, two arms, and a custom designed robot hand, supports investigation of manipulation tasks, with a p | National Science Foundation | 7/29/2009 |
| CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY | $377,573 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support INVESTIGATION OF NANOSCALE SPIN DYNAMICS AND INTERACTIONS WITH SCANNING PROBES This proposal will investigate the spin torque induced switching and ferromagnetic resonance dynamics of small patterned magnetic tunnel junction devices using scanning probe m | National Science Foundation | 7/30/2009 |
| CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY | $370,863 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Addressing techniques for key challenges information integration, prediction, and generation using graphical models. First we addrss the intration of attribute -value and relational data, accounting for possible bias and sparsity in the observations and | National Science Foundation | 8/12/2009 |
| DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT | $361,291 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support NON-TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION: Magnetic ceramic nanoparticles will be studied in this project to explore their interesting physico-chemical properties and their prospective applications in catalysis and gas sensing. Enhanced device performance is expected fo | National Science Foundation | 8/06/2009 |
| CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY | $360,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Implementation of the FieldStream framework in several real-life wireless sensor systems, starting with the ones being led by us (AutoSense at Memphis, and Urban Sensing and UCLA). It will help establish the feasbility of FieldStream for real-world deplo | National Science Foundation | 8/26/2009 |
| CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY | $349,968 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This project will develop and apply a suite of freely-available internet chat-based tutorials for integrating computer modeling and design skills within any mechanical engineering undergraduate program. These tutorials will not only allow students to nav | National Science Foundation | 7/22/2009 |
| L-3 COMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION | $337,551 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The construction of an Advanced Technology Solar Telescope (ATST) is consistent with this mission and was a specific or tacit recommendation of three National Academy of Sciences reports. The ATST would be the world's flagship facility for the study of ma
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National Science Foundation | 1/15/2010 |
| CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY | $329,999 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This project involves the development of novel materials and processes for the rapid electrophoretic separation of DNA, as required for DNA sequencing applications. The proposed methos uses dilute suspensions of nanoemulsion droplets that transiently bin | National Science Foundation | 7/27/2009 |
| CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY | $323,196 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This research examines practices of software development, co-creation and sharing in collaborative scientific research based on a sample of multiple virtual organizations using the Open Science Grid. Almost every workflow that generates scientific results
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National Science Foundation | 9/14/2009 |
| A. Martini & Co., Inc. | $314,550 |
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 will renovate and upgrade specific existing research laboratories and facilities in the Richard King Mellon Hall of Science at Duquesne Univers
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National Science Foundation | 9/09/2010 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH THE | $299,842 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support A three year study is proposed to reconstruct the Holocene Paleomagnetic records of the Arctic and investigate linkages with regional climate using lake core studies. At present, there are no terrestrial Arctic paleomagnetic data to the west of the histo | National Science Foundation | 8/14/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH THE | $299,842 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support A three year study is proposed to reconstruct the Holocene Paleomagnetic records of the Arctic and investigate linkages with regional climate using lake core studies. At present, there are no terrestrial Arctic paleomagnetic data to the west of the histo | National Science Foundation | 8/14/2009 |
| DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT | $293,918 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The underlying genetic basis behind anatomical, physiological, or behavioral adaptations arising during the evolution of humans and great apes (hominids) remains largely unknown. Observable change may come from changes to protein-coding genes, from change | National Science Foundation | 8/16/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH THE | $290,092 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Human-observer based methods for measuring human motion are labor intensive, qualitative, and difficult to standardize across laboratories, clinical settings, and over time. Moreover, many conditions that affect normal human movements must be diagnosed du | National Science Foundation | 9/05/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH THE | $290,092 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Human-observer based methods for measuring human motion are labor intensive, qualitative, and difficult to standardize across laboratories, clinical settings, and over time. Moreover, many conditions that affect normal human movements must be diagnosed du | National Science Foundation | 9/05/2009 |
| RYCON CONSTRUCTION, INC. | $288,027 |
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 will renovate and upgrade specific existing research laboratories and facilities in the Richard King Mellon Hall of Science at Duquesne Univers
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National Science Foundation | 9/09/2010 |
| CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY | $285,583 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Engineering versatile drug delivery vehicles that enable simultaneous delivery of several agents is a key challenge in medicine. Liposomes would gain significant stability and functional capacity from having a solid core, tethered to the bilayer by strong
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National Science Foundation | 8/19/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH THE | $280,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Using theory and simulation, our goal is to design coatings that permit the controlled spatial-temporal modulation of surface properties and thereby, impart biomimetic functionality to a broad range of systems. In these studies, we will take advantage of | National Science Foundation | 7/27/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH THE | $280,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Using theory and simulation, our goal is to design coatings that permit the controlled spatial-temporal modulation of surface properties and thereby, impart biomimetic functionality to a broad range of systems. In these studies, we will take advantage of | National Science Foundation | 7/27/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH THE | $278,040 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award provides funding to acquire a high-power, high-repetition-rate, wavelength-tunable, femtosecond ultrafast laser system to study laser material interaction and to fabricate three-dimensional photonic devices. The ultrafast laser processing defin | National Science Foundation | 7/17/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH THE | $250,330 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Collaborative Research with Carnegie Mellon University, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and the University of Pittsburgh. The goal of the proposed Expedition is to develop the next generation of model-checking and abstract-interpreation technology so that for
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National Science Foundation | 8/11/2009 |
| CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY | $235,988 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The goal of the award is to leverage mobile technologies and sensors to empower individualsand organizations with personal feedback about their energy use and carbon emissions and suggestions on how to improve. Our work includes transportation activities | National Science Foundation | 8/12/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH THE | $225,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The ongoing project focuses on the study of keV sterile neutrinos as possible warm dark matter candidates, assessing their small scale clustering properties as possible alternatives to the cold dark matter paradigm. We have considered simple extensions be | National Science Foundation | 8/11/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH THE | $225,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The ongoing project focuses on the study of keV sterile neutrinos as possible warm dark matter candidates, assessing their small scale clustering properties as possible alternatives to the cold dark matter paradigm. We have considered simple extensions be | National Science Foundation | 8/11/2009 |
| CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY | $215,664 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The sequential game is a mathematical model of the interaction of multiple self-interested players in dynamic stochastic environments with limited information. The long-term goal of this research project is to design and implement specialized algorithmic | National Science Foundation | 7/15/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH THE | $208,397 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Research proposes to use Holocene lake sediment records from British Columbia (BC) to reconstruct the spatial and temporal patterns of drought/pluvial cycles along the cordillera of western North America to help identify the underlying causes of these eve | National Science Foundation | 8/19/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH THE | $196,354 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). In this proposal, the investigator describes three projects on association analysis of multivariate competing risks data which arise frequently in genetic f | National Science Foundation | 7/02/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH THE | $196,354 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). In this proposal, the investigator describes three projects on association analysis of multivariate competing risks data which arise frequently in genetic f | National Science Foundation | 7/02/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH THE | $185,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award provides resources to build a Regional Stable Isotope Laboratory for Earth and Environmental Science Research at the University of Pittsburgh. Provided funds will support a technician that will maintain a dedicated laboratory housing two gas s | National Science Foundation | 9/08/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH THE | $185,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award provides resources to build a Regional Stable Isotope Laboratory for Earth and Environmental Science Research at the University of Pittsburgh. Provided funds will support a technician that will maintain a dedicated laboratory housing two gas s | National Science Foundation | 9/08/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH THE | $183,623 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support To prepare future scientists and engineers for the demands of the high-tech workplace with its growing dependence on quantum phenomena, continued development, assessment, and dissemination of Quantum Interactive Learning Tutorials (QuILT) for the advanced | National Science Foundation | 8/11/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH THE | $183,623 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support To prepare future scientists and engineers for the demands of the high-tech workplace with its growing dependence on quantum phenomena, continued development, assessment, and dissemination of Quantum Interactive Learning Tutorials (QuILT) for the advanced | National Science Foundation | 8/11/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH THE | $175,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The overall objective of the research is to demonstrate that using small variations on the same chemistry we can efficiently convert a basic set of core molecules, the fluorine oligomers, into an extended family of polymers with varying, but completely co | National Science Foundation | 7/29/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH THE | $150,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The purpose of the award is to stimulate innovative manufacturing research and industrial competitiveness in the U.S. by enabling the design of engineering components with custom designed microstructures. The award is expected to lead to manufactured meta | National Science Foundation | 7/16/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH THE | $150,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The purpose of the award is to stimulate innovative manufacturing research and industrial competitiveness in the U.S. by enabling the design of engineering components with custom designed microstructures. The award is expected to lead to manufactured meta | National Science Foundation | 7/16/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH THE | $141,355 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Research is a collaboration with Northern Arizona University and proposes analyze lakes from Washington State to the interior of Alaska. By using consistent methods on a network of similar lakes we will be able to make direct comparisons between sites an | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH THE | $141,355 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Research is a collaboration with Northern Arizona University and proposes analyze lakes from Washington State to the interior of Alaska. By using consistent methods on a network of similar lakes we will be able to make direct comparisons between sites an | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH THE | $130,573 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This proposal aims to elucidate how Raf acts as a signal integrator in the specific context of striated muscle, with the following experimental objectives: 1. To identify the protein phosphatases responsible for dephosphorylating Raf at specific Ser/Thr | National Science Foundation | 8/17/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH THE | $125,658 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The goal of this project is to implement a new computational method to study the properties of gravitational waves generated by black holes. The approach uses techniques for solving Einstein's equations which have been recently developed in collaboration | National Science Foundation | 7/07/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH THE | $125,658 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The goal of this project is to implement a new computational method to study the properties of gravitational waves generated by black holes. The approach uses techniques for solving Einstein's equations which have been recently developed in collaboration | National Science Foundation | 7/07/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH THE | $104,250 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support With this award from the Major Research and Instrumentation (MRI) program, Professor Brooks H. Pate of the University of Virginia, David W. Pratt of the University of Pittsburgh and Steven T. Shipman of New College of Florida have submitted a proposal in
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National Science Foundation | 2/04/2010 |
| CONCURRENT ELECTRONIC DESIGN AUTOMATION, LLC | $100,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This Small Business Innovative Research Phase I proposal will research, develop and demonstrate that the performance of Engineering Simulation and Modeling applications can be dramatically improved using FPGA and GPU accelerated servers. Engineering Simul | National Science Foundation | 6/15/2009 |
| VOCOLLECT, INC | $99,380 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I research project aims to develop a wearable computer system with an innovative multimodal input mechanism. The objective of this research is to assess the feasibility, efficiency, and quality of documentatio | National Science Foundation | 6/01/2009 |
| ATRP SOLUTIONS, INC. | $94,944 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project is directed towards adaptation of atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) to industrial scale production. ATRP is among the most powerful controlled/living radical polymerization techniques, and | National Science Foundation | 6/08/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH THE | $86,015 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The proposed research contributes 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 th
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National Science Foundation | 7/07/2009 |
| NANOGRIPTECH | $85,000 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This Small Business Technology Transfer Phase I project investigates a design method for fibrillar adhesives to develop advanced repeatable adhesive material
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National Science Foundation | 7/01/2009 |
| CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY | $75,822 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The primary goal of this project is to develop a scalable, ensemble-based data assimilation system that can run efficiently on peta-scale supercomputers, and to apply the data assimilation to very large-scale weather prediction programs. | National Science Foundation | 9/02/2009 |
| CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY | $69,086 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE ON CASUALTY RECORDING AND ESTIMATON - Civilized societies maintain orderly, accessible records of casualties, preserving the identity of those who have suffered in a respectful manner, and estimating their numbers as measures of soci | National Science Foundation | 6/05/2009 |
| CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY | $65,000 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This Small Business Technology Transfer Phase I project investigates a design method for fibrillar adhesives to develop advanced repeatable adhesive material
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National Science Foundation | 7/01/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH THE | $64,536 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This US-Ukraine project provides US undergraduate and graduate students opportunities to conduct research at the Glushkov Institute of Cybernetics in Kyiv, Ukraine. The research activities are focused in the areas of discrete and nondifferentiable optimiz | National Science Foundation | 6/01/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH THE | $64,536 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This US-Ukraine project provides US undergraduate and graduate students opportunities to conduct research at the Glushkov Institute of Cybernetics in Kyiv, Ukraine. The research activities are focused in the areas of discrete and nondifferentiable optimiz | National Science Foundation | 6/01/2009 |
| CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY | $60,000 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support STTR Phase I: Non-Toxic Nanoparticles for BRET-Based Molecular Imaging This Small Business Technology Transfer Phase I project will result in the demonstration of non-toxic multi-modality nanoparticle-based molecular probes for in vivo imaging. The objec
This spending item is part of a $150,000 allocation.
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National Science Foundation | 6/15/2009 |