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Brazos County, Texas, funds by National Science Foundation

Listing $44,044,671.78 in stimulus funds from National Science Foundation for Brazos

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
TEXAS A & M RESEARCH FOUNDATION $25,000,000 To purchase 251 days of ship operations and fuel in support of the USIO expeditions National Science Foundation 9/04/2009
TEXAS ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT STATION $1,063,684 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support 'Signal transduction pathways play a key role in many cellular functions as well as intercellular communication. However, elucidating the exact mechanisms involved in signal transduction pathways is non-trivial: crosstalk exists between different pathways National Science Foundation 8/28/2009
TEXAS ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT STATION $865,000 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support 'The burgeoning revolution in high-end computer architecture has far reaching implications for the software infrastructure of tools for performance measurement, modeling, and optimization, which has been indispensable to improved productivity in computati National Science Foundation 8/04/2009
TEXAS ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT STATION $841,643 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is an outcome of the NSF 09-524 program solicitation 'George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) Research (NEESR)' competition and includes Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas (lead institution), The Un
This spending item is part of a $1,226,000 allocation. See details
National Science Foundation 7/20/2009
TEXAS ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT STATION $841,243 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support 'In this project the PIs will investigate human-robot interaction in situations where a human is highly dependent upon a robot that serves as the medium for the outside world, such as emergency response, hostage negotiation, and healthcare. In these domai National Science Foundation 7/13/2009
TEXAS A & M RESEARCH FOUNDATION $599,763 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The very early universe, in the first instance after its creation, was filled with a very hot and dense soup of matter, consisting of quarks, leptons and gluons. When the universe expanded and cooled, but still just milliseconds after the Big Bang, quarks National Science Foundation 6/02/2009
TEXAS ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT STATION $500,000 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support 'This award provides funding for a 3 year standard award to support a Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) in Engineering Site program at Texas A&M University (TAMU) entitled, 'RET Site: Enrichment Experiences in Engineering (E3) for Teachers Summer Re National Science Foundation 8/11/2009
TEXAS ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT STATION $440,000 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support 'The research goal of this integrated research and educational endeavor is to advance the fundamental understanding of the behavior of interconnected systems by studying the influence of delays on their stability and performance. The proposed theoretical National Science Foundation 7/20/2009
TEXAS A & M RESEARCH FOUNDATION $435,757 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Numerical methods are the future of computation in algebraic geometry. The reason for this is that increases in computing power will be due to massive parallelization and symbolic algorithms do not appear to be parallelizable while numerical algorithms ar National Science Foundation 7/23/2009
TEXAS ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT STATION $430,000 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support 'The main objectives of this Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) proposal are to discover atomic-scale details governing nanomaterials? response to irradiation, and to explore the possibilities of property-tuning to achieve extremely radiation toler National Science Foundation 7/22/2009
TEXAS ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT STATION $426,579 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Real-world software systems are large, complex artifacts built up over multiple layers of abstraction using diverse collections of components. Though individual components are often reusable, code that manages interactions between components seldom is. Su National Science Foundation 6/12/2009
TEXAS A & M RESEARCH FOUNDATION $420,000 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support TECHNICAL SUMMARY: This proposal will examine the effect of polymer microstructure, solvent additives and solution components on lower critical solution temperature (LCST) phenomena both in solution and at surfaces. The studies proposed will use solution National Science Foundation 5/29/2009
TEXAS AGRILIFE RESEARCH $406,885 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The transmission cycle of many important infectious agents includes not only the hosts but also their environments. After infection of a host with a pathogen like Escherichia coli, Listeria monocytogenes, or Salmonella spp, large numbers of the pathogen m National Science Foundation 7/14/2009
TEXAS A & M RESEARCH FOUNDATION $401,841 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Understanding the behavior of 230Th is critical to interpret the sedimentary record and understand how climate change affects oceanographic processes. This study will address the controversy in using this technique based on assumptions made in the 230Th m National Science Foundation 6/25/2009
TEXAS ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT STATION $400,000 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support 'The goal of this CAREER project is to develop an integrated research and educational program in molecular systems biology (MSB). This project focuses on soluble signal-mediated signaling between bacteria and human cells, termed inter-kingdom (IK) signali National Science Foundation 6/02/2009
TEXAS ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT STATION $400,000 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This engineering education research award to Texas Engineering Experiment Station will employ researchers to develop a novel sketch recognition-based learning system which will allow students to use freehand sketching to enter their drawings of forces act National Science Foundation 6/29/2009
TEXAS ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT STATION $400,000 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support 'CAREER: Information Theory and Coding for Wireless Broadcast Networks Broadcast is a fundamental nature of wireless communication. With appropriate coding architecture, the broadcast nature of wireless communication can be used to the advantage of simul National Science Foundation 6/08/2009
TEXAS A & M RESEARCH FOUNDATION $399,918 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Shallow marine carbonate rocks that are deposited at continental margins are subjected to intense deformation at convergent plate boundaries, and a growing body of evidence indicates that these carbonate rocks are entrained in subduction zones to signific National Science Foundation 6/23/2009
TEXAS A & M RESEARCH FOUNDATION $390,000 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The Inorganic, Bioinorganic and Organometallic Chemistry Program supports the research of Professor Janet Bluemel of Texas A&M University to synthesize a new generation of linkers for the immobilization of catalysts on oxide supports. New 4,4'-bisphosphin National Science Foundation 7/23/2009
TEXAS A & M RESEARCH FOUNDATION $388,477 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support A postulated key factor in controlling the future fate of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, for instance in the area of the Amundsen Sea embayment, is the extent to which warm Circumpolar Deep Water (CDW) intrusions may flow up onto the continental shelf and National Science Foundation 8/12/2009
TEXAS A & M RESEARCH FOUNDATION $374,865 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Self-control is an important key to success in life insofar as individuals who succeed at self-control enjoy more satisfying interpersonal relationships, better physical health, and greater subjective well-being than do people who fail at self-control. Un National Science Foundation 8/16/2009
TEXAS A & M RESEARCH FOUNDATION $350,500 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Professors James D. Batteas of Texas A&M and Charles M. Drain of Hunter College of CUNY are supported by the Analytical and Surface Chemistry Program in the Division of Chemistry to systematically design and synthesize a series of porphyrin and alkyl base National Science Foundation 6/24/2009
TEXAS ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT STATION $331,910 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The objective of this research is to design and construct a self-aligned tunnel logic device will consume less power in the off-state and require less switching power for device turn-on. The approach will be to use simulations to determine the appropriate National Science Foundation 9/03/2009
TEXAS A & M RESEARCH FOUNDATION $330,926 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This project's objective is to identify the source of oxidized iron minerals in the 3.26-billion-year-old Manzimnyama Jaspillite Member of South Africa, one of the oldest well-preserved examples of a class of rocks called banded iron formations. Banded ir National Science Foundation 7/31/2009
TEXAS ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT STATION $313,175 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Currently, one of the most important research problems encountered in molecular biology, bioinformatics, and systems biology consists in deciphering the mechanisms that lie at the basis of gene regulatory networks. The importance of gene regulatory networ National Science Foundation 6/02/2009
TEXAS A & M UNIVERSITY $312,147 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This project is an effort to study the spatial/temporal variability of methyl bromide and other halocarbons in the upper ocean in response to the implementation of the Montreal Protocol and its amendments. The long-term goals of this work are to understa National Science Foundation 6/29/2009
TEXAS ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT STATION $310,894 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support 'When Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier with the first supersonic flight in 1947, the crucial technologies of the day that enabled such an endeavor were associated with aerodynamic design and strength of materials. During the last few decades a more in National Science Foundation 8/26/2009
TEXAS ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT STATION $305,279 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support 'Most cells generate intracellular forces that are transmitted to, and countered by, forces in the extracellular matrix. This mechanical force balance is necessary for maintaining both mechanical and biochemical cell equilibrium, i.e. homeostasis. When th National Science Foundation 8/11/2009
TEXAS ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT STATION $300,000 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support 'The project investigates temperature controlled activation of micro nano structured nanocomposite hydrogel materials to produce temperature controlled self cleaning surfaces. Cyclical changes in temperature will activate these nanocomposite hydrogel micr National Science Foundation 8/24/2009
TEXAS A & M RESEARCH FOUNDATION $300,000 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This grant will initiate a new project on the design of catalysts that can harvest solar energy and relay this to the metal centers to promote the rate of reactions or to induce desirable selectivity effects. Specifically, ligands are designed to be in di National Science Foundation 7/29/2009
TEXAS ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT STATION $299,927 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support 'The research and education plan centers on understanding and manipulating energy transport phenomena within nanostructured complex oxide materials, as well as educating a broad spectrum of students including graduate, undergraduate, and K-12 students in National Science Foundation 6/25/2009
TEXAS A & M RESEARCH FOUNDATION $292,215 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Deciphering the origins of the giant large igneous provinces is a critical element for understanding mantle dynamics and its relation to terrestrial magmatism. Among a dozen or so large oceanic plateaus in the oceans Shatsky Rise is an important target be National Science Foundation 7/22/2009
TEXAS ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT STATION $276,298 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support 'A significant majority of current Internet traffic is due to distributing content, yet the Internet was designed to be largely agnostic to characteristics of the content flowing over it. This research investigates the design and operation of a content-aw National Science Foundation 7/24/2009
TEXAS A & M RESEARCH FOUNDATION $262,106 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support To meet the rising need for analyzing functional data with complex structures, the investigators develop innovative statistical methods under three broad categories: (1) Multi-level functional data analysis. New methods for multi-level principal component National Science Foundation 7/10/2009
TEXAS ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT STATION $254,985 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support 'The objective of this research is to address the computational challenges in multi-core power distribution design by leveraging recent advances in single-instruction multiple-data (SIMD) graphics processing units (GPUs). The approach is to develop a mass National Science Foundation 8/25/2009
TEXAS ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT STATION $252,097 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support 'The objective of this research is to develop a waveguide radio-frequency micro-electromechanical systems tunable filter as a unique three-dimensional microstructure in silicon. The approach is based on combining 1) bulk micromachining for miniaturized ca National Science Foundation 7/30/2009
TEXAS A & M UNIVERSITY $247,238 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This grant provides funds for upgrading an existing nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectrometer that will provide the only cryoprobe at Texas A&M University. The cryoprobe will have significant impact on research and education both intra- and extramura National Science Foundation 7/26/2009
TEXAS ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT STATION $225,754 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support 'This research aims to develop new fundamental theory and effective design methodologies to address practically important issues that existing control theories cannot effectively handle: specifically the proposal will develop methods for the design of fix National Science Foundation 7/23/2009
TEXAS ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT STATION $220,825 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support 'Wildfires cause great destruction including the loss of life and damage to property, infrastructure and the environment. The complexity of wildfire management arises from the uncertain dynamic interactions and dependencies among multiple system component National Science Foundation 9/18/2009
TEXAS A & M RESEARCH FOUNDATION $196,127 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support One of the greatest physicists Vladimir Gamow compared our universe with a giant reactor or cauldron, in which all elements are cooked up via nuclear reactions. The process itself is called 'nucleosynthesis.' We are all made of the products of this nucleo National Science Foundation 7/14/2009
TEXAS A & M RESEARCH FOUNDATION $195,000 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Although natural radioisotopes, such as Th(IV), Pa(IV, V), Po(IV, II, -II), and Be(II), are important proxies that have long been used in oceanographic investigations, the molecular interactions and binding relationships between radionuclides and marine o National Science Foundation 7/07/2009
TEXAS A & M RESEARCH FOUNDATION $191,093 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Archaeologists have long looked to Beringia, the region encompassing Alaska and far northeastern Siberia, for clues about the origins of the first Americans and spread of humans into the Arctic. The traditional view holds that humans first migrated from S National Science Foundation 8/24/2009
TEXAS ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT STATION $175,000 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support 'The research objective of this BRIGE award is to establish a performance-based design methodology to reflect the response of a bridge system prestressed with aramid fiber reinforced polymer (AFRP) tendons and subjected to service, cyclic (fatigue), and u National Science Foundation 7/06/2009
TEXAS ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT STATION $174,999 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support 'We propose to generate high porosity bone scaffolds that are both biodegradable and injectable using high internal phase emulsions (HIPEs). Current fabrication techniques can be used to generate either a porous scaffold or an injectable scaffold. A highl National Science Foundation 7/24/2009
TEXAS A & M RESEARCH FOUNDATION $168,962 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This Research award in the Inorganic, Bioinorganic and Organometallic Chemistry program supports work by Professor Claudia Turro at The Ohio State University to carry out fundamental/basic studies on ligand-loss photochemistry of ruthenium complexes. The
This spending item is part of a $690,000 allocation. See details
National Science Foundation 7/23/2009
TEXAS A & M RESEARCH FOUNDATION $165,046 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The principal investigator (P.I.) will study three topics in measurement error models, develop relevant methodologies and analyze their corresponding properties and performances. The first topic concerns functional models in the situation when the main National Science Foundation 7/02/2009
TEXAS ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT STATION $150,000 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This engineering education research award to Texas Engineering Experiment Station in collaboration with Saint Mary's University will employ researchers in the development of new methods and web-based tools to integrate design of automated manufacturing in National Science Foundation 7/23/2009
TEXAS A & M RESEARCH FOUNDATION $146,783 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Mean-field spin glass models and, in particular, the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model were better understood in the past several years following the discovery of the replica symmetry breaking interpolation by Francesco Guerra and the proof of the celebrated National Science Foundation 8/07/2009
TEXAS A & M RESEARCH FOUNDATION $137,413 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support With National Science Foundation support, Dr. Suzanne Eckert will investigate pottery and stone tool production during the Polynesian Plain Ware Period on Tutuila Island, American Samoa. Although ethnographic Polynesia is one of the model societies for wh National Science Foundation 8/16/2009
TEXAS A & M RESEARCH FOUNDATION $137,096 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The adequate numerical treatment of free boundary problems exhibiting disparate scales is a formidable mathematical and computational challenge where the geometry plays a crucial role. Modern algorithms should be able to optimize and balance the computati National Science Foundation 8/12/2009
TEXAS A & M RESEARCH FOUNDATION $129,120 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The object of the proposed research is the study of the distribution of mass of high dimensional convex bodies or more general of log-concave probability measures. Recently, several classical results from probability theory have been extended to the broad National Science Foundation 6/16/2009
TEXAS A & M RESEARCH FOUNDATION $126,789 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Social scientists recently exposed the myth of universal water services coverage in the United States: migrant farm workers, the rural poor, and urban homeless communities face substantial deficiencies in water and sanitation infrastructure. Although inst National Science Foundation 8/20/2009
TEXAS A & M RESEARCH FOUNDATION $113,928 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support In the context of missing data and semiparametric regression models (i.e., models with both finite dimensional and infinite-dimensional parameters), little work has been done on efficient estimation and still less on estimating general functionals. Most s National Science Foundation 6/30/2009
TEXAS AGRILIFE RESEARCH $113,414 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The ability of coastal wetlands to survive accelerated sea level rise is a critically important and open question. Coastal marshes, which are dominated by the marsh grass Spartina alterniflora, build the land vertically (accrete) through a combination of National Science Foundation 7/09/2009
TEXAS A & M RESEARCH FOUNDATION $111,531 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The Arctic system is strongly defined by its seasonality. The extreme annual cycle of solar radiation, interactions between the Arctic and lower latitudes, within-Arctic interactions between the land, ocean, and atmosphere, and the energetics of freeze an
This spending item is part of a $862,974 allocation. See details
National Science Foundation 6/29/2009
CORINNOVA INC $100,000 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support SBIR Phase I: Pre-clinical Development of Device to Guide Heart Recovery via Assist and Support. National Science Foundation 6/08/2009
TEXAS A & M RESEARCH FOUNDATION $95,892 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The PIs propose to develop a new, high-resolution (annual to sub-decadal) paleoclimate record (0-1,000 y) from sediment cores taken on the Arctic inner continental shelf. The proposal is a follow-up to a regular Arctic Natural Sciences panel submission th
This spending item is part of a $299,930 allocation. See details
National Science Foundation 6/30/2009
TEXAS A & M RESEARCH FOUNDATION $88,198 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The proposed project focuses on a number of problems related to isoperimetric inequalities on discrete groups and metric spaces. Sobolev and Poincare inequalities are classical examples of such inequalities, properties like non-exactness or Kazhdan's prop National Science Foundation 5/26/2009
TEXAS A & M RESEARCH FOUNDATION $88,085 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The principal investigator proposes to work on three problems in the geometry of Banach spaces with a strong set theoretic and/or combinatorial flavor. Firstly, the principal investigator proposes to work on the classification problem of complemented subs National Science Foundation 5/21/2009
TEXAS A & M RESEARCH FOUNDATION $85,697 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This exploratory project involves the first field test of a new, Relaxed Eddy Accumulation instrument for measuring concentrations and fluxes of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) in a long-term, unattended operational mode under limited infrastructure con National Science Foundation 6/05/2009
TEXAS ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT STATION $82,500 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support 'The design of clinically effective materials for the surgical repair of ruptured ligaments remains a challenging biomedical engineering problem. Currently, tissue grafts from the patient and cadaveric sources are the only clinically effective materials f National Science Foundation 8/25/2009
TEXAS ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT STATION $81,687 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support 'International Research Experience for Students: U.S.-Ukraine Collaboration on Discrete and Nondifferentiable Optimization This US-Ukraine project provides US undergraduate and graduate students opportunities to conduct research at the Glushkov Institute National Science Foundation 6/01/2009
TEXAS A & M RESEARCH FOUNDATION $75,000 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This project studies classes of spatial-temporal covariance functions for nonstationary, multivariate processes on a globe. Many processes in geophysical and environmental problems these days take large portion of the Earth as their spatial domain and exh National Science Foundation 8/02/2009
TEXAS ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT STATION $75,000 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This engineering education research award to Drexel University in collaboration with Purdue University, Texas Engineering Experiment Station, and Northeastern University will employ researchers to evaluate the effectiveness of using a fully instrumented r National Science Foundation 7/22/2009
TEXAS A & M RESEARCH FOUNDATION $62,578 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The Earth today has major ice caps on Antarctica and Greenland, but this was not always the case. This research focuses on climate change during a time period known as the Oligocene (34 to 24 million years ago). This interval of time began with a big shif National Science Foundation 8/31/2009
TEXAS A & M RESEARCH FOUNDATION $59,008 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The proposed project is on approximation of operator functions, whose prototype in the case of functions of a scalar argument is the Taylor polynomial approximation. Values of operator functions do not commute in general, which makes the analysis of such
This spending item is part of a $92,139 allocation. See details
National Science Foundation 5/26/2009
TEXAS A & M RESEARCH FOUNDATION $50,400 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
TEXAS A & M RESEARCH FOUNDATION $47,286 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Existing beach-dune models do not consider how and when sediment gets transferred to the backshore where they become available for transport by the wind. Rather, existing models largely ascribe regional variations in dune morphology to fixed constraints o National Science Foundation 8/16/2009
TEXAS A & M RESEARCH FOUNDATION $9,109 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). With National Science Foundation support, Dr. Habicht Mauche and her multi-institutional research team will examine the early development, production and ex
This spending item is part of a $101,144 allocation. See details
National Science Foundation 6/15/2009