Harris County, Texas, funds by National Science Foundation
Listing $22,006,828.71 in stimulus funds from National Science Foundation for Harris
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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| WILLIAM MARSH RICE UNIVERSITY | $2,928,889 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support We will acquire and operate a new facility, Data Analysis and Visualization Cyber-Infrastructure for Computational Science and Engineering Applications (DAVinCI), that will use hybrid a design that integrates high-throughput serial and tightly-coupled par | National Science Foundation | 4/23/2010 |
| WILLIAM MARSH RICE UNIVERSITY | $1,800,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This collaborative project, developing a mobile, open, and all-layers programmable platform for wireless communication systems research, supports the design, development, and dissemination of a community platform instrument, for collaborative architecting | National Science Foundation | 9/14/2009 |
| BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE | $1,000,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The long-term aims of this work are to develop new methods to analyze massive, noisy, and multi-scale networks and to predict protein function from evolutionary, physical and functional correlations. The approach relies on approximation methods to resolve | National Science Foundation | 8/08/2009 |
| WILLIAM MARSH RICE UNIVERSITY | $960,000 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Our proposed research on domain-specific computing will develop a methodology and customizable heterogeneous platform that includes: 1) a wide range of customizable computing elements, from heterogeneous fixed cores, to coarse-grain customizable c
This spending item is part of a $9,999,997 allocation.
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National Science Foundation | 8/11/2009 |
| WILLIAM MARSH RICE UNIVERSITY | $933,526 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Researchers at Rice University have been awarded a grant for an interdisciplinary project in software development, evolutionary biology and comparative genomics that will create new computational methods and web-based resources for comparing and interpret | National Science Foundation | 7/18/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON SYSTEM | $800,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Objective: The objective of this grant application is to acquire an electron beam lithography (EBL) system to support nanofabrication research in the Houston metropolitan area. Houston is home to numerous research-intensive universities, the Texas Medical | National Science Foundation | 3/03/2010 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON SYSTEM | $760,306 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The Earth's critical zone is where water, atmosphere, ecosystems and soils interact on a geomorphic and geologic template, and extends from bedrock to the atmospheric boundary layer. Process understanding of erosion, weathering, soil formation, water move
This spending item is part of a $935,457 allocation.
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National Science Foundation | 9/14/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON SYSTEM | $724,572 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support How the brain works is an important and complicated question. One of the many functions of the brain is to regulate complex behaviors, such as behaviors that govern the interaction among individuals. It is known that behavior is guided by both genes and t | National Science Foundation | 6/06/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON SYSTEM | $587,570 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This project, developing a dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) multi-mode switching platform instrument, supports telesurgery, telemedicine, and heterogeneous applications by allowing different types of messages within an application to choose f | National Science Foundation | 9/09/2009 |
| WILLIAM MARSH RICE UNIVERSITY | $550,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support At the forefront of condensed matter physics, the design and development of new materials has been the root of many fundamental discoveries. The ability to predict and synthesize targeted compounds represents one of the main challenges of our understandin | National Science Foundation | 9/01/2009 |
| WILLIAM MARSH RICE UNIVERSITY | $514,554 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This project addresses the question of the nature of dark matter in the Universe with an experimental search for Weakly Interactive Massive Particles (WIMPs) using two-phase xenon detectors. This group is currently operating at the 100 kg mass scale with | National Science Foundation | 8/24/2009 |
| WILLIAM MARSH RICE UNIVERSITY | $426,939 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The West Antarctic Ice Sheet is believed to be vulnerable to climate change as it is grounded below sea level, is drained by rapidly flowing ice streams and is fringed by floating ice shelves subject to melting by incursions of relatively warm Antarctic c | National Science Foundation | 6/10/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON SYSTEM | $411,050 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The fitness effects of genetic mutations can differ depending on the external and genetic environments in which they occur. These interactions of mutations with the external and genetic environments determine the generality with which a potentially adapti | National Science Foundation | 6/04/2009 |
| WILLIAM MARSH RICE UNIVERSITY | $380,793 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Bridge infrastructure owners are challenged to effectively manage risks not only from aging and deterioration but also from natural hazards, such as earthquakes or storm surge. These difficulties are stimulating an emerging trend of instrumentation and co | National Science Foundation | 7/15/2009 |
| WILLIAM MARSH RICE UNIVERSITY | $350,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The objective of this research is to design and prototype mobile wireless hardware that retains high energy efficiency across a broad performance range. The approach is to systematically address the inefficiency in multiple layers of wireless hardware. Wi | National Science Foundation | 7/30/2009 |
| WILLIAM MARSH RICE UNIVERSITY | $350,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The objective of this research is to acquire a better understanding of the charge transfer that takes place at the interfaces between organic semiconductors and metal, over a broad range of disorder in the organic material. This charge transfer strongly a | National Science Foundation | 8/10/2009 |
| WILLIAM MARSH RICE UNIVERSITY | $350,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Tremendous growth in hosted services and data sharing are motivating a new generation of storage virtualization technologies that encompass the entire data center or ensembles of data centers. Accurate dynamic resource provisioning is critical to achievin | National Science Foundation | 7/27/2009 |
| WILLIAM MARSH RICE UNIVERSITY | $349,261 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support River inputs play a significant role in the geochemistry of the global oceans. Rivers provide a significant source of nutrients, organic matter and suspended sediment to coastal shelves and the open ocean. The delivery of high nutrient loads to coastal ar
This spending item is part of a $389,261 allocation.
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National Science Foundation | 7/24/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON SYSTEM | $339,023 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This grant supports research in adapting and optimizing Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods to compute Bayesian models on large data sets resident on secondary storage, exploiting database systems techniques. The work will seek to optimize computations, pres | National Science Foundation | 7/30/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON SYSTEM | $311,429 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The goals of this research are to achieve greater understanding of synthesis and processing of new types of crystalline silicon and silicon nanostructures, to characterize their basic electronic and optical properties, and to explore their utility in prot
This spending item is part of a $348,645 allocation.
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National Science Foundation | 5/27/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON SYSTEM | $308,288 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Project Summary: The University of Houston-Downtown has been recognized as a Hispanic Serving Institution as well as a Minority Serving Institution by the U.S. Department of Education. The objective of the REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates) site | National Science Foundation | 5/28/2009 |
| WILLIAM MARSH RICE UNIVERSITY | $302,010 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This project addresses the frontier problems of plasma dissipation and radiation in accretion flows onto black holes, when the density is so low that Coulomb coupling is inadequate to heat the electrons. Using magnetohydrodynamic turbulence generated by t | National Science Foundation | 6/12/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON SYSTEM | $300,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award supports theoretical research and education with a focus to develop the principles that govern phenomena that emerge in networks with immediate application to biological systems and materials. The notion of a network is an abstract concept that | National Science Foundation | 8/31/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON SYSTEM | $300,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Proteomics has contributed to advances in understanding fundamental biological phenomena and the detection and curing of diseases. Protein microarrays enable large amounts of data and quantitative studies for proteomics. However, these are not optimized f | National Science Foundation | 6/29/2009 |
| WILLIAM MARSH RICE UNIVERSITY | $297,234 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Research on economic sanctions has advanced a great deal in recent years and there has been an impressive relationship between theory and evidence. Recent empirical work has led to the development of theoretical questions that cannot be answered with exis | National Science Foundation | 8/03/2009 |
| WILLIAM MARSH RICE UNIVERSITY | $293,342 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support We request support for a three year period for research and development activities that will aid in the design of the phase 1 upgraded silicon pixel detector for the CMS experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC). We propose to undertake R&D activ
This spending item is part of a $1,694,428 allocation.
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National Science Foundation | 4/15/2010 |
| WILLIAM MARSH RICE UNIVERSITY | $293,267 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Chemistry of oceanic island basalts (OIBs) reflects the complexity of compositions and processes in the Earth's mantle. Isotope and trace element geochemistry have established that parent lithologies of OIBs in the Earth's mantle are heterogeneous. Howeve | National Science Foundation | 6/19/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON SYSTEM | $276,849 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The majority of biological processes such as differentiation, growth, development and transformation are under tight control of cellular signaling systems. But detailed mechanisms of how cells decide when and where to execute these processes remains one o
This spending item is part of a $529,048 allocation.
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National Science Foundation | 7/20/2009 |
| BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE INC | $267,762 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The goal of this project is investigate the generation of collision avoidance behaviors in an integrated manner, by taking into account the neural, biomechanical and physical constraints imposed by the environment on the animal generating these behaviors. | National Science Foundation | 7/13/2009 |
| BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE | $267,762 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The goal of this project is investigate the generation of collision avoidance behaviors in an integrated manner, by taking into account the neural, biomechanical and physical constraints imposed by the environment on the animal generating these behaviors. | National Science Foundation | 7/13/2009 |
| WILLIAM MARSH RICE UNIVERSITY | $266,942 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Fund are provided for conducting high-pressure experiments to investigate the fate of sediments as they are progressively subducted to greater depths. In particular, two major questions are addressed that are relevant to the chief goals of the Subduction | National Science Foundation | 6/29/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT HOUSTON | $257,471 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The overall aim of the proposed study is to determine how reflexive spatial attention works in the visual system. We will manipulate various aspects of shape and measure how it influences spatial reflexive attention. Using known neurophysiological constr | National Science Foundation | 8/30/2009 |
| WILLIAM MARSH RICE UNIVERSITY | $252,199 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The majority of biological processes such as differentiation, growth, development and transformation are under tight control of cellular signaling systems. But detailed mechanisms of how cells decide when and where to execute these processes remains one o
This spending item is part of a $529,048 allocation.
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National Science Foundation | 7/20/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON SYSTEM | $245,527 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) - The Principle Investigator (PI) will acquire a liquid chromatography time-of-flight mass spectrometer, equipped with an electrospray ionization source (ESI). Because of this equipment, the PI and his two Co-Pis will | National Science Foundation | 8/17/2010 |
| WILLIAM MARSH RICE UNIVERSITY | $237,339 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support All animals rely on the integration of sensory, postural and environmental information to generate complex motor behaviors such as swimming, diving or flying. This collaborative project will study how the nervous system transforms information gathered by | National Science Foundation | 7/13/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON SYSTEM | $210,773 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The scaling of body parts is the quintessential feature of animal body form. Within species, organs need to be correctly proportioned to the body for the organism to function; larger individuals require larger hearts, longer limbs, etc., whereas smaller i | National Science Foundation | 7/28/2009 |
| WILLIAM MARSH RICE UNIVERSITY | $209,899 |
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 the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (lead institution) and the
This spending item is part of a $1,226,982 allocation.
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National Science Foundation | 7/20/2009 |
| METHODIST HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE, THE | $200,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Our overarching goal is to develop mobileWARP as a community platform for mobile wireless research and education in next-generation networks. We envision mobileWARP devices to achieve data rates of 100+ Mbps, support interactive real-time user application | National Science Foundation | 9/14/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON SYSTEM | $175,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Chemically-amplified resists are required for high-throughput patterning of integrated circuits, but recent experimental and theoretical reports suggest that these systems cannot simultaneously achieve the required resolution, sensitivity, and line edge r | National Science Foundation | 7/19/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON SYSTEM | $175,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The research objective of this BRIGE award is to study the colloidal electrohydrodynamics in dielectrophoresis (DEP)-directed fluidic assembly involving many (hundreds of) nanoscale entities. The nanoentity motion and the flow field driven by DEP will be | National Science Foundation | 7/19/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON SYSTEM | $173,357 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The role of large strike-slip faults in the evolution of the Himalayan-Tibetan orogen is a topic of continued debate, with considerable focus on the Altyn Tagh and Karakorum fault systems. Two primary families of models have emerged regarding the importan | National Science Foundation | 7/28/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON SYSTEM | $152,772 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The Principle Investigator (PI) will study the generic behaviors of periodically forced Hopf oscillators, based on a more general form, in the analysis of the mammalian auditory system. This includes gaining an understanding of the implication of multipl | National Science Foundation | 6/09/2009 |
| HI-Z TECHNOLOGY, INC. | $150,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support STTR. Phase I Materials for Sustainability | National Science Foundation | 6/17/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON SYSTEM | $149,999 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support There is a growing need for wireless networks that can sustain high data rates, are robust to interference, make efficient use of battery resources, and offer secure communications. This project introduces cooperative beamforming (CB), a novel technique t | National Science Foundation | 9/03/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON SYSTEM | $149,652 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This engineering education research award to the University of Houston in collaboration with Texas Southern University will employ researchers to develop a general framework for remote laboratory experiments with the goal of making access and use independ | National Science Foundation | 8/04/2009 |
| WILLIAM MARSH RICE UNIVERSITY | $144,465 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support During the Cenozoic, southwestern North America underwent a shift from Farallon subduction to the present Pacific - North American strike-slip plate boundary, the San Andreas fault system (SAF). As a result, much of the southwestern U.S. experienced exten | National Science Foundation | 6/24/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON SYSTEM | $138,991 |
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.
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National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| WILLIAM MARSH RICE UNIVERSITY | $134,018 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This research investigates the ways that citizens and policy makers attend to stimulus funds under the Recovery Act of 2009. The research develops new methods to estimate the impact of stimulus funds on the perceptions of citizens and the choices of local | National Science Foundation | 6/15/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON SYSTEM | $116,550 | 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 |
| WILLIAM MARSH RICE UNIVERSITY | $100,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Many of the mineral resources necessary for modern society are found in the continental crust, particularly in the form of ores. Ore formation requires trace metals from the crust to be scavenged, redistributed and then re-deposited, processes which in so | National Science Foundation | 6/15/2009 |
| IONWERKS, INC. | $99,949 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project is to develop a secondary electron detector which can be co-axially mounted with a micro-focused ion beam. Backscattered neutral atoms (and ions) and secondary electrons will be analyzed to give a me | National Science Foundation | 6/01/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON SYSTEM | $85,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Multi-functional and periodically-operated catalytic reactors are emerging, particularly in environmental and energy related applications. A common thread these catalytic reactors is the complex nonlinear interactions of multiple chemical and transport pr | National Science Foundation | 8/27/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON SYSTEM | $78,791 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The investigator and her colleagues consider a novel high order adaptive semi-Lagrangian approach for kinetic plasma simulations. The major challenge of k
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National Science Foundation | 7/10/2009 |
| STRESS ENGINEERING SERVICES, INC. | $75,000 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support ANDRILL (ANtarctic geological DRILLing) is an international, multidisciplinary program designed to investigate Antarctica's role in Cenozoic global environmental change. After two successful drilling projects, ANDRILL proposes to move northeastward and ou
This spending item is part of a $2,684,370 allocation.
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National Science Foundation | 8/19/2009 |
| WILLIAM MARSH RICE UNIVERSITY | $62,362 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Accurate predictions of community and ecosystem responses to climate change will require identifying not only the direct effects of altered climate on species, but also the indirect effects that occur through biotic interactions or as a result of species | National Science Foundation | 7/13/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS M D ANDERSON | $56,873 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This grant supports research in adapting and optimizing Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods to compute Bayesian models on large data sets resident on secondary storage, exploiting database systems techniques. The work will seek to optimize computations, pres | National Science Foundation | 7/30/2009 |
| WILLIAM MARSH RICE UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This Small Business Technology Transfer Phase I program is developing new nanostructured materials for dry adhesives. Adhesives are materials that can adhere to a surface or bond two items together. Some modern adhesives are very strong and are becoming i
This spending item is part of a $149,975 allocation.
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National Science Foundation | 6/15/2009 |
| TEXAS SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY | $49,970 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Collaborative Research: Develop Next Generation unified Framework for Remote Laboratory | National Science Foundation | 8/04/2009 |
| WILLIAM MARSH RICE UNIVERSITY | $49,504 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Accurate predictions of community and ecosystem responses to climate change will require identifying not only the direct effects of altered climate on species, but also the indirect effects that occur through biotic interactions or as a result of species
This spending item is part of a $63,379 allocation.
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National Science Foundation | 7/13/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON SYSTEM | $25,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (public Law 111-5). It supports a workshop at the University of Houston, built around the theme, Energy Capitals: Local Impact, Global Influence. The workshop brings together en | National Science Foundation | 7/06/2009 |