Dane County, Wis., funds by National Science Foundation
Listing $40,562,661.37 in stimulus funds from National Science Foundation for Dane
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.
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| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $5,000,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The Synchrotron Radiation Center (SRC) is a national research laboratory operated by the Graduate School of the University of Wisconsin - Madison with funding from the National Science Foundation Division of Materials Research. The SRC uses an electron st | National Science Foundation | 7/29/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $2,700,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Dependable and effective access to large amounts of sustained computing power is strategic to scientific discovery in a vast range of disciplines. An ever expanding number of science communities worldwide rely on Condor software tools to harness the power | National Science Foundation | 6/01/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $1,757,162 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support With this award, a Plasma Dynamo Facility for investigating self-generation of magnetic fields and related processes in a large, weakly magnetized, fast flowing, and hot (conducting) plasma will be built . When completed, a major new, flexible plasma devi | National Science Foundation | 8/24/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $1,297,349 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The University of Wisconsin Algebraic Geometry and Number Theory Research Training Grant will integrate the research activities of this core part of the faculty into a unified training program involving postdoctoral faculty, graduate students, and undergr | National Science Foundation | 6/12/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $1,248,478 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). One of the most outstanding questions in astronomy and astrophysics addresses the origin and evolution of the cosmic accelerators that produce the highest en
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National Science Foundation | 4/20/2010 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $1,128,000 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The LISSARD project (Lake and Ice Stream Subglacial Access Research Drilling) is one of three research components of the WISSARD integrative initiative (Whil
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National Science Foundation | 8/25/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $1,128,000 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 11-5). The RAGES project (Robotic Access to Grounding zones for Exploration and Science) is one of three research components of the WISSARD (Whillans Ice Stream Subg
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National Science Foundation | 8/21/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $1,012,992 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The transmission cycle of many important infectious agents includes not only the hosts but also their environments. After infection of a host with a pathoge | National Science Foundation | 7/14/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $1,000,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This grant provides fellowship support to individual students who have applied to the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program. The funding is awarded directly to students for general support in the Biological, Physical and Social Sciences. This award is | National Science Foundation | 8/12/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $807,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Intellectual Merit: Protein-protein interactions help to organize complex pathways of intercellular communication, promote efficient handling of essential nutrients within cells, and control the action of enzymes utilized by all living organisms. This pro | National Science Foundation | 6/04/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $802,085 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Technical. The goal of this focused research group (FRG) proposal is to achieve an atomic-level understanding of the growth and novel properties of switchable oxide hetero-interfaces, with advanced properties and new functionalities. The idea is to create
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National Science Foundation | 6/18/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $700,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This project, supported by the Experimental Physical Chemistry Program and conducted in the laboratory of Professor F. Fleming Crim at the University of Wisc | National Science Foundation | 7/19/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $693,866 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Sources and sinks of carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) in forests, wetlands, and lakes significantly alter the impact of fossil fuel emissions on the a | National Science Foundation | 8/04/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $603,801 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The 8000-ft deep Homestake Mine in Lead, SD is the proposed site for a Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory (DUSEL). It is being operated today as the Sanford Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory (SUSEL) while it is being converte | National Science Foundation | 8/07/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $600,357 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Interstellar and intergalactic gas is pervaded by relativistic charged particles known as cosmic rays, which account for a significant fraction of the energy density in the gas. A fluid theory of cosmic rays has been developed in which collisions with tin | National Science Foundation | 6/17/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $584,822 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The Antarctic Meteorological Research Center, located within the Space Science and Engineering Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is focused on Antarctic meteorological data stewardship and observational research. Activities that are a part of | National Science Foundation | 6/01/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $582,405 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The objective of this research is to develop novel/improved methods for statistical model building and risk factor estimation when the training set has complex continuous and discrete attribute variables and including, but not limited to extremely long at | National Science Foundation | 6/25/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $562,307 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). With support from the Chemistry Research Instrumentation and Facilities: Multiuser program (CRIF:MU), the Department of Chemistry at the University of Wisco | National Science Foundation | 8/02/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $537,701 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Interactions between browsing mammals and trees play key roles in shaping North American forest ecosystems. The nature of these interactions is likely govern | National Science Foundation | 8/18/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $519,443 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The support of animals in ecosystems ultimately comes from two sources: primary production within an ecosystem (e.g. newly grown plant material) or primary | National Science Foundation | 7/14/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $510,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Solar energy is the most likely global solution to the world?s long-range energy needs. Solar energy can be either directly converted to electricity or catalytically converted into fuels that store the energy for later use. One of the most promising metho | National Science Foundation | 8/07/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $499,998 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support 'This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).' In the 21st century, the dominant computing platform has shifted to multicore chips that implement cache-coherent shared memory and run multi-threaded app | National Science Foundation | 7/30/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $496,260 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The objectives of this Grant Opportunity for Academic Liaison with Industry (GOALI) research project are to improve understanding of pulsed laser micro polishing and to develop strategies for delivering pulsed laser energy to three-dimensional micro-sized | National Science Foundation | 6/17/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $466,696 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This project involves measuring formaldehyde and alpha-dicarbonyl (mainly glyoxal) concentration gradients and fluxes within and above the canopy at Blodgett Forest in the Sierra Nevada of California using state of the art instrumentation as part of the m | National Science Foundation | 6/05/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $461,109 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support A significant missing component in paleo-reconstructions of GIS behavior has been the lack of an unambiguous ice sheet tracer. The development of such a tracer for the Greenland Ice Sheet (GIS) retreat and aerial extent is proposed using terrigenous prove | National Science Foundation | 9/11/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $450,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This CAREER proposal focuses on developing an integrated research and education program in biofuels which will aid in enhancing the conversion efficiency of biomass to ethanol, promoting the commercialization of cellulose ethanol, and training scientists | National Science Foundation | 7/24/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $450,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support INTELLECTUAL MERIT: The chemical composition of bioactive silicate bioceramics or glasses the leached SiCa concentrations strongly influence the complex process of osteointegration by affecting the texture of the amorphous silicacarbonated hydroxyapatite | National Science Foundation | 6/05/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $449,879 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The basic hardware technology that is used to build microprocessors and the applications we run on them are are radically changing. Hardware building blocks are becoming increasingly brittle and error-prone, leading to a fundamentally unpredictable hardwa | National Science Foundation | 6/22/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $435,013 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Problems of overlapping spectra, photobleaching, low signal to noise and light scatter pose serious limitations on what can be achieved in practice in imaging tissues by fluorescence. Over the last 10-15 years nonlinear optical microscopy techniques have | National Science Foundation | 3/02/2010 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $430,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The research objective of this Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) project is to provide a stochastic optimization modeling framework for disease screening diagnosis. The proposal particularly focuses on two broad areas of research in breast cancer | National Science Foundation | 6/30/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $428,021 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Dr. Townsend will undertake an exploration of the incidence, characteristics and evolutionary impact of wave transport by oscillation modes in massive stars | National Science Foundation | 5/21/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $421,158 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award supports a field campaign that will expand the Arctic Observing Network (AON) by adding cloud, atmosphere, and precipitation measurements, and associated higher-order data products, to Summit, Greenland, at the top of the Greenland Ice Sheet. T | National Science Foundation | 7/02/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $406,696 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Awardee: UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM Doing Business As Name: University of Wisconsin-Madison PD/PI: Marzena J Rostek 608-262-3822 [email protected] co-PD(s)/co-PI(s) Marek Weretka Award Date: 06/15/2009 Estimated Total Award Amount: $40 | National Science Foundation | 6/15/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $403,153 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The interstellar medium (ISM) plays a vital role in the ongoing cycle of stellar birth and death, and galactic evolution. However the role of interstellar matter, from how its properties are influenced by stars to how, in turn, its properties influence st | National Science Foundation | 8/26/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $400,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This CAREER project is built on the PI's ultimate research vision to develop accessible technologies to address significant challenges limiting stem cell discovery. The significant challenge addressed is unraveling the mechanism(s) by which stem cells fus | National Science Foundation | 7/24/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $400,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Digital communication technology is central to the establishment and enhancement of global on-line communities. Increasingly, data networks convey delay-sensitive streaming content for voice, video, control, and interactive applications; data with charact | National Science Foundation | 6/05/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $393,523 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Funding is provided to further test the early anthropogenic hypothesis (EAH) that agriculture produced greenhouse-gas emissions large enough to reverse natural downward trends in carbon dioxide and methane concentrations several thousand years ago by driv | National Science Foundation | 5/21/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $381,472 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009(Public Law 111-5). The project funds a Small Grant for Training and Research in Neuroscience and Public Policy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison). Three graduat | National Science Foundation | 7/07/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $375,001 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The proposed PRE-Depression Investigation of Cloud-systems in the Tropics (PREDICT) is a focused observational field campaign to investigate both the structure and evolution of tropospheric wave-like disturbances in the tropics and sub-tropics and the sub | National Science Foundation | 9/14/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $374,774 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The influence of massive stars and accreting black holes on the surrounding interstellar medium, termed 'feedback', has been regarded as an important ingred | National Science Foundation | 7/31/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $360,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Optics and optical tools have played a key role in the scientific development over the last century. In this project, the next generation of optical tools is developed. Specifically, a method to construct the world's first arbitrary optical waveform gener | National Science Foundation | 6/05/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $352,147 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This project focuses on process control and variation reduction issues of the ultrasonic cavitation based nanocomposite fabrication process and targets bringing this process from lab environment to a scale-up industrial environment. The ultrasonic cavitat | National Science Foundation | 6/23/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $350,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Quantum dot (QD) active regions hold potential for realizing extremely high performance semiconductor diode lasers. Unfortunately, these unique features of ideal QD active layers have not been fully realized to date. The most successful approach to date o | National Science Foundation | 6/19/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $326,935 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Much of the land area of Washington, Oregon, and California was added to continental North America during the last 200 million years. Exactly how this dominantly oceanic lithosphere accreted to the continent is not well understood, although it is clear th | National Science Foundation | 6/17/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $326,267 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Animal cells divide themselves by assembling a contractile ring of actin myosin around the cell equator which constricts the cell surface between duplicated chromosome sets at the end of mitosis. Classical experiments suggest that cells 'know' where to bu | National Science Foundation | 7/20/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $325,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support ID: MPS/DMR/BMAT(7623) 0906123 PI: Gopalan, Padma ORG: University of Wisconsin Title: Surface Engineering Strategies for Studying Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells (hMSCs) This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public | National Science Foundation | 8/08/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $310,297 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This funding enables three types of network infrastructure to handle large-scale experiments. One type uses the OpenFlow protocol developed by Stanford University to allow deep programming of Ethernet switches. Another type of GENI-enabled infrastructure
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National Science Foundation | 9/09/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $309,475 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Intellectual merit Protein therapeutics (biopharmaceuticals) are increasingly being used for the treatment of a variety of diseases. Over 165 biopharmaceuticals are currently on the market and hundreds more are in development, representing more than one | National Science Foundation | 6/16/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $306,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Many serious medical conditions, from hemorrhage to coronary artery disease to diabetes, are associated with disruptions in blood flow. It has been observed that dramatic beneficial effects on blood flow arise from addition to blood of low concentrations | National Science Foundation | 8/17/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $300,000 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This funding enables three types of network infrastructure to handle large-scale experiments. One type uses the OpenFlow protocol developed by Stanford University to allow deep programming of Ethernet switches. Another type of GENI-enabled infrastructure
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National Science Foundation | 9/09/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $300,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Though perhaps unfortunate, as a practical matter software is often built with functionality as a primary goal, and security features are only added later, | National Science Foundation | 7/28/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $292,783 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The atmosphere and the ocean are stratified in the density and background flows are often sheared. The variation of density enables the propagation of internal waves - waves in the interior of the fluid - not on its surface. These waves, as they propagate | National Science Foundation | 5/27/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $291,737 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Experimental and theoretical studies of protein aggregation lag considerably behind protein folding studies, because of their much greater complexity. Several researchers have developed molecular dynamics simulations of protein misfolding and aggregation, | National Science Foundation | 6/09/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $286,111 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Relativistic jets are collimated beams of ultra-hot, magnetized plasma, shooting away at very close to the speed of light from black holes and neutron stars. Microquasars are X-ray binaries (neutron stars or black holes in orbit around a normal star) that | National Science Foundation | 9/01/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $284,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). It will provide funds to work on the Pierre Auger Observatory in Malargue, Argentina. The Observatory is the world's largest detector for 'ultra-high energy' | National Science Foundation | 7/31/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $269,953 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support NSF/NCAR C-130 Modernization:To ensure that the NSF/NCAR C-130 remains a premier research platform, able to operate safely for the next 20 years, very important modernization efforts are planned: 1) Replace avionics to be compatible with the next generat
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National Science Foundation | 7/20/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $268,630 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support An integrated investigation to examine distinct, but hydrologically related, subglacial enviroments using a combination of biogeochemical/genomic measurements to answer key questions directly relevant to subglacial hydrologic and sediment biodiversity and
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National Science Foundation | 8/25/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $257,193 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Technical: The objective of this project is to study and understand fundamental phenomena underlying the interaction between the piezoelectric potential and | National Science Foundation | 5/22/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $255,677 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support It is widely recognized that bacterial indicators do not co-occur with infectious viruses, nor do they respond in the same manner to environmental or engineered stressors. Thus, a more appropriate indicator for health risks of infectious viruses is needed | National Science Foundation | 6/23/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $228,189 | 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 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $220,006 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Shallow tectonic earthquakes are driven by instabilities that take place in crustal faults. Earthquake may be thought of as a dynamically running shear crack. Friction and wear at the crack surface determine the stability of the faulted region. The surfac | National Science Foundation | 8/09/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $200,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support 'This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).' This Nanotechnology Undergraduate Education (NUE) in Engineering program entitled 'NUE: A Nanotechnology Certificate Program for Engineering Undergraduate | National Science Foundation | 8/10/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $197,325 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This project involves the analysis of data from a temporary array of 11 three-component, broadband seismic instruments deployed in July 2008 in a 15 km diameter area centered on Katmai Pass, Alaska, supplemented by data from the surrounding Alaska Volcano | National Science Foundation | 7/19/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $191,569 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support 'Network Conflict Theory: Empirically-Based Models of Conflict Dynamics and Effective Conflict Management Strategies': This project aims to develop an empirically derived quantitative and predictive set of models and tools for the analysis of protracted
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National Science Foundation | 8/30/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $182,721 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Under this award, Dr. Snezana Stanimirovic (University of Wisconsin - Madison) will carry out a study of how the hot Galactic atmosphere shapes the evolutio | National Science Foundation | 8/26/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $161,483 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The most dramatic geologic events - such as earthquakes and volcanic eruptions - occur along the margins of the mosaic of plates that cover the surface of t | National Science Foundation | 8/16/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $156,065 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The guiding vision for our center is to adapt, deploy, and support a wide range of general and specific visualization and data analysis capabilities for the national scientific community through a comprehensive, integrated software environment, deployed a
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National Science Foundation | 7/24/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $152,306 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This project will investigate the origin of large, striking landforms that occur in areas of thick loess (sediment formed by deposition of wind-blown dust), in North America, northern China, and central Europe. These landforms may extend for tens of kilom | National Science Foundation | 6/24/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $150,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This project explores problems connected to large scale properties of random matrices and interacting particle systems. The beta-ensemble is a one parameter family of distributions of random points on a line; for specific parameter values it describes the | National Science Foundation | 7/04/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $149,737 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Bacteriology and College of Agricultural and Life Sciences will direct an NSF-funded International Researc | National Science Foundation | 8/17/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $127,590 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Drs. T. Douglas Price and James H. Burton will use support from the National Science Foundation to replace the primary scientific instrument in the Laboratory for Archaeological Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The lab will purchase a new | National Science Foundation | 7/04/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $102,690 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support These grant funds will significantly enhance the subsurface investigation capabilities of the Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey (WGNHS) through the acquisition of borehole imaging equipment. These state-of-the-art geophysical tools collect | National Science Foundation | 4/26/2010 |
| GWC TECHNOLOGIES INC | $100,000 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Label-free biosensor systems utilizing Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR) to detect molecular interactions are an important tool in basic research and drug development. SPR biosensors require a metal-coated surface, and gold is currently the most practical | National Science Foundation | 6/11/2009 |
| NERITES CORPORATION | $99,990 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support SBIR Phase I: Bioadhesive Construct to Augment Rotator Cuff Repair | National Science Foundation | 6/09/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $99,804 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). While the number of women receiving advanced degrees in the geosciences has been rising, the face of scientific leaders in academia remains dominantly male. | National Science Foundation | 8/06/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $89,511 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Lo`ihi is an active submarine volcano and the newest volcano in the Hawaiian Chain. As the only example of the submarine phase of Hawaiian volcanism, Lo`ihi | National Science Foundation | 8/16/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $88,773 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award supports the purchase of a new laser to replace the current laser in the lidar at Eureka, Nunavut, Canada. The installation of the new laser will improve instrument reliability and data quality of an observing system that has been operating as | National Science Foundation | 6/29/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $87,594 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The research objective of this Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) project is to advance the capabilities of micro-transfer printing through a fundamental investigation of the process mechanics that combines experimental characterization and computa
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National Science Foundation | 7/20/2009 |
| LUCIGEN CORPORATION | $67,004 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The goal of this project is an integrated system of diagnosis and biocontrol for Enteric Septicemia of Catfish (ESC) due to Edwardsiella ictaluri, which is the most common pathogen for farmed catfish and is responsible for millions of dollars in losses to
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National Science Foundation | 7/01/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $39,578 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Absolute dates and ages for key geomorphic events in the Midwest U.S. are sorely lacking, mainly because of the paucity of wood in glacial deposits for radiocarbon dating. This coallaborative research project will address the paucity of geochronoligic in | National Science Foundation | 8/05/2009 |