Grant List
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Neeman\n\nThis award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). \n\nThis OK Inter-campus and Intra-campus Cyber Connectivity (RII C2) project would be led by the University of Oklahoma Norman Campus to benefit the entire state.\n\nIntellectual Merit\nThrough the Oklahoma Optical Initiative (OOI), the OK RII C2 project plans to facilitate the ability to provision a substantial number of dedicated high performance connections, both within Oklahoma and to national and international networks (e.g., Internet2, NLR). OOI would transform Oklahoma's existing research ring from routed to optical, leveraging existing infrastructure while advancing optical switching components to a new level, facilitating substantial improvement in reliability, robustness, availability and potentially bandwidth, as well as enabling the ability to provision dedicated lambdas. This initiative will leverage extant and emerging investments by OneNet and University of Oklahoma (OU). \n\nIndividual Oklahoma institutions will achieve substantial connectivity transformations, so they can take advantage of OOI. In particular: \n(a) OU's supercomputer will have its world-facing network connectivity upgraded to 10 Gbps (10X increase);\n(b) OSU (Oklahoma State University) will be upgraded to 10 Gbps intra-campus (10x increase), from its current 1 Gbps intra-campus (but 10 Gbps ring-facing); \n(c) University of Tulsa will be upgraded to 1 Gbps (5X increase), for research use only, at no upcharge; \n(d) Langston University (LU) bandwidth for High Energy Physics (HEP) projects will be increased to 10 Gbps (100X increase), at no upcharge; \n(e) Noble bandwidth will be increased to 250 Mbps (5X increase) via a fiber Indefeasible Right to Use agreement, at no upcharge; \n(f) Rural and nonmetro connectivity will be improved, via redeploying extant optical components from the research ring to OneNet's remote hubsites. \n(g) The Oklahoma Telepresence Initiative will make High Definition telepresence available to all higher education campuses in Oklahoma.\n\nOklahoma currently has an RII Track 1 on bioenergy and an RII Track 2 on ecoinformatics. The Track 1, a collaboration among Oklahoma State University, the University of Oklahoma and the Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation (Noble), isn't a large consumer of network connectivity, but Noble currently is at only 45 Mbps, expected to be inadequate for emerging needs; the Track1 also includes the Oklahoma Cyberinfrastructure Initiative (OCII), which provides CI resources to 540 users at 24 institutions (including 11 of Oklahoma's 13 public universities), mostly without usage charges. The Track 2, a collaboration among OU, OSU, the University of Kansas and Kansas State University, uses substantial data, with constant collection and transformation of NASA data made available from a web portal. \n\nOther Data-Intensive Projects include: \n(a) Oklahoma has been a longstanding leader in meteorology research, especially in real time forecasting of severe storms, including: the Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms; the Linked Environment for Atmospheric Discovery collaboration (NSF Large Information Technology Research); development of the Advanced Regional Prediction System as an NSF Science and Technology Center and now a key developer of the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model; a just-awarded NSF Petascale Applications grant for Ensemble Kalman Filtering on the NSF's Blue Waters multi-petaflops system. \n(b) For the past 6 years, Oklahoma's DOE EPSCoR has supported a High Energy Physics collaboration among OU, OSU and LU, Oklahoma's only Historically Black University. In addition, OU and LU, with two other institutions, form the NSF-funded ATLAS Southwest Tier2 Center. At OU, HEP projects are expected to consume roughly 5 Gbps starting in 2010; at LU, campus networking capability is inadequate for LU's growing computing and data responsibilities. \n(c) The OU and OSU HPC centers support dozens of research teams. \n(d) The state's Science & Technology (S&T) plan includes bioenergy, plant science, weather and weather sensors, plus other areas that are supported under OCII but not called out in this RII C2 proposal.\n\nBroader Impacts\nThe Oklahoma Networking Mentorship Program will provide networking professionals from OU and OneNet to institutions across the state (20 institutions have expressed interest), to deliver presentations on the practicalities of the networking profession and job shadowing opportunities, both physical and virtual. In addition, each of the science projects described has its own extensive education program, Oklahoma Cyber-infrastructure Initiative (OCII) has its longstanding and successful SiPE education program, and Oklahoma EPSCoR has comprehensive educational and outreach programs, links to economic development and to initiatives designed to enhance public awareness of the importance of science.\n\nK-12 students and teachers are being exposed to cutting-edge science and CI through summer technology academies, mobile science vehicles, and teacher training workshops. Undergraduate student research experiences in industry and academia are supported and talented students are being recruited into bioenergy based graduate programs. Workshops are being geared towards the education, training and integration of CI in the outreach and research components of Oklahoma's RII projects. Conferences to encourage multidisciplinary, multi-campus collaborations and to enhance faculty competitiveness in future grant submissions are being supported. An entrepreneurial workshop, a business plan competition for students along with commercialization vouchers to assess the commercial potential of researcher's inventions would foster the spirit of entrepreneurship of both students and faculty. \n\nAlong with publications, website and wiki, outcomes of this RII C2 project are proposed to be disseminated via the Oklahoma Supercomputing Symposium, which in 8 years has had over 2000 attendees from 84 academic institutions in 23 states and Puerto Rico (32 in Oklahoma and 19 in 12 other EPSCoR jurisdictions), including PhD-, masters- and bachelors-granting universities, community colleges, career techs, a high school and public school systems, as well as 79 private companies, 29 government agencies (21 in Oklahoma) and 13 non-governmental organizations.\n\nRII education outreach initiatives embrace the inclusion of underrepresented groups and women, and strengthen competitiveness and diversity through collaboration with LU (Oklahoma's HBCU) and tribal college, facilitating transition from high school to college, providing culture-attuned counseling support, and promoting enhancement programs to retain students pursuing STEM disciplines. Other initiatives promote effective communication of scientific advances to enhance public awareness of the value of science to the state legislature and the general public. Collectively, the RII investments would position Oklahoma to enhance competitiveness for mainstream NSF funding.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "5005", "attributes": { "award_id": "1005360", "title": "Workshop on spectral problems; July 2010", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS)", "GEOMETRIC ANALYSIS" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 17948, "first_name": "Christopher", "last_name": "Stark", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2010-05-15", "end_date": "2011-04-30", "award_amount": 42355, "principal_investigator": { "id": 17951, "first_name": "Carolyn", "last_name": "Gordon", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [ { "id": 386, "ror": "https://ror.org/049s0rh22", "name": "Dartmouth College", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "NH", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [ { "id": 17949, "first_name": "Alexander H", "last_name": "Barnett", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, { "id": 17950, "first_name": "Peter A", "last_name": "Perry", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "awardee_organization": { "id": 386, "ror": "https://ror.org/049s0rh22", "name": "Dartmouth College", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "NH", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "Abstract\n\nAward: DMS-1005360\nPrincipal Investigator: Carolyn S. Gordon, Alexander Barnett, Peter A. Perry\n\nA week-long International Conference on Spectral Geometry will be held at Dartmouth College July 19--23, 2010. The primary themes of the conference will be Quantum Unique Ergodicity, which addresses the behavior of the highly excited states in the quantization of ergodic Hamiltonian systems, and Inverse Spectral Geometry, which asks the extent to which spectral data associated with the Laplacian or other natural operators encode the geometry of a Riemannian manifold. In addition to spectral problems on Riemannian manifolds, there will be a secondary focus on the related topic of quantum graphs, in which the one-dimensional Laplacian acts along edges, and waves scatter at vertices.\n\nBoth quantum unique ergodicity and inverse spectral geometry are areas of intense research activity in mathematics, bridging geometry, analysis and number theory, and both have strong ties to physics. By bringing together experts and young researchers with various perspectives and expertise, the conference will promote new collaborations and interactions and contribute to the advancement of research in these areas. The conference will be preceded by a two-day intensive workshop, aimed at graduate students and recent Ph.D.'s, to prepare for the conference themes.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "5025", "attributes": { "award_id": "1003441", "title": "Collaborative Research: Lipid Bilayers and Interfacially Active Peptides", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS)", "BIOMATERIALS PROGRAM" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 17993, "first_name": "Aleksandr", "last_name": "Simonian", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2010-07-15", "end_date": "2014-06-30", "award_amount": 420000, "principal_investigator": { "id": 17995, "first_name": "Kalina", "last_name": "Hristova", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [ { "id": 344, "ror": "https://ror.org/00za53h95", "name": "Johns Hopkins University", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "MD", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [ { "id": 17994, "first_name": "Peter C", "last_name": "Searson", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "awardee_organization": { "id": 344, "ror": "https://ror.org/00za53h95", "name": "Johns Hopkins University", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "MD", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "ID: MPS/DMR/BMAT(7623) 1003441\t PI: Hristova, Kalina ORG: Johns Hopkins University \nID: MPS/DMR/BMAT(7623) 1003411 PI: Wimley, William ORG: Tulane University \n\nTitle: Collaborative Research: Lipid Bilayers and Interfacially Active Peptide\n\nINTELLECTUAL MERIT: Interfacially active peptides bind to bilayer membranes and drive the rearrangement of lipids. There are two different outcomes of this interfacial activity, either (1) bilayer destabilization leading to leakage of solutes through the membrane, or (2) peptide translocation without significant solute leakage. However, it is not known which factors determine these two very different outcomes. Because a mechanistic understanding is still lacking, it is not currently possible to predict how a particular peptide will interact with a lipid bilayer. In this proposal, the PIs have selected 19 peptides from within three families: interfacially active peptides, translocating peptides, and membrane inactive peptides. These peptide families have been identified using a high throughput, orthogonal screen of 13,000 peptides. The selected peptides will be characterized in terms of their binding to bilayers, disposition in bilayers, and effects on bilayer electrical properties. Specifically, the PIs will characterize the disposition of peptides from the three families (leakage-inducing, translocating, and inactive) in lipid bilayers using neutron reflectivity and diffraction. In a second line of attack they will characterize the electrical response of supported bilayers to the three families of peptides (leakage-inducing, translocating, and inactive) using electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS). These experiments will be performed at known bound peptide concentrations guided by the outcome of preliminary work.\n\nBROADER IMPACTS: The scientific broader impacts lie in the capacity of this project to identify correlations between the chemical structure of interfacially active peptides and their mode of action. Understanding of these correlations will then permit design of new peptides that may have therapeutic or scientific applications. The project will sponsor student exchanges between Tulane and Johns Hopkins. In particular, a six month visit to Johns Hopkins by a graduate student from Tulane and summer visits by New Orleans high school students and Tulane undergraduates are planned. The intention is to introduce the students from New Orleans to materials science as a discipline, given that there are no materials science departments at the New Orleans universities. The laboratories at both institutions will include undergraduates on the research teams in keeping with long standing practice. The Johns Hopkins group will collaborate with the JHU Women in Science and Engineering program to reach out to female high school students in the Baltimore area in an effort to interest them in careers in science and engineering.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "5024", "attributes": { "award_id": "1003411", "title": "Collaborative Research: Lipid Bilayers and Interfacially Active Peptides", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS)", "BIOMATERIALS PROGRAM" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 17988, "first_name": "Aleksandr", "last_name": "Simonian", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2010-07-15", "end_date": "2014-06-30", "award_amount": 224157, "principal_investigator": { "id": 17989, "first_name": "William", "last_name": "Wimley", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [ { "id": 305, "ror": "https://ror.org/04vmvtb21", "name": "Tulane University", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "LA", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 305, "ror": "https://ror.org/04vmvtb21", "name": "Tulane University", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "LA", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "ID: MPS/DMR/BMAT(7623) 1003441\t PI: Hristova, Kalina ORG: Johns Hopkins University \nID: MPS/DMR/BMAT(7623) 1003411 PI: Wimley, William ORG: Tulane University \n\nTitle: Collaborative Research: Lipid Bilayers and Interfacially Active Peptide\n\nINTELLECTUAL MERIT: Interfacially active peptides bind to bilayer membranes and drive the rearrangement of lipids. There are two different outcomes of this interfacial activity, either (1) bilayer destabilization leading to leakage of solutes through the membrane, or (2) peptide translocation without significant solute leakage. However, it is not known which factors determine these two very different outcomes. Because a mechanistic understanding is still lacking, it is not currently possible to predict how a particular peptide will interact with a lipid bilayer. In this proposal, the PIs have selected 19 peptides from within three families: interfacially active peptides, translocating peptides, and membrane inactive peptides. These peptide families have been identified using a high throughput, orthogonal screen of 13,000 peptides. The selected peptides will be characterized in terms of their binding to bilayers, disposition in bilayers, and effects on bilayer electrical properties. Specifically, the PIs will characterize the disposition of peptides from the three families (leakage-inducing, translocating, and inactive) in lipid bilayers using neutron reflectivity and diffraction. In a second line of attack they will characterize the electrical response of supported bilayers to the three families of peptides (leakage-inducing, translocating, and inactive) using electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS). These experiments will be performed at known bound peptide concentrations guided by the outcome of preliminary work.\n\nBROADER IMPACTS: The scientific broader impacts lie in the capacity of this project to identify correlations between the chemical structure of interfacially active peptides and their mode of action. Understanding of these correlations will then permit design of new peptides that may have therapeutic or scientific applications. The project will sponsor student exchanges between Tulane and Johns Hopkins. In particular, a six month visit to Johns Hopkins by a graduate student from Tulane and summer visits by New Orleans high school students and Tulane undergraduates are planned. The intention is to introduce the students from New Orleans to materials science as a discipline, given that there are no materials science departments at the New Orleans universities. The laboratories at both institutions will include undergraduates on the research teams in keeping with long standing practice. The Johns Hopkins group will collaborate with the JHU Women in Science and Engineering program to reach out to female high school students in the Baltimore area in an effort to interest them in careers in science and engineering.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "4990", "attributes": { "award_id": "1002495", "title": "Evolution of Ocean Observing Systems: Building an Infrastructure for Science", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Geosciences (GEO)", "OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 17915, "first_name": "Kandace", "last_name": "Binkley", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2010-01-15", "end_date": "2012-03-31", "award_amount": 10000, "principal_investigator": { "id": 17916, "first_name": "Albin", "last_name": "Gasiewski", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [ { "id": 1363, "ror": "", "name": "Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers, Inc.", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "NJ", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 1363, "ror": "", "name": "Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers, Inc.", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "NJ", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "The PI requests funding to partially support a one-day GEOSS workshop entitled \"Evolution of Ocean Observing Systems building an infrastructure for science\" that will be held Seattle, WA, USA, on 19 September 2010. The theme of the workshop follows the need to understand the capabilities of the major ocean observing systems to be used within the GEOSS era, and specifically new and existing cabled observing systems and their ability to address the data and information needs for science. This workshop is organized by the IEEE Committee on Earth Observations (ICEO) as part of an ongoing international series of GEOSS workshops that focus on data, science, and user themes pertinent to GEOSS. \n\nThe IEEE GEOSS workshops focus on development of observing systems for Earth science and the system-of-systems engineering communities that form a core intellectual resource for integrating complex systems. The emphasis on ocean observation systems in this specific workshop serves to direct attendees' attention toward key ocean observational challenges and opportunities within the context of both US and global monitoring. The unique format and scope of the GEOSS workshop series serves to ensure that a broad range of data users, scientists, and engineers contribute to the discussions on Earth system models and the use of environmental data. This will be the 40th in the IEEE series of GEOSS workshops, and so follows an established tradition of success in focusing attention within the relevant science, engineering, and user communities around GEOSS issues.\n\nBroader Impacts\n\nThis GEOSS workshop advances the understanding of the Earth and its processes by presenting contemporary issues associated with Earth observation to a broad and international audience, then publicizing the results of in-depth discussions on these issues on the internet for free global access. The benefits of this workshop are thus available globally, both in direct publications and in the impact that this workshop will have on the identification and implementation of GEO tasks. The activity also serves to connect the engineering community more closely with the Earth science modeling and Earth data user communities, thus enhancing an important three-way partnership necessary to see the maximum benefits from Earth observations.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "5109", "attributes": { "award_id": "0969400", "title": "Pierre Auger Project - Observatory's Operating Costs", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS)", "Particle Astrophysics/Cosmic P" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 18211, "first_name": "Jean", "last_name": "Allen", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2010-08-15", "end_date": "2017-01-31", "award_amount": 968451, "principal_investigator": { "id": 18213, "first_name": "James", "last_name": "Cronin", "orcid": null, "emails": "[email protected]", "private_emails": null, "keywords": "[]", "approved": true, "websites": "[]", "desired_collaboration": "", "comments": "", "affiliations": [ { "id": 1368, "ror": "", "name": "Universities Research Association Inc", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "DC", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [ { "id": 18212, "first_name": "Paul", "last_name": "Mantsch", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "awardee_organization": { "id": 1368, "ror": "", "name": "Universities Research Association Inc", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "DC", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "When the Pierre Auger Project was proposed in 1998 the stated scientific objective was \"to discover and understand the source or sources of cosmic rays with energies exceeding 10**19 eV.\" A unique partnership of 17 countries has come together to pursue this science. The Pierre Auger Observatory (PAO), completed in June 2008, has accumulated data since January of 2004, and has already yielded results that are the first crucial steps toward those scientific goals. \n\nThe growing Auger data set will address vital questions in astrophysics and particle physics. The PAO will continue to map the southern sky to strengthen the correlation of the highest energy events with extragalactic sources. A continuously enriched sample of hybrid events with measured longitudinal development will improve our understanding of the cosmic ray composition and features of particle interactions from LHC energies to those well beyond. Resolving the puzzle of apparent excess of muons will benefit from increasing statistics. A precise spectrum measurement in the ankle region with the help of the AMIGA in-fill and the HEAT high elevation telescopes will help determine the transition from galactic to extragalactic sources. Based on hints in the data the search for galactic sources of neutrons and photons may well be fruitful. Finally a search for EeV neutrinos will continue to be of great interest.\n\nThis award will provide partial funding for the continuing operation of the PAO in Argentina. Collaborating countries fund the operations of the Observatory in proportion to the number of senior authors they have on Auger science publications. The US portion of these operating costs is being shared equally by the National Science Foundation and the US Department of Energy.\n\nThe study of the highest energy cosmic rays, the most energetic particles in nature, will have broader impacts on the understanding of particle physics at the highest energies as well as astrophysics. The PAO has been a highly successful venue for the training of students and postdocs. The centerpiece of outreach to Malargüe, Argentina, and other nearby communities, the Auger Visitor Center attracts increasing numbers of visitors, typically 6000 each year with the total now exceeding 45,000 since 2001. The Auger collaboration has sponsored two science fairs and has given numerous lectures in the local communities and schools. The daily public release of about 1% of reconstructed events is being used for school projects in many locations.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "5123", "attributes": { "award_id": "0963491", "title": "ARI-R2: Laboratory and Ancillary Space Upgrade to Support Undergraduate Faculty-Student Research in Physics", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS)", "ACADEMIC RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTU" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 18247, "first_name": "Kathleen", "last_name": "McCloud", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2010-10-01", "end_date": "2013-09-30", "award_amount": 253150, "principal_investigator": { "id": 18252, "first_name": "Thomas", "last_name": "Huber", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [ { "id": 1371, "ror": "https://ror.org/007q4yk54", "name": "Gustavus Adolphus College", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "MN", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [ { "id": 18248, "first_name": "Paul M", "last_name": "Saulnier", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, { "id": 18249, "first_name": "Charles F", "last_name": "Niederriter", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, { "id": 18250, "first_name": "Steven H", "last_name": "Mellema", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, { "id": 18251, "first_name": "Jessie", "last_name": "Petricka", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "awardee_organization": { "id": 1371, "ror": "https://ror.org/007q4yk54", "name": "Gustavus Adolphus College", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "MN", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The award supports the upgrade and renovation of undergraduate research laboratories on the lower level of the 19-year-old F.W. Olin Hall of Science at Gustavus Adolphus College. The proposed renovation will impact all members of the physics department in that it will both enable cutting-edge research and research training in each laboratory and further strengthen the entire physics department research facility. A new cyber-enabled acoustics laboratory and a research laboratory for a new faculty member, dedicated to the cooling and trapping of polar molecules, will play a particularly strategic role in enhancing the research capacity of the physics department and in increasing research training for undergraduate students. Enhanced research capabilities will also provide greater research training opportunities for students in physics, chemistry and general education. Anticipated collaborations with research universities and other liberal arts colleges will broaden the scope and level of the department's research, and likewise provide Gustavus students with opportunities to contribute to and benefit from well-known research groups.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "5127", "attributes": { "award_id": "0963450", "title": "Renovation of Scientific Research Laboratory Facilities at Duquesne University", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS)", "ACADEMIC RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTU" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 18260, "first_name": "Katharine", "last_name": "Covert", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2010-09-15", "end_date": "2014-08-31", "award_amount": 1692880, "principal_investigator": { "id": 18263, "first_name": "David", "last_name": "Seybert", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [ { "id": 589, "ror": "https://ror.org/02336z538", "name": "Duquesne University", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "PA", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [ { "id": 18261, "first_name": "Jeffry D", "last_name": "Madura", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, { "id": 18262, "first_name": "Philip E", "last_name": "Auron", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "awardee_organization": { "id": 589, "ror": "https://ror.org/02336z538", "name": "Duquesne University", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "PA", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).\n\nThis project will renovate and upgrade specific existing research laboratories and facilities in the Richard King Mellon Hall of Science at Duquesne University. The renovation will include: plumbing upgrades; replacement of worn bench tops and casework; replacement of outdated and inefficient hoods; upgrade/replacement of inadequate existing HVAC; and most importantly safety upgrades.\n\nThe proposed renovations will result in more efficient and safer research environments in the individual research laboratories of six investigators as well as in a shared facility. These research groups, with funding through the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, and the Department of Energy, are studying a diverse array of significant chemical and biological problems, including: the generation of metallated nitriles, a study of the role of metal ions in biological processes, the quantitative determination of lipid species in biological samples, metrology problems related to environmental and homeland security, developing an understanding of the physiology and biochemistry of bacteria that transform metal and metalloids, and the study of molecular evolution in nonhuman primate genes. \n\nEvery research lab included in the proposed renovation has undergraduate researchers as part of the research group. A dynamic summer research program typically brings 40-45 undergraduate researchers to Duquesne for a 10-week intensive research experience each summer. An NSF-funded Research Experiences for Undergraduates program is in its 6th year of providing undergraduate students with a summer research experience integrating computational and experimental approaches to research problems. Undergraduates are supported through University funding to enable and encourage presentation of their research at national meetings. For the past 5 years, an active Project SEED summer program has brought 19 economically disadvantaged high school students, more than half of them African American, to the Duquesne campus for enriching summer research experiences. It is anticipated that both the students in REU program and students in SEED program will greatly benefit from the renovated laboratories.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "5105", "attributes": { "award_id": "0956417", "title": "Collaborative Proposal: Harnessing the Power of Herbaria to Understand the Changing Flora of California: A Biodiversity Hotspot in Peril", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Biological Sciences (BIO)", "BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH COLLECTION" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 18199, "first_name": "Reed", "last_name": "Beaman", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2010-09-01", "end_date": "2017-08-31", "award_amount": 567862, "principal_investigator": { "id": 18201, "first_name": "Lucinda", "last_name": "McDade", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [ { "id": 1367, "ror": "https://ror.org/01n260e81", "name": "Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "CA", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [ { "id": 18200, "first_name": "Mare", "last_name": "Nazaire", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "awardee_organization": { "id": 1367, "ror": "https://ror.org/01n260e81", "name": "Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "CA", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "The purpose of this project is to compile and provide information (e.g., species name, location, habitat, and flowering time) from California-collected vascular plant specimens held at 19 herbaria in California and at Harvard University (repository of many older California specimens). The plants targeted are those that dominate California habitats and those most imperiled by threats to biodiversity (including climate change). Specimen information will be available online at the Consortium of California Herbaria (CCH) Web portal (http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/consortium). The project will also accomplish the seamless provision of data on California plants held by the museums of SEINet (Southwest Environmental Information Network) via the CCH web site as a step toward building regional and national consortia.\n\t\nThis project provides tangible benefits to the public, students of all levels, and the research community. Specimen data will be downloadable so that anyone can use the information to pursue interests and questions (e.g., understanding current plant distributions, identifying plants of a particular place, predicting future plant migrations). Undergraduate students will be involved extensively with data entry, providing them with skills and training applicable to future professional pursuits. This project is a major step toward building a United States virtual plant museum that provides information on the distribution of plants nationwide.\n\nThe images and digitized data from this project will be integrated into the online national resource as outlined in the community strategic plan available at http://digbiocol.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/digistratplanfinaldraft.pdf.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "5092", "attributes": { "award_id": "0956307", "title": "Collaborative Proposal: Harnessing the Power of Herbaria to Understand the Changing Flora of California: A Biodiversity Hotspot in Peril", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Biological Sciences (BIO)", "BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH COLLECTION" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 18179, "first_name": "Reed", "last_name": "Beaman", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2010-09-01", "end_date": "2016-08-31", "award_amount": 111327, "principal_investigator": { "id": 18180, "first_name": "Ellen", "last_name": "Dean", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [ { "id": 276, "ror": "", "name": "University of California-Davis", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "CA", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 276, "ror": "", "name": "University of California-Davis", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "CA", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "The purpose of this project is to compile and provide information (e.g., species name, location, habitat, and flowering time) from California-collected vascular plant specimens held at 19 herbaria in California and at Harvard University (repository of many older California specimens). The plants targeted are those that dominate California habitats and those most imperiled by threats to biodiversity (including climate change). Specimen information will be available online at the Consortium of California Herbaria (CCH) Web portal (http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/consortium). The project will also accomplish the seamless provision of data on California plants held by the museums of SEINet (Southwest Environmental Information Network) via the CCH web site as a step toward building regional and national consortia.\n\t\nThis project provides tangible benefits to the public, students of all levels, and the research community. Specimen data will be downloadable so that anyone can use the information to pursue interests and questions (e.g., understanding current plant distributions, identifying plants of a particular place, predicting future plant migrations). Undergraduate students will be involved extensively with data entry, providing them with skills and training applicable to future professional pursuits. This project is a major step toward building a United States virtual plant museum that provides information on the distribution of plants nationwide.\n\nThe images and digitized data from this project will be integrated into the online national resource as outlined in the community strategic plan available at http://digbiocol.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/digistratplanfinaldraft.pdf.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } } ], "meta": { "pagination": { "page": 1385, "pages": 1397, "count": 13961 } } }