Grant List
Represents Grant table in the DB
GET /v1/grants?page%5Bnumber%5D=1385&sort=-start_date
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Participants at the workshop include leading researchers, junior researchers and graduate students from the fields of low dimensional topology, geometric group theory, and hyperbolic geometry who have a special interest in computational and algorithmic problems in geometry and topology. Specific topics include the structure of low-volume hyperbolic 3- manifolds and the theory of random manifolds. In low-volume hyperbolic 3-manifold theory Gabai-Meyerhoff-Milley introduced the Mom technology to study low volume hyperbolic manifolds. During the conference we will consider how far the techniques can be pushed to provide a clear picture of low volume hyperbolic manifolds. In geometric group theory, the workshop will consider the general role of curvature and combinatorics in decision problems. \n\nMathematicians who study low dimensional topology, geometric group theory, and hyperbolic geometry are concerned about the nature of symmetry. Examples include the symmetries of a snowflake, frieze patterns in architecture, wallpaper and tiling patterns, and symmetries of crystal or lattice structures in chemistry. Computers have become an integral tool in this study, both for proving new results as well as motivating new directions through experiment and calculation. This award will enable leading researchers, graduate students and junior researchers from the US to gather together with researchers from around the world in order to combine methods and techniques to further this research. This activity will help focus the research programs of the next generation of researchers, and will deepen our understanding of the nature of symmetry. This activity supports an ongoing international workshop dedicated to forging bonds between the US mathematics community and an emerging mathematics institute (the Hamilton Mathematics Institute) in the European community.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "5214", "attributes": { "award_id": "0923665", "title": "Collaborative Research: Updating the U.S. Supreme Court Judicial Database", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE)", "LSS-Law And Social Sciences" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 18449, "first_name": "Reginald", "last_name": "Sheehan", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2009-09-01", "end_date": "2013-08-31", "award_amount": 110316, "principal_investigator": { "id": 18450, "first_name": "Theodore", "last_name": "Ruger", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [ { "id": 232, "ror": "https://ror.org/00b30xv10", "name": "University of Pennsylvania", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "PA", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 232, "ror": "https://ror.org/00b30xv10", "name": "University of Pennsylvania", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "PA", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009\n(Public Law 111-5).\"\n\nFor two decades now, virtually all systematic analysis of the contemporary Supreme Court and its members has relied on Harold J. Spaeth's U.S. Supreme Court Judicial Database. This holds for research conducted by social scientists and, increasingly, by legal academics; and it holds for quantitative and qualitative studies, as well as those more descriptive in nature. In fact, several inventories of peer-reviewed journals show that it is the rare article on the Court that derives its data from an alternative source. Monographs published by top presses also regularly rely on the Database, and the many numerical studies of the Court receiving public attention in recent years have made liberal use of the data it houses. Spaeth's product is one of those rare creatures in the law and social science world: an invention that has substantially advanced a large area of study. Without question, the Database has empowered scholars in many disciplines to conduct original, path-breaking research of the highest intellectual merit.\n\nAnd yet, however invaluable the Database, it is now starting to show its age. Along these lines, we see two major sets of issues. First, for many scholars and their students the Database is diffcult to use. Second, the Database|with its emphasis on the modern (post-1946) Court has not kept pace with scholarly interests. Historical institutionalism and its various subsets have pushed scholars to broaden their time horizons. Within the field of public law, analysts have created a veritable cottage industry devoted to studies of the Court of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Even judicial specialists who ground their work in the 21st century are beginning to apply modern social science methodologies to historical data, with the goals of testing theories of institutional development and illuminating current-day practices and patterns. \n\nWith prior support from the National Science Foundation, we have addressed the first concern and brought the Database in line with 21st century technology. We now address address the second issue. Specifically, we broaden the Database's scope by adding many more cases: the 19,675 resolved between 1792, the year of the Court's first published decision and 1946, the earliest year in the current Database. Our hope is that systematic, historical data on the Court will create an even more valuable a public, multi-user Database that will stimulate scholars and their students to explore new avenues of inquiry, as well as to revisit enduring questions that have yet to be addressed with reliable and valid data. In short, the project not only facilitates scholarship of the highest level of intellectual merit; it also has a broader impact on the community of scholars studying the Court by providing a highly reliable, comprehensive, and adaptable Database.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "5215", "attributes": { "award_id": "0919149", "title": "Collaborative Research: Updating the U.S. Supreme Court Judicial Database", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Unknown", "LSS-Law And Social Sciences" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [], "start_date": "2009-09-01", "end_date": "2013-08-31", "award_amount": 259577, "principal_investigator": { "id": 18451, "first_name": "Jeffrey", "last_name": "Segal", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [ { "id": 578, "ror": "", "name": "SUNY at Stony Brook", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "NY", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 578, "ror": "", "name": "SUNY at Stony Brook", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "NY", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009\n(Public Law 111-5).\"\n\nFor two decades now, virtually all systematic analysis of the contemporary Supreme Court and its members has relied on Harold J. Spaeth's U.S. Supreme Court Judicial Database. This holds for research conducted by social scientists and, increasingly, by legal academics; and it holds for quantitative and qualitative studies, as well as those more descriptive in nature. In fact, several inventories of peer-reviewed journals show that it is the rare article on the Court that derives its data from an alternative source. Monographs published by top presses also regularly rely on the Database, and the many numerical studies of the Court receiving public attention in recent years have made liberal use of the data it houses. Spaeth's product is one of those rare creatures in the law and social science world: an invention that has substantially advanced a large area of study. Without question, the Database has empowered scholars in many disciplines to conduct original, path-breaking research of the highest intellectual merit.\n\nAnd yet, however invaluable the Database, it is now starting to show its age. Along these lines, we see two major sets of issues. First, for many scholars and their students the Database is diffcult to use. Second, the Database|with its emphasis on the modern (post-1946) Court has not kept pace with scholarly interests. Historical institutionalism and its various subsets have pushed scholars to broaden their time horizons. Within the field of public law, analysts have created a veritable cottage industry devoted to studies of the Court of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Even judicial specialists who ground their work in the 21st century are beginning to apply modern social science methodologies to historical data, with the goals of testing theories of institutional development and illuminating current-day practices and patterns. \n\nWith prior support from the National Science Foundation, we have addressed the first concern and brought the Database in line with 21st century technology. We now address address the second issue. Specifically, we broaden the Database's scope by adding many more cases: the 19,675 resolved between 1792, the year of the Court's first published decision and 1946, the earliest year in the current Database. Our hope is that systematic, historical data on the Court will create an even more valuable a public, multi-user Database that will stimulate scholars and their students to explore new avenues of inquiry, as well as to revisit enduring questions that have yet to be addressed with reliable and valid data. In short, the project not only facilitates scholarship of the highest level of intellectual merit; it also has a broader impact on the community of scholars studying the Court by providing a highly reliable, comprehensive, and adaptable Database.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "5225", "attributes": { "award_id": "0903317", "title": "Bio-Link Next Generation National ATE Center for Biotechnology and Life Sciences", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Unknown", "Advanced Tech Education Prog" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [], "start_date": "2009-09-01", "end_date": "2016-08-31", "award_amount": 5037832, "principal_investigator": { "id": 18481, "first_name": "Elaine", "last_name": "Johnson", "orcid": null, "emails": "[email protected]", "private_emails": null, "keywords": "[]", "approved": true, "websites": "[]", "desired_collaboration": "", "comments": "", "affiliations": [ { "id": 431, "ror": "https://ror.org/03181bn25", "name": "City College of San Francisco", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "CA", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [ { "id": 18475, "first_name": "Linnea A", "last_name": "Fletcher", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, { "id": 18476, "first_name": "Lisa A", "last_name": "Seidman", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, { "id": 18477, "first_name": "Sandra G", "last_name": "Porter", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, { "id": 18479, "first_name": "Barton", "last_name": "Gledhill", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "awardee_organization": { "id": 431, "ror": "https://ror.org/03181bn25", "name": "City College of San Francisco", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "CA", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "Bio-Link is the national ATE Center for Biotechnology. Bio-Link's mission has been to (1) increase the number and diversity of well-educated technicians in the workforce; (2) meet the growing needs of industry for appropriately trained technicians; and (3) institutionalize community college educational practices that make high-quality education and training in the concepts, tools, skills, processes, regulatory structure, and ethics of biotechnology available to all students. \n\nAlthough based in the San Francisco Bay Area, the Center's activities embrace biotechnology education nationwide. The Next Generation National ATE Center for Biotechnology and Life Sciences is designed to meet the rapidly changing needs of the biotechnology and related life science industries and prospective technical workforce. Bio-Link is providing the much wider range of services and products now necessitated by the swiftly changing biotech industry. \n\nBio-Link's mission remains the same. With the current support Bio-Link is expanding the activities to fulfill this mission in today's new biotechnology environment. The goals of the new National Center of Excellence are to: (1) strengthen and expand biotechnology education programs across the nation; (2) enable biotechnology faculty, students, and technicians to work more efficiently; and (3) support a smoother transition of students to the technical workforce in the biosciences and related industries. \n\nIn order to achieve its goals, the new Center is emphasizing three categories of activities and products: direct services to faculty, teachers, counselors, students, biotechnology programs, and educational institutions (includes consulting services, professional development for educators, maintenance and replication of an Equipment Depot, maintenance and expansion of the Clearinghouse of Instructional Materials for Biotechnology Technician Education, the development of \"courses in a box,\" creating a one-stop shop for online courses, and establishing a faculty internship program); information sharing and collaboration among students, faculty, industry and educational institutions (includes networking, developing a Web-based interactive community, creating an online Technician's Association, documenting and disseminating science education pipeline models, and documenting and disseminating models and resources for community college-industry engagement); and greatly expanded and improved information for students and for life-sciences and related companies (includes continuing to offer Website information services, a national biotechnology program survey, developing a matrix of jobs/careers/skills/programs, and producing video career scenarios for recruitment). Key partners include Austin Community College, the Bay Area Biotechnology Education Consortium, the BayBio Institute, Digital World Biology, Internet Scout at UW-Madison, Madison Area Technical College, SRI International, and more than 19 other partners. \n\nThe intellectual merit of this proposal resides in its focus on biotechnology, an increasingly interdisciplinary industry that warrants significant attention in today's climate, one in which threats against homeland security and health loom large and in which medicine evolves with great speed. Moreover, the industry provides technicians with opportunities to advance rapidly into high-wage positions. Through its 10 years of experience as an ATE Center and consultation with a wide range of stakeholders, Bio-Link possesses the critical expertise and capacity to continue and expand its work. \n\nWith respect to broader impacts, Bio-Link has influenced science education in general through materials and techniques developed within its network. With its partners, it has piqued industry's interest in hiring community college graduates, and has opened doors for underrepresented populations. Bio-Link is continuing and expanding its broad dissemination of cutting-edge resources to improve teaching practice, educational access, and career opportunities.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "5229", "attributes": { "award_id": "0921869", "title": "Collaborative Research: Updating the U.S. Supreme Court Judicial Database", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Unknown", "LSS-Law And Social Sciences" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [], "start_date": "2009-09-01", "end_date": "2013-08-31", "award_amount": 366212, "principal_investigator": { "id": 18493, "first_name": "Jonathan", "last_name": "Koehler", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [ { "id": 673, "ror": "", "name": "Northwestern University at Chicago", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "IL", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [ { "id": 18491, "first_name": "Harold J", "last_name": "Spaeth", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, { "id": 18492, "first_name": "Andrew D", "last_name": "Martin", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "awardee_organization": { "id": 673, "ror": "", "name": "Northwestern University at Chicago", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "IL", "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\nFor two decades now, virtually all systematic analysis of the contemporary Supreme Court and its members has relied on Harold J. Spaeth's U.S. Supreme Court Judicial Database. This holds for research conducted by social scientists and, increasingly, by legal academics; and it holds for quantitative and qualitative studies, as well as those more descriptive in nature. In fact, several inventories of peer-reviewed journals show that it is the rare article on the Court that derives its data from an alternative source. Monographs published by top presses also regularly rely on the Database, and the many numerical studies of the Court receiving public attention in recent years have made liberal use of the data it houses. Spaeth's product is one of those rare creatures in the law and social science world: an invention that has substantially advanced a large area of study. Without question, the Database has empowered scholars in many disciplines to conduct original, path-breaking research of the highest intellectual merit.\n\nAnd yet, however invaluable the Database, it is now starting to show its age. Along these lines, we see two major sets of issues. First, for many scholars and their students the Database is diffcult to use. Second, the Database|with its emphasis on the modern (post-1946) Court has not kept pace with scholarly interests. Historical institutionalism and its various subsets have pushed scholars to broaden their time horizons. Within the field of public law, analysts have created a veritable cottage industry devoted to studies of the Court of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Even judicial specialists who ground their work in the 21st century are beginning to apply modern social science methodologies to historical data, with the goals of testing theories of institutional development and illuminating current-day practices and patterns. \n\nWith prior support from the National Science Foundation, we have addressed the first concern and brought the Database in line with 21st century technology. We now address address the second issue. Specifically, we broaden the Database's scope by adding many more cases: the 19,675 resolved between 1792, the year of the Court's first published decision and 1946, the earliest year in the current Database. Our hope is that systematic, historical data on the Court will create an even more valuable a public, multi-user Database that will stimulate scholars and their students to explore new avenues of inquiry, as well as to revisit enduring questions that have yet to be addressed with reliable and valid data. In short, the project not only facilitates scholarship of the highest level of intellectual merit; it also has a broader impact on the community of scholars studying the Court by providing a highly reliable, comprehensive, and adaptable Database.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "5242", "attributes": { "award_id": "0834211", "title": "Individual Nomination", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Unknown", "PAESMEM Pres Awrds Excell Ment" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [], "start_date": "2009-09-01", "end_date": "2011-08-31", "award_amount": 10000, "principal_investigator": { "id": 18519, "first_name": "Frank", "last_name": "Bayliss", "orcid": null, "emails": "[email protected]", "private_emails": null, "keywords": "[]", "approved": true, "websites": "[]", "desired_collaboration": "", "comments": "", "affiliations": [ { "id": 540, "ror": "https://ror.org/05ykr0121", "name": "San Francisco State University", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "CA", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 540, "ror": "https://ror.org/05ykr0121", "name": "San Francisco State University", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "CA", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "FRANK T. BAYLISS\t\t\t\tSan Francisco State University\n\n\nProfessor Frank Bayliss has provided more than 25 years of teaching service at San Francisco State University (SFSU). He established the campus' first genetic engineering research laboratory. Prof. Bayliss established SFSU's Student Enrichment Opportunities office in 1992 to enhance the education and research experiences of undergraduate and graduate biology and chemistry students. In 2003, Prof. Bayliss received the Andreoli Biotechnology Service Award from the California State University Program for Education and Research in Biotechnology. The award honors outstanding contributions to the development of biotechnology in California. \n\nProfessor Frank Bayliss' outstanding mentoring efforts over the past two decades have contributed significantly to making San Francisco State University a national strength in the training and education of students from groups underrepresented in science who subsequently pursue and earn the Ph.D. Furthermore his mentoring efforts have become a model for the diversification of science faculties. Through his Student Enrichment Opportunities (SEO) Programs Prof. Bayliss has provided exceptional opportunities for minority student career development. \n\nThrough SEO, Professor Bayliss has established an interlocking system of talent development and support that spans the freshman-to-Ph.D. student continuum, emphasizing the important transitions: high school to freshman; community college to SFSU undergraduate; BS to SFSU masters; and SFSU BS or MS to Ph.D. The SEO enterprise supports student achievement and growth throughout the student's undergraduate and masters academic careers. The combined effect of the SEO student enrichment programs has resulted in significantly higher retention and academic achievement of underrepresented undergraduate, post-baccalaureate and masters-degree students in the department of Biology and the department of Chemistry & Biochemistry. All of these programs are focused on increasing the number of minority science students ready to succeed in Ph.D. programs and become participants in the nation?s research enterprise. \nIn the past three years, 64 of Professor Frank Bayliss' minority students have won admission to Ph.D. programs at top research universities nationwide. His SEO research training programs are poised to place 20-30 underrepresented minority students per year into Ph.D. programs for the foreseeable future. In the past three years 19 of his former students have completed Ph.D. degrees. An additional 20 are expected to complete the Ph.D. in 2008, and 102 are on track to earn the Ph.D. within the next five years. This exceptionally high level of success is particularly noteworthy within the context that for many decades few SFSU minority students applied to or entered Ph.D. programs. His mentoring efforts with faculty have resulted in the hiring and career success of American Indian, Hispanic, African American, and Pacific Islander faculty members in the departments of Chemistry & Biochemistry, and Biology.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "6328", "attributes": { "award_id": "3U54CA143924-12S2", "title": "2/2 Partnership for Native American Cancer Prevention", "funder": { "id": 4, "ror": "https://ror.org/01cwqze88", "name": "National Institutes of Health", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "National Cancer Institute (NCI)" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 21344, "first_name": "LEEANN ODETTE", "last_name": "Bailey", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2009-09-01", "end_date": "2024-08-31", "award_amount": 166201, "principal_investigator": { "id": 21345, "first_name": "MARGARET M", "last_name": "BRIEHL", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [ { "id": 438, "ror": "https://ror.org/03m2x1q45", "name": "University of Arizona", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "AZ", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [ { "id": 21346, "first_name": "Andrew S", "last_name": "Kraft", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "awardee_organization": { "id": 438, "ror": "https://ror.org/03m2x1q45", "name": "University of Arizona", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "AZ", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "The Navajo Nation is reporting the highest per-capita coronavirus infection rate in the United States (US) with 3.6% infected and a 4.7% case fatality rate, despite quickly responding to the first cases with prevention messaging and community lock-down measures. Chronic conditions like diabetes and obesity, prevalent on the Navajo Nation, have been associated with severe COVID-19 illness. Although several factors have contributed to the high incidence of infection in this population, cultural and economic factors are playing a major role. These conditions complicate maintaining medical care while engaging with the recommendations to reduce COVID-19 transmission. The impact of COVID-19 for the Navajo Nation can become broader than the immediate morbidity and mortality; cancer prevention and early detection screenings may have been postponed, cancer treatments may have been stopped or delayed. It is unknown how SARS-CoV-2 infection and the measures to prevent infection will impact health care delivery, including cancer screening, detection, and care. To address these disparities and to better respond to the impact of the pandemic within one of the most impoverished regions of the US, we propose to use a multimethod approach to determine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic from the perspectives both the health care providers and facilities and from the individual patients’ perspective on health related care delivery, including cancer prevention, early detection, screening, diagnosis, and treatment planning, and the interaction of chronic diseases with SARS-CoV-2 infection. Specifically, we will 1) investigate provider/health care worker perceptions about COVID-19 impacts using online surveys and semi-structured interviews and 2) investigate changes in patients’ and communities’ care seeking capacity, using online and telephone surveys and Zoom-based focus groups with members of the community and with cancer patients. Our research team from two universities and Navajo community members is uniquely suited to respond because of our current partnerships with the Navajo Nation and medical facilities. Beyond understanding what factors are contributing to the high transmission on the Navajo Nation, the data collected for this project may allow for future assessment of the impact of delay in cancer treatment or detection for patients. Through surveys, semi-structured interviews, and focus groups, we will provide a broad assessment of the experiences of Navajo households and Navajo cancer patients throughout the pandemic and how this widespread community transmission and infection has influenced access, utilization, and quality of health care.", "keywords": [ "2019-nCoV", "Address", "American Indians", "Arizona", "COVID-19", "COVID-19 pandemic", "Cancer Center", "Cancer Detection", "Cancer Patient", "Caring", "Case Fatality Rates", "Chronic", "Chronic Disease", "Cities", "Communities", "Communities That Care", "Community Health", "Coronavirus Infections", "Data", "Detection", "Diabetes Mellitus", "Diagnosis", "Drug Prescriptions", "Early Diagnosis", "Economic Factors", "Faculty", "Family", "Focus Groups", "Future", "Generations", "Health", "Health Personnel", "Health Services Accessibility", "Health care facility", "Healthcare", "Home environment", "Hour", "Household", "Incidence", "Individual", "Infection", "Infection prevention", "Internet", "Interview", "Life", "Measures", "Medical", "Morbidity - disease rate", "Native Americans", "Navajo", "Obesity", "Oncology", "Patients", "Perception", "Play", "Population", "Prevention", "Prevention program", "Provider", "Recommendation", "Reporting", "Research", "Research Methodology", "Risk", "Role", "Screening for cancer", "Speed", "Structure", "Surveys", "Telemedicine", "Telephone", "Time", "Travel", "United States", "Universities", "Water", "Work", "base", "cancer care", "cancer prevention", "cancer therapy", "care delivery", "care providers", "care seeking", "cohort", "experience", "follow-up", "health care delivery", "health care quality", "individual patient", "infection rate", "member", "mortality", "pandemic disease", "prevent", "response", "screening", "transmission process", "treatment planning" ], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "7448", "attributes": { "award_id": "3R01DA027379-08S1", "title": "DAT 18-06 Feasibility and Acceptability of HIV, HCV, and Opioid Use Disorder Services in Syringe Service Programs", "funder": { "id": 4, "ror": "https://ror.org/01cwqze88", "name": "National Institutes of Health", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 22878, "first_name": "Sarah Q", "last_name": "Duffy", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2009-09-01", "end_date": "2022-07-31", "award_amount": 179194, "principal_investigator": { "id": 23240, "first_name": "Bruce R", "last_name": "Schackman", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [ { "id": 825, "ror": "", "name": "WEILL MEDICAL COLL OF CORNELL UNIV", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "NY", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 825, "ror": "", "name": "WEILL MEDICAL COLL OF CORNELL UNIV", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "NY", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "COVID-19 threatens to exacerbate the national opioid crisis by reducing availability and access to harm reduction and health services delivered by syringe service programs (SSPs). Monitoring the impact of COVID- 19 on the availability and delivery of harm reduction and health services by SSPs in the U.S. over time is imperative for guiding local and national opioid policies. Failure to restore services will require additional responses to avoid adverse consequences, including HIV and hepatitis C outbreaks, whereas potentially beneficial responses, such as eliminating 1:1 syringe exchange requirements, should be disseminated widely. This supplement proposes collecting and analyzing longitudinal data on the impact of recovery from COVID-19 on SSPs. We will describe the changes in national SSP services in response to COVID-19 over one year via qualitative interviews and short surveys with SSPs every 6 months. Interviews will explore changes in harm reduction and health services offered; funding, adoption and sustainment of innovative services and service delivery; and barriers and facilitators for SSPs to delivering different services over a year. Descriptive data analysis will be conducted to determine if programs recover, maintain, or adapt services 6 and 12 months after the baseline survey. Qualitative data will be analyzed using content analysis. We will also conduct a longitudinal analysis to determine the associations between COVID-19 reported infections, COVID-19 response policies, and SSP services delivered. SSPs registered with the North American Syringe Exchange Network will be invited to participate in the longitudinal study that will collect monthly data on 1) number of syringes dispensed, 2) number of naloxone kits dispensed, 3) estimated number of participants served (directly and through secondary exchange), and 4) whether the SSP offered any on-site HIV or HCV testing in that month. COVID-19 reported infections and policies will be derived from publicly available data sources. We will conduct interrupted time series analysis to determine if changes in local COVID-19 stay-at-home policies are associated with changes in the monthly number of syringes and naloxone distributed and per client rates, taking into account reported local infection rates. Time-to-event analysis will be used to assess the impact of COVID-19 infection rates and policies on HIV and HCV testing. Results will be disseminated to national and local policy makers to support decision making for harm reduction and health services provided to people who inject drugs.", "keywords": [ "AIDS prevention", "Adoption", "American", "Analysis of Variance", "Baseline Surveys", "COVID-19", "Caring", "Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)", "Client", "Data", "Data Analyses", "Data Sources", "Decision Making", "Disease Outbreaks", "Drops", "Electronic Mail", "Epidemiology", "Event", "Failure", "Focal Infection", "Funding", "Geography", "Goals", "HIV", "HIV/HCV", "Harm Reduction", "Health Services", "Health Services Accessibility", "Hepatitis C virus", "Home environment", "Infection", "Injecting drug user", "Instruction", "Interruption", "Interview", "Longitudinal Studies", "Methods", "Modeling", "Monitor", "Multivariate Analysis", "Naloxone", "Needle-Exchange Programs", "Participant", "Pharmaceutical Preparations", "Policies", "Policy Maker", "Public Health", "Recovery", "Reporting", "Research", "Risk", "Safety", "Sample Size", "Series", "Service provision", "Services", "Site", "Structure", "Surveys", "Syringes", "Telemedicine", "Testing", "Time", "Time Series Analysis", "Universities", "Washington", "adverse outcome", "follow-up", "health care availability", "health care delivery", "improved", "infection rate", "innovation", "longitudinal analysis", "member", "opioid epidemic", "opioid policy", "opioid use disorder", "parent grant", "pre-exposure prophylaxis", "prevent", "programs", "response", "service delivery", "service programs", "trend", "uptake" ], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "5185", "attributes": { "award_id": "0938713", "title": "Washington ACS Meeting: Washington, DC; August 16-19, 2009", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Unknown", "BIOMATERIALS PROGRAM" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [], "start_date": "2009-08-15", "end_date": "2010-07-31", "award_amount": 3500, "principal_investigator": { "id": 18389, "first_name": "Ting", "last_name": "Xu", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [ { "id": 176, "ror": "", "name": "University of California-Berkeley", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "CA", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 176, "ror": "", "name": "University of California-Berkeley", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "CA", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "ID: MPS/DMR/BMAT(7623) 0938713 PI: Xu, Ting ORG: California-Berkeley \n\nTitle: Washington ACS Meeting\n\nINTELLECTUAL MERIT: This proposal seeks support for travel awards for graduate students, post-docs, and underrepresented faculty to attend the symposium on ?Hybrid Soft Materials of Natural and Synthetic Polymers? at the Fall ACS national meeting in Washington, D.C., August, 16-19, 2009 in the Division of Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering. The organizers aim to capture recent developments and present research in both well-developed stages and in new directions. The proposed symposium is divided into four specific focus areas: (1) Peptide-directed self-assembly, (2) Amphiphilic peptides, conjugates and assemblies, (3) Hybrid responsive biomaterials, (4) Hierarchical assemblies toward biomaterials. The threefold objectives of the symposium are: (1) to highlight recent advances in the design, synthesis, phase behavior and application of hybrid soft materials combining polymers and natural building blocks, (2) to provide a platform for the polymer chemist, polymer physicist, material scientist and bioengineer to establish connections and exchange ideas, (3) to facilitate opportunities for minority and junior faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate students to present their most recent research results and extend their horizon and knowledge base of hybrid materials. This symposium will provide opportunities for both leaders and young investigators working in these focus areas to share their recent advances, ideas, challenges, and solutions with the expectation that approaches being developed in one area can directly impact and facilitate advances in the others. In addition, the integration of polymer scientists, biophysicists and engineers, who may approach material design in different manners, may facilitate more rapid advancement of these technologies. Finally, the format of the symposium is intended to facilitate discussion among all scientists in attendance.\n\nBROADER IMPACTS: Because the symposium is under the auspices of the ACS Division of Polymer Materials Science and Engineering (PMSE), every oral presentation will be accompanied by a two page abstract in PMSE Preprints. These abstracts contain pertinent references and significantly support the impact of the oral presentation. Younger scientists and those from underrepresented groups will benefit from the opportunity not only to meet one another but to hear from and meet international leaders in the field. The symposium has a strong interdisciplinary character and will stimulate discussions among participants with a variety of scientific backgrounds.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "5210", "attributes": { "award_id": "0923706", "title": "SBIR Phase II: Relief-Free Infrared Diffractive Optics Based on Semiconductor Materials", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Technology, Innovation and Partnerships (TIP)", "SBIR Phase II" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [], "start_date": "2009-08-15", "end_date": "2011-07-31", "award_amount": 500000, "principal_investigator": { "id": 18439, "first_name": "Sergei", "last_name": "Krivoshlykov", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [ { "id": 1381, "ror": "", "name": "ANTEOS, Inc.", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "MA", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 1381, "ror": "", "name": "ANTEOS, Inc.", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "MA", "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 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project will develop a new generation of relief-free thin-plate components of diffractive optics operating in the infrared region of spectrum. The diffractive optics employs volume phase holographic structures, which are optically recorded in semiconductor materials transparent at the infrared wavelengths using proprietary process of photo-modification for producing dramatic change of the material refractive index under illumination with low intensity light. Phase I of this project proved feasibility of the proposed concept by demonstrating photo modification of ZnSe infrared material and fabricating the first model components. The developed technology can be immediately applied to fabrication of diffractive optics, volume phase holographic gratings, and phase retardation plates for wavelengths up to 1.9 ìm, as well as antireflection layers for wavelengths up to 8 ìm. In Phase II project the technology will be optimized and applied to fabrication of the prototype components of infrared diffractive optics operating at longer wavelengths, including the important wavelength of CO2 laser 10.6 ìm and windows of atmospheric transparency 3-5 and 8-12 ìm. \n\n\nThe developed photo-modification process is highly adaptable and creates a rich technology platform for fabrication of a broad range of products for a large variety of markets. Successful implementation of this technology will result in a new generation of high efficiency relief-free infrared diffractive optics and sub-wavelength components, including diffraction gratings, beam splitters, beam shapers, semiconductor materials with artificial birefringence, phase retardation plates and wave plates. The relief-free components of infrared diffractive optics based on semiconductor materials are capable to withstand high light intensities and perform complicated light management functions. Another important application is the fabrication of highly stable anti-reflection (AR) layers on infrared semiconductor optics. The market for infrared diffractive optics includes defense and airspace industry, laser industry, spectral devices, sensors and detectors, night vision optics, industrial process control, material processing, cutting and welding, environmental monitoring, medical diagnostics and surgery.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } } ], "meta": { "pagination": { "page": 1385, "pages": 1424, "count": 14236 } } }