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It plays a critical role in the security of the whole system. Unfortunately, modern operating systems are often bloated with millions of lines of source code, and serious vulnerabilities are routinely being discovered and exploited from them. Researchers have proposed various novel solutions based on the \"one-layer-below\" approach, in which a more privileged software component (i.e., a hypervisor) is introduced to monitor and/or regulate the operating system?s behavior. However, the large trusted computing base of modern hypervisors and the recent attacks against them put this approach into question. This project aims at developing a systematic approach to improve the trustworthiness of operating systems by enabling their self-defense, without resorting to other software layers that may be vulnerable themselves.\n\nThe goal of this project is being achieved in three key steps: first, the project develops a kernel-level security enclave that will provide a trusted, secure execution environment for other security systems and mechanisms. Second, based on the strong isolation provided by the enclave, the researchers design and implement several self-defense techniques for operating system kernels. Third, a cold-boot attack is a powerful physical attack that can extract sensitive information from the physical memory of a lost or stolen computer (including mobile devices). It has become a major security concern for corporations and governments. This project investigates a comprehensive defense against cold-boot attacks by encrypting the whole memory of a sensitive program on commodity hardware platforms. The results from this project could substantially improve our defensive capabilities against malicious and stealthy kernel-level malware and cold-boot attacks, and thus significantly improving the trustworthiness of computer systems. Research results are disseminated through publications, releasing of the tools developed, and integrating into the educational activities at both the graduate and undergraduate levels.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "4335", "attributes": { "award_id": "1452916", "title": "CAREER: 2D Nanoelectronic Devices Integrated with Nanofluidic Structures for Biosensing Applications", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Engineering (ENG)", "EPMD-ElectrnPhoton&MagnDevices" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 14748, "first_name": "Usha", "last_name": "Varshney", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2015-03-01", "end_date": "2021-02-28", "award_amount": 500000, "principal_investigator": { "id": 14749, "first_name": "Xiaogan", "last_name": "Liang", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 169, "ror": "", "name": "Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "MI", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "The ability to detect and quantify low-abundance biomolecules is critical for clinical diagnostics and drug development. For example, such ability can be used for early-stage cancer diagnosis. Surface plasmon resonance is the standard method for such analysis, but it still suffers from drawbacks such as low sensitivity, poor detection limit, and slow analysis process. These limitations motivate the efforts to create new nanoscale electronic biosensors for realizing efficient, label-free, multiplexing biomolecule quantification at low detection limits. The work described in this proposal aims at constructing a new biosensor by integrating emerging two-dimensional (2D) nanoelectronic materials into nano/microfluidic structures. Such a 2D-material-integrated nanofluidic biosensor, if successfully realized, will greatly advance the capability for illness-related biomarker detection and quantification. The work proposed here holds significant potential for realizing new cost/time-effective immunoassay chips that can address global needs for new capabilities for diagnosis and stratification of diseases and US industrial competitiveness. Beyond advancing fundamental academic research capabilities, the proposed education/research-integrated program will provide relevant knowledge and technical skills to a broad range of people, including K-12 students/educators, undergraduates, graduates, as well as students from underrepresented and minority groups. Specifically, the proposed education/outreach program will include a new after-school program for instructing K-12 students to learn basic knowledge related to microfluidic/electronic-integrated biosensors; extending the collaboration with academic programs at the University of Michigan to provide research opportunities for undergraduates; introducing new topics related to nanofluidics and nanoelectronics into graduate/undergraduate courses.\n\nThe proposed device-oriented research seeks to leverage superior electronic/structural properties of 2D materials and unique electrokinetics in nanofluidic devices for enabling low-abundance biomolecule detection at single-molecule levels. To realize this goal, the PI will overcome a series of challenges related to nanoelectronics, nanofluidics, and biosensing. Specifically, (i) create a nanofabrication method capable of integrating nano/microfluidic structures with nanoscale 2D transistors and producing large device arrays, therefore enabling the device miniaturization and multiplexing capability required for the envisaged bio-assays. (ii) Create a biofunctionalization route for realizing the selective functionalization of nanoelectronic sensors and an electrokinetic approach for efficiently transporting/concentrating target molecules toward the sensing areas, which are critical for preventing non-specific adsorption and obtaining a low limit-of-detection required for low-abundance molecule quantification. Non-specific adsorption will be further suppressed through using specific blocking buffers and optimizing nanofluidic architectures. (iii) Obtain a comprehensive understanding of the complex interactions between nanoelectronic and nanofluidic characteristics of the proposed device, which include electrokinetic transport rates of biomolecules toward sensors, effects of nanofluidic environments on biomolecule concentration distributions, dynamic behaviors of transistor parameters in response to bioconjugation processes, and relationship between the dissociation constant of an analyte-receptor pair and the sensor's detection limit/specificity. (iv) Develop multiplexed device arrays capable of rapidly determining multiple biomolecule concentrations. The proposed biosensor, if successfully created, can firstly serve as a generic device platform for analyzing a broad range of molecular interactions. Especially, it can be used for measuring the affinities and kinetics of various analyte-receptor pair interactions with sensitivities down to femtomolar concentrations (or single-molecule-level detection limits). Such knowledge will greatly advance the understanding of complex cellular events, such as the development of cancers and immune-responses. The large arrays of the proposed biosensors would eventually allow for rapid (minute-scale sample-to-result elapsed times), highly precise (single-molecule-level detection limits) immunoassay for clinical diagnostics. The detection principle of the proposed biosensor is completely electrical and does not need any off-chip optics required for conventional fluorescence-based assays. This will enable stand-alone device capability required for point-of-care applications.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "4338", "attributes": { "award_id": "1452800", "title": "CAREER: Vapor Intrusion, Knowledge Brokers and Environmental Health - A Three-Dimensional Perspective", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Engineering (ENG)", "EnvE-Environmental Engineering" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 14754, "first_name": "Mamadou", "last_name": "Diallo", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2015-01-15", "end_date": "2021-12-31", "award_amount": 404673, "principal_investigator": { "id": 14755, "first_name": "Kelly", "last_name": "Pennell", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [ { "id": 178, "ror": "", "name": "University of Kentucky Research Foundation", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "KY", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 178, "ror": "", "name": "University of Kentucky Research Foundation", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "KY", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "1452800\nPI: Pennell, Kelly\n\nCAREER: Vapor Intrusion, Knowledge Brokers and Environmental Health - A Three-Dimensional Perspective\n\nThe average person spends 90 % of their time indoors, which makes indoor air quality extremely important. There are many sources of indoor air contamination, but one that is too often overlooked is the transport of subsurface vapors into indoor air spaces (i.e. vapor intrusion).Vapor intrusion is notoriously difficult to characterize because extremely low chemical concentrations in indoor air are health-relevant and modeling indoor air and subsurface environments requires sophisticated approaches. This project will bridge the gap that exists between air transport modeling of above ground spaces and subsurface spaces. The research introduces a novel approach, where for the first time a volatile organic chemical vapor intrusion model will incorporate atmospheric, indoor and subsurface environments, in an effort to address unexplained preliminary field data collected by the PI, as well as some recent reports of unexplained field observations in the literature. Since vapor intrusion regulations are rapidly emerging, new knowledge generated must be translated by scientists and engineers to engage with key stakeholders, quickly and effectively. The educational goal of this proposal is to train students as knowledge brokers to build bridges between academic researchers and key stakeholders, such as regulators, professionals, legislators, and community members. \n\nThe modeling will involve computational fluid dynamic approaches. The field data sets include variations in indoor air concentrations and soil gas concentrations that are inconsistent with existing numerical models. Qualitatively, the field data does not mimic the current conceptual understanding of vapor intrusion, which makes current vapor intrusion models extremely limited in their ability to describe field observations. The proposed model will advance the field of environmental engineering by establishing important, and previously omitted connections between the subsurface and aboveground domains that are relevant for environmental fate and transport. Moreover, vapor intrusion characterization also requires scientific knowledge from many different disciplines (e.g. soil scientists, industrial hygienists, analytical chemists, environmental engineers) to fully understand the matter. This project will develop a new vapor intrusion modeling technique that combines subsurface fate and transport modeling with mechanical and industrial engineering approaches for modeling aboveground air transport. Research results will be integrated into vapor intrusion assessment practices, so that exposure risks are assessed using accurate science-based methods. The results of the research will be shared with relevant stakeholders to ensure research results gain relevancy for policy decisions.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "4347", "attributes": { "award_id": "1452712", "title": "CAREER: Understanding the Performance of Distributed Systems through Causal Tracing", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE)", "CSR-Computer Systems Research" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 14786, "first_name": "Marilyn", "last_name": "McClure", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2015-03-01", "end_date": "2020-02-29", "award_amount": 576344, "principal_investigator": { "id": 14787, "first_name": "Rodrigo", "last_name": "Fonseca", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [ { "id": 222, "ror": "https://ror.org/05gq02987", "name": "Brown University", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "RI", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 222, "ror": "https://ror.org/05gq02987", "name": "Brown University", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "RI", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "CAREER: Understanding the Performance of Distributed Systems through Causal Tracing\n \nSociety increasingly depends on shared software systems that are large, decentralized, with many components that interact in complex and subtle ways. These systems include financial and banking services, Web and cloud resources, airline reservations, and big data and scientific computing, to name a few. Despite their unquestionable reach and success, in these systems it is very hard to answer questions about the causes of failures, to uncover dependency issues among their components, to determine the impact of one operation on the rest of the system, or to provide guarantees about their performance to users. By developing and applying techniques to enable deep and real-time understanding of the performance characteristics of large-scale distributed systems, this project?s goal is to develop techniques that will enable users and providers of these systems to better express their needs and their guarantees in terms of performance, and better plan for and mitigate the effects of failures. \n\nThe main insight in this project is that because of the many components in distributed systems, the context of an operation initiated in one component gets lost as the operation involves other components. This makes it hard for a component deep in the system to discern with which client it is working, making it also hard to apply consistent policies or account for the cost of operations across component boundaries. This research will create the abstraction of a Tracing Plane that preserves this context throughout the entire execution of the system, allowing for debugging and diagnosis of performance problems, and for real-time provisioning of performance guarantees. This Tracing Plane will be a pervasive infrastructure to collect causal information from the execution of a distributed system and facilitate the efficient deployment of analytics and diagnostic tasks. Further, by aggregating information about tasks in the system across all components in a coherent way, the Tracing Plane enables the implementation of resource management policies that can act locally, in real-time, and with global knowledge - which is presently not possible. \n\nWe are better today at building large-scale distributed systems than we are at understanding precisely how they work, and how they fail and this will provide a core educational aspect, as the Tracing Plane is a strong pedagogical tool for the understanding of distributed systems structure and execution. This work will engage undergraduate and graduate students, as well as industry partners that operate such large-scale distributed systems. By starting from increased visibility into these systems, the ultimate goal of this project is to provide tools and methods to allow building, operation, and management of large-scale, shared distributed systems that are efficient, reliable, and predictable. As society increasingly depends on systems of this kind, this research has a large and long lasting potential impact.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "4678", "attributes": { "award_id": "1452211", "title": "EAGER: Building a Starting Core for No-Boundary Education and Research Network", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE)", "Info Integration & Informatics" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 16207, "first_name": "Sylvia", "last_name": "Spengler", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2014-09-01", "end_date": "2020-08-31", "award_amount": 300000, "principal_investigator": { "id": 16208, "first_name": "Xiuzhen", "last_name": "Huang", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [ { "id": 1320, "ror": "", "name": "Arkansas State University Main Campus", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "AR", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 1320, "ror": "", "name": "Arkansas State University Main Campus", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "AR", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "The team proposes a new concept of \"No-Boundary Thinking (NBT)\", which emerged from an NSF EPSCoR-supported Workshop in Bioinformatics at Little Rock, Arkansas in 2013, as well as follow-on meetings and discussions. The aim is to build a starting core to further explore no-boundary thinking in education and research through an innovative network of universities and projects. No-boundary thinking will be the key connection among a distributed set of researchers, students and science challenges. This project is a joint effort of 24 faculty members from 19 institutions from 13 states, with the represented research areas including fundamental life sciences, biology, agriculture, biophysics, biochemistry, engineering, computer science, mathematics, and statistics.\n\nThe focus of NBT is no-boundary problem defining. The goal is to educate and train students with NBT through development of a \"No-Boundary Education and Research Network\". The team will Identify 3-4 no-boundary research problems for which current interdisciplinary research or bigdata approaches do not work well and apply no-boundary thinking in problem defining. The focus is problem defining, not just problem solving. Then, students will learn with a no-boundary thinking approach through research projects and problems, which should lead to an understanding of the roles of data, approaches, and infrastructure/High Performance Computing in problem defining and solving, and provide them with opportunities to learn to integrate data collection, approach design, and infrastructure to address scientific research challenges. Outreach will include a national meeting to discuss the impacts of current interdisciplinary research and big-data to science and education, and how to further promote NBT nationally.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "4350", "attributes": { "award_id": "1452122", "title": "CAREER: Chemical Modification of Protein for Intracellular Delivery", "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": 14798, "first_name": "Steve", "last_name": "Smith", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2015-04-01", "end_date": "2021-03-31", "award_amount": 498899, "principal_investigator": { "id": 14799, "first_name": "Qiaobing", "last_name": "Xu", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [ { "id": 508, "ror": "https://ror.org/05wvpxv85", "name": "Tufts University", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "MA", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 508, "ror": "https://ror.org/05wvpxv85", "name": "Tufts University", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "MA", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "Non-technical:\nThis NSF CAREER award, funded by the Biomaterials program in the Division of Materials Research to Tuft University, will study an effective approach to deliver proteins intracellularly using a combination of lipid-based nanoparticles and the chemical modification of proteins, for possible biomedical applications. Many protein-based drugs in the market elicit their functionalities by targeting specific cell surface receptors. There are a number of diseases, including genetic diseases and cancers, which have the potential to be treated through proteins with a target inside the cell. However, proteins are usually not able to cross the cell membrane. Hence it is necessary to develop an effective approach to transport the protein inside the cell safely and efficiently. This proposal aims to develop lipid-based nanoparticles to deliver the protein inside the cells. The protein will be chemically modified to facilitate its binding with the lipid nanoparticle. Such a nanocomplex could be efficiently taken up by the cells and the protein will then be released inside the cell to reach the therapeutic targets. This enabling technology may open the door for generating new therapies for a variety of diseases. These results are anticipated to have a positive impact on the fields of nanomedicine and protein based biotherapeutics. The research will advance our understanding of the influence of chemical modification of protein on their physical properties and biological functions. The proposed work will train high school, undergraduate, and graduate students in the area of nanomedicine, and the outreach program will provide an encouraging and collaborative learning program.\n\nTechnical:\nThere are many protein-based drugs currently available, such as cytokines, growth factors, and monoclonal antibodies. Most of these drugs function by interacting or binding with specific cell surface receptors. However, the delivery of proteins safely and efficiently to intracellular targets remains challenging. An enabling technique that can facilitate the efficient intracellular transduction of proteins or peptides will open the door for generating new therapies for a variety of diseases, including some diseases traditionally viewed as not treatable with drugs. This research will establish a novel method for the reversible modification of proteins, and provide an effective lipid-based nanoparticle formulation that could deliver proteins intracellularly. Such a strategy for intracellular protein delivery could be made universal by easily adapting this delivery method with other proteins or peptides for the development of new drugs for different diseases. This research is expected to advance our understanding of the influence of chemical modification of proteins, on their physical properties, and biological functions. The proposed work will train high school, undergraduate, and graduate students in conducting scientific research in the area of nanobiotechnology. The summer camp program will let the students gain the knowledge and experience of nanobiotechnology, and stimulate the prospective students' passion and interest in sciences at the early stages of their career development.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "4700", "attributes": { "award_id": "1451812", "title": "A National Longitudinal Study of Community Trauma Exposure", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE)", "Social Psychology" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 16292, "first_name": "Steven", "last_name": "Breckler", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2015-01-01", "end_date": "2020-12-31", "award_amount": 333396, "principal_investigator": { "id": 16295, "first_name": "Roxane", "last_name": "Silver", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [ { "id": 177, "ror": "", "name": "University of California-Irvine", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "CA", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [ { "id": 16293, "first_name": "Ellen", "last_name": "Holman", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, { "id": 16294, "first_name": "Mansour", "last_name": "Fahimi", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "awardee_organization": { "id": 177, "ror": "", "name": "University of California-Irvine", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "CA", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "Community-based traumas are pandemic and recurring, profoundly taxing individual well-being and societal resources. Yet surprisingly few studies have considered how cumulative exposure to collective and individual stressors may contribute to patterns of adjustment over time. Effects of community traumas can span physical boundaries as well as temporal boundaries, with widespread media coverage transmitting a trauma's impact far beyond the directly exposed population, and challenging the traditional view of trauma exposure. Designing and implementing research on collective traumas requires overcoming formidable scientific and logistical challenges resulting from the fundamental unpredictability of these events. Previous studies that have examined adjustment to community traumas usually involve recalling events long after it occurred, making it difficult to disambiguate the effects of trauma on subsequent adjustment. To be able to draw more solid conclusions about long-term trauma reactions requires having a large sample in which information about pre-event mental and physical health, and baseline assessments of psychological responses have been collected during the acute period of trauma response. The proposed work provides such an opportunity by leveraging the investigators' previous research following a large representative sample for which health and trauma exposure was collected. As a result, the proposed work provides a remarkable opportunity to examine how individuals respond over an extended period of time to repeated direct and indirect exposure to terrorism and other individual and collective traumas.\n\nPrevious work by the investigators involved conducting a large, nationally representative longitudinal study (including oversampling of Boston and New York areas) in which individuals were surveyed immediately after a traumatic collective trauma, the Boston Marathon Bombings (BMB), and at two additional times, on the 6- and 12-month anniversaries of the BMB. The proposed work provides a unique opportunity to collect two additional waves of data on this sample in order to track ongoing direct and indirect exposure to individual and collective stressors, and their role in adjustment, over time. The research has three primary aims: 1) To investigate prospectively how different types of trauma exposure (i.e., direct vs. indirect media-based) are associated with patterns of long-term adjustment after collective stress (e.g., the BMB); 2) To investigate whether cumulative exposure to prior individual or collective traumas sensitizes individuals to or inoculates them against the negative consequences of subsequent events; and 3) To investigate prospectively the extent to which post-BMB trauma exposure (e.g., direct, indirect, individual, collective) explains predicted associations between acute BMB-related stress response and adjustment over time. This research will advance knowledge of how individuals cope with collective traumas and highly stressful events, furthering understanding of the unique needs of individuals traumatized by terrorism, both directly, and indirectly, via exposure to media coverage. Such work will provide information to help identify those at risk for subsequent difficulties following major traumatic events. Moreover, the work has important implications for informing the theory and practice of preparing people for collective traumas and helping them cope with the aftermath. These findings will also add to the foundation of knowledge for helping policymakers, service providers, and community leaders design educational and intervention efforts that are cost-effective and sensitive to the needs of the populace.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "4663", "attributes": { "award_id": "1451136", "title": "Workshop on Mathematical Biology and Nonlinear Analysis", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS)", "MATHEMATICAL BIOLOGY" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [], "start_date": "2014-09-01", "end_date": "2015-08-31", "award_amount": 10800, "principal_investigator": { "id": 16141, "first_name": "George", "last_name": "Cosner", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [ { "id": 647, "ror": "https://ror.org/02dgjyy92", "name": "University of Miami", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "FL", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [ { "id": 16138, "first_name": "Yuan", "last_name": "Lou", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, { "id": 16139, "first_name": "Wenxian", "last_name": "Shen", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, { "id": 16140, "first_name": "Shigui", "last_name": "Ruan", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "awardee_organization": { "id": 647, "ror": "https://ror.org/02dgjyy92", "name": "University of Miami", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "FL", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "This is a proposal to provide travel support for ten U.S. based junior researchers to attend the Workshop on Mathematical Biology and Nonlinear Analysis, which will be held at the Coral Gables campus of the University of Miami, December 19-21, 2014. \n\nThe Workshop will focus on the applications of mathematical methods for studying nonlinear equations that model biological processes, especially in ecology, epidemiology, and evolutionary theory. The conference will provide opportunities for junior researchers to interact with leading researchers in these areas. The workshop will feature plenary lectures by leading scientists and will hold special topic sessions where researchers will present their ideas and results. One of the aims of the conference is to broaden the education and stimulate the research of junior researchers and those from underrepresented groups. NSF funding is vital in achieving this goal.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "4643", "attributes": { "award_id": "1450614", "title": "Workshop for a Future Nanotechnology Infrastructure Support Program, August 18-19, 2014, Westin Arlington Gateway Hotel, Arlington, VA.", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Unknown", "EPMD-ElectrnPhoton&MagnDevices" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [], "start_date": "2014-08-01", "end_date": "2015-01-31", "award_amount": 68120, "principal_investigator": { "id": 16040, "first_name": "Thomas", "last_name": "Theis", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [ { "id": 1314, "ror": "https://ror.org/047z4n946", "name": "Semiconductor Research Corporation", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "NC", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 1314, "ror": "https://ror.org/047z4n946", "name": "Semiconductor Research Corporation", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "NC", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "Proposal: ECCS-1450614\n\nPI: Tom Theis, Semiconductor Research Corporation\n\nTitle: NSF Workshop for a Future Nanotechnology Infrastructure Support Program, August 18-19, 2014, Westin Hotel, Arlington VA\n\n\nABSTRACT\n\nNSF is planning a future nanotechnology infrastructure support program that will succeed the National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network (NNIN). This Workshop will bring together 22 recognized national experts from academe, industry, and government to develop a vision of how such a future nanotechnology infrastructure support program could be structured and what the key needs for the broad user communities are over the coming decade. The Workshop will be held on August 18-19, 2014 at the Westin Arlington Gateway Hotel in Arlington, VA, with portions of the proceedings made available to remote participants via web conferencing. Dr. Thomas Theis (IBM Research, on assignment to the Semiconductor Research Corporation) and Dr. Mark Tuominen (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) will serve as co-chairs.\n\nThe Workshop will seek to develop and articulate a vision for a future nanotechnology infrastructure support program that advances science, technology and education by enabling the research and technical development communities to bring key opportunities of nanotechnology to fruition. The primary objectives of the Workshop are to: (i) Identify the important goals of a nanotechnology infrastructure support program and recommend ways that these goals can best be achieved; (ii) Identify the key needs of the user communities and how these needs are expected to evolve over the next ten years; (iii) Develop recommendations for the organization and coordination of user facilities within the program, and recommend an appropriate selection process and selection criteria; and (iv) Consider the importance of integrating student education, training, and outreach into an infrastructure program, and in identifying ways that the program can address societal concerns. The Workshop will deliver a report outlining the vision, opportunities, and needs, which will be provided to NSF and be made publicly available through the NSF website.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "4407", "attributes": { "award_id": "1450460", "title": "I-Corps Sites: STEM-Business (STEM-B) -The Fifth Element of Technology Innovation", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Technology, Innovation and Partnerships (TIP)", "I-Corps-Sites" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 15035, "first_name": "Rebecca", "last_name": "Shearman", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2015-06-01", "end_date": "2020-11-30", "award_amount": 299853, "principal_investigator": { "id": 15040, "first_name": "Mark", "last_name": "Clarke", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [ { "id": 231, "ror": "https://ror.org/048sx0r50", "name": "University of Houston", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "TX", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [ { "id": 15036, "first_name": "Richard", "last_name": "Willson", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, { "id": 15037, "first_name": "Ioannis A", "last_name": "Kakadiaris", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, { "id": 15038, "first_name": "Dmitri", "last_name": "Litvinov", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, { "id": 15039, "first_name": "Edward", "last_name": "Blair", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "awardee_organization": { "id": 231, "ror": "https://ror.org/048sx0r50", "name": "University of Houston", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "TX", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "This project, from the University of Houston (UH), creates an I-Corps Site at UH.\n\nNSF Innovation Corps (I-Corps) Sites are NSF-funded entities established at universities whose purpose is to nurture and support multiple, local teams to transition their technology concepts into the marketplace. Sites provide infrastructure, advice, resources, networking opportunities, training and modest funding to enable groups to transition their work into the marketplace or into becoming I-Corps Team applicants. \n\nI-Corps Sites also strengthen innovation locally and regionally and contribute to the National Innovation Network of mentors, researchers, entrepreneurs and investors.\n\nThis UH Site builds on several iniatives including a faculty inventor/entrepreneurship student partnering program, an internal Technology Gap Fund, and a UH start-up incubator and various public-private partnerships providing access to investment capital. The long-term goal of this Site is to build a sustainable, innovation ecosystem anchored at UH with strong links to the local entrepreneurial community while also helping to address the national \"innovation gap\". \n\nThe specific objective for the UH Site is to create an innovation culture at UH by establishing an I-Corps site to house an institutional-led, cross-disciplinary, initiative providing a combination of academic and \"hands-on\" entrepreneurial business training in STEM + Business (UH?s STEM-B program). Funding from this program, coupled with institutional resources, will be used to \"seed\" the formation of entrepreneurial teams around technologies \"spun-out\" from the UH IP portfolio or \"spun-in\" from the local ecosystem. The I-Corps site and STEM-B will be used to coordinate a range of other related activities such as a Life Sciences Entrepreneur Associate internship program, the UH Entrepreneur-In-Residence (EIR) program, a new Life Sciences Laboratory Incubator facility to complement the existing UH Innovation Center and UH's recent $25 M strategic partnership with a venture capital firm, all located at the UH Energy Research Park. \n\nBroader Impact:\nThe creation of an I-Corps site at UH will augment the number of STEM-qualified entrepreneurs available to enter the growing Greater Houston-area innovation ecosystem, while helping to address the national \"innovation gap\". It will also serve to strengthen existing relationships with the local and regional ecosystem by providing formal bi-directional partnering mechanisms for technology commercialization that takes advantage of the burgeoning UH entrepreneurial workforce. A key goal is to develop a cadre of qualified \"Entrepreneurial Leads\" eligible to serve on I-Corps grants submitted by both UH and non-UH inventors. It will also provide ongoing support and mentoring to these early-stage entrepreneurs, thereby leveraging UH's infrastructure to assist in enhancing the local, regional and national innovation systems in bringing technologies to market.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } } ], "meta": { "pagination": { "page": 1391, "pages": 1424, "count": 14236 } } }