Grant List
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This research, led by a scientist at the University of Delaware, investigates how short-term climate variability evolved as the periodicity of orbital precession has changed through the Pleistocene, focusing on the last 900,000 years. The central hypothesis is that millennial-scale climate signals in the northwestern subtropical Atlantic are linked to external driving factors, specifically the fourth harmonic of precession. If tropical insolation forcing controls millennial-scale variability, then there should be a reduction in the spectral power of the fourth harmonic (4,800 year) peak as the 19,000 year precession frequency disappears after about 340,000 years ago. \n\nAs a prerequisite for testing the hypothesis, the work will fill a key gap in the stable oxygen isotope record from the Blake-Bahama Outer Ridge, completing a 1.4 million year long planktonic foraminifer stable isotope record from the Blake Outer Ridge. This fulfills a primary objective of Ocean Drilling Program Leg 172. \n\nIn terms of broader impacts, the research will provide important information about natural climate variability, and results will be disseminated through public presentations by the lead scientist. Funding also supports a Master's degree student.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "5191", "attributes": { "award_id": "0920357", "title": "The role of Protocadherin-19 in brain morphogenesis", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Biological Sciences (BIO)", "Animal Developmental Mechanism" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 18398, "first_name": "Steven", "last_name": "Klein", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2009-07-01", "end_date": "2013-06-30", "award_amount": 540000, "principal_investigator": { "id": 18399, "first_name": "James", "last_name": "Jontes", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 1375, "ror": "", "name": "Ohio State University Research Foundation -DO NOT USE", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "OH", "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\nThe central nervous system (CNS) is a structure of immense complexity and intricacy, whose overall architecture has been conserved throughout vertebrate evolution. The molecular and cellular mechanisms by which the three-dimensional (3D) structure of the CNS is generated during development are not well understood. One of the earliest steps in brain assembly occurs during neurulation, the coordinated movement of cells to form the neural tube, which will give rise to the brain and spinal cord. The Jontes lab has identified an evolutionarily conserved molecule, Protocadherin-19 (Pcdh19), that plays an important role in neurulation. Loss of Pcdh19 function inhibits cell movements that contribute to neurulation, resulting in abnormal brain morphology. The goals of this research are to understand how Pcdh19 regulates cell behavior during neurulation, and the molecular pathways through which Pcdh19 functions. To do this, the Jontes lab uses quantitative in vivo time-lapse microscopy to follow the 3D movements of cells in the developing zebrafish embryo. The results of this research will advance our understanding of the mechanisms of early brain development. The broader scientific and educational goals of this work are to provide a training environment in which students at different levels, particularly those from under-represented groups, will be exposed to sophisticated imaging techniques and quantitative image analysis. In addition, the imaging data that will result from this work will be of high educational value and will be made easily accessible to researchers and teachers.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "10807", "attributes": { "award_id": "2113791", "title": "IUCRC Planning Grant: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee: Center for Concrete Advanced Network - CAN", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Engineering (ENG)", "IUCRC-Indust-Univ Coop Res Ctr" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 825, "first_name": "Crystal", "last_name": "Leach", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2021-07-15", "end_date": "2022-12-31", "award_amount": 20000, "principal_investigator": { "id": 5198, "first_name": "Konstantin", "last_name": "Sobolev", "orcid": null, "emails": "[email protected]", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [ { "id": 587, "ror": "", "name": "University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "WI", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [ { "id": 15531, "first_name": "Ilya V", "last_name": "Avdeev", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, { "id": 26888, "first_name": "Habib", "last_name": "Tabatabai", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "awardee_organization": { "id": 587, "ror": "", "name": "University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "WI", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "The Concrete Advancement Network (CAN) is a consortium of academic and industrial researchers engaged in bringing cutting-edge technologies to the cement and concrete materials industries, improving the built environment. Cement and concrete represent ubiquitous human-made materials and continue to be widely utilized in construction. Despite a universal utilization, most modern cement and concrete applications are based on relatively dated technology, requiring massive inputs of raw materials. This IUCRC will allow researchers to collaborate on the latest advancements in nanotechnology, bottom-up engineering, recyclability, improved structural design with machine learning, and emergent technologies relating to the improvement of concrete in its use throughout the nation’s buildings and infrastructure. This award supports the planning phase of the CAN IUCRC to enable the team and participating leaders from industry to explore unmet needs, identify promising research trends, and formally establish the 5-year research plan for the proposed Center. The Planning Workshop will allow members and industry partners to establish the research agenda, select the first pool of research projects for the four member sites, and foster collaborative activities. CAN will be led by the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, with Arizona State University, Oregon State University, and the University of Texas at Arlington as partners. CAN’s members will facilitate the translation of novel concepts and ideas into scalable and implementable solutions with impact. Industry partners will steer CAN’s research direction and priorities to realization by providing testbeds and promoting CAN’s value proposition and research results to cement and concrete businesses.\n\nCAN’s mission is to enhance the resilience and sustainability of concrete materials and structures through innovations in materials and processing by leveraging use-inspired research and collaborations between academia and related industrial partners. CAN will plan to develop new techniques and methods that will usher the next generation of concrete that is energy-efficient, rapidly deployable, labor efficient, economical, and less dependent on natural resources than existing concrete. The collaborative teams research capabilities will couple scientific advances in concrete materials and design with multi-scale modeling, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and, ultimately digital manufacturing, towards cutting-edge concepts in this critical and massive-scale industrial sector. At the planning workshop and during the 12-month planning grant period, CAN industry and academic leaders will discuss current limitations, barriers, and obstacles to identify immediate solutions for industry/academic research and dissemination, engineering student education and job-preparedness, and broadening the participation of students underrepresented in STEM. CAN seeks to provide long-term solutions for the nation’s deteriorating infrastructure and meet the demand for future transportation, infrastructure, buildings, and housing.\n\nThis award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "5181", "attributes": { "award_id": "0934713", "title": "Enhancing the 5 YR Math and Science Education Programs at SJU", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Education and Human Resources (EHR)", "Robert Noyce Scholarship Pgm" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 18375, "first_name": "John", "last_name": "Haddock", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2009-06-01", "end_date": "2015-05-31", "award_amount": 748182, "principal_investigator": { "id": 18380, "first_name": "Sandra", "last_name": "Fillebrown", "orcid": null, "emails": "[email protected]", "private_emails": null, "keywords": "[]", "approved": true, "websites": "[]", "desired_collaboration": "", "comments": "", "affiliations": [ { "id": 1377, "ror": "", "name": "St Joseph's University", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "PA", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [ { "id": 18376, "first_name": "Michael P", "last_name": "McCann", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, { "id": 18377, "first_name": "Karen M", "last_name": "Snetselaar", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, { "id": 18378, "first_name": "Michael C", "last_name": "Clapper", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, { "id": 18379, "first_name": "Tetyana", "last_name": "Berezovski", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "awardee_organization": { "id": 1377, "ror": "", "name": "St Joseph's 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\nSaint Joseph's University (SJU) is increasing the number of highly qualified math and science secondary school teachers who work in high-need school districts. Collaborating with the School District of Philadelphia, the project recruits current and incoming undergraduate students to the SJU five-year BS/MS program in mathematics and science secondary education by providing support in the form of educational outreach opportunities for undergraduates in their first two years and tuition scholarships during their fourth and fifth years. In return for these scholarships, graduates of the program commit to teaching in Philadelphia and other high-need public high schools. Scholarship recipients are mentored in their beginning teaching years through the Urban Teacher Collaborative, which provides monthly workshops for exploring issues specific to teaching math and science in urban high schools. The grant also supports a summer program in mathematics and science education that combines a graduate level class for students in the five-year programs, a math and science educational outreach program targeting junior high and high school students in the area and paid summer internships for freshmen and sophomores at SJU to engage in mathematics and science teaching as a strategy to interest them in teaching as a career. The long term goal of the project is to graduate more secondary teachers with strong backgrounds in mathematics, biology, chemistry and physics who are committed to teaching underserved students in Philadelphia and the surrounding communities. The project provides tuition support to a minimum of 19 Noyce scholars during the project years.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "4855", "attributes": { "award_id": "1101600", "title": "China/U.S. Symposium for the Advancement of Earthquake Sciences and Hazard Mitigation Practices; held October 19-21, 2010 in Beijing, China.", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Engineering (ENG)", "NEES RESEARCH" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 16865, "first_name": "Joy", "last_name": "Pauschke", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2010-11-15", "end_date": "2011-10-31", "award_amount": 29998, "principal_investigator": { "id": 16866, "first_name": "Jay", "last_name": "Berger", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [ { "id": 1348, "ror": "https://ror.org/03v188q73", "name": "Earthquake Engineering Research Institute", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "CA", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 1348, "ror": "https://ror.org/03v188q73", "name": "Earthquake Engineering Research Institute", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "CA", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "This award provides travel support to China for five U.S. academic researchers and two Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) representatives on the twenty-one member U.S. team to participate in the first China/USA Symposium for the Advancement of Earthquake Sciences and Hazard Mitigation Practices. This symposium is in response to a request from the President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences to conduct a joint scientific exchange on earthquake hazard mitigation with invited U.S. expertise. The one-day symposium in Beijing, China and two-day field trip to the epicentral area of the 2008 M7.9 Wenchuan, China earthquake will be held from 19 to 21 October 2010. Two days of informal meetings with key Chinese government agencies and researchers working in earthquake-related fields will be held during the week of the symposium/field trip. The symposium/field trip is co-sponsored by EERI and the Chinese Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii. EERI will administer the travel grant, coordinate travel arrangements, and handle all administrative procedures involved. \n\nBroader Impacts: The symposium will advance earthquake sciences and hazard mitigation practices in both China and the U.S., establish a baseline of state of the art earthquake engineering practices, and identify areas for future research of common interest, while enhancing cooperation and mutual understanding between the two countries.\n\nIntellectual Merit: In this symposium, expert earthquake scientists, engineers, and hazard mitigation practitioners from China and the U.S. will meet and collaborate to identify and discuss the approaches and research taken by both countries to address common issues in earthquake hazard mitigation. This first meeting will help identify areas of future research and facilitate a continuing exchange of useful scientific, engineering, and planning knowledge and experience that could lead to safer buildings and reduced casualties in future earthquakes. The symposium and related meeting functions enable a multi-disciplinary team from the U.S. to interact with a very broad range of Chinese officials and researchers in the key ministries, universities, and institutes dealing with earthquake research, development of codes and standards, planning, hazard mitigation, and disaster response and recovery policies.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "4880", "attributes": { "award_id": "1112957", "title": "SBIR Phase I: Integrating Electrical Discharge Non-Contact Measurement into Manufacturing Platforms for Precision On-Board Metrology", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Technology, Innovation and Partnerships (TIP)", "SBIR Phase I" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 17574, "first_name": "Benaiah", "last_name": "Schrag", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2011-07-01", "end_date": "2011-12-31", "award_amount": 147130, "principal_investigator": { "id": 17575, "first_name": "Jonathan", "last_name": "Montgomery", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 1336, "ror": "", "name": "SmalTec, International", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "IL", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "This Small business Innovation Research Phase I project will develop an on-board micro-electrical discharge circuit, at pico-Joule energy levels, for manufacturing platforms to act as automated micro-metrology system. This will be a non-contact, non-destructive metrology process as well as have traditional EDM capabilities for small holes and de-burring processes. One of the greatest obstacles in machining micro-parts is inspection. Conventionally, a part is removed from the machining platform and measured by a dedicated metrology platform. When a critical dimension is out of tolerance, the part is replaced within the machining platform for additional work. However, as dimensions and tolerances are reduced to microns and smaller, it is impossible for these parts to be re-positioned, once removed. These parts are then scrapped, the process is modified, and a new part is manufactured in its place, costing time, material waste, and money. This obstacle will be removed by this development of an elegant and effective in situ metrology process. Additionally, by using the abilities of the micro-EDM circuit, sensors can be manufactured on-site, at little cost, to measure any machined forms. With this technology, anything machined on the platform can be measured and re-machined on the platform without losing positional accuracies.\n\nThe broader impact/commercial potential of this project is the advancement and increased reliability of miniaturized products with micro-sized features. These products are a rapidly expanding sector of the medical, automotive, and aerospace industries. As an example, the minimally invasive medical products market, supported by micro-metrology, is predicted to be a $19 Billion industry by 2011. These industries are supplied by the micro-manufacturers that continue to shape it. As this market shows rapid growth, more conventional machine suppliers are also introducing equipment into the micro-manufacturing market. However, of all these manufacturers, micro-EDM suppliers, with their non-contact, high aspect ratio, and high precision capabilities, are uniquely situated to develop an elegant non-contact on-board metrology solution for micro-parts. Micro-manufacturing companies have formed integral relationships with customers in areas ranging from medical devices to consumer products and government/defense, realizing their prototyping and production needs. These relationships will mean an immediate impact on consumer products as the integration of effective micro-metrology and micro-manufacturing tools will be rapidly put to use. Mounting this technology on conventional CNC systems will also have a great impact on the macro-machining industry, as it will also improve process qualification, increase throughput, and reduce operator time and material waste.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "10799", "attributes": { "award_id": "2309905", "title": "Conference: Keeping the Fire Alive: Fostering a Sustainable Community in the Combustion Sciences", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Engineering (ENG)", "CFS-Combustion & Fire Systems" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 6046, "first_name": "John", "last_name": "Daily", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2023-02-01", "end_date": "2024-01-31", "award_amount": 31580, "principal_investigator": { "id": 26880, "first_name": "Daniel", "last_name": "Pineda", "orcid": null, "emails": "[email protected]", "private_emails": null, "keywords": "[]", "approved": true, "websites": "[]", "desired_collaboration": "", "comments": "", "affiliations": [] }, "other_investigators": [ { "id": 26876, "first_name": "Patton M", "last_name": "Allison", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, { "id": 26877, "first_name": "Sadaf", "last_name": "Sobhani", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, { "id": 26878, "first_name": "Samuel J", "last_name": "Grauer", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, { "id": 26879, "first_name": "Debolina", "last_name": "Dasgupta", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "awardee_organization": { "id": 240, "ror": "", "name": "University of Texas at San Antonio", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "TX", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "This proposal is to support three outreach activities held during the U.S. National Combustion Meeting, March 19–22, 2023, at Texas A&M University. These activities include an Early Career Workshop for Combustion Researchers, a Mentorship Mixer, and a Women in Combustion Luncheon. The goal of these activities is to bring together a community of early-career combustion researchers and develop action committees to encourage early-career participation in the combustion research community. In the U.S., nearly 70% of energy conversion is accomplished by combustion—hence, advancement in combustion science is crucial to U.S. energy security and society. Workshop participants will develop four high-priority items, including public outreach, building productive and inclusive research group cultures, and education and communities of practice, and navigating research challenges in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Workshop findings will be documented in a report that will be disseminated to the wider technical community.\n\nCombustion is a key technology for power generation, and this will remain the same for decades to come. However, the combustion research community is facing various technical and non-technical challenges. The participants will identify challenges, educate the early-career researchers about these challenges, and discuss possible solutions. Discussion around technical issues will include brainstorming of novel, possibly cross-disciplinary research areas for future work. On the other hand, various non-technical issues will also be discussed, including communication with the public and policymakers and attracting and retaining talented researchers from diverse backgrounds. Results of this workshop are expected to help build a more productive combustion research community.\n\nThis award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.", "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": "5156", "attributes": { "award_id": "0930811", "title": "Workshop: Models of Intercultural Service Systems: Scholarly Discussion for Building a Research Agenda; San Juan, Puerto Rico;May 19 to 22, 2009", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Unknown", "SERVICE ENTERPRISE SYSTEMS" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [], "start_date": "2009-04-01", "end_date": "2011-12-31", "award_amount": 44987, "principal_investigator": { "id": 18318, "first_name": "Viviana", "last_name": "Cesani", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [ { "id": 1024, "ror": "", "name": "University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "PR", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [ { "id": 18317, "first_name": "Omell", "last_name": "Pagan-Pares", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "awardee_organization": { "id": 1024, "ror": "", "name": "University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "PR", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "Workshop: Models of Intercultural Service Systems: Scholarly Discussion for Building a Research Agenda \n\nSan Juan, Puerto Rico, May 19 to 22, 2009 \nChairperson: Alexandra Medina-Borja, Ph.D.\nOmell Pagán, Ph.D., Viviana Cesaní, Ph.D.\nInternational Service Systems Engineering Research Lab, Industrial Engineering Department, University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez\n\n\nThis grant will provide funding for a research workshop involving a wide range of interdisciplinary researchers discussing and identifying key aspects of inter-cultural service encounters in the design and implementation of service delivery systems. The standardization of services is difficult, if not impossible, because of the customer participation in the service ?co-production?. Some attempts have been made to incorporate human considerations into service models, but truly interdisciplinary system design has not yet occurred. Service system design, and the accompanying technology, is usually the work of engineers and computer scientists while services and culture have been studied by marketing researchers, behavioral scientists, anthropologists, ethnographers and human resources researchers. Thus, a truly inter-disciplinary research workshop is needed to foster this new field of inquiry and advance a research agenda. The main goal of the workshop is to hasten the development of modeling frameworks that include inter-cultural considerations by fostering interdisciplinary research among a variety of fields, academic disciplines and technical clusters spanning the areas of, but not limited to, industrial engineering, complex systems, cognitive and behavioral science, anthropology/ethnography, information systems, and management and human resources. \n\nIf successful, this workshop will (1) identify and extend an inter-cultural service systems (ICSS) research community; (2) define ICSS issues and propose interdisciplinary methodologies and, (3) articulate a common agenda for the emerging research frontier of inter-cultural Service Science and Engineering. The development of this research direction is of increasing importance given the distributed locations of service providers and their customers; sometimes coming from radically different cultures. For the diverse participants in the service encounter, perceptions of politeness, time, sympathy and expertise might be quiet different. Call centers in international locations, hotel chains, and domestic health care centers serving diverse populations are only few of the many service systems whose design would benefit from this research direction.", "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 } } ], "meta": { "pagination": { "page": 2, "pages": 1405, "count": 14046 } } }