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To be held April 16-19, 2007 in Brussels, Belgium.", "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": "2007-04-15", "end_date": "2007-09-30", "award_amount": 25000, "principal_investigator": { "id": 18814, "first_name": "Sanjay", "last_name": "Banerjee", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [ { "id": 156, "ror": "", "name": "University of Texas at Austin", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "TX", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 156, "ror": "", "name": "University of Texas at Austin", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "TX", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "Abstract Sanjay K. Banerjee INC3: CONFERENCE PROPOSAL\n\n\n\n\nObjective:\nThe objective of this proposal is to request travel funds from NSF to enable faculty from the US to attend the Third International Nanotechnology Conference on Communications and Cooperation (http://www.imec.be/inc3/about.html) from April 16-19, 2007 in Brussels, Belgium. In addition, we plan to invite some of the younger members of the faculty, who will present posters highlighting their work.\nIntellectual Merit:\nThis conference is being sponsored by SRC-SIA, NSF, IMEC, JEITA-JSI, and several European and Asian companies It will feature invited speakers and poster presenters from industry, academia, and government who will describe how to \"foster communication and cooperation on nanotechnology subjects among the organizers, sponsors and the world scientific community to stimulate and support economic growth in the 21st century.\"\nBroader Impact:\nThe conference will help address issues related to ITRS technology roadmap and how nanotechnology can play an important role in continuing the growth of the Electronics beyond the limits envisioned by the ITRS roadmap. It is of fundamental importance that these limits are overcome in the next 10 years, perhaps through the use of nanotechnology. Global senior researchers, industry leaders and policy makers from North America, Europe and Asia will hold discussions on a variety of efforts in nanoscience, along with opportunities for collaboration", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "5429", "attributes": { "award_id": "0727556", "title": "Biologists for the Future", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Education and Human Resources (EHR)", "S-STEM-Schlr Sci Tech Eng&Math" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 18961, "first_name": "John", "last_name": "Krupczak", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2007-09-15", "end_date": "2013-08-31", "award_amount": 599545, "principal_investigator": { "id": 18964, "first_name": "Anne", "last_name": "Walter", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [ { "id": 1406, "ror": "", "name": "Saint Olaf College", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "MN", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [ { "id": 18962, "first_name": "Kathy R", "last_name": "Glampe", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, { "id": 18963, "first_name": "Diane", "last_name": "Angell", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "awardee_organization": { "id": 1406, "ror": "", "name": "Saint Olaf College", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "MN", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "Intellectual Merit: This project is supporting 19-20 students through a biology major as excellent preparation for meaningful scientific careers. To qualify for BFF scholarships, students must demonstrate significant financial need and show promise for success in biology. Preference is given to students from underrepresented groups. The goals are to increase the number and improve the academic outcomes of this cohort of students. The project is building on the college's interdisciplinary and research-focused biology program and its existing federally funded TRiO/Student Support Services (SSS) program. It is also building on an existing pre-matriculation biology course and Supplemental Instruction (SI) offered to all SSS students taking introductory biology. The college's Center for Experiential Learning is helping to provide career exploration and support. The Offices of Admissions and Financial Aid are helping recruit qualified students. A new initiative is an optional summer reading and writing skills course using biological literature. Other activities include optional career-oriented field trips, additional peer SI leaders and tutors, seminars and workshops, social gatherings with visiting speakers, and involvement in summer research and internships. \nBroader Impacts: The primary impact of this program is on the students themselves. The freedom to study deeply and broadly, permitted by these scholarships, helps prepare them well as biologists and gives them time to take steps to realize future careers in biology. Their impact on society will have the broadest resonance. \nThere will be impact beyond the grant period. Many of the proposed program elements will be sustained if effective (e.g., additional tutors and supplemental instruction, the proposed course). The newly identified mentors and intern hosts will continue to work with the College. The entire faculty will benefit from the scholarship of teaching activities.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "5384", "attributes": { "award_id": "0730080", "title": "\"Magnetic Excitations in Semiconductors: Bridges to the next Decade\" -- Symposium and Public Lecture; Buffalo, NY; March 7-8, 2008", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS)", "MATERIALS CENTERS & EDUCATION" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 18857, "first_name": "Maija", "last_name": "Kukla", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2007-08-01", "end_date": "2008-07-31", "award_amount": 9000, "principal_investigator": { "id": 18859, "first_name": "Bernard", "last_name": "Weinstein", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [ { "id": 422, "ror": "", "name": "SUNY at Buffalo", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "NY", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [ { "id": 18858, "first_name": "Alexander N", "last_name": "Cartwright", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "awardee_organization": { "id": 422, "ror": "", "name": "SUNY at Buffalo", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "NY", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "The proposed project is to support the Symposium, \"Magnetic Excitations in Semiconductors: Bridges to the Next Decade\", which will bring together many of the world leaders and the active young investigators in its subject area. It is designed both to highlight key advances in the field of magnetic excitations in semiconductors (MES), and to provide links to new long-term directions for research. It is planned for March 7-8, 2008 at the University of Buffalo, and will also honor the research of Dr. B. D. McCombe whose work has helped to shape the understanding of MES. An eminent group of 19 scholars, including two Nobel laureates, have agreed to give plenary lectures. Additional contributions in 13 topic-areas, chosen for their impact on the science and technology of MES, will be given in poster format. The Symposium will seek to maximize the intellectual exchange between young investigators and established leaders. The resulting increase in science knowledge-base, stimulation of new research technology, and wide dissemination of ideas to scientists specializing in the field, are the main intellectual merit of the proposed project.\nThe Symposium will also feature the public lecture \"Putting Spin into Electronics\" as part of its program, in order to promote informal outreach learning in an area of MES that has strong potential to impact society. This lecture will be presented by Dr. Igor Zutic (University of Buffalo Physics), who is a leading theorist in the field of Spintronics and a highly engaging speaker. Dr. Zutic's lecture will be geared to non-scientists, and will be free and open to the public. It will be widely promoted at local schools and in the media, and held in a large venue hall at the University of Buffalo. This outreach lecture will be included along with the Symposium's plenary and poster presentations in a Web-Proceedings that is made fully available to the general public. World wide searchable access to the Proceedings by means of any OAI compliant metasearch engines or major directories (e.g., Google Scholar, OpenDOAR) will be set up under the SUNY Institutional Repository. The educational outreach fostered by the Symposium's public lecture and open dissemination in areas important to the non-scientific public constitute the broader impacts of this project.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "5366", "attributes": { "award_id": "0731707", "title": "Travel Grant for 1st US Italy Seismic Design of Bridges Workshop", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Unknown", "Structural and Architectural E" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [], "start_date": "2007-05-15", "end_date": "2007-10-31", "award_amount": 10000, "principal_investigator": { "id": 18815, "first_name": "Reginald", "last_name": "DesRoches", "orcid": null, "emails": "[email protected]", "private_emails": null, "keywords": "[]", "approved": true, "websites": "[]", "desired_collaboration": "", "comments": "", "affiliations": [ { "id": 294, "ror": "", "name": "Georgia Tech Research Corporation", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "GA", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 294, "ror": "", "name": "Georgia Tech Research Corporation", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "GA", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "This proposal is to request funds from the National Science Foundation to support US researchers to attend the 1st US Italy Seismic Bridge Design Workshop, in Pavia, Italy, in April 19-21st, 2007. The symposium is a great opportunity to bring together world experts in bridge design, analysis, and retrofit from Italy and the United States. Both the US and Italy are at the forefront in international developments in seismic design and retrofit of bridges. Earthquake events in recent decades have illustrated the potential vulnerability of highway bridges and their importance as critical components of the transportation network. These lifelines are essential for emergency response efforts and recovery following a natural disaster. In addition to these indirect effects, the damage to bridges can result in significant repair or replacement costs. This workshop is critical in providing a forum for exchanging ideas on the latest advances in the area of seismic design, retrofit, and analysis of bridges. The workshop will have participation from over 20 Italians, and 14 Americans. Professor Reginald DesRoches and Dr. Phil Yen will serve as co-Chairmen of the US team, and Profs Calvi and Pinto serve as co-Chairmen of the Italian Team. The intellectual merit of the proposed workshop is that this forum will bring together leading researchers and practicing engineers to discuss the most recent advances in the area of seismic bridge design, further advancing the knowledge in this field. The broader impacts of the workshop are that it brings together a diverse group of researchers with a healthy mix of experienced practicing engineers and researchers with those that are at the early stages of their career. In addition, the group that is assembled is diverse in gender and race. This is particularly important in a field that has a history of being male-dominant and not particularly diverse.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "5401", "attributes": { "award_id": "0732475", "title": "Student & Minority Faculty Travel Grant Program to Attend ICNP 2007", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE)", "Networking Technology and Syst" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 18894, "first_name": "Darleen", "last_name": "Fisher", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2007-09-01", "end_date": "2008-08-31", "award_amount": 35000, "principal_investigator": { "id": 18895, "first_name": "David", "last_name": "Yau", "orcid": null, "emails": "[email protected]", "private_emails": null, "keywords": "[]", "approved": true, "websites": "[]", "desired_collaboration": "", "comments": "", "affiliations": [ { "id": 252, "ror": "", "name": "Purdue University", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "IN", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 252, "ror": "", "name": "Purdue University", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "IN", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "The 15th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP) and associated events, including a workshop on network protocol security, will be held October 16-19, 2007, in Beijing, China. ICNP has traditionally been a single-track 3-day meeting of around 30 paper presentations. The conference has typically attracted an attendance of about 120-125 international participants. The size of the meeting is often noted by the participants as an advantage-big enough to be worthwhile, but small enough to promote higher-quality interactions among the participants than may be possible at larger conferences like SIGCOMM and INFOCOM. At the same time, ICNP ranks high in citation impact. According to CiteSeer, ICNP ranks second only to SIGCOMM among networking conferences, and ranks in the top 11% of all computer science publication venues in terms of impact. The high impact is a consequence of the consistently high-quality research presented at the conference. This travel grant supports graduate students attending institutions in the United States as well as junior faculty belonging to or serving under-represented groups of computer science researchers. The travel grant program has two components: (1) Outreach to a wider graduate student population; and (2) Outreach to minority faculty or faculty serving minority students (e.g., EPSCOR institutions). About twenty awards to graduate students and ten awards to faculty members will be supported.\n\nThe objective of the proposal is to widen the audience attending ICNP and, as a result, raise the level of interactions between attendees, and the potential for new collaboration, new investigations, and higher quality research. In addition, this year's conference will be held in China for the first time. By encouraging U.S. participants to attend ICNP 2007, we hope to raise the awareness of U.S.-based researchers of activities taking place in the important China arena, and to foster the understanding and collaboration among the international participants. We believe that support funds by the NSF will be invaluable to enable the attendance of many U.S.-side attendees and to help offset the expenses of foreign travel for these attendees.\n\nBroader Impacts. Conference attendance is a crucial part of the life of a researcher. By creating new opportunities for students and faculty-especially those from under-represented groups-to attend a high-quality conference, this project will benefit the research community in several ways. The students and faculty themselves benefit from the opportunity to meet and interact with many other researchers in a favorable setting, and from seeing research presented that may be related to what they are working on, or may inspire them to try a new direction. The research community benefits from the improvement of the students in the pipeline, and the introduction of new researcher perspectives. And everybody benefits from increased diversity of participants attending the conference. The 2007 meeting in Beijing will also bring a unique opportunity for the international participants to learn more about networking research in China.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "5416", "attributes": { "award_id": "0738151", "title": "Workshop: Climate over Landscapes; Boulder, Colorado; September 19-21, 2007", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Geosciences (GEO)", "Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 18927, "first_name": "Richard", "last_name": "Yuretich", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2007-08-01", "end_date": "2008-11-30", "award_amount": 73570, "principal_investigator": { "id": 18930, "first_name": "Ronald", "last_name": "Martin", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [ { "id": 275, "ror": "", "name": "University Corporation For Atmospheric Res", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "CO", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [ { "id": 18928, "first_name": "Gerard H", "last_name": "Roe", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, { "id": 18929, "first_name": "Joseph", "last_name": "Galewsky", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "awardee_organization": { "id": 275, "ror": "", "name": "University Corporation For Atmospheric Res", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "CO", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "This collaborative proposal between UCAR/JOSS, Joe Galewsky (University of New Mexico) and Gerard Roe (University of Washington) is a request to the National Science Foundation to fund a topical workshop entitled Climate over Landscapes at the University of Colorado, September, 19-21, 2007.\n\nSome of the most significant advances in geoscience research over the last 20 years have come about through understanding the coupling of processes operating in the atmosphere (climate), on the Earth's surface (geomorphology), and within the Earth's crust (tectonics). Through this integration, the community is essentially rewriting the paradigm for understanding how mountain ranges come and go, how landscapes evolve and respond to both external and internal forcings, and how climate and the land surface co-evolve. The scope of the new paradigm spans many orders of temporal and spatial scale, from natural hazards (e.g., landslides) all the way through to mantle convection.\n\nOf all the couplings that are found to be important, few are as fundamental as that between surface and atmospheric processes - between geomorphology and climate. Recent advances put us in a position to forge serious links between the atmospheric communities and the earth-surface community: a) landscapes are being revealed to us at an unprecedented level of detail, largely though remote sensing techniques; b) advances in low-temperature geochronology and cosmogenic radionuclides allow for more confident dating of specific events and rates of processes; c) the theoretical development of physically-based geomorphic transport laws; d) computational advances permit mesoscale modeling of atmospheric processes on scales relevant to landscapes; and e) remote sensing of climate and vegetation affords unprecedented spatial and temporal observations. We are now able to know how the landscape is shaped, how fast it is shaped, and what the landscape really looks like.\n\nThe proposed workshop is about connecting these advances. Engaging the atmospheric sciences and landscape communities is critical if full advantage is to be taken of the possibilities available. Landscape dynamics can be seen as an archetypal case study of Earth System Science, spanning as it does, processes ranging from the crust deformation to cloud microphysics. The individual pieces are clearly in place. The challenge is in coming together as a community to figure out how to combine them as effectively as possible.\n\nGoals:-\n1. To engage the atmospheric science and landscape dynamics communities in a conversation about effective joint research directions and possible collaborations.\n2. For the landscape dynamics community: to get better acquainted with what can be known about relevant atmospheric processes, and to address how that knowledge might be incorporated into landscape dynamics research.\n3. For the atmospheric sciences community: to learn about the novel and exciting research opportunities in studying landscape dynamics; to challenge and extend existing understanding of climate by asking new questions from different perspectives.\n4. Generate a white paper for both the community at large and for the NSF, the purpose of which is to provide a state-of-the-art report and a research agenda, to be written by a smaller sub-set of the workshop participants. In order that the white paper is inclusive and as open as possible, we will circulate drafts to the community for comments, suggestions, etc.\n\nBroader Impacts:-\nEducational. 15 to 20 graduate students will be invited to the workshop. Their participation in charting a course for research for the future will be illuminating for them and will help ensure that the ideas raised have a long-term influence.\n\nIntellectual. Interdisciplinary collaboration is the future of Earth Sciences, and understanding landscape dynamics is one of the great challenges of the whole field. Historically progress has been impeded by traditional disciplinary boundaries. This workshop is an opportunity to establish a lasting legacy of greater communication.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "5380", "attributes": { "award_id": "0738431", "title": "Symposium: From reaction dynamics to peptide sequencing", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Unknown", "OFFICE OF MULTIDISCIPLINARY AC" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [], "start_date": "2007-07-01", "end_date": "2008-06-30", "award_amount": 6200, "principal_investigator": { "id": 18848, "first_name": "Peter", "last_name": "Armentrout", "orcid": null, "emails": "[email protected]", "private_emails": null, "keywords": "[]", "approved": true, "websites": "[]", "desired_collaboration": "", "comments": "", "affiliations": [ { "id": 202, "ror": "https://ror.org/03r0ha626", "name": "University of Utah", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "UT", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 202, "ror": "https://ror.org/03r0ha626", "name": "University of Utah", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "UT", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "This award facilitates a one-day symposium, 'From Reaction Dynamics to Peptide Sequencing,' that will be held at the Fall 2007 National Meeting of the American Chemical Society in Boston, MA, August 19-23, 2007. This multidisciplinary symposium will focus on innovative applications of mass spectrometry to 'grand challenge' problems in chemistry, biology, in situ analysis, and nanomaterials. Importantly, it will also serve as a framework for discussion of the next generation of mid-scale analytical instrumentation. The symposium will bring together some of the world's best mass spectrometrists whose interactive discussions are expected to catalyze innovative thinking in the field. In addition, this award assists six female and/or minority graduate students to attend the symposium and interact with the presenting scientists.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "5273", "attributes": { "award_id": "0739006", "title": "Studies on the Partitioning of Elements Between the Core, Mantle and Crust", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Geosciences (GEO)", "Petrology and Geochemistry" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 18584, "first_name": "Jennifer", "last_name": "Wade", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2008-04-01", "end_date": "2013-03-31", "award_amount": 316611, "principal_investigator": { "id": 18585, "first_name": "William", "last_name": "McDonough", "orcid": null, "emails": "[email protected]", "private_emails": null, "keywords": "[]", "approved": true, "websites": "[]", "desired_collaboration": "", "comments": "", "affiliations": [ { "id": 297, "ror": "https://ror.org/047s2c258", "name": "University of Maryland, College Park", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "MD", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 297, "ror": "https://ror.org/047s2c258", "name": "University of Maryland, College Park", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "MD", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "Intellectual merit. Improved knowledge of the pressure, temperature and gas fugacity conditions prevalent during the formation of the Earth and subsequent core formation would substantially enhance to our understanding of the composition of the Earth's core and surrounding silicate shell, particularly with respect to the abundance and distribution of the heat-producing elements U, Th and K. Such insights are essential for understanding the energy sources that drive the geodynamo, mantle convection and plate tectonics, as well as understanding the volatile element inventory of the planet and constraining the nature and degree of core-mantle exchange. This proposal requests funds to analyze the compositions of natural and synthetic samples, with emphasis on precise and accurate determinations of trace abundances of siderophile, chalcophile and key lithophile elements in order to establish solid-liquid, solid-solid and liquid-liquid distribution coefficients for metallic (and to a lesser extent sulfidic) and silicate systems. These data will be used to develop improved estimates of bulk compositional of the core, mantle, crust and bulk silicate Earth, and to provide quantitative insights into the partitioning of elements during core formation, crust-mantle evolution, and core-mantle exchange.\n\nThe main goals of the proposed study include determining: (1) the concentration and behavior of siderophile and some chalcophile elements in Earth reservoirs (core-mantle-crust) and magmas, (2) the abundance and behavior of nominally lithophile elements (e.g., Nb, Ta, K, Th, and U) during core formation, and (3) the budget of volatile elements in the mantle and core. Results from these interrelated projects will (a) improve our understanding of the abundance and distribution of these elements in the Earth, (b) yield distribution coefficients for these elements during core-mantle and mantle-crust differentiation, (c) constrain the conditions under which core separation and core-mantle exchange has occurred and/or is occurring, and (d) better define the planetary Urey number (ratio of radiogenic heat production to total heat loss). The most important findings of my group's previous investigations (described in this proposal) include: (1) Modern basalts from ocean ridges, islands and arcs have a weighted average K/U of 20,600+/-3600 (2sd,n = 50). Our K/U value for MORB (19,800 +/- 3400, n=43) differs significantly from that reported by Jochum et al. (1983), reflecting differences in sampling and treatment of the population variance. The modern mantle is estimated to have a K/U value higher than the continental crust and likely contains <50% of the K and U budget of the silicate Earth, indicating a larger radioactive contribution of 40K. (2) Modern basalts have relatively constant W/Ba (0.00136 +/- 86, 2sd), which is comparable to the continental crust and by inference represents the silicate Earth. From this, we can establish the W concentration of the silicate Earth (9.0 +/- 5.8 ppb W). Using this revised value we tested the hypothesis of core-mantle exchange proposed for Hawaiian picrites based on Os isotopes and found that the incorporation of a core component is consistent with W-isotope data, if these lavas are derived from a reservoir with 3x silicate Earth W content (~27 ppb) and a core containing 516 ppb W (i.e., ~96% of the Earth's W budget). (3) New experimental partitioning data (Corgne et al) between molten metal and silicate melt are consistent with core formation under increasing oxygen fugacity (initially near IW-3 and finishing near IW-2). Our results are consistent with a core containing a fraction of the planetary budget of Zn, Ga, K, Cu, Mn, Cr, Nb and Ta. A superchondritic Nb/Ta ratio has been proposed for the core, but our data place the upper limit at < ~15 ppb Ta. Our model predicts a core with at least 10 ppm Ti. Moreover, the core is predicted to contain <10% of the planetary budget of K, but this estimate is likely closer to 1% or less. \n\nBroader impacts. Student participation (at the graduate, undergraduate and high school levels) is a fundamental aspect of my research program at UMD. Students participate in hands-on research, which provides important educational and training opportunities that the students can translate to future work in academia, industry or government. This project will support one PhD student and two undergraduate researchers. My record in education, service and outreach extends well beyond the scientific community and into the public realm (K-12 lectures, Maryland Day open house lab tours and analyses, high school interns on year-long research programs in my mass spectrometry laboratory) and is described, in full, in the body of this proposal.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "5431", "attributes": { "award_id": "0739830", "title": "Conference: 2007 Rustbelt RNA Meeting being held October 19-20, 2007 in Mt. 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Sterling, OH. The intellectual objective of the meeting is to provide an inexpensive, high caliber, interdisciplinary meeting for RNA researchers in the Midwest. The field of RNA structure, function, and processing is growing at a rapid pace and RNA has been shown to be intimately involved in many important biological phenomena beyond its obvious prominent role in transcription and translation. At the same time the methods used to study RNA are becoming more and more diverse ranging from synthetic and physical chemistry over biochemistry, genetics, and biophysical approaches all the way to computational methods. Consequently, research groups need a forum where they can hear and discuss new results and techniques in all areas of RNA research that can result in furthering an individual lab's aims. The size and organization of the meeting has proven to be an excellent environment for active discussions between research groups, including those between PIs, between PIs and trainees as well as between trainees themselves. Such interactions are more difficult at larger national meetings. The Rustbelt RNA meeting was established in 1999 and is the major Midwest regional meeting of RNA researchers, attended by participants including principal investigators (PIs), postdoctoral fellows, graduate, and undergraduate students from both research intensive and primarily undergraduate institutions in Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, and Pennsylvania, as well as farther away (Delaware). Based on attendance in previous years, approximately 170 participants are expected in 2007.\n\nBroader Impact. The main broader impact of the rustbelt RNA meeting is in trainee and junior faculty development. The conference traditionally emphasizes trainee participation and features graduate and undergraduate student participation, from institutions ranging from large research intensive universities to small, primarily undergraduate colleges. In addition to offering opportunities for interactions with PIs and other trainees, the RRM provides invaluable experience presenting research in an educational and supportive atmosphere. Importantly, trainees account for the vast majority (about 90%) of both poster and oral presentations. Such presentations instill confidence in the trainees and inspire trainees in the audience to present their results orally in the future. To encourage the speakers further, prizes are awarded for outstanding trainee presentations. Finally, the meeting is an excellent forum for junior PIs to showcase their emerging research programs.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "5402", "attributes": { "award_id": "0742831", "title": "West, Midwest and Northeast Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS)", "Integrative Activities in Phys" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 18896, "first_name": "Kathleen", "last_name": "McCloud", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2007-09-01", "end_date": "2009-02-28", "award_amount": 36388, "principal_investigator": { "id": 18899, "first_name": "Jennifer", "last_name": "Ogilvie", "orcid": null, "emails": "[email protected]", "private_emails": null, "keywords": "[]", "approved": true, "websites": "[]", "desired_collaboration": "", "comments": "", "affiliations": [ { "id": 169, "ror": "", "name": "Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "MI", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [ { "id": 18897, "first_name": "Bonnie", "last_name": "Fleming", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, { "id": 18898, "first_name": "Jia G", "last_name": "Lu", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "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": "This award supports a two-day conference for undergraduate women in physics that focuses on the critical transition from undergraduate to graduate study. On January 19-20, 2008, the University of Michigan, the University of Southern California (USC) and Yale University will each host a Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics (CUWP). The unifying aim of the three conferences is to encourage young women to apply to graduate school by providing a stimulating and supportive venue for them to learn about the exciting possibilities presented by advanced careers in physics. Towards this goal, the conference objectives are that participants leave with:\n. Increased awareness of current research and career options in physics.\n. Greater familiarity with the graduate school experience.\n. Resources for applying to and being successful in graduate school as well as\ngeneral resources for women in physics.\n. A network of women in physics.\nThe two-day event will bring together female undergraduate students in physics from\nacross the US to learn about current research and career opportunities in physics, the\ngraduate school application process and experience, and resources for women in physics.\nWomen attending the conferences will have the opportunity to present original research,\ndiscuss physics topics with other students, and meet other successful women with more advanced careers in physics.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } } ], "meta": { "pagination": { "page": 4, "pages": 1397, "count": 13961 } } }