Sen. Kerry Announces Science Funding for State

| September 6, 2010 | Capitol Hill, School Notebook | No Comments

Tufts to Receive Share of $85 Million in National Science Foundation Awards

Senator John Kerry announced that 178 additional Massachusetts universities and organizations will receive a total of $85,601,927 in National Science Foundation (NSF) awards. The funding was secured through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

“This investment means more jobs and groundbreaking scientific research in Massachusetts. This is a shot in the arm for the cutting edge work being done by our state’s universities and research organizations,” said Senator John Kerry.

The NSF funds research and education across the fields of science and engineering by providing grants and cooperative agreements to more than 2,000 colleges, universities, K-12 school systems, businesses, informal science organizations and other research organizations throughout the nation.

More than $218 million in National Science Foundation grants have been awarded to Massachusetts organizations and schools since March.

For more information on the NSF and on the latest recipients, please visit www.nsf.gov/awardsearch or www.research.gov.

Tufts University is receiving funding for the following projects:

$3,260,533
The project, entitled “Integrating Engineering & Literacy,” is under the direction of Chris Rogers.

$2,130,768
The project, entitled “The Urban Math and Science Teacher Collaborative,” is under the direction of Eric Todd Quinto.

$606,507
The project, entitled “A Combined Experimental-Computational Method to Evaluate Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Wall Stress,” is under the direction of Robert Peattie.

$353,270
The project, entitled “Mechanosensitive Regulation of Axon Guidance,” is under the direction of Karina Meiri.

$279,537
The project, entitled “Fast Multigrid Solvers for Transport with Forward-Peaked Scattering,” is under the direction of Scott MacLachlan.

$229,648
The project, entitled “Collaborative Research: Modeling Coupled Reactive Flow at the TAG Hyrdothermal Mound,” is under the direction of Grant Garven.

$199,573
The project, entitled “Collaborative Research: The Impacts of Service on Engineering Students (ISES) – A Longitudinal Study,” is under the direction of Christopher Swan.

$35,000
The project, entitled “Support for US participation in Nordita/Mittag-Leffler conference and programs on quantum information,” is under the direction of Mary Beth Ruskai.

This funding is in addition to that which was announced in early August.

– Information from Sen. John Kerry