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Source: IRS Form 990 via ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer
Total Revenue
▼$131.8K
Total Contributions
$70.1K
Total Expenses
▼$231.5K
Total Assets
$676.5K
Total Liabilities
▼$1.6M
Net Assets
-$886.7K
Officer Compensation
→$0
Other Salaries
$0
Investment Income
▼$3,011
Fundraising
▼$0
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Total Federal Funding
$26.3M
Awards Found
32
| Awarding Agency | Description | Amount | Fiscal Year | Period |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Department of Education | FILING FOR HEERF FUNDING, INSTITUTIONAL SHARE. | $10.1M | FY2020 | Jun 2020 – May 2022 |
| Department of Education | FILING FOR FUNDING UNDER THE CORONAVIRUS AID, RELIEF, AND ECONOMIC SECURITY ACT. | $8.3M | FY2020 | Apr 2020 – May 2022 |
| National Science Foundation | NRT-IPP: PREPARING FUTURE BIOENGINEERS FOR CAREERS IN BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOMANUFACTURING THROUGH HANDS-ON TRAINING AND INDUSTRY PARTNERSHIPS -THIS NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION RESEARCH TRAINEESHIP INSTITUTIONAL PARTNERSHIP PILOT (NRT-IPP) AWARD LED BY WENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (WIT) AND BOSTON UNIVERSITY (BU), WILL CREATE A MASTER OF SCIENCE (MS) DEGREE PROGRAM IN BIOENGINEERING DESIGNED TO MEET DEMAND FOR PROFESSIONALS IN THE BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOMANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES. BIOENGINEERING IS A RAPIDLY EXPANDING FIELD IN MASSACHUSETTS, WHICH SERVES AS A NATIONAL HUB FOR THE BIOTECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY. THIS PROJECT ADDRESSES A SHORTAGE OF BIOENGINEERS BY PROVIDING STUDENTS WITH INDUSTRY-RELEVANT SKILLS, HANDS-ON RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES, AND CAREER DEVELOPMENT EXPERIENCES. THE PROGRAM INTEGRATES COURSEWORK, IMMERSIVE RESEARCH, AND PAID INDUSTRY INTERNSHIPS, ENSURING GRADUATES ARE WELL-PREPARED TO TRANSITION INTO STEM CAREERS AND CONTRIBUTE TO THE BIOENGINEERING SECTOR. TRAINEES WILL GAIN EXPERTISE IN BIOENGINEERING PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT, MEDICAL DEVICE DESIGN, BIOMANUFACTURING, AND COMPUTATIONAL MODELING, AMONG OTHER KEY AREAS. THE PROJECT ANTICIPATES TRAINING 100 STUDENTS OVER FIVE YEARS, INCLUDING 25 FULLY FUNDED TRAINEES. THIS DEGREE PROGRAM AT WIT WILL LEVERAGE BU?S EXPERTISE IN BIOENGINEERING GRADUATE EDUCATION AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT, INCORPORATING SUSTAINABLE AND EFFECTIVE TRAINING PRACTICES FROM ITS NRT PROGRAM IN NEUROPHOTONICS. THE PROJECT COMBINES EDUCATIONAL PRACTICES WITH INDUSTRY ENGAGEMENT TO ENSURE STUDENTS ACQUIRE NEEDED SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES. THE PROGRAM?S CURRICULUM INCLUDES COURSES TAILORED TO INDUSTRY NEEDS, PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOPS, AND TECHNICAL TRAINING IN CUTTING-EDGE TOOLS. BY PARTNERING WITH BIOTECHNOLOGY COMPANIES, WIT STUDENTS WILL GAIN PAID WORK EXPERIENCE IN REAL-WORLD SETTINGS THROUGH A STRUCTURED COOPERATIVE PROGRAM. ADDITIONALLY, TRAINEES WILL CONDUCT INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH IN AREAS SUCH AS MEDICAL IMAGING, BIOSENSING, TISSUE ENGINEERING, AND DIGITAL THERAPEUTICS. THIS RESEARCH-DRIVEN APPROACH, COUPLED WITH INDUSTRY MENTORSHIP, WILL BRIDGE THE GAP BETWEEN ACADEMIA AND THE WORKFORCE, FOSTERING INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCEMENTS. THE PROJECT WILL PROVIDE A REPLICABLE MODEL FOR STEM GRADUATE EDUCATION. THE ANTICIPATED OUTCOMES INCLUDE A HIGHLY TRAINED WORKFORCE AND BROAD SOCIETAL BENEFITS FROM BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENTS THAT ADDRESS PRESSING CHALLENGES. THE NRT INSTITUTIONAL PARTNERSHIP PILOT (NRT-IPP) IS A COLLABORATIVE EFFORT BETWEEN THE DIRECTORATES FOR STEM EDUCATION (EDU) AND TECHNOLOGY, INNOVATION, AND PARTNERSHIPS (TIP) TO SUPPORT RESEARCH AND EDUCATION PROJECTS WITH HIGH INDUSTRY RELEVANCE IN EMERGING FIELDS. THIS 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.- SUBAWARDS ARE PLANNED FOR THIS AWARD. | $4.5M | FY2025 | Sep 2025 – Aug 2030 |
| National Science Foundation | ENSURING EARLY MATHEMATICS SUCCESS FOR STEM MAJORS | $499.1K | FY2012 | Sep 2012 – Aug 2017 |
| Department of Health and Human Services | HEALTH CARE AND OTHER FACILITIES | $400K | FY2009 | Sep 2009 – Dec 2010 |
| National Science Foundation | COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: SHINE--CORONAL PHYSICS WITH TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE DATA AND MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMIC SIMULATIONS -THIS PROJECT AIMS TO IMPROVE OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE SUN?S CORONA, THE HOT OUTERMOST LAYER OF THE SOLAR ATMOSPHERE, BY ANALYZING DATA FROM TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSES (TSES). ECLIPSES PROVIDE A RARE OPPORTUNITY TO STUDY THE CORONA IN DETAIL, OFFERING INSIGHTS INTO HOW IT IS HEATED AND HOW THE SOLAR WIND FORMS. TELESCOPE OBSERVATIONS OF DIFFERENT CORONAL EMISSION LINES, THE BACKGROUND CONTINUUM, AND BROADBAND WHITE LIGHT WILL ALLOW US TO INFER PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF THE CORONA SUCH AS TEMPERATURE, DENSITY, AND MAGNETIC FIELD STRUCTURE. USING DATA FROM FIVE ECLIPSES, SPANNING NEARLY A FULL SOLAR CYCLE (2015?2024), THIS RESEARCH WILL TRACK CHANGES IN THE CORONA OVER TIME AND ACROSS DIFFERENT STRUCTURES. THE PROJECT WILL ALSO COMPARE THESE TSE OBSERVATIONS TO ADVANCED COMPUTER SIMULATIONS TO REFINE MODELS OF THE SUN?S ATMOSPHERE. THESE FINDINGS WILL ENHANCE OUR ABILITY TO PREDICT SPACE WEATHER, WHICH HAS IMPLICATIONS FOR SATELLITES, POWER GRIDS, AND SPACE TRAVEL. ADDITIONALLY, UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS WILL GAIN HANDS-ON RESEARCH EXPERIENCE, CONTRIBUTING TO THE NEXT GENERATION OF SCIENTISTS. IN THIS PROJECT, IMAGING DATA FROM FIVE TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSES (2015, 2017, 2019, 2023, AND 2024) WILL BE ANALYZED AND COMPARED WITH NEW AND EXISTING MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMIC (MHD) SIMULATIONS USING THE PREDICTIVE SCIENCE INC. MAS MODEL. WE WILL ANALYZE VISIBLE AND NEAR-INFRARED BROADBAND AND NARROWBAND IMAGING OBSERVATIONS MADE DURING EACH ECLIPSE TO STUDY THE CORONAL ELECTRON TEMPERATURE (TE), ELECTRON DENSITY, AND THE STRUCTURE OF THE CORONAL MAGNETIC FIELD. IN PARTICULAR, IMAGING DATA OF THE CORONAL EMISSION LINES OF FE X, FE XI, FE XIV, AND CA XV WILL BE USED TO INFER TE VIA A RADIATIVE DIFFERENTIAL EMISSION MEASURE (RDEM) ANALYSIS. EACH EMISSION LINE REQUIRES A NARROWBAND CONTINUUM OBSERVATION, WHICH IS USED TO SUBTRACT THE BACKGROUND FROM EACH LINE, AND WILL BE USED TO SEPARATE ELECTRON AND DUST SCATTERING (K AND F CORONA). THE BROADBAND WHITE-LIGHT DATA WILL THEN BE ANALYZED USING A ROLLING HOUGH TRANSFORM (RHT) TO INFER THE PROJECTED MAGNETIC FIELD VECTORS THROUGHOUT THE CORONA. THE OVERARCHING GOAL IS TO BENCHMARK AND IMPROVE CORONAL AND SOLAR WIND MODELS BY CONSTRAINING KEY PHYSICAL PARAMETERS. THE RESULTS WILL PROVIDE VALUABLE EMPIRICAL CONSTRAINTS ON CORONAL HEATING AND SOLAR WIND FORMATION, AND WILL BE VALUABLE FOR INFORMING FUTURE SPACE WEATHER FORECASTING. THIS 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.- SUBAWARDS ARE NOT PLANNED FOR THIS AWARD. | $386K | FY2025 | May 2025 – Apr 2028 |
| Department of Health and Human Services | HEALTH CARE AND OTHER FACILITIES | $350.2K | FY2008 | Sep 2008 – Aug 2009 |
| Department of Health and Human Services | HIGH-SPEED SPIN TESTING OF REINFORCED 2212 COILS FOR HIGH-FIELD NMR MAGNETS | $334.6K | FY2018 | May 2018 – Aug 2022 |
| Department of Health and Human Services | COMMUNITY PROJECT FUNDING/CONGRESSIONALLY DIRECTED SPENDING - CONSTRUCTION - WENTWORTH-DOUGLASS HOSPITAL 789 CENTRAL AVENUE DOVER, NH 03820-2589 LAURA ROBERTS, TRANSPORT & CARE VAN MANAGER 603.609.6170 LAURA.ROBERTS@WDHOSPITAL.ORG WDHOSPITAL.ORG FUNDS REQUESTED: $500,000 SUMMARY: THE WENTWORTH-DOUGLASS HOSPITAL PROVISION OF TRANSPORTATION PROGRAM (CARE VAN) CURRENTLY OPERATES 7 VEHICLES WITH 14 DRIVERS (6 BUDGETED, 8 PER DIEM) WHO SERVICE PATIENTS BETWEEN 7:30AM AND 4:30PM MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY ON AN ANNUAL BUDGET OF APPROXIMATELY $800,000 PER YEAR. AT FULL CAPACITY, THE EXISTING FLEET OF CARE VANS CAN SERVICE OVER 60 PATIENTS PER DAY. THE EXISTING PROGRAM OFFERS SERVICES TO THE HOSPITAL'S MAIN CAMPUS FROM THE HOSPITAL'S PRIMARY SERVICE AREA. THE CARE VAN PROGRAM IS DESIGNATED FOR PATIENTS WHO ARE UNABLE TO PROVIDE FOR THEIR OWN TRANSPORTATION; HAVE NO OTHER REGULAR, RELIABLE, AND APPROPRIATE MEANS OF TRANSPORTATION, EITHER PUBLIC OR PRIVATE (SUCH AS BUS, FAMILY MEMBERS, OR FRIENDS), AND; DO NOT HAVE INSURANCE THAT WILL PAY FOR TRANSPORTATION SERVICES SUCH AS THE VA, MEDICARE, MEDICAID, TRIPLINK, NOR QUALIFY FOR ANY OTHER TRANSPORTATION SERVICE. GIVEN THE CONTINUED COMMUNITY NEED FOR ACCESS TO CARE AND OUR GROWING FOOTPRINT, WENTWORTH-DOUGLASS HOSPITAL WILL USE FEDERAL FUNDS AWARDED VIA CONGRESSIONALLY DIRECTED SPENDING TO EXPAND THE CARE VAN PROGRAM TO SERVICE PATIENTS WITHIN 25 MILES OF OFFSITE LOCATIONS. SPECIFICALLY THE FUNDING WILL BE USED TO PURCHASE THREE ADDITIONAL CARE VANS, A COMPREHENSIVE SCHEDULING SOFTWARE, HIRE THREE FTE DRIVERS, AND ONE FTE DISPATCHER. | $264K | FY2022 | Aug 2022 – Jul 2025 |
| National Science Foundation | MRI: ACQUISITION OF ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETER FOR EPIC LEARNING | $200.8K | FY2015 | Sep 2015 – Aug 2018 |
| National Science Foundation | LEAPS-MPS: EXPLORING NEW PHYSICS WITH MORE ACCURATE SIGNALS FROM COSMIC STRINGS -THE RECENT EVIDENCE FOR A GRAVITATIONAL WAVE BACKGROUND IS ONE OF THE MOST SIGNIFICANT DISCOVERIES FOR COSMOLOGY SINCE LIGO FIRST SAW GRAVITATIONAL WAVES FROM MERGING BLACK HOLES. THE GRAVITATIONAL-WAVE BACKGROUND IS A ?HUM? FILLING SPACE, MUCH LIKE BACKGROUND CONVERSATION IN A CROWDED ROOM. AND JUST LIKE A CROWDED ROOM, IT CAN BE HARD TO PICK OUT A SINGLE VOICE?BUT EASIER IF IT?S THE VOICE OF SOMEONE YOU KNOW. THE GRAVITATIONAL-WAVE BACKGROUND IS FULL OF MANY ?VOICES? FROM DIFFERENT ASTROPHYSICAL AND COSMOLOGICAL SOURCES, AND TO BE ABLE TO UNDERSTAND THE WHOLE, WE NEED TO BE ABLE TO RECOGNIZE EACH VOICE. ONLY THEN CAN WE DETERMINE WHICH SOURCES ARE PRESENT, AND THEREBY LEARN MORE ABOUT THE PHYSICS OF OUR UNIVERSE. THE PARTICULAR VOICE/SOURCE THIS PROPOSAL FOCUSES ON IS COSMIC STRINGS: LONG, THIN, OSCILLATING OBJECTS PREDICTED TO HAVE FORMED IN THE VERY EARLY UNIVERSE. THIS PROPOSAL COMPRISES TWO PROJECTS, BOTH MAKING USE OF THE MOST RECENT ADVANCES IN MODELING THE ?VOICES? OF COSMIC STRINGS. THE FIRST AIMS TO INTEGRATE CURRENT CONSTRAINTS ON THE COSMIC STRING BACKGROUND WITH PROJECTED SENSITIVITIES FOR NEXT-GENERATION GRAVITATIONAL-WAVE DETECTORS. CURRENT CONSTRAINTS WILL COME FROM THE NANOGRAV COLLABORATION, SERVING AS AN INDIRECT TEST OF A VARIETY OF MODELS OF NEW PHYSICS. THE LIKELIHOODS OF DIFFERENT THEORIES WILL THEN FEED INTO UPDATED CONSTRAINTS ON THE ABILITY OF THE LASER INTERFEROMETER SPACE ANTENNA (LISA) TO DETECT COSMIC STRINGS; THIS MULTIDETECTOR ANALYSIS PROVIDES MORE ROBUST PREDICTIONS THAN USING EITHER DETECTOR ALONE, AND AIMS TO INSPIRE THE NEXT REFINEMENT IN MODEL-BUILDING FOR NEW PHYSICS MODELS. THE SECOND PROJECT WILL FIND NEW PREDICTIONS FOR THE STRENGTH AND RATE OF BURSTS OF GRAVITATIONAL WAVES FROM COSMIC STRINGS, AS SEEN BY LISA. THIS WILL PROVIDE A COMPLEMENTARY METHOD OF SEARCHING FOR STRINGS, AND THUS FOR NEW PHYSICS. BOTH PROJECTS WILL HAVE SIGNIFICANT STUDENT INVOLVEMENT. STUDENTS WILL DEVELOP TRANSFERABLE SKILLS IN DATA ANALYSIS, COMPUTATIONAL TECHNIQUES, VISUALIZATION, AND COMMUNICATION WHILE BROADENING THEIR PROFESSIONAL NETWORKS BY INTERACTING WITH SCIENTISTS FROM INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIONS. THE RECENT EVIDENCE FOR A GRAVITATIONAL WAVE BACKGROUND IS ONE OF THE MOST SIGNIFICANT DISCOVERIES FOR COSMOLOGY SINCE LIGO FIRST SAW GRAVITATIONAL WAVES FROM MERGING BLACK HOLES. THE FULL GRAVITATIONAL-WAVE BACKGROUND IS A SUM OF MANY DIFFERENT SOURCES, INCLUDING THOSE FROM NEW-PHYSICS THEORIES. CAREFUL MODELING OF ALL SOURCES IS IMPORTANT FOR DISENTANGLING THE FULL BACKGROUND INTO THESE CONSTITUENT PARTS. COSMIC STRINGS ARE IMPORTANT SIGNS OF NEW PHYSICS, BEING GENERIC PREDICTIONS IN MANY BEYOND-THE-STANDARD-MODEL THEORIES. RECENT PROGRESS IN SIMULATIONS OF GRAVITATIONAL SELF-INTERACTIONS OF COSMIC STRINGS HAS FOUND HOW THE SHAPES AND GRAVITATIONAL-WAVE EMISSIONS OF THE STRINGS EVOLVES OVER THEIR LIFETIMES. THIS PROJECT WILL USE THE DATA WHICH PROVIDED THE EVIDENCE FOR A BACKGROUND AS WELL AS THESE SELF-INTERACTION RESULTS TO MAKE IMPROVED PREDICTIONS FOR THE DETECTABILITY OF COSMIC STRINGS. RECENT RESULTS SHOW THAT THE BACKGROUND?S AMPLITUDE DECREASES AT ALL FREQUENCIES, WEAKENING CURRENT CONSTRAINTS FROM PTA EXPERIMENTS LIKE NANOGRAV AS WELL AS FORECASTS IN EXPERIMENTS LIKE LISA. THESE FORECASTS WILL BE INTEGRATED INTO UPCOMING NANOGRAV DATA RELEASES. IMPROVED PREDICTIONS FOR THE SHAPE, EMISSION PATTERNS, AND EVOLUTION OF A TYPICAL STRING LOOP WILL DETERMINE MORE PRECISELY THE LIKELIHOOD AND RATE OF A LISA DETECTION OF GRAVITATIONAL-WAVES BURSTS FROM STRINGS. BECAUSE THESE BURSTS HAPPEN AT HIGH FREQUENCIES BUT LOW AMPLITUDES, BELOW THE LIGO SENSITIVITY, LISA IS THE NEXT EXPERIMENT WITH A CHANCE OF DETECTING BURSTS, MAKING PRECISE PREDICTIONS ESSENTIAL. THIS PROJECT WILL HIGHLIGHT HOW BEYOND-THE-STANDARD-MODEL THEORIES ARE CONSTRAINED BY THEIR RESULTS, PROVIDING GUIDANCE FOR THE NEXT ROUND OF MODEL-BUILDING AND EXPERIMENTAL SEARCHES FOR NEW PHYSICS. IT WILL ALSO BUILD ON A FRAMEWORK FOR GENERIC MULTI-DETECTOR COMPARISONS AND BURST EVENT RATE CALCULATIONS, MAKING THEM APPLICABLE TO OTHER CURRENT AND FUTURE EXPERIMENTS, SUCH AS LIGO OR COSMIC EXPLORER. STUDENTS WORKING ON THE PROJECT WILL GAIN SKILLS IN DATA ANALYSIS, PROGRAMMING, AND. SCIENTIFIC COMMUNICATION, AND WILL MAKE CONNECTIONS IN INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIONS. IN ADDITION, AS PART OF THE PROJECT, A SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING MINI COURSE FOR BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS WILL BE CONDUCTED AND ACTIVITIES WILL BE CARRIED OUT WITH MUSIC STUDENTS AND FACULTY AT LOCAL UNIVERSITIES FOR A SONIFICATION PROJECT OF COSMIC STRING SIGNALS. THIS 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.- SUBAWARDS ARE NOT PLANNED FOR THIS AWARD. | $196.7K | FY2025 | Sep 2025 – Aug 2027 |
| Department of Education | EARMARKS | $189.6K | FY2009 | Aug 2009 – Jul 2011 |
| Department of Homeland Security | ASSISTANCE TO FIREFIGHTERS GRANT | $174.6K | FY2016 | May 2016 – May 2017 |
| Department of Agriculture | REAP RENEWABLE ENERGY SYSTEM (RES) GRANT UNRESTRICTED AMOUNT | $151.1K | FY2023 | Sep 2023 – Sep 2025 |
| National Science Foundation | COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: PROBING CORONAL PROCESSES THROUGH THREE TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSES -A TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE OFFERS A UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY TO STUDY THE SUN?S OUTER ATMOSPHERE, THE CORONA, WHERE DYNAMIC PROCESSES, INCLUDING SOLAR WIND, ORIGINATE. THESE DYNAMIC PROCESSES IMPACT THE OPERATIONS OF SATELLITES, POWER SYSTEMS, AND COMMUNICATIONS ON EARTH. THE GOAL OF THIS PROPOSAL IS TO LEVERAGE THREE UPCOMING TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSES ON 12 AUGUST 2026, 2 AUGUST 2027, AND 22 JULY 2028, TO ADVANCE UNDERSTANDING OF CORONAL CONDITIONS THAT LEAD TO EXTREME SPACE WEATHER EVENTS. THE FINDINGS WILL HAVE IMPORTANT IMPLICATIONS FOR CURRENT SPACE INFRASTRUCTURE AND FOR FUTURE SPACE EXPLORATION. THE PROJECT WILL ALSO PROVIDE HANDS-ON RESEARCH AND TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES FOR UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE STUDENTS THROUGH PARTICIPATION IN ECLIPSE OBSERVATIONS, INSTRUMENTATION, AND DATA ANALYSIS. THE GOAL OF THIS PROJECT IS TO INVESTIGATE THE THERMODYNAMICS OF THE MULTI-THERMAL CORONAL PLASMAS WITH THEIR ASSOCIATED MAGNETIC FIELD STRUCTURES AND TO CHARACTERIZE THE DIFFERENT MANIFESTATIONS OF SPACE WEATHER EVENTS AT THEIR ORIGINS IN THE CORONA. THE SCOPE IS TO ACQUIRE HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION IMAGES AND HIGH SPECTRAL RESOLUTION DATA WITH A SUITE OF STATE-OF-THE ART IMAGING AND SPECTROSCOPIC INSTRUMENTATION, DEVELOPED AND TESTED DURING THE 2023 AND 2024 TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSES. INSTRUMENTATION WILL BE ENHANCED WITH HIGHER RESOLUTION IMAGING IN WHITE LIGHT AND FE XIV EMISSION LINE TO EXPLORE THE THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES OF DYNAMIC EVENTS, SUCH AS TURBULENCE, PLASMA INSTABILITIES AND CORONAL MASS EJECTIONS. IMAGING SPECTROMETERS WILL ALSO BE IMPROVED WITH NEW FILTERS TO ENHANCE THE SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO ENABLING MORE PRECISE MEASUREMENTS OF IONIC TEMPERATURES AND DOPPLER SHIFTS FROM THE MOST DOMINANT FE EMISSION LINES IN THE CORONA, SUCH AS FE X AND FE XIV. INSTRUMENTATION WILL BE DEPLOYED AT MULTIPLE OBSERVING SITES ALONG THE PATH OF TOTALITY FOR ALL THREE ECLIPSES. THESE THREE ECLIPSES COINCIDE WITH THE DECLINING AND MINIMUM PHASES OF SOLAR CYCLE 25. AS SUCH THEY WILL OFFER UNPARALLELED BENCHMARKS FOR MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMIC SIMULATIONS AND TURBULENCE-DRIVEN MODELS OF THE CORONA AND SOLAR WIND. THIS 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.- SUBAWARDS ARE NOT PLANNED FOR THIS AWARD. | $81K | FY2026 | Apr 2026 – Mar 2029 |
| Department of Agriculture | RBDG RURAL BUSINESS COOP RURAL ENTERPRISE GRANT | $60K | FY2022 | Jun 2022 – Jun 2024 |
| Department of Agriculture | SEC. 6022 RMAP-RURAL DEVELOP GRANTS (MAN) | $44.9K | FY2020 | Feb 2020 – Feb 2022 |
| Department of Agriculture | SECD RURAL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT COOP RBEG GRANT | $20K | FY2023 | Jun 2023 – Jun 2025 |
| Department of Agriculture | SEC. 6022 RMAP-RURAL DEVELOP GRANTS (MAN) | $13.3K | FY2024 | Sep 2024 – Sep 2026 |
| Department of Education | SUPPORT OF THE NEEDS AND ACTIVITIES FOR STUDENTS IN A RURAL PUBLIC SCHOOL | $12.2K | FY2019 | Jul 2019 – Sep 2020 |
| Department of Education | SUPPORT OF RURAL STUDENT NEEDS | $10.4K | FY2017 | Jul 2017 – Sep 2018 |
| Department of Education | SUPPORT OF THE NEEDS AND ACTIVITIES OF STUDENTS IN A RURAL PUBLIC SCHOOL | $10K | FY2018 | Jul 2018 – Sep 2019 |
| Department of Education | SMALL, RURAL SCHOOL ACHIEVEMENT PROGRAM | $8,250 | FY2025 | Jul 2025 – Sep 2026 |
| Department of Education | SMALL, RURAL SCHOOL ACHIEVEMENT PROGRAM | $7,843 | FY2024 | Jul 2024 – Sep 2025 |
| Department of Education | SMALL, RURAL SCHOOL ACHIEVEMENT PROGRAM | $7,467 | FY2023 | Jul 2023 – Sep 2024 |
| Department of Education | SMALL, RURAL SCHOOL ACHIEVEMENT PROGRAM | $7,334 | FY2020 | Jul 2020 – Sep 2021 |
| Department of Education | SMALL, RURAL SCHOOL ACHIEVEMENT PROGRAM | $7,051 | FY2021 | Jul 2021 – Sep 2022 |
| Department of Education | APPLICATION FOR SMALL, RURAL SCHOOL ACHIEVEMENT PROGRAM | $7,049.31 | FY2015 | Jul 2015 – Sep 2016 |
| Department of Education | SMALL, RURAL SCHOOL ACHIEVEMENT PROGRAM | $6,740 | FY2022 | Jul 2022 – Sep 2023 |
| Department of State | TO SUPPORT THE COSTS OF THE RENTAL OF A PIANO FOR HOLDING A FREE PUBLIC CONCERT AT THE NORWEGIAN ARCHITECTURE MUSEUM IN OSLO ON AUGUST 26, 2011. THE | $1,000 | FY2011 | Aug 2011 – Oct 2011 |
| Department of Agriculture | SEC. 6022 RMAP-RURAL MICRO DEVELOP ORGANIZATIONS GRANTS (DISC) | $0 | FY2022 | Sep 2022 – Sep 2024 |
| Department of Homeland Security | STAFFING FOR ADEQUATE FIRE AND EMERGENCY RESPONSE (SAFER) | -$15.5K | FY2010 | Nov 2009 – Nov 2014 |
Department of Education
$10.1M
FILING FOR HEERF FUNDING, INSTITUTIONAL SHARE.
Department of Education
$8.3M
FILING FOR FUNDING UNDER THE CORONAVIRUS AID, RELIEF, AND ECONOMIC SECURITY ACT.
National Science Foundation
$4.5M
NRT-IPP: PREPARING FUTURE BIOENGINEERS FOR CAREERS IN BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOMANUFACTURING THROUGH HANDS-ON TRAINING AND INDUSTRY PARTNERSHIPS -THIS NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION RESEARCH TRAINEESHIP INSTITUTIONAL PARTNERSHIP PILOT (NRT-IPP) AWARD LED BY WENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (WIT) AND BOSTON UNIVERSITY (BU), WILL CREATE A MASTER OF SCIENCE (MS) DEGREE PROGRAM IN BIOENGINEERING DESIGNED TO MEET DEMAND FOR PROFESSIONALS IN THE BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOMANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES. BIOENGINEERING IS A RAPIDLY EXPANDING FIELD IN MASSACHUSETTS, WHICH SERVES AS A NATIONAL HUB FOR THE BIOTECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY. THIS PROJECT ADDRESSES A SHORTAGE OF BIOENGINEERS BY PROVIDING STUDENTS WITH INDUSTRY-RELEVANT SKILLS, HANDS-ON RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES, AND CAREER DEVELOPMENT EXPERIENCES. THE PROGRAM INTEGRATES COURSEWORK, IMMERSIVE RESEARCH, AND PAID INDUSTRY INTERNSHIPS, ENSURING GRADUATES ARE WELL-PREPARED TO TRANSITION INTO STEM CAREERS AND CONTRIBUTE TO THE BIOENGINEERING SECTOR. TRAINEES WILL GAIN EXPERTISE IN BIOENGINEERING PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT, MEDICAL DEVICE DESIGN, BIOMANUFACTURING, AND COMPUTATIONAL MODELING, AMONG OTHER KEY AREAS. THE PROJECT ANTICIPATES TRAINING 100 STUDENTS OVER FIVE YEARS, INCLUDING 25 FULLY FUNDED TRAINEES. THIS DEGREE PROGRAM AT WIT WILL LEVERAGE BU?S EXPERTISE IN BIOENGINEERING GRADUATE EDUCATION AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT, INCORPORATING SUSTAINABLE AND EFFECTIVE TRAINING PRACTICES FROM ITS NRT PROGRAM IN NEUROPHOTONICS. THE PROJECT COMBINES EDUCATIONAL PRACTICES WITH INDUSTRY ENGAGEMENT TO ENSURE STUDENTS ACQUIRE NEEDED SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES. THE PROGRAM?S CURRICULUM INCLUDES COURSES TAILORED TO INDUSTRY NEEDS, PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOPS, AND TECHNICAL TRAINING IN CUTTING-EDGE TOOLS. BY PARTNERING WITH BIOTECHNOLOGY COMPANIES, WIT STUDENTS WILL GAIN PAID WORK EXPERIENCE IN REAL-WORLD SETTINGS THROUGH A STRUCTURED COOPERATIVE PROGRAM. ADDITIONALLY, TRAINEES WILL CONDUCT INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH IN AREAS SUCH AS MEDICAL IMAGING, BIOSENSING, TISSUE ENGINEERING, AND DIGITAL THERAPEUTICS. THIS RESEARCH-DRIVEN APPROACH, COUPLED WITH INDUSTRY MENTORSHIP, WILL BRIDGE THE GAP BETWEEN ACADEMIA AND THE WORKFORCE, FOSTERING INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCEMENTS. THE PROJECT WILL PROVIDE A REPLICABLE MODEL FOR STEM GRADUATE EDUCATION. THE ANTICIPATED OUTCOMES INCLUDE A HIGHLY TRAINED WORKFORCE AND BROAD SOCIETAL BENEFITS FROM BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENTS THAT ADDRESS PRESSING CHALLENGES. THE NRT INSTITUTIONAL PARTNERSHIP PILOT (NRT-IPP) IS A COLLABORATIVE EFFORT BETWEEN THE DIRECTORATES FOR STEM EDUCATION (EDU) AND TECHNOLOGY, INNOVATION, AND PARTNERSHIPS (TIP) TO SUPPORT RESEARCH AND EDUCATION PROJECTS WITH HIGH INDUSTRY RELEVANCE IN EMERGING FIELDS. THIS 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.- SUBAWARDS ARE PLANNED FOR THIS AWARD.
National Science Foundation
$499.1K
ENSURING EARLY MATHEMATICS SUCCESS FOR STEM MAJORS
Department of Health and Human Services
$400K
HEALTH CARE AND OTHER FACILITIES
National Science Foundation
$386K
COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: SHINE--CORONAL PHYSICS WITH TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE DATA AND MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMIC SIMULATIONS -THIS PROJECT AIMS TO IMPROVE OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE SUN?S CORONA, THE HOT OUTERMOST LAYER OF THE SOLAR ATMOSPHERE, BY ANALYZING DATA FROM TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSES (TSES). ECLIPSES PROVIDE A RARE OPPORTUNITY TO STUDY THE CORONA IN DETAIL, OFFERING INSIGHTS INTO HOW IT IS HEATED AND HOW THE SOLAR WIND FORMS. TELESCOPE OBSERVATIONS OF DIFFERENT CORONAL EMISSION LINES, THE BACKGROUND CONTINUUM, AND BROADBAND WHITE LIGHT WILL ALLOW US TO INFER PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF THE CORONA SUCH AS TEMPERATURE, DENSITY, AND MAGNETIC FIELD STRUCTURE. USING DATA FROM FIVE ECLIPSES, SPANNING NEARLY A FULL SOLAR CYCLE (2015?2024), THIS RESEARCH WILL TRACK CHANGES IN THE CORONA OVER TIME AND ACROSS DIFFERENT STRUCTURES. THE PROJECT WILL ALSO COMPARE THESE TSE OBSERVATIONS TO ADVANCED COMPUTER SIMULATIONS TO REFINE MODELS OF THE SUN?S ATMOSPHERE. THESE FINDINGS WILL ENHANCE OUR ABILITY TO PREDICT SPACE WEATHER, WHICH HAS IMPLICATIONS FOR SATELLITES, POWER GRIDS, AND SPACE TRAVEL. ADDITIONALLY, UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS WILL GAIN HANDS-ON RESEARCH EXPERIENCE, CONTRIBUTING TO THE NEXT GENERATION OF SCIENTISTS. IN THIS PROJECT, IMAGING DATA FROM FIVE TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSES (2015, 2017, 2019, 2023, AND 2024) WILL BE ANALYZED AND COMPARED WITH NEW AND EXISTING MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMIC (MHD) SIMULATIONS USING THE PREDICTIVE SCIENCE INC. MAS MODEL. WE WILL ANALYZE VISIBLE AND NEAR-INFRARED BROADBAND AND NARROWBAND IMAGING OBSERVATIONS MADE DURING EACH ECLIPSE TO STUDY THE CORONAL ELECTRON TEMPERATURE (TE), ELECTRON DENSITY, AND THE STRUCTURE OF THE CORONAL MAGNETIC FIELD. IN PARTICULAR, IMAGING DATA OF THE CORONAL EMISSION LINES OF FE X, FE XI, FE XIV, AND CA XV WILL BE USED TO INFER TE VIA A RADIATIVE DIFFERENTIAL EMISSION MEASURE (RDEM) ANALYSIS. EACH EMISSION LINE REQUIRES A NARROWBAND CONTINUUM OBSERVATION, WHICH IS USED TO SUBTRACT THE BACKGROUND FROM EACH LINE, AND WILL BE USED TO SEPARATE ELECTRON AND DUST SCATTERING (K AND F CORONA). THE BROADBAND WHITE-LIGHT DATA WILL THEN BE ANALYZED USING A ROLLING HOUGH TRANSFORM (RHT) TO INFER THE PROJECTED MAGNETIC FIELD VECTORS THROUGHOUT THE CORONA. THE OVERARCHING GOAL IS TO BENCHMARK AND IMPROVE CORONAL AND SOLAR WIND MODELS BY CONSTRAINING KEY PHYSICAL PARAMETERS. THE RESULTS WILL PROVIDE VALUABLE EMPIRICAL CONSTRAINTS ON CORONAL HEATING AND SOLAR WIND FORMATION, AND WILL BE VALUABLE FOR INFORMING FUTURE SPACE WEATHER FORECASTING. THIS 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.- SUBAWARDS ARE NOT PLANNED FOR THIS AWARD.
Department of Health and Human Services
$350.2K
HEALTH CARE AND OTHER FACILITIES
Department of Health and Human Services
$334.6K
HIGH-SPEED SPIN TESTING OF REINFORCED 2212 COILS FOR HIGH-FIELD NMR MAGNETS
Department of Health and Human Services
$264K
COMMUNITY PROJECT FUNDING/CONGRESSIONALLY DIRECTED SPENDING - CONSTRUCTION - WENTWORTH-DOUGLASS HOSPITAL 789 CENTRAL AVENUE DOVER, NH 03820-2589 LAURA ROBERTS, TRANSPORT & CARE VAN MANAGER 603.609.6170 LAURA.ROBERTS@WDHOSPITAL.ORG WDHOSPITAL.ORG FUNDS REQUESTED: $500,000 SUMMARY: THE WENTWORTH-DOUGLASS HOSPITAL PROVISION OF TRANSPORTATION PROGRAM (CARE VAN) CURRENTLY OPERATES 7 VEHICLES WITH 14 DRIVERS (6 BUDGETED, 8 PER DIEM) WHO SERVICE PATIENTS BETWEEN 7:30AM AND 4:30PM MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY ON AN ANNUAL BUDGET OF APPROXIMATELY $800,000 PER YEAR. AT FULL CAPACITY, THE EXISTING FLEET OF CARE VANS CAN SERVICE OVER 60 PATIENTS PER DAY. THE EXISTING PROGRAM OFFERS SERVICES TO THE HOSPITAL'S MAIN CAMPUS FROM THE HOSPITAL'S PRIMARY SERVICE AREA. THE CARE VAN PROGRAM IS DESIGNATED FOR PATIENTS WHO ARE UNABLE TO PROVIDE FOR THEIR OWN TRANSPORTATION; HAVE NO OTHER REGULAR, RELIABLE, AND APPROPRIATE MEANS OF TRANSPORTATION, EITHER PUBLIC OR PRIVATE (SUCH AS BUS, FAMILY MEMBERS, OR FRIENDS), AND; DO NOT HAVE INSURANCE THAT WILL PAY FOR TRANSPORTATION SERVICES SUCH AS THE VA, MEDICARE, MEDICAID, TRIPLINK, NOR QUALIFY FOR ANY OTHER TRANSPORTATION SERVICE. GIVEN THE CONTINUED COMMUNITY NEED FOR ACCESS TO CARE AND OUR GROWING FOOTPRINT, WENTWORTH-DOUGLASS HOSPITAL WILL USE FEDERAL FUNDS AWARDED VIA CONGRESSIONALLY DIRECTED SPENDING TO EXPAND THE CARE VAN PROGRAM TO SERVICE PATIENTS WITHIN 25 MILES OF OFFSITE LOCATIONS. SPECIFICALLY THE FUNDING WILL BE USED TO PURCHASE THREE ADDITIONAL CARE VANS, A COMPREHENSIVE SCHEDULING SOFTWARE, HIRE THREE FTE DRIVERS, AND ONE FTE DISPATCHER.
National Science Foundation
$200.8K
MRI: ACQUISITION OF ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETER FOR EPIC LEARNING
National Science Foundation
$196.7K
LEAPS-MPS: EXPLORING NEW PHYSICS WITH MORE ACCURATE SIGNALS FROM COSMIC STRINGS -THE RECENT EVIDENCE FOR A GRAVITATIONAL WAVE BACKGROUND IS ONE OF THE MOST SIGNIFICANT DISCOVERIES FOR COSMOLOGY SINCE LIGO FIRST SAW GRAVITATIONAL WAVES FROM MERGING BLACK HOLES. THE GRAVITATIONAL-WAVE BACKGROUND IS A ?HUM? FILLING SPACE, MUCH LIKE BACKGROUND CONVERSATION IN A CROWDED ROOM. AND JUST LIKE A CROWDED ROOM, IT CAN BE HARD TO PICK OUT A SINGLE VOICE?BUT EASIER IF IT?S THE VOICE OF SOMEONE YOU KNOW. THE GRAVITATIONAL-WAVE BACKGROUND IS FULL OF MANY ?VOICES? FROM DIFFERENT ASTROPHYSICAL AND COSMOLOGICAL SOURCES, AND TO BE ABLE TO UNDERSTAND THE WHOLE, WE NEED TO BE ABLE TO RECOGNIZE EACH VOICE. ONLY THEN CAN WE DETERMINE WHICH SOURCES ARE PRESENT, AND THEREBY LEARN MORE ABOUT THE PHYSICS OF OUR UNIVERSE. THE PARTICULAR VOICE/SOURCE THIS PROPOSAL FOCUSES ON IS COSMIC STRINGS: LONG, THIN, OSCILLATING OBJECTS PREDICTED TO HAVE FORMED IN THE VERY EARLY UNIVERSE. THIS PROPOSAL COMPRISES TWO PROJECTS, BOTH MAKING USE OF THE MOST RECENT ADVANCES IN MODELING THE ?VOICES? OF COSMIC STRINGS. THE FIRST AIMS TO INTEGRATE CURRENT CONSTRAINTS ON THE COSMIC STRING BACKGROUND WITH PROJECTED SENSITIVITIES FOR NEXT-GENERATION GRAVITATIONAL-WAVE DETECTORS. CURRENT CONSTRAINTS WILL COME FROM THE NANOGRAV COLLABORATION, SERVING AS AN INDIRECT TEST OF A VARIETY OF MODELS OF NEW PHYSICS. THE LIKELIHOODS OF DIFFERENT THEORIES WILL THEN FEED INTO UPDATED CONSTRAINTS ON THE ABILITY OF THE LASER INTERFEROMETER SPACE ANTENNA (LISA) TO DETECT COSMIC STRINGS; THIS MULTIDETECTOR ANALYSIS PROVIDES MORE ROBUST PREDICTIONS THAN USING EITHER DETECTOR ALONE, AND AIMS TO INSPIRE THE NEXT REFINEMENT IN MODEL-BUILDING FOR NEW PHYSICS MODELS. THE SECOND PROJECT WILL FIND NEW PREDICTIONS FOR THE STRENGTH AND RATE OF BURSTS OF GRAVITATIONAL WAVES FROM COSMIC STRINGS, AS SEEN BY LISA. THIS WILL PROVIDE A COMPLEMENTARY METHOD OF SEARCHING FOR STRINGS, AND THUS FOR NEW PHYSICS. BOTH PROJECTS WILL HAVE SIGNIFICANT STUDENT INVOLVEMENT. STUDENTS WILL DEVELOP TRANSFERABLE SKILLS IN DATA ANALYSIS, COMPUTATIONAL TECHNIQUES, VISUALIZATION, AND COMMUNICATION WHILE BROADENING THEIR PROFESSIONAL NETWORKS BY INTERACTING WITH SCIENTISTS FROM INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIONS. THE RECENT EVIDENCE FOR A GRAVITATIONAL WAVE BACKGROUND IS ONE OF THE MOST SIGNIFICANT DISCOVERIES FOR COSMOLOGY SINCE LIGO FIRST SAW GRAVITATIONAL WAVES FROM MERGING BLACK HOLES. THE FULL GRAVITATIONAL-WAVE BACKGROUND IS A SUM OF MANY DIFFERENT SOURCES, INCLUDING THOSE FROM NEW-PHYSICS THEORIES. CAREFUL MODELING OF ALL SOURCES IS IMPORTANT FOR DISENTANGLING THE FULL BACKGROUND INTO THESE CONSTITUENT PARTS. COSMIC STRINGS ARE IMPORTANT SIGNS OF NEW PHYSICS, BEING GENERIC PREDICTIONS IN MANY BEYOND-THE-STANDARD-MODEL THEORIES. RECENT PROGRESS IN SIMULATIONS OF GRAVITATIONAL SELF-INTERACTIONS OF COSMIC STRINGS HAS FOUND HOW THE SHAPES AND GRAVITATIONAL-WAVE EMISSIONS OF THE STRINGS EVOLVES OVER THEIR LIFETIMES. THIS PROJECT WILL USE THE DATA WHICH PROVIDED THE EVIDENCE FOR A BACKGROUND AS WELL AS THESE SELF-INTERACTION RESULTS TO MAKE IMPROVED PREDICTIONS FOR THE DETECTABILITY OF COSMIC STRINGS. RECENT RESULTS SHOW THAT THE BACKGROUND?S AMPLITUDE DECREASES AT ALL FREQUENCIES, WEAKENING CURRENT CONSTRAINTS FROM PTA EXPERIMENTS LIKE NANOGRAV AS WELL AS FORECASTS IN EXPERIMENTS LIKE LISA. THESE FORECASTS WILL BE INTEGRATED INTO UPCOMING NANOGRAV DATA RELEASES. IMPROVED PREDICTIONS FOR THE SHAPE, EMISSION PATTERNS, AND EVOLUTION OF A TYPICAL STRING LOOP WILL DETERMINE MORE PRECISELY THE LIKELIHOOD AND RATE OF A LISA DETECTION OF GRAVITATIONAL-WAVES BURSTS FROM STRINGS. BECAUSE THESE BURSTS HAPPEN AT HIGH FREQUENCIES BUT LOW AMPLITUDES, BELOW THE LIGO SENSITIVITY, LISA IS THE NEXT EXPERIMENT WITH A CHANCE OF DETECTING BURSTS, MAKING PRECISE PREDICTIONS ESSENTIAL. THIS PROJECT WILL HIGHLIGHT HOW BEYOND-THE-STANDARD-MODEL THEORIES ARE CONSTRAINED BY THEIR RESULTS, PROVIDING GUIDANCE FOR THE NEXT ROUND OF MODEL-BUILDING AND EXPERIMENTAL SEARCHES FOR NEW PHYSICS. IT WILL ALSO BUILD ON A FRAMEWORK FOR GENERIC MULTI-DETECTOR COMPARISONS AND BURST EVENT RATE CALCULATIONS, MAKING THEM APPLICABLE TO OTHER CURRENT AND FUTURE EXPERIMENTS, SUCH AS LIGO OR COSMIC EXPLORER. STUDENTS WORKING ON THE PROJECT WILL GAIN SKILLS IN DATA ANALYSIS, PROGRAMMING, AND. SCIENTIFIC COMMUNICATION, AND WILL MAKE CONNECTIONS IN INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIONS. IN ADDITION, AS PART OF THE PROJECT, A SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING MINI COURSE FOR BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS WILL BE CONDUCTED AND ACTIVITIES WILL BE CARRIED OUT WITH MUSIC STUDENTS AND FACULTY AT LOCAL UNIVERSITIES FOR A SONIFICATION PROJECT OF COSMIC STRING SIGNALS. THIS 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.- SUBAWARDS ARE NOT PLANNED FOR THIS AWARD.
Department of Education
$189.6K
EARMARKS
Department of Homeland Security
$174.6K
ASSISTANCE TO FIREFIGHTERS GRANT
Department of Agriculture
$151.1K
REAP RENEWABLE ENERGY SYSTEM (RES) GRANT UNRESTRICTED AMOUNT
National Science Foundation
$81K
COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: PROBING CORONAL PROCESSES THROUGH THREE TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSES -A TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE OFFERS A UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY TO STUDY THE SUN?S OUTER ATMOSPHERE, THE CORONA, WHERE DYNAMIC PROCESSES, INCLUDING SOLAR WIND, ORIGINATE. THESE DYNAMIC PROCESSES IMPACT THE OPERATIONS OF SATELLITES, POWER SYSTEMS, AND COMMUNICATIONS ON EARTH. THE GOAL OF THIS PROPOSAL IS TO LEVERAGE THREE UPCOMING TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSES ON 12 AUGUST 2026, 2 AUGUST 2027, AND 22 JULY 2028, TO ADVANCE UNDERSTANDING OF CORONAL CONDITIONS THAT LEAD TO EXTREME SPACE WEATHER EVENTS. THE FINDINGS WILL HAVE IMPORTANT IMPLICATIONS FOR CURRENT SPACE INFRASTRUCTURE AND FOR FUTURE SPACE EXPLORATION. THE PROJECT WILL ALSO PROVIDE HANDS-ON RESEARCH AND TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES FOR UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE STUDENTS THROUGH PARTICIPATION IN ECLIPSE OBSERVATIONS, INSTRUMENTATION, AND DATA ANALYSIS. THE GOAL OF THIS PROJECT IS TO INVESTIGATE THE THERMODYNAMICS OF THE MULTI-THERMAL CORONAL PLASMAS WITH THEIR ASSOCIATED MAGNETIC FIELD STRUCTURES AND TO CHARACTERIZE THE DIFFERENT MANIFESTATIONS OF SPACE WEATHER EVENTS AT THEIR ORIGINS IN THE CORONA. THE SCOPE IS TO ACQUIRE HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION IMAGES AND HIGH SPECTRAL RESOLUTION DATA WITH A SUITE OF STATE-OF-THE ART IMAGING AND SPECTROSCOPIC INSTRUMENTATION, DEVELOPED AND TESTED DURING THE 2023 AND 2024 TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSES. INSTRUMENTATION WILL BE ENHANCED WITH HIGHER RESOLUTION IMAGING IN WHITE LIGHT AND FE XIV EMISSION LINE TO EXPLORE THE THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES OF DYNAMIC EVENTS, SUCH AS TURBULENCE, PLASMA INSTABILITIES AND CORONAL MASS EJECTIONS. IMAGING SPECTROMETERS WILL ALSO BE IMPROVED WITH NEW FILTERS TO ENHANCE THE SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO ENABLING MORE PRECISE MEASUREMENTS OF IONIC TEMPERATURES AND DOPPLER SHIFTS FROM THE MOST DOMINANT FE EMISSION LINES IN THE CORONA, SUCH AS FE X AND FE XIV. INSTRUMENTATION WILL BE DEPLOYED AT MULTIPLE OBSERVING SITES ALONG THE PATH OF TOTALITY FOR ALL THREE ECLIPSES. THESE THREE ECLIPSES COINCIDE WITH THE DECLINING AND MINIMUM PHASES OF SOLAR CYCLE 25. AS SUCH THEY WILL OFFER UNPARALLELED BENCHMARKS FOR MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMIC SIMULATIONS AND TURBULENCE-DRIVEN MODELS OF THE CORONA AND SOLAR WIND. THIS 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.- SUBAWARDS ARE NOT PLANNED FOR THIS AWARD.
Department of Agriculture
$60K
RBDG RURAL BUSINESS COOP RURAL ENTERPRISE GRANT
Department of Agriculture
$44.9K
SEC. 6022 RMAP-RURAL DEVELOP GRANTS (MAN)
Department of Agriculture
$20K
SECD RURAL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT COOP RBEG GRANT
Department of Agriculture
$13.3K
SEC. 6022 RMAP-RURAL DEVELOP GRANTS (MAN)
Department of Education
$12.2K
SUPPORT OF THE NEEDS AND ACTIVITIES FOR STUDENTS IN A RURAL PUBLIC SCHOOL
Department of Education
$10.4K
SUPPORT OF RURAL STUDENT NEEDS
Department of Education
$10K
SUPPORT OF THE NEEDS AND ACTIVITIES OF STUDENTS IN A RURAL PUBLIC SCHOOL
Department of Education
$8,250
SMALL, RURAL SCHOOL ACHIEVEMENT PROGRAM
Department of Education
$7,843
SMALL, RURAL SCHOOL ACHIEVEMENT PROGRAM
Department of Education
$7,467
SMALL, RURAL SCHOOL ACHIEVEMENT PROGRAM
Department of Education
$7,334
SMALL, RURAL SCHOOL ACHIEVEMENT PROGRAM
Department of Education
$7,051
SMALL, RURAL SCHOOL ACHIEVEMENT PROGRAM
Department of Education
$7,049.31
APPLICATION FOR SMALL, RURAL SCHOOL ACHIEVEMENT PROGRAM
Department of Education
$6,740
SMALL, RURAL SCHOOL ACHIEVEMENT PROGRAM
Department of State
$1,000
TO SUPPORT THE COSTS OF THE RENTAL OF A PIANO FOR HOLDING A FREE PUBLIC CONCERT AT THE NORWEGIAN ARCHITECTURE MUSEUM IN OSLO ON AUGUST 26, 2011. THE
Department of Agriculture
$0
SEC. 6022 RMAP-RURAL MICRO DEVELOP ORGANIZATIONS GRANTS (DISC)
Department of Homeland Security
-$15.5K
STAFFING FOR ADEQUATE FIRE AND EMERGENCY RESPONSE (SAFER)
Source: Federal Audit Clearinghouse (fac.gov)
No federal single audit records found for this organization.
Single audits are required for entities expending $750,000+ in federal awards annually.
Source: IRS e-Filed Form 990
No officer or director compensation data available for this organization.
This data is sourced from IRS Form 990, Part VII. It may not be available if the organization files Form 990-N (e-Postcard) or has not yet been enriched.
Source: IRS Publication 78, Auto-Revocation List & e-Postcard Data
Tax-deductible contributions: Yes
Deductibility code: PC
Sources: IRS e-Filed Form 990 (XML) & ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer
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| Year | Revenue | Contributions | Expenses | Assets | Net Assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | $131.8K | $70.1K | $231.5K | $676.5K | -$886.7K |
| 2022 | $134K | $79.3K | $213.6K | $733.3K | -$787K |
| 2021 | $131.3K | $77.3K | $205.5K | $781K | -$707.3K |
| 2020 | $131.2K | $76K | $203.9K | $825.4K |
Sources: ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer & IRS e-File Index
| Tax Year | Form Type | Source | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 990 | IRS e-File | PDF not yet published by IRSView Filing → |
| 2023 | 990 | DataIRS e-File | |
| 2022 | 990 | DataIRS e-File |
Financial data: IRS Form 990 via ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer (Tax Year 2023)
Federal grants: USAspending.gov (live)
Organization info: IRS Business Master File · ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer
Tax-deductibility: IRS Publication 78
| -$633.1K |
| 2019 | $134.5K | $79.1K | $213K | $880K | -$560.4K |
| 2018 | $131.5K | $80.5K | $209.5K | $927.5K | -$481.9K |
| 2017 | $128.1K | $79.7K | $187.2K | $979.7K | -$404K |
| 2016 | $132.4K | $81.4K | $187.7K | $1M | -$344.8K |
| 2015 | $129.3K | $83.8K | $156.7K | $1M | -$289.5K |
| 2014 | $131.7K | $85.2K | $165.7K | $1.1M | -$262.1K |
| 2013 | $130.6K | $86.3K | $166.1K | $1.1M | $1M |
| 2012 | $128.3K | $0 | $148.5K | $1.1M | $1M |
| 2011 | $114.7K | $0 | $134K | $1.1M | $1.1M |
| 2021 | 990 | Data | PDF not yet published by IRS |
| 2020 | 990 | Data |
| 2019 | 990 | Data |
| 2018 | 990 | Data |
| 2017 | 990 | Data |
| 2016 | 990 | Data |
| 2015 | 990 | Data |
| 2014 | 990 | Data |
| 2013 | 990 | Data |
| 2012 | 990 | Data |
| 2011 | 990 | Data |
| 2010 | 990 | — |
| 2009 | 990 | — |
| 2008 | 990 | — |
| 2007 | 990 | — |
| 2006 | 990 | — |
| 2005 | 990 | — |
| 2003 | 990 | — |
| 2002 | 990 | — |