Grants Database

The Foundation awards approximately 200 grants per year (excluding the Sloan Research Fellowships), totaling roughly $80 million dollars in annual commitments in support of research and education in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and economics. This database contains grants for currently operating programs going back to 2008. For grants from prior years and for now-completed programs, see the annual reports section of this website.

Grants Database

Grantee
Amount
City
Year
  • grantee: Library Foundation of Los Angeles
    amount: $100,000
    city: Los Angeles, CA
    year: 2012

    High leverage support to develop a pilot residency program for newly credentialed librarians into a national model for sustaining public libraries in the digital age

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Universal Access to Knowledge
    • Investigator Kenneth Brecher

    High leverage support to develop a pilot residency program for newly credentialed librarians into a national model for sustaining public libraries in the digital age

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  • grantee: Henry Petroski
    amount: $50,000
    city: Durham, NC
    year: 2012

    To research and write an illustrated book with photographs about the design and construction of a house, including discussion of its environmental, social, and cultural context

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Henry Petroski

    To research and write an illustrated book with photographs about the design and construction of a house, including discussion of its environmental, social, and cultural context

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  • grantee: Amir D. Aczel
    amount: $15,408
    city: Brookline, MA
    year: 2012

    To support the research of a book about scholar Georges Coedes' discovery of the origin of the concept of zero in Cambodia and its effect on our modern number system

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Amir Aczel

    To support the research of a book about scholar Georges Coedes' discovery of the origin of the concept of zero in Cambodia and its effect on our modern number system

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  • grantee: Jonathan Waldman
    amount: $50,000
    city: Boulder, CO
    year: 2012

    To support the research and writing of a book about rust and the engineering efforts required to combat it

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Jonathan Waldman

    To support the research and writing of a book about rust and the engineering efforts required to combat it

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  • grantee: Tom Shachtman
    amount: $30,000
    city: Salisbury, CT
    year: 2012

    For research support for a book "The Science of the Founding Fathers" on the role of science and technology in early America

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Tom Shachtman

    For research support for a book "The Science of the Founding Fathers" on the role of science and technology in early America

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  • grantee: Long Island University
    amount: $19,600
    city: Greenvale, NY
    year: 2012

    To provide an opportunity for various groups (faculty program directors, researchers, evaluators, sponsors, graduate students, and post?-doctorates) to interact on issues in theory, methodology, policy, and approaches for increasing participation in STEM

    • Program Higher Education
    • Investigator Anthony DePass

    To provide an opportunity for various groups (faculty program directors, researchers, evaluators, sponsors, graduate students, and post?-doctorates) to interact on issues in theory, methodology, policy, and approaches for increasing participation in STEM

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  • grantee: Texas A&M University
    amount: $116,201
    city: College Station, TX
    year: 2012

    To support a pilot laboratory experimental study using MBA, MPA, and business students to assess the magnitude of age discrimination in the labor market at the resume stage of hiring

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Working Longer
    • Investigator Joanna Lahey

    To support a pilot laboratory experimental study using MBA, MPA, and business students to assess the magnitude of age discrimination in the labor market at the resume stage of hiring

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  • grantee: Washington University in St. Louis
    amount: $124,999
    city: St. Louis, MO
    year: 2012

    To develop and analyze theoretical models of the labor supply of married older workers

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Working Longer
    • Investigator Robert Pollak

    To develop and analyze theoretical models of the labor supply of married older workers

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  • grantee: George Washington University
    amount: $15,000
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2012

    To provide partial support for a conference to increase awareness about potential uses of new economic data sources available from federal, commercial, university, and non-profit data providers

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Andrew Reamer

    To provide partial support for a conference to increase awareness about potential uses of new economic data sources available from federal, commercial, university, and non-profit data providers

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  • grantee: Cell Motion Laboratories, Inc.
    amount: $20,000
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2012

    To support the BioBus, a state?-of-the?-art, fully mobile, research science lab, to visit K-12 schools and public science events in New York City

    • Program New York City Program
    • Investigator Benjamin Dubin-Thaler

    To support the BioBus, a state?-of-the?-art, fully mobile, research science lab, to visit K-12 schools and public science events in New York City

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