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: University of Michigan
    amount: $19,475
    city: Ann Arbor, MI
    year: 2012

    To partially support a workshop on the academic study of knowledge infrastructures

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Data & Computational Research
    • Investigator Paul Edwards

    To partially support a workshop on the academic study of knowledge infrastructures

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  • grantee: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
    amount: $20,000
    city: Cold Spring Harbor, NY
    year: 2012

    To create a model of the future scientific research library based on discussions of researcher needs and best practices of libraries throughout the world

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Data & Computational Research
    • Investigator Ludmila Pollock

    To create a model of the future scientific research library based on discussions of researcher needs and best practices of libraries throughout the world

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  • grantee: Ezus Lyon
    amount: $50,000
    city: Villeurbanne, France
    year: 2012

    For partial support of a workshop on serpentinization, a process crucial in understanding Earth's deep carbon cycle

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Deep Carbon Observatory
    • Investigator Isabelle Daniel

    For partial support of a workshop on serpentinization, a process crucial in understanding Earth's deep carbon cycle

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  • grantee: American Sociological Association
    amount: $5,000
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2012

    To establish a common standard for tracking demographic data and measuring the process and outcome of diversity?-enhancing programs in the sciences

    • Program Higher Education
    • Investigator Sally Hillsman

    To establish a common standard for tracking demographic data and measuring the process and outcome of diversity?-enhancing programs in the sciences

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  • grantee: Algebra Project, Inc.
    amount: $120,324
    city: Cambridge, MA
    year: 2012

    To develop a new method of evaluating students' understanding of mathematics and conduct a pilot evaluation of the pedagogical strategies used in the Center for Mathematical Talent materials

    • Program New York City Program
    • Investigator Benjamin Moynihan

    To develop a new method of evaluating students' understanding of mathematics and conduct a pilot evaluation of the pedagogical strategies used in the Center for Mathematical Talent materials

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  • grantee: American Association for the Advancement of Science
    amount: $124,996
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2012

    To recruit, train, and celebrate US teams to compete in the Pan-African and Ibero-American Mathematics Olympiads

    • Program
    • Investigator Florence Fasanelli

    To recruit, train, and celebrate US teams to compete in the Pan-African and Ibero-American Mathematics Olympiads

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  • grantee: University of British Columbia
    amount: $20,000
    city: Vancouver, BC, Canada
    year: 2012

    To accelerate the rate of exploration, adaptation and effective integration of methods of instruction that better support improved student learning, with a focus on undergraduate STEM education

    • Program Higher Education
    • Investigator Lorne Whitehead

    To accelerate the rate of exploration, adaptation and effective integration of methods of instruction that better support improved student learning, with a focus on undergraduate STEM education

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  • grantee: The Wolfram Foundation
    amount: $123,453
    city: Champaign, IL
    year: 2012

    To prototype part of a Mathematical Heritage Library by constructing and demonstrating a computable database concerned with continued fractions

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Scholarly Communication
    • Investigator Michael Trott

    To prototype part of a Mathematical Heritage Library by constructing and demonstrating a computable database concerned with continued fractions

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  • grantee: Institute for New Economic Thinking
    amount: $24,300
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2012

    To support the participation of students in a major international conference on new economic thinking

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Robert Johnson

    To support the participation of students in a major international conference on new economic thinking

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  • grantee: Benbough Operating Foundation
    amount: $20,000
    city: San Diego, CA
    year: 2012

    Support for a branded DPLA reception and a keynote address that will expose the community of digital cultural heritage professionals to the DPLA project at the WebWise conference

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Universal Access to Knowledge
    • Investigator Rich Cherry

    Support for a branded DPLA reception and a keynote address that will expose the community of digital cultural heritage professionals to the DPLA project at the WebWise conference

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