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New Hampshire

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NSF and New Hampshire

In FY 2002 the NSF provided 135 awards totaling approximately $19 million to 8 institutions in the State of New Hampshire as well as $108,000 in fellowships.

Institutions in New Hampshire that received NSF support in FY 2002 include Dartmouth College, University of New Hampshire, Autonomous Undersea Systems, Inc., Keene State College, and the New Hampshire Technical College at Berlin.

PROJECTS CURRENTLY FUNDED BY THE NSF IN THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE INCLUDE:

  • The National Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Data Center — Brain imaging is a non-invasive technique that has the potential to distinguish between competing explanations of cognitive processes, to locate the neural activity associated with a particular behavior, and to identify some of the causes of human disorders such as dyslexia, and ADHD. One particularly promising form of brain imaging is functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). However, two significant impediments prevent fMRI's full potential from being realized: the high cost of doing fMRI and the lack of a common data standard. The objective of the National fMRI Data Center at Dartmouth College is to create an environment that will unleash fMRI's full potential. The Center will achieve this by (a) providing access to a common data set that everyone can use to develop and evaluate methods, confirm hypotheses, and perform meta-analysis; and (b) increasing the number of cognitive neuroscientists that can examine, consider, analyze, and assess the brain imaging data that has already been collected and published.


  • A Data Model for Multi-resolution Scientific Data — Interactive exploration effectively enables scientists to identify and interpret data embedded in much larger data sets that represents significant underlying phenomena. Scientific database research, however, has not yet had a major impact on the way that scientists actually use scientific data. The lack of a comprehensive conceptual model for scientific data has limited the success of current systems in becoming more general and less ad hoc. The principle goal of this Information Technology Research project at the University of New Hampshire is to develop, validate, and prototype a formal data model for distributed multi-resolution scientific data that encapsulates its inherent structure to guide efficient database implementation. The model includes comprehensive geometry and topology-based features for describing a wide variety of sampling grids and error measures that reflect the accuracy of authenticity of each representation level.


  • Small Business Innovation Research — An NSF SBIR award to Synergy Innovations, Inc. supports research and development of a commercial process for the manufacture of mono-size-dispersed, spherical powder from metals melting up to 200?C. A unique magnetohydrodymanic jet exciter will be designed, fabricated, and developed as a component of the system essential to producing monosphere powder to high tolerances. An electrostatic means for preventing coalescence in the drop cloud will be further developed. Development of cooling means for solidification will be completed. Specific industry quality control standards and testing will be applied to qualify the monosphere product, and a refined analysis of cost of manufacture and a complete business plan will be produced.


For more information on New Hampshire and NSF, please contact the Office of Legislative and Public Affairs at 703-292-8070.

Useful Links:

New Hampshire Governor's Office
New Hampshire State Government
New Hampshire Division of Economic Development


 
 
     
 

 
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