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NSF and Illinois
In FY 2002, NSF provided 913 awards totaling approximately $208 million to 47
institutions in the State of Illinois.
Institutions in Illinois that received NSF support in FY 2002 included the University of Illinois at Springfield, the University of Chicago, Illinois State University, Southern
Illinois University, Joliet Junior College, Moraine Valley Community College, Molecular Biology Consortium, the Field Museum of Natural History, and Danville Area Community College.
Projects Currently Funded by NSF in
the State of Illinois Include:
- The TeraGrid: Cyberinfrastructure for 21st Century Science and Engineering The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, in collaboration with the University of California San Diego will construct a Distributed Terascale Facility (DTF) based on multiple terascale Linux clusters, as well as large-scale storage archives and data management software. The DTF will span four institutions: the San Diego Supercomputer Center, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, the California Institute of Technology, and Argonne National Laboratory. A 40 gigabit/second optical mesh will interconnect the DTF's components. The TeraGrid will advance discovery and promote understanding by making available to academic researchers next generation information technologies that are an order of magnitude more capable than is now generally available.
- Illinois Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (Illinois LS-AMP) Centered at Chicago State University the Alliance will focus on increasing the number of minority students from Illinois who choose to major in science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM), persist in the science pipeline, and are prepared to attend graduate school or teach STEM disciplines. Illinois LS-AMP strategies to achieve this goal include, pre-college and community college bridge programs, faculty and peer mentoring, supplemental instruction, academic year and summer undergraduate research, curriculum revision, and industry internships. Partnering with Chicago State University in this effort are the University of Illinois at Chicago, Northeastern Illinois University, DePaul University, the Illinois Institute of Technology, Governors State University, and the City Colleges of Chicago.
- Adsorption Studies on Carbon Nanotubes This project at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale deals with the characteristics of the systems formed by gases adsorbed on two new forms of carbon: nanotubes and nanohorns. Nanotubes have diameters which are ten thousand times smaller than a human hair. The walls of the nanotubes to be studied are only one single atom thick. Gases adsorbed on nanotubes allow the physical realization, in the laboratory, of matter in one dimension. One-dimensional systems behave quite differently from three-dimensional matter; this makes these adsorbed systems interesting from a fundamental perspective. From a practical point of view, adsorption on nanotubes and nanohorns has significant potential for applications in gas storage technology.
- Small Business Innovation Research An NSF SBIR award to Containerless Research, Inc. to develop Rare Earth-Aluminum Oxide Glass Photonic Devices. This SBIR Phase II project will develop photonic devices based on a new and proprietary family of rare earth oxides. Markets for optical device products are extremely large, multinational, and growing though expanded applications and displaced technologies. The patent position and the absence of complex proprietary interests in the technology place this work in a strong commercial position.
For more information on Illinois and NSF, please
contact the Office of Legislative and Public Affairs
at 703-292-8070.
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