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NSF and California
In FY 2003, the NSF provided 2,708 awards totaling approximately $784 million to 227 institutions in the State of California.
Among the institutions in California that received NSF support in FY 2003 were Scripps Institution of Oceanography, City College of San Francisco, Contra Costa Community College,
Fetch Technologies, Sonoma State University, the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, and Westmont College.
Examples of Projects Currently Funded by NSF in
the State of California:
- The TeraGrid: Cyberinfrastructure for 21st Century Science and Engineering — The University of California at San Diego, in collaboration with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 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.
- Marine Technology Education Center — The Marine Advanced Technology Education (MATE) Center, headquartered at Monterey Peninsula College, is a national network of community colleges, high schools, universities, research institutions, marine industries, and working professionals whose mission is to improve marine technical education and help prepare America's future workforce for ocean-related occupations. Funded by an NSF Advanced Technology Education award, MATE is supporting institutions interested in developing or improving marine technology programs, developing new curricula, offering faculty development institutes, and disseminating MATE products, including curricula, textbooks, occupational guidelines, competencies, and process guides.
- Small Business Innovation Research — An NSF SBIR award to Syagen Technology supports the development of a highly parallel, mass-selected purification system prototype for large pharmaceutical drug libraries. High throughput purification is driven by the industry recognition that combinatorial chemistry samples must still be purified even after their chemical screening. This project will examine monolithic parallel preparative liquid chromatography configurations. The key enabling technology is low-pressure Photoionization mass spectrometry, which permits accurate molecular detection in mixtures of compounds without the problems of competition-for-charge and ion suppressions that plague conventional ionization methods. The proposed high throughput purification system for combinatorial libraries has the potential to dominate an important niche market for molecular analysis and screening for drug discovery.
- "My Place by the Bay" – Prepared Environments for Early Science Learning — The Bay Area Discovery Museum will expand their "My Place by the Bay" theme with new programmatic elements that reinforce the theme that people, plants, and animals live together and depend on each other to survive. Three new activity areas will be developed that focus on science learning: A) an outdoor "Tot Lot" for early science learners, B) and outdoor "Discovery Cove" focusing on place-sensitive elements of their bay shore site, and C) an indoor recreated "Research Vessel" outfitted with a simulated navigation station and marine biology laboratory.
For more information on California and NSF, please
contact the Office of Legislative and Public Affairs
at 703-292-8070.
Useful Links:
California State Home Page
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Governor's Office
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Technology, Trade, and Commerce Agency
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Division of Science, Technology, and Innovation
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