The University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) received a grant award of $256,373.10 from NASA to establish a laboratory and develop hardware supporting ongoing and future projects within NASA's Astrophysics High Energy Cosmic Ray Group (Code 661). The award, issued on September 1, 2019, with an ultimate completion date of August 31, 2024, funds the creation of a Space Particle Laboratory at UMBC's Baltimore, Maryland campus. This effort includes overlapping work with NASA Code 672. The...
The University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) has been awarded a research grant valued at $371,294 by NASA's Shared Services Center, a civilian federal agency, with performance to be executed in Baltimore, Maryland. The grant, issued on July 30, 2025, with an ultimate completion date of July 29, 2028, supports the execution of a balanced science program developed in accordance with discipline-specific guidance from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, as well as...
The University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) has been awarded a $65,628 research grant by NASA's Shared Services Center, a civilian federal agency, with an ultimate completion date of December 31, 2026. The contract, awarded on January 1, 2025, supports UMBC's participation in a balanced science program aligned with guidance from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, administration priorities, and congressional direction. The specific research project focuses on...
The University of Utah has been awarded a $131,380 federal grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to develop a comprehensive simulation package for measuring cosmic neutrinos. This package will model neutrino interactions, air shower signals, and atmospheric effects to support NASA's current and future experimental efforts in cosmic neutrino detection, including ANITA, EVA, EUSO-SPB2, and the POEMMA Astrophysics Probe. The goal is to provide a tool for the research...
This is a $528,176 federal grant award to the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center. The grant is for the "RETRIEVAL OF SPECTRALLY RESOLVED DUST AEROSOL DIRECT RADIATIVE EFFECT FROM EMIT HYPERSPECTRAL OBSERVATIONS", which involves research and analysis related to Earth science and atmospheric composition. UMBC is a public research university that has a history of supporting NASA's mission...
This is a $30,060.94 grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Shared Services Center to the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) for a project titled "MEASUREMENT OF THE ISOTROPIC DIFFUSE GAMMA-RAY BACKGROUND". The award, which has a period of performance through July 31, 2023, is for research related to astrophysics and the measurement of the isotropic diffuse gamma-ray background. UMBC is a public research university that is part of the...
The University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) was awarded a $172,531.64 research grant by NASA's Shared Services Center with a completion date of March 1, 2025. This civilian agency grant supports astrophysical research investigating the origins of ionizing flux in nearby high-ionization galaxies. The research will account for all ionizing emission from O/WR stars, X-ray binaries (XRBs), and fast shocks to better understand the sources responsible for heating and reionizing the early...
The University of Maryland Baltimore County has been awarded a $72,123 research grant by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Shared Services Center, with a completion date of February 27, 2027. The contract calls for execution of a balanced science program aligned with discipline-specific guidance from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, administration priorities, and congressional direction. This award represents UMBC's continued participation as a key...
The University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) received a $73,058 grant award from NASA's Shared Services Center (a civilian federal agency) with a performance period extending through September 30, 2026. The award supports UMBC's execution of a balanced science program developed in accordance with discipline-specific guidance from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, while also incorporating administration priorities and direction from Congress. This grant...
This is a $75,000.00 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) on December 17, 2020. The grant supports research on "Fermi Observations of Powerful Jets" that has helped clarify the X-ray emission mechanism in kiloparsec-scale jets. UMBC, a public research university and part of the University System of Maryland, has a history of providing research, measurement, and analytical...
This federal contract award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center goes to the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) to develop a comprehensive simulation package for measuring cosmic neutrinos from sub-orbital and space-based observations. The $323,519.18 grant will fund the modeling of neutrino interactions, air shower formation, and signal generation across optical, Cherenkov, and radio frequencies. This work aims to provide a standard tool for assessing the neutrino measurement capabilities of current and future NASA experiments, including ANITA, EVA, EUSO-SPB2, and POEMMA. The parent organization, the University System of Maryland, has a history of supporting federal research and technology initiatives through both contract and grant awards. This award does not have a set-aside designation.