This federal contract award, identified as 80NSSC22K0031, was granted to Northwestern University, a private research institution located in Evanston, Illinois. The $80,000.00 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is for research aimed at shedding light on the processes that give rise to electromagnetic radiation, specifically short gamma-ray bursts and kilonovae, that may originate from binary neutron star and neutron-star black-hole systems. The grant does not have...
This federal contract was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Northwestern University, a private research university located in Evanston, Illinois. The $249,922.13 grant is for a research project with the goal of indirectly detecting galactic dark matter with unprecedented sensitivity. The contract does not have a set-aside designation. Northwestern University has a history of receiving federal contracts and grants from agencies like...
This is a $352,043 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Northwestern University, a private research university located in Evanston, Illinois. The grant is for research on the process of binary stellar evolution, which explores how interactions between pairs of stars evolve over their lifetimes and leave imprints in the observable properties of binary systems in the Milky Way galaxy. This research aims to better understand the physical processes driving the...
This federal contract award, with an ID of 80NSSC21K1851, was granted to Northwestern University, a private research institution in Evanston, Illinois. The $135,000 grant is for research related to the detection of gravitational waves caused by the violent collision of two neutron stars 130 million light-years away. The contract, awarded by the Shared Services Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), has an ultimate completion date of August 31, 2025. This award is not...
This federal contract award was granted to Northwestern University, a private research university located in Evanston, Illinois, to conduct research on where in the interior of the Sun the solar dynamo, which generates global scale magnetic fields, lives. The $1,538,156 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center is for a research project with a completion date of October 1, 2024. The contract has no set-aside designation. Northwestern University,...
This federal contract, awarded by the Shared Services Center (NASA), provides a $498,718.00 grant to Northwestern University for a research project focused on 3D simulations of magnetized stellar accretion. The project aims to address foundational questions related to neutron star jet formation, disk-magnetosphere interactions, neutron star spin dynamics, and the behavior of transitional millisecond pulsars. This research grant, which has a period of performance ending in September 2025,...
This federal contract award with ID 80NSSC21K0818 was issued by the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency, to Northwestern University, a private research institution located in Evanston, Illinois. The $64,074.98 grant is for research related to the first discovery of a neutron star merger detected with gravitational wave facilities and ongoing detections of short gamma-ray bursts. The award has a period of performance through March 29, 2023. Northwestern University frequently collaborates...
This federal contract award, valued at $174,984, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Northwestern University, a private research institution located in Evanston, Illinois. The contract is part of NASA's Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program, which focuses on early-stage feasibility studies of visionary aerospace concepts that may significantly enhance or enable new human or robotic science and exploration missions. The NIAC program seeks proposals...
This federal contract award, with ID 80NSSC21K1856, was granted to Northwestern University, a private research institution located in Evanston, Illinois. The $443,258.99 grant, awarded by the Shared Services Center (SSC) of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), will fund the salaries of two graduate students and one postdoc working on the Micro-X project. The contract, which has an ultimate completion date of August 31, 2023, is a grant for research and does not have a...
This federal contract award, valued at $852,198.00, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Northwestern University, a leading private research institution. The contract is a grant for research, with no set-aside designation, and supports NASA's efforts to design and assemble crews for its Artemis missions to the Moon and ultimately, Mars. Northwestern University has a strong track record of securing and executing high-impact federal contracts and grants across...