The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $155,321.91 grant for research to the Regents of the University of Minnesota, doing business as the Office of Sponsored Projects Administration, a non-profit educational institution. The grant supports the study of particles accelerated during solar flares, which is relevant to understanding the dynamics of solar magnetic fields. This research grant is not set aside for any specific business type. The Regents of the University of...
This is a $333,502.00 federal grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Regents of the University of Minnesota, doing business as the Office of Sponsored Projects Administration. The grant is for the NASA Space Technology Graduate Research Opportunities (NSTGRO) fellowship program, which focuses on graduate student research and development of advanced and innovative space technologies critical for NASA's goals to explore and understand the Earth, solar...
This is a $1,579,722.14 grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Regents of the University of Minnesota, doing business as the Office of Sponsored Projects Administration, for a project titled "The Remarkable Efficiency of Particle Acceleration in Solar Flares". The grant is for research to study the mechanisms behind the efficient acceleration of particles in solar flares, which is a critical problem in solar physics. The award does not have a...
This is a $99,454.00 grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Regents of the University of Minnesota, doing business as the Office of Sponsored Projects Administration, a major land-grant research university. The grant is for the project "EXPANDING THE SCIENCE OF SOLAR FLARE-ACCELERATED PARTICLES WITH MULTI-MESSENGER CO-OBSERVATIONS" with a period of performance through January 5, 2026. The award does not have a set-aside designation. The...
This $1,047,725.00 federal grant was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Shared Services Center to the Regents of the University of Minnesota, doing business as the Office of Sponsored Projects Administration. The grant will fund research to investigate the theory of auroral particle acceleration in the magnetospheres of Earth and Jupiter, with a focus on the role of kinetic Alfvén waves in coupling the magnetosphere and ionosphere. The grant does not have a set-aside...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $900,245.00 grant for research to the Regents of the University of Minnesota, doing business as the Office of Sponsored Projects Administration. The grant, which has no set-aside designation, is intended to effectively enable the NASA-funded science community's use of transformational data sets. As a non-profit organization and 1862 land grant college, the Regents of the University of Minnesota has extensive experience conducting...
This is a $933,504.00 grant for research awarded by the Shared Services Center (SSC) of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Regents of the University of Minnesota, doing business as the Office of Sponsored Projects Administration. The grant is for a project titled "Determining the Net Solar and Magnetospheric Electron Energy Contributions to Earth's Atmosphere by Precipitation Mechanism." The project aims to determine the amount of energy flux contributed by...
This $266,124.87 federal grant was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Regents of the University of Minnesota, doing business as the Office of Sponsored Projects Administration, to support research on the characteristics of comets and their implications for the formation and evolution of our solar system. The award is part of NASA's broader efforts to enhance understanding of the chemical composition and internal structure of comets, which can provide...
This is a $541,919 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Regents of the University of Minnesota, doing business as the Office of Sponsored Projects Administration, for research on the role of wave cross-scale coupling in particle dynamics in the Earth's magnetosphere and the solar wind. The award has a period of performance through January 31, 2026. The University of Minnesota is a major public research institution that conducts a wide range of...
This is a federal grant award made by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Regents of the University of Minnesota, doing business as the Office of Sponsored Projects Administration, for a coordinated observation between the NuSTAR satellite and the Parker Solar Probe during the probe's January 2020 perihelion. The $62,742 grant is for research purposes and does not have a set-aside designation. The University of Minnesota is a major land-grant research institution with...