This federal contract award, NNX15AR06G, was granted by NASA to the Trustees of Boston College, doing business as Boston College, a renowned private Jesuit Catholic university. The $118,162.41 grant supports research to better understand the initiation, development, and evolution of transient coronal dimming regions and their relationship to coronal mass ejections (CMEs). This work aligns with the Heliophysics Decadal Survey goals to determine the origins of the Sun's activity and predict...
This federal contract award, valued at $108,627, was granted by the Shared Services Center (part of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration) to Trustees of Boston College, doing business as Boston College, a private Jesuit Catholic university located in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. The contract is for the "Evaluation of PlanetIQ High Rate Data Products Using Advanced Radio Propagation Techniques". This is a grant for research, with no set-aside designation, to support Boston...
This is a $556,100 grant awarded by the Shared Services Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Trustees of Boston College, a private non-profit research university. The grant is for a research program called ROSES (Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Sciences) which aims to execute a balanced science program, participate as a key partner in NASA's exploration initiatives, advance discovery in emerging fields, and develop applied programs in areas like Earth...
This federal contract award, identified as 80NSSC21K0985, was granted by the Shared Services Center (SSC) on May 4, 2021 to the Trustees of Boston College, a private Jesuit Catholic university located in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. The $159,195.00 grant is for research to reformat spectra into a universally readable format. This award does not have a set-aside designation, indicating Boston College competed for the opportunity as a large organization. The university has extensive experience...
This is a $9,801,422.00 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Trustees of Boston College, doing business as Boston College, a private Jesuit Catholic research university located in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. The contract, titled "SPACE WEATHER RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY APPLICATIONS (SPARTA) CENTER OF EXCELLENCE", has an ultimate completion date of September 29, 2028. The contract does not have a set-aside designation, indicating...
This federal contract award to Trustees of Boston College, doing business as Boston College, supports research to improve the calibration accuracy of the Spitzer Space Telescope's Infrared Spectrograph (IRS). The $233,223 grant will enable the university to use Spitzer's Infrared Array Camera (IRAC) observations to better tie the IRS photometric calibration to future missions like the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). This work will help ensure the scientific legacy of the large IRS data...
This federal contract award to Trustees of Boston College, doing business as Boston College, supports the university's role in providing education, training, and outreach activities for the International Space Weather Initiative (ISWI) program. Boston College will organize annual workshops or schools on space science over a three-year period, with the specific locations to be determined based on the availability and interest of local hosts. The award amount is $88,831.91, and there is no...
This is a $150,000.00 grant awarded by the Shared Services Center, a civilian government agency, to the Trustees of Boston College, a private non-profit university, to execute a balanced science program based on guidance from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, administration priorities, and direction from Congress. The award is not set-aside and has an ultimate completion date of October 31, 2028. Boston College has a track record of providing educational services and...
This federal contract award, valued at $463,749.87, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Trustees of Boston University, a private university located in Boston, Massachusetts. The contract, which does not have a set-aside designation, is for a grant to execute a search for transiting exoplanets and exomoons around hundreds of nearby L and T dwarfs using the 1.83-meter Perkins Telescope and the MIMIR infrared imaging camera. The award is part of NASA's...
This is a federal grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Trustees of Boston University, a private university in Boston, Massachusetts, to conduct research on the roles of stellar flares and storms in exoplanetary atmospheric losses and evolution. The grant has a ceiling value of $396,962.00 and a performance period ending on September 11, 2025. There is no set-aside designation for this award. Boston University has a history of receiving federal...
This federal contract award was made by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Trustees of Boston College, also known as Boston College, to conduct an unbiased survey of long period variable stars in the Milky Way galaxy using data from the Kepler space telescope. The $326,598.21 grant will enable the university to create a catalog and analyze the properties of these pulsating, dying stars on the asymptotic giant branch located within the disk of the Milky Way. The project aims to improve understanding of how stars shed mass during the late stages of their evolution, which impacts the chemical composition of the galaxy over time. This award does not have a set-aside designation, indicating Boston College competed for the opportunity as a large organization. The university has extensive experience collaborating with federal agencies on scientific research and education initiatives across multiple disciplines.