Project Grant 19419343225

This Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083), aims to establish a collaboration between the University of Hawaii (UH) and Duke University to advance supernova cosmology research. The $277,608 award will support activities to: Leverage UH-led supernova discovery surveys, such as Pan-STARRS and ATLAS, to significantly reduce key systematic uncertainties in cosmological parameters. This will be achieved by...

This $349,326 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access (CFDA 45.149) program will fund the PBCORE DATA MODEL PROJECT undertaken by the Wgbh Educational Foundation, a non-profit educational media organization. The project will research institutional needs and metadata infrastructure to develop a simplified data model for the PBCORE metadata schema. This will generate documentation of the new model...

This federal Project Grant award was provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161). The $126,265 grant, awarded on August 1, 2024, supports a 3-year project titled "OF WATER, CROCODILES, AND KINGS: CO-PRODUCING KUY HISTORY IN THE PREY LANG FOREST, CAMBODIA." The project is led by the University of Hawaii at Manoa and engages with Kuy citizens to co-produce knowledge about the pre-Angkorian history and...

This $134,210 National Science Foundation project grant supports the development and enhancement of the Supernovae Early Warning System (SNEWS) network. SNEWS is an international collaboration between neutrino and dark matter detectors designed to provide early alerts of impending supernovae in our galaxy to the astronomy community. Funded activities under this three-year award include optimizing the SNEWS 2.0 system to improve detection capabilities, developing a follow-up strategy involving...

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $600,000 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) to Catticus Corporation, a woman-owned non-profit organization based in Berkeley, California. The grant will fund the production of an 80-minute documentary film titled "TEZUKA: GOD OF MANGA" that explores the extraordinary life and career of Osamu Tezuka, the influential Japanese manga artist credited with elevating Japanese comics and...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) project grant award of $286,524 to the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) is focused on using simulations to generate testable predictions for the NASA ESPEX mission. The primary objectives are to: Collaborate with scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) to generate synthetic observations from UNLV's simulation data to assist in the design of the ESPEX mission, which aims to study early star and planet...

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $350,000 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) to Stone Soup Productions Inc., a woman-owned non-profit media production company. The grant will support the production of the second and third seasons of "The People's Recorder," a national podcast series inspired by the 1930s Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration. The podcast aims to explore the legacy,...

This federal Project Grant award for $600,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) will support the production of a documentary film with the working title "ADELANTE!" The film will serve as a biographical portrait of the influential Chicano playwright, activist, and director Luis Valdez, exploring the history and significance of Chicano identity through the lens of Valdez's pioneering theatrical company El...

This $407,331 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program supports research on magnetospheric accretion around magnetized stars. The University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) will conduct first-principle numerical simulations to study how neutron stars produce X-ray pulsars and ultraluminous X-ray sources, as well as how young stars and planets evolve within their environments. The research will include four key simulation...

MPB Preservation and Access Project Summary The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded MS Authority For Educational Television, doing business as MS Public Broadcasting (MPB), a $349,225 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) effective September 1, 2025, through August 31, 2028. The primary deliverable is the purchase and installation of a storage and access system designed to preserve and provide public access...