Project Grant 2034318

This $234,639 two-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences Directorate (NSF MPS) will support the Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network, Inc. (LCO) to develop the USA Sky Partners program. The program aims to expand access to authentic astronomy research experiences for undergraduates at Hispanic-serving and minority-serving institutions. Specifically, LCO will partner with Occidental College and the University of Puerto Rico-Rio...

Federal Project Grant Award Summary Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network, Inc. received a $676,261 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Physics under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The award, effective October 1, 2026 through September 30, 2029, funds enhancements to the Target and Observation Manager (TOM) Toolkit, a web-based cyberinfrastructure platform designed to enable the scientific community to analyze...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $449,190 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to the Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network, Inc. (LCO) to expand access to authentic astronomy research experiences for underrepresented undergraduate students. The "USA SKY Partners" program, managed by LCO, will provide a curriculum, training, and mentoring for faculty as well as access to LCO's global network of 0.4m robotic...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Astronomical Sciences awarded a $360,589 Project Grant to the University of Missouri System, doing business as the Curators of the University of Missouri, for the "Collaborative Research: The Emergence of Dusty Starbursts in Cosmic History" project. The project aims to conduct a comprehensive survey of a large sample of 629 candidate dusty starburst galaxies at redshifts greater than 6 using the 50-meter Large Millimeter Telescope...

This $1,969,052 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program supports the development of an open-source software library to enable coordinated follow-up observations across diverse astronomical observatories. The project, led by the Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network, aims to streamline the process of requesting observations from optical, infrared, radio, X-ray, and ultraviolet telescopes in response to time-domain...

This $118,374 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports a collaborative research project between the State University of New York at Stony Brook and the American Museum of Natural History. The project will fund continued operations of the Condor Array Telescope, an astronomical observatory located in southwest New Mexico that combines six refracting telescopes and cameras to conduct high-sensitivity,...

This three-year project grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $1,151,085 to Principal Investigator Cleary and California Institute of Technology to complete the Cosmic Mapping Array Pathfinder Survey. The project will use radio telescope line intensity mapping techniques to obtain low-resolution images summing the radio emission from carbon monoxide molecules in many galaxies during the epoch of galaxy assembly between...

This $732,034 Project Grant award by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program will support the development and deployment of an Operational Data Sharing (ODS) system to enable real-time spectrum sharing between radio astronomy observatories and satellite constellations. The primary objectives are to construct the ODS system and experiment with spectrum sharing between the Jansky Very Large Array in New Mexico, the Green Bank Telescope in...

This $166,874 project grant from the National Science Foundation Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences' Mathematical and Physical Sciences program will support a partnership between Northern Arizona University and Coconino Community College in Flagstaff, Arizona to increase participation by underrepresented minority students in astronomy and astrophysics research and education. The funding will create a pathway for CCC students to participate in NAU's astronomy research labs...

This three-year, $236,990 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Astronomical Sciences will support the ALMA CMZ Exploration Survey (ACES) to map gas flows and star formation across the entire central region of the Milky Way galaxy. Led by researchers at the University of Florida, ACES will utilize the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to conduct the first comprehensive measurement of mass flows in a galactic nucleus. Products will include a catalog...