This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Astronomical Sciences provides $314,803 to the University of Washington from September 2021 through August 2024 to support collaborative research understanding the limits of active galactic nucleus feedback through a dedicated study of extremely high velocity outflows. The award supports work under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to promote progress in these scientific fields and...
The University of Washington was awarded a $360,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Physics under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant will fund research from June 2021 through May 2024 to study multiscale phenomena in plasmas across collisional and collisionless regimes. As part of the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program's goals to strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise and increase knowledge of major problems, this...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $1,050,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to the University of Washington. The grant supports research at the University of Washington's gravity laboratory (E?T-WASH group) to probe fundamental physics through precision gravitational experiments. Specific activities include: Testing the equivalence principle by conducting highly sensitive laboratory tests to search for deviations from general...
The University of Washington received a $293,781 Project Grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Science Mission Directorate (CFDA 43.001 - Science) on August 1, 2024. The funding supports the "FINDING THE UNFINDABLE MULTI NIGHT MULTI SURVEY LINKING TO BOOST THE GLOBAL NEO DISCOVERY RATE" project, with a performance period running through July 31, 2027. The award will enable the university to conduct research and analysis to advance the discovery and...
The University of Washington will receive $290,678 from the National Science Foundation under a Project Grant award titled "FULLY NONLINEAR ELLIPTIC EQUATIONS." The grant period runs from July 1, 2021 through June 30, 2024. The funding supports the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to promote progress in the mathematical and physical sciences to strengthen the Nation's scientific enterprise. Specifically, the University will advance understanding of...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Astronomical Sciences under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA No. 47.049) provides $443,632 from September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2026 to the University of Washington to conduct collaborative research on Thorne-Zytkow Objects - a new type of mysterious, rare stars. The research program aims to run computer simulations of binary star systems that may form Thorne-Zytkow Objects and use large telescopes to...
The University of Washington (UW) was awarded a $179,614 Project Grant (Award ID: 80NSSC25K7262) from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Science Mission Directorate (CFDA #43.001) to execute a balanced science program. The grant supports UW's participation as a key partner in NASA's exploration initiatives, with a focus on scientific research of the Moon, lunar orbit, Mars, and beyond. The award also aims to advance discovery in emerging fields by identifying and exploiting...
This federal Project Grant award, totaling $105,646, was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to support a collaborative research project led by Seattle University. The research aims to confirm the origins of stars in the Milky Way's metal-poor bulge by spectroscopically measuring the elemental abundances of candidate globular cluster tidal debris stars. The project will involve obtaining detailed observations of...
The NASA Science Mission Directorate (SMD) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 43.001) has awarded the University of Washington a $585,628 Project Grant (Award ID: 80NSSC24K1151) to study Arctic and sub-Arctic ocean change using ocean bottom pressure (OBP) observations. The grant will fund the continuation of the in-situ OBP record at the North Pole and the establishment of a new long-term, drift-free OBP record in the Norwegian Sea. The research project will run from May 14, 2024, through May 13, 2028....
The University of Washington will receive $274,000 from the National Science Foundation under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049) for the project "Mathematics for Imaging with Waves" from June 1, 2021 to May 31, 2024. This Project Grant will support the development of mathematical techniques for imaging using wave phenomena, advancing the program's goals of strengthening the nation's scientific enterprise through progress in the mathematical and...