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 $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...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $446,421 to improve modeling of gravitational wave detections through active galactic nuclei channels. The award to the Research Foundation of the City University of New York at Borough Manhattan Community College, from September 2022 to August 2025, will support rewriting and publicly releasing a Monte Carlo code developed to study compact object mergers in galactic...
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...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Astronomical Sciences provides $229,131 to the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) to develop a new research and education partnership in astronomy with Texas Southmost College (TSC). The partnership will engage Hispanic community college students in South Texas in multi-messenger and time domain astronomy research, including observational techniques, data analysis, and machine learning. Key activities...
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,...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences awarded a $439,616 Project Grant to the University of Hawaii (UH) Institute for Astronomy (IFA) and the University of California, Riverside (UCR) for the California-Hawaii Astrophysics Mentoring Partnership (CHAMP) program. The 3-year grant aims to build a collaborative research, education, and outreach program focused on addressing recommendations from the 2022 Astronomy and Astrophysics Decadal Survey. Key...
This $363,623 Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), supports a collaborative research effort between the City University of New York Queens College and Penn State Scranton. The primary objective is to develop and apply a new "seismic technique" that combines precision measurements of pulsating white dwarf stars with Gaia parallax data to accurately determine their masses and effective...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Astronomical Sciences provides $475,526 to develop a new research and education partnership in astronomy between the University of Colorado at Boulder and Fort Lewis College. Over three years, the award will enable nine Fort Lewis College undergraduates to participate in 10-week summer research internships at CU Boulder's Astrophysics Department and the National Solar Observatory located on campus. The students will develop...
This $129,943 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Astronomical Sciences will support an eight-week Research Experience for Undergraduates site at the University of California, Riverside focused on educating a new generation of astronomers. Eight student interns will conduct observational, theoretical, computational, and data-driven research addressing fundamental questions in modern astronomy. Interns will receive instruction in Python programming, data...