The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Astronomical Sciences awarded a $603,824 Project Grant to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, doing business as the Clinical Practices of the University of Pennsylvania, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program. The 3-year grant, running from September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2026, will support a team of scientists led by the University of Pennsylvania to use new high-resolution data from the NSF-funded Atacama...
The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania were awarded a $344,394 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Astronomical Sciences to support the project "PRECISION COSMOLOGY WITH PHOTOMETRICALLY-CLASSIFIED SUPERNOVAE." The grant was awarded on September 1, 2021 with a completion date of August 31, 2024. The grant falls under the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to promote progress in the...
The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania were awarded a $283,850 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049). The grant will fund the acquisition of an X-ray absorption fine structure source for chemical and spectroscopic research and training at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia from September 2021 through August 2024. The new X-ray source will enhance the University's capabilities for...
The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania received a $143,659 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Mathematical Sciences. The grant was awarded on July 1, 2022 under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to support the research project "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: FINE-GRAINED STATISTICAL INFERENCE IN HIGH DIMENSION: ACTIONABLE INFORMATION, BIAS REDUCTION, AND OPTIMALITY." The University will conduct collaborative research through...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Astronomical Sciences, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), provides $622,334 to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania to conduct collaborative research on dark matter physics and its implications for galaxy formation. The key products and services to be delivered under this 3-year award include: (1) new public software modules implementing different dark matter particle models...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program provides $414,595 in funding to The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) from August 15, 2024 to July 31, 2027. The award supports a research program led by the Principal Investigator to study the long-term growth of supermassive black holes and their relationship to host galaxy properties and cosmic environment. The research will utilize a large sample of 1.3...
This $434,573 federal Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's Division of Astronomical Sciences will support a collaborative research program at Pennsylvania State University to trace cosmic structures using galaxies, quasars, and gas at "cosmic noon" - the period ~10 billion years in the past when the universe was only about 1/4 its present size and key processes like star formation and black hole activity peaked. The researchers will combine data from several large...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Astronomical Sciences, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), provides $234,319 to Penn State University from September 1, 2022 through August 31, 2025. The funding supports collaborative research between Penn State University and Vanderbilt University to conduct the benchmark measurement of quasar spectroscopic variability and implications for supermassive black hole binaries and changing-look...
The Pennsylvania State University received a $501,418 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation to support research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: WOU-MMA: NEW ADVANCEMENTS TO ENABLE MULTI-MESSENGER NEUTRINO ASTROPHYSICS WITH THE RADIO NEUTRINO OBSERVATORY IN GREENLAND" from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2024. Under this award, Penn State will conduct research to develop new detection techniques that enable multi-messenger neutrino astrophysics using the Radio...
The National Science Foundation Division of Astronomical Sciences awarded a $289,379 Project Grant to The Trustees of Princeton University, doing business as Princeton University, for the period of September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2024. This award falls under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to promote progress in these fields and strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise. Specifically, this award will support collaborative research to constrain...