BOSTON - Senator John Kerry announced today that 35 additional Massachusetts universities and organizations will receive a total of $28,628,385 in National Science Foundation (NSF) awards. The funding was secured through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

"These investments in scientific research will create jobs and help keep Massachusetts a world leader in the sciences," said Senator John Kerry. "I'm grateful that President Obama has once again recognized the cutting edge work being done by our universities and research organizations."

The NSF funds research and education across the fields of science and engineering by providing grants and cooperative agreements to more than 2,000 colleges, universities, K-12 school systems, businesses, informal science organizations and other research organizations throughout the nation.

More than $68 million in National Science Foundation grants have been awarded to Massachusetts organizations and schools since March.

For more information on the NSF and on the latest recipients, please visit www.nsf.gov/awardsearch or www.research.gov.

The following organizations and schools are the latest to receive funding:

$17,301,249 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

The project, entitled "National Deep Submergence Facility (CY10-CY14)," is under the direction of Andrew Bowen.

$1,934,178 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

The project, entitled "MRI:R2 Consortium: Acquisition of multiple Environmental Sample Processors (ESPs) and supporting mooring and communications hardware," is under the direction of Donald Anderson.

$848,200 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge)

The project, entitled "CCF-AF: Abstract Medium Access Control Layers," is under the direction of Nancy Lynch.

$798,204 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge)

The project, entitled "Major: Scratch 2.0: Cultivating Creativity and Collaboration in the Cloud," is under the direction of Mitchel Resnick.

$720,000 University of Massachusetts Amherst

The project, entitled "RI: Medium: Collaborative Research: Creating Organizationally Adept Software Agents and their Organizations," is under the direction of Victor Lesser.

$700,000 University of Massachusetts Amherst

The project, entitled "CAREER: Probing Astrophysics Frontiers with Gravitational Wave Bursts," is under the direction of Laura Cadonati.

$508,468 Springfield Technical Community College

The project, entitled "Intelligent Infrastructure Systems Education Project," is under the direction of Gary Mullett.

$505,663 Trustees of Boston University

The project, entitled "CIF: Large: Collaborative Research: Cooperation and Learning Over Cognitive Networks," is under the direction of Christophe Champley.

$434,614 National Bureau of Economic Research (Cambridge)

The project, entitled "Spillovers from Price Regulations: Evidence from Rent Control in Cambridge, Massachusetts," is under the direction of David Autor.

$410,000 University of Massachusetts Amherst

The project, entitled "Sensory subsystems in jumping spiders," is under the direction of Elizabeth Jakob.

$391,679 Harvard University (Cambridge)

The project, entitled "Geometry of Strings and Gravity," is under the direction of Shing-Tung Yau.

$376,471 Bentley College (Waltham)

The project, entitled "The Performance Effects of Administrative Innovations--IT Organizational Design Changes in U.S. State Governments," is under the direction of M. Lynne Markus.

$360,000 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge)

The project, entitled "Collaborative Research: Hierarchically Assembled Viral-Synthetic Hybrid Microentities," is under the direction of Patrick Doyle.

$360,000 Tufts University (Medford)

The project, entitled "Collaborative Research: Hierarchically Assembled Viral-Synthetic Hybrid Microentities," is under the direction of Hyunmin Yi.

$331,317 Brandeis University (Waltham)

The project, entitled "The effects of roads on indigenous people's well-being and use of natural resources: A natural experiment in lowland Bolivia," is under the direction of Ricardo Godoy.

$330,087 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute

The project, entitled "Collaborative Research: Developing a Prototype Drifter to Measure the Ocean Geomagnetic Field," is under the direction of Maurice Tivey.

$284,600 Harvard University (Cambridge)

The project, entitled "Self-Control at Work: A Field Experiment," is under the direction of Michael Kremer.

$261,415 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge)

The project, entitled "Collaborative Research: CSEDI--Grand Challenge for Experimental Study of Plastic Deformation Under Deep Earth Conditions," is under the direction of William Durham.

$221, 497 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge)

The project, entitled "Geometrical algorithms for the inverse scattering of waves," is under the direction of Laurent Demanet.

$200,388 Trustees of Boston University

The project, entitled "p-adic local Langlands and Iwasawa theory," is under the direction of Robert Pollack.

$180,012 Harvard University (Cambridge)

The project, entitled "Studies in Representation Theory," is under the direction of Wilfried Schmid.

$171,095 Harvard University (Cambridge)

The project, entitled "HCC: Medium: Collaborative Research: Data-Parallel Hash Tables: Theory, Practice and Applications," is under the direction of Michael Mitzenmacher.

$167,534 Worcester Polytechnic Institute

The project, entitled "Variational Methods for Material Defect Evolution," is under the direction of Christopher Larsen.

$142,715 Trustees of Boston University

The project, entitled "Infinite-dimensional dynamical systems: nonlinear stability, large-time transient behaviors and bifurcation," is under the direction of Margaret Beck.

$131,911 Northeastern University (Boston)

The project, entitled "Cohomology Jumping Loci," is under the direction of Alexandru Suciu.

$130,347 Bentley College (Waltham)

The project, entitled "Integrating Earth and Environmental Science Education into a Business Curriculum Using Technology Enhanced Learning," is under the direction of Eric Oches.

$130,000 Northeastern University (Boston)

The project, entitled "Algorithm-Fused High Performance Damage Detector: Optimal Sensor Distributions," is under the direction of Dionisio Bernal.

$99,996 National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (Hadley)

The project, entitled "Opportunity at the Bottom of the Pyramid: A Faculty Development Program to Prepare the Global Engineer," is under the direction of Philip Weilerstein.

$97,390 Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole)

The project, entitled "Collaborative Research: Nutrient co-limitation in young and mature northern hardwood forests," is under the direction of Edward Rastetter.

$30,411 University of Massachusetts Boston

The project, entitled "EAGER: Evaluating the Potential of Shallow Archaeogeophysics Techniques on Viking Age and Medieval Sites in Greenland," is under the direction of Douglas Bolender.

$23,000 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge)

The project, entitled "2010 SIGMOD Programming Contest," is under the direction of Samuel Madden.

$17,010 Trustees of Boston University

The project, entitled "Doctoral Dissertation Research: Interreligious Violence, Civic Peace and Citizenship: Christians and Muslims in Indonesia's Moluccan Islands," is under the direction of Robert Hefner.

$12,604 Tufts University (Medford)

The project, entitled "DISSERTATION RESEARCH: The identification, RNAi knockdown and characterization of seminal fluid proteins in Tribolium castaneum," is under the direction of Sara Lewis.

$10,000 Trustees of Boston University

The project, entitled "2010 Symposium on Lepton Moments, to be held in Centerville, MA," is under the direction of B. Lee Roberts.

$6,330 University of Massachusetts Amherst

The project, entitled "Collaborative Research: Workshop for Women in Machine Learning," is under the direction of Hanna Wallach.

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