Congressman Fattah Announces $1.4 Million in NSF Research Grants for Drexel and Penn
PHILADELPHIA , Feb. 2, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Congressman Chaka Fattah (D-PA), the leading Democratic appropriator for the National Science Foundation, announces five NSF awards for more than $1.4 million to scientific researchers at Drexel University and the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
The awards include two major grants to Drexel scholars under the Faculty Early Career Development program, known as CAREER. This program supports junior faculty, especially women and underrepresented minorities, who set the standard as outstanding teacher-scholars and researchers.
The grants announced by Fattah total $1,442,370 -- three to Drexel for $1,011,567 and two to Penn for $430,803. Fattah is Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science and related agencies, which funds the National Science Foundation and the research it supports. Here are details of these NSF awards:
- $400,000 to Drexel for a project entitled "CAREER: The Role of Grain Boundary Character in Corrosion Behavior: Linking Atomic Scale Interfacial Structure to Precipitation and Failure Mechanisms," under the direction of Mitra Taheri.
- $420,235 to Drexel for "CAREER: Integrated Mechanics, Sensing, and Control in Multi-Fin Swimming - Biological Strategies for Systems with Distributed Sensing, Actuation, and Tunable Plant Properties," under the direction of James Tangorra.
- $191,332 to Drexel for "Collaborative Research: Career Enhancement of Academic Women in Earthquake Engineering Research (ENHANCE)," under the direction of Aspasia Zerva.
- $340,000 to Penn for "REU Site: Perception, Planning, Mobility, and Interaction for Next Generation Robotics," under the direction of Max Mintz.
- $90,803 to Penn for "The Effects of Raw Material Variability and Heat Treatment on Flake Production and Use: A Controlled Experiment," under the direction of Harold Dibble.
SOURCE Office of Congressman Chaka Fattah
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