Results 451 - 500 of 630

LSST, Inc.

to support the LSST Cadence Hackathon, a 3-day workshop to optimize the timing and targeting of the LSST?s observing schedule

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$149,985

Year Granted

2018

American Physical Society

to rename the Division of Astrophysics (DAP) Doctoral Dissertation Award in Astrophysics as the ?Cecilia Payne Gaposchkin Doctoral Dissertation Award in Astrophysics?

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$50,000

Year Granted

2018

University of Pittsburgh

to search for stellar spectra that contain absorption signatures which can probe the composition of supernova remnants lying between the star and Earth

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$55,000

Year Granted

2018

Regents of the University of California at Berkeley

to develop and implement a predictive wavefront control system at the W.M. Keck Observatory that will demonstrate a factor of two improvement to the detectable planet-to-star contrast ratio

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$338,513

Year Granted

2018

Women Make Movies, Inc.

for pre-production and early production of THE UPRISING

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$75,000

Year Granted

2018

Regents of the University of California Santa Cruz

to support the transient astrophysics fellowship program

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$276,000

Year Granted

2018

Johns Hopkins University

to build a science platform to generate new hypotheses based on the rapid and communal exploration of the Gaia dataset

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$83,530

Year Granted

2018

University of Washington

to support the 3rd workshop on microwave cavities and detectors for axion searches

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$67,000

Year Granted

2018

Carnegie Mellon University

to build a science platform to generate new hypotheses based on the rapid and communal exploration of the Gaia dataset

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$55,000

Year Granted

2018

University of California Santa Barbara

for the Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$599,995

Year Granted

2018

Regents of the University of California at Berkeley

to demonstrate the laser cooling and magneto-optical trapping of atomic titanium

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$251,525

Year Granted

2018

University of Colorado Foundation

for the endowment of the Deborah Jin Memorial Graduate Fellowship

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$300,000

Year Granted

2018

Regents of the University of California at Berkeley

for developing and implementing the summer intensive AstroTech program

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$131,479

Year Granted

2018

American Association for the Advancement of Science

for the AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$75,250

Year Granted

2018

University of California Santa Barbara

to identify nearby accelerating stars and create a target list for follow-up discovery and characterization of as-yet unseen companions

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$55,000

Year Granted

2018

Science DCA

for 51 Pegasi b Science Summit expenses

Program

Science

Grant Type

DCA

Grant Amount

$150,000

Year Granted

2018

California Association for Research in Astronomy

to support the continued development and engineering of the Keck Planet Finder

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$705,517

Year Granted

2018

Women Make Movies, Inc.

for production and outreach and distribution for the documentary film THE UPRISING

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$369,964

Year Granted

2018

Regents of the University of California at Irvine

to procure three magnets for the FASER particle detector

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$450,812

Year Granted

2018

The Regents of the University of California Los Angeles

to plan for growth within the activities of the Galactic Center Orbits Initiative

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$100,000

Year Granted

2018

American Museum of Natural History

to identify nearby accelerating stars and create a target list for follow-up discovery and characterization of as-yet unseen companions

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$55,000

Year Granted

2018

The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University

for the construction and operation of the Phase I Dark Matter Radio experiment

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$580,000

Year Granted

2018

Regents of the University of California Santa Cruz

for the Exoplanet Summer Program (ESP), an entirely participant driven workshop, to take place within a new research initiative, the Other Worlds Laboratory (OWL)

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$75,000

Year Granted

2018

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

to support a three-month mission operation extension and data analysis for ASTERIA

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$150,088

Year Granted

2018

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

to support research on exoplanet atmosphere biosignature gases

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$649,945

Year Granted

2018

Regents of the University of Michigan

to measure known-energy neutrino interactions with carbon atom nuclei

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$988,369

Year Granted

2018

California Institute of Technology

for a three-day workshop focused on combining high-resolution spectroscopy and high-contrast imaging for exoplanet characterization

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$33,902

Year Granted

2018

Arizona Board of Regents, University of Arizona

to test theories of binary star formation and tidal evolution

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$36,666

Year Granted

2018

Science DCA

to fund a two-day Roundtable at the Foundation?s Los Altos office in October 2018

Program

Science

Grant Type

DCA

Grant Amount

$20,000

Year Granted

2018

Regents of the University of California Santa Cruz

to support initial instrument design and planning for a low-resolution robotic spectrograph for transient science

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$299,924

Year Granted

2018

Yale University

for the 51 Pegasi b Fellowship

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$375,000

Year Granted

2017

University of Texas at Austin

for the 51 Pegasi b Fellowship

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$372,672

Year Granted

2017

Aspen Global Change Institute Inc.

for the planning and convening of interdisciplinary climate science workshops

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$158,779

Year Granted

2017

Regents of the University of California, Davis

to support the design and construction of a zero-net-energy home to compete in the 2017 U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$150,000

Year Granted

2017

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

to design and build a 1-meter telescope in the northern hemisphere to initiate the monitoring of ultra-cool dwarf stars

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$601,500

Year Granted

2017

University of Washington

an additional $7,933 amendment to grant #2015-086 to support a workshop on microwave cavity design for axion research

Program

Science

Grant Amount

$7,933

Year Granted

2017

The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University

for the Physics and Astronomy Leadership Council

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$75,000

Year Granted

2017

California Institute of Technology

for the design and development of a high-performance, high-contrast coronagraph module for the Keck Planet Imager and Characterizer System (KPIC)

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$735,287

Year Granted

2017

Yale University

for the optimization of a single-beam optically-levitated microsphere force-sensor for short-distance gravity experiments

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$790,000

Year Granted

2017

Board of Regents Nevada System of Higher Education

for the optimization of a counter-propagating dual-beam optically-levitated microsphere force-sensor for short-distance gravity experiments

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$625,000

Year Granted

2017

Science DCA

for the first meeting of Physics and Astronomy Leadership Council and honoraria for Council members

Program

Science

Grant Type

DCA

Grant Amount

$56,700

Year Granted

2017

California Institute of Technology

for the design and construction of the Gattini-IR wide-field infrared imager

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$50,000

Year Granted

2017

The Regents of the University of California Los Angeles

for the Physics and Astronomy Leadership Council

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$75,000

Year Granted

2017

Trustees of Princeton University

for the development of novel computational tools and visualization techniques to identify ultra-short period planets using TESS data

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$489,106

Year Granted

2017

The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University

for the optimization of a single-beam optically-levitated microsphere force-sensor for short-distance gravity experiments

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$1,027,262

Year Granted

2017

University of Chicago

for the Maria Goeppert-Mayer lecture series for three years

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$90,000

Year Granted

2017

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

for the 51 Pegasi b Fellowship

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$292,541

Year Granted

2017

Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York

for analyzing data from the Gattini-IR wide-field infrared imager

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$50,000

Year Granted

2017

WGBH Educational Foundation

to create an integrated media and research project that will bring polar science to audiences through traditional storytelling via a two-hour, nationally broadcast PBS documentary that is complemented by experiential and digital learning materials

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$200,000

Year Granted

2017

University of California Santa Barbara

to evaluate whether quantum processes are operational in the brain

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$1,207,079

Year Granted

2017

The list above contains awards approved by the Foundation. These are primarily grants, but also include direct charitable activities (DCAs) and program-related investments (PRIs). DCAs are distributions a foundation makes to conduct its own charitable activities, rather than by or through other organi­zations. PRIs are investments with a charitable purpose for which the Foundation’s primary purpose is not to produce income. Under IRS regulations, the expenses associated with DCAs and PRIs count toward a foundation’s qualifying distributions and are reported on its IRS Form 990-PF.