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Research - Science & Engineering
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Engineering
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| Recipient | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| City | Santa Barbara, CA |
| Description | To support an interdisciplinary ecotechnology initiative.
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| Recipient | University of Iowa |
| City | Iowa City, IA |
| Description | To equip a laboratory for studies in phytoremediation.
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Other Sciences
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| Recipient | Arizona State University |
| City | Tempe, AZ |
| Description | To establish a laboratory for environmental biogeochemistry.
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| Recipient | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute |
| City | Troy, NY |
| Description | To establish a laboratory for Terahertz research.
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| Recipient | University of New Orleans |
| City | New Orleans, LA |
| Description | To establish a cellular facility and a molecular imaging laboratory for the program in conservation biology.
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| Recipient | University of Colorado at Boulder |
| City | Boulder, CO |
| Description | To establish a center for ultracold molecular research.
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| Recipient | University of Idaho |
| City | Moscow, ID |
| Description | To support a comprehensive research program on "nanosprings."
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| Recipient | University of Nebraska-Lincoln |
| City | Lincoln, NE |
| Description | To establish a research program in nanomagnetic and quantum information systems.
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| Recipient | Yale University |
| City | New Haven, CT |
| Description | To support an interdisciplinary project in coherence, control and noise in quantum information systems.
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| Recipient | Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center |
| City | Seattle, WA |
| Description | To support the development of proteomic technology for an early identification of human susceptibility to cancers and other diseases.
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| Recipient | Mayo Foundation |
| City | Rochester, MN |
| Description | To construct a highly sensitive mass spectrometer for protein analysis to aid early identification of disease or determine changes in proteins that contribute to disease.
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| Recipient | University of California, Riverside |
| City | Riverside, CA |
| Description | To purchase proteomics instruments for the Genomics Institute to study functional genetics in key plants, insects, and pathogens that are important for protecting the world's food supply.
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| Recipient | University of Michigan |
| City | Ann Arbor, MI |
| Description | To use nanoprobes for detection of rare ionic events in cells and model how these essential minerals are involved in health and disease.
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| Recipient | University of Minnesota, Twin Cities |
| City | Minneapolis, MN |
| Description | To purchase a 9.4 Tesla/65cm MRI for the Center for Magnetic Resonance Research to develop ultra-high field methodologies for non-invasive longitudinal studies of the brains of humans and primates.
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Grants awarded prior to new criteria and geographic restrictions as of August 2008.
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| Recipient | California State University, Los Angeles |
| City | Los Angeles, CA |
| Description | To support the purchase of a 600 MHz superconducting nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectrometer.
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| Recipient | California State University, Stanislaus |
| City | Turlock, CA |
| Description | To establish an interactive, computer-based language laboratory.
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| Recipient | Kalamazoo College |
| City | Kalamazoo, MI |
| Description | To provide equipment for research-based courses in cell and molecular biology.
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| Recipient | Mercer University |
| City | Macon, GA |
| Description | To establish a computational laboratory for mechanical, biomedical and computer engineering.
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| Recipient | San Francisco State University |
| City | San Francisco, CA |
| Description | To support the renovation of a teaching laboratory in a marine science research facility.
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| Recipient | Seattle Pacific University |
| City | Seattle, WA |
| Description | To support student programs in academic mentoring and advising.
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| Recipient | University of Portland |
| City | Portland, OR |
| Description | To support the integration of calculus and general physics using a workshop and peer-leader approach.
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| Recipient | University of Redlands |
| City | Redlands, CA |
| Description | To support programs in Geographic Information Systems analysis, environmental studies and land use management.
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| Recipient | Virginia Union University |
| City | Richmond, VA |
| Description | To redesign the curricula for English, psychology and drama based on a systematic approach that is widely used in industry.
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| Recipient | Whitman College |
| City | Walla Walla, WA |
| Description | To incorporate a post-genomic perspective into the life sciences.
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Special Projects
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| Recipient | National Academy of Sciences |
| City | Washington, DC |
| Description | To support the Futures Initiative, a program to expand cross-disciplinary and cross-professional research.
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Arts and Culture
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| Recipient | Cabrillo Marine Aquarium |
| City | San Pedro, CA |
| Description | To expand school and public education programs by constructing additional facilities.
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| Recipient | Rancho Los Alamitos Historic Ranch and Gardens |
| City | Long Beach, CA |
| Description | To expand exhibit and program space by constructing an Education Center.
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Civic and Community
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| Recipient | Boys & Girls Club of Santa Clarita Valley |
| City | Santa Clarita, CA |
| Description | To expand after-school programs by constructing a facility on a junior high school campus in collaboration with a local school district.
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| Recipient | Crescenta-Canada Family YMCA |
| City | La Canada Flintridge, CA |
| Description | To expand after-school programs for youth at the Verdugo Hills branch by constructing new classrooms and a multipurpose center.
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| Recipient | Harbor Interfaith Shelter |
| City | San Pedro, CA |
| Description | To help homeless families transition to self-sufficiency by providing start-up funding for a new child care center for young children.
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| Recipient | Little Tokyo Service Center - Community Development Corporation |
| City | Los Angeles, CA |
| Description | To renovate an historic building in Little Tokyo to create a community computer center, affordable housing, and social service programs.
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| Recipient | Mar Vista Family Center |
| City | Culver City, CA |
| Description | To expand services to a high-need community by constructing a Youth and Senior Center.
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| Recipient | OPARC |
| City | Montclair, CA |
| Description | To provide training and employment opportunities to more developmentally disabled adults by constructing a new facility.
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| Recipient | PATH |
| City | Los Angeles, CA |
| Description | To establish a new Regional Homeless Center, which includes 19 community-based agencies providing integrated services to homeless people and needy families, and four transitional living programs.
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| Recipient | Public Counsel Law Center |
| City | Los Angeles, CA |
| Description | To resolve the oldest adoption cases and provide legal services to emancipating youth in the Los Angeles County foster care system.
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| Recipient | Union Station Foundation |
| City | Pasadena, CA |
| Description | To expand comprehensive services for homeless women and their children by constructing the Family Center.
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Early Learning Program
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| Recipient | Accelerated School |
| City | Los Angeles, CA |
| Description | To establish an Early Childhood Development Center as part of the expansion of a charter school in South Central Los Angeles.
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| Recipient | California State University, Long Beach |
| City | Long Beach, CA |
| Description | To support REACH, a collaborative to train and retain early childhood professionals, to better prepare young children for school.
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| Recipient | Mount St. Mary's College |
| City | Los Angeles, CA |
| Description | To create new quality child care spaces for infants and toddlers, and improve the training of child care professionals by renovating and expanding the Child Development Center.
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| Recipient | Pasadena Conservatory of Music |
| City | Pasadena, CA |
| Description | To expand and enhance "Music for Young Children" through renovation and support for outreach programs to low-income preschoolers.
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Health Care
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| Recipient | Valley Community Clinic |
| City | North Hollywood, CA |
| Description | To establish new medical and dental programs for low-income children by acquiring a facility.
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Special Projects
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| Recipient | KCET-Community Television of Southern California |
| City | Los Angeles, CA |
| Description | To continue underwriting the broadcast of Sesame Street for three years.
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