Two local universities have received a combined $17.2 million in stimulus funding to help build new scientific research facilities.
Out of $123 million total awarded by the National Institutes of Standards and Technology to construct new centers for complex scientific study, the University of Maryland won $10.3 million and Georgetown University won $6.9 million. In all, 11 universities and one nonprofit earned stimulus money nationwide, and the projects are expected to generate more than $250 million in construction work starting this year.
Locally, the University of Maryland will use the funds toward its $15.5 million Laboratory for Advanced Quantum Science, a 21,000-square-foot underground lab planned for its Physical Sciences Complex on its College Park campus. The new lab will study how atoms, molecules, and condensed and quantum matter behave to better understand the universe and, ultimately, devise better sensor and advanced computing technology. The university plans to complete construction by spring 2013.
The other project, a new $55.7 million Institute for Soft Matter Synthesis and Metrology, will be part of a planned new Science Research Building on Georgetown University’s main campus in D.C. The center will focus on soft matter, including liquid crystals, gels, polymers, foams and other biological materials. The project is expected to finish construction by summer 2012.
In other stimulus awards, NIST disbursed nearly $1.5 million to George Mason University to help study how cryptographic algorithms work in complex hardware devices. Johns Hopkins University received a similarly sized grant to help develop new imaging technologies for 3D microscopy.
Source : http://www.bizjournals.com/washington/stories/2010/01/04/daily98.html
Out of $123 million total awarded by the National Institutes of Standards and Technology to construct new centers for complex scientific study, the University of Maryland won $10.3 million and Georgetown University won $6.9 million. In all, 11 universities and one nonprofit earned stimulus money nationwide, and the projects are expected to generate more than $250 million in construction work starting this year.
Locally, the University of Maryland will use the funds toward its $15.5 million Laboratory for Advanced Quantum Science, a 21,000-square-foot underground lab planned for its Physical Sciences Complex on its College Park campus. The new lab will study how atoms, molecules, and condensed and quantum matter behave to better understand the universe and, ultimately, devise better sensor and advanced computing technology. The university plans to complete construction by spring 2013.
The other project, a new $55.7 million Institute for Soft Matter Synthesis and Metrology, will be part of a planned new Science Research Building on Georgetown University’s main campus in D.C. The center will focus on soft matter, including liquid crystals, gels, polymers, foams and other biological materials. The project is expected to finish construction by summer 2012.
In other stimulus awards, NIST disbursed nearly $1.5 million to George Mason University to help study how cryptographic algorithms work in complex hardware devices. Johns Hopkins University received a similarly sized grant to help develop new imaging technologies for 3D microscopy.
Source : http://www.bizjournals.com/washington/stories/2010/01/04/daily98.html
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