www.obamasucks.tv
"And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people
who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment
as a way to explain their frustrations."
-- Barack Obama, April 2, 2008
►
► StimUwaste
A
noun invented by me, John Brown. It means money BORROWED (from
China) and then spent on things that did nothing to CREATE jobs for
Americans, or spent on frivolous things and pork marks. Another
name for Democrats, how about Spend-O-Crats?
This list is
so you have many good reasons to fire everyone
from
both/all parties that voted for the StimUwaste pork
package. ================================================= #71-#80
- Total amount wasted =$8,583,974 Jobs
reported: 11.74 Cost
per job = $731,173 ================================================= =================================================== Congressman
linked to this waste: Edward
J. Markey (D) Massachusetts 7th #71 Amount:
$4,000,000 Jobs
Created: 4.73 Cost per
job: $845,665 Translation:
Paying eggheads with
doctorate degrees, at a private company, to build solar cells. Since
Bob Metcalfe is involved, I am sure there is no Van Jones ties. I
bet people working at Walmart or the unemployed 10% of America love
this "shovel ready" project. Aka: Another
Obama bribe for academia. Link:
recovery.gov 1366 TECHNOLOGIES INC. For photovoltaics (PV) to
reach terawatt scale and meet ARPA-E targets for energy generation,
emissions reductions, and US jobs, three criteria must be met. PV
devices must be: (1) low-cost (<$0.80/Wp); (2) made from abundant
materials; and (3) high-efficiency (>20%)—in order to
reduce balance-of-system costs. Crystalline silicon is the only
technology capable of meeting all three criteria. (CdTe and CIGS can
only support tens of GW/yr, based on feedstock availability.1 ) The
single barrier still limiting silicon’s market penetration is
the 35-year-old grand challenge of making monocrystalline-equivalent
wafers without the cost and waste of sawing. 1366 Technologies has
developed a kerfless wafering process called Direct Wafer, which
will deliver high-performance wafers at a fraction of the current
cost. To date, we have fabricated hundreds of 50 mm wafers in a
prototype Direct Wafer machine. We have verified clean release,
rapid cycle time, tight geometry control, in-situ surface texturing,
low dislocation density, and 20 ?s bulk carrier lifetime. Our R&D
objective is to generate industry-standard 156 mm Direct Wafers
capable of supporting 20% solar cells (Phase 1), and scalable
hardware to enable rapid ramp-up (Phase 2). At the conclusion of
this program, we will have eliminated enough risk to secure funding
for scaleup. Direct Wafer will slash fully-installed system costs
from ~$4/W to ~$2/W (~$0.10/kWh) by cutting wafer costs by 80% and
increasing cell efficiencies to 20%. We will eliminate the two most
expensive steps in wafer manufacture—casting and sawing—and
improve silicon utilization from today’s 7 g/W to 2 g/W
(effectively tripling silicon capacity). Capital intensity will be
low—a single Direct Wafer machine costing $250k to build and
occupying 3 m2 of floor space will be able to produce 10 MWp
annually, enabling 1 GW/yr wafer production within the footprint of
a basketball court. Per-Watt capex will be 9% the cost of today’s
ingot furnaces and wire saws. Finally, time to market will be
short—Direct Wafer will produce industry-standard 156 mm
wafers for processing by existing companies in existing solar cell
factories. By addressing PV’s key limitation, Direct Wafer
will transform PV from niche to mainstream. It will enable 600 GW of
installed PV in the US by 2025, save 694 million metric tons of
annual CO2 emissions, and spawn a multi-million-job domestic PV
manufacturing and installation industry. Direct Wafer manufacturing
is ideally-suited to the US because labor is a small component of
total cost, environmental impact is inherently low, and our IP can
remain well-protected. With silicon and wafer production in the US,
and module manufacturers locating near US demand, cell manufacturers
will be incentivized to collocate—bringing the entire PV value
chain to America. Ultimately, American leadership in energy can only
be ensured with a strong crystalline silicon PV industry—no
other technology combines the fundamentals of low cost, high
efficiency, and earth-abundant feedstock to support large-scale
impact. AWARD OVERVIEW Award Number DE-AR0000031
Funding Agency Department of Energy Total Award Amount
$4,000,000 Project Location - City Lexington Award Date 12/10/2009
Project Location - State MA Project Status Less Than
50% Completed Project Location - Zip 024213102 Jobs Reported 4.73
Congressional District 07 Place of Performance
Country USA Recipient Name 1366
TECHNOLOGIES INC. Recipient DUNS Number
800572237 Recipient Address 45
HARTWELL AVE Recipient City LEXINGTON Recipient State
Massachusetts Recipient Zip 024216925 Congressional District 07 Place of Performance
Country US Project Title Direct
Wafer: Enabling Terawatt Photovoltaics Project Status Less Than
50% Completed Final Project Report
Submitted No Project Activities
Description Energy Resources Quarterly
Activities/Project Description We just started the project at the
beginning of March 2010. The major deliverables in the first 3
months of the project are to reach a 12% efficiency cell and place
the equipment orders for a 6" silicon wafer furnace. We have
already reached our efficiency milestone and are progressing rapidly
toward a 6" furnace build. Jobs Created 4.73 Description of Jobs Created
1.05 Jobs - These are high level technician jobs. Typical employees
have technical or associate degress. Employees work in a state of
the art solar manufacturing facility. 3.68 Jobs - These are high
paying research jobs. Typical employees have a masters of Phd. Award Date 12/10/2009 Award Number DE-AR0000031 Amount of Award $4,000,000 Zip 024213102 =================================================== Congressman
linked to this waste: Lee
Terry (R) Nebraska 2nd
Ask this
"republican" how spending $1.6 million dollars for a HVAC
for one "art" building is good for the "republic"?
Especially since the money was all borrowed from China. #72 Amount:
$1,682,920 Jobs
Created: no money wasted ... yet ... just awarded Cost per
job: 0 Translation:
$1.6 million dollars for a A/C system for an "art" museum.
Are we creating any Andy Warhol artwork to sell to China or Germany
there? Frigging
unbelievable! Plus, we buy
gallium (material used for LEDs) which is only available from the
nations that we borrow money from (mainly China) to build the "LED"
marque. We get screwed all the way! We
want our unborn grand children's money back! Link:
recovery.gov
(click) Grants - AWARD SUMMARY 1001 SOUTH 15TH STREET
ASSOCIATES, LLC The installation and use of
a Ground Source Heat Pump (GSHP) system at 1010 AVENUE OF THE ARTS
will achieve three major objectives which are: 1) to demonstrate the
feasibility of using geothermal energy at a historically certified
urban educational and arts institution, 2) to create a replicable
financing model for using geothermal technology at educational and
non-profit institutions throughout the region, and 3) to serve as a
catalyst for promoting the transformation of historically valuable
buildings into models of energy efficiency. 1001 SOUTH 15TH STREET
ASSOCIATES will use the following methods to reach its project
objectives and demonstrate a range of technological and business
innovations in its proposed GSHP system at a historically certified
location: 1) The rehabilitation of a historically significant train
shed into a new educational and performing arts facility housing an
award winning K-8 Performing Arts Charter School. The school is
public (building is privately owned by 1001 South 15th Street
Associates LLC). Although the school produces stellar academic
outcomes, its current facility lacks room for: a) elementary grades
classroom expansion, b) science, media and other specialized
instructional space, and c) a theater/performance space. 2) Create a
private ownership structure that combines historic tax credits,
state solar energy credits, and New Markets Tax Credits to reduce
the overall cost of development and construction of this facility
without exceeding the fiscal limits of a charter school budget. 3)
Install a GSHP system using a piping network in drilled boreholes.
4) Use a dry cooler, i.e. a hybrid system, to improve the efficiency
and life cycle effectiveness of the GSHP system by seasonally
rebalancing the ground temperature. 5) Plan the design and
installation of the user-interfaced building management system to
monitor the building?s energy use as support data for incorporation
into the school?s curriculum. 6) Demonstrate the benefits of
geothermal energy by using interactive building management system
software and display monitors that explain the GSHP system in the
theater lobby. . 7) Implement the use of an energy saving LED
?marquee? sign placed in the Avenue of the Arts Park to publicize
school events and display to passing cars and pedestrians the real
time energy and cost savings achieved by the GSHP system. 8) Create
a public forum by using educational signage in the Theater?s public
Plaza and the School?s exterior areas that details how the GSHP
system works and its long-term benefits. 9) Facilitate the
integration of the energy, costs and environmental impact of the
GSHP into the Science, Technology, Environmental and Math courses in
the School curriculum. Award Number DE-EE0002776
Funding Agency Department of Energy Total Award Amount
$1,682,920 Project Location - City Philadelphia Award Date 01/22/2010
Project Location - State PA Project Status Not Started
Project Location - Zip 191024402 Jobs Reported 0.00
Congressional District 02 Place of Performance
Country USA Recipient Name 1001 SOUTH
15TH STREET ASSOCIATES, LLC Recipient DUNS Number
831221945 Recipient Address 11222
DAVENPORT ST Recipient City OMAHA Recipient State Nebraska Recipient Zip 681542628 Congressional District 02 Place of Performance
Country US Required to Report Top 5
Highly Compensated Officials No Project Title 1010 Avenue
of the Arts - New School & Performing Arts Theater Project Status Not Started Jobs Created 0.00 Description of Jobs Created
Project has not started yet. Federal Department of Energy has not
yet authorized the work to proceed. Award Date 01/22/2010 Award Number DE-EE0002776 Amount of Award $1,682,920 Infrastructure Point of
Contact Name Ava Norman Infrastructure Point of
Contact Email ava.norman@go.doe.gov Infrastructure Point of
Contact Phone (303) 275-4852 Infrastructure Point of
Contact Address 1617 Cole Boulevard Infrastructure Point of
Contact City Golden Infrastructure Point of
Contact State CO Infrastructure Point of
Contact Zip 804013393 Primary Activity Code
531390 Activity Description Other
Activities Related to Real Estate =================================================== Congressman
linked to this waste "Piggy"
Henry A. Waxman (D) California 30th
http://www.henrywaxman.house.gov/ #73 Amount:
$50,000 Jobs
Created: 0.95 Cost per
job: $52,631 Translation:
Paying artists to sit around and do nothing constructive, other then
create propaganda for Obama. "To
support the preservation of jobs that are threatened by declines in
philanthropic and other support during the current economic
downturn." "our"
website, since we paid for it: The picture of
the Mexican immigration protest that gets cycled in the slide show
is sweet ! Link:
recovery.gov
(click here) Grants - AWARD SUMMARY 18TH STREET ARTS COMPLEX
INC To support the preservation
of jobs that are threatened by declines in philanthropic and other
support during the current economic downturn. Award Number 09-7288-7002
Funding Agency National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Total Award Amount $50,000
Project Location - City Santa Monica Award Date 07/10/2009
Project Location - State CA Project Status More than
50% Completed Project Location - Zip 904043807 Jobs Reported 0.95
Congressional District 30 Place of Performance
Country USA Recipient Name 18TH STREET
ARTS COMPLEX INC Recipient DUNS Number
606629905 Recipient Address 1639
18TH ST Recipient City SANTA
MONICA Recipient State California Recipient Zip 904043807 Congressional District 30 Place of Performance
Country US Project Title Arts and the
American Recovery & Reinvestment Act of 2009 Project Status More than
50% Completed Final Project Report
Submitted No Project Activities
Description Arts, Culture & Humanities, General/Other Quarterly
Activities/Project Description 1. Executive Director retained 2.
Artistic Director retained 3. Program Coordinator retained. Jobs Created 0.95 Description of Jobs Created
1. Executive Director (Administrative) 2. Artistic Director
(Artistic) 3.
Award Date 07/10/2009 Award Number 09-7288-7002 Award Type Grants Funding Agency ID 59 Funding Agency Name
National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Funding Office Name Not
Available Awarding Agency ID 59 Awarding Agency Name
National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Amount of Award $50,000 Funds Invoiced/Received
$33,332 Expenditure Amount $38,971 =================================================== Congressman
linked to this waste: Daniel
B. Maffei (D) New York 25th #74 Amount:
$390,000 Jobs
Created: 0.86 Cost per
job: $453.488 Translation:
"detection of WIMP dark matter"
... Another Obama bribe for academia to sit around looking at stars
and to do nothing constructive, with our grand children's future. Link:
recovery.gov
(click) SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY It will fund the Syracuse
University group to participate in the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search
(CDMS) experiment and research to develop and test detectors for
possible future Dark Matter detection experiments. Observations
indicate that 80% of the matter in the Universe is not made of
normal atoms, but must be otherwise undetected elementary Dark
Matter particles that do not emit or absorb light. Particle physics
theories predict the existence of weakly interacting massive
particles (WIMPs) with just the right properties to be this dark
matter. If WIMPs are the dark matter, they may be detectable when
they scatter in Earth-based detectors. To detect the low expected
WIMP interaction rate, experiments must provide exquisite rejection
of interactions from background radioactivity. For most experiments,
radioactive contamination on the detector surfaces provides the
dominant background. SuperCDMS work concentrates on removing these
backgrounds through two methods. First, they will achieve better
rejection of surface interactions by event reconstruction aided by
detailed simulations of the detector response. Second, the group
will reduce the amount of surface contamination, aided by the
world's most sensitive detector of radioactive surface
contamination, the BetaCage, being constructed with a group at
Caltech. Among the broader impacts, the technological development of
phonon-mediated detectors has widespread applications in astronomy
and physics. Operation and improvement of the BetaCage screener has
broader impacts on other rare-event searches and even on the Si-chip
industry. Its use for trace radioactive counting applications such
as 14-C and tritium radioisotope dating has applications to other
scientific fields, many with significant benefits to society.
Furthermore, as part of the SuperCDMS collaboration, the group will
develop and participate actively in the public outreach programs at
the Soudan Mine, which hosts 60,000 visitors and tens of classes
each year. Finally, the project will support the planning,
development, and construction of a museum exhibit at Syracuse's
Museum of Science and Technology that will introduce dark matter to
the general public, increasing their understanding of modern science
through their appreciation of the wonders of the Universe. Award Number 0855525
Funding Agency National Science Foundation Total Award Amount
$390,000 Project Location - City SYRACUSE Award Date 07/31/2009
Project Location - State NY Project Status Less Than
50% Completed Project Location - Zip 132441200 Jobs Reported 0.86
Congressional District 25 Place of Performance
Country USA Recipient Name SYRACUSE
UNIVERSITY Recipient DUNS Number
002257350 Recipient Address
CONTROLLERS OFFICE SKYTOP OFFICE BLDG Recipient City SYRACUSE Recipient State New York Recipient Zip 132440001 Congressional District 25 Project Title Detection
of WIMP Dark Matter Project Status Less Than
50% Completed Final Project Report
Submitted No Project Activities
Description Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools Quarterly
Activities/Project Description This award is funding the Syracuse
University group to participate in the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search
(CDMS) experiment and to develop and test detectors for possible
future dark-matter detection experiments. During 2009, the group
contributed to the analysis of the 5-tower CDMS data run, which
provides the best sensitivity of any dark-matter experiment to date.
The group also began analysis of the first supertower of detectors
for SuperCDMS, with the goal of demonstrating their background
rejection by Spring 2010. Analysis efforts for the rest of the award
period will focus on achieving better rejection of surface
interactions by event reconstruction aided by simulations of the
detector response, in collaboration with other CDMS groups. In
2010-2011, the Syracuse group will test and analyze new detectors at
nearby Queen's University or other institutions, with the goals of
verifying detectors for SuperCDMS Soudan experiment and helping
identify the best technology for future experiments. Throughout this
time, they will help ensure smooth running of the SuperCMDS
experiment by taking shifts both on-site and off-site. In Year 3 of
the grant, the group will use a surface screener to measure the
radioactive contamination on relevant surfaces, with the aim of
helping better understand the sources of contamination and
ultimately leading to their reduction. Furthermore, the group will
participate in the public outreach programs at the Soudan Mine,
which hosts 60,000 visitors each year. Finally, the project will
support the planning, development, and construction of a museum
exhibit at Syracuse's Museum of Science and Technology. Students
will complete the planning and design of the exhibit during summer
2010. The exhibit will be constructed with initial software
interface written in 2011, and the complete exhibit will be
installed by the end of the award period. Jobs Created 0.86 Description of Jobs Created
1) Award financial transactions are accessed through a unique
'Chartstring' which allows for the management and monitoring of
expenditures in the University's PeopleSoft financial system. The
University assigned a specific activity code to identify and
segregate all ARRA award expenditures. 2) Labor charges, by
individual employee, posted to ARRA chartstrings during the
applicable quarter were selected. 3) FTE per employee was calculated
from the proportion of 'Total ARRA Charges' (ARRA pay /pay period)
to 'Total Pay Amount' (total pay per pay period). This value was
multiplied by the employee's job record FTE to derive a 'Calculated
FTE'. 4) The ARRA FTE reported is the sum of the award's Calculated
FTEs. Positions: Postdoc = 0.16 Grad Res Asst = 0.50 Student
employee = 0.20 Award Date 07/31/2009 Award Number 0855525 Funding Agency ID 49 Funding Agency Name
National Science Foundation Funding Office Name Not
Available Awarding Agency ID 49 Awarding Agency Name
National Science Foundation Amount of Award $390,000 Funds Invoiced/Received
$63,192 Expenditure Amount $66,669 Infrastructure Expenditure
Amount $0 Infrastructure Purpose and
Rationale Not Reported Infrastructure Point of
Contact Name SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY Infrastructure Point of
Contact Email Not Reported Infrastructure Point of
Contact Phone Not Reported Infrastructure Point of
Contact Address OFFICE OF SPONSORED PROGRAMS Infrastructure Point of
Contact City SYRACUSE Infrastructure Point of
Contact State NY Infrastructure Point of
Contact Zip 132441200 =================================================== Congressman
linked to this waste: Daniel
B. Maffei (D) New York 25th #75 Amount:
$557,795
Jobs
Created: 2.40 Cost per
job: $232,414 Translation:
If you get depressed you tend to drink, especially after viewing
StimUwaste! Some drunks are bullies and tend not to bully after a
sober person punches their nose! If you put a drink in front of an
alcohol they tend to drink. We borrowed money from China for this?
Idiots. "RELATIONSHIPS
AMONG INTERPERSONAL STRESS, AFFECT REGULATION, AND ALCOHOL LAPSE" Link:
recovery.gov
- aka AA SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY This project's long-term
goal is to enhance the effectiveness of AUD relapse prevention
interventions through advancing understanding of the relationships
among interpersonal stress, affect regulation, alcohol lapse, and
patterns of alcohol use following AUD treatment. This project has
two major aims: (1) To investigate the association of Agonistic
Striving (defined as a preoccupation with personal goals that
involve controlling, managing, or dominating other people), affect
regulation, and their interaction, with time to first lapse, and
overall alcohol use, respectively, and (2) To investigate the role
of interpersonal events as mediators of the relationship among
Agonistic Striving, affect regulation, and alcohol consumption in
the second and third months post-treatment. The project also has 2
exploratory aims that concern the investigation of cardiac vagal
tone (vagal tone is thought to reflect the ability to maintain
homeostasis) as a possible indicator of affect regulation, and the
relationship among Agonistic Striving, affect regulation, and the
content of perceived lapse precipitants, respectively. In this
study, 156 men and women admitted to AUD inpatient treatment will be
assessed at treatment entry on their alcohol use and related
functioning, the Social Competence Interview, and Anger
Transcendence Challenge. The Social Competence Interview and Anger
Transcendence Challenge will provide self-report, behavioral, and
physiological data on affective responses to interpersonal stressors
and are the sources of measures of Agonistic Striving and affect
regulation, respectively. The assessment protocol also will include
measurement of the perceived stressfulness of interpersonal events
in the natural environment through the collection of ecological
momentary assessment data, which will be obtained by use of
Interactive Voice Response technology. The ecological momentary
assessment will occur for 4 weeks following treatment discharge.
Participants will be re-assessed on their alcohol use, alcohol
lapses, and related information biweekly following treatment
discharge over the course of 12 weeks. Additional variables related
to alcohol use and related functioning will be reassessed at 6 and
12 weeks. In this two-year version of the study, the specific aims
will not change. In effect, we propose to accomplish the same aims
with a sample size reduced by about 28 percent (new N = 156). Given
the research design of this study, the time difference will pose
little difficulty; it simply will be a matter of ending patient
recruitment earlier than we had planned originally. On the other
hand, we will not have to reduce recruitment by half (2 years of
funding as opposed to 4), because we will be able to hire additional
research staff to accelerate participant recruitment rate to achieve
a sample size that is 72 percent of the originally proposed N = 216.
We expect sufficient patient flow at the clinical site of
participant recruitment to achieve this accelerated recruitment
rate. We estimate that the revised sample size will allow sufficient
power to detect medium effect sizes of interest. In this regard, the
original application?s projected sample size requirements were
conservatively based on small-medium effect size estimates, and
calculations, even at that, showed power equal to 1.00 for some of
the effects tested. We expect actual critical effect sizes closer to
medium magnitude. Award Number
1R01AA017701-01A1 Funding Agency Department of Health and Human
Services Total Award Amount
$557,795 Project Location - City SYRACUSE Award Date 09/07/2009
Project Location - State NY Project Status Less Than
50% Completed Project Location - Zip 132440001 Jobs Reported 2.40
Congressional District 25 Place of Performance
Country USA Recipient Name SYRACUSE
UNIVERSITY Recipient DUNS Number
002257350 Recipient Address
CONTROLLERS OFFICE SKYTOP OFFICE BLDG Recipient City SYRACUSE Recipient State New York Recipient Zip 132440001 Congressional District 25 Place of Performance
Country US Required to Report Top 5
Highly Compensated Officials No Project Title
RELATIONSHIPS AMONG INTERPERSONAL STRESS, AFFECT REGULATION, AND
ALCOHOL LAPSE Project Status Less Than
50% Completed Final Project Report
Submitted No Project Activities
Description Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools Quarterly
Activities/Project Description This application has two major
aims:(1) To investigate the association of Agonistic Striving,
affect regulation, and their interaction, with time to first lapse,
and overall alcohol use, and (2) To investigate the role of
interpersonal events as mediators of the relationship among
Agonistic Striving, affect regulation, and alcohol consumption in
the second and third months post-treatment. The application also has
2 exploratory aims that concern the investigation of cardiac vagal
tone as an indicator of affect regulation, and the relationship
among Agonistic Striving, affect regulation, and the content of
perceived lapse precipitants, respectively. 156 men and women
admitted to AUD treatment will be assessed at treatment entry on
their alcohol use and related functioning, the Social Competence
Interview (SCI), and Anger Transcendence Challenge (ATC). The SCI
and ATC will provide multimodal responses to interpersonal stressors
and are the sources of measures of Agonistic Striving and affect
regulation, respectively. The protocol also will include measurement
of the perceived stressfulness of interpersonal events in the
natural environment by use of ecological momentary assessment (EMA)
methods. The EMA will occur for 4 weeks following treatment
discharge. Participants will be re-assessed on their alcohol use,
alcohol lapses, and related information biweekly following treatment
discharge over the course of 12 weeks. Additional variables will be
reassessed at 6 and 12 weeks. Products a. A completed database. The
database will consist of data as described above on 156 alcoholics
during their first 3 months post-treatment. Available at the end of
the project. b.Publication of at least two abstracts. The abstracts
will be based on presentations made at professional meetings in the
second year of the project. c.Preparation for publication of at
least one article. The article will report results in a scientific
journal of initial data findings in the second year. Jobs Created 2.40 Description of Jobs Created
1) Award financial transactions are accessed through a unique
'Chartstring' which allows for the management and monitoring of
expenditures in the University's PeopleSoft financial system. The
University assigned a specific activity code to identify and
segregate all ARRA award expenditures. 2) Labor charges, by
individual employee, posted to ARRA chartstrings during the
applicable quarter were selected. 3) FTE per employee was calculated
from the proportion of 'Total ARRA Charges' (ARRA pay /pay period)
to 'Total Pay Amount' (total pay per pay period). This value was
multiplied by the employee's job record FTE to derive a 'Calculated
FTE'. 4) The ARRA FTE reported is the sum of the award's Calculated
FTEs. Positions: Faculty = 0.40 Technical = 2.0 =================================================== Congressman
linked to this waste: Daniel
B. Maffei (D) New York 25th #76 Amount:
$150,000 Jobs
Created: 0 and never will be Cost per
job: $150,000 Translation:
We use to call this "hobby" time. I think we already know
what distributed, shared, and virtual computing is along with
forums and BBS boards. In reality, you want to do the next World of
Warcraft in your dorm and have Obama pay for it. "Theory and design of
virtual organizations for citizen science" Link:
recovery.gov Grants - AWARD SUMMARY SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY This award is funded under
the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law
111-5). This project is a two-phase theory-based study of virtual
organizations that enable massive virtual collaboration in
scientific research. The virtual organizations to be studied have a
core of scientists and project leaders coordinating the work of a
larger number of volunteer contributors, a format sometimes called
citizen science. The project is directed at advancing the
understanding of what constitutes effective citizen science virtual
organizations and under what conditions citizen science virtual
organizations can enable and enhance scientific and education
production and innovation. The study is theoretically grounded in
small group theory and rooted empirically in a survey of and case
studies in citizen science projects. The survey will be used to
develop a typology of citizen science projects, thus illuminating
the important dimensions of this form. The case studies will
identify key lever points in work design for enabling citizen
science virtual organizations to involve distributed, diverse
volunteers in producing large-scale, high quality, valued scientific
research in an organizationally sustainable fashion. Findings from
the study will be shared and validated with citizen science
practitioners in a workshop. The broader importance of the research
is that it will indicate opportunities for employing citizen science
in scientific research, which could lead to novel implementations of
citizen science in other areas of scientific and engineering
research and education. Results will aid scientists and project
leaders in identifying appropriate project structures and best
practices to employ when revising current citizen science projects
or launching new ones. Award Number 0943049
Funding Agency National Science Foundation Total Award Amount
$150,000 Project Location - City SYRACUSE Award Date 09/11/2009
Project Location - State NY Project Status Less Than
50% Completed Project Location - Zip 132441200 Jobs Reported 0.50
Congressional District 25 Place of Performance
Country USA Recipient Name SYRACUSE
UNIVERSITY Recipient DUNS Number
002257350 Recipient Address
CONTROLLERS OFFICE SKYTOP OFFICE BLDG Recipient City SYRACUSE Recipient State New York Recipient Zip 132440001 Congressional District 25 Project Title VOSS: Theory
and design of virtual organizations for citizen science Project Status Less Than
50% Completed Final Project Report
Submitted No Project Activities
Description Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools Quarterly
Activities/Project Description The project is a two-phase
theory-based study of virtual organizations (VOs) that enable
massive virtual collaboration in scientific research. The projects
to be studied take the form of a VO with a core of scientists and
project leaders coordinating the work of a larger number of
volunteer contributors, a format called citizen science. The study
is grounded in small group theory and rooted empirically in case
studies in citizen science projects. It is directed at advancing
the understanding of what constitutes effective citizen science VOs
and under what conditions citizen science VOs can enable and enhance
scientific and education production and innovation. The specific
goal of the proposed research is to identify key lever points in
work design for enabling citizen science VOs to involve distributed,
diverse volunteers in producing large scale, high quality, valued
scientific research in an organizationally sustainable fashion. It
addresses the following two research questions: 1) What
technological and social arrangements support intellectual
production and innovation in virtual organizations of citizen
scientists? and 2) What are the social and technological barriers to
and enablers of participation in a virtual organization of citizen
scientists? The project will result in the development of a
taxonomy of citizen science VOs, case studies of one or two VOs and
a research workshop to bring together researchers using and studying
citizen science approaches. The taxonomy will build on and extend
existing catalogues of projects and will be completed in the first
year of the project. The case studies will start in year 1 of the
project and continue through year 2. Each case study will be in the
form of a report describing the project's organizational design,
task design, roles, technology support and overall function. The
workshop will be held sometime during year 2 of the project and will
result in a workshop report. Jobs Created 0.50 Description of Jobs Created
1) Award financial transactions are accessed through a unique
'Chartstring' which allows for the management and monitoring of
expenditures in the University's PeopleSoft financial system. The
University assigned a specific activity code to identify and
segregate all ARRA award expenditures. 2) Labor charges, by
individual employee, posted to ARRA chartstrings during the
applicable quarter were selected. 3) FTE per employee was calculated
from the proportion of 'Total ARRA Charges' (ARRA pay /pay period)
to 'Total Pay Amount' (total pay per pay period). This value was
multiplied by the employee's job record FTE to derive a 'Calculated
FTE'. 4) The ARRA FTE reported is the sum of the award's Calculated
FTEs. Position: Grad Res Asst = 0.50 =================================================== Congressman
linked to this waste: Daniel
B. Maffei (D) New York 25th #77 Amount:
$428,471
Jobs
Created: 0 and there never will be Cost per
job: $428,471 Translation:
It is called Lady Liberty and New York harbor is well sheltered and
next to a large metro area with rail roads. Mexicans come here
because their own country is a hell hole, there is no fence, or
anyone willing to shoot them for invasion. "Much research on
migration examines conditions in countries of origin, immigrant
experiences in 'host' societies, or both. In contrast, there has
been little consideration of zones of transit and transition between
country of origin and final destination, that is, the remote sites
migrants travel through on their journeys to new locations. .... The
resulting database will be used to map offshore enforcement
practices and to produce an island index that aims to rank islands'
propensity as sites of migration entry, processing, and struggle." aka -
another Obama academia bribe to be a student. Link:
recovery.gov Grants - AWARD SUMMARY SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY Much research on migration
examines conditions in countries of origin, immigrant experiences in
'host' societies, or both. In contrast, there has been little
consideration of zones of transit and transition between country of
origin and final destination, that is, the remote sites migrants
travel through on their journeys to new locations. This project will
examine these journeys between states. Dr. Alison Mounts in the
Department of Geography at Syracuse University is undertaking this
study, which will enhance knowledge on this neglected issue by
investigating islands as particular sites where struggles over
migration, asylum, and sovereignty transpire and where federal
mandates of national security and refugee protection intersect. An
emerging body of literature suggests that smuggling industries
exploit economically impoverished migrants and asylum-seekers in
places of ambiguous jurisdiction. States also operate in remote
locales to manage undocumented migration through border enforcement
and detention. The research asks why particular islands become sites
of migration management, how migrants arrive on islands, and what
legal issues ensue. Qualitative and quantitative methods will be
used to collect data on American, Australian, and European islands
that are sites of migration entry and processing. The project aims
to analyze island geographies and demographics and to develop a
Global Classroom based on these data. The resulting database will be
used to map offshore enforcement practices and to produce an island
index that aims to rank islands' propensity as sites of migration
entry, processing, and struggle. Research findings will advance
knowledge on global migration in order to contribute to contemporary
debates about immigration, border enforcement, and asylum policies.
The project will offer new ways of understanding what happens to
international migrants on their journeys between states, including
the role of interception at sea, detention on islands, and human
rights issues that emerge along the way. Graduate students will work
with the Principal Investigator to conduct comparative research in
six field sites in five countries. The research will contribute to
innovative curricular design in the fields of political geography
and migration studies, including a Global Classroom where students
in South Africa, England, and the United States will work via
videoconference to map global migrations alongside peers located
across borders. Clarification of Codes Award Number 0847133
Funding Agency National Science Foundation Total Award Amount
$428,471 Project Location - City SYRACUSE Award Date 07/15/2009
Project Location - State NY Project Status Less Than
50% Completed Project Location - Zip 132441200 Jobs Reported 0.00
Congressional District 25 Place of Performance
Country USA Recipient Name SYRACUSE
UNIVERSITY Recipient DUNS Number
002257350 Recipient Address
CONTROLLERS OFFICE SKYTOP OFFICE BLDG Recipient City SYRACUSE Recipient State New York Recipient Zip 132440001 Congressional District 25 Place of Performance
Country US Project Title CAREER:
Geographies of Sovereignty: Global Migration, Legality, and the
Island Index Project Status Less Than
50% Completed Final Project Report
Submitted No Project Activities
Description Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools Quarterly
Activities/Project Description This project examines remote sites
migrants travel through on journeys across borders, looking at
islands as sites where struggles over migration, asylum, and
sovereignty transpire and where mandates of national security and
refugee protection intersect. The research asks why islands, how
migrants arrive, and what legal issues ensue. Development of the
research methods has continued and researchers who study detention
to have been contacted and asked to discuss methods. The PI will
lead a training for researchers from May 20-23. Consultants who are
developing a website and participatory mapping tools will join the
PI, research assistants, and postdoctoral fellow. They will hear
from experts in the field and be trained in research methods to be
implemented on field trips this summer. A Research Assistant hired
in Syracuse is doing preparatory work for this meeting and summer
research trips. She is also updating country files for areas of
study and making contacts in the field. She, along with the PI, has
researched equipment (digital recorders and cameras, netbooks, and
data analysis software). These will be purchased in April and
distributed to research assistants for use abroad in June and July.
Two research assistants and the PI will travel to Italy and
Australia in June-July 2010. The postdoctoral fellow and the PI will
travel to the Canary Islands to begin fieldwork in fall 2010. The PI
toured the Batavia detention facility in upstate New York in
February. Five people will do research and develop tools to measure
progress. Two graduate students and one postdoctoral fellow will
conduct research in field sites. Two consultants will develop
quantitative indices that will form the basis of the Island Index
and an online Island mapping project. These hires begin formally
during the next two months. Jobs Created 0.00 Description of Jobs Created
1) Award financial transactions are accessed through a unique
'Chartstring' which allows for the management and monitoring of
expenditures in the University's PeopleSoft financial system. The
University assigned a specific activity code to identify and
segregate all ARRA award expenditures. 2) Labor charges, by
individual employee, posted to ARRA chartstrings during the
applicable quarter were selected. 3) FTE per employee was calculated
from the proportion of 'Total ARRA Charges' (ARRA pay /pay period)
to 'Total Pay Amount' (total pay per pay period). This value was
multiplied by the employee's job record FTE to derive a 'Calculated
FTE'. 4) The ARRA FTE reported is the sum of the award's Calculated
FTEs. =================================================== Congressman
linked to this waste: Daniel
B. Maffei (D) New York 25th #78 Amount:
$528,461 Jobs
Created: 1.80 Cost per
job: $528,461 Translation:
"Investigation of the Formation of Water and of the Growth of
Ices on Dust Grain" = Studying water drops in space and dust
was done in 2006! Save our
money and end the study now. It was done with another "grant"
in the UK by three professors. "Addition
reactions on interstellar dust grain analogues" http://gow.epsrc.ac.uk/ViewGrant.ASPx?Grant=GR/S15273/01&bannerlink=Programme+support "This
proposal describes novel experiments to investigate the low
temperature adsorption and formation of small molecules, such as
methanol, water, carbon dioxide and ammonia, on the surface of
interstellar dust grain analogues for the first time." Another
total waste, non job creating, Obama academia bribe to be a student.
Link:
recovery.gov Grants - AWARD SUMMARY SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY This project will
investigate the formation of water molecules and the growth of ice
in conditions that simulate the interstellar medium and planetary
environments. Water is a well-recognized prerequisite for the
complex chemistry linked to the emergence and sustainability of
life, and yet little is known of how water molecules actually form,
although it is clear that gas-phase reactions are inadequate to
explain the observed abundance of water and water-ice in space. This
challenging work exploits the group's expertise and unique
laboratory techniques in areas such low fluxes of reactants,
hydrogen and oxygen atomic beams, mass spectrometry, in-situ
infrared spectroscopy, and surface characterization probes, and
involves close collaboration with a theoretical team. The program
will study the mechanism and rates of water formation on grains via
hydrogenation reactions and interaction with energetic particles,
measure the alteration of grains early in ice-mantle formation,
determine how ices grow and the effect of photo-dissociation, and
evaluate the competing reactions of H with O to form water, H with H
to form molecular hydrogen, and H with CO to form various different
molecules. The team will also determine the deuteration rate and
pathways. Theoretical analysis will use the experimentally
determined parameters to obtain reaction rates in space environment
conditions. This research is widely valuable for interpreting
results from current and future ground- and space-based telescopes,
such as the Spitzer and Herschel satellites and the Atacama Large
Millimeter Array. It will provide an unprecedented understanding of
the formation of water and the growth of ices. The anticipated
theoretical understanding will benefit all modelers of interstellar
and planetary chemistry. The project provides students with an
opportunity to work in an interdisciplinary field at the forefront
of research in astrophysics, planetary science and surface science.
The principal investigator in particular is very active in outreach
programs sponsored by local and national organizations and provides
a recognized nurturing environment to undergraduate and high-school
students. Clarification of Codes Award Number 0908108
Funding Agency National Science Foundation Total Award Amount
$528,461 Project Location - City SYRACUSE Award Date 08/11/2009
Project Location - State NY Project Status Less Than
50% Completed Project Location - Zip 132441200 Jobs Reported 1.80
Congressional District 25 Place of Performance
Country USA Recipient Name SYRACUSE
UNIVERSITY Recipient DUNS Number
002257350 Recipient Address
CONTROLLERS OFFICE SKYTOP OFFICE BLDG Recipient City SYRACUSE Recipient State New York Recipient Zip 132440001 Congressional District 25 Projects and Jobs
Information Project Title
Investigation of the Formation of Water and of the Growth of
Ices on Dust Grain Analogues Project Status Less Than
50% Completed Final Project Report
Submitted No Project Activities
Description Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools Quarterly
Activities/Project Description This NSF-sponsored project is about
finding out how water molecules and water ices are formed in space
environments, from the interstellar medium to protoplanetary disks.
The expected outcome of this research is not only to learn under
what conditions water is formed in space, but also to quantify the
physical and chemical processes leading to the formation of water.
The appropriately analyzed data will be used by theorists studying
the chemical evolution of interstellar clouds and protoplanetary
disks; they will help observers in their interpretation of
observational data, and they will shed light in understanding the
origin of water in the solar system, thus contributing also to the
field of astrobiology. In recent years it has become clear that
gas-phase reactions cannot account for the abundance of water
observed in space. Water formation on dust grains has been proposed
to resolve this puzzle. However, few studies have been done to study
these reactions in realistic simulations of space environments. The
project consists of using low-flux atomic hydrogen and oxygen beams
to deposit reactants on dust grain analogues. First we will study
the formation of water on bare surfaces where water first form in
space. Then we will study the formation and chemical evolution of
icy mantles covering these. The first year plan is to: 1. Hire the
personnel; 2. Make the necessary modifications to our apparatus and
instrumentation; 3. Obtain samples; 4. Coordinate research tasks
with collaborators; 5. Conduct preliminary experiments of water
formation on dust grain analogues. A post-doc was hired and has
begun working in our lab in early February. A graduate student was
also hired to speed up the work. We also hired three undergraduate
students. Samples are being prepared in a collaborator's lab. The
first experiments of H adsorption and recombination on a single
crystal olivine have begun to obtain preliminary data for future
experiments planned in the summer. Jobs Created 1.80 Description of Jobs Created
1) Award financial transactions are accessed through a unique
'Chartstring' which allows for the management and monitoring of
expenditures in the University's PeopleSoft financial system. The
University assigned a specific activity code to identify and
segregate all ARRA award expenditures. 2) Labor charges, by
individual employee, posted to ARRA chartstrings during the
applicable quarter were selected. 3) FTE per employee was calculated
from the proportion of 'Total ARRA Charges' (ARRA pay /pay period)
to 'Total Pay Amount' (total pay per pay period). This value was
multiplied by the employee's job record FTE to derive a 'Calculated
FTE'. 4) The ARRA FTE reported is the sum of the award's Calculated
FTEs. Positions Postdoc = 1.0 Grad Res Asst = 0.50 Student empl =
0.30 Student employee TAS Major Program 49-0101 Award Date 08/11/2009 Award Number 0908108 Order Number Award Type Grants Funding Agency ID 49 Funding Agency Name
National Science Foundation Funding Office Name Not
Available Awarding Agency ID 49 Awarding Agency Name
National Science Foundation Amount of Award $528,461 Funds Invoiced/Received
$39,077 Expenditure Amount $45,631 Infrastructure Expenditure
Amount $0 Infrastructure Purpose and
Rationale Not Reported Infrastructure Point of
Contact Name SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY Infrastructure Point of
Contact Email Not Reported Infrastructure Point of
Contact Phone Not Reported Infrastructure Point of
Contact Address OFFICE OF SPONSORED PROGRAMS Infrastructure Point of
Contact City SYRACUSE Infrastructure Point of
Contact State NY Infrastructure Point of
Contact Zip 132441200 =================================================== Congressman
linked to this waste: Daniel
B. Maffei (D) New York 25th #79 Amount:
$219,000
Jobs
Created: .054 (which is a lie) Cost per
job: $405,555 Translation:
"Scientific Rationale: The transition from adolescence to
adulthood involves important developmental challenges. Events during
this key developmental phase can profoundly shape and influence
academic and occupational achievement as well as affect health
outcomes. During this time, women are particularly vulnerable to a
number of health threats including depressive, anxiety and eating
disorders; psychosomatic conditions; intimate partner coercion and
violence; and sexually transmitted infections."
=Another
total waste, non job creating, Obama academia bribe to be a student.
Link:
recovery.gov Grants - AWARD SUMMARY SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY Scientific Rationale: The
transition from adolescence to adulthood involves important
developmental challenges. Events during this key developmental phase
can profoundly shape and influence academic and occupational
achievement as well as affect health outcomes. During this time,
women are particularly vulnerable to a number of health threats
including depressive, anxiety and eating disorders; psychosomatic
conditions; intimate partner coercion and violence; and sexually
transmitted infections. Understanding gender-based health
disparities is an important public health goal. Preliminary
scientific reports suggest that intimate encounters between partners
who have no expectation of a romantic commitment may be increasing
and that these encounters may be partly responsible for gender-based
health disparities. However, little research has investigated the
health consequences of such encounters using a large sample, a
longitudinal design, reliable and valid measures, and sophisticated
data analyses. Objectives: The primary purpose of the research is to
evaluate the effects of such intimate encounters on three health
outcomes that affect women disproportionately: intimate partner
coercion, sexually transmitted infections, and mental health
conditions. In addition, the research will document the prevalence
of such encounters in a large sample of young adult women and
identify the antecedents and correlates of these encounters (e.g.,
other health behaviors, person variables, and social-environmental
conditions). Study Milestones: During the first month of the grant
period, we will hire a half-time research assistant and part-time
temporary assistants. These research assistants will be trained and
will then help to recruit participants, obtain informed consent, and
collect baseline data. Within the first 6 weeks of the award, we
will invite 1000 women to participate with the goal of recruiting
approximately 500 women to join the study. Potential participants
will receive information about the project before being asked to
provide written consent. Those who do consent will complete a
baseline assessment of sociodemographic characteristics, relevant
health behaviors, and hypothesized predictors of future encounters.
The survey data will be saved to a database built with multiple
privacy protections. Next, for each of the following 12 months,
participants will be contacted by email and asked to complete online
surveys to assess a variety of health-related behaviors such as
tobacco use, alcohol use, exercise and physical activity, sleep, and
sexual behavior as well as psychosomatic and mental health symptoms;
at the 8-month follow-up, participants will also be asked to provide
a biological specimen for disease testing. After each month?s data
collection, we will merge new data with the existing data base and
conduct preliminary analyses to confirm the integrity of the
database. At the end of 6 months, we will conduct preliminary
analyses to provide initial, shorter-term tests of some of the
research hypotheses. During the second year of the award, we will
conduct more comprehensive data analyses with the assistance of a
statistical consultant and guided by the specific aims. We will also
prepare materials for professional presentation and publication in
peer-reviewed scientific journals. Public Health Relevance: This
study will provide the first large-scale, longitudinal investigation
into the causes and consequences of intimate encounters among young
women. The findings will help to document the behavioral
epidemiology of health behaviors in order to provide scientifically
valid information to medical and public health professionals who
provide guidance, education, and health care to women. This
information can also be used to guide the development of more
effective health promotion programs with the long-term goal of
improving the physical and mental health of young adult women. Clarification of Codes Award Number
1R21AA018257-01 Funding Agency Department of Health and Human
Services Total Award Amount
$219,000 Project Location - City SYRACUSE Award Date 08/17/2009
Project Location - State NY Project Status Less Than
50% Completed Project Location - Zip 132440001 Jobs Reported 0.54
Congressional District 25 Place of Performance
Country USA Recipient Name SYRACUSE
UNIVERSITY Recipient DUNS Number
002257350 Recipient Address
CONTROLLERS OFFICE SKYTOP OFFICE BLDG Recipient City SYRACUSE Recipient State New York Recipient Zip 132440001 Congressional District 25 Place of Performance
Country US Required to Report Top 5
Highly Compensated Officials No Project Title ALCOHOL USE
AND HEALTH IN YOUNG WOMEN Project Status Less Than
50% Completed Final Project Report
Submitted No Project Activities
Description Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools Quarterly
Activities/Project Description The transition from late adolescence
to early adulthood involves important developmental challenges,
often setting the trajectory for adult development, health, and
achievement. During this time, young women are uniquely vulnerable
to several health threats including depressive and psychosomatic
conditions, intimate partner assault, and sexually transmitted
diseases. Anecdotal reports suggest that intimacy outside of a
committed relationship may be partly responsible for such health
outcomes. However, virtually no research has investigated this
phenomenon using a longitudinal design. Therefore, the primary
purpose of this research is to evaluate the effects of such
relationships on health outcomes that affect females
disproportionately: intimate partner assault, sexually transmitted
disease, and mental health conditions. The secondary purposes are to
document prevalence, antecedents and correlates of such
relationships as well as the association with substance use. To
achieve these aims, we recruited 483 female volunteers at college
entry. These volunteers provided information regarding health
behaviors and hypothesized predictors at the beginning of their
first semester, and complete monthly surveys that assess substance
use, smoking, physical activity, sleep, sexual risk behavior,
psychosomatic and mental health symptoms. Seven of the planned
twelve surveys have been completed. At the end of the school year,
participants will be tested for three sexually transmitted
infections. This study will provide the first large-scale,
longitudinal investigation into the physical and mental health
consequences of intimacy outside of a committed relationship.
Findings will be used to inform parents, educators, and health
professionals, and to guide the development of more effective health
promotion and disease prevention programs. Jobs Created 0.54 Description of Jobs Created
1) Award financial transactions are accessed through a unique
'Chartstring' which allows for the management and monitoring of
expenditures in the University's PeopleSoft financial system. The
University assigned a specific activity code to identify and
segregate all ARRA award expenditures. 2) Labor charges, by
individual employee, posted to ARRA chartstrings during the
applicable quarter were selected. 3) FTE per employee was calculated
from the proportion of 'Total ARRA Charges' (ARRA pay /pay period)
to 'Total Pay Amount' (total pay per pay period). This value was
multiplied by the employee's job record FTE to derive a 'Calculated
FTE'. 4) The ARRA FTE reported is the sum of the award's Calculated
FTEs. Positions: Faculty = 0.04 Technical = 0.50 =================================================== Congressman
linked to this waste: Daniel
B. Maffei (D) New York 25th Ask
how borrowing money from China for this created jobs for the
unemployed. #80 Amount:
$390,772 Jobs
Created: 0.46
Cost per
job: $849,504 Translation:
of "Inspiring Innovation: Merging Pedagogical Paradigms from
Engineering and Architecture" "They
will jointly plan, deliver, evaluate, and refine two undergraduate
courses: a Statics class for undergraduate engineers and a fourth
year technical elective design course for engineers which will be
paired with a fourth year studio course for architecture students.
One of the key aims of the project is to test the hypothesis of
whether the melding of the architectural teaching paradigm and the
engineering teaching paradigm will result in engineering students
who are more confident in their ability to solve problems and are
more creative in doing so." =Another
total waste, non job creating, Obama academia bribe to be students
and teachers. Link:
recovery.gov SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY This engineering education
research award to Syracuse University will employ researchers from
the College of Engineering and Computer Science as well as College
of Architecture to investigate new approaches to improved creative
problem solving. They will jointly plan, deliver, evaluate, and
refine two undergraduate courses: a Statics class for undergraduate
engineers and a fourth year technical elective design course for
engineers which will be paired with a fourth year studio course for
architecture students. One of the key aims of the project is to test
the hypothesis of whether the melding of the architectural teaching
paradigm and the engineering teaching paradigm will result in
engineering students who are more confident in their ability to
solve problems and are more creative in doing so. This project
addresses ways to encourage the creation of innovative technologies
and innovative ways of viewing the future. The new courses address
the often heard criticism that engineers have too little hands-on
training, especially early in their undergraduate years, and this
situation is believed to negatively affect retention rates.
Increasing the number of engineering graduates with creative problem
solving abilities would supply needed talent to fill engineering
jobs. Award Number 0935168
Funding Agency National Science Foundation Total Award Amount
$390,772 Project Location - City SYRACUSE Award Date 06/30/2009
Project Location - State NY Project Status Less Than
50% Completed Project Location - Zip 132441200 Jobs Reported 0.46
Congressional District 25 Recipient Name SYRACUSE
UNIVERSITY Recipient DUNS Number
002257350 Recipient Address
CONTROLLERS OFFICE SKYTOP OFFICE BLDG Recipient City SYRACUSE Recipient State New York Recipient Zip 132440001 Congressional District 25 Project Title Inspiring
Innovation: Merging Pedagogical Paradigms from Engineering and
Architecture Project Status Less Than
50% Completed Final Project Report
Submitted No Project Activities
Description Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools Quarterly
Activities/Project Description We plan three major coordinated
activities aimed at integrating support for and experiments with
creativity in undergraduate students' experiences at the L.C. Smith
College of Engineering and Computer Science. The first is STATICS
2.0: The Normative Engineering Course Re-imagined. We plan to turn
the traditional statics course into 'Statics 2.0', a statics course
updated for contemporary pedagogies and technologies: smaller size
lectures with the curriculum restructured to provide: motivated
learning, more synthetic examples, activity learning, design
competitions, and self directed learning. This course will be
co-taught by P.I. Mac Namara and Co P.I. Clemence. The second is the
Transdisciplinary Design Seminar (TDS): A research and
creativity-based design course. This course brings together students
from architecture and engineering to undertake a semester-long
design project in which real, rigorous, testable, and provable
technologies will be made integral to the design project. The first
transdisciplinary design seminar is half complete and is focusing on
engineering research and its integration into the creative design
process; it gives students the opportunity to 'play' with modeling,
software, and algorithms, etc. that are generative and performative
in the design process. The final activity will be the 'Exemplars in
Engineering Creativity' Lecture Series. We plan a three-year long
lecture series with four visiting lecturers each year, open to the
entire Syracuse University community, but aimed principally at
engineering and architecture students and faculty. The lectures will
also be coordinated so that visiting speakers can engage with
students in Statics 2.0 and the TDS so that students may benefit
from learning with visiting lecturers in small settings. Jobs Created 0.46 Description of Jobs Created
1) Award financial transactions are accessed through a unique
'Chartstring' which allows for the management and monitoring of
expenditures in the University's PeopleSoft financial system. The
University assigned a specific activity code to identify and
segregate all ARRA award expenditures. 2) Labor charges, by
individual employee, posted to ARRA chartstrings during the
applicable quarter were selected. 3) FTE per employee was calculated
from the proportion of 'Total ARRA Charges' (ARRA pay /pay period)
to 'Total Pay Amount' (total pay per pay period). This value was
multiplied by the employee's job record FTE to derive a 'Calculated
FTE'. 4) The ARRA FTE reported is the sum of the award's Calculated
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