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Congressman Fattah Announces Over $1.907 Million in Scientific Research Grants for Penn and DrexelWASHINGTON, Aug. 31, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Congressman Chaka Fattah (D-PA), a lead appropriator for scientific research, announces the award of five grants totaling $1,907,120 from the National Science Foundation directed to Philadelphia's University City district. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110323/DC70526LOGO) Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania will receive three grants and Drexel University will receive two grants to advance the research projects that have been the trademark of Philadelphia's great universities. Congressman Fattah is Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Committee's Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science and related agencies, which includes appropriations for the National Science Foundation. The grants: $109780.00 to Penn for "Pattern-Changing Instabilities and Giant Magnetostriction in Periodic Magnetoelastic Composites," under the direction of Pedro Ponte Castaneda; $191018.00 to Penn for "The Archaeology of Rural Rome," under the direction of Kimberly Bowes; $600000.00 to Penn for "PFI: Autonomous Robotic Rotorcraft for Exploration, Surveillance and Transportation (ARREST)," under the direction of R. Vijay Kumar; $340000.00 to Drexel for "Reconfigurable Antenna-based Enhancement of Dynamic Spectrum Access Algorithms," under the direction of Kapil Dandekar; $666322.00 to Drexel for "ATD: Improving Analysis of Microbial Mixtures through Sparse Reconstruction Algorithms and Statistical Inference," under the direction of Simon Foucart. SOURCE Office of Congressman Chaka Fattah |