Rep. Panetta Secures Significant Federal Support for Local Research Institutions
Monterey, CA – United States Representative Jimmy Panetta (CA-19) announced that he had secured more than $4 million in federal funding for local research institutions in California’s 19th Congressional District. These substantial grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), California State University Monterey Bay (CSUMB), and Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute will play a pivotal role in advancing cutting-edge research, promoting innovation, and fostering scientific excellence within our community.
“California’s 19th Congressional District is a hub for our nation’s science, innovation, and groundbreaking research,” said Rep. Panetta. “That is why I advocated for and am proud to have secured significant federal funding for our diverse and dynamic research endeavors at the world-class research institutions in our community. Through our local research projects, we’ll continue to strengthen the foundation for future research and discovery all across the globe.”
NSF grants awarded to California’s 19th Congressional District institutions include:
“WoU-MMA: Multiple Approaches to Multi-Messenger Astronomy”
University of California, Santa Cruz
$888,328
A research team at the University of California at Santa Cruz (UCSC), which was instrumental in the discovery of GW170817, will lead an international program to research electromagnetic (EM) counterparts to gravitational wave (GW) events.
“Open Process Models Optimizing Self-Regulated Learning in the Classroom”
University of California, Santa Cruz
$849,531
The project will focus on the research question of how to engage students in metacognitive processes of self-regulated learning toward better learning of parallel programming.
“Collaborative Research: IntBIO: Rules for Cell Membranes in the Extremes of the Deep Sea”
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
$680,707
The project uses ctenophores, commonly called comb jellies, as a model system to discover rules that underlie an organisms ability to tolerate the extreme conditions found in the deep sea.
“Cross-Institutional Faculty Learning to Improve Critical Transitions in STEM Education”
California State University Monterey Bay
$400,000
This project aims to improve student success by helping college STEM instructors examine the role of text in learning, select useful texts, and assign meaningful tasks.
“Collaborative Research: SHF: Small: RUI: Keystone: Modular Concurrent Software Verification”
University of California, Santa Cruz
$339,977
Current state-of-the-art tools are capable of verifying sophisticated systems such as compilers and Operating System (OS) kernels. This project aims to achieve similar advances in multi-threaded software verification.
“FuSe-TG: Co-designing Novel Memristor Heterostructures for Brain-Inspired Computers”
University of California, Santa Cruz
$299,086
This project aims to develop a new type of memristor by combining two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors and traditional memristor materials.
“Collaborative Research: Probing and Controlling Exciton-Plasmon Interaction for Solar Hydrogen Generation”
University of California, Santa Cruz
$284,975
This collaborative research team will develop novel semiconductor-metal nano heterojunctions to investigate the fundamental interactions between exciton generated on semiconductor quantum dots and plasmon produced in plasmonic metal nanostructures from a dynamic perspective using ultrafast laser spectroscopy.
“Spaces with Ricci Curvature Bounded Below”
University of California, Santa Cruz
$141,490
The project will study the fundamental groups of complete and non-compact manifolds with nonnegative Ricci curvature. Specifically, this will investigate the relation between the structure of fundamental groups (for example, finite generation and virtual nilpotency) and the equivariant asymptotic geometry.
“Collaborative Research: Constraining Planktic Foraminiferal Ecology Using Compound Specific Isotope Analysis of Amino Acids”
University of California, Santa Cruz
$131,201
This project will investigate and develop multiple aspects of compound-specific nitrogen and carbon isotopes of specific amino acids to better understand the species-level ecology of planktic foraminifera.
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