← LeaderboardsInvestigatorsiAttributed = a PI's even-split share of each grant — a $1M grant with 2 PIs counts $500K each.
University Of Massachusetts Lowell
Lowell, MA
$407,363,531
Total funding
652
Grants
Funding over time
peak $49.1M · FY2005–25$50M$37.5M$25M$12.5M$0
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Funding mix
By agency
NSF$116,810,044 · 356
NIH$104,355,671 · 110
DOD$87,227,811 · 84
CDC$40,735,144 · 26
DOE$29,150,802 · 41
NASA$27,290,115 · 29
FDA$1,097,260 · 2
USDA$696,685 · 3
SAMHSA$0 · 1
By mechanism
—$261,175,456 · 513
R01$60,966,464 · 37
U45$22,845,055 · 10
U19$20,449,860 · 1
R15$6,952,916 · 15
R21$6,560,121 · 21
Investigators at University Of Massachusetts Lowell
InvestigatorsiAttributed = a PI's even-split share of each grant — a $1M grant with 2 PIs counts $500K each.
Exposure= the full size of every grant they're on ($1M each).
Rising Stars
First grant in the last 5 yrs
Emerging Leaders
6–10 yrs in
Largest grants
COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT FOR RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT - SLIMMER3$22,929,616
· FY2020 · Department of the Army
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT EFFORT CONDUCTED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE RECIPIENT'S PROPOSAL ENTITLED 'SOLDIER LIGHTWEIGHT INTEGRATED MULTIFUNCTIONAL MATERI$13,327,931
· FY2018 · Department of the Army
SWIFT CA - SUPPORTING WARFIGHTERS THROUGH INNOVATIVE FOOTWEAR TECHNOLOGIES$7,379,961
· FY2023 · Department of the Army
21-APRA21-0055 PICTURE-D: PLANETARY IMAGING CORONAGRAPH TESTBED USING A REUSABLE EXPERIMENT FOR DEBRIS DISKS.$6,355,763
· FY2022 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
WE PROPOSE A RESEARCH PROGRAM INVOLVING TWO CONVENTIONAL BALLOON FLIGHTS FROM FT. SUMNER NM TO STUDY DEBRIS DISKS OF FIVE STARS.THESE EXPERIMENTS INCREMENTALLY BUILD ON PREVIOUS FLIGHT-PROVEN SUBSYSTEMS WITH A GOAL OF CONDUCTING FUNDAMENTAL SCIENCE WHILEMATURING KEY EXOPLANET TECHNOLOGIES.FLIGHT ONE WILL USE AN 0.6 M OFF-AXIS TELESCOPE SYSTEM IN CONJUNCTION WITH A VISIBLE NULLING CORONAGRAPH TO DIRECTLY IMAGE ALPHA LYR DELTA DRA AND EPSILON ERI. THE FLIGHT-PROVEN WASP GONDOLA ALONG WITH A FINE POINTING SYSTEM FLIGHT-PROVEN ABOARD OUR SOUNDINGROCKET PROGRAM WILL COMPLETE THE EXPERIMENT COMPLEMENT.IN FLIGHT TWO A FIELD-PROVEN VECTOR VORTEX CORNAGRAPH WILL REPLACE THE NULLING CORONAGRAPH AND A FIELD-PROVEN INTEGRAL FIELD DETECTOR THE MKID WILL REPLACE THE SCIENCE CAMERA OF THE FIRST FLIGHT. THE PLANNED TARGETS FOR THE SECOND FLIGHT ARE ALPHA AQL TAU CET ANDEPSILON ERI. WITH CONSERVATIVE PERFORMANCE ESTIMATES WE EXPECT TO OBTAIN AN IMAGE OF EPSILON ERI IN THE SECOND FLIGHT AS WELL ASSOME SPECTRAL CHARACTERISTICS. SEVERAL OTHER TARGETS ARE AVAILABLE AND WILL BE SELECTED IF/AS TIME PERMITS. OUR SIMULATIONS INDICATE THETANTALIZING POSSIBILITY OF OBTAINING A DIRECT IMAGE OF THE SUGGESTED EPSILON ERI B. IF SUCCESSFUL IT WILL PRODUCE ONE OR MORE IMAGES OFJUPITER-LIKE PLANETS AROUND SUN-LIKE STARS.WITH A DELIBERATE APPROACH OF STEPWISE MATURING KEY ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES WHILE DEMONSTRATING IMPORTANT SCIENCE RESULTS PLANETARYIMAGING CONCEPT TESTBED USING A RECOVERABLE EXPERIMENT - CORONAGRAPH (PICTURE C ) WILL FIRMLY PUT US ON THE PATH TOWARDSREALIZING THE GOAL OF CHARACTERIZING PLANETS IN THE HABITABLE ZONE. IN THE SHORT-TERM IT WILL FLIGHT DEMONSTRATE HIGH PRIORITY TECHNOLOGIESENDORSED BY THE AFTA AND STDT STUDIES.$6,212,330
· FY2015 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
SINGLE-PARTICLE AND COLLECTIVE PHENOMENA IN NUCLEI$6,026,079
· FY2010 · Department of Energy
BACKGROUND: IN SUPPORT OF NASA'S EARTH SURFACE AND INTERIOR (ESI) FOCUS AREA THE TERRESTRIAL REFERENCE FRAME (TRF) IS THE FOUNDATION FOR VIRTUALLY ALL AIRBORNE SPACE-BASED AND GROUND-BASED EARTH OBSERVATIONS. THIS FRAME IS DEVELOPED BY COMBINING THE OBSERVATIONS FROM SATELLITE LASER RANGING (SLR) VERY LONG BASELINE INTERFEROMETRY (VLBI) THE GLOBAL NAVIGATION SATELLITE SYSTEM (GNSS) AND DOPPLER ORBITOGRAPHY AND RADIOPOSITIONING INTEGRATED BY SATELLITE (DORIS) STATIONS AND IS REALIZED AS AN INTERNATIONAL STANDARD THROUGH THE INTERNATIONAL TERRESTRIAL REFERENCE FRAME (ITRF). COMBINING THE DIFFERENT MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES IS ONLY POSSIBLE WITH ACCURATE KNOWLEDGE OF THE RELATIVE MEASUREMENT REFERENCE POINTS BETWEEN CO-LOCATED SYSTEMS AND DOING SO IS ESSENTIAL TO TAKE FULL ADVANTAGE OF THE STRENGTHS OF EACH TECHNIQUE. CURRENTLY THE ITRF IS LIMITED IN ACCURACY BY SYSTEMATIC ERRORS IN TYING TOGETHER THE CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE DIFFERENT GEODETIC TECHNIQUES. SINCE STANDARD GROUND-BASED SURVEYS PROVIDING TIES BETWEEN GEODETIC TECHNIQUES HAVE REACHED THE LIMIT OF THEIR CAPABILITIES A NEW APPROACH IS REQUIRED THAT EXTENDS TECHNIQUE TIES INTO SPACE. MAJOR GOALS: WE PROPOSE TO DEVELOP A NEW SPACE FLIGHT INSTRUMENT AND VERIFY A MEASUREMENT CONCEPT THAT ENABLES THE DETERMINATION OF SYSTEMATIC ERRORS BETWEEN THE VLBI GNSS AND SLR INDEPENDENT MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES BY EXTENDING SURVEYING TECHNIQUES OUT TO SPACEFLIGHT ASSETS. THE PROPOSED INSTRUMENT FUNCTIONING AS A GNSS L-TO-X-BAND TRANSPONDER ESTABLISHES FREQUENCY COMPATIBILITY BETWEEN VLBI AND GNSS THEREBY FACILITATING A DIRECT SPACE-BASED GEODETIC TIE BETWEEN THESE TWO RADIO-BASED TECHNIQUES IN POST- PROCESSING. SEPARATE LASER RETRO-REFLECTORS FLOWN CONCURRENTLY WITH GRITSS WOULD PROVIDE ADDITIONAL CONNECTION TO THE SLR NETWORK. BECAUSE THE MEASUREMENT CONCEPT BY WHICH THE VLBI/GNSS SYSTEMATIC ERRORS WILL BE DETERMINED ONLY REQUIRES ONE VLBI STATION TO OBSERVE THE SPACE VEHICLE THE SPACE VEHICLE MAY BE IN LOW-EARTH ORBIT. THIS IS ADVANTAGEOUS AS IT OPENS UP THE POSSIBILITY OF USING INEXPENSIVE CUBESATS OR OTHER SMALL SATELLITES MAKING IT POSSIBLE TO IMPLEMENT A COST-EFFECTIVE CONSTELLATION OF SPACECRAFT TO PROVIDE BETTER GLOBAL COVERAGE AND FURTHER IMPROVE THE ACCURACY OF THE GEODETIC SITE TIES. SPECIFIC TASKS: 1) DEVELOP MODIFIED VERSION OF AN EXISTING SPACE FLIGHT GNSS RECEIVER TO SUPPORT GNSS RELAYING FUNCTIONALITY PROCURE COMMERCIAL SPACE FLIGHT UHF (LOW DATA RATE) S AND X-BAND (HIGH DATA RATE) DIGITAL DATA TRANSMITTERS. 2) DESIGN AND FABRICATE A FIT-FORM-FUNCTION INSTRUMENT CAPABLE OF BEING IMPLEMENTED WITHIN A CUBESAT/SMALL SATELLITE. 3) BENCH TEST BREADBOARD CONCEPT OF GNSS-TO-VLBI TRANSPONDER WITH GNSS SYNTHETIC SIGNAL GENERATORS AND SPACE VEHICLE GNSS RECEIVERS. 4) BENCH TEST BREADBOARD CONCEPT OF GNSS-TO-VLBI TRANSPONDER WITH GNSS SYNTHETIC SIGNAL GENERATORS AND SPACE VEHICLE GNSS RECEIVERS. 5) ON SIGHT GROUND TEST OF GNSS-TO-VLBI TRANSPONDER AT GODDARD GEOPHYSICAL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY. 6) AIRBORNE FLIGHT TEST EVALUATION OF GNSS-TO-VLBI TRANSPONDER AT GODDARD GEOPHYSICAL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY.$5,085,007
· FY2020 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN THE AREA OF SOLDIER LIGHTWEIGHT INTEGRATED MULTIFUNCTIONAL MATERIALS$4,473,733
· FY2017 · Department of the Army
ADVANCE Institutional Transformation at the University of Massachusetts Lowell$3,685,225
· FY2016 · EDU
PARAMETRICALLY-INDUCED QUANTUM ENGINEERING (PIQUE)$3,345,000
· FY2018 · Department of Energy
NANO-MANUFACTURING OF MULTI-FUNCTION SENSORS$3,087,200
· FY2010 · Department of the Army
NEW COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT FOR NANOMANUFACTURING RESEARCH$2,800,474
· FY2008 · Department of the Army
SCC-IRG Track 1: Community Based Approach to Address Contaminants in Drinking Water using Smart Cloud-Connected Electrochemical Sensors$2,495,019
· FY2022 · CSE
New, GK-12: Vibes and Waves in Action: A Cross-Disciplinary Collaborative Network for GK-12 Education$2,350,875
· FY2009 · EDU
ADVANCED MATERIALS AND PROCESSES FOR IMPROVING SOLDIER PROTECTION$2,314,290
· FY2016 · Department of the Army
IntBIO: Linking genome to phenome to understand the function of Masticatory Myosin$2,134,685
· FY2022 · BIO
Boston Puerto Rican Health Study - CVD Risk Factors$2,131,659
P50 · FY2014 · HL
Boston Puerto Rican Health Study - CVD Risk Factors$2,098,848
P50 · FY2015 · HL
Microbiome Multi-Omics and Cognitive Decline in Latinos$2,020,674
RF1 · FY2023 · AG
Innovative Engagement: A Mass Transit Model for Informal Science Learning$2,000,265
· FY2012 · EDU