Gaithersburg, Md.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded over $123 million in Recovery Act funding in January of 2009 to support the creation of 12 new research laboratories. The grants include:
- $15 million to the University of Pittsburgh for new nanoscience and experimental physics laboratories
- $15 million to Nova Southeastern University for the construction of the Center of Excellence for Coral Reef Ecosystem Science
- $12.4 million to the University of Maine to build the Advanced Nanocomposites in Renewable Energy Lab
- $12.3 million to the University of Kansas for the Measurement, Materials and Sustainable Environment Center
- $11.8 million to the University of Kentucky for an expansion of the Center for Applied Energy Research Laboratory
- $11.8 million to Purdue University for a Center for High Performance Buildings at the Ray W. Herrick Laboratories
- $11.6 million to the Georgia Tech Research Corp. for a pilot-scale laboratory for carbon-neutral energy solutions
- $10.3 million to the University of Maryland for an advanced quantum science lab in the Physical Sciences Complex
- $8.1 million to Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution for the Laboratory for Ocean Sensors and Observing Systems
- $6.9 million to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln for a nanoscience metrology facility
- $6.9 million to Georgetown University for the Institute for Soft Matter Synthesis and Metrology
- $1.4 million to Columbia University for a geochemistry laboratory at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
