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California Institute of Technology Grant
Organization - California Institute of Technology
Grant Amount - $7,500,000
Foundation - Moore Foundation
Grant Purpose - This grant to the California Institute of Technology provides $7.5 million of additional funds to complete the Design Development Phase (DDP) of the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) by March 2009. The TMT goal is to construct the first of the next-generation giant optical/infrared ground-based telescopes. This grant is paired with an identical award to the University of California.
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University of California - $7,500,000 from the Moore Foundation - This grant to the University of California provides $7.5 million of additional funds to complete the Design Development Phase (DDP) of the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) by March 2009. The TMT goal is to construct the first of the next-generation...
New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology - $266,274 from the Moore Foundation - This grant to the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology will be used to investigate the requirements, feasibility, and design of microwave guide star systems for large adaptive array optical telescopes. Microwave guide star systems are based...
University of Massachusetts - Amherst - $10,000 from the Mott Foundation - This grant increase will provide additional support for "Journalism That Matters", an initiative of the Journalism/Communications department at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. The overall goal of the initiative is to facilitate...
Instituto Socioambiental - $4,706,736 from the Moore Foundation - This second phase grant will enable Instituto Socioambiental (ISA) to build on the activities and outputs successfully developed during earlier phases of funding (Grants #429 and #828). ISA will develop and implement Integrated Resource Management...
Flint Institute of Arts - $800,000 from the Mott Foundation - Founded in 1928 as an art school and incorporated in 1930, the Flint Institute of Arts operates in the DeWaters Art Center building on the Flint Cultural Center campus. The institute recently completed a two-phase, $20 million building renovation...
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