NEWS Melissa Motichek Headquarters, Washington RELEASE: 03-046 NASA ANNOUNCES RESEARCH GRANTS IN FUNDAMENTAL PHYSICS February 4, 2003 NASA has selected 14 researchers to receive grants totaling more than $5.2 million over four years to conduct fundamental physics research on Earth and in space. This research will seek knowledge that will expand understanding of space, time and matter. Sponsored by NASA's Office of Biological and Physical Research, the research offers investigators the advantage of a low-gravity and space environment to enhance understanding of physical, biological and chemical processes associated with fundamental physics. Eight of these grants are to continue work currently being funded by NASA, and six represent new research. Researchers will use NASA's microgravity research facilities such as drop-tubes, drop-towers, aircraft flying parabolic trajectories, and sounding rockets. NASA received 51 proposals in response to the research announcement in this area. The proposals were peer reviewed by scientific and technical experts from academia and government. See below for a list of awardees (by state), their institutions, and research titles. NRA:01-OBPR-08 E Fundamental Physics PI Funding Information Potential Flight Definition Investigation Maryland Ho Jung Paik University of Maryland, College Park Short-range Inverse-square Law Experiment in Space California Harvey Gould Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Berkeley, CA Feasibility Study for an Electron Electric Dipole Moment Experiment with Slow Atoms in Microgravity Melora Larson NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA Experiments Along Coexistence Near Tricriticality (EXACT) John Lipa Stanford University Stanford, CA Universality Tests on DYNAMAX Richard E. Packard University of California Berkeley Berkeley, CA Development of High Sensitivity Sensors of Absolute Rotation using Quantum Phase Coherence in Superfluid Helium Colorado Scott A. Diddams National Institute of Standards and Technology Boulder, CO Compact Femtosecond-Laser-Based Optical Synthesizers for Precision Measurements and Atomic Clocks in the Optical Domain Murray J. Holland University of Colorado at Boulder Boulder, CO Generation of Fragile and Strongly Correlated Quantum States in Bose-Einstein Condensed Gases Connecticut Juha Javanainen University of Connecticut Storrs, CT Quantum Optics Style Theory for Degenerate Bose and Fermi Gases Georgia Michael S. Chapman Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA All-optical Atomic Bose Condensates Maryland Mikhail Anisimov University of Maryland, College Park College Park, MD Experimental Investigation of Impurity Effects on the Two-Phase Isochoric Heat Capacity Near the 3He Critical Point Steven L. Rolston National Institute of Standards and Technology Gaithersburg, MD Quantum Transport in Optical Lattices Massachusetts Lene V. Hau Harvard University Cambridge, MA Ultra-slow and Stopped Light in Microgravity Nikolay V. Prokofiev University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA Monte Carlo Study of Superfluid Bosonic Systems New York David M. Lee Cornell University Ithaca, NY Studies of Atomic Free Radicals in a Cryogenic Environment Last Updated: