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Top Sponsored Awards, January 2024

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Posted March 1, 2024 by Dan Moser

The following list of awards from public entities includes all arts and humanities grants of $10,000 or more and all other grants of $200,000 or more between Dec. 16, 2023, and Jan. 15, 2024, as reported through NuRamp, the university’s electronic research administration system.   

Department of Agronomy and Horticulture 
A. Basche 
$285,963 
Emory University 
DISES: Integrating human and biophysical factors to project future cropscapes under climate change 
 
Department of Animal Science/Department of Biological Systems Engineering 
P. Kononoff, T. Brown-Brandl, G. Erickson, S. Fernando, M. Spangler, J. Sperber, R. Stowell, A. Watson 
$5,000,000 
U.S. Department of Agriculture-National Institute of Food and Agriculture 
Understanding Host, Microbial, Environmental, and Management Factors Towards Methane Mitigation in Ruminants 
 
Department of Biological Systems Engineering/Agricultural Leadership, Education and Communication/Department of Agronomy and Horticulture/Department of Statistics/School of Natural Resources 
J. Keshwani, H. Akin, E. Blankenship, M. Emery, T. Gilmore, E. Ingram, D. Keshwani, L. Sandall 
$749,825 
USDA-NIFA 
Cultivate ACCESS to Data Science in Agriculture 
 
Department of Educational Psychology 
K. Edwards, W. Babchuk 
$437,618 
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 
The Impact of Minority Stress on Alcohol-Related Sexual Assault among Sexual Minority College Students: An intersectional, mixed-methodological study 
 
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering 
Y. Lu 
$1,625,000 
University of Rochester 
Fabrication and Verification of Fuel Targets for Laser Fusion Research 
 
Department of English 
K. Price, M. Cohen 
$299,533 
National Endowment for Humanities 
The Late Life Writings of Walt Whitman 
 
Department of Food Science and Technology/Department of Animal Science/Department of Biological Systems Engineering/Nebraska Extension Engagement Zone 11/School of Computing/School of Natural Resources/University Libraries 
J. Clarke, S. Calvert, T. Franz, J. Luck, M. Spangler, L. Thompson, H. Yu 
$957,350 
USDA-NIFA 
Open Data Framework: National Ag Producer Data Cooperative: Strategic Development of a National Framework 
 
Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering 
N. Nama 
$229,787 
American Heart Association 
Identification of Hemodynamic Risk Factors of Aortic Dissection via Patient-Specific, Image-Based Computational Modeling 
 
Daugherty Water for Food Global Institute/Department of Biological Systems Engineering 
C. Neale, A. Mohammed, R. Ritzema, I. Zution Goncalves 
$3,141,153 
Upper Colorado River Commission 
Expansion of the Parallel 41 Flux Network to Support Real-Time Evapotranspiration Measurements in the Upper Colorado River Basin States 
 
Nebraska Water Center/Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering 
C. Ray, N. Aich, X. Li, D. Snow 
$278,969 
Department of Interior-Geological Survey
Release, Adsorption, and Biotransformation of Biosolid-Borne PFAAs at the Water-Sediment Interface in Agricultural Watersheds 

School of Computing 
B. Ramamurthy, D. Weitzel 
$299,959 
Department of Energy 
Data-driven Machine Learning and AI-based Data Transfer Strategies for High Energy Physics Experiments (HEP) on Open Science Grid (OSG) 
 
 
 
 
 


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