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Top Sponsored Awards, December 2024

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Posted January 31, 2025 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 Nov. 16 and Dec. 15, 2024, as reported through NuRamp, the university’s electronic research administration system.          

Center for Great Plains Studies 
M. Jacobs, A. Wilkinson 
$75,000 
Terra Foundation for American Art 
Reflections of Our People, Our Ways, Our Land 

 Department of Biological Systems Engineering 
T. Brown-Brandl 
$228,147 
Michigan State University 
TRIPARTITE: Automated Piglet and Sow Monitoring Systems for Early Predictions of Individual Piglet Viability and Welfare: Development to Dissemination 
 
Department of Chemistry/Department of Biological Systems Engineering 
Y. Guo, Y. Ge 
$300,000 
U.S. Department of Agriculture-National Institute of Food and Agriculture 
Sensing Soil Nitrogen using Enhanced Raman Technology 
 
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering/School of Computing 
R. Wood, B. Duncan, N. Huynh, A. Khattak, L. Perry, H. Yu 
$887,634 
University of South Florida 
Next Generation of Railroaders: Attracting and Retaining Talent with Leveraging Emerging Technology 
 
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering 
Y. Lu 
$312,000 
University of Rochester 
Fabrication and Verification of Fuel Targets for Laser Fusion Research 
 
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering/Nebraska Water Center 
B. Chen, D. Snow 
$350,000 
Nebraska Military Department 
Roof Collected Rainwater Study for Drinking Water 
 
Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering 
A. Laraoui 
$240,000 
Jackson State University 
ExpandQISE: Track 1: JSU-UNL Collaboration on Quantum Sensing Research and Education for Minority Participants 
 
A. Laraoui 
$299,999 
National Science Foundation- Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research 
EPSCoR Research Fellows: NSF: Plasmonic Cavity Nanostructures to Boost Single Photon Emission from Multilayered Hexagonal Boron Nitride 
 
Holland Computing Center/School of Computing 
A. Caprez, G. Attebury, D. Weitzel, H. Yu 
$697,813 
National Science Foundation 
CC* Compute-Campus: PLUMAGE: Promoting Learning Using Mixed Advanced GPU Environments 
 
Nebraska Extension Engagement Zone 1/Dean’s Office for Cooperative Extension/Nebraska Extension Engagement Zone 5 
S. Cochran, K. Bearnes, D. Varner 
$300,000 
USDA-NIFA  
Strengthening Extensions Capacity to Provide Education and Outreach through Collaborative Networks in Response to Extreme Weather Events 
 
Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor and Chief Academic Officer 
A. Goodburn 
$736,996 
University of Kansas 
Louis Stokes New STEM Pathways Implementation-Only Alliance: Aligning STEM Trainees for Enterprising Research (ASTER) in Kansas and Nebraska 
 
Robert B. Daugherty Water for Food Institute 
N. Brozovic, N. Lefore 
$3,479,278 
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation 
Irrigation as a Service: Viability for SSPs 
 
School of Computing 
Q. Liu 
$285,694 
NSF-EPSCoR 
EPSCoR Research Fellows: NSF: Online Hierarchical Learning for Network Autonomy in Open Radio Access Networks 
 
School of Computing/Department of Biological Systems Engineering 
Q. Liu, Y. Ge, H. Guo, S. Taghvaeian 
$300,000 
USDA-NIFA 
CropTwin: Automatic Digital Twin for Crop Growth Modeling towards Smart Irrigation Management 
 
School of Natural Resources 
S. Sonsthagen 
$998,494 
Kansas State University 
Influence of the CRP on Population Structure, Demography, and Space Use by Greater Prairie-Chickens in Kansas and Nebraska 
 
School of Natural Resources/Department of Agronomy and Horticulture/Department of Biological Systems Engineering 
P. Hanson, J. Keshwani, D. Twidwell 
$1,100,000 
U.S. Department of the Interior-National Park Service 
Master Cooperative Agreement with National Park Service 


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