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Top Sponsored Awards, September 2025

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Posted October 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 Aug. 16 and Sept. 15, 2025, as reported through NuRamp, the university’s electronic research administration system.     

Center for Science, Mathematics and Computer Education/Department of Mathematics 
A. Bennett, R. Funk, W. Smith 
$400,000 
National Science Foundation 
Sustaining Undergraduate STEM Transformation and Improvement Networks through Change Agent Turnover (SUSTAIN-CAT) 

Dean’s Office – College of Arts and Sciences 
B. Dotan 
$25,000 
Illinois State University 
Sharing Primary Sources in the Nebraska Stories of Humanities Collection 
 
Department of Agronomy and Horticulture/Department of Biological Systems Engineering 
A. Jhala, S. Pitla, M. Singh 
$299,452 
North Central Soybean Research Program 
Exploring New Technologies for Integrated Management of Herbicide-Resistant Weeds in Soybean in North Center Region: Research & Extension 
 
Department of Animal Science/Agricultural Leadership, Education and Communication/Department of Agricultural Economics 
R. Woiwode, H. Akin, E. Dennis 
$300,000 
U.S. Department of Agriculture-National Institute of Food and Agriculture 
A Novel System for Objective Scoring of Animal Handling 
 
Department of Biochemistry 
N. Buan 
$1,087,895 
NSF 

Dynamics of Carbon and Energy Fluxes in Methanogenic Archaea 
 
Q. Tang 
$2,041,875 
National Institutes of Health 

Single Molecule Dissection of Arp2/3 Complex Activity and Regulators in Living Cells 
 
S. Travis 
$747,000 
NIH 

How to Make a Microtubule Organizing Center 
 
Department of Biological Systems Engineering/Durham School of Architectural Engineering and Construction 
H. Diefes-Dux, K. Kim 
$331,973 
Clemson University 
Improving Engineering Student Engagement, Self-Efficacy, Diversity Awareness and Retention using Visualization and Virtual/Augmented Reality Technologies 
 
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering 
S. Dishari 
$600,000 
NSF 
Improving Interfacial- and Confined State-Ionic Conductivity via Manipulating Interfacial Chemistry and New Design of Ionomers 
 
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering 
G. Panther 
$346,929 
NSF 
Collaborative Research: Leveraging Ethnographic Methods to Build Foundational Knowledge About Spatial Skills that are Relevant to Contemporary Engineering Practice 
 
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering/Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering 
L. Perry, J. Deters 
$399,551 
NSF 
Research: Engineering Preparedness Reimagined: Bridging Stakeholder Perspectives to Shape the Future Workforce 
 
Department of Entomology/Department of Agronomy and Horticulture/School of Biological Sciences 
J. McMechan, G. Graef, I. Keesey 
$398,097 
North Central Soybean Research Program 
Management Tactics and Tools for Insect Pests in the North Central Region 
 
Department of Food Science and Technology 
S. Martini 
$454,676 
USDA-NIFA 
Effect of Thermodynamic Parameters and Intrinsic Properties On Crystallization Kinetics and Physical Properties of Fats 
 
Department of Nutrition and Health Sciences/Department of Chemistry 
J. Zempleni, J. Guo 
$250,000 
NIH 

Programmable Milk Exosomes Deliver an Editor in Distinct Brain Regions 
 
Department of Physics and Astronomy 
R. Streubel 
$849,399 
NSF 

CAREER: Short-Range Order as Design Parameter for Topological Magnetism 
 
I. Kravchenko, K. Bloom, D. Claes 
$1,800,000 
NSF 
Shaping the Future of Particle Physics: In-Depth Analysis of Run 3 Data and HL-LHC Detector Upgrades for CMS 
 
B. Shadwick 
$1,031,843 
National Science Foundation 
Control of Instabilities and Energy Transfer in Vlasov Plasmas 
 
Department of Plant Pathology 
D. Mangel 
$215,000 
North Central Soybean Research Program 
The SCN Coalition: Elevating Research Developments & Management Tools to Benefit Farmers 
 
Department of Psychology 
B. Brock, T. Nelson 
$2,907,654 
NIH 

Impact of the Early Family Emotional Climate on Preschooler Emotion Dysregulation 
 
Department of Statistics 
H. Hofmann 
$305,912 
NSF 

Collaborative Research: Framework for Better Visual Communication Practices 
 
Durham School of Architectural Engineering and Construction/School of Computing 
X. Liu, I. Konstantzos, D. Tran 
$1,196,135 
NSF 

CPS: Medium: Causal Reinforcement Learning for Smart Building CPS 
 
NE State Forest Service 
J. Erixson 
$603,722 
USDA-Forest Service 
2025 IIJA State Forest Action Plan 
 
Nebraska Center for Research on Children, Youth, Families and Schools 
A. Witte, H. Yoon 
$601,743 
Nebraska Department of Education 
Nebraska Multi-Tiered System of Support Implementation Support Team 
 
School of Computing 
S. Balasubramaniam 
$299,998 
NSF 
EAGER: Closed-loop Bioelectronic Control of Computing through Bacterial Gene Regulatory Artificial Neural Networks 
 
School of Global Integrative Studies 
W. Belcher, B. Hoffman 
$285,900 
Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine 

DPAA Terrestrial Recovery 25-4DE RT-P, Brandenburg State, Germany 
 
School of Natural Resources/Department of Agronomy and Horticulture 
R. Wang, J. Gamon, N. McMillan 
$277,531 
Oklahoma State University 
HI-GRASS – Holistic Investigation of Grassland Systems across Scales 
 
School of Natural Resources/Department of Agricultural Economics/Robert B. Daugherty Water for Food Institute 
M. Svoboda, N. Brozovic, J. Cobbing, B. Fuchs, T. Haigh, C. Knutson, T. Mieno, R. Rimsaite, K. Smith, T. Tadesse 
$1,280,000 
USDA-Office of the Chief Economist 
USDA Support of the U.S. Drought Monitor 2025-2026 


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