Top Sponsored Awards, July 2026

News for Researchers

Posted September 2, 2026 by Office of Research and Innovation

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 June 16 and July 15, 2026, as reported through NuRamp, the university’s electronic research administration system.

Center for Science, Mathematics and Computer Education/Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering/Department of Mathematics/Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering
Y. Lai, K. Amman, A. Donsig, L. Jones, C. Nelson
$399,517
National Science Foundation
Project POME: Pedagogies of Mathematics in and for Engineering

Center on Children, Families and the Law
J. Chambers, B. Brakenhoff
$275,000
Destination: Home
Right at Home Nebraska Homeless Prevention Planning

Department of Animal Science/Department of Agronomy and Horticulture/Panhandle Research, Extension and Education Center
M. Drewnoski, M. Stephenson
$300,000
University of Missouri
Heartland Regenerative Grazing and Virtual Fencing Initiative

Department of Biological Systems Engineering
A. Chandra, S. Pitla, M. Stone
$552,969
North Dakota State University
Expanding Regional AgTech Innovation through the NSF AgTech Engine Partnership in Nebraska

Department of Chemistry
J. Checco
$2,104,715
National Institutes of Health-National Institute of General Medical Sciences
Chemical Approaches to Interrogate Endogenous Cell-Cell Peptide Signaling in Disease

Department of Food Science and Technology
A. Benson
$581,577
U.S.Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service
Genetic Analysis of Rice Traits Impacting Human Microbiome and Metabolome

Department of History/Institute for Ethnic Studies
K. Jagodinsky, D. Anderson, J. Jones
$800,000
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
U.S. Law and Race Initiative at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln

International Quilt Museum
L. Campbell-Levy
$23,304
Nebraska Arts Council
Nebraska Arts Council International Quilt Museum Basic Support Grant

School of Biological Sciences/Department of Sociology
D. Shizuka, J. McQuillan
$873,777
NSF Acoustic Communication and Social Network Dynamics Underlying Collective Defense in the Wild

School of Computing
Q. Yao
$300,000
NSF-Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research
EPSCoR Research Fellows: NSF: AI Test Bed for Plant Single-Cell Proteomics: Data Standards and Use-Case Integration

School of Natural Resources
F. Munoz-Arriola, T. Franz
$336,535
North Carolina State University
CPS: Medium: Dig, Sip, Breathe: Automated Monitoring of Carbon and Water Cycles in Agriculture


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