Posted October 1, 2026 by Cheyenne Rowe
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 July 16 and Aug. 15, 2026, as reported through NuRamp, the university’s electronic research administration system.
Dean’s Office, College of Engineering/Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering/Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering
L. Perez, T. Daher, J. Deters, Y. Li, L. Perry
$949,999
National Science Foundation
Center: From Pathways to Workforce: Building Rural Engineering Futures in Nebraska and the Nation
Department of Agronomy and Horticulture
D. Twidwell, S. Cady
$2,013,942
Nebraska Game and Parks Commission
Science Innovations at the Nexus of Grassland Conservation, Plant Invasions, and Fire Management
Department of Agronomy and Horticulture/Nebraska Extension Engagement Zone 8
J. Schnable, A. Leise
$241,555
Nebraska Corn Board
The Nebraska Nitrogen Initiative
Department of Agronomy and Horticulture/School of Computing
H. Walia, C. Cordova, H. Yu
$1,892,600
NSF
Collaborative Research: FEC: Boosting Tolerance to Water Stress in Rice and Wheat Using Mycorrhizal Inoculants
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
V. Alexandrov
$457,500
NSF
Collaborative Research: Coupling between Interfacial Electrostatics and Surface Structures at Transition-Metal Oxide/Liquid Interfaces
Department of Food Science and Technology/Department of Agronomy and Horticulture
A. Benson, E. Deehan, D. Rose, J. Schnable
$376,199
Nebraska Corn Board
Precision human nutrition in Maize: Maize designer arabinoxylans for modulating the human gut microbiome and human health.
Department of Mathematics
J. Jeffries
$225,000
NSF
Differential Operators, Invariant Theory, and Homological Methods in the Study of Singularities
G. Avalos
$254,073
NSF
Regularity, Stability and Control of Poroelastic Systems
P. Radu, M. Foss
$299,873
NSF
Nonlocal Frameworks for Boundary Interactions: From Flux Transmission to Curvature-Driven Dynamics
Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering
N. Nama
$548,417
NSF
CAREER: Fluid Mechanics of Acoustically-Actuated Viscoelastic Fluids at Microscales
Nebraska Water Center/Department of Chemistry
A. Malakar, D. Hage, D. Snow
$496,722
NSF
Collaborative Research: Vadose Zone Nitrogen Continuum: Impacts of Organic Nitrogen Dynamics on Groundwater Quality
School of Computing
D. Weitzel
$1,316,000
Morgridge Institute for Research
Category I: Fabric for AI-Driven Science (FabAID)
School of Natural Resources
J. Benson
$852,089
Nebraska Game and Parks Commission
Ecology of White-Tailed Deer in Eastern Nebraska
M. Svoboda, B. Fuchs, T. Haigh, C. Knutson, K. Smith, T. Tadesse
$1,094,141
U.S. Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service
Support for the National Drought Mitigation Center Operations and Research Collaborations with USDA-ARS
School of Natural Resources/Dean’s Office, College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources/Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering/Nebraska Extension Engagement Zone 12
M. Andrews, J. Barrett, S. Bartelt-Hunt, T. Mittelstet
$10,000,000
NSF
E-CORE: Nebraska Strengthening Partnerships for Innovation, Research, and Education (NSPIRE)
