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Top Sponsored Awards, April 2022

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Posted June 3, 2022 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 March 16 and April 15, 2022, as reported through NUgrant, the university’s electronic research administration system.     

Department of Agricultural Economics/Department of Agronomy and Horticulture/Department of Biological Systems Engineering/Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering/Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences/Department of Food Science and Technology/Industrial Agricultural Products Center/Nebraska Water Center/West Central Research and Extension Center 
K. Schoengold, E. Haacker, L. Isom, C. Proctor, C. Ray, D. Rudnick, M. Wilkins 
$1,800,000 
Kansas State University 
RII Track-2 FEC BioWRAP (Bioplastics With Regenerative Agricultural Properties): Spray-on bioplastics with growth synchronous decomposition and water, nutrient and agrochemical management for enhanced field crop production 
 
Department of Agronomy and Horticulture 
P. Grassini 
$375,000 
U.S. Department of Energy 
Extrapolation domains for aggregating environmental outcomes from local to regional levels 
 
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering/Department of Animal Science/Department of Biological Systems Engineering/Department of Food Science and Technology 
S. Bartelt-Hunt, A. Schmidt, B. Wang 
$309,037 
Iowa State University 
CAMRADES Connecting AntiMicrobial Resistance, Agricultural Decisions and Environmental Systems: A Tool for Mitigating AMR and Assessing Risk to Human Health in Agro-Ecosystems 
 
Department of Entomology/Department of Biochemistry 
J. Louis, T. Helikar 
$1,193,000 
U.S. Department of Agriculture-National Institute of Food and Agriculture 
Elucidating the role of Brown midrib12 (Bmr12) gene in modulating sorghum defense against sugarcane aphid 
 
Department of Mathematics 
M. Walker 
$282,638 
National Science Foundation 
Multiplicities of Modules and Complexes, and the NC Hodge Conjecture 
 
Department of Physics and Astronomy 
S. Adenwalla, X. Xu 
$365,777 
NSF 
Funsize Physics Version 3: Past Achievements, Lessons Learnt Aand Tthe Way Forward 
 
Department of Psychology/Department of Computer Science and Engineering/Department of Sociology/Institute for Ethnic Studies 
T. Andrews, P. Habecker, B. Khan, T. Lorenz, T. Nelson 
$2,525,029 
Department of Health and Human Services-DHHS-National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities 
Allostatic Load, Response to Discrimination Stress, Discrimination Exposure Frequency and Social Network Structure and Function 
 
Department of Special Education and Communication Disorders/Nebraska Center for Research on Children, Youth, Families and Schools 
M. Savaiano, J. Higgins, S. Loveall-Hague, H. Yoon 
$1,243,542 
U.S. Department of Education 
Interdisciplinary Training for Early Intervention and Visual Impairment (IT-EIVI) 
 
Department of Special Education and Communication Disorders/Department of Educational Administration 
M. Hebert, J. Bohaty, S. Zuckerman 
$287,527 
Nebraska Department of Education 
Practice-Based Professional Development for Reading Project: Workshops on Reading Development Strategies 
 
Midwest Roadside Safety Facility/Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering 
R. Faller, R. Bielenberg, S. Rosenbaugh, J. Steelman, C. Stolle, T. Yosef 
$500,000 
U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities 
Crash-Tested Bridge Railings and Transitions for Wood Bridges Phase IIB 
 
School of Natural Resources 
T. Haigh, D. Bathke, C. Knutson 
$297,800 
USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service 
Climate-Smart Indigenous Agriculture: Drought Planning and Adaptation with New Mexico Pueblos 


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