Top Sponsored Awards, August 2022

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Posted September 30, 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 July 16 and Aug. 15, 2022, as reported through NUgrant, the university’s electronic research administration system.   

 
 
Dean’s Office, Agricultural Research Division 
A. Clutter 
$250,000 
U.S. Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service 

Developing a Systems Biology Approach to Enhance Efficiency and Sustainability of Beef and Lamb Production 
 
Department of Agronomy and Horticulture 
J. Mower 
$528,654 
National Science Foundation 
Investigating Recurrent Cooption of the Mitochondrial Cytochrome c Maturation System in Archaeplastida 
 
Department of Agronomy and Horticulture/School of Natural Resources 
D. Twidwell, D. Fogarty, D. Uden 
$394,677 
Pheasants Forever 
Technical Support to Address Biome Threats in the Great Plains 
 
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering 
C. Jin 
$250,000 
U.S. Department of Defense-Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency 

Creating a Synthetic Lichen: Mutualistic Co-Culturing of Cyanobacteria and Filamentous Fungi for Concrete Repair 
 
Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences 
J. Coenen, D. Harwood 
$329,660 
NSF 
OCE-PRF: Windows into Cretaceous Diatom Paleobiology: Seasonal Responses in Laminated Sediments and Survivability and Response to the Cretaceous-Paleogene Extinction Event 
 
Department of Educational Psychology/Nebraska Center for Research on Children, Youth, Families and Schools 
K. Edwards, L. Wheeler 
$3,851,136 
Department of Health and Human Services-National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities 
An innovative, prospective model to understand risk and protective factors for sexual assault experiences and outcomes among sexual minority men 
 

Department of English/University Libraries  
A. Wisnicki, K. Dalziel, G. Tunink, L. Weakly 
$350,000 
National Endowment for Humanities 
COVE: Collaborative Organization for Virtual Education 

Department of Food Science and Technology 
B. Chaves-Elizondo 
$399,999 
U.S. Department of Agriculture-National Institute of Food and Agriculture 
Customizing Current Good Manufacturing Practices Training and Education for Small and Very Small Food Facilities across the U.S. 
 
Department of Mathematics 
X. Perez Gimenez 
$224,894 
NSF 
Spanning Structures in Random Graphs 
 
Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering 
J. Shield 
$444,124 
NSF 
Non-equilibrium Phase Discovery in Finite-sized Systems 
 
Department of Physics and Astronomy 
J. Ngoko Djiokap 
$200,000 
NSF 
Strong-Field and Ultrafast Processes 
 
Graduate Studies 
D. Hope 
$1,309,440 
U.S. Department of Education 
Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement Program 
 
International Quilt Museum 
C. Ducey, C. Sanchez Arango 
$79,389 
Institute of Museum and Library Services 
Black American Quiltmaking: Our Voice Our Story 

Lied Center for Performing Arts 
N. Engen-Wedin 
$20,000 
National Endowment for Arts 
Kinetic Light Intersections: Access, Dance, Disability and Race 

School of Biological Sciences 
C. Cressler 
$308,161 
NSF 
Ecology of Expulsion: Within-Host Dynamics Driving Nematode Infection 
 
School of Computing/Department of Biological Systems Engineering/Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering 
M. Vuran, C. Argyropoulos, Y. Ge, Q. Liu, S. Nie, S. Pitla 
$1,000,000 
NSF 
CNS Core: Medium: Field-Nets: Field-to-Edge Connectivity for Joint Communication and Sensing in Next-Generation Intelligent Agricultural Networks 
 
School of Natural Resources 
A. Young 
$431,549 
Nebraska Department of Environment and Energy 
Nebraska Groundwater Quality Clearinghouse 
 
School of Natural Resources/Dean’s Office, Cooperative Extension/Department of Agronomy and Horticulture/Department of Biological Systems Engineering/Eastern Nebraska Research and Extension Center 
K. Pekarek, N. Dorsey, J. Iqbal, K. Koehler-Cole, J. Luck, A. Nygren, C. Proctor, L. Puntel, L. Thompson 
$310,610 
Nebraska Department of Environment and Energy 
Cover Crop and Nitrogen Application Technology Demonstration 

State 4-H Office 
J. Lingard 
$478,945 
National 4-H Council 
National 4-H Council Common Measures 2022-2024 


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