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Top Sponsored Awards, August 2023

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Posted September 28, 2023 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, 2023, as reported through NUgrant, the university’s electronic research administration system.    

Department of Agricultural Economics 
E. Dennis 
$249,887 
U.S. Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Marketing Service 
Examining New Market Structures in Livestock Trading 
 
Department of Agricultural Leadership, Education and Communication/School of Natural Resources 
M. Emery, D. Bathke, T. Haigh 
$1,119,211 
National Science Foundation-Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research
Collaborative Research: RII Track-2 FEC: RURAL CONFLUENCE: Communities and Academic Partners Uniting to Drive Discovery and Build Capacity for Climate Resilience 
 
Department of Biological Systems Engineering/School of Natural Resources 
A. Mittelstet, S. Comfort 
$284,275 
Nebraska Department of Environment and Energy 
A Biological and Chemical Approach to Restoring Eutrophic Ponds in the Lower Platte South NRD: A 319 Phase 2 Project 
 
Department of Chemistry 
J. Guo 
$1,851,494 
National Institutes of Health-National Institute of General Medical Sciences
Developing Synthetic Chemical Biology Strategies for Biochemical Investigations and Biomedical Applications 
 
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering/Bureau of Business Research 
S. Kim, J. Hu, E. Thompson 
$805,138 
Department of Energy 
Resource Assessment for Carbon Dioxide Storage via Accelerated Carbonation Reaction with Recycled Concrete Aggregates (RCA) 
 
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering/Department of Agricultural Economics/Department of Agronomy and Horticulture/Department of Biological Systems Engineering/Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering 
S. Kim, T. Mieno, R. Saha, D. Schachtman, S. Taghvaeian 
$2,101,812 
NSF-EPSCoR 
Collaborative Research: RII Track-2 FEC: Supporting Rural Livelihoods in the Water-Stressed Central High Plains: Microbial Innovations for Climate-Resilient Agriculture (MICRA) 
 
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering 
S. Bhardwaj, M. Schubert 
$379,921 
NSF
Semiconductor-based Terahertz Traveling Wave Amplifiers for Monolithic Integration 
 
M. Schubert 
$901,250 
Department of Defense-Air Force Office of Scientific Research
Field-flattened Optical-access Split-coil Cryostat Magnet for THz EPR Ellipsometry 
 
Department of Food Science and Technology/Department of Biochemistry 
K. Piepenbrink, J. Gomes Neto 
$630,746 
NSF 
Structural Mechanisms of Bacterial Extracellular DNA-Recognition 
 
Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering 
P. Grover, K. Moore 
$599,065 
Department of Defense-Air Force Office of Scientific Research
Foundations of Defect Engineering for Dynamic Manipulation of Nonlinear Large-amplitude Waves in Metamaterials 
 
J. Turner 
$352,565 
NSF
Collaborative Research: Cellular and Biomechanical Mechanisms of Rapid Stomatal Dynamics in Grasses 
 
Department of Physics and Astronomy 
E. Tsymbal 
$339,579 
NSF
Collaborative Research: Spin Transport in Nonrelativistically Spin-split Antiferromagnets 
 
Department of Sociology 
R. Werum 
$273,297 
NSF 
Collaborative Research: Trajectories and Transitions: Military Service as a Gendered Pathway into STEM? 
 

Lied Center for Performing Arts 
N. Engen-Wedin 
$25,000 
National Endowment for the Arts 
Peace, Love, Ukulele 

 
Midwest Roadside Safety Facility  
R. Faller, R. Bielenberg 
$219,891 
Nebraska Department of Transportation 
RPFP-FY2022-WISDOT-1: Reduced Grading for the MGS Long-Span Guardrail System Phase I 
 
Panhandle Research and Extension Center/Department of Biological Systems Engineering 
W. Liang, X. Qiao 
$372,333 
Florida A&M University 
Partnership: Growing Precision Engineering Systems for Muscadine Grape Vineyard and Water Management 
 
School of Biological Sciences 
D. Shizuka 
$856,412 
NSF
Collaborative Research: Feedback between Physiological Performance and Social Foraging in Multi-Species Social Network of Wintering Birds 
 
K. Montooth, C. Meiklejohn 
$1,073,273 
NSF 
Collaborative Proposal: EDGE CMT: Mechanistic Basis of Cricket Wing Dimorphism: Predicting Phenotype from Genotype in Complex Threshold Traits 
 
School of Computing 
A. Roohi 
$399,972 
NSF
Collaborative Research: SaTC: CORE: Medium: Security and Robustness for Intermittent Computing Using Cross-Layer Post-CMOS Approaches 
 
L. Soh 
$424,916 
NSF 
Collaborative Research: RI: Medium: RUI: Automated Decision Making for Open Multiagent Systems 
 
D. Weitzel 
$219,000 
University of Missouri-Columbia 
CC* Regional Computing: Great Plains Extended Network of GPUs for Interactive Experimenters (GP-ENGINE) 
 
B. Ramamurthy 
$500,000 
NSF 
CC* Integration-Small: Network Cyberinfrastructure Innovation with an Intelligent Real-Time Traffic Analysis Framework and Application-Aware Networking 
 
School of Computing/Department of Animal Science/Department of Biological Systems Engineering/Durham School of Architectural Engineering and Construction/Information Services 
Q. Liu, Y. Ge, T. Ghose, C. Ho, Y. Shi, D. Tran, M. Vuran, Y. Xiong 
$875,000 
NSF 
CC* Integration-Large: Husker-Net: Open Nebraska End-to-End Wireless Edge Networks 

4-H State Office/Nebraska Center for Research on Children, Youth, Families and Schools/School of Biological Sciences/School of Natural Resources/University Libraries 
B. Barker, J. Benson, C. Brassil, J. Diamond, M. Krehbiel, G. Nugent 
$1,200,000 
NSF
Informal Biodiversity Education Models for Rural and Tribal Youth 
 


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