Top Sponsored Awards, August 2024

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Posted October 3, 2024 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, 2024, as reported through NuRamp, the university’s electronic research administration system.  
   

Buros Center for Testing 
J. Jonson, K. Geisinger 
$487,551 
Rancho Santiago Community College District 
Assessment Psychometric Technical Assistance 
 
Center for Brain, Biology and Behavior 
A. Barbey 
$1,169,896 
National Cattlemen’s Beef Association 
Understanding the Cognitive and Brain Health Benefits of Increasing Beef Consumption in Young Adults PHASE I 

Center for Great Plains Studies 
C. Seger 
$25,000 
Institute of Museum and Library Services
Improved Housing and Digitization of the Dwight and John Kirsch Collection at the Great Plains Art Museum 
 
Department of Agronomy and Horticulture 
J. Schnable 
$953,779 
National Science Foundation 
Collaborative Research: TRTech-PGR: Digital Ideotype for Optimal Canopy Architecture 
 
Department of Agronomy and Horticulture/Department of Plant Pathology 
K. Frels, S. Wegulo 
$327,538 
U.S. Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service
Breeding FHB Resistant Winter Wheat and Barley 
 
Department of Biological Systems Engineering/Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering/Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering 
H. Diefes-Dux, J. Deters, G. Panther, L. Perry 
$1,208,862 
NSF 
EDU EPSCoR DCL: Communication, Collaboration, and Coordination: Preparing Future Engineering Education Researchers to be Embedded in Engineering Disciplines 
 
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering 
C. Wittich, S. Bartelt-Hunt 
$490,344 
NSF 
REU Site: Sustainability and Resilience of Civil and Environmental Infrastructure in Rural Areas 
 
Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences/Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering/School of Natural Resources 
L. Chen, R. Mahmood, T. Roy 
$582,109 
NSF 
Land-Atmosphere Interactions in Flash Drought Development 
 
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering 
J. Wang 
$500,000 
U.S. Department of Energy-Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy 
Multicell Electrical-Transient-Accelerated Press-PAcK Modules (METAPAK) 
 
Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering 
J. Deters 
$299,653 
NSF
Collaborative Research: Intercultural Competencies In the Wild: Exploring Situated Intercultural Competency Development in Graduate Engineering Research Environments 
 
J. Shield, Q. Guo 
$619,688 
NSF
NSF-MeitY: Alloy Design and Processing Science for Additive Manufacturing of Rare Earth Permanent Magnets 
 
Department of Nutrition and Health Sciences/Department of Biochemistry/Department of Statistics/Holland Computing Center 
J. Zempleni, J. Hao, R. Howard, I. Mukhopadhyay, X. Sun, H. Yu 
$5,808,886 
National Institutes of Health-National Institute of General Medical Sciences 
Nebraska Center for the Prevention of Obesity Diseases through Dietary Molecules 
 
Department of Physics and Astronomy 
A. Gruverman, X. Xu 
$620,097 
NSF
Unraveling Tunable Piezoelectricity in Hafnia-based Ferroelectrics 
 
Department of Plant Pathology/Center for Biotechnology 
C. Rojas, S. Alvarez, Y Albala, J. Riethoven 
$1,336,183 
NSF 
Dissecting the Antagonistic Interaction between Pseudomonas Protegens PBL3 and Burkholderia Glumae towards Development of Biopesticides to Control Bacterial Panicle Blight of Rice 

Department of Political Science/Center for Transformative Teaching 
P. McMahon, N. Monk 
$101,492 
National Endowment for the Humanities 
Ordinary People: Poland’s Reception and Integration of Ukrainian Refugees 
 
Lied Center for Performing Arts 
J. Schiermeyer Hansen, N. Engen-Wedin 
$30,000 
National Endowment for the Arts 
Syncopated Ladies 

 
Midwest Roadside Safety Facility 
R. Bielenberg, R. Faller, S. Rosenbaugh, C. Stolle 
$1,000,000 
National Academies-Transportation Research Board-National Cooperative Highway Research Program 
NCHRP 22-61 Crashworthiness of Roadside Hardware Impacted by Battery Electric Vehicles 
 
School of Computing 
Q. Liu 
$531,134 
NSF 
NeTS: Small: AutoSlicing: Safe Online Autonomous Network Orchestration Towards Pervasive Slicing-as-a-Service 
 
School of Computing/Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering 
H. Chan, N. Huynh 
$600,000 
NSF 
RI: Small: Collective Decision-Making for Improving Accessibility to Public Facilities 
 
School of Global Integrative Studies 
W. Belcher 
$261,483 
Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine
DPAA Terrestrial Recovery Mission 24-XDE RT-P, Steinfurterstrasse 159 in Munster, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany 
 
School of Natural Resources 
R. Behnke 
$489,222 
U.S. Department of Agriculture-Farm Service Agency 
Weather and Soil Data to Improve the USDA Conservation Reserve Program and Disaster Relief Programs for Producers in Nebraska 
 
School of Natural Resources/Department of Biological Systems Engineering 
F. Munoz-Arriola 
$249,768 
University of Minnesota-Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education 
Assessing and Improving Lakota Land-User Social-Ecological Interactions and Impacts on Sustainability 
 
School of Natural Resources/Dean’s Office for Agricultural Research Division/Department of Agricultural Economics 
T. Awada, K. Giannakas, A. Suyker 
$250,000 
U.S. Department of Agriculture-ARS 
Long Term Monitoring for Crop and Integrated Agricultural Systems Resilience 


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