News for Researchers Uncategorized
Posted October 3, 2025 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, 2025, as reported through NuRamp, the university’s electronic research administration system.
Department of Agronomy and Horticulture
D. Twidwell
$1,253,736
Pheasants Forever
WLFW Great Plains Framework Support
Department of Agronomy and Horticulture/Department of Statistics/School of Computing
H. Walia, S. Ghosh, H. Yu
$600,000
National Science Foundation
RESEARCH-PGR TRACK: Genetic Basis of Developmentally Regulated Heat Stress Response in Rice
Department of Biological Systems Engineering/Dean’s Office for Agricultural Research Division/Department of Agricultural Economics/Department of Agronomy and Horticulture/Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences/Eastern Nebraska Research, Extension and Education Center/Nebraska Extension Engagement Zone 8/Robert B. Daugherty Water for Food Institute/School of Biological Sciences/School of Natural Resources/Nebraska Water Center
J. Luck, T. Awada, G. Balboa, R. Drijber, R. Ferguson, Y. Ge, J. Iqbal, M. Kaiser, K. Koehler-Cole, R. Mahmood, A. Malakar, T. Mieno, C. Neale, S. Pitla, Y. Shi, D. Snow, X. Sun, A. Suyker, K. Weber
$885,600
U.S. Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service
Nitrogen Research for Agricultural Transformation and Enhancement
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
V. Alexandrov
$283,480
NSF
Collaborative Research: Linking Nanoscale Heterogeneities with Macroscale Reactivity of Electrocatalytic Materials
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering/Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
S. Nejati, M. Bavarian, B. Dvorak
$1,500,000
NSF-Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research
Collaborative Research: FEC: Circular Waste Resource Recovery and Water Reuse Systems to Drive Sustainability and Resiliency of the Great Plains Rural Communities
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
G. Panther
$333,551
NSF
Collaborative Research: Investigating Strategies for Inclusive Teams in Engineering (InSITE)
Department of Economics
D. Tannenbaum
$430,587
NSF
CAREER: Eviction and the Design of Policy to Avert Homelessness
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering/Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering
P. Sutter, E. Sutter
$587,083
NSF
Tunable Ferroelectricity in Group IV Monochalcogenide van der Waals Semiconductors
Department of Food Science and Technology
K. Majumder
$425,000
Animal Based Nutrition Research Foundation
Bovine Organ Extracts as Functional Ingredients: A Molecular-to-Cellular Investigation
Department of Mathematics
M. Walker
$313,273
NSF
Dg Categories, Hochschild Homology, and Modules of Finite Projective Dimension
Department of Physics and Astronomy/Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering
C. Binek, K. Belashchenko, P. Dowben, X. Hong, A. Laraoui
$1,800,000
NSF
Collaborative Research: FEC: EPSCoR RII: Harnessing Artificial Magnetic Semiconductors in the Flatland
Department of Plant Pathology
R. Wilson
$769,792
National Science Foundation
Cracking the Codon Code for Pathogen Effector Secretion in Host Plant Cells
Department of Psychology/Nebraska Center for Research on Children, Youth, Families and Schools
J. Finch, N. Koziol, A. Prokasky
$928,922
NSF
CAREER: Self-Regulation, Mathematics Achievement, and Mathematical Attitudes during the Third-Grade Transition in High-Poverty Schools
School of Biological Sciences
E. Moore
$784,335
NSF
Collaborative Research: The role of metabolic conflict and co-adaptation in reproductive success at high elevations
International Quilt Museum
L. Campbell-Levy
$23,304
Nebraska Arts Council
Nebraska Arts Council International Quilt Museum Basic Support Grant
University Libraries
M. Ducey
$34,200
Mari Sandoz Heritage Society
Mari Sandoz Digital Archive Planning
Nebraska Water Center/Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
C. Ray
$450,000
USDA-ARS
Crop and Soil Modeling Based Decision Support for On-farm Sustainable Crop Production Systems
