Top Sponsored Awards, February 2024

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Posted March 29, 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 Jan. 16 and Feb. 15, 2024, as reported through NuRamp, the university’s electronic research administration system.    

Center on Children, Families and the Law 
M. Graef, M. Paul 
$1,400,260 
University of California-Los Angeles 
Quality Improvement Center on Workforce Analytics 
 
K. Olson, E. Brank, S. Johnson 
$1,781,662 
Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services 
Children and Family Services New Worker Training Field Training Specialists 
 
Department of Agronomy and Horticulture 
A. Basche 
$249,284 
University of Minnesota-Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education 
Meeting Needs at the Margins: Building Networks to Support “Missed” Land Stewards 
 
B. Rice 
$400,000 
Colorado State University 
Green Evolution Accelerating Improvement of Dryland Cereals in Africa 
 
Department of Biochemistry/Department of Agronomy and Horticulture 
R. Roston, T. Obata, J. Schnable 
$1,800,000 
National Science Foundation 
RESEARCH-PGR: Cycling to low temperature tolerance 
 
Department of Chemistry 
Y. Guo 
$648,335 
NSF 
CAREER: Structural Dynamics and Optoelectronics of Anharmonic Soft Semiconductors 
 
D. Hage, D. Berkowitz 
$798,269 
NSF 
New Approaches to Catalyst Screening and Development 
 
Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences/Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering 
M. Anderson, A. Khattak 
$253,736 
Nebraska Department of Transportation 
Assessment of Winter Maintenance Performance Objectives Using Maintenance Decision Support System 
 
Department of Educational Psychology 
K. Edwards 
$700,000 
Department of Justice-Office on Violence Against Women 
Rural Grant 
 

Department of English/Center for Digital Research in the Humanities/University Libraries  
K. McMullen, E. Chambers, K. Dalziel, G. Tunink 
$150,000 
National Endowment for the Humanities 
Between the Columns: A Toolkit for Periodical Authorship Attribution and Display 

 
Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering 
M. Negahban 
$225,298 
NSF 
Collaborative Research: Predicting Long-time Behavior of Polymer Glasses: Alternatives to the TNM/KAHR Approach 
 
Department of Special Education and Communication Disorders 
K. Pitt, M. Lambert 
$558,593 
National Institutes of Health-National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders 
Foundations of Patient-Oriented AAC Access for Children: Evaluating Picture-Based P300-Brain-Computer Interface Control and Design Preferences 
 
Nebraska Extension Engagement Zone 8/Department of Agronomy and Horticulture 
K. Koehler-Cole, C. Stephenson 
$289,798 
Organic Crop Improvement Association 
Integrated Approach to Building Community Resilience in Organic Farming 
 
Nebraska Center for Research on Children, Youth, Families and Schools/Department of Educational Psychology 
J. Gardella, K. Edwards, M. Zephier Olson 
$627,930 
National Institutes of Health-National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism 

Pilot Evaluation of a Lakota-Centered Lifespan Mentoring Program to Reduce Alcohol Related Problems and Promote Holistic Wellbeing 
 
School of Natural Resources/Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering 
M. Pegg, D. Admiraal, J. Spurgeon 
$215,011 
Nebraska Game and Parks Commission 
Drift Dynamics of Early Life-Stage Invasive Carps 
 
Teaching, Learning and Teacher Education 
L. Males 
$205,954 
University of Washington 
Understanding Teachers’ Lesson Plan Quality to Advance Middle-Grade Mathematics Instruction: A Combined Approach of Computer-Assisted Methods and Human Interactions 


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