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Top Sponsored Awards, July 2025

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 June 16 and July 15, 2025, as reported through NuRamp, the university’s electronic research administration system. 

Buros Center for Testing/Department of Educational Psychology 
K. Geisinger, J. Jonson, A. Romhild, J. Wheeler 
$710,000 
Florida Department of Education 
Florida State Assessment Audit 
 
Center on Children, Families and the Law 
J. Chambers, B. Brakenhoff 
$312,000 
Iowa Department of Human Services 
Parent Partner Database Hosting and Research Analysis 
 
Department of Biochemistry 
D. Becker, E. Harris 
$1,513,410 
National Institutes of Health-National Institute of General Medical Services 
Molecular Mechanisms of Disease 
 
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering 
R. Saha 
$1,032,070 
National Science Foundation 
Collaborative Research: EXPAND: Role of Melanin in the Interactions between a Polyextremotolerant Fungus and its Photoautotrophic Partners 
 
Department of Chemistry 
J. Shaw 
$1,848,900 
National Institutes of Health-NIGMS  
Ion Laboratory for the Elucidation of Macromolecular Assembly Heterogeneity 
 
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering 
T. Roy 
$673,168 
NSF 

 
CAREER: Characteristics of Rain-on-Snow Flooding in the Midwest 
 
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering 
S. Bhardwaj 
$550,000 
NSF 
CAREER: Exploring Spin and Angular Momentum Waves towards Future Wireless Communication Paradigm 
 
Department of Food Science and Technology 
Y. Yin 
$294,432 
National Institutes of Health 

Glycan Utilization Profiling in Human Gut Microbiomes of Common Fund Data 
 
Department of Mechanical & Materials Engineering 
L. Fernandez Ballester 
$739,205 
 
NSF 

CAREER: Processing of Materials to Control Micro- and Nano-Plastic Release 
 
Department of Mechanical & Materials Engineering/Department of Biological Systems Engineering 
E. Markvicka, G. Bashford 
$516,794 
 
NSF 

REU Site: Undergraduate Research Opportunities in Biomedical Engineering Devices at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln 
 
Department of Physics and Astronomy 
H. Batelaan 
$495,259 
 
NSF 

Coherent Electron Control 
 
Department of Psychology/Institute for Ethnic Studies 
T. Andrews, D. DiLillo, D. Hansen, T. Lorenz, D. McChargue, P. Meidlinger 
$390,132 
Health Resources and Services Administration 

Training Where the Need Is: Advancing Graduate Psychology Education in Primary Care 
 
Nebraska State Forest Service 
J. Erixson 
$250,000 
U.S. Department of Agriculture-Forest Service 
2024 Nebraska Community Wildfire Defense Grant-Base Funding 
 
Public Policy Center 
J. Walther, J. Meek 
$459,578 
Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services 
Evaluation of Nebraska Family First Prevention Services Act Plan 
 
S. Hoffman, A. Miller 
$200,394 
Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services 
Quality Management and Meeting Support Nebraska Ryan White Part B Program 
 
School of Computing 
D. Weitzel 
$1,400,000 
 
NSF 

CC* Storage-Region: GP-STOR: Great Plains Scalable Tiered Object Repository 
 
School of Global Integrative Studies 
W. Belcher, B. Hoffman, L. Wandsnider 
$270,000 
Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine 

DPAA Terrestrial Recovery 25-4FR-B RT-P, Centre-Val de Loire Province, France