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Top Sponsored Awards, June 2024

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Posted August 2, 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 May 16 and June 15, 2024, as reported through NuRamp, the university’s electronic research administration system. 

Department of Agricultural Economics 
B. Lubben 
$6,365,250 
United States Department of Agriculture-National Institute of Food and Agriculture 
North Central Extension Risk Management Education Center 
 
C. Walters, S. Banerjee, E. Yiannaka 
$499,354 
USDA-NIFA 
Northern Plains Regional Farm Business Management and Benchmarking Partnership 
 
Department of Agronomy and Horticulture/School of Biological Sciences/School of Computing 
H. Walia, H. Yu, C. Zhang 
$649,997 
USDA-NIFA 
Rice Grain Yield And Quality Under Warmer Nights 
 
Department of Animal Science 
A. Cupp, J. Wood 
$650,000 
USDA-NIFA 
Androgen Excess Ovarian Microenvironment on Bovine Folliculogenesis 
 
D. Yates, J. Petersen, T. Schmidt 
$650,000 
USDA-NIFA 
Inflammatory mediation of poor welfare in heat-stressed feedlot animals 
 
A. Ermisch, J. Wood 
$225,000 
USDA-NIFA 
Regulation of mRNA Methylation during Bovine Oocyte In Vitro Maturation 
 
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering/School of Biological Sciences 
W. Niu, Y. Demirel, C. Zhang 
$649,556 
USDA-NIFA 
Systems Valorization Of Lignin Aromatics Through Microbial Synthesis Of C6 Building Block Chemicals 
 
Department of Chemistry/Nebraska Water Center 
D. Hage, D. Snow 
$446,000 
National Science Foundation 
Ultrafast Affinity Extraction – Fundamental Studies and Use in Environmental Applications 2024-2027 
 
Department of Food Science and Technology/Department of Agronomy and Horticulture/Nebraska Water Center 
D. Rose, J. Auchtung, K. Frels, A. Malakar, A. Ramer-Tait 
$649,927 
USDA-NIFA 
Reducing Cadmium Bioavailability from Food by Protecting the Human Gut Microbiota from Cadmium Toxicity 
 
Department of Mathematics 
C. Schafhauser 
$243,580 
NSF
Structure of Simple Amenable C*-Algebras 
 
A. Zupan 
$317,407 
NSF
The Topology of 3- and 4-Manifolds 
 
Midwest Roadside Safety Facility/Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering 
J. Steelman, M. Asadollahipajouh, R. Bielenberg, R. Faller, C. Fang, K. Lechtenberg 
$750,000 
Nebraska Department of Transportation 
Development, Testing, and MASH Evaluation of Single Column Sign Supports Phase II (Florida, FDOT) 
 
Nebraska State Forest Service 
J. Erixson 
$565,000 
USDA-Forest Service 
BIL – State Forest Action Plans 
 
J. Erixson 
$355,012 
USDA-Forest Service 
2023 Nebraska Conservation Reserve Program Technical Assistance Reimbursement 
 
School of Computing 
S. Nie 
$812,995 
NSF
CAREER: Terahertz on the Move: Enabling a Dynamic Last Mile for 6G Wireless Networks 
 
School of Natural Resources/Department of Agronomy and Horticulture/Department of Biological Systems Engineering 
J. Korus, M. Aboushanab, K. Cameron, A. Daigh, T. Gilmore, J. Westrop 
$749,883 
USDA-NIFA 
Elucidating Groundwater Processes in 3D for Targeted Management of Agricultural Nitrogen 


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