Top Sponsored Awards, November 2021

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Posted January 7, 2022 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 Oct. 16 and Nov. 15, 2021, as reported through NUgrant, the university’s electronic research administration system. 

Bureau of Sociological Research 
L. Witt-Swanson, M. Kerr, K. Meiergerd 
$225,419 
Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services 
2021 Student Health and Risk Prevention Surveillance System Administration 
 
Center for Great Plains Studies 
M. Jacobs, D. Wall 
$10,000 
Humanities Nebraska 
Reckoning and Reconciliation on the Great Plains Conference 

Dean’s Office, Agricultural Research Division/Dean’s Office, Cooperative Extension/Department of Animal Science/Department of Biological Systems Engineering/Department of Computer Science and Engineering/Eastern Nebraska Research and Extension Center/School of Natural Resources/University Libraries  
J. Clarke, T. Franz, E. Lorang, J. Luck, M. Spangler, L. Thompson, H. Yu 
$500,000 
U.S. Department of Agriculture-National Institute of Food and Agriculture 
National Ag Producer Data Cooperative: A Strategic Framework for Innovation 

Department of Agronomy and Horticulture 
M. Libault 
$626,827 
USDA-NIFA 
Single Cell Characterization of the Transcriptional Programs Controlling Plant Root Organ Initiation 
 
Department of Animal Science 
R. Lewis 
$650,000 
USDA-NIFA  
Improving Robustness and Climatic Resilience in U.S. Sheep Populations through Genomics 
 
Department of Chemistry/Center for Biotechnology/Department of Biochemistry/Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering/Department of Food Science and Technology/Department of Statistics 
J. Takacs, J. Checco, J. Clarke, E. Dodds, C. Eichhorn, J. Guo, R. Lai, M. Morton, W. Niu, R. Powers, J. Riethoven, M. Wilson, Y. Zhou 
$10,667,732 
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services-National Institute of General Medical Sciences 
Nebraska Center for Integrated Biomolecular Communication, Phase 2 
 
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering 
S. Bartelt-Hunt 
$326,090 
Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services 
NWSS Laboratory Workplan 
 
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering/Durham School of Architectural Engineering and Construction 
J. Zhu, F. Alsaleem 
$800,000 
U.S. Department of Energy 
Dual External Leak Sensing and Monitoring for Dry Storage Canister 
 
Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering 
J. Wang 
$333,267 
National Science Foundation 
A Metamodeling Framework for Multiscale Mechanical Modeling of Nano-Architectural Crystalline-Amorphous Composites  

Department of Textiles, Merchandising and Fashion Design 
M. Casto, C. Nicholas, S. Starkey 
$10,000 
National Endowment for the Humanities 
Global Textiles Storage Assessment in University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Historic Costume and Textile Collection  

Public Policy Center 
J. Walther 
$245,000 
Nebraska Department of Education 
Nebraska’s AWARE-SEA-2.0 Grant Project 
 
M. Scalora, D. Bulling, S. Hoffman 
$772,955 
U.S. Department of Justice-National Institute of Justice 
Incidence of ideologically influenced threatening and violent activity in rural communities 
 
D. Bulling, J. Walther 
$785,956 
Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services 
Prevention and Promotion Program 
 
School of Natural Resources 
K. Pope 
$203,227 
Nebraska Game and Parks Commission 
Geospatial Analysis of Wildlife Research 
 


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