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Top Sponsored Awards, November 2022

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Posted January 6, 2023 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, 2022, as reported through NUgrant, the university’s electronic research administration system.      

Center for Science, Mathematics and Computer Education/Department of Mathematics
W. Smith, S. Ahrens, L. Augustyn, R. Funk, D. Klimes, Y. Lai, S. Vendetti
$1,837,638
National Science Foundation
Using Networked Improvement Communities to Scale Up Program Transformation for Secondary Mathematics Teacher Preparation (NIC-Transform Scale Up)

Department of Agronomy and Horticulture
S. Wortman
$216,732
Washington State University
Improving end-of-life management of plastic mulch in strawberry systems

Department of Animal Science
S. Fernando
$499,913
U.S. Department of Agriculture-National Institute of Food and Agriculture
Risks Associated with Genetically Engineered Microbes in Beef Cattle Production: Evaluation of Persistence, Transmission and Ecological Consequences

Department of Chemistry
S. Morin
$478,683
Department of Defense-U.S. Army Research Office
Powering Soft Actuators Directly with Small Molecule Fuels for Operational Versatility

Department of Child, Youth and Family Studies/Nebraska Center for Research on Children, Youth, Families and Schools/Teaching, Learning and Teacher Education
J. Torquati, K. Buchheister, C. Corr Kiewra, N. Engen-Wedin, S. Hong, L. Knoche, A. Morales, R. Schachter
$2,159,125
Buffett Early Childhood Fund
Responsive Equitable System for Preparing Early Childhood Teachers (RESPECT) across Nebraska

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering/School of Natural Resources
T. Roy, T. Haigh, M. Svoboda
$555,362
NASA
Improving hydrological drought monitoring capability of the US Drought Monitor

Department of Educational Psychology/Department of Child, Youth and Family Studies/Nebraska Center for Research on Children, Youth, Families and Schools
K. Edwards, R. Dalla, L. Wheeler
$323,668
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services-Centers for Disease Control
Rigorous Evaluation of the READY to Stand Curriculum as a Tool to Prevent the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children Among Racially and Ethnically Diverse Urban Youth

Department of Food Science and Technology/Department of Agronomy and Horticulture
M. Downs, J. Baumert, A. Benson, P. Johnson, K. Majumder, J. Schnable
$500,000
USDA-NIFA
Food Proteomics Research and Extension Mass Spectrometry Platform

Department of Psychology/School of Computing/Department of Sociology
A. Jaffe, B. Khan
$434,445
DHHS-National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
Connecting Alcohol Myopia to Real-World Risk Behaviors through Cognitive Ecological Momentary Assessment

Department of Sociology/School of Computing/Department of Psychology
K. Tyler, D. DiLillo, B. Khan, K. Olson
$3,404,167
DHHS-National Institute of Drug Abuse
Street Experiences, Affect, and Coping: Harnessing Computational Models for the Development of a Cellphone-Based Intervention to Prevent Drug Use among Youth Experiencing Homelessness

Department of Statistics
Y. Guan
$467,856
University of New Mexico
Improved Coupled Climate Simulations in E3SM Through Enhanced Sea Ice Mechanics

International Quilt Museum
L. Levy
$29,393
Nebraska Arts Council
International Quilt Museum FY2022-2023 Support

Nebraska Extension Engagement Zone 2/Agricultural Leadership, Education and Communication/Community and Regional Planning Program/Dean’s Office for Cooperative Extension/Department of Nutrition and Health Sciences/Nebraska Extension Engagement Zone 5
J. Grummert Rasmussen, M. Emery, M. Hanefeldt, K. Malek, Z. Tang, K. Wilson
$247,938
USDA-Rural Development
Destination Knox County, Nebraska: Tourism Planning and Strategic Placemaking

Nebraska Manufacturing Extension Partnership
M. Allmand
$3,978,500
Department of Commerce-National Institute of Standards and Technology
Nebraska Manufacturing Extension Partnership

Panhandle Research and Extension Center/Department of Agronomy and Horticulture
B. Maharjan
$261,800
USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service
Soil Health School

School of Biological Sciences/Department of Biochemistry
B. Couch, C. Brassil, J. Zhang
$505,000
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Empowering Institutions to Develop DEIJA-Centered Systems for Teaching and Learning

Social and Behavioral Sciences Research Consortium
A. Kasabian, J. Rutt
$445,000
Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services
State Health Assessment Evaluation


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