News for Researchers Uncategorized
Posted December 2, 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 Sept. 16 and Oct. 15, 2022, as reported through NUgrant, the university’s electronic research administration system.
College of Engineering, Dean’s Office/Department of Biological Systems Engineering/Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering/Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering/School of Computing
M. Riley, B. Duncan, C. Nelson, S. Pitla, W. Qiao
$9,360,538
U.S. Department of Commerce-Economic Development Administration
Heartland Robotics Cluster: COE
Department of Agricultural Economics
B. Lubben
$600,000
U.S. Department of Agriculture-National Institute of Food and Agriculture
North Central Extension Risk Management Education Center Meat and Poultry Processing Grants Program
Department of Agronomy and Horticulture
D. Twidwell
$261,047
USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Services
Science Outcomes Support for Conservation Reserve Program (CRP)
Department of Agronomy and Horticulture/Department of Biological Systems Engineering
J. Yang, T. Clemente, Y. Ge, J. Schnable
$2,697,284
U.S. Department of Energy
Phenotypic and Molecular Characterization of Genes Associated with Vegetative Nitrogen Use Efficiency in Sorghum
Department of Biochemistry
E. Cahoon
$12,839,678
DOE
B5: Bigger Better Brassicaceae Biofuels and Bioproducts
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering/Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering
J. Eun, Y. Dzenis, S. Kim
$675,000
DOE-Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research
Development of Novel Barrier Materials for Geological Repository to Advance Long-term Storage of High-level Nuclear Waste (HLW) and Spent Nuclear Fuel (SNF)
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering/Department of Biological Systems Engineering/Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering
B. Dvorak, K. Stelling, R. Williams
$319,813
Environmental Protection Agency
Technical Assistance Outreach to Nebraska’s Food Processors, Chemical Manufacturers and Metal Manufacturers: Focus on Environmental Justice
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering/Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering/Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering
C. Zuhlke, G. Gogos, S. Nejati, J. Shield
$553,821
University of Nebraska Omaha
Controlling the Wetting Properties of Surfaces to Liquid Propellants using Femtosecond Laser Surface Processing with Applications to Fuel Tanks
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering/Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering
P. Sutter, E. Sutter
$747,387
DOE-EPSCoR
Tunable Few-Layer van der Waals Crystals and Heterostructures as Emerging Energy and Quantum Materials
Department of English
M. Homestead, B. Burke
$156,581
National Endowment for Humanities
Institute for Higher Education Faculty on Willa Cather: Place and Archive
Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering
C. Nelson
$611,305
Department of Health and Human Services-National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering
Simulation Based Surgical Training for High Risk Low Resourced Procedures Using a Novel Simulator with Smart Mentoring
Department of Physics and Astronomy
A. Gruverman
$252,000
National Science Foundation
Mechanical Control of the Electronic Properties of 2D Ferroelectrics
E. Tsymbal
$486,189
DOE
Quantum phenomena in two-dimensional ferroelectrics
Department of Political Science/Teaching, Learning and Teacher Education
A. Kohen, B. Dotan
$10,000
Humanities Nebraska
The Nebraska Stories of Humanity: Holocaust Survivors & WWII Veterans Educational Portal
Department of Special Education and Communication Disorders
A. Thomas, K. Brennan, M. Brennan, K. Pritchett, K. Weissling
$1,174,731
Department of Education
Mid-Plains Professional Upgrade Partnership Speech-Language Pathology, Audiology, and Deaf Education (MPUP-SPADE)
Nebraska Extension Engagement Zone 8/Dean’s Office for Cooperative Extension/Department of Entomology/Eastern Nebraska Research and Extension Center
T. Hibbeler, L. Lynch-O’Brien
$200,000
Native American Agriculture Fund
UNL Indigenous Food Sovereignty Program
Nebraska State Forest Service
J. Erixson
$499,000
USDA-Forest Service
2022 Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) – State Forest Action Plans
Nebraska Innovation Campus
D. Martin
$4,102,400
U.S. Department of Commerce-Economic Development Administration
Robotics Lab Space and Program
Nebraska Manufacturing Extension Partnership
M. Allmand
$1,390,837
U.S. Department of Commerce-EDA
Automation Demo Space and Program
Nebraska Water Center/Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
C. Ray, A. Malakar
$790,000
USDA-Agricultural Research Service
Experimentation, Model Development and On-Farm Application Crop and Soil Process Models for Corn, Potato Experiment Stations
School of Biological Sciences
J. DeLong
$266,000
U.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation
Predicting Eco-Evolutionary Consequences of an Ongoing Invasion by a Key Herbivore in Temperate Reefs
School of Computing
H. Yu
$450,000
DOE
Implicit Continuous Representations for Visualization of Complex Data
School of Natural Resources
M. Vrtiska
$362,619
Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks
Southeast Kansas Mallard Wintering Ecology Study
K. Pekarek, J. Carroll
$291,112
Nebraska Department of Environment and Energy
UNL/NDEE Liaison III: Coordination of Water Quality Programming in Nebraska
School of Natural Resources/Department of Agricultural Economics
M. Svoboda, D. Bathke, B. Fuchs, T. Haigh, C. Knutson, T. Mieno, R. Rimsaite, K. Smith, T. Tadesse, B. Wardlow
$1,325,000
USDA-Office of the Chief Economist
USDA Support for Enhancements to the U.S. Drought Monitor and Engaging the USDA Climate Hubs 2022-2023
