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Top Sponsored Awards, September 2022

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Posted November 4, 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 Aug. 16 and Sept. 15, 2022, as reported through NUgrant, the university’s electronic research administration system.    

Center for Digital Research in the Humanities 
L. Weakly 
$275,904 
National Endowment for the Humanities 
Nebraska Digital Newspaper Project, Phase 5 

Center for Digital Research in the Humanities/Department of English/University Libraries 
A. Jewell, K. Dalziel, M. Homestead, E. Rau 
$304,207 
NEH 
A Digital Library of Willa Cather’s Literary Manuscripts 

Department of Agricultural Economics 
C. Walters, S. Banerjee, E. Yiannaka 
$492,580 
U.S. Department of Agriculture-National Institute of Food and Agriculture 
Northern Plains Regional Farm Business Management and Benchmarking Partnership 2022 

Department of Agronomy and Horticulture 
S. Wortman, M. Kaiser 
$295,240 
USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service 
Nebraska Urban Soil Health Initiative 

Department of Agronomy and Horticulture/Department of Biological Systems Engineering 
J. Iqbal, A. Basche, P. Jasa, L. Puntel 
$585,340 
USDA-NRCS 
Evaluating Nitrogen Balance and Fertilizer Equivalence of Cover Crop Nitrogen using the University Long-Term Tillage Trials 

Department of Animal Science/Department of Psychology/Department of Sociology 
S. Fernando, K. Chiou, K. Gocchi Carrasco 
$1,060,491 
Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center 
Biomarkers for Dysbiosis-Related HIV-Associated Cognitive Disorders among Persons Who Inject Drugs in Puerto Rico 

Department of Biochemistry 
E. Harris, E. Pandey, X. Sun 
$1,244,327 
Department of Health and Human Services-National Institute of General Medical Sciences 
Metabolism of Antisense Oligonucleotides and Other Polyanions in Liver 

Department of Biological Systems Engineering 
R. Wachs 
$339,062 
National Science Foundation 
Engineering Models of Neuroimmune Sensitization to Elucidate Mechanisms of Pain Resolution 

Department of Chemistry 
J. Yesselman 
$1,882,247 
DHHS-National Institute of General Medical Sciences 
Next-Generation Biophysical Models for RNA Dynamics, Ligand Binding, and Catalysis 

Department of Chemistry/Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering 
J. Guo, E. Dodds, W. Niu 
$1,201,719 
DHHS-National Institute of General Medical Sciences 
Defining, Studying, and Targeting Sulfated Tyrosine Residues in Cell Surface Receptors 

Department of Physics and Astronomy 
I. Kravchenko, K. Bloom, D. Claes 
$1,800,000 
NSF 
Physics at the Large Hadron Collider: Understanding Fundamental Interactions and Upgrading the CMS Experiment 

Department of Psychology 
D. DiLillo, S. Gervais 
$2,005,024 
DHHS-National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism 
RCT of a combined MI intervention to address bystander behaviors in the context of alcohol use 
 
Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film 
T. Ganser 
$150,000 
City of Lincoln/Lancaster County 
The City of Lincoln and Lancaster County Tourism Support Grant-Nebraska Repertory Theatre 

Lied Center for Performing Arts 
N. Engen-Wedin 
$300,000 
City of Lincoln/Lancaster County 
City/County Tourism Support Grant-Lied Center 

Midwest Roadside Safety/Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering 
C. Stolle, M. Asadollahipajouh, R. Faller, K. Lechtenberg, J. Steelman 
$750,000 
National Academy of Sciences-National Cooperative Highway Research Program 
Implementation of MASH Surrogate Test Vehicles for Sign Supports, Breakaway Poles, and Work Zone Traffic Control Devices 
 
Nebraska State Forest Service 
J. Erixson 
$3,632,412 
USDA-Forest Service 
Cooperative Forestry Program 
 
Panhandle Research and Extension Center/Department of Agronomy and Horticulture 
B. Maharjan, S. Das, M. Stephenson 
$337,586 
USDA-NRCS 
Soil Health Gap 
 
School of Biological Sciences 
J. Storz 
$1,920,229 
DHHS-National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute 
Genomic and physiological mechanisms of hypoxia adaptation in high-altitude mice 
 
School of Computing 
A. Roohi 
$260,664 
NSF 
Integrated Sensing and Normally-off Computing for Edge Imaging Systems 
 
B. Duncan, J. Bradley, C. Detweiler 
$991,860 
NSF 
NRI: Collaborative Research: Adaptive Multi-Robot Configurable Teams Investigating Changing Ecosystem 
 
School of Computing/Holland Computing Center/Information Services 
D. Weitzel, A. Caprez, T. Ghose, H. Yu 
$496,207 
NSF 
CC* Data Storage: NRDStor: Nebraska Research Data Storage 

School of Natural Resources 
S. Sonsthagen, A. Little, M. Vrtiska 
$1,885,893 
Nebraska Game and Parks Commission 
Evaluating Reproduction, Harvest, Timing of Season, Connectivity, and Spatial Ecology of Wild Turkeys in Nebraska 
 
School of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences 
B. Brodersen 
$250,000 
USDA-NIFA 
NAHLN Level 1 Cooperative Agreement for FY 2022 
 
Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs 
J. Mendoza-Gorham 
$1,562,400 
Department of Education 
Upward Bound Math/Sciences Program 2022-2027 


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