Posted November 2, 2026 by Kasey Mintz
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, 2026, as reported through NuRamp, the university’s electronic research administration system.
Academic Services and Enrollment Management
A. Covarrubias
$204,501
Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services
Personal Responsibility Education Program Year 8
Center on Children, Families and the Law
J. Chambers
$240,476
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
HUD NE-BOS Planning Grant
Center for Great Plains Studies
C. Seger-Franklin
$43,690
Institute of Museum and Library Services
Paper Horizons: Assessing and Preserving Works on Paper at the Great Plains Art Museum
Department of Agronomy and Horticulture/School of Natural Resources
N. McMillan
$313,156
Nebraska Game and Parks Commission
Restoring Saline Wetland Communities Through Grazing and Herbicide Application
Department of Animal Science
D. Ciobanu, H. Vu
$650,000
U.S. Department of Agriculture- National Institute of Food and Agriculture
A pan-SLA reference assembly of host-genetics in swine viral disease susceptibility
Department of Biochemistry
J. Lee
$1,922,441
National Institutes of Health-National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
Copper in nutrient metabolism and metabolic disease
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
V. Alexandrov
$306,319
National Science Foundation
NSF-BSF: Engineering Alpha-SnWO4 Photoanode Interfaces for Efficient Solar-to-Fuel Conversion
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
L. Zhao, N. Huynh, W. Kontar
$218,687
Nebraska Department of Transportation
Modernizing NDOT’s Pavement Marking Program for Retroreflectivity Compliance and Cost-Effective Restriping
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering/School of Computing/School of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
X. Li, S. Balasubramaniam, M. Hille
$2,000,000
National Science Foundation-EPSCoR
Collaborative Research: FEC: AI-Enabled Environmental Surveillance of Microbial and Chemical Threats to Food Production Systems
Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering
B. Cui
$249,999
National Science Foundation
Collaborative Research: Decoding Grain Boundary Complexion Dynamics in Irradiated Compositionally Complex Carbides
Department of Physics and Astronomy
A. Gruverman
$780,000
National Science Foundation
Exploring the Functional Behavior of Domain Walls in Wurtzite Ferroelectrics
Department of Physics and Astronomy/Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering/Department of Chemistry/Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering/Department of Mechanical & Materials Engineering/Nebraska Center for Materials and Nanoscience
C. Binek, V. Alexandrov, P. Dowben, A. Gruverman, Y. Guo, X. Hong, A. Kovalev, R. Lai, A. Laraoui, S. Morin, E. Schubert, M. Schubert, A. Sinitskii, E. Tsymbal, L. Wang, X. Xu
$18,000,000
National Science Foundation
NSF MRSEC: Atomically Engineered Materials (AtEM)
Midwest Roadside Safety
T. Yosef, Q. Alomari, R. Bielenberg, R. Faller, S. Rosenbaugh
$218,846
Nebraska Department of Transportation
Development and Evaluation of Approach Guardrail Transition with Increased Span Length between Concrete Bridge Rail and First Transition Post – Phase II
School of Biological Sciences
B. Couch
$349,735
National Science Foundation
Collaborative Research: Leveraging AI to Support Metacognition in Undergraduate Biology and Bioinformatics Courses
School of Computing
S. Balasubramaniam, S. Somathilaka
$782,358
National Science Foundation
CSR:FET: Artificial Non-Neural Networks: Energy-Efficient Bacteria-Inspired AI for Edge Computing
L. He
$307,868
National Science Foundation
Continuous Process Verification for Trustworthy Manufacturing
School of Natural Resources/Nebraska Water Center
M. Joeckel, D. Snow
$1,000,000
Department of Commerce-National Institute of Standards and Technology
Instrumentation for Advanced Water Research
Vice Chancellor for Research
J. Nelson, N. Meier
$229,572
Iowa State University
NSF Engines: RuralSTAMINA – Ascending Rural Communities through Sustainable, Transformative Advanced Manufacturing INnovations and Alliances
