July 2023 Grants and Awards
Near- and Mid-IR Observations to Probe Dust Formation in the Remarkably Nearby Stripped-Envelope Supernova 2023dbc
Principal Investigator:
Christopher J. Ashall
Assistant Professor
Department of Physics
College of Science
Total Anticipated:
$6,701
Sponsor:
Space Telescope Science Institute
The Obesity EMBRACE Pilot: Empowering Moms and Basic Research via Active Community Engagement
Principal Investigator:
Brittany R. Howell
Assistant Professor
Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC
Total Anticipated:
$46,690
Sponsor:
University of Virginia
Integrated Quantum Phononics on Thin-Film Lithium Niobate
Principal Investigator:
Linbo Shao
Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
College of Engineering
Total Anticipated:
$5,000
Sponsor:
Oak Ridge Associated Universities Inc.
Biosynthetic Yeast Utilized for Higher Yields of Agriculture on Mars Mission
Principal Investigator:
Robert C. Wright
Assistant Professor
Department of Biological Systems Engineering
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Total Anticipated:
$7,000
Sponsor:
Virginia Space Grant Consortium
Pre-Clinical Evaluation of Alpha-Cache; a Novel RNA Vaccine for an Emerging Orthobunyavirus
Principal Investigator:
Albert J. Auguste
Associate Professor
Department of Entomology
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Total Anticipated:
$4,668,636
Sponsor:
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Rural Environmental Health Training Program
Principal Investigator:
Julia M. Gohlke
Associate Professor
Veterinary Medical Research and Graduate Studies
College of Veterinary Medicine
Total Anticipated:
$472,217
Sponsor:
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
Developing Low-Glycosidic Nitrile and Glycosidic Nitrile-Zero Malt Barley Varieties for the Eastern United States
Principal Investigator:
Nicholas Santantonio
Assistant Professor
School of Plant and Environmental Sciences
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Total Anticipated:
$113,533
Sponsor:
Virginia Spirits Board
Virginia Tech Postbaccalaureate Research Education Program
Principal Investigator:
Edward J. Smith
Director, Virginia Tech Postbaccalaureate Research and Education Program Program
Director, Virginia Tech-Initiative for Maximizing Student Development Program
Professor
School of Animal Sciences
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Total Anticipated:
$1,874,840
Sponsor:
National Institutes of Health, National Institute of General Medical Sciences
Health Economics Research With University of Virginia
Principal Investigator:
Susan E. Chen
Director, Graduate Program and Associate Professor
Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Total Anticipated:
$317,738
Sponsor:
University of Virginia
Industry-University Cooperative Research Centers Phase II+ Virginia Tech: Center for Mining and Mineral Engineering (MME)
Principal Investigator:
Erik C. Westman
Professor
Department of Mining and Minerals Engineering
College of Engineering
Total Anticipated:
$750,000
Sponsor:
National Science Foundation
Biological Systems Engineering Undergraduate Hydro Analysis Group: Biological Systems Engineering and the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality Office of Surface and Ground Water Supply Planning Collaboration 2023-2024
Principal Investigator:
Durelle T. Scott
Assistant Department Head for Undergraduate Studies an Professor
Department of Biological Systems Engineering
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Total Anticipated:
$44,295
Sponsor:
Virginia Department of Environmental Quality
Do Phylogeny and Meta-Omic Variation in Nodule Bacteriomes Determine Plant Traits Related to Legume Productivity?
Principal Investigator:
Mark A. Williams
Professor
School of Plant and Environmental Sciences
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Total Anticipated:
$846,359
Sponsor:
United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture
Development of a First-in-Class Bifunctional Fusion Cytokine Therapy that Targets Tregs and Tissue Resident Tregs for the Treatment of Lupus and other Autoimmune Diseases
Principal Investigator:
Richard F. Helm
Director, Virginia Tech-Mass Spectrometry Incubator and Associate Professor
Department of Biochemistry
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Total Anticipated:
$50,000
Sponsor:
University of Virginia
Virginia Nanotechnology Networked Infrastructure
Principal Investigator:
Masoud Agah
Virginia Microelectronics Consortium Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
College of Engineering
Total Anticipated:
$3,300,000
Sponsor:
Go Virginia Region 7
Advanced Chip Engineering Design and Fabrication: Real-time Optimization Of Transceiver Systems
Principal Investigator:
Jeffrey S. Walling
Associate Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
College of Engineering
Total Anticipated:
$500,000
Sponsor:
National Science Foundation
Collaborative Research: CPS: Medium: Robust Sensing and Learning for Autonomous Driving Against Perceptual Illusion
Principal Investigator:
Wenjing Lou
W.C. English Endowed Professor
Department of Computer Science
College of Engineering
Total Anticipated:
$500,000
Sponsor:
National Science Foundation
DISES: Coupled Socio-Ecological Mobility in the Coastal Zone
Principal Investigator:
Anamaria Bukvic
Assistant Professor
Department of Geography
College of Natural Resources and Environment
Total Anticipated:
$592,027
Sponsor:
National Science Foundation
Ultrasound Directed Self-Assembly of Non-Periodic Patterns of Particles
Principal Investigator:
Bart Raeymaekers
Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
College of Engineering
Total Anticipated:
$354,541
Sponsor:
National Science Foundation
Roanoke and Alleghany Health Districts Community Engagement - American Rescue Plan Act
Principal Investigator:
Mary E. Dunkenberger
Associate Director, Institute for Policy and Governance
Institute for Policy and Governance
School of Public and International Affairs
Total Anticipated:
$359,998
Sponsor:
Roanoke City and Alleghany Health Districts
Toward Ultrasound Brain Imaging via Machine-Learning-Extracted Skull Profile and Speed of Sound
Principal Investigator:
Aiguo Han
Assistant Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics
College of Engineering
Total Anticipated:
$373,805
Sponsor:
National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering
Collaborative Research: Research Initiation: Formation of the Foundations for Engineering Intuition in Structural Engineering with Mixed Reality
Principal Investigator:
Diana Bairaktarova
Associate Professor
Department of Engineering Education
College of Engineering
Total Anticipated:
$25,000
Sponsor:
National Science Foundation
CAREER: Design of Cellular Mechanical Metamaterials under Uncertainty with Physics-Informed and Data-Driven Machine Learning
Principal Investigator:
Pinar Acar
Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
College of Engineering
Total Anticipated:
$549,365
Sponsor:
National Science Foundation
2023-2024 Modeling System Support Services for VADEQ Office of Water Supply
Principal Investigator:
Durelle T. Scott
Assistant Department Head for Undergraduate Studies and Professor
Department of Biological Systems Engineering
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Total Anticipated:
$19,542
Sponsor:
Virginia Department of Environmental Quality
Anti-Nociceptive Actions of CART II in Chemotherapy-Induced Peripheral Neuropathy
Principal Investigator:
Matthew Buczynski
Assistant Professor
School of Neuroscience
College of Science
Total Anticipated:
$1,785,850
Sponsor:
National Cancer Institute
Mitigating Product Inhibition in Enzymes with Synthetic Glycosylation: Biodesulfurization of Petroleum Products
Principal Investigator:
Valerie Welborn
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemistry
College of Science
Total Anticipated:
$1,100,00
Sponsor:
Petroleum Research Fund
CAREER: Unifying Scientific Knowledge with Machine Learning for Forward, Inverse, and Hybrid Modeling of Scientific Systems
Principal Investigator:
Anuj Karpatne
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
College of Engineering
Total Anticipated:
$595,738
Sponsor:
National Science Foundation
Precision Nanosurgery and Multimodal Intracellular Monitoring of Cellular Networks by Biomimic Nano-optoelectrode Arrays
Principal Investigator:
Wei Zhou
Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
College of Engineering
Total Anticipated:
$742,914
Sponsor:
Air Force Office of Scientific Research
Precision Irrigation to Optimize Nitrogen Use Efficiency in Humid Regions: Modeling Agronomic Impacts and Grower Adoption in a Changing Climate
Principal Investigator:
Julie E. Shortridge
Assistant Professor and Extension Specialist
Department of Biological Systems Engineering
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Total Anticipated:
$748,809
Sponsor:
United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture
PlantTransform: TRTech-PGR: Genotype-independent Regeneration for Recalcitrant Species Through Induced Totipotent Plant Cells
Principal Investigator:
Bastiaan Bargmann
Assistant Professor
School of Plant and Environmental Sciences
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Total Anticipated:
$1,200,000
Sponsor:
National Science Foundation
Long Term Research in Environmental Biology: Integrating Real-Time Open Data Pipelines and Forecasting to Quantify Ecosystem Predictability at Day to Decadal Scales
Principal Investigator:
Cayelan C. Carey
Professor
Department of Biological Sciences
College of Science
Total Anticipated:
$450,000
Sponsor:
National Science Foundation
Naval Engineering Education Consortium: Autonomous, Multi-Sensor Scanning and 3D Model Generation for Ship Configuration Management
Principal Investigator:
John N. Gilbert
Research Assistant Professor
Virginia Tech National Security Institute
Total Anticipated:
$681,508
Sponsor:
United States Naval Surface Warfare Center
Equanimity in Education: A Functional Data Analysis Approach
Principal Investigator:
Pang Du
Associate Professor
Department of Statistics
College of Science
Total Anticipated:
$12,544
Sponsor:
University of Virginia
Development and Expansion of Disease Management Decision-Making Tools Across Multiple Soybean Regions
Principal Investigator:
David B. Langston
Professor
Tidewater Agriculture Research Extension Center
Agriculture Experiment Station
Total Anticipated:
$15,000
Sponsor:
University of Kentucky Research Foundation
Sex Determination and the Sex-Determining Locus in Aedine Mosquitoes
Principal Investigator:
Zhijian Tu
University Distinguished Professor
Department of Biochemistry
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Total Anticipated:
$3,751,168
Sponsor:
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Equipping Small Processors to Thrive in Larger Markets: A Hybrid Approach to Support Training Efficacy
Principal Investigator:
Alexis M. Hamilton
Assistant Professor
Department of Food Science and Technology
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Total Anticipated:
$393,133
Sponsor:
United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture
Bridge Inspection via Augmented Reality and Artificial Intelligence
Principal Investigator:
Joseph L. Gabbard
Professor
Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
College of Engineering
Total Anticipated:
$460,403
Sponsor:
New Mexico Department of Transportation
Placental Barrier Culture to Delineate the Mechanism of Hepatitis E Virus Infection at the Maternal and Fetal Interface
Principal Investigator:
Wen Li
Research Scientist
Veterinary Medical Research and Graduate Studies
College of Veterinary Medicine
Total Anticipated:
$160,000
Sponsor:
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Chesapeake Bay Implementation Grant Bioreactors to Remove Legacy Nitrogen
Principal Investigator:
Zachary Easton
Professor and Extension Specialist
Department of Biological Systems Engineering
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Total Anticipated:
$50,000
Sponsor:
Virginia Department of Environmental Quality
PARTNERSHIP: Single Atom Catalyst-based Antimicrobial Films for Food Packaging Applications
Principal Investigator:
Yun Yin
Assistant Professor
Department of Food Science and Technology
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Total Anticipated:
$727,987
Sponsor:
United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture
Transport in Quantum Systems
Principal Investigator:
Alexander Elgart
Professor
Department of Mathematics
College of Science
Total Anticipated:
$200,000
Sponsor:
National Science Foundation
EDGE FGT: RNAi-Based Tools to Unlock Functional Genomics of Obligate Oomycete Plant Pathogens
Principal Investigator:
John M. McDowell
Professor
School of Plant and Environmental Sciences
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Total Anticipated:
$400,000
Sponsor:
National Science Foundation
String Compactifications: From Geometry to Effective Field Theory
Principal Investigator:
Lara B. Anderson
Assistant Professor
Department of Physics
College of Science
Total Anticipated:
$83,444
Sponsor:
National Science Foundation
Training Computer Science Teaching Assistants to Motivate Students
Principal Investigator:
Brett D. Jones
Professor
Office of Educational Research and Outreach
College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences
Total Anticipated:
$399,592
Sponsor:
National Science Foundation
Fast-Charging, Wide-Temperature, Low-Cost, Durable Batteries Enabled by Cobalt- and Nickel-Free Cathodes and Cell Engineering
Principal Investigator:
Feng Lin
Leo and Melva Harris Faculty Fellow and Associate Professor
Department of Chemistry
College of Science
Total Anticipated:
$2,395,000
Sponsor:
Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy
Living Cover Crops for Organic Vegetable Production
Principal Investigator:
Steven L. Rideout
Professor
School of Plant and Environmental Sciences
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Total Anticipated:
$15,210
Sponsor:
Virginia Agricultural Council
Discovery of Novel Probiotic Lactobacillus Reuteri Strains to Improve Infant Health
Principal Investigator:
Xin Luo
Assistant Department Head, Graduate and Postgraduate Studies and Professor
Veterinary Medical Research and Graduate Studies
College of Veterinary Medicine
Total Anticipated:
$37,730
Sponsor:
University of Virginia