June 2023 Grants and Awards
Maintain Fungicide Resistance Testing Capabilities for Grape Diseases-V
Principal Investigator:
Antonius B. Baudoin
School of Plant and Environmental Sciences
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Total Anticipated:
$12,900
Sponsor:
Virginia Wine Board
Molecular Mechanism for the Phosphoinositide-Dependent Macropinocytosis
Principal Investigator:
Daniel G. Capelluto
Biological Sciences
College of Science
Total Anticipated:
$3,000
Sponsor:
The Virginia Academy of Science
Improving the Limit of Norovirus Detection in Food Matrices Using Engineered Yeasts to Concentrate and Purify Viral Particles
Principal Investigator:
Juhong Chen
Biological Systems Engineering
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Total Anticipated:
$610,936
Sponsor:
United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture
Effects of Prescribed Fire on Trait Diversity, Nutrient Allocation, and Ectomycorrhizal Community Diversity in Pinus Echinata Stands
Principal Investigator:
Thomas A. Coates
Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation
Natural Resources
Total Anticipated:
$5,500
Sponsor:
Virginia Space Grant Consortium
Italy-United States of America Workshop: Advances in Biomechanics and Mathematical Biology
Principal Investigator:
Raffaella De Vita
Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics
College of Engineering
Total Anticipated:
$20,000
Sponsor:
National Science Foundation
Collaborative Research: Design, Modeling and Active Learning of Quantitative-Sequence Experiments
Principal Investigator:
Xinwei Deng
Statistics
College of Science
Total Anticipated:
$181,968
Sponsor:
National Science Foundation
Examining Hypoblast Formation and Function to Reduce Early Embryonic Loss in Cattle
Principal Investigator:
Alan D. Ealy
School of Animal Sciences
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Total Anticipated:
$180,000
Sponsor:
United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture
Enhancing Media Composition of In Vitro Derived Bovine Embryos
Principal Investigator:
Alan D. Ealy
School of Animal Sciences
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Total Anticipated:
$120,000
Sponsor:
United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture
Large-Amplitude, Easy-Plane Spin-Orbit Torque Oscillators
Principal Investigator:
Satoru Emori
Physics
College of Science
Total Anticipated:
$311,499
Sponsor:
National Science Foundation
Mentored Research (K01) Integrative Spatial Epidemiology Study of Wildlife Rabies Spillover
Principal Investigator:
Luis E. Escobar Quinonez
Fish and Wildlife Conservation
Natural Resources
Total Anticipated:
$625,565
Sponsor:
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Comprehensive Utilization of Olive Byproduct
Principal Investigator:
Yiming Feng
Virginia Seafood Agricultural Research and Extension Center
Agriculture Experiment Station
Total Anticipated:
$197,855
Sponsor:
Cal Poly Corporation
Assessment of Asymptomatic Clinical Hypocalcemia Among Dairy Farms in the Commonwealth of Virginia
Principal Investigator:
Gonzalo Ferreira
School of Animal Sciences
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Total Anticipated:
$19,160
Sponsor:
Virginia Agricultural Council
Undergraduate Research Scholarship L. Waite 2023-2024
Principal Investigator:
Yao Fu
Aerospace and Ocean Engineering
College of Engineering
Total Anticipated:
$3,000
Sponsor:
Virginia Space Grant Consortium
Occoquan Watershed Monitoring Program FY 2024
Principal Investigator:
Stanley Grant
Civil and Environmental Engineering
College of Engineering
Total Anticipated:
$1,515,506
Sponsor:
Virginia Department of Environmental Quality
Virginia Tech Multi-Campus Nuclear Engineering Fellowship Program
Principal Investigator:
Alireza Haghighat
Mechanical Engineering
College of Engineering
Total Anticipated:
$400,000
Sponsor:
United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission
VetAgro/UT/VT CP and RP-AA Dose Response Trial
Principal Investigator:
Mark D. Hanigan
School of Animal Sciences
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Total Anticipated:
$32,758
Sponsor:
VetAgro S.p.a.
Spectrum Warrior
Principal Investigator:
William C. Headley
Virginia Tech National Security Institute
Total Anticipated:
$450,000
Sponsor:
United States Naval Surface Warfare Center
Optimization of Fungicide Efficacy for Pink Rot and Disease Forecasting for Early Blight and Late Blight in Potato
Principal Investigator:
Douglas S. Higgins
Eastern Shore Agricultural Research and Extension Center
Agriculture Experiment Station
Total Anticipated:
$6,000
Sponsor:
Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services
Susan Sabbatical-ORISE-Bureau of Transportation Statistics
Principal Investigator:
Susan Hotle
Civil and Environmental Engineering
College of Engineering
Total Anticipated:
$123,799
Sponsor:
Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education
Survey of Freshwater Mussels at the State Route 806 Bridge Crossing of Coal Creek at Raven, Tazewell County, Virginia
Principal Investigator:
Jess W. Jones
Fish and Wildlife Conservation
Natural Resources
Total Anticipated:
$6,416
Sponsor:
Virginia Department of Transportation
Survey of Freshwater Mussels at the East Chilhowie Street Bridge Crossing of Middle Fork Holston River at Marion, Smyth County, Virginia
Principal Investigator:
Jess W. Jones
Fish and Wildlife Conservation
Natural Resources
Total Anticipated:
$6,416
Sponsor:
Virginia Department of Transportation
Survey of Freshwater Mussels at the State Route 669 Bridge Crossing of Big Moccasin Creek, Scott County, Virginia
Principal Investigator:
Jess W. Jones
Fish and Wildlife Conservation
Natural Resources
Total Anticipated:
$6,416
Sponsor:
Virginia Department of Transportation
The Natural Release of Unusual Peptidoglycan Fragments Drives Persistent Lyme Disease Symptoms in Susceptible Hosts
Principal Investigator:
Brandon L. Jutras
Biochemistry
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Total Anticipated:
$2,599,879
Sponsor:
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Collaborative Research: Structure, Dynamics, and Catalysis with Dilute Bimetallic and Single Atom Alloy Nanoparticles
Principal Investigator:
Ayman M. Karim
Chemical Engineering
College of Engineering
Total Anticipated:
$182,589
Sponsor:
National Science Foundation
Collaborative Research: Tailoring the Catalytic Properties of Pd Single Atoms Using Covalent Organic Frameworks
Principal Investigator:
Ayman M. Karim
Chemical Engineering
College of Engineering
Total Anticipated:
$343,660
Sponsor:
National Science Foundation
Scope of Work: Social Attraction, Banding and Monitoring of Breeding Seabirds at the Hampton Roads Bridge and Tunnel (HRBT) Temporary Alternative Breeding Sites, 2023 -2025
Principal Investigator:
Sarah M. Karpanty
Fish and Wildlife Conservation
Natural Resources
Total Anticipated:
$130,030
Sponsor:
Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources
Research Roadmap Development; Short Title: Research Roadmap Development
Principal Investigator:
Kevin R. Kefauver
Virginia Tech Transportation Institute
Virginia Tech Transportation Institute
Total Anticipated:
$199,755
Sponsor:
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Tumor and Circulating Extracellular Vesicle Characterization Following Mechanical, High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound (Histotripsy) in Soft Tissue Sarcoma
Principal Investigator:
Shawna L. Klahn
Veterinary Medical Research and Graduate Studies
College of Veterinary Medicine
Total Anticipated:
$27,250
Sponsor:
University of Virginia
Programmatic Biological Assessment for the Evaluation of Impacts of Routine Actions on Federally Listed Bats
Principal Investigator:
Scott D. Klopfer
Fish and Wildlife Conservation
Natural Resources
Total Anticipated:
$10,000
Sponsor:
National Park Service
On the Road with AIP and the STEM Oral History Project
Principal Investigator:
Mary Y. Lanzerotti
Electrical and ComputerEngineering
College of Engineering
Total Anticipated:
$2,500
Sponsor:
American Institute of Physics
Evaluating Soybean Varieties for Isoflavone Health Bioactive Components (Continuation Project)
Principal Investigator:
Marta M. Lima
School of Plant and Environmental Sciences
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Total Anticipated:
$5,000
Sponsor:
Virginia Soybean Board
Stream Vane Design and Manufacture: Reverse ScreenVane 2
Principal Investigator:
Kevin T. Lowe
Aerospace and Ocean Engineering
College of Engineering
Total Anticipated:
$56,005
Sponsor:
Rolls Royce North American Technologies Inc.
Coefficient of Restitution Testing for 2023
Principal Investigator:
Kevin T. Lowe
Aerospace and Ocean Engineering
College of Engineering
Total Anticipated:
$70,980
Sponsor:
Rolls Royce North American Technologies Inc
The Impact of Lean Direct Injection Geometric Parameters on Lean Blowout
Principal Investigator:
Joseph Meadows
Mechanical Engineering
College of Engineering
Total Anticipated:
$8,000
Sponsor:
Virginia Space Grant Consortium
Virginia Space Grant Consortium PhD Research Fellowship Lee Gill
Principal Investigator:
Alan J. Michaels
Virginia Tech National Security Institute
Total Anticipated:
$5,500
Sponsor:
Virginia Space Grant Consortium
CAREER: Acceleration Methods, Iterative Solvers and Heterogeneous Architectures: The New Landscape of Large-Scale Scientific Simulations
Principal Investigator:
Agnieszka K. Miedlar
Mathematics
College of Science
Total Anticipated:
$215,299
Sponsor:
National Science Foundation
In-Field Evaluation of Aerial Drone Imaging and Mapping in Vineyards for Disease Management
Principal Investigator:
Mizuho Nita
Alson H. Smith, Jr. Agricultural Research and Extension Center
Agriculture Experiment Station
Total Anticipated:
$12,500
Sponsor:
Virginia Agricultural Council
Viticulture Extension and Research support
Principal Investigator:
Mizuho Nita
Alson H. Smith, Jr. Agricultural Research and Extension Center
Agriculture Experiment Station
Total Anticipated:
$33,093
Sponsor:
Virginia Wine Board
Grape Pathology Projects 2021-2023
Principal Investigator:
Mizuho Nita
Alson H. Smith, Jr. Agricultural Research and Extension Center
Agriculture Experiment Station
Total Anticipated:
$53,718
Sponsor:
Virginia Wine Board
Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace : CORE: Small: Sound Automatic Exploit Generation
Principal Investigator:
Binoy Ravindran
Electrical and ComputerEngineering
College of Engineering
Total Anticipated:
$600,000
Sponsor:
National Science Foundation
N. Rand Undergraduate Research Scholarship 2023-2024
Principal Investigator:
Christopher J. Roy
Aerospace and Ocean Engineering
College of Engineering
Total Anticipated:
$2,800
Sponsor:
Virginia Space Grant Consortium
Exceptional Point Enhanced Optomechanical Thermal Imaging (EP-OpTIm)
Principal Investigator:
Linbo Shao
Electrical and ComputerEngineering
College of Engineering
Total Anticipated:
$2,410,715
Sponsor:
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
Collaborative Research: Dipole Tilt Effect on Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability and its associated Ionospheric and Geomagnetic Signatures
Principal Investigator:
Xueling Shi
Electrical and ComputerEngineering
College of Engineering
Total Anticipated:
$75,000
Sponsor:
National Science Foundation
Comparison of Stereotactic Brain Biopsy Techniques Using Neuronavigation with and without Three-Dimensional Printed Guides
Principal Investigator:
Richard L. Shinn
Veterinary Medical Research and Graduate Studies
College of Veterinary Medicine
Total Anticipated:
$5,000
Sponsor:
Morris Animal Foundation
Virginia Public Guardianship and Conservator Program
Principal Investigator:
Pamela B. Teaster
Center for Gerontology
Liberal Arts and Human Sciences
Total Anticipated:
$195,000
Sponsor:
Virginia Department of Aging and Rehabilitative Services
Place, Memory, Poetry, and the James A. Emanuel's Papers at the Library of Congress
Principal Investigator:
Tyechia Thompson
English
Liberal Arts and Human Sciences
Total Anticipated:
$45,000
Sponsor:
National Endowment for the Humanities
Customer Discovery: Determining Demand of Mb Technology for Crops
Principal Investigator:
Mark A. Williams
School of Plant and Environmental Sciences
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Total Anticipated:
$50,000
Sponsor:
National Science Foundation
Model-Based Wind Estimation to Enable Advanced Air Mobility Operations
Principal Investigator:
Craig A. Woolsey
Aerospace and Ocean Engineering
College of Engineering
Total Anticipated:
$5,500
Sponsor:
Virginia Space Grant Consortium
Computational and Data-Enabled Science and Engineering: Collaborative Research: Theory-Infused Neural Network (TinNet) for Nonadiabatic Molecular Simulations
Principal Investigator:
Hongliang Xin
Chemical Engineering
College of Engineering
Total Anticipated:
$326,416
Sponsor:
National Science Foundation
New Weapons Against Old Foes: Antivirulence Approach Against Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria with Small Molecules Targeting Bacterial Type IV Pilus
Principal Investigator:
Zhaomin Yang
Biological Sciences
College of Science
Total Anticipated:
$200,000
Sponsor:
Commonwealth Health Research Board
Collaborative Research: Models, Algorithms, Simulations and Applications for Dendritic Solidifications of Two-Phase Multi-Component Alloys in the Mushy Zone
Principal Investigator:
Pengtao Yue
Mathematics
College of Science
Total Anticipated:
$216,847
Sponsor:
National Science Foundation
A Value-Driven Multi-Sector Stakeholder Decision-Making Framework to Support Disaster Resilient Communities
Principal Investigator:
Lu Zhang
Myers-Lawson School of Construction
Myers-Lawson School of Construction
Total Anticipated:
$314,000
Sponsor:
National Science Foundation
The Cost Of Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Through Climate-Smart Agricultural Practices: Estimation And Policy Implications
Principal Investigator:
Wei Zhang
Agricultural and Applied Economics
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Total Anticipated:
$649,798
Sponsor:
United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture
Energy-Relevant Elements Recovery from CO2-Reactive Minerals During Carbon Mineralization
Principal Investigator:
Wencai Zhang
Mining and Minerals Engineering
College of Engineering
Total Anticipated:
$2,200,000
Sponsor:
Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy
Enhanced Dewatering of Acide Mine Drainage Sludge Using an Efficient, Low-Cost, and Modular Process Circuit
Principal Investigator:
Wencai Zhang
Mining and Minerals Engineering
College of Engineering
Total Anticipated:
$200,000
Sponsor:
Office of Surface Mining