April 2024 Grants and Awards
Women Leader Identity Development and Skill: Meaning Making Through Agricultural Systems Thinking Education
Principal Investigator:
Hannah M. Sunderman
Assistant Professor
Department of Agriculture, Leadership and Community Education
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Total Anticipated:
$1,000
Sponsor:
Association of Leadership Educators
The Circular Home: Development and Demonstrations of a Net-Negative Carbon, Reusable Residence
Principal Investigator:
Adam R. Phillips
Associate Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
College of Engineering
Total Anticipated:
$1,161,453
Sponsor:
Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy
Asymmetric Synthesis via Organoboron Compounds
Principal Investigator:
Ming Chen
Associate Professor
Department of Chemistry
College of Science
Total Anticipated:
$1,269,970
Sponsor:
National Institutes of Health, National Institute of General Medical Sciences
Utilizing Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) Technology as a Medical Education Tool for the Conceptualization of Metabolic Processes, Promotion of Student Wellness, and Improvement of Patient Education Skills
Principal Investigator:
Renee J. LeClair
Associate Professor
Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine - Instr Programs
Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine
Total Anticipated:
$2,500
Sponsor:
International Association of Medical Science Educators
Collaborative Research: Investigation of Ionospheric Density Response to American Solar Eclipses Using Coordinated Radio Observations with Modeling Support
Principal Investigator:
Shibaji Chakraborty
Postdoctoral Associate
Department of Electrical and ComputerEngineering
College of Engineering
Total Anticipated:
$234,794
Sponsor:
National Science Foundation
Optimizing Horticultural Production: Blue Shade Materials to Improve Nursery Crop Management
Principal Investigator:
Eric J. Stallknecht
Assistant Professor
Hampton Roads Agriculture Research and Extension Center
Agriculture Experiment Station
Total Anticipated:
$3,100
Sponsor:
Virginia Nursery and Landscape Association
Allocation of Surveillance and Tactical Search Assets in Undersea Warfare
Principal Investigator:
Esra Buyuktahtakin Toy
Associate Professor
Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
College of Engineering
Total Anticipated:
$341,278
Sponsor:
Office of Naval Research
Does Lead (Pb) Poisoning Impair Brain Development by Affecting How Thyroid Hormone Gets Into the Brain?
Principal Investigator:
Christopher Thompson
Assistant Professor
School of Neuroscience
College of Science
Total Anticipated:
$1,600,000
Sponsor:
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
Mathematical and Algorithmic Foundations of Multi-Task Learning
Principal Investigator:
Thinh T. Doan
Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical and ComputerEngineering
College of Engineering
Total Anticipated:
$300,000
Sponsor:
National Science Foundation
Collaborative and Proactive Solutions: Capacity Building Project in Ireland's Health Service Executive
Principal Investigator:
Rosanna Breaux
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology
College of Science
Total Anticipated:
$15,514
Sponsor:
Health Service Executive Mid West Community Healthcare
Functions for CA1 Axo-Axonic and Basket Interneurons in Sharp-Wave Ripple Replay and Spatial Memory
Principal Investigator:
Daniel F. English
Assistant Professor
School of Neuroscience
College of Science
Total Anticipated:
$1,918,021
Sponsor:
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
Completion of Detailed Geologic Mapping and Review of Existing Data for the East Half of the Bland 7.5-Minute Quadrangle, Bland and Wythe Counties, Virginia Field Review of the Looney and Hallsboro 7.5-Minute Quadrangles
Principal Investigator:
Philip S. Prince
Adjunct / Affiliate Faculty
Department of Geosciences
College of Science
Total Anticipated:
$38,305
Sponsor:
Virginia Department of Energy
Impact of Fescue Toxicosis on Animal Performance and Environmental Quality
Principal Investigator:
Kathryn M. Payne
Applied Forage Systems Specialist
Southern Piedmont Agriculture Research and Extension Center
Agriculture Experiment Station
Total Anticipated:
$9,888
Sponsor:
Virginia Cattle Industry Board
Disease Forecasting for Early Blight and Late Blight of Potato
Principal Investigator:
Douglas S. Higgins
Assistant Professor
Eastern Shore Agriculture Research and Extension Center
Agriculture Experiment Station
Total Anticipated:
$5,000
Sponsor:
Virginia Irish Potato Board
Testing of New Fungicides for Glomerella Leaf Spot and Bitter Rot Control on Apples
Principal Investigator:
Srdan G. Acimovic
Assistant Professor
Alson H. Smith, Jr. Agriculture Research and Extension Center
Agriculture Experiment Station
Total Anticipated:
$12,446
Sponsor:
Virginia Apple Research Program
CAREER: Securing and Evolving Internet Security Protocols for Naming and Routing
Principal Investigator:
Taejoong T. Chung
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
College of Engineering
Total Anticipated:
$691,258
Sponsor:
National Science Foundation
Identifying Corn Xylem Fluid Nutrients Important for Microbial Phytopathogen Growth
Principal Investigator:
Ann M. Stevens
Professor
Department of Biological Sciences
College of Science
Total Anticipated:
$17,240
Sponsor:
Virginia Corn Board
Low-Cost, Eco-friendly Recovery of Rare Earth Elements (REEs) from Coal Mine Wastes through Phytomining
Principal Investigator:
Wencai Zhang
Assistant Professor
Department of Mining and Minerals Engineering
College of Engineering
Total Anticipated:
$200,000
Sponsor:
Office of Surface Mining
Therapeutic Targeting of Voltage Gated Sodium Channel Autoregulation
Principal Investigator:
Steven Poelzing
Professor
Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC
Total Anticipated:
$2,806,926
Sponsor:
National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute
Scientific Assessment of the McMurdo Dry Valleys Ecosystem: Environmental Stewardship in a Time of Dynamic Change
Principal Investigator:
John E. Barrett
Professor
Department of Biological Sciences
College of Science
Total Anticipated:
$141,340
Sponsor:
National Science Foundation
Understanding the Landscape Ecology of the Red-Headed Flea Beetle
Principal Investigator:
Alejandro Del Pozo-Valdivia
Assistant Professor
Hampton Roads Agriculture Research and Extension Center
Agriculture Experiment Station
Total Anticipated:
$15,000
Sponsor:
Virginia Nursery and Landscape Association
Overcoming Therapy Resistance in Melanoma
Principal Investigator:
Zhi Sheng
Assistant Professor
Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC
Total Anticipated:
$391,314
Sponsor:
National Cancer Institute
Optimizing Pre-Harvest Management in Virginia Apples: Balancing Fruit Drop Prevention and Color Enhancement in Gala, Honeycrisp, and Fuji Varieties.
Principal Investigator:
Sherif M. Sherif
Associate Professor
Alson H. Smith, Jr. Agriculture Research and Extension Center
Agriculture Experiment Station
Total Anticipated:
$18,137
Sponsor:
Virginia Apple Research Program
Reducing Dairy Methane Emissions Through Forage Quality
Principal Investigator:
Gonzalo Ferreira
Associate Professor
School of Animal Sciences
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Total Anticipated:
$20,860
Sponsor:
Virginia Agricultural Council
Survey of Freshwater Mussels at the Route 16 Bridge Crossing of the Clinch River, Tazewell County, Virginia
Principal Investigator:
Jess W. Jones
Associate Professor
Department of Fish and Wildlife Conservation
College of Natural Resources and Environment
Total Anticipated:
$8,466
Sponsor:
Virginia Department of Transportation
Developing and Releasing High-Yielding Soybean Varieties/Germplasm with Climate-Resilience and Genetic Diversity Across Maturity Group 00 to VIII
Principal Investigator:
Bo Zhang
Associate Professor
School of Plant and Environmental Sciences
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Total Anticipated:
$334,542
Sponsor:
North Central Soybean Research
Continue Developing Public, XtendFlex Soybean Varieties
Principal Investigator:
Bo Zhang
Associate Professor
School of Plant & Environmental Sci
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Total Anticipated:
$12,000
Sponsor:
Virginia Agricultural Council
Atlantic Ghost Crabs: An Under-Realized Shorebird Predator?
Principal Investigator:
Sarah M. Karpanty
Professor
Fish and Wildlife Conservation
College of Natural Resources and Environment
Total Anticipated:
$2,846
Sponsor:
Waterbird Society
Evaluation of Subsurface Drip Irrigation in Virginia Corn Production
Principal Investigator:
William H. Frame
Associate Professor
Tidewater Agriculture Research and Extension Center
Agriculture Experiment Station
Total Anticipated:
$18,200
Sponsor:
Virginia Corn Board
Enhanced Lighting Treatments for Improving Vulnerable Road User Detection Within Mixed Fleets
Principal Investigator:
Ronald B. Gibbons
Associate Professor
Virginia Tech Transportation Institute
Total Anticipated:
$743,704
Sponsor:
Federal Highway Administration
Vortex Tube Separator Testing: Phase 2
Principal Investigator:
Kevin T. Lowe
Professor
Department of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering
College of Engineering
Total Anticipated:
$174,231
Sponsor:
Pratt and Whitney Corporation
Addressing Yield and Holding Ability of Flue-Cured Tobacco with an Alternative Fertilization Program
Principal Investigator:
Thomas D. Reed
Extension Agronomist
Southern Piedmont Agriculture Research and Extension Center
Agriculture Experiment Station
Total Anticipated:
$10,000
Sponsor:
Virginia Bright Flue-Cured Tobacco Board
Evaluation of Biological Additives to Greenhouse Soilless Medium
Principal Investigator:
Thomas D. Reed
Extension Agronomist
Southern Piedmont Agriculture Research and Extension Center
Agriculture Experiment Station
Total Anticipated:
10000
Sponsor:
Virginia Bright Flue-Cured Tobacco Board