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December 2024 Grants and Awards

Collaborative Research: Analyzing Deployable Torque-Activated Structural Mechanisms for Enhanced Tension Capacity of Geosystems

Principal Investigator:
Ryan D. Beemer
Assistant Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
College of Engineering

Total Anticipated:
$282,835

Sponsor:
National Science Foundation

Identifying Discrete Sulfonate Interactions Within Acrylic Polymers

Principal Investigator:
Charles A. Figg
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemistry
College of Science

Total Anticipated:
$110,000

Sponsor:
Petroleum Research Fund

Cybersecurity Innovation for Cyberinfrastructure: Usable and Collaborative Security for Science: Blockchain Based Assured Open Scientific Data Sharing and Governance

Principal Investigator:
Murat Kantarcioglu
Professor
Department of Computer Science
College of Engineering

Total Anticipated:
$499,692

Sponsor:
National Science Foundation

Achromatic Wide-FoV Compound Metalens Enabled by End-To-End Large-Diameter Inverse Design

Principal Investigator:
Zin Lin
Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical and ComputerEngineering
College of Engineering

Total Anticipated:
$63,498

Sponsor:
SNOChip Inc

10/1/24-9/30/26 Continuation For TTAC (619 Fund)

Principal Investigator:
Lora L. Beeken
Co-Director, Training and Technical Assistance Center
Office of Educational Research and Outreach
College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences

Total Anticipated:
$392,116

Sponsor:
Virginia Department of Education

Breaking Down Commercial Motor Vehicle Crashes: What are the Main Causes?

Principal Investigator:
Matthew C. Camden
Senior Research Associate
Virginia Tech Transportation Institute

Total Anticipated:
$99,998

Sponsor:
Idaho Transportation Department

Roosting and Foraging Ecology of Tricolored Bats and WNS Impacted Myotis Near Asheville, North Carolina

Principal Investigator:
William M. Ford
Associate Professor
Department of Fish and Wildlife Conservation
College of Natural Resources and Environment

Total Anticipated:
$1,061,753

Sponsor:
North Carolina Department of Transportation

Inclusion of Disabled Wildlife Viewers in State Agency Programs Through Staff Training, Resources, and Case Studies

Principal Investigator:
Ashley A. Dayer
Associate Professor
Department of Fish and Wildlife Conservation
College of Natural Resources and Environment

Total Anticipated:
$166,258

Sponsor:
United States Fish and Wildlife Service

Collaborative Research: ENG-SEMICON: Acoustophoretic Condensation And Boiling For Thermal Management Of Microelectronics Devices

Principal Investigator:
Zhenhua Tian
Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
College of Engineering

Total Anticipated:
$238,000

Sponsor:
National Science Foundation

ARTS: Systematics Of Cyanogenic Millipedes In The Order Polydesmida

Principal Investigator:
Paul Marek
Associate Professor
Department of Entomology
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

Total Anticipated:
$658,169

Sponsor:
National Science Foundation

Low-Carbon Footprint, Chemistry-Agnostic Cathode Materials Manufacturing Driven By Chemical Process Innovations And Machine Learning

Principal Investigator:
Feng Lin
Professor
Department of Chemistry
College of Science

Total Anticipated:
$4,279,883

Sponsor:
United States Department of Energy

Helene Damage Assessment

Principal Investigator:
Kevin B. Kochersberger
Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
College of Engineering

Total Anticipated:
$18,063

Sponsor:
Virginia Department of Environmental Quality

Flood Impacts to Rural Coastal Communities in Virginia

Principal Investigator:
David F. Munoz Pauta
Assistant Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
College of Engineering

Total Anticipated:
$5,000

Sponsor:
Virginia Institute of Marine Science

United States Wireless Public Safety Innovation Through 5G Application Support

Principal Investigator:
David G. Simpson
Professor of Practice
Department of Business Information Technology
College of Business

Total Anticipated:
$75,000

Sponsor:
Global System for Mobile Communications Association Limited

The Cancer Stem Cell Glycocalyx And Interstitial Fluid Flow Interactions In Glioblastoma

Principal Investigator:
LaDeidra M. Roberts
Assistant Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics
College of Engineering

Total Anticipated:
$100,000

Sponsor:
Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center

Conference Proposal: Support For The SuperDARN 2025 Workshop

Principal Investigator:
Bharat Simha Reddy Kunduri
Research Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical and ComputerEngineering
College of Engineering

Total Anticipated:
$39,750

Sponsor:
National Science Foundation