January 2024 Grants and Awards
American Mathematical Society - Simons Travel Grant
Principal Investigator:
Jorge E. Reyes
Postdoctorial Associate
Department of Mathematics
College of Science
Total Anticipated:
$3,600
Sponsor:
The Simons Foundation
Achieving Speed and Scale: Self-Amplifying Adsorbents for Negative Carbon Emissions
Principal Investigator:
Caroline T. Saouma
Associate Professor
Department of Chemistry
College of Science
Total Anticipated:
$55,000
Sponsor:
Research Corporation for Science Advancement
Perilipin 5: Linking Lipid Droplets to Nutrient Sensing and Healthy Aging
Principal Investigator:
Charles P. Najt
Assistant Professor
Department of Human Nutrition, Foods and Exercise
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Total Anticipated:
$715,957
Sponsor:
National Institue on Aging
Development of Adaptive Sparse Grid Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for Multiscale Kinetic Simulations in Plasmas
Principal Investigator:
Yingda Cheng
Professor
Department of Mathematics
College of Science
Total Anticipated:
$55,191
Sponsor:
National Science Foundation
Evaluation of Pb-Induced Perturbations in the Central and Enteric Nervous System
Principal Investigator:
Paul D. Morton
Assistant Professor
Veterinary Medical Research and Graduate Studies
College of Veterinary Medicine
Total Anticipated:
$1,975,594
Sponsor:
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
Effect of the Use of Xanthan Gum on the Fully Softened Shear Strength of Fine- Grained Soils
Principal Investigator:
Bernardo A. Castellanos
Research Scientist
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
College of Engineering
Total Anticipated:
$337,166
Sponsor:
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Advancing Wastewater Surveillance and Epidemiology in Rural Virginia
Principal Investigator:
Alasdair G. Cohen
Assistant Professor
Veterinary Medical Research and Graduate Studies
College of Veterinary Medicine
Total Anticipated:
$50,000
Sponsor:
Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Health
Advancing Wastewater Surveillance for Public Health and Utility Operations in Rural Appalachia
Principal Investigator:
Alasdair G. Cohen
Assistant Professor
Veterinary Medical Research and Graduate Studies
College of Veterinary Medicine
Total Anticipated:
$400,000
Sponsor:
Appalachian Regional Commission
Acoustic Vortex Robots for Contactless 6-DOF Object Manipulation
Principal Investigator:
Zhenhua Tian
Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
College of Engineering
Total Anticipated:
$649,888
Sponsor:
National Science Foundation
Southern Rivers Updates for Delivery Ratios and Nutrient Targets
Principal Investigator:
Siddharth Saksena
Assistant Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
College of Engineering
Total Anticipated:
$79,999
Sponsor:
Virginia Department of Environmental Quality
Leadership for Poverty Reduction
Principal Investigator:
Eric K. Kaufman
Professor
Department of Agriculture, Leadership and Community Education
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Total Anticipated:
$45,00
Sponsor:
Christopher Newport University
Defining the Atypical Quorum Sensing System of Brucella SPP
Principal Investigator:
Clayton C. Caswell
Associate Professor
Veterinary Medical Research and Graduate Studies
College of Veterinary Medicine
Total Anticipated:
$401,223
Sponsor:
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Elucidating the Regulatory Mechanism of a Brucella-Specific Small RNA Required for Virulence
Principal Investigator:
Clayton C. Caswell
Associate Professor
Veterinary Medical Research and Graduate Studies
College of Veterinary Medicine
Total Anticipated:
$411,010
Sponsor:
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Testing the Role of Bedrock Erodibility in the Topography and Landscape Evolution of the Appalachian Mountains
Principal Investigator:
James A. Spotila
Professor
Department of Geosciences
College of Science
Total Anticipated:
$342,162
Sponsor:
National Science Foundation
Cell Types, Circuitry, and Development of the Visual Ventral Thalamus
Principal Investigator:
Michael A. Fox
Professor
Vice President of Health Sciences and Technology
Faculty of Health Sciences
Total Anticipated:
$190,259
Sponsor:
National Eye Institute
Monitoring of Synthetic Organic Chemicals in the Occoquan WA
Principal Investigator:
Michael A. Fox
Professor
Vice President of Health Sciences and Technology
Faculty of Health Sciences
Total Anticipated:
$190,259
Sponsor:
National Eye Institute
Monitoring of Synthetic Organic Chemicals in the Occoquan WA
Principal Investigator:
Stanley Grant
Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
College of Engineering
Total Anticipated:
$74,950
Sponsor:
Fairfax County Department of Health
Revealing the Regulatory Mechanisms of Endosomal Cargo Transporters
Principal Investigator:
Daniel G. Capelluto
Associate Professor
Department of Biological Sciences
College of Science
Total Anticipated:
$841,009
Sponsor:
National Science Foundation
Mechanistic Understanding of Chemomechanics in Phase-Changing Electroceramics for Sodium-Ion Batteries
Principal Investigator:
Feng Lin
Associate Professor and Leo and Melva Harris Faculty Fellow
Department of Chemistry
College of Science
Total Anticipated:
$351,750
Sponsor:
National Science Foundation
Next Generation Emergency Networks
Principal Investigator:
Jeffrey H. Reed
Willis G. Worcester Professor
Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
College of Engineering
Total Anticipated:
166500
Sponsor:
National Institute of Justice