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June 2024 Grants and Awards

Diagnosing the Potassium Nutritional Status of Virginia Soybean

Principal Investigator:
Carrie C. Ortel
Assistant Professor and Extension Soybean Agronomist
Tidewater Agricultural Research and Extension Center
Agriculture Experiment Station

Total Anticipated:
$44,319

Sponsor:
Virginia Soybean Board

Optimizing Early Soybean Management in Virginia

Principal Investigator:
Carrie C. Ortel
Assistant Professor and Extension Soybean Agronomist
Tidewater Agricultural Research and Extension Center
Agriculture Experiment Station

Total Anticipated:
$35,812

Sponsor:
Virginia Soybean Board

Showcasing Virginia Agriculture to an International Audience

Principal Investigator:
Mark S. Reiter
Professor and Director, Eastern Shore Agricultural Research and Extension Center
Eastern Shore Agricultural Research and Extension Center
Agriculture Experiment Station

Total Anticipated:
$13,245

Sponsor:
Virginia Soybean Board

Agricultural Education: An Experiential & Data-driven Approach (ADVANCE)

Principal Investigator:
John A. McGee
Professor
Department of Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation
College of Natural Resources and Environment

Total Anticipated:
$500,000

Sponsor:
United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture

Organizing Decentralized Resilience in Critical Interdependent-Infrastructure Systems and Processes (ORDER-CRISP)

Principal Investigator:
Christopher J. Kuhlman
Computational Scientist
Advanced Research Computing

Total Anticipated:
$450,000

Sponsor:
National Science Foundation

A Non-Equilibrium Computational Approach to Understanding Irradiation of Wide Bandgap Semiconductors

Principal Investigator:
William T. Reynolds
Professor
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
College of Engineering

Total Anticipated:
$5,500

Sponsor:
Virginia Space Grant Consortium

Nonlinear Eigenvalue Problems: A New Paradigm Through the Lens of Systems Theory and Rational Interpolation

Principal Investigator:
Serkan Gugercin
Professor
Department of Mathematics
College of Science

Total Anticipated:
$350,000

Sponsor:
National Science Foundation

Can Insecticide Seed Treatments in Wheat Benefit Virginia Agriculture?

Principal Investigator:
Benjamin L. Aigner
Postdoctoral Researcher
Department of Entomology
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

Total Anticipated:
$15,180

Sponsor:
Virginia Agricultural Council

Maintain Fungicide Resistance Testing Capabilities for Grape Diseases-FY25

Principal Investigator:
Antonius B. Baudoin
Associate Professor
School of Plant and Environmental Sciences
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

Total Anticipated:
$11,200

Sponsor:
Virginia Wine Board

Tannins, Anthocyanins, and other Polyphenols in Virginia Cabernet Franc Wines

Principal Investigator:
Dennis Cladis
Assistant Professor
Department of Food Science and Technology
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

Total Anticipated:
$39,850

Sponsor:
Virginia Wine Board

Virginia High-Resolution Vineyard Nutrient Program

Principal Investigator:
Dana D. Acimovic
Research Associate
Alson H. Smith, Jr. Agricultural Research and Extension Center
Agriculture Experiment Station

Total Anticipated:
$13,776

Sponsor:
Virginia Wine Board

Evaluation of Novel Grapevine Under Local Conditions

Principal Investigator:
Andrew D. Harner
Assistant Professor
Alson H. Smith, Jr. Agricultural Research and Extension Center
Agriculture Experiment Station

Total Anticipated:
$7,112

Sponsor:
Virginia Wine Board

MTC Fort Barfoot Michaux's Sumac Survey and Remote Sensing Mapping

Principal Investigator:
Verl R. Emrick
Research Scientist
Department of Fish and Wildlife Conservation
College of Natural Resources and Environment

Total Anticipated:
$91,598

Sponsor:
Virgtinia Department of Military Affairs

Trials to Evaluate Nematode Management Products in Virginia Soybeans and HG-Typing Soybean Fields for Detecting Race Shifts in Soybean Cyst Nematode.

Principal Investigator:
David B. Langston
Professor
Tidewater Agricultural Research and Extension Center
Agriculture Experiment Station

Total Anticipated:
$21,600

Sponsor:
Virginia Soybean Board

Memory-Aware Accelerated Solvers for Nonlinear Problems in Imaging and High Dimensional Data Representation

Principal Investigator:
Mirjeta Pasha
Assistant Professor
Department of Mathematics
College of Science

Total Anticipated:
$162,490

Sponsor:
National Science Foundation

Long-Tailed Learning in the Open and Dynamic World: Theories, Algorithms, and Applications

Principal Investigator:
Dawei Zhou
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
College of Engineering

Total Anticipated:
$600,000

Sponsor:
National Science Foundation

Determinants of Acute and Persistent Zika Virus Shedding in Semen

Principal Investigator:
Nisha Duggal
Associate Professor
Veterinary Medical Research and Graduate Studies
College of Veterinary Medicine

Total Anticipated:
$402,020

Sponsor:
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Experimental Models to Accelerate Innovation in Preventing/Correcting Off-Flavors in Farmed Trout and Salmon

Principal Investigator:
Michael H. Schwarz
Director, Virginia Seafood Agricultural Research and Extension Center
Virginia Seafood Agricultural Research and Extension Center
Agriculture Experiment Station

Total Anticipated:
$650,000

Sponsor:
United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture

Comparison of Vertical Land Motion Solutions in the Chesapeake Bay

Principal Investigator:
D S. Stamps
Associate Professor
Department of Geosciences
College of Science

Total Anticipated:
$7,000

Sponsor:
Virginia Space Grant Consortium

High Modulus, Recyclable, Fully Thermoplastic Composites for Aeronautical Applications

Principal Investigator:
Michael J. Bortner
Associate Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering
College of Engineering

Total Anticipated:
$5,500

Sponsor:
Virginia Space Grant Consortium

Hybrid Time Integration Algorithms for Co-Simulation of Multiscale Multiphysics Systems

Principal Investigator:
Adrian Sandu
Professor
Department of Computer Science
College of Engineering

Total Anticipated:
$420,000

Sponsor:
National Science Foundation

A Machine-Learning-Based Tool for Rapid Surveillance of Pathogenic Escherichia Coli in the Soil

Principal Investigator:
Jingqiu Liao
Assistant Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
College of Engineering

Total Anticipated:
$5,000

Sponsor:
Oak Ridge Associated Universities Inc

Occoquan Watershed Monitoring Program FY2025

Principal Investigator:
Stanley Grant
Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
College of Engineering

Total Anticipated:
$1,564,761

Sponsor:
Virginia Department of Environmental Quality

National Advanced Silviculture Program Module 4 2025

Principal Investigator:
John F. Munsell
Professor
Department of Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation
College of Natural Resources and Environment

Total Anticipated:
$159,244

Sponsor:
United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service

Support for the Commonwealth of Virginia Through the Virginia Department of Health's (VDH) Office of Environmental Health Services to Develop Selected Tasks Associated with VDH's 2022 grant from the Centers for Disease Control

Principal Investigator:
Erin J. Ling
Senior Extension Specialist
Department of Biological Systems Engineering
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

Total Anticipated:
$30,000

Sponsor:
Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Health

Characterization of Southern Apples for Cider Production

Principal Investigator:
Amanda C. Stewart
Associate Professor
Department of Food Science and Technology
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

Total Anticipated:
$48,035

Sponsor:
Virginia Wine Board

Community Reassembly in Restored Tropical Forests

Principal Investigator:
John L. Reid
Assistant Professor
School of Plant and Environmental Sciences
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

Total Anticipated:
$606,021

Sponsor:
National Science Foundation

Evaluation of Growth Responses to Amino Acids in Broiler Chicks

Principal Investigator:
Mark D. Hanigan
Professor
School of Animal Sciences
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

Total Anticipated:
$9,715

Sponsor:
Virginia Agricultural Council

Conference: Increasing Student Participation in the American Ecological Engineering Society 2024 Conference

Principal Investigator:
Jonathan A. Czuba
Associate Professor
Biological Systems Engineering
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

Total Anticipated:
$25,000

Sponsor:
National Science Foundation

Improving the Health of Bovine Embryos used for Embryo Transfer

Principal Investigator:
Alan D. Ealy
Associate Professor
School of Animal Sciences
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

Total Anticipated:
$16,000

Sponsor:
Virginia Agricultural Council

Improve the Efficacy of Grape Downy Mildew Management in Virginia

Principal Investigator:
Mizuho Nita
Associate Professor
Alson H. Smith, Jr. Agricultural Research and Extension Center
Agriculture Experiment Station

Total Anticipated:
$54,946

Sponsor:
Virginia Wine Board

NRCS Integrated Agroecosystem-Atmosphere Modeling Improvement for Climate and Conservation Assessment

Principal Investigator:
Hosein Foroutan
Associate Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
College of Engineering

Total Anticipated:
$715,050

Sponsor:
United States Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service

Energy Masters 2024

Principal Investigator:
Aisha P. Salazar
Associate Extension Agent
Northeast District Cooperative Extension
Director of Cooperative Extension

Total Anticipated:
$5,000

Sponsor:
Alexandria City

Advances in Unconventional Marine Vehicle Systems

Principal Investigator:
Daniel J. Stilwell
Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
College of Engineering

Total Anticipated:
$2,339,119

Sponsor:
Office of Naval Research

TMR Intake, Digestibility, and Ruminal Fermentation Characteristics of Beef Cows Supplemented with a Bacillus+Lactobaccilus-Based Probiotic.

Principal Investigator:
Rodrigo da Silva Marques
Assistant Professor
School of Animal Sciences
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

Total Anticipated:
$59,903.73

Sponsor:
Novonesis

Virginia Horse Industry Board Donation to the VA 4-H Horse Program

Principal Investigator:
Hunter L. Liles
Extension Programming Associate
School of Animal Sciences
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

Total Anticipated:
$25,000

Sponsor:
Virginia Horse Industry Board

Developing Soybean Genotypes with Reduced/removed Trypsin Inhibitor and Lectin in Seeds

Principal Investigator:
Bo Zhang
Associate Professor
School of Plant and Environmental Sciences
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

Total Anticipated:
$585,289

Sponsor:
United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture

Identification of Perfect DNA Markers to Develop High Protein Soybean Cultivars

Principal Investigator:
Mohammad A. Saghai-Maroof
Professor
School of Plant and Environmental Sciences
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

Total Anticipated:
$28,600

Sponsor:
Virginia Soybean Board

Jumping-Bubble-Enhanced Pool Boiling on Rationally Microstructured Surfaces

Principal Investigator:
Jonathan B. Boreyko
Associate Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
College of Engineering

Total Anticipated:
$506,419

Sponsor:
National Science Foundation

Mapping the Human Metabolome Using Synthesis and Mass Spectrometry

Principal Investigator:
Emily C. Gentry
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemistry
College of Science

Total Anticipated:
$1,946,463

Sponsor:
National Institutes of Health, National Institute of General Medical Sciences

Design and Analysis of Experiments Conference 2024

Principal Investigator:
John P. Morgan
Professor
Department of Statistics
College of Science

Total Anticipated:
$18,800

Sponsor:
National Security Agency

2024 Virginia Beef Cattle University

Principal Investigator:
Scott P. Greiner
Professor
School of Animal Sciences
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

Total Anticipated:
$50,000

Sponsor:
Virginia Cattle Industry Board

Filter-Assisted Screening Technology (FAST): Detection of Low Levels of Pathogens Without the Need for an Enrichment Step

Principal Investigator:
Rachel A. Cheng
Assistant Professor
Department of Food Science and Technology
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

Total Anticipated:
$2,999,999

Sponsor:
United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture

Monitoring of Synthetic Organic Chemicals in the Occoquan Watershed

Principal Investigator:
Stanley Grant
Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
College of Engineering

Total Anticipated:
$74,950

Sponsor:
Fairfax County Department of Health

Accelerating Algorithms for Computing Isogenies and Endomorphisms of Supersingular Elliptic Curves

Principal Investigator:
Travis W. Morrison
Assistant Professor
Department of Mathematics
College of Science

Total Anticipated:
$458,572

Sponsor:
National Science Foundation

Fabrication of Fully Recyclable Wind Turbine Blades via Multi-Axis Additive Manufacturing

Principal Investigator:
Christopher B. Williams
Professor
Mechanical Engineering
College of Engineering

Total Anticipated:
$1,546,750

Sponsor:
United States Department of Energy

O-Milli-RAN - An O-RAN-Compliant, Softwarized mmWave Radio Stack with Flexible PHY and MAC

Principal Investigator:
Joao Santos
Research Assistant Professor
Commonwealth Cyber Initiative
Office of Research and Innovation

Total Anticipated:
$60,000

Sponsor:
National Science Foundation

PlantTransform: Novel Methods of Plant Genome Editing Enabled by the Parasitic Plant Cuscuta Campestris

Principal Investigator:
James H. Westwood
Professor
School of Plant and Environmental Sciences
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

Total Anticipated:
$250,000

Sponsor:
National Science Foundation

Creating System Level Intelligence by Harvesting the Physical Reservoir Computing Power in Origami

Principal Investigator:
Suyi Li
Associate Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
College of Engineering

Total Anticipated:
$337,865

Sponsor:
National Science Foundation

TSA/AEOP UNITE Summer 2024

Principal Investigator:
Frances B. Clark
Director, TRIO Programs
TRIO Programs
Engagement Initiatives

Total Anticipated:
$29,381

Sponsor:
Technology Student Association

Enhancing Parkinson's Disease Rehabilitation Through Remote Haptic Guidance

Principal Investigator:
Sol I. Lim
Assistant Professor
Industrial and Systems Engineering
College of Engineering

Total Anticipated:
$200,000

Sponsor:
Commonwealth Health Research Board