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March 2024 Grants and Awards

A Community-Based Approach to Catalyze the Place-Based Health Innovation Ecosystem in Rural Appalachia

Principal Investigator:
Ashley R. Taylor
Assistant Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics
College of Engineering

Total Anticipated:
$30,000

Sponsor:
National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance Inc

Open Access Edition of Place, Memory, Poetry, and the James A. Emanuel's Papers at the Library of Congress by Tyechia Thompson

Principal Investigator:
Corinne Guimont
Associate Director Publishing and Digital Scholarship
Library
Dean of Libraries

Total Anticipated:
$5,500

Sponsor:
National Endowment for the Humanities

Data to Models (D2M) - A Domain-Guided Translation of Sensor Data to Analytical Structural Models

Principal Investigator:
Rodrigo Sarlo
Assistant Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
College of Engineering

Total Anticipated:
$674,582

Sponsor:
National Science Foundation

Integrated Management of Corn Foliar Fungal Diseases

Principal Investigator:
Yuan Zeng
Assistant Professor
Southern Piedmont Agriculture Research Extension Center
Agriculture Experiment Station

Total Anticipated:
$35,426

Sponsor:
Virginia Corn Board

Transformative Understanding of Rainfall-Triggered Landslides from a Climate Change Perspective: Initiation and Consequences

Principal Investigator:
Alba Yerro Colom
Assistant Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
College of Engineering

Total Anticipated:
$570,960

Sponsor:
National Science Foundation

Landuse Impact Modeling and Assessment for the Occoquan Watershed

Principal Investigator:
Siddharth Saksena
Assistant Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
College of Engineering

Total Anticipated:
$176,000

Sponsor:
Northern Virginia Regional Commission

Joint Research Conference 2024 - Data Science and Statistics for Industrial Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Yili Hong
Professor
Department of Statistics
College of Science

Total Anticipated:
$12,000

Sponsor:
National Science Foundation

Tuning Hydrocarbon Products from Temperature-Gradient Thermolysis of Polyolefins and the Subsequent Upcycling to Functional Chemicals

Principal Investigator:
Guoliang Liu
Associate Professor
Department of Chemistry
College of Science

Total Anticipated:
$600,000

Sponsor:
National Science Foundation

The Operation of MS-4 Stations for Prince William County, Virginia A Proposal Submitted to the Prince William County Department of Public Works

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

Total Anticipated:
$64,316.50

Sponsor:
Prince William County Public Works

Computationally Efficient Modeling Framework for Predicting Infrastructure Ignition due to Firebrand Showers

Principal Investigator:
Brian Y. Lattimer
Interim Department Head and Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
College of Engineering

Total Anticipated:
$388,419

Sponsor:
National Institute of Standards and Technology

Impact of Prenatal and Postnatal Factors on Mother and Child Health

Principal Investigator:
Tanya LeRoith
Associate Professor
Veterinary Medical Research and Graduate Studies
College of Veterinary Medicine

Total Anticipated:
$30,056

Sponsor:
United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service

Is the High Oleic Content Causing High Chemical Retention in the Seed, Germination Loss and Poor Crop Stand?

Principal Investigator:
Maria Balota
Professor
Tidewater Agriculture Research Extension Center
Agriculture Experiment Station

Total Anticipated:
$14,562

Sponsor:
Virginia Peanut Board

Oil Debris Monitoring Sensor Testing

Principal Investigator:
Kevin T. Lowe
Professor
Department of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering
College of Engineering

Total Anticipated:
$78,910

Sponsor:
Pratt and Whitney Corporation