May 2024 Grants and Awards
Enhancing Grapevine Nutrient Management for Sustainable Growth in the Mid-Atlantic Region
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 Agricultural Council
2024 Boehringer Ingelheim Veterinary Scholars
Principal Investigator:
S A. Ahmed
Professor
College of Veterinary Medicine
Total Anticipated:
$23,100
Sponsor:
Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica, Inc.
Implantable 3D-Printed Plant Sensors: Continuous Assessment of Nutrient Measurements in Corn Fields
Principal Investigator:
Azahar Ali
Assistant Professor
School of Animal Sciences
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Total Anticipated:
$20,500
Sponsor:
Virginia Corn Board
Probing Early Dust Formation in the Universe via Stripped-En
Principal Investigator:
Christopher J. Ashall
Assistant Professor
Department of Physics
College of Science
Total Anticipated:
$14,969
Sponsor:
Space Telescope Science Institute
Women's Health in Ultramarathon Runners: A Cross-Sectional Survey Study
Principal Investigator:
James N. Casey
Assistant Professor
OB GYN
Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine Departments
Total Anticipated:
$3,814.24
Sponsor:
Wilderness Medical Society
Enantioselective Syntheses of Organoboron Compounds VIA Transition-Metal Catalysis
Principal Investigator:
Ming Chen
Associate Professor
Department of Chemistry
College of Science
Total Anticipated:
$685,000
Sponsor:
National Science Foundation
Exotic Woodboring Beetle Survey 2024
Principal Investigator:
Eric R. Day
Manager, Insect ID Lab
Department of Entomology
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Total Anticipated:
$2,000
Sponsor:
Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services
2024 Investigation into the Control of Wireworms in Potatoes
Principal Investigator:
Helene B. Doughty
Extension Agent
Southeast District Cooperative Extension
Director of Cooperative Extension
Total Anticipated:
$3,000
Sponsor:
Virginia Irish Potato Board
Exploring How Artificial Intelligence Engineers Perceive and Develop Translational Ethical Competency
Principal Investigator:
Hoda M. Eldardiry
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science
College of Engineering
Total Anticipated:
$349,360
Sponsor:
National Science Foundation
2024-2025 Fellowship - M. Ray
Principal Investigator:
Scott L. England
Associate Professor
Department of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering
College of Engineering
Total Anticipated:
$5,500
Sponsor:
Virginia Space Grant Consortium
Weed Management in Corn 2024
Principal Investigator:
Michael L. Flessner
Associate Professor
School of Plant and Environmental Sciences
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Total Anticipated:
$21,738
Sponsor:
Virginia Corn Board
Weed Management in Soybean 2024
Principal Investigator:
Michael L. Flessner
Associate Professor
School of Plant and Environmental Sciences
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Total Anticipated:
$27,500
Sponsor:
Virginia Soybean Board
Assessing Bat Acoustic Sampling for Maine 2024
Principal Investigator:
William M. Ford
Associate Professor
Department of Fish and Wildlife Conservation
College of Natural Resources and Environment
Total Anticipated:
$13,062
Sponsor:
Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife
Renewable Energy Integration: Building Resiliency and Robustness through Data-Driven Modeling
Principal Investigator:
Serkan Gugercin
Professor
Department of Mathematics
College of Science
Total Anticipated:
$299,900
Sponsor:
National Science Foundation
Sit-and-Wait Pathogens: Consequences of Heterogeneity in Pathogen Exposure Dynamics for Environmentally Persistent Pathogens
Principal Investigator:
Joseph R. Hoyt
Assistant Professor
Department of Biological Sciences
College of Science
Total Anticipated:
$2,838,849
Sponsor:
National Institutes of Health, National Institute of General Medical Sciences
Long Range Interactions with Cosmic Neutrino Background : Implications for Long-Baseline Neutrino Oscillation Program at DUNE
Principal Investigator:
Patrick Huber
Professor
Department of Physics
College of Science
Total Anticipated:
$4,400
Sponsor:
Universities Research Association Inc.
Use of Hybrid Tools to Model Risks of Advanced Nuclear Power Reactor Technologies Under a Changing Climate
Principal Investigator:
Jennifer L. Irish
Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
College of Engineering
Total Anticipated:
$74,781
Sponsor:
United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission, with University of Maryland
Dietary Manipulation of Satellite Cell Bioactivities to Promote Repair and Hypertrophy
Principal Investigator:
Sally E. Johnson
Professor
School of Animal Sciences
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Total Anticipated:
$650,000
Sponsor:
United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture
Survey of Freshwater Mussels at the 613 Bridge Crossing of Beaverdam Creek, Wise 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
Ecological Impact Assessment and Mitigation Plan for Shoreline Stabilization at National Aeronautics and Space Administration'S Wallops Island Flight Facility
Principal Investigator:
Sarah M. Karpanty
Professor
Department of Fish and Wildlife Conservation
College of Natural Resources and Environment
Total Anticipated:
$1,741,937
Sponsor:
Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources
Fostering Collaborative Partnerships with the Eastern Shore Community College to Enhance Migratory Shorebird Conservation in the Virginia Barrier Island System
Principal Investigator:
Sarah M. Karpanty
Professor
Department of Fish and Wildlife Conservation
College of Natural Resources and Environment
Total Anticipated:
$500
Sponsor:
Virginia Society of Ornithology
Development and Expansion of Disease Management Decision-Making Tools Across Multiple Soybean Regions
Principal Investigator:
David B. Langston
Professor
Tidewater Agricultural Research and Extension Center
Agriculture Experiment Station
Total Anticipated:
$14,816
Sponsor:
University of Kentucky Research Foundation
Investigating a New Corn Disease in Virginia
Principal Investigator:
David B. Langston
Professor
Tidewater Agricultural Research and Extension Center
Agriculture Experiment Station
Total Anticipated:
$19,155
Sponsor:
Virginia Corn Board
New Routes to Cloud Patterns Formation: Pseudoparabolic Ginzburg-Landau Oscillators and Data-driven Equation Discovery
Principal Investigator:
Honghu Liu
Associate Professor
Department of Mathematics
College of Science
Total Anticipated:
$198,875
Sponsor:
National Science Foundation
Interstitial Fluid Flow in Alzheimer's Disease Progression
Principal Investigator:
Jennifer M. Munson
Professor
Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC
Total Anticipated:
$1,354,657
Sponsor:
National Institue on Aging
Eastern Virginia Agricultural Research and Extension Center Soybean Research Support
Principal Investigator:
Joseph C. Oakes
Superintendent
Eastern Virginia Agricultural Research and Extension Center
Agriculture Experiment Station
Total Anticipated:
$12,000
Sponsor:
Virginia Soybean Board
Evaluation of the Effect of Protein Hydrolysate Biostimulants on the Growth, Nitrogen Content and Yield of Corn
Principal Investigator:
Guillaume Pilot
Associate Professor
School of Plant and Environmental Sciences
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Total Anticipated:
$10,829
Sponsor:
Virginia Corn Board
Testing the Effect of Protein Hydrolysate Biostimulants on the Yield of Soybeans
Principal Investigator:
Guillaume Pilot
Associate Professor
School of Plant and Environmental Sciences
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Total Anticipated:
$10,000
Sponsor:
Virginia Soybean Board
Utilizing Cover Crops to Offset Fertilizer Inputs for Corn in Virginia
Principal Investigator:
Mark S. Reiter
Professor and Director
Eastern Shore Agricultural Research and Extension Center
Agriculture Experiment Station
Total Anticipated:
$26,504
Sponsor:
Virginia Corn Board
Use of Natural Language Processing to Extract Risk Indicators for Immunologic Disease from the Text of Electronic Health Records (UNIITE)
Principal Investigator:
Nicholas L. Rider
Professor
Virginia Tech Carilion Healthcare Science
Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine
Total Anticipated:
$152,763
Sponsor:
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Virginia Behavioral Health Language Needs Assessment
Principal Investigator:
Cecily J. Rodriguez
Adjunct Professor
School of Public and International Affairs
College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences
Total Anticipated:
$70,000
Sponsor:
Virginia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services
Development of Disease Resistant Soybean Germplasm
Principal Investigator:
Mohammad A. Saghai-Maroof
Professor
School of Plant and Environmental Sciences
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Total Anticipated:
$32,500
Sponsor:
Virginia Soybean Board
Enhance Cybersecurity Through Remote Plethysmography Targeting Diverse Population
Principal Investigator:
Abhijit Sarkar
Senior Research Associate
Virginia Tech Transportation Institute
Total Anticipated:
$50,000
Sponsor:
Commonwealth Cyber Initiative
Virginia Space Grant Consortium Graduate Research Fellowship - B. Barbour
Principal Investigator:
Kevin K. Schroeder
Research Assistant Professor
Virginia Tech National Security Institute
Total Anticipated:
$5,500
Sponsor:
Virginia Space Grant Consortium
2024 Revolutionary Aerospace Systems Concepts - Academic Linkage
Principal Investigator:
Kevin A. Shinpaugh
Collegiate Professor
Department of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering
College of Engineering
Total Anticipated:
$6,500
Sponsor:
National Institute of Aerospace
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
Understanding the Role of Multi-walled Carbon Nanotubes in Multi-scale Porous Ultra-High Temperature Ceramics
Principal Investigator:
Carolina Tallon Galdeano
Assistant Professor
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
College of Engineering
Total Anticipated:
$3,500
Sponsor:
Virginia Space Grant Consortium
Understanding the Biosynthesis of Volatile Phenylpropenes with Multifaceted Values
Principal Investigator:
Dorothea B. Tholl
Professor
Department of Biological Sciences
College of Science
Total Anticipated:
$650,000
Sponsor:
United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture
International Conference of Plant Pathogenic Bacteria and Biocontrol 2024
Principal Investigator:
Boris A. Vinatzer
Professor
School of Plant and Environmental Sciences
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Total Anticipated:
$25,820
Sponsor:
National Science Foundation
Image-Guided Histotripsy System for Complete, Uniform, and Non-Invasive Ablation of Heterogeneous Osteosarcoma Tumors
Principal Investigator:
Eli Vlaisavljevich
Associate Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics
College of Engineering
Total Anticipated:
$2,515,292
Sponsor:
National Cancer Institute
Stormwater Handbook Construction Best Management Practice Standard Detail Update
Principal Investigator:
Mark A. Widdowson
Professor and Department Head
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
College of Engineering
Total Anticipated:
$25,200
Sponsor:
Virginia Department of Environmental Quality
The Magic School Bus and the Reanimation of American Science
Principal Investigator:
Matthew Wisnioski
Associate Professor
Department of Science, Technology, and Society
College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences
Total Anticipated:
$147,638
Sponsor:
National Science Foundation
Willebeek-LeMair Fellowship 2024
Principal Investigator:
Craig A. Woolsey
Professor
Department of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering
College of Engineering
Total Anticipated:
$5,500
Sponsor:
Virginia Space Grant Consortium
2024 Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace Principal Investigators' Meeting
Principal Investigator:
Danfeng Yao
Professor
Department of Computer Science
College of Engineering
Total Anticipated:
$50,000
Sponsor:
National Science Foundation
Underwater Repair of Infrastructure Steels Using Additive Friction Stir Deposition
Principal Investigator:
Hang Yu
Associate Professor
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
College of Engineering
Total Anticipated:
$250,000
Sponsor:
United States Army Corps of Engineers
Building Airborne Inoculum Surveillance Networks for Improved
Principal Investigator:
Yuan Zeng
Assistant Professor
Southern Piedmont Agricultural Research and Extension Center
Agriculture Experiment Station
Total Anticipated:
$21,115
Sponsor:
Virginia Soybean Board
Development of Improved Soybean Varieties and Germplasm Adapted to Virginia
Principal Investigator:
Bo Zhang
Associate Professor
School of Plant and Environmental Sciences
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Total Anticipated:
$75,421
Sponsor:
Virginia Soybean Board
Advance the Soybean Breeding Scheme by Integrating Traditional Selection and Modern Prediction Methods
Principal Investigator:
Bo Zhang
Associate Professor
School of Plant and Environmental Sciences
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Total Anticipated:
$63,818
Sponsor:
Virginia Soybean Board
Wrap up: Development of Soybean Varieties and Germplasm with High Protein Digestibility Using both Genome Editing and Traditional Breeding Methodologies
Principal Investigator:
Bo Zhang
Associate Professor
School of Plant and Environmental Sciences
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Total Anticipated:
$18,792
Sponsor:
Virginia Soybean Board