September 2024 Grants and Awards
Clinical Adaptive Performance Enhancement Through Human-AI Teaming (CAPE-HAT)
Principal Investigator:
Toy Serkan
Virginia Tech Carilion Basic Sciences Education
Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine
Total Anticipated:
$659,809
Sponsor:
National Science Foundation
Continuum of Immune Responses to Cryptococcus Neoformans
Principal Investigator:
Kirsten Nielsen
Veterinary Medical Research and Graduate Studies
College of Veterinary Medicine
Total Anticipated:
$479,426
Sponsor:
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Spectral Sensing for Ergovaline and Mineral Content Monitoring
Principal Investigator:
Robin White
School of Animal Sciences
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Total Anticipated:
$24,080
Sponsor:
Virginia Cattle Industry Board
Modernizing Phosphorus Fertilizer Recommendation to Support Profitable Winter Wheat Production in Virginia
Principal Investigator:
Huijie Gan
School of Plant and Environmental Sciences
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Total Anticipated:
$15,000
Sponsor:
Virginia Small Grains Board
Breeding, Mapping, and Genome-Enabled Selection for Scab Resistance in Barley and Wheat
Principal Investigator:
Nicholas Santantonio
School of Plant and Environmental Sciences
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Total Anticipated:
$30,000
Sponsor:
Virginia Small Grains Board
Development of a Basic FAQ Prototype for the Conversational AI in the Railroad Area
Principal Investigator:
Myounghoon Jeon
Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
College of Engineering
Total Anticipated:
$15,364
Sponsor:
Korea Railroad Research Institute
GCR Mineral Detection of Dark Matter
Principal Investigator:
Patrick Huber
Department of Physics
College of Science
Total Anticipated:
$2,277,791
Sponsor:
National Science Foundation
Understanding the Molecular Mechanisms of Thermoreceptors
Principal Investigator:
Lina Ni
School of Neuroscience
College of Science
Total Anticipated:
$136,509
Sponsor:
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
Functional Genomics of Host Responses to Plant Parasitic Nematodes and Molecular Basis of Parasitism Emphasizing Stem Nematode on Alfalfa
Principal Investigator:
Jonathan D. Eisenback
School of Plant and Environmental Sciences
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Total Anticipated:
$70,000
Sponsor:
United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service
Carbon accounting for Fertilized Soilless Substrates Physiochemically Evolving Due to Continuous Root Development and Daily Wetting and Drying
Principal Investigator:
Ryan D. Stewart
School of Plant and Environmental Sciences
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Total Anticipated:
$96,478
Sponsor:
United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service
Workshop: Situating Network Infrastructure with People, Practices, and Beyond
Principal Investigator:
Shaddi H. Hasan
Department of Computer Science
College of Engineering
Total Anticipated:
$74,773
Sponsor:
National Science Foundation
A Twenty-Year Review: Revisiting the Drinking Water and Wastewater Infrastructure Funding Needs and Gaps in the Appalachian Region
Principal Investigator:
Leigh Anne H. Krometis
Department of Biological Systems Engineering
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Total Anticipated:
$100,000
Sponsor:
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Modeling Ionospheric and Magnetospheric Current Interactions with Submarine Cables
Principal Investigator:
Shibaji Chakraborty
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
College of Engineering
Total Anticipated:
$199,912
Sponsor:
National Science Foundation
Dynamics of Socio-Environmental Factors Driving Resilience of Coastal Fisheries: Integrating Feedbacks Between Livelihoods, Human Behavior, Climate, and Fish Ecology
Principal Investigator:
Holly Kindsvater
Department of Fish and Wildlife Conservation
College of Natural Resources and Environment
Total Anticipated:
$1,793,583
Sponsor:
National Science Foundation
A Microphysiological Model of the Brain-Lymphatic System in Alzheimer's Disease
Principal Investigator:
Jennifer M. Munson
Fralin Biomedical Research Institute
Total Anticipated:
$426,829
Sponsor:
National Institue on Aging
Integrating Organismal Biology and Biogeochemistry to Develop Science-Informed Actions to Conserve Stream Biodiversity in a Changing Climate
Principal Investigator:
William A. Hopkins
Department of Fish and Wildlife Conservation
College of Natural Resources and Environment
Total Anticipated:
$1,082,076
Sponsor:
National Science Foundation
Collaborative Research: Breaking Information Sharing Barrier at Signal Level: A Learning-based Interference Mitigation for Pay-As-You-Go Spectrum Sharing
Principal Investigator:
Yiwei T. Hou
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
College of Engineering
Total Anticipated:
$400,000
Sponsor:
National Science Foundation
The Rebellion of the Queen: Alfalfa as the Optimum Forage for Climate-Smart Dairy Systems.
Principal Investigator:
Gonzalo Ferreira
School of Animal Sciences
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Total Anticipated:
$933,389
Sponsor:
United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture
Fungibility in Mobile Networks for Resilient 6G
Principal Investigator:
Joao Santos
Commonwealth Cyber Initiative
Office of Research and Innovation
Total Anticipated:
$552,893
Sponsor:
National Science Foundation
Engineering, SocioEconomic and Environmental Convergence of Ocean Wave Energy Research for Remote Coastal Communities
Principal Investigator:
Danesh K. Tafti
Department of Mechanical Engineering
College of Engineering
Total Anticipated:
$661,985
Sponsor:
National Science Foundation
Evaluating Social, Economic and Environmental Outcomes of Community-Based Coastal Adaptation Engagements: An Integrated Economics and Machine-Learning Framework
Principal Investigator:
Klaus Moeltner
Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Total Anticipated:
$83,967
Sponsor:
United States Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Center for Community Empowering Pandemic Prediction and Prevention from Atoms to Societies (COMPASS Center)
Principal Investigator:
T M. Murali
Department of Computer Science
College of Engineering
Total Anticipated:
$18,000,000
Sponsor:
National Science Foundation
Exploring Electronic Polarization in Biomolecular Folding and Interactions
Principal Investigator:
Justin A. Lemkul
Biochemistry
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Total Anticipated:
$360,647
Sponsor:
National Institues of Health, National Institute of General Medical Sciences
The Indigenous Peoples Observatory Network (IPON): The Climate-Food-Health Nexus
Principal Investigator:
Eranga Galappaththi
Geography
College of Natural Resources and Environment
Total Anticipated:
$424,251
Sponsor:
National Science Foundation
Mechanisms for Impaired Adaptation to Aerobic Exercise with Metabolic Disease
Principal Investigator:
Sarah Lessard
Fralin Biomedical Research Institute
Total Anticipated:
$475,718
Sponsor:
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
Mitigation and Breakdown of Perchlorate Contamination in Martian Soil via Plants
Principal Investigator:
Eva Colla'kova'
School of Plant and Environmental Sciences
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Total Anticipated:
$5,500
Sponsor:
Virginia Space Grant Consortium
Neurobehavioral and Psychosocial Predictors of Health Risk Behaviors in Adolescence and Young adulthood
Principal Investigator:
Jungmeen Kim-Spoon
Department of Psychology
College of Science
Total Anticipated:
$2,655,167
Sponsor:
National Institute on Drug Abuse
Development of a Novel Intracellular Targeting Nanobody that Blocks Cx43-Mediated Pathological Proliferation Short title: Connexin Nanobodies
Principal Investigator:
Scott R. Johnstone
Fralin Biomedical Research Institute
Total Anticipated:
$433,511
Sponsor:
National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute
Collaborative Research: Frameworks: Software Infrastructure for Next-Generation Quantum Chemistry
Principal Investigator:
Daniel Crawford
Department of Chemistry
College of Science
Total Anticipated:
$610,000
Sponsor:
National Science Foundation
Improving Soil Hydraulic Characterization Through Novel Sensing, Modeling, and Data Integration
Principal Investigator:
Huijie Gan
School of Plant and Environmental Sciences
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Total Anticipated:
$409,127
Sponsor:
United States Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service
Analysis on Discrete Cubes, Maximal Operators and Beyond
Principal Investigator:
Jose Ramon Madrid Padilla
Department of Mathematics
College of Science
Total Anticipated:
$42,000
Sponsor:
Simons Foundation (The)
Pathways to Enhance Indigenous Participation in Developing Climate Resilience Health Systems: A Peruvian Case Study
Principal Investigator:
Eranga Galappaththi
Department of Geography
College of Natural Resources and Environment
Total Anticipated:
$10,053
Sponsor:
Soulsby Foundation for One Health
To Explore the Ecology, Evolution and Spatio-Temporal Patterns of Arbovirus Spread in the US, and Develop Animal Models for Emerging Arbovirus Threats.
Principal Investigator:
Albert J. Auguste
Department of Entomology
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Total Anticipated:
$242,000
Sponsor:
United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service
Symmetries of Macdonald Polynomials and Geometric Representation Theory
Principal Investigator:
Daniel D. Orr
Department of Mathematics
College of Science
Total Anticipated:
$42,000
Sponsor:
Simons Foundation (The)
Quantum Digital Twins
Principal Investigator:
Daniel E. Appelo
Department of Mathematics
College of Science
Total Anticipated:
$300,000
Sponsor:
United States Department of Energy
The Role of K63 Polyubiquitination in Age-Related Memory Decline.
Principal Investigator:
Timothy Jarome
School of Animal Sciences
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Total Anticipated:
$5,000
Sponsor:
American Federation for Aging Research Inc
Building Community Resilience to Drought, Population Growth, and Cascading Water Quality Challenges in a Large One-Water System
Principal Investigator:
Stanley Grant
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
College of Engineering
Total Anticipated:
$75,000
Sponsor:
National Science Foundation
Leveraging Biological Control Agents to Simultaneously Reduce Populations of Spotted Lanternfly, Lycorma Delicatula, and Tree of Heaven, Ailanthus Altissima at an Areawide Scale
Principal Investigator:
Carrie J. Fearer
Department of Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation
College of Natural Resources and Environment
Total Anticipated:
$93,584
Sponsor:
United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service
Seed Coating Impacts on Ryegrasses used in Overseeding Bermudagrass Athletic Fields
Principal Investigator:
Daniel S. Sandor
School of Plant and Environmental Sciences
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Total Anticipated:
$5,000
Sponsor:
Virginia Agricultural Council
Demographic and Population Response of Red-Cockaded Woodpckers on Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune to a Basewide Management Plan
Principal Investigator:
Jeffrey R. Walters
Department of Biological Sciences
College of Science
Total Anticipated:
$277,917
Sponsor:
United States Naval Facilities Engineering Command Atlantic Division
Understanding and Controlling Light and Spin Dynamics in Chiral Hybrid Semiconductors
Principal Investigator:
Lina Quan
Department of Chemistry
College of Science
Total Anticipated:
$875,000
Sponsor:
United States Department of Energy
Investigating the Impact of Scaffolded Ethics Autobiography on Engineering Identity and Students' Career Interests
Principal Investigator:
Dayoung Kim
Department of Engineering Education
College of Engineering
Total Anticipated:
$399,998
Sponsor:
National Science Foundation
Support and Continued Development of the Occoquan Model for Fiscal Year 2025
Principal Investigator:
Siddharth Saksena
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
College of Engineering
Total Anticipated:
$310,000
Sponsor:
Northern Virginia Regional Commission
BNF Cereals Phase IV
Principal Investigator:
Dennis R. Dean
Department of Biochemistry
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Total Anticipated:
$121,000
Sponsor:
Agencia Estatal consejo Superior De Invetigacions Cientifica
Visualization-Enhanced Undergraduate Wireless Engineering Education Through Problem- and Project-Based Learning (Visualize-U-Wireless-Pro)
Principal Investigator:
Harpreet Singh Dhillon
Department of Electrical and ComputerEngineering
College of Engineering
Total Anticipated:
$399,884
Sponsor:
National Science Foundation
Endothelial Reactive Oxygen Species in Exercise Metabolism
Principal Investigator:
Siobhan Craige
Department of Human Nutrition, Foods and Exercise
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Total Anticipated:
$354,200
Sponsor:
National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases
Collaborative Research: Critical Technology to Enable Innovative and Equitable Grading Practices
Principal Investigator:
Kenneth R. Edmison
Department of Computer Science
College of Engineering
Total Anticipated:
$717,875
Sponsor:
National Science Foundation
Rigid Polynorbornenes Prepared by Vinyl Addition Polymerization for Gas Separation Membranes
Principal Investigator:
John Matson
Department of Chemistry
College of Science
Total Anticipated:
$1,073,000
Sponsor:
United States Department of Energy
Collaborative Research: Investigating the Uptake of Research-Based Instructional Strategies in Introductory Post-Secondary Mathematics and Science Courses: Post-COVID Update
Principal Investigator:
Estrella Johnson
Department of Mathematics
College of Science
Total Anticipated:
$156,614
Sponsor:
National Science Foundation