January 2023 Grants and Awards
Resurrecting Supersingular Isogeny Key Establishment: Developing and Implementing New Isogeny-Based Post-Quantum Schemes
Principal Investigator:
Jason T. Legrow, Assistant Professor
Mathematics, College of Science
Total Anticipated:
$61,282
Sponsor:
Commonwealth Cyber Initiative Southwest Virginia Node
Southwest Virginia Professional Education Consortium
Principal Investigator:
Nancy A. Bradley, Assistant Professor of Practice and Associate Director
School of Education, College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences
Total Anticipated:
$29,000
Sponsor:
Virginia Department of Education
Behavioral, Molecular and Sex-Specific Mechanisms of Indirectly Learned Fear Memory
Principal Investigator:
Timothy Jarome, Assistant Professor
Department of Animal and Poultry Sciences, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Total Anticipated:
$432,812
Sponsor:
National Institute of Mental Health
Mechanism and Significance of Programmed Cell Death in Hypothalamic Corticotropin Releasing Hormone Neurons
Principal Investigator:
Yuchin Albert Pan, Associate Professor
Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC
Total Anticipated:
$2,000,000
Sponsor:
National Institute of Mental Health
CAREER: Novel Approaches to Hyperbranched Polymers
Principal Investigator:
Michael Schulz, Assistant Professor
Department of Chemistry, College of Science
Total Anticipated:
$725,000
Sponsor:
National Science Foundation
A Weight Stigma-Informed Model to Improve Energy Intake Assessment
Principal Investigator:
Valisa E. Hedrick, Assistant Professor
Human Nutrition Foods Exercise, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Total Anticipated:
$453,180
Sponsor:
National Institute of Nursing Research
Collaborative Research: Transforming Grading Practices in the Computer Science Education Community
Principal Investigator:
Stephen H. Edwards, Associate Department Head for Undergraduate Studies
Computer Science, College of Engineering
Total Anticipated:
$787,311
Sponsor:
National Science Foundation
Develop and Demonstrate Solid-State AM Repair and Feature Addition Atop Low-Carbon Steel and Cast Iron
Principal Investigator:
Hang Yu, Assistant Professor
Materials Science and Engineering, College of Engineering
Total Anticipated:
$75,000
Sponsor:
John Deere Company
AUV Autonomy Software
Principal Investigator:
Daniel J. Stilwell, Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering
Total Anticipated:
$76,798
Sponsor:
US Naval Research Laboratory
Development of a Feasibility Plan to Implement Wildlife-Vehicle Conflict Countermeasures in Virginia's Elk Country
Principal Investigator:
Andrew S. Alden, Demonstration and Deployment Team Lead
Virginia Tech Transportation Institute
Total Anticipated:
$170,000
Sponsor:
Virginia Department of Transportation