February 2024 Grants and Awards
Chesapeake Watershed Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit Student Fellowship
Principal Investigator:
Ford, William M.
Associate Professor
Department of Fish and Wildlife Conservation
College of Natural Resources and Environment
Total Anticipated:
$3,000
Sponsor:
United States Department of Interior with University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science
CAREER: Closing the Loop Between Learning and Communication for Assistive Robot Arms
Principal Investigator:
Losey, Dylan P.
Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
College of Engineering
Total Anticipated:
$687,424
Sponsor:
National Science Foundation
Sanitation Infrastructure in Vulnerable Communities: Current and Future Risks to Water Security
Principal Investigator:
McGuire, Kevin J.
Professor
Water Resources Research Center
College of Natural Resources and Environment
Total Anticipated:
$292,355
Sponsor:
United States Geological Survey
Agroforestry Trainings for Natural Resource Professionals
Principal Investigator:
Trozzo, Katie E.
Food Systems Network and Outreach Specialist
Department of Agriculture, Leadership and Community Education
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Total Anticipated:
$769,909.94
Sponsor:
Appalachian Sustainable Development
Next-Generation Biofungicides for Application in Controlled Environment Agriculture
Principal Investigator:
South, Kaylee A.
Assistant Professor
School of Plant and Environmental Sciences
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Total Anticipated:
$74,975.36
Sponsor:
Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services
Collaborative Research: Hormone Regulation of Stamen Maturation
Principal Investigator:
Bargmann, Bastiaan
Assistant Professor
School of Plant and Environmental Sciences
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Total Anticipated:
$290,000
Sponsor:
National Science Foundation
Design and Analysis of Experiments
Principal Investigator:
Morgan, John P.
Professor and Dean of Strategic Initiatives, College of Science
Department of Statistics
College of Science
Total Anticipated:
$18,000
Sponsor:
National Science Foundation
Influence of Cultivar and Harvest Timing on Strawberry Polyphenol Content
Principal Investigator:
Cladis, Dennis
Assistant Professor
Food Science and Technology
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Total Anticipated:
$5,000
Sponsor:
Southern Region Small Fruit Consortium
The Dynamic Neuromodulome in Alzheimer's Disease and Aging
Principal Investigator:
Montague, Pendleton R.
Virginia Tech Carilion Vernon Mountcastle Research Professor and Director, Center for Human Neuroscience Research
Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC
Total Anticipated:
$147,027
Sponsor:
Baylor College of Medicine
Collaborative Research: Co-designing Infrastructural Futures in Alaska: An Ethnography
Principal Investigator:
Nicewonger, Todd E.
Ethnographic Research Specialist
Department of Engineering Education
College of Engineering
Total Anticipated:
$691,073
Sponsor:
National Science Foundation
CAREER: Foundations of Scalable and Resilient Distributed Real-Time Decision Making in Open Multi-Agent Systems
Principal Investigator:
Doan, Thinh T.
Assistant Professor
Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
College of Engineering
Total Anticipated:
$549,927
Sponsor:
National Science Foundation
Use of Spray Drones in Specialty Crops
Principal Investigator:
Singh, Vijay
Assistant Professor
Eastern Shore Agriculture Research and Extension Center
Agriculture Experiment Station
Total Anticipated:
$74,958.59
Sponsor:
Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services
CAREER: Rethinking System Stack for the Load-Store I/O Era
Principal Investigator:
Li, Huaicheng
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
College of Engineering
Total Anticipated:
$676,549
Sponsor:
National Science Foundation
The Role of REDD1 in Insulin-Mediated Transcription
Principal Investigator:
Pfleger, Jessica M.
Assistant Professor
Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC
Total Anticipated:
$2,510,281
Sponsor:
National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health
International Conference of Plant Pathogenic Bacteria and Biocontrol 2024
Principal Investigator:
Vinatzer, Boris A.
Professor
School of Plant and Environmental Sciences
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Total Anticipated:
$49,680
Sponsor:
United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture
Examining the Heart of Type Ia Supernova 2021aefx with Ultra
Principal Investigator:
Ashall, Christopher J.
Assistant Professor
Department of Physics
College of Science
Total Anticipated:
$136,376
Sponsor:
Space Telescope Science Institute
Capacitive Fog and Smoke Harvesting
Principal Investigator:
Boreyko, Jonathan B.
Associate Professor and John R. Jones III Faculty Fellow
Department of Mechanical Engineering
College of Engineering
Total Anticipated:
$10,000
Sponsor:
Virginia Space Grant Consortium
CAREER: Optimizing Healthcare Operations Through Incentive Mechanism Design
Principal Investigator:
Tunc, Sait
Assistant Professor
Departmenet of Industrial and Systems Engineering
College of Engineering
Total Anticipated:
$568,619
Sponsor:
National Science Foundation
Understanding Plant Natural Product Biosynthesis In Blueberry Through Core Gene Discovery
Principal Investigator:
Leisner, Courtney P.
Assistant Professor
School of Plant and Environmental Sciences
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Total Anticipated:
$135,063.15
Sponsor:
United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture
Multiscale Structural and Functional Biomechanics of Contracting Platelet-Fibrin Based Biomaterials and Blood Clots in Oral Microenvironment
Principal Investigator:
Kim, Oleg
Assistant Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics
College of Engineering
Total Anticipated:
$149,085
Sponsor:
National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research
Evaluation of Flue-cured Tobacco Varieties and Wild Relatives to Black Shank and Bacterial Wilt
Principal Investigator:
Zeng, Yuan
Assistant Professor
Southern Piedmont Agriculture Research and Extension Center
Agriculture Experiment Station
Total Anticipated:
$12,543
Sponsor:
Virginia Bright Flue-Cured Tobacco Board
Integrated Management of Fusarium Wilt and Fusarium Crown and Root Rot of Tobacco
Principal Investigator:
Zeng, Yuan
Assistant Professor
Southern Piedmont Agriculture Research and Extension Center
Agriculture Experiment Station
Total Anticipated:
$15,800
Sponsor:
Virginia Bright Flue-Cured Tobacco Board
Vector-Virus Determinants of the Persistance and Public Health Risk of La Crosse Virus in the Northeastern USA
Principal Investigator:
Eastwood, Gillian
Assistant Professor
Department of Entomology
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Total Anticipated:
$152,000
Sponsor:
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health
Facilitating Cooperative Native Seed Production by Underserved Farmers in Southern Virginia
Principal Investigator:
Reid, John L.
Assistant Professor
School of Plant and Environmental Sciences
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Total Anticipated:
$696,703
Sponsor:
United States Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service
Using Intelligent Conversational Agents to Empower Adolescents to be Resilient Against Cybergrooming
Principal Investigator:
Cho, Jin-Hee
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science
College of Engineering
Total Anticipated:
$855,127
Sponsor:
National Science Foundation
Coragen or Besiege? Protecting Natural Enemies to Achieve Sustainable Insect Pest Management
Principal Investigator:
Rashed, Arash
Director, Southern Piedmont Agriculture Research and Extension Center
Southern Piedmont Agriculture Research and Extension Center
Agriculture Experiment Station
Total Anticipated:
$10,076
Sponsor:
Virginia Bright Flue-Cured Tobacco Board
Tobacco Budworms: Cultivar Screening and Hyperspectral Imaging
Principal Investigator:
Rashed, Arash
Director, Southern Piedmont Agriculture Research and Extension Center
Southern Piedmont Agriculture Research and Extension Center
Agriculture Experiment Station
Total Anticipated:
$10,000
Sponsor:
Virginia Bright Flue-Cured Tobacco Board
Dissecting The Physiological Mechanisms Of Plant Nutrient Responses To Rising Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Levels (2022-67013-36126)
Principal Investigator:
Leisner, Courtney P.
Assistant Professor
School of Plant and Environmental Sciences
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Total Anticipated:
$504,028.62
Sponsor:
United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture
Metal Organic Framework ASZM Carbon Analogs Through Single Atom Installation
Principal Investigator:
Morris, Amanda
Professor
Department of Chemistry
College of Science
Total Anticipated:
$150,000
Sponsor:
Defense Threat Reduction Agency
Portable Tuned Mass Dampers to Reduce Vibration Serviceability Issues of Architectural Structures
Principal Investigator:
Setareh, Mehdi
Professor
School of Architecture
Total Anticipated:
$50,000
Sponsor:
National Science Foundation
Constraining Next Generation Cascadia Earthquake and Tsunami Hazard Scenarios Through Integration of High-Resolution Field Data and Geophysical Models
Principal Investigator:
Dura, Cristina
Assistant Professor
Department of Geosciences
College of Science
Total Anticipated:
$227,245
Sponsor:
National Science Foundation