Seed for Success Acorn Awards

FY2012 Seed for Success Acorn Awards

Awardees

• SNAP-Ed Indiana Family Nutrition Program
  Angela R. Abbott; Melissa Maulding
  from U.S. Department of Agriculture
  $4,949,271
• Mechanism(s) of Hepatocyte Transformation by the Hepatitis B Virus X Protein
  Ourania M. Andrisani; Jun Xie
  from National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disease
  $1,825,739
• Measurement and Modeling of Central Auditory Processing in Aged Animals
  Edward L. Bartlett
  from National Institute on Deafness and Other Communicative Disorders
  $1,726,947
• Collaborative Research: Integrated Training for Continental Ecology (ITCE): Bridging Scales and Systems with Isotopes
  Gabriel J. Bowen; Christopher C. Miller; Eric M. Riggs
  from National Science Foundation
  $2,155,797
• Energy Efficient Building Systems Regional Innovation Cluster Initiative
  James E. Braun; Qingyan Chen; George T. Chiu; William T. Horton; Jianghai Hu; Panagiota Karava; Athanasios Tzempelikos
  from U.S. Department of Energy
  $1,215,898
• Facility Support: Accelerator Mass Spectrometry at PRIME Lab
  Marc W. Caffee; Darryl E. Granger; Nathaniel A. Lifton; Paul F. Muzikar
  from National Science Foundation
  $2,699,900
• Building and Scaling Analytics Capacity
  John P. Campbell; Matthew D. Pistilli
  from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
  $1,231,754
• Development and Engineering Command, Dynamic Mechanical Properties of High-Performance Fibers
  Weinong W. Chen
  from U.S. Army Research
  $1,150,000
• Topological Insulator Coherent Energy-efficient Devices
  Yong P. Chen; Supriyo Datta; Mark S. Lundstrom; Anant K. Ramdas; Xianfan Xu; Peide Ye
  from Office of Naval Research
  $2,492,613
• FY11-12 Indiana University School of Medicine - Lafayette General Fund
  Gordon L. Coppoc; Regina A. Kreisle; James J. Walker
  from Indiana University - Purdue University at Indianapolis
  $1,664,917
• An Agent-based Concept for an Enhanced C2BMC Architecture
  Daniel A. Delaurentis; Saurabh Bagchi; James Eric Dietz; Stephen D. Heister; Joseph Pekny
  from Missile Defense Agency
  $1,250,972
• Regional Hub Reception Center Planning Guide
  James Eric Dietz; David Black; Dave Hankins; Jefferson F. Howells; Carlos R. Morales; Steve Shelby; Clifford J. Wojtalewicz
  from U.S. Department of Homeland Security
  $1,497,162
• Neuroimaging for Early Diagnosis of Manganese Toxicity in Humans and Rodents
  Ulrike Dydak; Frank Rosenthal; Wei Z. Zheng
  from National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
  $2,350,624
• VACCINE: Visual Analytics for Command, Control and Interoperability Environments, FY12 Funding
  David S. Ebert; Timothy F. Collins; Edward J. Delp; Lars Niklas E. Elmqvist
  from U.S. Department of Homeland Security
  $1,450,000
• Integrated Striga Control Activity in Sorghum in Ethiopia and Tanzania
  Gebisa Ejeta; Tesfaye D. Mengiste
  from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
  $4,992,836
• Nanofabrication of Tunable 3D Nanotube Architectures
  Timothy Fisher; Xiulin Ruan
  from Air Force Office of Scientific Research
  $1,502,777
• Tyrosine Kinases and Lymphocyte Activation
  Robert L. Geahlen
  from National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease
  $1,663,709
• Design & Synthesis of Non-peptide Protease Inhibitors
  Arun K. Ghosh
  from National Institute of General Medical Sciences
  $1,487,714
• 2012 Local Technical Assistance Program Work Plan & Budget
  John E. Haddock; John A. Habermann
  from U.S. Department of Transportation
  $1,282,486
• IGERT: Global Traineeship in Sustainable Electronics
  Carol A. Handwerker; Inez Hua; Ananth V. Iyer; Karthik Ramani
  from National Science Foundation
  $3,199,979
• Collagen Cross-links Direct Matrix-Induced Vasculogenesis via Tunable Pathways
  Sherry L. Harbin; Bumsoo Han
  from National Institution of Heart, Lung and Blood
  $1,896,989
• Improving Robustness of Prosthetic Arm Control with an Innovative RF-Based Implantable EMG System
  Pedro Irazoqui
  from Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center
  $2,573,958
• Live Single Cell Epigenetic Profiling and Regulation at Single Molecule Resolution
  Joseph M. Irudayaraj; Ann Kirchmaier; Sophie A. Lelievre; Amy C. Lossie
  from W.M. Keck Foundation
  $1,000,000
• IARPA Finder 2011
  Avinash C. Kak; Johnny Park
  from Air Force Office of Scientific Research
  $1,195,161
• Identification of Protein-metabolite Interactome
  Daisuke Kihara; Chiwook Park; Weiguo A. Tao
  from National Institute of General Medical Sciences
  $1,471,781
• Network for Computational Nanotechnology
  Gerhard Klimeck; Mark Lundstrom; Michael McLennan; Alejandro Strachan
  National Science Foundation
  $3,648,333
• ARI-MA: Development of High Rate, Excellent Energy Resolution, Radiation Damage Insensitive, Liquid Krypton Gamma Ray Detector for Use in High Radiation Environments
  David S. Koltick; Ahmed Hassanein
  from National Science Foundation
  $1,983,296
• Effects of Language Experience on Early Cortical and Subcortical Pitch Encoding
  Ananthanarayan Krishnan; Jackson T. Gandour
  from National Institute on Deafness and Other Communicative Disorders
  $1,849,008
• Molecular Basis of Alphavirus Assembly
  Richard J. Kuhn
  from National Institute of General Medical Sciences
  $1,352,466
• Communicative Disorders
  Laurence B. Leonard
  from National Institute on Deafness and Other Communicative Disorders
  $1,828,118
• Maddies Shelter Medicine Program
  Annette L. Litster; George E. Moore
  from Maddies Fund
  $1,913,464
• Collaborative Research: Deep Insights Anytime, Anywhere - Central Resource for Characterizing the Transforming Undergraduate Education in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Portfolio through Interactive Knowledge Mining and Visualizations
  Krishna P. Charavarthi Madhavan; Lars Niklas E. Elmqvist; Mihaela Vorvoreanu; Phillip C. Wankat
  from National Science Foundation
  $1,307,542
• Improved Detection Techniques for Foodborne Pathogens
  Lisa J. Mauer; Bruce M.Applegate; Arun K. Bhunia; Joseph M. Irudayaraj; Michael R. Ladisch
  from U.S. Department of Agricultural
  $1,477,573
• Center for the Catalytic Conversion of Biomass to Bioenergy (C3Bio)
  Maureen McCann; Mahdi M. Abu-Omar; Rakesh Agrawal; Nicholas C. Carpita; Clint Chapple; W. Nicholas Delgass; Hilkka I. Kenttamaa; Nathan S. Mosier; Angus S. Murphy; Wendy A. Peer;
  Fabio H. Ribeiro; Garth J. Simpson; Christopher J. Staiger; Daniel, B. Szymanski
  from U.S. Department of Energy
  $15,074,136
• Military Community, Family and Youth Extension Program
  Renee K. McKee
  from U.S. Department of Defense
  $1,363,636
• Afghanistan Agricultural Sanitary and Phytosanitary Project
  Kevin T. McNamara; Betty A. Bugusu; Ricky E. Foster; Haley F. Oliver; Ramesh Vemulapalli
  from U.S. Department of Agriculture
  $2,175,242
• Afghanistan Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock Agricultural Data Collection and Utilization System Project
  Kevin T. McNamara; James M. Lowenberg-Deboer
  from U.S. Department of Agriculture
  $3,099,861
• Personality and Well-Being Trajectories in Adulthood
  Daniel K. Mroczek
  from National Institute on Aging
  $2,000,073
• PRISM: Center for Prediction of Reliability, Integrity and Survivability of Microsystems
  Jayathi Y. Murthy; Muhammad A. Alam; Anil K. Bajaj; Ananth Y. Grama; Dimitrios Peroulis; Alejandro H. Strachan
  from National Nuclear Security Administration
  $3,800,000
• U.S. Compact Muon Solenoid Operations at Large Hadron Collider
  Norbert Neumeister; Daniela Bortoletto; Thomas J. Hacker; Ian P. Shipsey
  from National Science Foundation
  $5,147,031
• Toward Intrusion Tolerant Clouds
  Cristina Nita-Rotaru; Jennifer L. Neville
  from Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center
  $1,288,302
• Science Learning through Engineering Design Targeted Partnership
  Alyssa Panitch; Brenda M. Capobianco; Todd R. Kelley; James D. Lehman; Johannes Strobel; Gabriela C. Weaver
  from National Science Foundation
  $3,862,372
• Hydrogel Template Method for Protein Microencapsulation
  Kinam Park
  from National Institute of General Medical Sciences
  $1,483,443
• NEXTRANS - Integrated and Sustainable Transportation Solutions: From Concepts to Deployment
  Srinivas Peeta
  from U.S. Department of Transportation
  $3,500,000
• Autonomic Control of Body Weight and Feeding
  Terry L. Powley
  from National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
  $3,172,228
• Useful to Usable (U2U): Transforming Climate Variability and Change Information for Cereal Crop Producers
  Linda S. Prokopy; Otto C. Doerring III; Benjamin M. Gramig; Devdutta S. Niyogi; Xiaohui Carol Song
  from U.S. Department of Agriculture
  $1,000,000
• The George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation Operations
  Julio A. Ramirez; Saurabh Bagchi; Sean Brophy; Shirley Dyke; Rudolf Eigenmann; Barbara Fossum; Thomas J. Hacker; Ayhan Irfanoglu; Santiago Pujol
  from National Science Foundation
  $23,852,680
• Cancer Center Support Grant
  Timothy L. Ratliff
  from National Cancer Institute
  $1,506,982
• Initiation and Regulation of Chronic Autoimmune Prostate Inflammation
  Timothy Ratliff; Scott A. Crist; Xiaoqu Liu; Paul W. Snyder
  from National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
  $1,906,650
• Structural Studies of Togaviruses
  Michael G. Rossmann
  from National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
  $3,481,566
• Ionome to Genome: Mapping the Gene Networks Controlling Nutrient Content in Rice Grain
  David E. Salt; Mourad Ouzzani
  from National Science Foundation
  $1,454,950
• Measurements of Boundary-Layer Instability and Transition in the Mach-6 Quiet Tunnel
  Steven P. Schneider
  U.S. Department of Defense
  $2,000,000
• MRSEC Photonic and Multiscale Nanomaterials
  Vladimir M. Shalaev; Alexandra Boltasseva; Evgueni E. Narimanov
  National Science Foundation
  $1,920,000
• Hoosier Heavy Hybrid Center of Excellence (H3CoE)
  Gregory M. Shaver; Vahid Motevalli; Maryam Saeedifard
  from U.S. Department of Energy
  $1,000,000
• An Experimental and Theoretical High Energy Physics Program
  Ian P. Shipsey; Daniela Bortoletto; Wei K. Cui; John P. Finley; Sergei Khlebnikov; Luis M. Krudzenski; Norbert Neumeister
  U.S. Department of Energy
  $5,044,000
• Challenges to Vocal Fold Epithelia: Functional and Structural Consequences
  Preeti Sivasankar; Paul W. Snyder
  from National Institute on Deafness and Other Communicative Disorders
  $1,878,792
• XSEDE: Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment
  Xiaohui Carol Song
  from National Science Foundation
  $2,530,000
• Literacy Enriched Science through Guided Inquiry — Elevating Thinking and Knowledge
  Brandon Sorge; John R. Staver; William S. Walker
  from Indiana Department of Education
  $1,898,984
• The Indiana Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (I-STEM) Resource Network
  Brandon Sorge; William S. Walker
  from Lilly Endowment, Inc
  $1,530,000
• Science and Technology Center — Emerging Frontiers of Science of Information
  Wojciech Szpankowski; Ruben C. Aguilar; Mikhail J. Atallah; Christopher Clifton; Supriyo Datta; Ananth Y. Grama; Suresh Jagannathan; Aditya P. Mathur, Jennifer L. Neville; Zygmunt Pizlo; Yuan Qi; Doraiswami Ramkrishna; Vernon J. Rego; Luo Si; Mark Daniel Ward
  from National Science Foundation
  $2,500,000
• Experimental Evaluation of Steel-Concrete Wall and Anchorage Design for Nuclear Power Plants
  Amit H. Varma
  from Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd
  $1,001,000
• CPS: Medium: Robust Distributed Wind Power Engineering
  Jan Vitek; Douglas E. Adams; Ananth Y. Grama; Suresh Jagannathan
  from National Science Foundation
  $1,600,000
• Sustainable Production and Distribution of Bioenergy for the Central USA
  Jeffrey J. Volenec; Corinne E. Alexander; Sylvie M. Brouder; Natalie J. Carroll; Indrajeet Chaubey; Keith D. Johnson; Brenda Rose Lerner; Chad A. Martin; Patrick T. Murphy; Nicole J. Olynk; Kathryn S. Orvis; Ronald F. Turco
  from U.S. Department of Agriculture
  $3,686,569
• Understanding Effects of Multiple Deployments and Promoting Resiliency in Families and Children of Deployed Service Members
  Shelley MacDermid Wadsworth; Sarah A. Mustillo
  from U.S. Department of Defense
  $1,007,336
• Submicrometer Silica Particles for High-throughput Separations of Protein Pharmaceuticals
  Mary Wirth
  from National Institute of General Medical Sciences
  $1,784,916
• SNM: A Scalable Nanomanufacturing Machine for Parallel Nanolithography and Parallel Fabrication of Nanoscale Devices
  Xianfan Xu; Timothy Fisher; Minghao Qi; Peide Ye
  from National Science Foundation
  $1,300,000
• THz III-V MOSHFETs Enabled by ALD-grown Scalable High-K Gate Insulators (TASK)
  Peide Ye
  from Air Force Office of Scientific Research
  $1,000,000
• Structure and Function of Sodium-Calcium Exchangers
  Dinesh A. Yernool
  from National Institute of General Medical Sciences
  $1,893,321
• Safe, Reuse-Oriented Reverse Engineering of Functional Components from x86 Binaries
  Xiangyu Zhang; Dongyan Xu
  from Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
  $1,493,074
• Calcium Signaling and Ion Homeostasis Regulation
  Jian-Kang Zhu
  from National Institute of General Medical Sciences
  $1,540,000