Seed for Success Acorn Awards

FY2016 Seed for Success Acorn Awards

Awardees

• Angela R. Abbott; Heather A. Eicher-Miller; Dennis A. Savaiano; Melissa Maulding from U.S. Department of Agriculture, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Education/Family Nutrition Program (Snap Ed/FNP), $1,506,728
• William E. Anderson; Stephen D. Heister; Timothée L. Pourpoint; Carson D. Slabaugh, from Armed Forces Services Corporation, Combustion Stability Tool Development, $2,090,900
• Darcy M. Bullock, from U.S. Department of Transportation, Joint Transportation Research Program Operating Budget Request FY 2017, $7,990,349
• Ryan A. Cabot, from National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NIH), Developmental Requirements of SWI/SNF Chromatin Remodeling Complexes in Porcine Embryos, $1,641,026
• Steven A. Cain; Abby R. Hostetler, from National Institute of Food & Agriculture, Extension Disaster Education Network, EDEN Homeland Security Initiative VIII: Strengthening Eden’s Role in Homeland Security, Food and Ag Defense, and All Hazard Education, $1,356,885
• Jason R. Cannon; Jean-Christophe Rochet, from National Institute of Environment Health Sciences (NIH), Mechanisms of PhIP-induced Dopaminergic Neurotoxicity, $1,683,647
• Monica E. Cardella; Sean Brophy; Morgan M. Hynes; Tamara J. Moore; Senay Purzer, from National Science Foundation, Integrated STEM and Computing Learning in Formal and Informal Settings for Kindergarten to Grade 2, $2,044,930
• Ji-Xin Cheng, from National Heart, Lung & Blood Institute (NIH), In Vivo Photoacoustic Sensing of Lipid Laden Plaque, $2,127,173
• Paris D. Collingsworth, from U.S. Geological Survey, Extending Impact of U.S. EPA’s Great Lakes National Program Office, Using Sea Grant Outreach Capacity, $1,264,380
• R. Graham Cooks; Eric L. Barker; Ananth Y. Grama; Zoltan Nagy; David H. Thompson, from Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Analytic-Directed Multi-scale Synthesis System, $8,263,198
• R. Graham Cooks, from U.S. Department of Energy, Charged Microdroplets in Air: Characterization and Use in Surface Functionalization & Nanomaterials Preparation, $1,776,345
• Monica F. Cox; Joyce B. Main, from National Science Foundation, Collaborative Research: Why We Persist: An Intersectional Approach to Characterizing and Examining the Experiences of Women of Color Tenure-Track Faculty in Engineering, $1,131,464
• Meng Cui, from National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Strokes (NIH), High Resolution Deep Tissue Calcium Imaging with Large Field of View Wavefront Correction, $1,404,827
• Jennifer J. DeBoer; Edward J. Berger; Jeffrey F. Rhoads, from National Science Foundation, IUSE: Understanding and Supporting Mechanical Engineering Undergraduate Student and Faculty Engagement with an Active, Blended and Collaborative (ABC) Learning Environment, $1,400,000
• Daniel A. DeLaurentis; Saurabh Bagchi, from Missile Defense Agency, System of Systems Modeling and Analysis Innovations for Enhanced BMDS Architectures, $1,539,406
• Edward J. Delp, III, from Air Force Research Laboratory, Media Forensics Integrity Analytics, $4,045,790
• Dilkes Brian; Gurmukh S. Johal, from National Science Foundation, The Genetic and Genomic Exploration of the Maize Hypersensitive Response, $1,934,074
• Natalia Doudareva, from National Science Foundation, Evolution of Specialized Metabolite Biosynthetic Pathways in the Lamiaceae: Sources of Chemical Diversity for Molecules Essential for Human Use and Plant Defense, $1,369,992
• David S. Ebert; Edward J. Delp, III, from U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Support for UCSBs Mobile Malware; Apex Programs: Border Situational Awareness; Wireless Broadband Tech Program, Wireless Communications - Objective Video Quality Metric with Applications in Video Analytics in Public Safety, $22,594,995.
• Christopher I. Eckhardt, from National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIH), Mechanisms of Alcohol-Facilitated Intimate Partner Violence, $1,335,101
• Marxa L. Figueiredo, from National Cancer Institute (NIH), Disrupting Tumor/Bone Malignant Interactions with Multifunctional Cytokine Sonodelivery, $1,773,626
• Ananth Y. Grama; Saurabh Bagchi; Somali Chaterji, from National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIH), Continued Development and Maintenance of the MG-RAST Metagenomics Pipeline, $3,656,042
• Stacey L. Halum; Sherry L. Harbin, from National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIH), Muscle Progenitor Cell-Based Implants for Dynamic Laryngeal Muscle Reconstruction, $2,182,110
• Carol A. Handwerker; John E. Blendell; Ganesh Subbarayan-Shastri, from Missile Defense Agency, Reliability Risk Management of Gold Contaminated Tin-Lead and Lead-Free Solder Joints in Military Electronics, $1,499,425
• Marlene O. Heeg, from Intercept Pharmaceuticals Inc. and Salix Pharmaceuticals, Inc., 2016 Chronic Liver Disease Foundation EXPAND National Educational Initiative, $1,500,000
• Stephen D. Heister; Jay P. Gore; Timothée L. Pourpoint; Carlo Scalo, from ROLLS-ROYCE, INC., Purdue University Technology Center in Advanced Thermal Management System, $2,071,000
• Randall A. Hountz; Mark K. Clare, from Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality, Midwest Small Practice Care Transformation Research Alliance, $1,256,568
• Randall A. Hountz; Allison Bryan-Jungels, from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Great Lakes Practice Transformation Network, $4,617,634
• Pedro Irazoqui; Zhongming Liu; Terry L. Powley; J. Paul Robinson; Matthew P. Ward, from Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Suppressing Inflammation via Neuromodulation of the GI Tract, $5,414,980
• Pedro Irazoqui; Matthew P. Ward, from Glaxo Smith Kline, GSK Innovation Challenge: Closed-Loop Neuromodulation of Urinary Incontinence, $1,000,000
• Carla C. Johnson, from Department of the Army, Battelle - Army Educational Outreach Program Cooperative Agreement, $5,376,189
• Panagiota Karava; Ilias Bilionis; Jianghai Hu; Robert W. Proctor; Athanasios Tzempelikos, from National Science Foundation, Cybersees: Type 2: Human-Centered Systems for Cyber-Enabled Sustainable Buildings, $1,200,000
• Shubitha S. Kever, from, U.S. Department of Education, TRIO Student Support Services at IPFW, $1,100,000
• Chang H. Kim; Harm HogenEsch, from National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIH), Homing of Functionally Distinct Innate lymphoid cell Subsets, $1,894,175
• Jane M. Kirkpatrick, from Health Resources & Services Administration, Health Center Cluster, $1,926,709
• Jane M. Kirkpatrick; Pamela M. Aaltonen, from National Center for Health Services Resources, Health Center Cluster & Expanded Services Supplemental Funding, $5,301,006
• Regina A. Kreisle, from Indiana University, Indiana University School of Medicine-Lafayette General Fund, $2,568,945
• Laurence B. Leonard; Sharon L. Christ; Patricia L. Deevy; Jeffrey D. Karpicke; Christine M. Weber, from National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIH), Retrieval-Based Word Learning in Specific Language Impairment, $2,631,935
• Xiaoqu Liu; Timothy L. Ratliff, from National Cancer Institute (NIH), Overcoming Drug Resistance of Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer, $1,302,434
• Xiaoqu Liu; Timothy L. Ratliff, from National Cancer Institute (NIH), Enhancing Anti-Neoplastic Activity of Metformin in Prostate Cancer, $1,785,542
• Maureen C. McCann; Rakesh Agrawal; Peter A. Bermel; J. Eric Deitz; Suresh V. Garimella; Hilkka I. Kenttämaa; Gozdem Kilaz; Vilas G. Pol; Timothée L. Pourpoint; Pankaj Sharma; Rodney W. Trice; Justin A. Weibel; Clifford J. Wojtalewicz; Dongyan Xu; Peide Ye; Jeffrey P. Youngblood; Xiangyu Zhang, from Office of Naval Research, Naval Enterprise Partnership Teaming with Universities for National Excellence Center for Power and Energy Research, $2,000,000
• Eric T. Matson; J. Eric Dietz; Anthony H. Smith; John A. Springer; Julia Taylor Rayz, from Information & Communication Tech Promotion, Korean Software Square, $1,815,000
• Seema Mattoo, from National Institute of General Medical Science (NIH), Role of Fic Proteins in Cellular Signaling, $1,507,601
• Lisa J. Mauer; Mary C. Aime; Jan P. Allebach; Bruce M. Applegate; Euiwon Bae; Arun K. Bhunia; George T. Chiu; Amanda J. Deering; Joseph M. Irudayaraj; Charilaos Mousoulis; Haley F. Oliver; Dimitrios Peroulis; Robert E. Pruitt; Bartlomiej P. Rajwa; J. Paul Robinson; Manpreet Singh; Lia A. Stanciu, from Agricultural Research Service, Advanced Development of Innovative Technologies and Systematic Approaches to Foodborne Hazard Detection and Characterization for Improving Food Safety, $1,474,704
• Suresh K. Mittal, from National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIH), Adenoviral Vector-based Pandemic Influenza Vaccine, $1,564,716
• Dallas T. Morisette, from Army Research Laboratory, Revolutionary Innovations in SiC Power Devices, $2,043,476
• Matthew W. Ohland; Russell A. Long, from National Science Foundation, Expanding Access to and Participation in the Multiple-Institution Database for Investigating Engineering Longitudinal Development, $4,260,978
• Dimitrios Peroulis; Venkataramanan Balakrishnan; Jeffery L. Gray, from American University of the Middle East, Curriculum Development and Laboratory Support Package: Electrical Engineering Program, $1,712,429
• Dimitrios Peroulis; Venkataramanan Balakrishnan; Jeffery L. Gray, from American University of the Middle East, Curriculum Development and Laboratory Support Package: Computer Engineering Program, $1,227,383
• Dimitrios Peroulis; Charilaos Mousoulis, from Landauer, MEMS-Scale Accumulating Radiation Sensor Program, $1,723,589
• R. Byron Pipes, from Indiana Economic Development Corporation, IACMI - Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation, $15,000,000
• R. Byron Pipes; Johnathan E. Goodsell; Ronald Sterkenburg; Alejandro H. Strachan; Wenbin Yu, from U.S. Department of Energy, IACMI - Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation, $4,110,687
• Karen I. Plaut, from Indiana Corn Marketing Council, Sponsorship Agreement between Indiana Corn Marketing Council and Purdue University, $1,000,000
• Karen I. Plaut, from Indiana Corn Marketing Council, Research Agreement between Indiana Corn Marketing Council and Purdue University, $1,000,000
• Karen I. Plaut, from Indiana Soybean Alliance, Research Agreement between Indiana Soybean Alliance and Purdue University, $1,000,000
• Karen I. Plaut, from Indiana Soybean Alliance, Sponsorship Agreement between Indiana Soybean Alliance and Purdue University, $1,000,000
• Timothy L. Ratliff, from National Cancer Institute (NIH), Cancer Center Support Grant, $7,334,397
• Gintaras V. Reklaitis; Zoltan Nagy; Lynne S. Taylor, from National Science Foundation, US-Ireland Partnership in Continuous Manufacturing, $5,444,630
• Gintaras V. Reklaitis; Marcial Gonzalez, Carl D. Laird; Zoltan Nagy, from Food and Drug Administration, Real Time Release in Continuous Solid Dose Manufacturing: Systematic Characterization of Material Properties, and Optimal Design of Sensing and Control Methods, $1,266,600
• Catalina E. Rodriguez, from U.S. Department of Education, Student Support Services, $1,449,505
• Leonid P. Rokhinson, from U.S. Department of Energy, Engineering Topological Superconductivity Towards Braiding Majorana Excitations, $1,245,000
• Michael G. Rossmann, from National Science Foundation, X-ray Determinations of Proteins and Viruses, $1,584,059
• Kaushik Roy, from Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Unconventional Processing of Signals for Intelligent Data Exploitation Phase 1 - Resonant Body Oscillator Emerging Devices, $1,013,707
• Xiulin Ruan; Mark S. Lundstrom, from Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, First Principles-Based Predictive Design of Thermoelectric Materials under Large Temperature Gradients, $1,010,948
• Kenneth H. Sandhage, from U.S. Department of Energy, Robust, Cost-Effective Heat Exchangers for 800 °C Operation with Supercritical CO2, $3,845,079
• Alejandro H. Strachan; Weinong W. Chen; Marisol Koslowski; Volkan Ortalan, Steven F. Son, from Office of Naval Research, PC@Xtreme - Predictive Chemistry & Physics at Extreme Temperature and Pressure: Molecules, Crystals and Microstructures, $4,456,157
• Elizabeth A. Strickland; Michael G. Heinz, from National Institute on Deafness and Other Communications Disorders (NIH), Temporal Effects in Forward Masking, Suppression, and Simultaneous Masking, $1,506,728
• Lynne S. Taylor, from U.S. Department of Education, Pharmaceutical Engineering 2015 Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need, $1,328,751
• Mitchell R. Tuinstra; Keith A. Cherkauer; Melba M. Crawford; Edward J. Delp, III; David S. Ebert; Ayman F. Habib; Michael L. Leasure; Clifford F. Weil, from Energy Advanced Research Projects Agency, Automated Sorghum Phenotyping and Trait Development Platform, $6,500,000
• Satish V. Ukkusuri; Milind Kulkarni; Seungyoon Lee, from National Science Foundation, Hazards SEES: Bridging Information, Uncertainty and Decision-Making in Hurricanes Using an Interdisciplinary Perspective, $2,475,000
• Rosa M. Villarreal, from, U.S. Department of Education, Horizons Student Support Services, $1,841,585
• Connie M. Weaver; George P. McCabe; Kathleen Hill Gallant, from National Heart, Lung & Blood Institute (NIH), DASH-Sodium Trial in Adolescents, $8,625,440
• Peide Ye; Xianfan Xu; Dmitry Y. Zemlyanov, from National Science Foundation, Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation (EFRI) 2-Dimensional Atomic-layer Research and Engineering (2-DARE): Phosphorene, an Unexplored 2D High-mobility Semiconductor, $2,000,000
• Xiangyu Zhang; Dongyan Xu, from Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Transparent Computing, $1,100,000