Seed for Success Acorn Awards

2021 Seed for Success Acorn Awards

The research grants are in alphabetical order by the PI’s last name and are separated by award year.

• * designates Seed for Success Acorn Award recipients
• + designates those who have left Purdue
• ^ indicates regional campuses

Awardees

• Angela R. Abbott, Blake A. Connolly*, Wanda J Stevens*, from U.S. Department of Agriculture, Indiana Nutrition Education Program: SNAP-Ed Plan 2021, $5,895,566

• Mesut Akdere, Umit Karabiyik, Jin Kocsis*, from U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Cyber Resilience Adaptive Virtual Reality Experiences (CRAVRE), $1,500,000.00

• Brittany Allensworth*, from U.S. Department of Education, Horizons Student Support Services, $2,192,230.00

• Saurabh Bagchi, Somali Chaterji, Mung Chiang*, David Iseri Inouye*, from U.S. Army, Secure, Real-Time, Distributed Decision-Making for the Autonomous Battlefield, $3,741,422

• Saurabh Bagchi, Stephen L Harrell*+, Rajesh Kalyanam*, Xiaohui Carol Song, from National Science Foundation, CCRI: ENS: Collaborative Research: Open Computer System Usage Repository and Analytics Engine, $1,183,897

• Arielle Borovsky*, from National Institute for Deafness and Communication Disorders, Lexico-semantic abilities in early language growth and delay, $3,050,172.00

• Antonio Bianchi*, Jing Tian*, Dongyan Xu, from Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific, DICER: Directed Compilation for Assured Patching, $3,869,729

• Luciano Castillo*, from Office of Naval Research, Blue Integrated Partnerships (BIP): Mentoring the Medici Scholars to Solve Tomorrow's Big Challenges, $2,735,916.00

• Leifu Chang*, from National Institute of General Medical Science, Molecular basis for CRISPR RNA-guided nucleic acid cleavage and DNA transposition, $1,705,317

• Yong P. Chen, Arnab Banerjee*, Sunil A. Bhave, Alexandra Boltasseva, Xingshan Cui*, Sabre Kais, Rafael F. Lang*, Ruichao Ma*, Michael James Manfra, Leonid P. Rokhinson, Vladimir M.

• Gaurav Chopra*, Riyi Shi, from U.S. Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity, Elucidating microglial immune regulation targets to remove protein aggregates in TBI, $1,300,000

• Daniel A. DeLaurentis, James Michael Goppert, Inseok Hwang, Shaoshuai Mou, Dengfeng Sun*, from National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Secure and Safe Assured Autonomy (Thrust 6 - Assured Autonomy of Aviation Transformation), $2,054,000.00

• Ulrike Dydak, Aaron B. Bowman, Daniel Foti, Jonathan R. Kuhn^, Sa Liu*, Jae Hong Park*, Ellen M. Wells*, from National Institute of Environmental Health Science, Neuroimaging of Manganese Toxicity, $3,544,660.00

• Beth Lynelle Hall*, from National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, Regional Climate Center Services: Midwestern Regional Climate Center (MRCC), $3,112,500

• Carol A. Handwerker, Harvey Abramowitz^, John E. Blendell, Nikhilesh Chawla*, Ganesh Subbarayan-Shastri, from Department of the Army/ Advanced Technology International, USPAE Proposal to CIR CS-20-1302 for Lead Free Defense Electronics, $26,000,000.00

• Thomas W. Hertel, Raquel Asencio*+, Xiaohui Carol Song, from National Science Foundation, AccelNet: GLASSNET: Networking Global to Local Analyses to Inform Sustainable Investments in Land and Water Resources, $1,999,991.00

• Inseok Hwang, James Michael Goppert*, Dongyan Xu, from Technology Innovation Institute, Cybersecurity for UAS Operations in Urban Environment, $2,012,574.00

• Hyunyoung Jeong*, from National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Molecular basis of altered drug metabolism during pregnancy, $1,243,534.00

• Sarah Karalunas*, Sean P. Lane, from National Institute of Mental Health, Biobehavioral validation of the ADHD emotion dysregulation phenotype, $3,551,472.00

• Shihuan Kuang, Luiz Fernando Brito*, Matthew Olson*, Timothy Ratliff, from National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS), Immunomyoblasts in muscle regeneration, $2,628,475.00

• Xiaojun Lin*, Dionysios Aliprantis*, Lu Liu*, Gesualdo Scutari*, from U.S. Department of Energy, Communication-Constrained Robust Control and Learning of Grid-Connected IoT, $1,850,000.00

• Jacqueline C. Linnes, Sulma I. Mohammed*, from National Cancer Institute, Point-of-care screening test for early cervical cancer detection, $1,996,330.00

• Xing Liu*, from National Institute of General Medical Science, Regulatory Mechanism of Cullin-RING Ubiquitin Ligases, $1,880,740.00

• Ajay P. Malshe*, Yung C. Shin, from Army Research Laboratory, Convergent manufacturing platform (CMP) for hybrid processing of heterogeneous structures, $5,051,004.00

• Susan M. Mendrysa, Latonia L. Craig, Marxa L. Figueiredo, Harm Hogenesch, Loran Carleton Parker, Malathi Raghavan*, from National Institute of General Medical Science, Purdue PREP for Translational Biomedical Sciences, $1,193,892.00

• Nathan Mentzer*, from National Science Foundation, Learning by evaluating (LbE): Engaging students in evaluation as a pedagogical strategy to improve design thinking, $1,257,321.00

• Timothy J. Newby*, Kharon D. Grimmet*, Adrie Anne Koehler-Blair*, Patricia M. Morita-Mullaney, Jennifer C. Richardson, from Indiana Department of Education, Becoming an online teacher - even when I didn't sign up for it, $1,548,823.68

• David J. Purpura, Robert J. Duncan*, Sarah Henkel Eason*, Sara A. Schmitt, from NewSchools Venture Fund, My Math Stories: Taking My Place in Our Mathematical World, $2,000,000.00

• Timothy L. Ratliff, Majid Kazemian, Nadia Atallah Lanman*, Jiang Yang*, from National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, Impact of Inflammation on Adult Prostate Stem Cells, $3,561,043.00

• Vitaliy L. Rayz*, Bruce A. Craig, Pavlos Vlachos, from National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Risk Assessment of Cerebral Aneurysm Growth with 4D flow MRI, $2,635,330.00

• Sandra San Miguel*, Wilella Daniels Burgess, Ladawn T. Lyle*+, Martha Lindley McDavid*, Loran Carleton Parker, Micha C. Simons+, from National Institute of General Medical Science, See Us-Be Us: Inspiring future veterinarians using a Veterinary STEM Ecosystem, $1,350,000.00

• Brett Savoie, Julia Laskin*, Jianguo Mei*, from Office of Naval Research, An Informatics Paradigm for Predicting Organic Chemical Stability, $7,483,688.00

• Steven F. Son, Timothy D. Manship*, Alejandro H. Strachan, from Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Characterization of Novel Energetic Material with Sub-scale Experiments Correlated to Large Scale Tests Using Machine Learning, $1,436,144.00

• Zoe E. Taylor*, Yumary Ruiz*, J. Jill Suitor, from National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), Mental and Physical Health in Children of Latino Migrant Farm Workers: A Multi-Level Longitudinal Examination of Risk and Resilience Factors, $3,138,472.00

• Roger L. Tormoehlen*, William E. Field, from National Institute of Food and Agriculture, Gearing Up for Youth Education and Development for Employment in Agriculture, $2,254,000.00

• Darci J. Trader*+, from National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Monitoring and Manipulating the Activity of the Immunoproteasome with Small Molecules, $1,865,693.00

• Danzhou Yang, Herman O. Sintim*, from National Cancer Institute, Targeting MYC promoter G-quadruplex for MYC inhibition by Indenoisoquinolines, $1,949,970.00