Seed for Success Acorn Awards

2022 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

• Elisa Bertino, Chunyi Peng*, from National Science Foundation/Ohio State University, AI Institute: Symbiotic Foundations for AI and Network Research, $1,098,176.00

• Christopher Greg Brinton, James V. Krogmeier, David J. Love, Chih-Chun Wang*, from U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command / Raytheon BBN Technologies, Dynamic Spectrum Sharing 5G Network Enhancements Prototype, $1,570,653.00

• Douglas K. Brubaker*+, from Good Ventures Foundation, Sleep in Alzheimer's Disease, $1,500,000.00

• Shelley A. Claridge*, from Eric and Wendy Schmidt Fund, 2022 Schmidt Science Polymath Awardee, $2,500,000.00

• Letian Dou*, Jianguo Mei, Brett Savoie, from U.S. Department of Energy, Multi-Functional Semiconducting Ligand Design for Intrinsically Stable and Scalable Perovskite Solar Cells, $1,500,000.00

• Douglas J. Gotham, Stacey L. Connaughton*, from Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission, Continue the Work of the State Utility Forecasting Group from July 2021-June 2027, $4,767,813.15

• Konstantina Gkritza*, Dionysios Aliprantis, Darcy M. Bullock, Rosalee A. Clawson*, John E. Haddock, Steven D. Pekarek, Donna M. Riley*+, from National Science Foundation, Advancing Sustainability through Powered Infrastructure for Roadway Electrification (ASPIRE), $5,481,768.00

• Thomas W. Hertel, Jing Liu*, from U.S. Department of Energy, Understanding Multi-Stressor and Multi-Scale Drivers of Feedbacks, Cascading Failures, and Risk Management Pathways within Complex MSD Systems, $1,106,419.00

• Tomas O. Hook, Angela S. Archer*, Paul B. Brown, Joshua S. Carlton, Hope K. Charters*, Ethan R. Chitty*, Andrew R. Coursey*+ , Carolyn J. Foley, Megan L. Gunn*, Kwamena K. Quagrainie, Kara A. Salazar, Benjamin Zachary Szczygiel*, Leslie E. Thompson, Daniel E. Walker*, Mitchell T. Zischke, from National Oceanographic & Atmospheric Administration, Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant 2022-2023 Omnibus (Parent Record), $3,043,131.00

• Mahdi Hosseini*, Erica Carlson*, Muhsin Menekse, from Department of Defense, National Defense Education Program, Innovation in Quantum Pedagogy, Application and its Relation to Culture (IQ-PARC), $2,788,583.00

• Laura Ingwell*, Wenjing Guan*, Ian Kaplan, Arianna P. Torres Bravo, from National Institute of Food & Agriculture, Optimizing pest management in high tunnels to increase the resiliency of local food systems, $3,704,495.00

• Darrin M. Karcher*, Marisa A. Erasmus*, Esteban Fernandez-Juricic*, Greg S. Fraley*, Patrick A. Zollner, from National Institute of Food & Agriculture, Agent Based Modeling to improve cage-free housing systems: What does the hen see?, $1,000,000.00

• Shihuan Kuang, Meng Deng*, Feng Yue*, from National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS), Targeting PTEN to ameliorate muscular dystrophy in a mouse model, $1,664,881.00

• Ji Yeon Lee*, Sharon L. Christ, from National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, Implicit Structural Priming as a Treatment Component in Aphasia, $3,109,320

• Ying Li*, Natalia Doudareva, from National Science Foundation, Elucidating the interplay between two chromatin regulators HDA8 and ELP3 in dynamic control of primary and secondary metabolic networks, $1,002,041.00

• Chenell Loudermill*, Jasmine L. Begeske*, Charna T. Greenwell, Anne M. Gritt*, Christi M. Masters*, Mandy J. Rispoli, from U.S. Department of Education, Interprofessional Education Supporting the High Intensity Needs of Exceptional Students (IPE-SHINES), $1,165,724.00               

• Philip S. Low, Madduri Srinivasarao*, from MorphImmune, Inc., Development of Targeted Therapies for Human Diseases, $6,877,304.00

• Luna Lu, Yining Feng*, Specification Products, Systematic Testing and Understanding of Nanosilica Based Products on Concrete Curing, Performance and Durability, $1,501,257.00

• Lauren Ann Metskas*, from National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Partial maturation in mosquito-borne flaviviruses: developing new approaches to characterize the role of lattice heterogeneity in fusion, infectivity, and antibody neutralization, $2,243,578.00

• Patricia M. Morita-Mullaney, Jennifer E. Renn*, Wayne E. Wright, from U.S. Department of Education, Parental Inclusion in Language and Research: An Indiana Scale up and Replication of Dual Language Education, $2,903,764.00

• Zoltan Nagy, Gintaras V. Reklaitis, Francesco Rossi*, David H. Thompson, from National Science Foundation, EFRI DCheM: Digital design of a network of distributed modular and agile manufacturing systems with optimal supply chain for personalized medical treatments, $1,999,703.00

• Peristera Paschou*, from National Institute of Mental Health, Tourette Syndrome genetics and neuroimaging international collaborative study, $2,483,845.00

• Linda S. Prokopy, Shalamar D. Armstrong*, Steven G. Hallett, Ian Kaplan, Sarah E. LaRose*, Elizabeth T., Maynard*, Aaron W. Thompson*, Ariana P. Torres Bravo, from National Institute of Food and Agriculture, #DiverseCornBelt: Resilient Intensification through Diversity in Midwestern Agriculture, $10,000,000.00

• Laura J. Pyrak-Nolte*, Antonio Bobet, from U.S. Department of Energy, Role of Fluid and Temperature in Fracture Mechanics and Coupled THMC Processes for Enhanced Geothermal Systems, $2,282,941.00

• Timothy L. Ratliff, Arun K. Ghosh, Philip S. Low, Sandro Matosevic*, Herman O. Sintim, John Tesmer, from Paula and Rodger Riney Foundation, Multiple Myeloma Therapeutic Development, $4,262,869.00

• Catherine R. Scott*, Vicki L. Simpson*, from Health Resources and Services Administration, Consortium for Opioids Response and Engagement-East Central Indiana (CORE-ECI), $1,000,000.00

• Jonathan H. Shannahan*, Kimberly K. Buhman*, Christina R. Ferreira*, Nadia Atallah Lanman*, from National Institute of Environmental Health Science, Compromised Resolution of Inflammation following Nanoparticle Exposure in Metabolic Syndrome, $1,876,239.00

• Ali Shakouri, Jan P. Allebach, Elisa Bertino, Alejandra J. Magana Deleon*, Jan-Anders E. Mansson, from National Science Foundation, FMRG: Cyber: Privacy-Preserving Tiny Machine Learning Edge Analytics Enabling AI-Commons for Manufacturing, $2,999,999.00

• Gregory M. Shaver, Eric A. Holloway*, from Cummins Engine Company Inc., Advanced Valve Actuation, Sensing and Control of High Efficiency Natural Gas Engines, including those to be used in Commercial Range-Extended Electric, $1,500,000.00

• Preeti Mahalakshmi Sivasankar, Abigail D. Cox*, Craig J. Goergen*, Andrea Pires Dos Santos*, Allison J. Schaser*, Jun Xie, from National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, Estrogenic regulation of systemic vocal fold dehydration, $3,653,404.00

• Xiaohui Carol Song, Vetria L. Byrd*, Iman Haqiqi*, Thomas W. Hertel, David R. Johnson, Venkatesh Mohan Merwade, Mark Daniel Ward, from HDR Institute: Geospatial Understanding through an Integrative Discovery Environment, HDR Institute: Geospatial Institute for Digital Innovation to Enhance Resilience and Sustainability, $2,450,000.00

• Bruno Tesini Roseguini*, from National Institute on Aging, Leg heat therapy to improve functional performance in peripheral artery disease, $2,812,794.00

• Elizabeth M. Topp, Alina Alexeenko, Eric J. Munson*, from Pfizer, Inc., Solid-state stability of mRNA vaccines, $1,471,064.00

• Elizabeth Tran, Sara C. Cloutier*+, Youssef Ahmad Hegazy*+, Matthew P. Russon*+, Kirsten M. Westerhouse*+, from National Institute of General Medical Science, The Roles of DEAD-box Proteins in Gene Expression, $2,082,461.00

• David M. Umulis, Douglas Koehler Brubaker+, Adrian Buganza Tepole, Ignacio G. Camarillo*, Jason R. Cannon, Deva Di Hua Chan*, Qing Deng, Janice Perry Evans, Stephanie M. Gardner, Krishna Jayant*, Tae Yoon Kim, Tamara L. Kinzer-Ursem, Jacqueline C. Linnes, Alejandra J. Magana Deleon, Elsje Pienaar*, Christopher J. Staiger, Xiaoqian Wang*, Guangjun Zhang, from National Science Foundation, BII: Emergent Mechanisms in Biology of Robustness, Integration, & Organization (EMBRIO), $12,500,000.00

• Amit H. Varma, Robert J. Connor*, Jungil Seo*, from Battelle Energy Alliance Llc / GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy Americas, Prototype development and Testing for NRIC - Phase 1, $1,400,000.00

• Mohit S. Verma, Jonathan A. Pasternak*, Darryl Ragland*, from Animal Plant Health Inspection Service, Point-of-care detection of African Swine Fever Virus: a paper-based device for molecular diagnostics, $1,000,000.00

• Ellen M. Wells, Jason T. Harris*, Sa Liu, Jae Hong Park, from National Institute of Environmental Health Science, Distance Education and Training on Emerging Contaminants and Technologies (DETECT), $1,131,899.00

• Christina L. Wessel-Powell*, Helen Claire Bentley*, Virak Chan*, Patricia M. Morita-Mullaney, from Indiana Department of Education, Student Learning Recovery Grant: Emergent Literacy and Language Development Clinics, $1,123,774.00

• Wojciech Szpankowski, Ananth Y. Grama, Mohsen Heidari Khoozani*+, from National Science Foundation, CCF: Medium: Learning from Classical and Quantum Data: a Fourier Perspective, $1,199,996.00

• Holly Amber Wood*, Pavlos Vlachos, from Center for Disease Control / Indiana State Department of Health, CDC National Initiative to Address Covid-19 Health Disparities, $10,474,429.00

• Yang Yang, Wendy Ann Koss*, from National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Neuronal and behavioral deficits associated with Scn2a deficiency in autism spectrum disorder, $1,907,470.00

• Denny Yu*, Felicia D. Roberts*, Arman Sabbaghi*, Dimitrios Stefanidis (IU) (add for now but likely will not include), from U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Wearable sensors for modeling and assessing non-technical skills in surgery, $1,600,000.00

• Yun Zhou*, from National Institute of General Medical Science, Molecular Mechanisms of Stem Cell Homeostasis in Arabidopsis, $1,552,759.00