Accolades and Top Sponsored Programs, August 2017

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Accolades

Gwendolyn Foster, English, was selected to screen her film, “Sleeping with the Fishes,” at the Studio 44 Short Film Festival last month in Stockholm, Sweden. Only 40 films were selected for inclusion in this year’s festival. Foster’s film, a surrealist collage, honors Luis Buñuel and André Breton.

Brian Bornstein, psychology professor and director of the University of Nebraska Law-Psychology program, was selected as a program officer for the Law and Social Sciences Program at the National Science Foundation. His appointment begins January 2018.

Top sponsored programs

Departments of biochemistry, computer science and engineering, and statistics; the School of Biological Sciences; with the departments of agronomy and horticulture and animal science:

  • H. Walia, G. Morota, T. Obata, H. Yu, C. Zhang, Q. Zhang
    $5,783,738, National Science Foundation
    RII Track-2 FEC: Comparative Genomics and Phenomics Approach to Discover Genes Underlying Heat Stress Resilience in Cereals

Department of Chemistry

  • J. Francisco, J. Bai, B. Cheung, X. Zeng
    $550,000, National Science Foundation
    Exploration of Low-Dimensional Gas Clathrate Hydrates
  • A. Rajca, S. Rajca
    $1,745,253, National Institutes of Health
    New Nitroxide Spin Labels for Distance Measurements in Biological Systems
  • J. Zhang
    $224,816, National Science Foundation
    Real-Time Spectroscopic Studies of Hybrid MOF Photocatalysts for Solar Fuel Production
  • J. Francisco
    $227,668, Purdue University
    CIF21 DIBBs: EI: Creating a Digital Environment for Enabling Data-Driven Science (DEEDS)

Department of Chemistry; Center for Science, Mathematics and Computer Education; and School of Biological Sciences

  • M. Stains, B. Couch
    $524,243, National Science Foundation
    Mapping Change in Higher Education-Social Networks and STEM Reforms

Department of Computer Science and Engineering

  • S. Cooper
    $200,000, National Science Foundation
    Spatial Skills and Success in Introductory Computing
  • Q. Yan
    $249,995, National Science Foundation
    NeTS: Small: Cooperative Interference-Embracing Communication in Multi-Hop Wireless Networks

Department of Computer Science and Engineering with Supply Chain Management and Analytics

  • J. Vuran, D. Batur, J. Ryan, Q. Yan
    $435,399, National Science Foundation
    SpecEES: CoSeC-RAN: Cognitive Secure Cloud RAN for Efficient Spectrum Sharing

Department of Mathematics

  • P. Radu, M. Foss
    $290,621, National Science Foundation
    Higher Order Nonlocal Models in Continuum Mechanics

Department of Physics and Astronomy

  • X. Hong
    $499,012, National Science Foundation
    Exploring Spin-Orbit Coupling and Correlated Phenomena in Iridate-Based Ferroelectric Transistors and Tunnel Junctions
  • M. Fuchs, M. Centurion, B. Shadwick
    $420,000, National Science Foundation
    Phase-Space Investigation of Laser-Driven Weakly Relativistic Electron Beams

School of Natural Resources, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, and the Public Policy Center with Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, Department of Biological Systems Engineering

  • C. Allen, S. Elbaum, F. Munoz-Arriola, N. Shank, D. Twidwell
    $2,998,886, National Science Foundation
    NRT-INFEWS: Training in Theory and Application of Cross-Scale Resilience in Agriculturally Dominated Social Ecological Systems

 

Information via Office of Research and Economic Development Accolades and Top Sponsored Programs.