Accolades and Top Awards, September 2018

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From the Office of Research and Economic Development's Accolades and Top Awards:

Accolades

Casey Kelly, communication studies, received the Karl R. Wallace Memorial Award from the National Communication Association. The award, aimed at scholars in the first 10 years of their career, is intended to foster and promote philosophical, historical or critical scholarship in rhetoric and public discourse. Kelly’s award will support completion of his book, “Apocalypse Man: White Masculinity at the End of the World.”

Tracy Frank, earth and atmospheric sciences, was named vice president of the International Association of Sedimentologists. The association promotes the study of sedimentology and integration with other disciplines.

Top Awards

Department of Biological Systems Engineering/Department of Computer Science and Engineering/Department of Statistics

  • Y. Ge, Y. Shi, H. Yu, Y. Zhou
  • $717,698
  • Department of Agriculture-National Institute of Food and Agriculture
  • CPS: 3D Dynamic Soil Information System Enabled by UAV and Proximal Depth Sensing

Department of Chemistry

  • E. Dodds
  • $1,843,480
  • U.S. Department of Health and Human Services-National Institute of General Medical Sciences
  • A Research Program on Advancing Biomedical Glycoproteomics

Department of Chemistry

  • D. Berkowitz
  • $470,000
  • NSF
  • New Approaches to Catalyst Screening and Development

Department of Computer Science and Engineering

  • B. Bockelman
  • $499,673
  • NSF
  • CC* Integration: Service Analysis and Network Diagnosis (SAND)

Department of Computer Science and Engineering/Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering

  • Q. Yan, Q. Zhou
  • $499,999
  • NSF
  • SaTC: CORE: Small: URadio: Towards Secure Smart Home IoT Communication Using Hybrid Ultrasonic-RF Radio

Department of History

  • M. Jacobs
  • $200,000
  • Carnegie Corporation of New York
  • Does the United States Need a Truth and Reconciliation Commission?

Department of Physics and Astronomy

  • I. Fabrikant
  • $270,000
  • NSF
  • Electron and Positronium Collisions with Molecules

Department of Psychology/Department of Educational Psychology

  • S. Gervais, D. DiLillo, M. Dodd, M. Fritz
  • $1,097,073
  • U.S. DHHS-National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
  • Integrating Alcohol Myopia and Objectification to Understand Sexual Assault

School of Biological Sciences

  • B. Yu, C. Zhang
  • $682,608
  • NSF
  • Understand the Functional Mechanism of the DSP1 Complex in the 3′ Maturation of Plant Small Nuclear RNAs

School of Biological Sciences

  • K. Montooth, J. DeLong
  • $299,999
  • NSF
  • RoL: FELS: EAGER: A Predictive Framework of Metabolism as an Engine of Functional Environmental Responses across Levels of Biological Organization