August 2016 Awards
ADVANCED MANUFACTURING INSTITUTE
Tucker, Jeffrey, and Kramer, Bradley, US Department of Commerce, $250,000, “Kansas State University Olathe Innovation Accelerator University Center Program Grant.”
BIOLOGICAL AND AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING
He, Mei, US Department of Health and Human Services, $57,023, “Microfluidic Engineering of Immunogenic Exosomes for Personalized Cancer Vaccine.”
Moore, Trisha, and Graber, Ronald (Kansas Water Resources Research Institute, Ag Extension), City of Wichita, KS, $21,360, “Sedimentation Abatement − Establishing an Offsite BMP Program with the City of Wichita, KS.”
Rahmani, Vahid, US Environmental Protection Agency, $25,496, “Development of Wetlands in Aging Reservoirs: Opportunities to Enhance Wetland Capacity and Improve Water Quality.”
CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
Hansen, Ryan and Platt, Thomas (Biology),National Science Foundation, $300,000, “PAPM EAGER: Microwell Array Platform for High-Throughput Screening and Discovery of Microbial Interactions.”
Pfromm, Peter, Chikan, Viktor (Chemistry), and Liu, Bin, $177,248, “Step Catalysis to Synthesize Fossil-Free Ammonia at Atmospheric Pressure.”
CIVIL ENGINEERING
Hossain, Mustaque, Kansas Department of Transportation, $20,000, “Administration of KDOT/KTRAN Program.”
COMPUTER SCIENCE
Hatcliff, John, Venkatesh, Ranganath, and Robby, National Science Foundation, $80,000, “FDA SIR: Architecturally-Integrated Hazard Analyses for Medical Application Platforms.”
Nelsen, Mitchell, US Department of Energy, $25,000, “Thermal Battery Model Interface Development.”
ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING
Mirafzal, Behrooz, National Science Foundation, $5,250, “CAREER: Toward Grid-Interactive Converters with Dianostic, Remedial, and Lifetime Prognostic Features for the Next Generation of Power Grids.”
INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH
Eckels, Steven, and McCullough, Elizabeth, Multi-Sponsor, $4,844, “Thermal Properties of Textile Products.”
KANSAS INDUSTRIAL EXTENSION SERVICES
Larson, Nancy, US Environmental Protection Agency, $239,000, “Small Business Environmental Assistance Program 2017.”
MECHANICAL AND NUCLEAR ENGINEERING
Bindra, Hitesh, and Beck, Terry, US Department of Energy $240,791, “Development of Reactor Thermal- Hydraulics and Safety Research Facilities at Kansas State University.”
Betz, Amy, and Singh, Gurpreet, National Science Foundation, $211,243, “Collaborative Research: Understanding, Mitigating, and Controlling Frost Formation Through the Use of Biphilic and Hybrid Surfaces Under Static and Dynamic Conditions.”
Bindra, Hitesh, US Department of Energy, $719,320, “A Computational-Experimental Study to Simulate Mixing and Thermal Stratification in SFRs.”
Lease, Kevin, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, $42,841, “Kansas Space Grant Consortium.”
McGregor, Douglas, and Shultis, Kenneth, US Department of Defense, $236,799, “Wearable Detection Device (WDD) - Low Visibility Gamma Neutron Sensor.”