July 2014 Awards

ADVANCED MANUFACTURING INSTITUTE

Kramer, Bradley, Jones, Taylor and Tucker Jeffrey, Multi-Sponsor, $110,000, “Advanced Manufacturing Institute – Manufacturing Learning Center.”

BIOLOGICAL AND AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING

Sheshukov, Aleksey Y. and Kisekka, Isaya (SWREC), Vietnam Education Foundation, $55,500, “Vietnam Education Foundation Fellowship.”

Wilken, Lisa, National Science Foundation (EPSCOR First Award), $90,591, Integrated Process Development for Protein and Oil Recovery from Microalgae Biomass.”

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING

Liu, Bin, National Science Foundation (EPSCOR First Award), $115,672, “Determination of the Molecular Structures of Cu/Fe-modified ZSM-5 Catalysts for Methane-to-methanol Conversions from First-principles Method.”

COMPUTING AND INFORMATION SCIENCES

Welch, Stephen (Agronomy), Kluitenberg, Gerard (Agronomy), Caragea, Doina, and Das, Sanjoy (Electrical and Computer Engineering), National Science Foundation, $134,590, “TRMS: Agroecological Annotation of Gene Function and Computational Analysis of Gene Networks.”

DeLoach, Scott and Ou, Xinming (Simon), US Department of Defense, $194,639, “Understanding and Quantifying the Impact of Moving Target Defenses on Computer Networks.”

ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING

Welch, Stephen (Agronomy), Kluitenberg, Gerard (Agronomy), Caragea, Doina (Computing and Information Sciences), and Das, Sanjoy, National Science Foundation, $134,590, “TRMS: Agroecological Annotation of Gene Function and Computational Analysis of Gene Networks.”

Schulz, Noel and Gruenbacher, Don, Kansas State University Foundation, $88,500, “Power Affiliates.”

Scoglio, Caterina, National Science Foundation, $499,542, “CIF: Small: Spreading Processes over Multilayer and Interconnected Networks.”

MECHANICAL AND NUCLEAR ENGINEERING

McGregor, Douglas, Ugorowski, Philip, Geuther, Jeffrey, and Roberts, Jeremy, US Department of Energy, $334,967, “Develop an Active Sensor Array Prototype for Knolls Atomic Power.”