July 2018 Awards

BIOLOGICAL AND AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING

Featherstone, Allen (Agricultural Economics), Reid, Roberta (Agricultural Economics) and Bigham, Kari, US Department of Agriculture, $17,000, “Loss and Costs of Streambanks with and without Riparian Forest Buffers.”

Hutchinson, Stacy, US Department of Transportation, $52,500, “FHWA Resilience and Durability to Extreme Weather Pilot Program.”

Devlin, Daniel (Kansas Center for Agricultural Resources and the Environment), Moorberg, Colby (Agronomy), Keane, Timothy (Landscape Architecture/Regional and Community Planning), Biles, Larry (Kansas Forest Service), Sheshukov, Aleksey and Moore, Trisha, US Department of the Interior, $59,155, “Kansas Water Resources Research Institute 2016.”

Devlin, Daniel (Kansas Center for Agricultural Resources and the Environment), Golden, Billy (Agricultural Economics), Hoyle, Jared (Horticulture Natural Resources), Lavis, Catherine (Horticulture Natural Resources), Fry, Jack (Horticulture Natural Resources), Bremer, Dale (Horticulture Natural Resources), Lamm, Freddie (Northwest Research Extension Center), Schlegel, Alan (Southwest Research Extension Center), Aguilar, Jonathan (Southwest Research Extension Center) and Rogers, Danny, Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research, $135,000, “Irrigation Innovation Consortium.”

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING

Amama, Placidus, National Science Foundation, $103,193, “CAREER: Rational Design of Efficient Carbon Nanotube-Supported TiO2 Photocatalysts for Air Purification.”

Hansen, Ryan and Parameswaran, Prathap (Civil Engineering), National Science Foundation, $304,427, “Understanding Mechanisms of Membrane Biofouling in Anaerobic Membrane Bioreactors Using Polymer Surface Dissection.”

Chikan, Viktor (Chemistry), Pfromm, Peter (Washington State University) and Liu Bin, US Department of Energy, $205,149, “Step Catalysis to Synthesize Fossil-Free Ammonia at Atmospheric Pressure.”

CIVIL ENGINEERING

Jones, Christopher, US Department of Energy, $24,999, “Support for Ongoing V&V Assessment for CASL/VERA.”

Hansen, Ryan (Chemical Engineering) and Parameswaran, Prathap, National Science Foundation, $304,427, “Understanding Mechanisms of Membrane Biofouling in Anaerobic Membrane Bioreactors Using Polymer Surface Dissection.”

COMPUTER SCIENCE

Amariucai, George, National Security Agency, $12,000, “INSuRE 3.0: INSuRing the Effectiveness of Tomorrow’s Cybersecurity Workforce Today.”

Caragea, Cornelia, National Science Foundation, $230,000, “CRI: CI-SUSTAIN: Collaborative Research: CiteSeerX: Toward Sustainable Support of Scholarly Big Data.”

Poland, Jesse (Plant Pathology) and Neilsen, Mitchell, National Science Foundation, $519,927, “BREAD PHENO: High-Throughput Phenotyping with Smart Phones. #phenoApp.”

INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH

Eckels, Steven, Support Funds, $2,788, “Thermal Properties of Textile Products.”

MECHANICAL AND NUCLEAR ENGINEERING

McNeil, Walter, US Department of Defense, $822,885, “Low-Profile PMT Scintillator Read-Out System.”