June 2018 Awards

BIOLOGICAL AND AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING

Devlin, Daniel (Kansas Center for Agricultural Resources and the Environment), Moorberg, Colby (Agronomy), Keane, Timothy (Landscape Architecture and Regional Community Planning), Biles, Larry (Kansas Forest Service), Sheshukov, Aleksey and Moore, Trisha, US Department of the Interior, $92,335, “Kansas Water Resources Research Institute 2016.”

Rahmani, Vahid, Kansas Water Office, $20,432, “ADCP Velocity Measurements in Tuttle Creek Lake.”

Rice, Charles (Agronomy), Pagadala, Venkata (Agricultural Experiment Station), Golden, Billy (Agricultural Economics), Lin, Xiaomao (Agronomy), Schlegel, Alan (Southwest Research Extension Center), Sanderson, Matthew (Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work), Aguilar, Jonathan (Southwest Research Extension Center) and Rogers, Danny, US Department of Agriculture, $578,158, “Sustaining Agriculture through Adaptive Management to Preserve the Ogallala Aquifer under a Changing Climate.”

CENTER FOR HAZARDOUS SUSTANCE RESEARCH

Erickson, Larry, Hettiarachchi, Ganga (Agronomy), Roozeboom, Kraig (Agronomy) and Davis, Lawrence (Biochemistry), North Atlantic Treaty Organization, $2,297, “New Phytotechnology for Cleaning Contaminated Military Sites.”

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING

Edgar, James, National Science Foundation, $5,880, “Hexagonal Boron Nitride Crystal Growth from Solution: A Study of Fundamentals.”

Hua, Duy (Chemistry), McLaurin, Emily (Chemistry), Bossmann, Stefan (Chemistry), Higgins, Daniel (Chemistry), Li, Jun (Chemistry), Sues, Peter (Chemistry), Aakeroy, Christer (Chemistry), Gadzikwa, Tendai (Chemistry), Li, Ping (Chemistry), Hohn, Keith and Hansen, Ryan, National Science Foundation, $416,212, “MRI: Acquisition of a 400 MHz NMR Spectrometer to Support Research Projects from C-H Bond Oxidation to Engineered Molecular Materials.”

Hansen, Ryan, US Department of Energy, $125,000, “An Analytical Technology Platform to Identify Symbiotic Interactions between PGPR and Root Microbiome Members from Biofuel Feedstocks.”

CIVIL ENGINEERING

Parameswaran, Prathap, National Science Foundation, $136,908, “Smart Adaptation of Enriched Microbiomes in Recovered Nutrient Products (bio-fertilizers) from Anaerobic Wastewater Treatment to the Native Soil.”

COMPUTER SCIENCE

Kirkpatrick, Kimberly (Psychological Sciences), Bossmann, Stefan (Chemistry), Loschky, Lester (Psychological Sciences), Bailey, Heather (Psychological Sciences), Cain, Mary (Psychological Sciences), Pickens, Charles (Psychological Sciences) and Andresen, Daniel, US Department of Health and Human Services, $2,067,986, “Cognitive and Neurobiological Approaches to Plasticity (C-NAP) Center.”

ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING

Thompson, David, US Department of Energy, $30,500, “Real-Time Navigation System Simulation Advancement.”

INDUSTRIAL AND MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS ENGINEERING

Lin, Dong, National Science Foundation, $137,630, “3D Printing Biomimetic and Hierarchical Wood Structure for Endosphere Microbiome Study.”

Sinha, Ashesh, Schneider Enterprise Resources, LLC, $57,424, “Dispatch Strategies in Intermodal Transportation: A Feasibility and Validation Study.”

KANSAS INDUSTRIAL EXTENSION SERVICES

Carter, David, Cook, Yvonne and Hamel, Ryan, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas, Inc., $126,000, “Small Business Energy Assessments for Blue Cross/Blue Shield.”

MECHANICAL AND NUCLEAR ENGINEERING

Betz, Amy, National Science Foundation, $30,622, “Research Initiation: The Formation of Engineering Students’ Beliefs about Intelligence.”