November 2017 Awards

BIOLOGICAL AND AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING

Sharda, Ajay, Jagadish, SV Krishna (Agronomy), Flippo, Daniel and Van Der Merwe, Deon (Diagnostic Medicine Pathobiology), CNH Industrial America LLC, $20,000, “Testing and Evaluation Services Agreement.”

He, Mei, US Department of Health and Human Services, $57,503, “Microfluidic Engineering of Immunogenic Exosomes for Personalized Cancer Vaccine.”

CIVIL ENGINEERING

Fitzsimmons, Eric and Dissanayake, Sunanda, Kansas Department of Transportation, $63,932, “Understanding Overweight/Oversize Freight Flow and Safety in Kansas Using KTRIPS.”

Fitzsimmons, Eric, Kansas Department of Transportation, $68,484, “Developing Vehicle Speed Profiles for Typical Kansas Work Zones with Unseen Hazards of Sudden Changes in Horizontal Alignment after Advance Warning.”

COMPUTER SCIENCE

Caragea, Cornelia, National Science Foundation, $95,593, “CAREER: Rom Data to Knowledge: Extracting and Utilizing Concept Graphs in Online Environments.”

Caragea, Cornelia, National Science Foundation, $122,878, “TWC: Small: Collaborative: Towards Privacy Preserving Online Image Sharing.”

Neilsen, Mitchell, US Department of Energy, $21,666, “Thermal Battery Model Interface Development.”

INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH

Eckels, Steven, Support Funds, $695, “Thermal Properties of Textile Products.”

KANSAS INDUSTRIAL EXTENSION SERVICES

Snead, Bruce and Hanson, Brian, US Environmental Protection Agency, $142,227, “Radon Projects for Kansas.”

MECHANICAL AND NUCLEAR ENGINEERING

McGregor, Douglas and Roberts, Jeremy, US Department of Energy, $64,415, “Develop an Active Sensor Array Prototype for Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory.”