October 2016 Awards
ADVANCED MANUFACTURING INSTITUTE
Tucker, Jefferey, Multi-Sponsor, $24,250, “Advanced Manufacturing Institute – Manufacturing Learning Center.”
BIOLOGICAL AND AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING
Lollato, Romulo (Agronomy), Brokesh, Edwin, Griffin, Terry (Agricultural Economics), Patrignani, Andres (Agronomy), Presley, DeAnn (Agronomy), Ruiz Diaz Suarez, Dorivar (Agronomy), and Tomlinson, Peter (Agronomy), American Bakers Association, $50,000, “Sustainable Kansas Wheat - Pilot Project, A Field-to-Market Field Print Calculator Project.”
Sharda, Ajay, Brokesh, Edwin, Flippo, Daniel, and Griffin, Terry (Agricultural Economics), Mahindra & Mahindra Limited, $239,229, “Testing and Evaluation Services Agreement.”
Sharda, Ajay, Flippo, Daniel, Jagadish, Krishna (Agronomy), and Van Der Merwe, Deon (Diagnostic Medicine/ Pathobiology), CNH Industrial America LLC, $97,300, “Testing and Evaluation Services Agreement.”
Hutchinson, Stacy and Golden, Bill (Agricultural Economics), City of Wichita, KS, $5,000, “Agreement for Consulting Services.”
Hutchinson, Stacy, Devlin, Daniel (Kansas Water Resources Institute), and Middendorf, Gerad (Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work), US Department of the Interior, $59,320, “Water Research for the Fort Riley Net Zero Initiative.”
CENTER FOR HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCE RESEARCH
Erickson, Larry, Davis, Lawrence (Biochemistry), Hettiarachchi, Ganga (Agronomy), Roozemboom, Kraig (Agronomy), North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), $16,483, “New Phytotechnology for Cleaning Contaminated Military Sites.”
Blasé, Leven, US Environmental Protection Agency, $1,636,364, “Technical Assistance to Brownfields Communities - UAEPA Regions 5, 6, 7, 8 & National.”
CIVIL ENGINEERING
Rasheed, Hayder, Kansas Department of Transportation, $69,750, “Initial Analytical Investigation of Overhead Sign Trusses with Respect to Remaining Fatigue Life and Predictive Methods for Inspection.”
Stokes, Robert, US Department of Transportation, $100,000, “Traffic Assistance Services for Kansas (TASK) Program (FY 2015 - 2017).”
COMPUTER SCIENCE
Hsu, William, US Department of Energy, $90,000, ”Capability Inference based on Dynamic Topic Modeling and Text Information Extraction.”
Nielson, Mitchell, US Department of Energy, $58,334, “Thermal Battery Model Interface Development.”
ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING
Scoglio, Caterina and Faryad, Darabi Sahneh, US Department of Agriculture, $7,500, “Long-distance Dispersal and Disease Outbreaks: Effects of Initial Prevalence, Basic Reproduction Number, and Control Tactics.”
Prakash, Punit, Hologic, Inc., $53,833, “Investigation of Microwave Endometrial Ablation (MEA): Phase II.”
KANSAS INDUSTRIAL EXTENSION SERVICES
David, Carter, US Department of Agriculture, $36,000, “Kansas Corporation Commission and Kansas State University for Energy Education Services.”
MECHANICAL AND NUCLEAR ENGINEERING
Dunn, William, McNeil, Walter, and Shultis, Kenneth, US Department of Energy, $300,000, “Proposal for a Consortium for Nonproliferation-Enabling Capabilities.”
Roberts, Jeremy, Geuther, Jeffrey, and McGregor, Douglas, US Department of Energy, $266,584, “Advanced Instrumentation for Transient Reactor Testing.”
Leseman, Zayd, National Science Foundation, $1,788, “CAREER: Phononic Crystals: Theory and Practical Implementations.”