August 2015 Awards

New Awards

Amount   Title   Agency   Principal Investigator
& Co-PIs/Dept.  
$25,000 Competitive Research Grant Program FY16: Erythropoietin Immobilized Biodegradable Nanofibrous Scaffold for Bone Tissue Engineering South Dakota Board of Regents (Subaward from University of South Dakota) PI-Fong, Hao
(CABS)
 
$200,000 The FY16 Research & Development Innovation Grants Program South Dakota Board of Regents PI-Puszynski, Jan (ORA)
Co-PIs: Smith, Steve; Ahrenkiel, Scott; Salem, David; Kustas, Frank; Anderson, Robert
 
$98,056 Performance of Fiber-Reinforced Shotcrete in Mining Applications South Dakota Board of Regents PI-Shearer, Christopher
(CEE)
 
$750,000 Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) NASA PI-Anagnostou, Dimitrios (ECE)
Co-PIs: Cross, William; Kellar, Jon; Crawford, Grant; Groven, Lori; Whites, Keith
 
$312,928 Contributing to the Mathematical Rigor of Approximate Dynamic Programming National Science Foundation PI-Heydari, Ali
(MECH)
$183,956 Collaborative Research: S12-SSI: Big Weather Web: A Common and Sustainable Big Data Infrastructure in Support of Weather Prediction Research and Education in Universities National Science Foundation PI-Capehart, William
(ATM)
$17,981 Great Plain Education Foundation Grant - Jump Start Great Plains Foundation PI-Herrera, Jesse
(OMA)
$25,000 Indoor Localization State of South Dakota - Governor's Office of Economic Development PI-McGough, Jeffery
(MATH)
$23,251 Development of Lubricating Fluids That Incorporate Nanoparticles as a Means to Enhance Their Performance State of South Dakota - Governor's Office of Economic Development PI-Hong, Haiping
(MET)
$186,342 Reduction of Backgrounds for WIMP Dark Matter
 National Science Foundation
 PI-Schnee, Richard
(PHY)
 
$68,752 Mine Health and Safety Training for Miners and Contractors Working on Mining Properties in South Dakota
 US Dept. of Labor - Mine Safety Health & Administration
 PI-Kliche, Charles
Co-PIs: McCormick, Kelli
(MEM)
$26,400 Crack Repair of Navy Components Using a Portable High-Pressure Cold Spray System US Dept. of Defense - NAVY (Subaward from VRC Metal Systems, LLC) (SBIR) PI-Widener, Christian
(AMP)

Additional Funding

Amount   Title   Agency   Principal Investigator
& Co-PIs/Dept.  
$4,000 2014 Research and Engineering Apprenticeship Program
 US Dept. of Defense - Army Research Office, Academy of Applied Science
 PI: West, Michael
(MET) 
 
$80,000 Fluoride-Ion Battery Prototype Development
 Waterford Energy Solutions Corp.
 PI-Salem, David (CAPE)
Co-PIs: Hong, Haiping; Zhengto, Zhu; Brady, Andrew 
 
$22,875 NASA Space Technology Research Fellowship (NSTRF) - Fall 2014
 NASA PI-Crawford, Grant
(MET)
$37,500 IGERT: Nanostructured Solar Cells: Materials, Process and Devices
 National Science Foundation (Subaward from University of South Dakota)
 PI: Kellar, Jon (MET)
Co-PI: Cross, William
$225,000 Multidisciplinary Attack on Fundamental and Applied Problems in Advanced Materials and Material Processing US Dept. of Defense - Army Research Laboratory PI: Puszynski, Jan (ORA)
Co-PI's: Cross, William; Muci, Karim; Salem, David; Widener, Christian
$413,406 The Biochemical Spatiotemporal NeTwork Resource (Bio-SNTR): Building a Bio-Economy in South Dakota State of South Dakota - Governor's Office of Economic Development (Subaward from South Dakota State University) PI-Smith, Steve (NANO)