April, 2016 Research Awards

New Awards

Amount   Title   Agency   Principal Investigator
& Co-PIs/Dept.
 
$25,000 Seasonal Examination of the Pathogenicity Profile in the Big Sioux River and Skunk Creek
East Dakota Water Development
PI: Kunza, Lisa
Co-PI: DeVeaux, Linda
(CABS)
$160,000
 
An Assessment of River Metabolism in the Kootenai River Upstream of Lake Koocanusa and Downstream of Libby Dam
US Department of Defense-US Army Corp of Engineers
PI: Kunza, Lisa
(CABS)  

Additional Funding

Amount   Title   Agency   Principal Investigator
& Co-PIs/Dept.
 
 $372,000 Increasing the Discovery Potential of Underground Physics at SURF and Beyond US Department of Energy
PI-Schnee, Richard            
Co-PI's-Bai, Xinhua; Reichenbacher, Juergen, Corwin, Luke (PHY)
 $80,000 On Integrating Object Detection Capability Into a Coastal Energy Conversion System US Department of Defense - Office of Naval Research PI-Korde, Umesh (MECH)
$50,000 SBIR Phase II: Efficient and Scalable Production of Functionalized Electrospun Nanofiber Felts of Regenerated Cellulose with Superior Capacity and Elevated Throughput for Bioseparations Nanopareil LLC
PI-Fong, Hao (CABS)
$30,000 LUX/ZEPLIN (LZ) Project
US Department of Energy - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
PI: Schnee, Richard Co-PIs: Bai, Xinhua; Reichenbacher, Juergen
(PHY)
$220,000
REU Site: Back to the Future III
National Science Foundation

PI-West, Michael
Co-PI-Cross, William
(MET)

 $200,000Prototype for Basic Expeditionary Airfield Resources (BEAR) System for Load & Installation Management (BSLIM)US Department of Defense-Air Force Civil Engineer Center (Subaward from Eaton Corporate Research and Technology) PI- Winter, Robb
Co-PI - Zhao, Yanxiao
(CBE)
$30,000
Fluoride-Ion Battery Prototype Development
Trion (Formerly Waterford Energy Solutions Corporation)

PI: Salem, David
Co-PIs: Hong, Haiping; Zhengtao, Zhu; Brady, Andrew
(CAPE)

$40,000
Fluoride-Ion Battery Prototype Development
Trion (Formerly Waterford Energy Solutions Corporation)

PI: Salem, David
Co-PIs: Hong, Haiping; Zhengtao, Zhu; Brady, Andrew
(CAPE)

$250,000 Numerical Modeling of Gas Emissions and Cave Ventilation in Block Caving Mines US Department of Health & Human Services - The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) - Center for Disease Control and Prevention

PI - Tukkaraja, Purushotham
Co-PI's Katzenstein, Kurt; Shahbazi, Khosro
(MEM)
 

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