June 2018 Awards


New Awards


Amount Title Agency PI & Co-PIs (Dept.)
$37,784Large-Scale Underground Mine Planning for 2018
Barrick Gold Mines
PI: Brickey, Andrea (MINE)
$25,000Deerfield, Pactola and Rapid Creek Systems Analysis Modeling Project
West Dakota Water Development District
PI: Waterman, David (CEE)
$120,000SBIR Phase II: Controlled-Porosity Ceramic Materials for High Temperature Downhole Applications, Phase IIU.S. Department of Energy (Subaward from Olympic Research)
PI: Groven, Lori (CBE)
$841,307Security Crystals: NIR-To-NIR Upconverting Nanoparticles for Fingerprint Identification and DNA ExtractionU.S. Department of Justice - National Institute of JusticePI: Cross, William (SPACT) Co-PIs: Kellar, Jon; Qiao, Mengyu
$15,000The South Dakota GEAR UP College Transition Grant Program at SDSMTU.S. Department of Education (Subaward from Black Hills State University)
PI: Herrera, Jesse (OMA)
$25,000Using Wearable IMUs to Evaluate Musculoskeletal Disorder Risk While Using Hands-free Computing TechnologyOffice Ergonomics Research Committee
PI: Piper, Adam (IE)
$11,000Deerfield, Pactola, and Rapid Creek Systems Analysis Modeling ProjectSouth Dakota Game, Fish, and Parks
PI: Waterman, David (CEE) Co-PIs: Kenner, Scott; Nisrani, Mengistu Geza
$5,000Deerfield, Pactola, and Rapid Creek Systems Analysis Modeling ProjectBlack Hills Fly FishersPI: Waterman, David (CEE) Co-PIs: Kenner, Scott
$412,908 Sustainable System for Mineral Beneficiation
National Science Foundation
PI: Kellar, Jon (SERC) Co-PIs: Cross, William; Romkes, Albert

Additional Awards


Amount Title Agency PI & Co-PIs (Dept.)
$2,250 Solid State Additive Manufacturing of Titanium Using Cold Spray
U.S. Department of Defense (Subaward from VRC Metal Systems)
PI: Crawford, Grant (SERC) Co-PIs: Widener, Christian
$60,000 High-Order Positivity-Preserving Finite Different Schemes for Robust Computations of Multi-Phase Flows


U.S. Department of Defense - Office of Naval Research
PI: Shahbazi, Khosro (MECH)
$21,267 The 2020 Vision: Building Research, Education, and Innovation Partnerships for South Dakota
National Science Foundation (Subaward from South Dakota State University)
PI: Smith, Steve (NANO)
$67,500 Rapid Rehabilitation of Highway Slopes Using Seeded Microbial Bio-Cement
Federal Highway Administration - National Academy of Sciences
PI: Lingwall, Bret (CEE)
$30,000
LUX/ZEPLIN (LZ) Project Work
U.S. Department of Energy (Subaward from Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)
PI: Schnee, Richard (PHY) Co-PIs: Reichenbacher, Juergen; Bai, Xinhua 
$357,970Development of Additive Manufacturing Technologies for Energetic Materials
U.S. Department of Defense (Subaward from ATI)PI: Groven, Lori (CBE) Co-PIs: Salem, David 
$125,000South Dakota NASA EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Development Program
 NASAPI: Duke, Edward (SDSGC) Co-PIs: Durkin, Tom 
$300,019 Surface Engineering Research Center (SERC)
South Dakota Board of Regents
PI: Crawford, Grant (SERC) Co-PIs: Kustas, Francis; Jasthi, Bharat; Gadhamshetty, Venkata