May 2023 Awards

New Awards 

Amount Title Agency PI & Co-PIs (Dept.)
$35,000.00 SMARTer Training: A Data-Driven, Collaborative Toolkit to Improve Training and Reporting Outcomes for Contractors and Small Mine Operators
U.S. Dept. of Labor - Mine Safety Health Administration (Subaward from University of Arizona)
PI: Tukkaraja. Purushotham; Co-PI: McCormick, Kelli (MEM)
$20,000.00 Support to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) BRACE Program
U.S. Dept. of Defense - Battelle
PI: Shearer, Christopher; Co-PIs: Dhiman, Saurabh; Gadhamshetty, Venkata; Lingwall, Bret; Salem, David; Sani, Rajesh (CEE)

Additional Awards

Amount Title Agency PI & Co-PIs (Dept.)
$10,000.00 Collaborative Research: EarthCube Data Capabilities: A data-driven modeling infrastructure to support research and education in volcanology geochemistry and petrology. National Science Foundation (Subaward from Columbia University)
PI: Ustunisik, Gokce; Co-PI: Nielsen, Roger (GEOL)
$106,875.00 A URA for Materials Science in Extreme Environments
U.S. Dept. of Defense - DTRA (Subaward from John Hopkins)
PI: Groven, Lori (CBE)
$24,999.00 Annual Paleontological Field Survey and Salvage of Fossil Material Along Lake Francis Case/Ft. Randall Project Lands
U.S. Dept. of Defense - U.S. Army Corp of Engineers
PI: Pagnac, Darrin (GEOL)
$10,000.00Periodic Survey and Salvage of Fossil Material Along Bureau of Reclamation Lands in Western South Dakota and Eastern Wyoming
U.S. Dept. of Interior - U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
PI: Pagnac, Darrin; Co-PI: Fox, Nathaniel (GEOL)
$109,992.00 IUCRC Phase 1: South Dakota School of Mines and Technology: Center for Solid-State Electric Power Storage (CEPS) National Science FoundationPI: Smirnova, Alevtina (CABS) 
$9,150.00Water Availability, quality of Groundwater and Surface Water, climate and land-use trends, and streamflow dynamics within the Missouri River and upper basin tributaries.
U.S. Dept. of Interior - U.S. Geological Survey
PI: Geza, Stu (CEE)
$55,000.00RII Track-4: Inverse Methods of Hydraulic Fracturing for Enhanced Geothermal Systems in a Deep Mine
National Science Foundation - EPSCoR
PI: Li, Liangping (GEOL)
$2,500.00Thermophilic exopolysaccharide-derived films as delivery vehicles for non-opioid pain medications.South Dakota Board of Regents (Subaward from South Dakota State University)
PI: Sani, Rajesh (CBE)
$64,097.00Rejuvenating aged bone regeneration by innovative nanomaterials-mediated drug deliveryNational Institute of Health (Subaward from University of Iowa)PI: Zhu, Zhengtao (CABS)
$150,000.00 Support to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) BRACE Program
U.S. Dept. of Defense - Battelle
PI: Shearer, Christopher; Co-PIs: Dhiman, Saurabh; Gadhamshetty, Venkata; Lingwall, Bret; Salem, David; Sani, Rajesh (CEE)