Congratulations to our multidisciplinary teams and awardees. Highlights include:
$12.8M
Arindam Chowdhury
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
“Mid-scale RI-1 (M1:DP): National Full-Scale Testing Infrastructure for Community Hardening in Extreme Wind, Surge, and Wave Events (NICHE)”
A $12.8M, four-year cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation (NSF) to design a unique, national-scale, multi-user facility to study the impact of extreme winds, storm surge and waves on different types of civil infrastructures.
$1.8M
Joshua Hutcheson
Department of Biomedical Engineering
“Targeting the Caveolae-Dependent Mechanism of Calcifying Extracellular Vesicle Formation”
A $1.8M, five-year National Institute of Health grant to study the ways in which chronic kidney disease causes heart disease and how it might be able to treated.
$3M
Sumit Paudyal
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
“Consortium for Research and Education in Power and Energy Systems (CREPES) for Sustainable STEM Workforce”
A $3M, three-year grant from the U.S. Department of Energy awarded to three Minority Serving Institutions (MSI) and two National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Labs to build a sustainable pipeline of highly trained electrical engineers to form a National Security Enterprise (NSE) workforce.
$3.8M
Daniela Radu
Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering
“NSF PREM for Innovations in Materials, Processes, and Applications for Quantum Technologies (IMPAQT)”
The result of a $3,780,000 National Science Foundation PREM grant focused on developing new 2D materials and processes that can be transformative in the field of Quantum Science and ensuring long-term 2D resilience in future quantum devices.
$2.7M
Nikolaos Tsoukiasl
Department of Biomedical Engineering
“Cerebral Microvascular Signaling and Neurovascular Coupling: An Integrated Approach to Investigate Vascular Contributions to Cognitive Impairment and Dementia”
A $2,670,000 5-year NIH R01 grant to research microvascular contributions to brain disorders such as cerebral small vessel diseases and Alzheimer’s.
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#41-44 Computer Science and Information Systems
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#40 Engineering and Technology
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#39-48 Mechanical Engineering
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