Seed for Success Acorn Awards
The Seed for Success Acorn Award is given to investigators in recognition of their accomplishment in obtaining an external sponsored award of $1 million or more. Please see lists of awardees by year. Individuals can only receive an award once.
FY2012 Seed for Success Acorn Awards
Awardees
- SNAP-Ed Indiana Family Nutrition Program
Angela R. Abbott; Melissa Maulding
from U.S. Department of Agriculture
$4,949,271 - Mechanism(s) of Hepatocyte Transformation by the Hepatitis B Virus X Protein
Ourania M. Andrisani; Jun Xie
from National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disease
$1,825,739 - Measurement and Modeling of Central Auditory Processing in Aged Animals
Edward L. Bartlett
from National Institute on Deafness and Other Communicative Disorders
$1,726,947 -
Collaborative Research: Integrated Training for Continental Ecology (ITCE): Bridging Scales and Systems with Isotopes
Gabriel J. Bowen; Christopher C. Miller; Eric M. Riggs
from National Science Foundation
$2,155,797 - Energy Efficient Building Systems Regional Innovation Cluster Initiative
James E. Braun; Qingyan Chen; George T. Chiu; William T. Horton; Jianghai Hu; Panagiota Karava; Athanasios Tzempelikos
from U.S. Department of Energy
$1,215,898 - Facility Support: Accelerator Mass Spectrometry at PRIME Lab
Marc W. Caffee; Darryl E. Granger; Nathaniel A. Lifton; Paul F. Muzikar
from National Science Foundation
$2,699,900 - Building and Scaling Analytics Capacity
John P. Campbell; Matthew D. Pistilli
from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
$1,231,754 -
Development and Engineering Command, Dynamic Mechanical Properties of High-Performance Fibers
Weinong W. Chen
from U.S. Army Research
$1,150,000 - Topological Insulator Coherent Energy-efficient Devices
Yong P. Chen; Supriyo Datta; Mark S. Lundstrom; Anant K. Ramdas; Xianfan Xu; Peide Ye
from Office of Naval Research
$2,492,613 - FY11-12 Indiana University School of Medicine - Lafayette General Fund
Gordon L. Coppoc; Regina A. Kreisle; James J. Walker
from Indiana University - Purdue University at Indianapolis
$1,664,917 - An Agent-based Concept for an Enhanced C2BMC Architecture
Daniel A. Delaurentis; Saurabh Bagchi; James Eric Dietz; Stephen D. Heister; Joseph Pekny
from Missile Defense Agency
$1,250,972 - Regional Hub Reception Center Planning Guide
James Eric Dietz; David Black; Dave Hankins; Jefferson F. Howells; Carlos R. Morales; Steve Shelby; Clifford J. Wojtalewicz
from U.S. Department of Homeland Security
$1,497,162 - Neuroimaging for Early Diagnosis of Manganese Toxicity in Humans and Rodents
Ulrike Dydak; Frank Rosenthal; Wei Z. Zheng
from National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
$2,350,624 -
VACCINE: Visual Analytics for Command, Control and Interoperability Environments, FY12 Funding
David S. Ebert; Timothy F. Collins; Edward J. Delp; Lars Niklas E. Elmqvist
from U.S. Department of Homeland Security
$1,450,000 - Integrated Striga Control Activity in Sorghum in Ethiopia and Tanzania
Gebisa Ejeta; Tesfaye D. Mengiste
from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
$4,992,836 - Nanofabrication of Tunable 3D Nanotube Architectures
Timothy Fisher; Xiulin Ruan
from Air Force Office of Scientific Research
$1,502,777 - Tyrosine Kinases and Lymphocyte Activation
Robert L. Geahlen
from National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease
$1,663,709 - Design & Synthesis of Non-peptide Protease Inhibitors
Arun K. Ghosh
from National Institute of General Medical Sciences
$1,487,714 - 2012 Local Technical Assistance Program Work Plan & Budget
John E. Haddock; John A. Habermann
from U.S. Department of Transportation
$1,282,486 - IGERT: Global Traineeship in Sustainable Electronics
Carol A. Handwerker; Inez Hua; Ananth V. Iyer; Karthik Ramani
from National Science Foundation
$3,199,979 - Collagen Cross-links Direct Matrix-Induced Vasculogenesis via Tunable Pathways
Sherry L. Harbin; Bumsoo Han
from National Institution of Heart, Lung and Blood
$1,896,989 -
Improving Robustness of Prosthetic Arm Control with an Innovative RF-Based Implantable EMG System
Pedro Irazoqui
from Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center
$2,573,958 - Live Single Cell Epigenetic Profiling and Regulation at Single Molecule Resolution
Joseph M. Irudayaraj; Ann Kirchmaier; Sophie A. Lelievre; Amy C. Lossie
from W.M. Keck Foundation
$1,000,000 - IARPA Finder 2011
Avinash C. Kak; Johnny Park
from Air Force Office of Scientific Research
$1,195,161 - Identification of Protein-metabolite Interactome
Daisuke Kihara; Chiwook Park; Weiguo A. Tao
from National Institute of General Medical Sciences
$1,471,781 - Network for Computational Nanotechnology
Gerhard Klimeck; Mark Lundstrom; Michael McLennan; Alejandro Strachan
National Science Foundation
$3,648,333 -
ARI-MA: Development of High Rate, Excellent Energy Resolution, Radiation Damage Insensitive, Liquid
Krypton Gamma Ray Detector for Use in High Radiation Environments
David S. Koltick; Ahmed Hassanein
from National Science Foundation
$1,983,296 - Effects of Language Experience on Early Cortical and Subcortical Pitch Encoding
Ananthanarayan Krishnan; Jackson T. Gandour
from National Institute on Deafness and Other Communicative Disorders
$1,849,008 - Molecular Basis of Alphavirus Assembly
Richard J. Kuhn
from National Institute of General Medical Sciences
$1,352,466 - Communicative Disorders
Laurence B. Leonard
from National Institute on Deafness and Other Communicative Disorders
$1,828,118 - Maddies Shelter Medicine Program
Annette L. Litster; George E. Moore
from Maddies Fund
$1,913,464 -
Collaborative Research: Deep Insights Anytime, Anywhere - Central Resource for Characterizing the Transforming Undergraduate Education in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Portfolio through Interactive Knowledge Mining and Visualizations
Krishna P. Charavarthi Madhavan; Lars Niklas E. Elmqvist; Mihaela Vorvoreanu; Phillip C. Wankat
from National Science Foundation
$1,307,542 - Improved Detection Techniques for Foodborne Pathogens
Lisa J. Mauer; Bruce M.Applegate; Arun K. Bhunia; Joseph M. Irudayaraj; Michael R. Ladisch
from U.S. Department of Agricultural
$1,477,573 - Center for the Catalytic Conversion of Biomass to Bioenergy (C3Bio)
Maureen McCann; Mahdi M. Abu-Omar; Rakesh Agrawal; Nicholas C. Carpita; Clint Chapple; W. Nicholas Delgass; Hilkka I. Kenttamaa; Nathan S. Mosier; Angus S. Murphy; Wendy A. Peer;
Fabio H. Ribeiro; Garth J. Simpson; Christopher J. Staiger; Daniel, B. Szymanski
from U.S. Department of Energy
$15,074,136 - Military Community, Family and Youth Extension Program
Renee K. McKee
from U.S. Department of Defense
$1,363,636 - Afghanistan Agricultural Sanitary and Phytosanitary Project
Kevin T. McNamara; Betty A. Bugusu; Ricky E. Foster; Haley F. Oliver; Ramesh Vemulapalli
from U.S. Department of Agriculture
$2,175,242 -
Afghanistan Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock Agricultural Data Collection and Utilization System Project
Kevin T. McNamara; James M. Lowenberg-Deboer
from U.S. Department of Agriculture
$3,099,861 - Personality and Well-Being Trajectories in Adulthood
Daniel K. Mroczek
from National Institute on Aging
$2,000,073 -
PRISM: Center for Prediction of Reliability, Integrity and Survivability of Microsystems
Jayathi Y. Murthy; Muhammad A. Alam; Anil K. Bajaj; Ananth Y. Grama; Dimitrios Peroulis; Alejandro H. Strachan
from National Nuclear Security Administration
$3,800,000 - U.S. Compact Muon Solenoid Operations at Large Hadron Collider
Norbert Neumeister; Daniela Bortoletto; Thomas J. Hacker; Ian P. Shipsey
from National Science Foundation
$5,147,031 - Toward Intrusion Tolerant Clouds
Cristina Nita-Rotaru; Jennifer L. Neville
from Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center
$1,288,302 - Science Learning through Engineering Design Targeted Partnership
Alyssa Panitch; Brenda M. Capobianco; Todd R. Kelley; James D. Lehman; Johannes Strobel; Gabriela C. Weaver
from National Science Foundation
$3,862,372 - Hydrogel Template Method for Protein Microencapsulation
Kinam Park
from National Institute of General Medical Sciences
$1,483,443 -
NEXTRANS - Integrated and Sustainable Transportation Solutions: From Concepts to Deployment
Srinivas Peeta
from U.S. Department of Transportation
$3,500,000 - Autonomic Control of Body Weight and Feeding
Terry L. Powley
from National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
$3,172,228 -
Useful to Usable (U2U): Transforming Climate Variability and Change Information for Cereal Crop Producers
Linda S. Prokopy; Otto C. Doerring III; Benjamin M. Gramig; Devdutta S. Niyogi; Xiaohui Carol Song
from U.S. Department of Agriculture
$1,000,000 - The George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation Operations
Julio A. Ramirez; Saurabh Bagchi; Sean Brophy; Shirley Dyke; Rudolf Eigenmann; Barbara Fossum; Thomas J. Hacker; Ayhan Irfanoglu; Santiago Pujol
from National Science Foundation
$23,852,680 - Cancer Center Support Grant
Timothy L. Ratliff
from National Cancer Institute
$1,506,982 - Initiation and Regulation of Chronic Autoimmune Prostate Inflammation
Timothy Ratliff; Scott A. Crist; Xiaoqu Liu; Paul W. Snyder
from National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
$1,906,650 - Structural Studies of Togaviruses
Michael G. Rossmann
from National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
$3,481,566 - Ionome to Genome: Mapping the Gene Networks Controlling Nutrient Content in Rice Grain
David E. Salt; Mourad Ouzzani
from National Science Foundation
$1,454,950 - Measurements of Boundary-Layer Instability and Transition in the Mach-6 Quiet Tunnel
Steven P. Schneider
U.S. Department of Defense
$2,000,000 - MRSEC Photonic and Multiscale Nanomaterials
Vladimir M. Shalaev; Alexandra Boltasseva; Evgueni E. Narimanov
National Science Foundation
$1,920,000 - Hoosier Heavy Hybrid Center of Excellence (H3CoE)
Gregory M. Shaver; Vahid Motevalli; Maryam Saeedifard
from U.S. Department of Energy
$1,000,000 - An Experimental and Theoretical High Energy Physics Program
Ian P. Shipsey; Daniela Bortoletto; Wei K. Cui; John P. Finley; Sergei Khlebnikov; Luis M. Krudzenski; Norbert Neumeister
U.S. Department of Energy
$5,044,000 - Challenges to Vocal Fold Epithelia: Functional and Structural Consequences
Preeti Sivasankar; Paul W. Snyder
from National Institute on Deafness and Other Communicative Disorders
$1,878,792 - XSEDE: Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment
Xiaohui Carol Song
from National Science Foundation
$2,530,000 - Literacy Enriched Science through Guided Inquiry — Elevating Thinking and Knowledge
Brandon Sorge; John R. Staver; William S. Walker
from Indiana Department of Education
$1,898,984 - The Indiana Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (I-STEM) Resource Network
Brandon Sorge; William S. Walker
from Lilly Endowment, Inc
$1,530,000 - Science and Technology Center — Emerging Frontiers of Science of Information
Wojciech Szpankowski; Ruben C. Aguilar; Mikhail J. Atallah; Christopher Clifton; Supriyo Datta; Ananth Y. Grama; Suresh Jagannathan; Aditya P. Mathur, Jennifer L. Neville; Zygmunt Pizlo; Yuan Qi; Doraiswami Ramkrishna; Vernon J. Rego; Luo Si; Mark Daniel Ward
from National Science Foundation
$2,500,000 -
Experimental Evaluation of Steel-Concrete Wall and Anchorage Design for Nuclear Power Plants
Amit H. Varma
from Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd
$1,001,000 - CPS: Medium: Robust Distributed Wind Power Engineering
Jan Vitek; Douglas E. Adams; Ananth Y. Grama; Suresh Jagannathan
from National Science Foundation
$1,600,000 - Sustainable Production and Distribution of Bioenergy for the Central USA
Jeffrey J. Volenec; Corinne E. Alexander; Sylvie M. Brouder; Natalie J. Carroll; Indrajeet Chaubey; Keith D. Johnson; Brenda Rose Lerner; Chad A. Martin; Patrick T. Murphy; Nicole J. Olynk; Kathryn S. Orvis; Ronald F. Turco
from U.S. Department of Agriculture
$3,686,569 -
Understanding Effects of Multiple Deployments and Promoting Resiliency in Families and Children of
Deployed Service Members
Shelley MacDermid Wadsworth; Sarah A. Mustillo
from U.S. Department of Defense
$1,007,336 -
Submicrometer Silica Particles for High-throughput Separations of Protein Pharmaceuticals
Mary Wirth
from National Institute of General Medical Sciences
$1,784,916 -
SNM: A Scalable Nanomanufacturing Machine for Parallel Nanolithography and Parallel Fabrication of
Nanoscale Devices
Xianfan Xu; Timothy Fisher; Minghao Qi; Peide Ye
from National Science Foundation
$1,300,000 - THz III-V MOSHFETs Enabled by ALD-grown Scalable High-K Gate Insulators (TASK)
Peide Ye
from Air Force Office of Scientific Research
$1,000,000 - Structure and Function of Sodium-Calcium Exchangers
Dinesh A. Yernool
from National Institute of General Medical Sciences
$1,893,321 - Safe, Reuse-Oriented Reverse Engineering of Functional Components from x86 Binaries
Xiangyu Zhang; Dongyan Xu
from Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
$1,493,074 - Calcium Signaling and Ion Homeostasis Regulation
Jian-Kang Zhu
from National Institute of General Medical Sciences
$1,540,000