Seed for Success Awards - October 20, 2009
2009 Seed for Success AwardsThe Seed for Success Award is given in recognition of the accomplishments of single investigators and teams of investigators for their efforts in obtaining a $1 million dollar or more research grant. This year, an award dinner was held on October 20, 2009, to celebrate the accomplishments and contributions of Purdue’s research community.
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List of 2009 Seed for Success Awards |
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| Foods and Nutrition Program 2009 Angela R. Abbott; Karen L. Zotz from Indiana Family and Social Services Administration/U.S. Department of Agriculture $4,449,258 |
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| Department and Testing of Innovative Health Management Tools for Damage Detection, Evaluation, and Repair of the CH-53K Composite Rotor Blades and Structure. Douglas E. Adams; James M. Caruthers, Weinong W. Chen,Charles M. Krousgrill, Peter H. Meckl, R. Byron Pipes, Farshid Sadeghi, Thomas H. Siegmund, Ron Sterkenburg, Chin-Teh Sun, Jeffrey P. Youngblood from CACI International Inc/Naval Sea Systems Command/Naval Service Warfare Center Crane $2,210,285 |
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| A Low-cost, High-yield Process for the Direct Production of Higher Energy Density Liquid Fuel from Biomass Rakesh Agrawal; W. Nicholas Delgass, Fabio H. Ribeiro from U.S. Department of Energy $1,672,989 |
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| A Framework for Managing the Assured Information Sharing Lifecycle Elisa Bertino; Chris Clifton, Ninghui Li, Eugene H. Spafford from Air Force Office of Scientific Research; University of Maryland $1,500,000 |
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| Facility Support: The Purdue Rare Isotope Measurement Laboratory Marc W. Caffee; Darryl E. Granger, Paul F. Muzikar from National Science Foundation $1,978,583 |
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| Translational Genomics for the Improvement of Switchgrass Nicholas C. Carpita; Maureen C. McCann from U.S. Department of Energy $1,396,933 |
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| Integrated Lightweight C4ISR Electronics Shelter James M. Caruthers; William J. Chappell, Weinong W. Chen,R. Byron Pipes, You-Yeon Won, from Department of Army; Aeronautical Radio, Inc. $1,123,153 |
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| Assembly of a Lignin Modification Toolbox Clinton C. Chapple; Alan M. Friedman from Stanford University/ Global Climate Energy Project $1,930,603 |
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| Low Temperature Plasma Coupled to Portable Mass Spectrometry for Homeland Security R. Graham Cooks from U.S. Department of Homeland Security $1,133,120 |
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| Indiana University School of Medicine-Lafayette on the Campus of Purdue University Gordon L. Coppoc from Indiana University, School of Medicine $1,742,884 |
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| ADVANCE: Purdue Center for Faculty Success France A. Córdova; Barbara S. Clark, Klod Kokini, Shelley MacDermid Wadsworth, Valentine M. Moghadam, Alice L. Pawley, Dorothy A. Reed, Chris L. Sahley from National Science Foundation $3,925,626 |
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| Problems in Membrane Protein Crystallography: Hetero-Oligomeric Cytochrome b6f William A. Cramer from Public Health Service- National Institutes of Health, National Institute of General Medical Science $1,341,280 |
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| R&D Quality Cyber-Enabled, Engineering Education Professional Development to Support Teacher Change & Student Achievement (E2PD) Heidi A. Diefes-Dux; Sean Brophy, Brenda M. Capobianco, Monica E. Cardella, Teri Reed-Rhoads, Johannes Strobel from National Science Foundation $2,999,450 |
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| VACCINE : Visual Analytics for Command, Control, and Interoperability Environments David S. Ebert; Chris Clifton, Mireille Boutin, William S. Cleveland, Timothy F. Collins, Edward J. Delp, Ahmed K. Elmagarmid, Niklas E. Elmqvist, Mourad Ouzzani from U.S. Department of Homeland Security $15,000,000 |
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| Development Studies of the Inner Ear Rakesh Agrawal; W. Nicholas Delgass, Fabio H. Ribeiro Donna M. Fekete from Public Health Service-National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders $1,900,452 |
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| National AgrAbility Project William E. Field from Cooperative State Research Services/U.S. Department of Agriculture $2,199,375 |
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| Intestinal Calcium Absorption: Molecular Mechanism James C. Fleet from Public Health Service- National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases $1,620,000 |
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| Indiana Local Technical Assistance Program for 2008 and 2009 John E. Haddock from U.S. Department of Transportation;Indiana Department of Transportation $1,137,500 (2008); $1,183,000 (2009) |
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| Institute for P-12 Engineering Research and Learning (INSPIRE) Kamyar Haghighi from S. D. Bechtel, Jr. $1,000,000 |
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| Supporting and Enhancing Interns for Indiana: A Sustaining Grant Proposal from the Lilly Endowment Jonathan M. Harbor; Wilella D. Burgess, Nathalie Duval-Couetil, Victor L. Lechtenberg from Lilly Endowment, Inc. $1,750,000 |
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| Integrated Prediction and Benchmarking of Material Damage and Lifetime Analysis during Major Plasma Instabilities in Fusion Devices Ahmed Hassanein; Valeryi Sizyuk from U.S. Department of Energy $1,500,000 |
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| Supersonic Business Jet Years 3 and 4 Stephan D. Heister; Gregory A. Blaisdell, William A. Crossley, Nicole L. Key, Anastasios S. Lyrintzis, Charles L. Merkle, Scott E. Meyer, John P. Sullivan from Rolls-Royce Corporation $1,625,000 |
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| Spray and Combustion of Gelled Hypergolic Propellants France A. Córdova; Barbara S. Clark, Klod Kokini, Shelley MacDermid Wadsworth, Valentine M. Moghadam, Stephen D. Heister; William E. Anderson, Osvaldo H. Campanella, Marcelo A. Carignano, Carlos M. Corvalan, Robert P. Lucht, Charles L. Merkle, Timothée I. Pourpoint, Paul E. Sojka, Steven F. Son from Army Research Office $1,250,000 |
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| Micrometer Scale IOP Sensor for Glaucoma Research in Mice Pedro Irazoqui from Howard Hughes Medical Institute $1,426,179 |
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| Soymap II: Leveraging Untapped Genetic Diversity in Soybean Scott A. Jackson; Jianxin Ma from National Science Foundation $8,947,932 |
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| Mutant-Assisted Exploration of Natural Variation Underlying R Gene-Mediated Immunity in Maize Gurmukh S. Johal; Clifford F. Weil from National Science Foundation $3,979,901 |
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| Kras-Induced Cellular Plasticity in Pancreatic Cancer Stephen F. Konieczny from Public Health Service-National Institutes of Health National Cancer Institute $1,563,935 |
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| Input Sources of Grammatical Defi cits in Specific Language Impairment Laurence B. Leonard from Public Health Service- National Institutes of Health National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders $2,449,114 |
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| Improved Detection Techniques for Foodborne Pathogens Richard H. Linton from U. S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research $1,505,692 |
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| Maddie’s Shelter Medicine Program Annette L. Litster; Andrea C. Kerr, Andrew U. Luescher, George E. Moore from Maddie’s Fund $1,171,334 |
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| Rapid and Accurate Pathogen Identification/Detection (RAPID) Program Philip S. Low; Yeong E. Kim, Ronald G. Reifenberger, Alexander Wei from U.S. Army Research Development and Engineering Command $1,097,357 |
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| Studies of Erythrocyte Membrane Structure Philip S. Low from Public Health Service- National Institutes of Health, National Institute of General Medical Science $2,384,411 |
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| International Sorghum and Millet Mali Associate Award-Transfer for Sorghum and Millet Production, Processing and Marketing James M. Lowenberg-DeBoer; Bruce R. Hamaker, John H. Sanders, Mitchell R. Tuinstra from University of Nebraska; Agency for International Development $1,000,001 |
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| Network for Computational Nanotechnology Mark S. Lundstrom; George B. Adams, Gerhard Klimeck, Michael J. McLennan, Alejandro H. Strachan from National Science Foundation $3,648,333 |
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| Operation Diploma Shelley MacDermid Wadsworth from Lilly Endowment, Inc. $5,800,000 |
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| Pre-Ingestive Influences on Solid and Fluid Food Intake in Lean and Obese Adults Richard D. Mattes; Mario Ferruzzi, George P. McCabe from Public Health Service-National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases $2,279,448 |
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| Northwest Indiana Computational Grid: Joint Project at the University of Notre Dame, Purdue University-West Lafayette and Purdue University-Calumet William G. McCartney; John P. Campbell, Frank Cervone, Christoph M. Hoffmann, Z. George Hong, Ralph V. Rogers from U.S. Department of Energy-Economic Recovery-Nuclear Energy $4,910,156 |
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| Instrumentation for Analysis of High Mass Biomolecules Scott A. McLuckey from Public Health Service-National Institutes of Health, National Institute of General Medical Science $1,149,401 |
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| Advancing Afghan Agriculture Alliance Kevin T. McNamara; James M. Lowenberg-DeBoer from Agency for International Development $1,246,857 |
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| PRISM: Center for Prediction of Reliability, Integrity and Survivability of Microsystems. Jayathi Y. Murthy, Ahmed H. Sameh, Eric A. Stach, Lin Sun, Dongbin Xiu, Bottalgazi Yildirim from U.S. Department of Energy $1,600,000 and $1,000,000 Amendment 1 |
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| North Central Nursing Centers: Caring for Rural Underserved Populations Julie C. Novak from Public Health Service-Health Resources and Services Administration, National Center for Health Services Research $1,300,000 |
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| Indiana Cares Kathleen L. O’Connell from Substance Abuse and Mental Health Service Administration $1,499,994 |
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| SMARTER Teamwork: System for Management, Assessment, Research, Training, Education and Remediation for Teamwork Matthew W. Ohland from National Science Foundation $2,000,000 |
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| NEXTRANS: Integrated Solutions for Mobility, Safety and Infrastructure Renewal Srinivas Peeta from U.S. Department of Transportation $1,686,000 |
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| Membrane Technology and 3D Photonic-Crystal Devices Minghao Qi; Xianfan Xu from Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Air Force Office of Scientific Research $1,150,000 |
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| Purdue Cancer Center Recruitment of Cancer-focused Structural Biologist Timothy L. Ratliff from Walther Cancer Institute Foundation, Inc. $2,147,208 |
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| Cancer Center Support Grant (CORE) Timothy L. Ratliff from Public Health Services- National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute $1,165,054 |
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| Discovery Park Sustainability Alan H. Rebar from Indiana Economic Development Corporation $1,500,000 |
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| APT: The Analytical Proteomics Team Fred E. Regnier; Jiri Adamec from Public Health Service-National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute $1,249,457 |
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| Making Sense of Global Warming and Climate Change: Model of Student Learning via Collaborative Research Anita Roychoudhury; Brenda M. Capobianco, Andrew S. Hirsch, Devdutta S. Niyogi, Daniel P. Shepardson from National Science Foundation $1,568,132 |
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| Disruptive MEM Sensors for Monitoring Aircraft Drive Trains Farshid Sadeghi; Douglas E. Adams, Dimitrios Peroulis from CACI International Inc./Department of Navy $1,200,000 |
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| TRMS: From Ionome to Geonome: Mapping the Networks Controlling Nutrient Content in Rice Grain David E. Salt; Ivan Baxter, Min Zhang from National Science Foundation $1,363,222 |
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| The Experimental Study of the Phase Structure of Hadronic Matter Rolf P. Scharenberg; Andrew S. Hirsch, Fuqiang Wang, Wei Xie from U.S. Department of Energy $2,010,000 |
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| German International School of Management and Administration(GISMA) Program - Hanover, Germany F. David Schoorman from GISMA Foundation $11,500,000 |
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| An Experimental and Theoretical High Energy Physics Program Ian P. Shipsey; Virgil E. Barnes, Daniela Bortoletto, Thomas E. Clark, Wei K. Cui, John P. Finley, Ephraim Fischbach, Arthur F. Garfinkel, Timothy M. Jones, Sergei Khlebnikov, L. Martin Kruczenski, Sherwin T. Love, David H. Miller, Norbert Neumeister, John R. Peterson from U.S. Department of Energy $7,600,296 |
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| TeraGrid Resource Partners Carol X. Song; Gary R. Bertoline from National Science Foundation $1,460,832 |
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| Biophysical Studies of Proteins Nucleic Acids and Viruses Cynthia V. Stauffacher from Public Health Service-National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute $1,082,345 |
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| Cyber-Enabled Predictive Models for Polymer Nanocomposites: Multiresolutions Simulations and Experiments Alejandro H. Strachan; Marisol Koslowski, R. Byron Pipes, Arvind Raman from National Science Foundation $1,269,026 |
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| Boeing-Purdue Project: Atoms to Aircraft Program Alejandro H. Strachan; James M. Caruthers, Marisol Koslowski, R. Byron Pipes, Arvind Raman from The Boeing Company $1,250,000 |
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| Midwest Crossroads Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) - Amendment 7 Beverly D. Sypher; Mark J.T. Smith from National Science Foundation $1,000,000 |
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| Interdisiciplinary Cancer Prevention Research Internship Program Dorothy Teegarden; Robin S. Adams, Christopher R. Agnew, Jakob D. Jensen, Deborah W. Knapp, James F. Leary, Sophia A. Lelievre,William C. Oakes, Cleveland G. Shields from Public Health Service-National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute $1,554,689 |
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| Development of Bioresponsive Lipids for Intracellular Delivery David H. Thompson from Public Health Service-National Institutes of Health, National Institute of General Medical Science $1,871,250 |
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| Indiana Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) Connie M. Weaver; Carol J. Boushey, Stephen R. Byrn, Wayne W. Campbell, Richard J. Kuhn, James F. Leary, Richard D. Mattes, George P. McCabe, George E. Moore, Alan H. Rebar, Jon A. Story, Dorothy Teegarden, John J. Turek, William G. VanAlstine, Steven M. Witz, George R. Wodicka from Indiana University/Public Health Service- National Institutes of Health, National Center for Research Resources $5,372,527 |
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| Botanicals Center for Age-Related Diseases - Year 10 Connie M. Weaver; Richard D. Mattes, George S. Jackson, Elsa M. Janle, George P. McCabe, Charles R. Santerre, David J. Waters from Public Health Service-National Institutes of Health, National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine $1,189,473 |
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| Nurturing Multiplicative Reasoning in Students with Learning Disabilities in a Computerized Conceptual-Modeling Environment (NMRSD) Yan Ping Xin; Luo Si, Ron Tzur from National Science Foundation $2,969,894 |
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