{"id":2107,"date":"2017-06-19T17:53:12","date_gmt":"2017-06-19T21:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/hla\/sites\/cea\/?page_id=2107"},"modified":"2026-02-15T09:24:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T14:24:22","slug":"grants","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/hla\/sites\/cea\/grants\/","title":{"rendered":"Grants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><strong>Grant Activities and Internal\/Outside Support <\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong>2017:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2017-2018:\u00a0 Fred C. Gloeckner Foundation: Smartphone-Based Rapid, Inexpensive, and Accurate Estimation of Plant Nitrogen Status in Floriculture Production ($12,000). PI: Dr. Krishna Nemali.<\/li>\n<li>2017-18: HLA Department Scholarship for Graduate Student ($32,000)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>2018:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2018-2020: USDA-SCBG: Research Based Extension Education Program for Increased Year-Round Profitability in Greenhouse Based Hydroponic Lettuce Production ($50,000). PI: Dr. Krishna Nemali, Co-PI: Dr. Petrus Langenhoven.<\/li>\n<li>2018-2019:\u00a0 USDA-SCBG: Research Based Education for Indiana Beginner Farmers on Profitable Indoor (Vertical) Farming ($35,000). PI: Dr. Krishna Nemali, Co-PIs: Roy Ballard and Nicole Witkowski.<\/li>\n<li>2018: Donation from Galema\u2019s Greenhouse ($3000)<\/li>\n<li>2018: HLA Departmental support for construction of vertical farm ($15,000)<\/li>\n<li>2018: HLA Departmental support for equipment maintenance ($3000)<\/li>\n<li>2018: Fluence Bioengineering, Donation of LED light fixtures for research ($12,000)<\/li>\n<li>2018-19: American Floral endowment, Smartphone-Based Rapid, Inexpensive, and Accurate Estimation of Plant Nitrogen Status in Floriculture Production ($12,600). PI: Dr. Krishna Nemali.<\/li>\n<li>2018-20: Borlaug Grant, USDA FAS (Egypt: Hydroponics) ($46000). PI: Dr. Krishna Nemali, Co-PI: Dr. Laura Ingwell<\/li>\n<li>2018-19: Fred C. Gloeckner Foundation ($12800) Principal Investigator. PI: Dr. Krishna Nemali.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>2019:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2019-20: Horticulture Research Institute ($48,000) PI: Dr. Krishna Nemali. Co-PI: Kyle Daniel<\/li>\n<li>2019: Happy Leaf, Donation of LED light fixtures ($3000)<\/li>\n<li>2019: USDA Foreign Agriculture Service ($46000): PI: Dr. Krishna Nemali.<\/li>\n<li>2019: USDA SCBG ($90,000): PI: Krishna Nemali, CoPI: Amanda Deering<\/li>\n<li>2019: USAID: US-Egypt COEA ($17840): Co=PI: Dr. Krishna Nemali.<\/li>\n<li>2019: American Floral Endowment ($26,000): PI: Dr. Krishna Nemali.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>2020:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2020-21: Purdue Instructional Innovation Grant ($100,000) PI: Krishna Nemali<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>2021:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Automated Monitoring and Management of Plant Nitrogen Status in Organic Farming Using Decentralized and Collaborative IoT Sensors and Image Analyses ($27,000) PI: Krishna Nemali<\/li>\n<li>Increasing Crop Productivity and Consumer Accessibility of Hydroponically Grown Organic Lettuce in Indiana ($143,000) PI: Krishna Nemal<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>2024:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Building Urban Agriculture Teachers Network through Empowering Food Entrepreneurship ($500000) Co-I: Krishna Nemali<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>2025:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Donation from Pure Green Farms ($20000). Developing spinach production guidelines for a novel hybrid hydroponic system<\/li>\n<li>Donation from Happy Leaf ($10000). Pulse Width Modulation LED lights in indoor vertical farms<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grant Activities and Internal\/Outside Support 2017: 2017-2018:\u00a0 Fred C. Gloeckner Foundation: Smartphone-Based Rapid, Inexpensive, and Accurate Estimation of Plant Nitrogen Status in Floriculture Production ($12,000). PI: Dr. Krishna Nemali. 2017-18: HLA Department Scholarship for Graduate Student ($32,000) 2018: 2018-2020: USDA-SCBG: Research Based Extension Education Program for Increased Year-Round Profitability in Greenhouse Based Hydroponic Lettuce Production&#8230;<span id=\"post-label-2107\" class=\"sr-only\">Read more about Grants<\/span><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/hla\/sites\/cea\/grants\/\" aria-labelledby=\"post-label-2107\">[Read More]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2107","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/hla\/sites\/cea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/hla\/sites\/cea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/hla\/sites\/cea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/hla\/sites\/cea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/hla\/sites\/cea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2107"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/hla\/sites\/cea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3532,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/hla\/sites\/cea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2107\/revisions\/3532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/hla\/sites\/cea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}