Seed for Success Acorn Awards

FY2009 Seed for Success Acorn Awards

Awardees

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Facility Support: The Purdue Rare Isotope Measurement Laboratory
  Marc W. Caffee; Darryl E. Granger, Paul F. Muzikar
  from National Science Foundation
  $1,978,583
• Translational Genomics for the Improvement of Switchgrass
  Nicholas C. Carpita; Maureen C. McCann
  from U.S. Department of Energy
  $1,396,933
• 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
• Assembly of a Lignin Modification Toolbox
  Clinton C. Chapple; Alan M. Friedman
  from Stanford University/ Global Climate Energy Project
  $1,930,603
• Low Temperature Plasma Coupled to Portable Mass Spectrometry for Homeland Security
  R. Graham Cooks
  from U.S. Department of Homeland Security
  $1,133,120
• Indiana University School of Medicine-Lafayette
  on the Campus of Purdue University
  Gordon L. Coppoc
  from Indiana University, School of Medicine
  $1,742,884
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• National AgrAbility Project
  William E. Field
  from Cooperative State Research Services/U.S. Department of Agriculture
  $2,199,375
• 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
• 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)
• Institute for P-12 Engineering Research and Learning (INSPIRE)
  Kamyar Haghighi
  from S. D. Bechtel, Jr.
  $1,000,000
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Micrometer Scale IOP Sensor for Glaucoma Research in Mice
  Pedro Irazoqui
  from Howard Hughes Medical Institute
  $1,426,179
• Soymap II: Leveraging Untapped Genetic Diversity in Soybean
  Scott A. Jackson; Jianxin Ma
  from National Science Foundation
  $8,947,932
• 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
• Kras-Induced Cellular Plasticity in Pancreatic Cancer
  Stephen F. Konieczny
  from Public Health Service-National Institutes of Health
  National Cancer Institute
  $1,563,935
• 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
• Improved Detection Techniques for Foodborne Pathogens
  Richard H. Linton
  from U. S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research
  $1,505,692
• Maddie’s Shelter Medicine Program
  Annette L. Litster; Andrea C. Kerr, Andrew U. Luescher, George E. Moore
  from Maddie’s Fund
  $1,171,334
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Operation Diploma
  Shelley MacDermid Wadsworth
  from Lilly Endowment, Inc.
  $5,800,000
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Advancing Afghan Agriculture Alliance
  Kevin T. McNamara; James M. Lowenberg-DeBoer
  from Agency for International Development
  $1,246,857
• 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
• 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
• Indiana Cares
  Kathleen L. O’Connell
  from Substance Abuse and Mental Health Service Administration
  $1,499,994
• SMARTER Teamwork: System for Management, Assessment, Research, Training, Education and
  Remediation for Teamwork
  Matthew W. Ohland
  from National Science Foundation
  $2,000,000
• NEXTRANS: Integrated Solutions for Mobility, Safety and Infrastructure Renewal
  Srinivas Peeta
  from U.S. Department of Transportation
  $1,686,000
• 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
• Purdue Cancer Center Recruitment
  of Cancer-focused Structural Biologist
  Timothy L. Ratliff
  from Walther Cancer Institute Foundation, Inc.
  $2,147,208
• Cancer Center Support Grant (CORE)
  Timothy L. Ratliff
  from Public Health Services- National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute
  $1,165,054
• Discovery Park Sustainability
  Alan H. Rebar
  from Indiana Economic Development Corporation
  $1,500,000
• APT: The Analytical Proteomics Team
  Fred E. Regnier; Jiri Adamec
  from Public Health Service-National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute
  $1,249,457
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• German International
  School of Management and Administration(GISMA) Program - Hanover, Germany
  F. David Schoorman
  from GISMA Foundation
  $11,500,000
• 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
• TeraGrid Resource Partners
  Carol X. Song; Gary R. Bertoline
  from National Science Foundation
  $1,460,832
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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