Seed for Success Acorn Awards

FY2013 Seed for Success Acorn Awards

Awardees

• Indiana Family Nutrition Program Plan
  Angela R. Abbott; Melissa K. Maulding
  from U.S. Department of Agriculture
  $10,158,347
• Center for Low Energy Systems Technology (LEAST)
  Joerg Appenzeller; Zhihong Chen; Gerhard Klimeck
  from Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
  $3,250,917
• Function Accelerated nano-material Engineering (FAME)
  Joerg Appenzeller; Supriyo Datta
  from Microelectronic Advanced Research Corporation
  $1,801,000
• Energy Efficient Building Systems Regional Innovation Cluster Initiative
  James E. Braun; Qingyan Chen; William T. Horton; Jianghai Hu; Panagiota Karava; Athanasios Tzempelikos
  from U.S. Department of Energy
  $3,116,834
• Indiana Space Grant Consortium Five Year Renewal Proposal for Activity Years 20-24
  Barrett S. Caldwell
  from National Aeronautics and Space Administration
  $3,145,000
• Modeling and Manipulating Phenylpropanoid Pathway Flux for Bioenergy
  Clint Chapple; Natalia Doudareva; John A. Morgan
  from U.S. Department of Energy
  $5,274,045
• Multiscale Experiments and Computational Modeling of Transparent Ceramic and Glass Armors
  Weinong W. Chen
  from Army Research Office
  $1,360,000
• Partnership to Enhance General Aviation Safety, Accessibility, and Sustainability (PEGASAS)
  William A. Crossley; Chien-Tsung Lu; Mary Johnson; Karen Marais
  from Federal Aviation Administration
  $2,500,000
• Catalyst Design by Discovery Informatics
  W. Nicholas Delgass; Mahdi M. Abu-Omar; James M. Caruthers; Jeffrey Greeley; Fabio H. Ribeiro; Kendall T. Thomson
  from U.S. Department of Energy
  $7,034,257
• National AgrAbility Project
  William E. Field; Paul J. Jones
  from U.S. Department of Agriculture
  $2,009,968
• An Experimental and Theoretical High Energy Physics Program
  John P. Finley; Daniela Bortoletto; Wei K. Cui; Sergei Khlebnikov; Luis M. Kruczenski; Norbert Neumeister; Ian P. Shipsey
  from U.S. Department of Energy
  $5,044,000
• Living Well with Later Life Multimorbidity: a Biopsychosocial Approach
  Elliot M. Friedman; Sharon L. Christ
  from National Institute on Aging
  $1,210,390
• Microcooling for Intensely Concentrated Electronics (MicroICE) An Intrachip Approach
  Suresh V. Garimella; David B. Janes; Dimitrios Peroulis; Justin A. Weibel
  from Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
  $1,613,611
• 2013 Local Technical Assistance Program Work Plan
  John Haddock
  from U.S. Department of Transportation
  $1,291,800.
• PIRE: Nuclear Energy Systems and Materials under Extreme Conditions
  Ahmed Hassanein; Audeen W. Fentiman; Sivanandan Harilal
  from National Science Foundation
  $3,916,844
• Significant Upgrade and Safety Enhancement of the Instrumentation and Control Systems of the Purdue University Reactor
  Ahmed Hassanein; Jere H. Jenkins
  from U.S. Department of Energy
  $1,276,812
• Hepatology Centers of Expertise National Educational Initiative
  Marlene O. Heeg
  from Salix Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
  $2,000,000
• Automation of Dormant Pruning of Specialty Crops
  Peter M. Hirst; Avinash C. Kak; Johnny Park
  from U.S. Department of Agriculture
  $3,027,747
• Structure, Function and Conformational Dynamics of the Ste14p Methyltransferase
  Christine A. Hrycyna; Amy L. Davidson
  from National Institute of General Medical Sciences
  $1,389,326
• Cyberonics-Technology Development Plan
  Pedro Irazoqui
  from Cyberonics, Inc.
  $1,017,756
• Engineering Research Center (ERC) for Compact and Efficient Fluid Power; Y7-Y10
  Monika Ivantysynova; John H. Lumkes, Jr.; Andrea Vacca
  from National Science Foundation
  $5,008,474
• Development of Branded Educational Programs to Manage and Mitigate Herbicide Resistant Weeds
  William G. Johnson
  from United Soybean Board
  $1,337,916
• Network for Computational Nanotechnology - Cyber Platform
  Gerhard Klimeck; Victoria A. Farnsworth; Michael J. McLennan; Krishna Madhavan; Lynn K. Zentner; Michael G. Zentner
  from National Science Foundation
  $14,500,000
• SLEEC: Semantics-rich Libraries for Effective Exascale Computation
  Milind Kulkarni; Samuel P. Midkiff; Vijay S. Pai; Arun Prakash
  from U.S. Department of Energy
  $1,200,000
• Network for Computational Nanotechnology - NEEDS Node
  Mark S. Lundstrom; Muhammad A. Alam; Zhihong Chen; Supriyo Datta; Pedro Irazoqui; Anand Raghunathan; Kaushik Roy; Ali Shakouri
  from National Science Foundation
  $3,575,300
• Solar Energy Research Institute for India and the United States (SERIIUS)
  Mark S. Lundstrom; Rakesh Agrawal; Muhammad A. Alam; Suresh V. Garimella; Pankaj Sharma
  from National Renewable Energy Laboratory
  $1,274,981
• Military-Extension Partnership Overall Leadership
  Renee K. McKee; Shelley Macdermid Wadsworth
  from U.S. Department of Defense
  $1,363,636
• Military - Extension Internship Program
  Renee K. McKee
  from U.S. Department of Agriculture
  $1,500,000
• Community, Family and Youth Extension Program
  Renee K. McKee
  from U.S. Department of Defense
  $2,500,000
• Building a New Partnership: MAIL Extension Services Engage the Afghan Farmer
  Kevin McNamara; Dieudonne Baributsa; Ricky E. Foster
  from U.S. Department of Agriculture
  $2,925,000
• 200 Million Mobility 2DEGs: Pushing Materials to the Extreme
  Michael James Manfra; Gabor A. Csathy; David R. Johnson; Kevin P. Trumble
  from W.M. Keck, Foundation
  $1,000,000
• Food Safety, Office of Scientific Quality Review (OSQR)
  Lisa Mauer; Bruce M. Applegate; Arun K. Bhunia; Joseph M. Irudayaraj; Michael R. Ladisch
  from U.S. Department of Agriculture
  $2,569,590
• Tissue-dynamics Imaging for Therapeutic Efficacy in Ovarian Cancer
  David D. Nolte; John J. Turek
  from National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering
  $1,326,289
• Development of a Point-of-Care Mass Spectrometry Analysis System
  Zheng Ouyang; R. Graham Cooks
  from National Institute of General Medical Sciences
  $1,081,381
• NEXTRANS - Integrated and Sustainable Transportation Solutions: From Concepts to Deployment
  Srinivas Peeta
  from U.S. Department of Transportation
  $6,897,600
• Useful to Usable (U2U): Transforming Climate Variability and Change Information for Cereal Crop Producers
  Linda S. Prokopy; Otto C. Doering; Benjamin M. Gramig; Devdutta S. Niyogi; Xiaohui Carol Song
  from U.S. Department of Agriculture
  $5,000,000
• The George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation Operations
  Julio Alfonso Ramirez; Saurabh Bagchi; Sean Brophy; Shirley Dyke; Rudolf Eigenmann; Barbara Fossum; Thomas J. Hacker; Ayhan Irfanoglu; Santiago Pujol
  from National Science Foundation
  $105,000,000
• Cancer Center Support Grant – Core
  Timothy L. Ratliff
  from National Cancer Institute
  $6,384,851
• Engineering Research Center on Structural Organic Composites
  Gintaras V. Reklaitis; James D. Litster; Lynne S. Taylor; Carl R. Wassgren, Jr.
  from National Science Foundation
  $7,592,652
• Natural Variation and Drought Responses in Maize Inflorescence Development
  Torbert R. Rocheford
  from National Science Foundation
  $1,041,903
• from National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
  Michael G. Rossmann; Richard J. Kuhn
  Structure and Function of Flaviviruses
  $2,872,037
• Embedded POWER Optimized Systems Using Near and Super-threshold Computing Fabric (EMPOWER)
  Kaushik Roy
  from Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
  $1,217,284
• Unconventional Processing of Signals for Intelligent Data Exploitation (UPSIDE)
  Kaushik Roy
  from Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
  $1,849,940
• Center for Spintronic Materials, Interfaces and Novel Architectures (C-SPIN)
  Kaushik Roy; Supriyo Datta; Anand Raghunathan
  from Microelectronics Advanced Research Corp.
  $2,299,200
• Ultrafast Nonlinear Optical Approaches toward High-Throughput Membrane Protein Nanocrystal Detection
  Garth J. Simpson
  from National Institute of General Medical Science
  $1,111,451
• Robust and Principled Visual Intelligence
  Jeffrey M. Siskind
  from U.S. Department of Defense
  $6,000,000
• Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)
  M. J. T. Smith
  from National Science Foundation
  $1,069,500
• Physiological Correlates of Stuttering
  Anne Smith; Sharon L. Christ; Donald R. Lynam; Anu Subramanian; Bridget M. Walsh; Christine M. Weber-Fox
  from National Institutes on Deafness and Other Communicative Disorders
  $3,037,382
• XSEDE: Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment
  Xiaohui Carol Song
  from National Science Foundation
  $2,530,000
• Shock wave energy dissipation (SWED) by mechanochemically-active nanoporous materials
  Alejandro H. Strachan
  from U.S. Department of Defense
  $1,220,886
• Nanomechanics of Src signaling in neuronal growth cones
  Daniel M. Suter
  from National Science Foundation
  $1,041,631
• Emerging Frontiers of Science of Information, (STC)
  Wojciech Szpankowski; Ruben C. Aguilar; Muhammad A. Alam; Mikhail J. Atallah; Clifton W. Bingham; Supriyo Datta; Ananth Y. Grama; Suresh Jagannathan; Aditya P. Mathur; Jennifer L. Neville; Zygmunt Pizlo; Yuan Qi; Doraiswami Ramkrishna; Vernon J. Rego; Mark D. Ward
  from National Science Foundation
  $25,000,000
• Protein Aggregation in Amorphous Solids
  Elizabeth M. Topp; Markus A. Lill; Chiwook Park; Fred E. Regnier
  from National Institute of General Medical Sciences
  $1,190,102
• Developing a Functional Gene Discovery Platform for Sorghum Improvement
  Mitchell R. Tuinstra; Brian Dilkes; Clifford F. Weil
  from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
  $1,000,000
• Heat Stress Resilient Maize for South Asia Through a Public Private Partnership
  Mitchell R. Tuinstra; Gurmukh S. Johal
  from CIMMYT, International, Maize and Wheat Improvement Center
  $1,129,342
• MCTP: Sophomore Transitions: Bridges into a Statistics Major and Big Data Research + Experience via Learning Communities
  Mark D. Ward; Guang Cheng; Sharon L. Christ; Hyonho Chun; Bruce A. Craig; Rebecca W. Doerge; Bo Li; Frederi G. Viens; Xiao Wang; Jun Xie; Hao Zhang; Lingsong Zhang
  from National Science Foundation
  $1,500,000
• Integrated Coherent Comb and Line-by-Line Pulse Shaper for RF Photonic Filtering
  Andrew M. Weiner; Minghao Qi
  from Army Armament Munition and Chemical Command
  $5,711,535
• Driving to Impact: Regenstrief Center for Healthcare Engineering
  Steven M. Witz; Kenneth J. Musselman
  from Regenstrief Foundation
  $10,000,000
• Integrated Management Strategies for Aspergillus and Fusarium Ear Rots of Corn
  Charles P. Woloshuk; Gurmukh S. Johal; Kiersten A. Wise
  from U.S. Department of Agriculture
  $5,349,650
• DNA Demethylation and Transcriptional Gene Silencing
  Jian-Kang Zhu
  from National Institute of General Medical Sciences
  $1,006,826