Seed for Success Acorn Awards - Office of Research

Seed for Success Acorn Awardees by Year

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.

Underlined names indicate Principal Investigators

* designates first-time Acorn Award recipients
^ indicates regional campuses
^^ indicates non-Purdue faculty

Awardees

Davide Ziviani. Commercial Cold Climate Rooftop Heat Pump Using CO2/Propane Cascaded with a Centrifugal System. U.S. Department of Energy. $1,250,000.
Alina Alexeenko, Elizabeth Topp. BioTrain Purdue program. Economic Development Administration. $3,812,733.
Daniel Aliaga, Songlin Fei, Brady Hardiman, Rajesh Kalyanam. Frameworks: Cyberinfrastructure for Urban Tree Resilience and Environmental Equity (uTREE). National Science Foundation. $4,998,044.
Andres Arrieta, Joseph Jewell, Rodney Trice. Embodied Sentient Mechanomorphing for Agile Control in High-speed (e-SMACHs) Vehicles. Air Force Office of Scientific Research. $1,099,507.
Saurabh Bagchi, Timothy Cason*, Somali Chaterji, Aravind Machiry, Shreyas Sundaram*. Collaborative Research: CPS: Frontier: CHORUS: Resilient Distributed CPS through Rational and Dynamic Decision-Making Among Multiple Stakeholders. National Science Foundation. $4,224,761.
Arnab Banerjee, Alexandra Boltasseva, Vladimir Shalaev, Pramey Upadhyaya. Uncovering Elusive Kitaev Topological States with Metasurfaces. W.M. Keck Foundation. $1,200,000.
Xiaoping Bao, Qing Deng, Can Li*, Matthew Olson, Isabelle Vanhaezebrouck. CAR Neutrophils Produced In Vivo to Remodel Tumor Microenvironment and Treat Glioblastoma. National Cancer Institute. $3,211,159.
Eduardo Barocio Vaca*, Johnathan Goodsell, Byron Pipes. Additive Manufacturing of Modular Tool Designs for Large-Scale Wind Blade Manufacturing. U.S. Department of Energy. $1,999,578.
Thomas Beechem, Xianfan Xu. FuSe2 Topic 3: Strain and Temperature Ex-Situ Processing of Ferroelectric Oxides for BEOL Performance. National Science Foundation. $1,900,000.
Bedrich Benes, Alejandra Magana DeLeon, Voicu Popescu. Collaborative: IIBRP: VR-Bio-Talk: VR Voice-Controlled Visual Analytics Platform for Plant Digital Twins. National Science Foundation. $1,200,000.
Antonio Bianchi, Eugene Spafford, Jing Tian. FLARE: A Multi-layered Approach to Exploit-Chain Generation. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. $2,269,537.
Virginia Bolshakova. Purdue University – GEAR UP State Grant – Indiana. U.S. Department of Education. $34,965,000.
Lynn Bryan, Toni Kempler Rogat, William Oakes*. Collaborative Research: Youth Learning Science and Engineering While Developing Community-Based Agency Through Resourceful Engagement in STEM (Youth CARES). National Science Foundation. $2,444,217.
Barrett Caldwell, Dawn Whitaker. Indiana Space Grant Consortium 2025-2028 Cycle. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). $3,410,000.
Luciano Castillo, Sally Bane, Ana Maria Estrada Gomez*, Luis Gomez*, Luz Sotelo, Maria Mirian Velay Lizancos*, David Warsinger. ONR Blue Integrated Partnership (BIP 2.0): A Consortium for Mentoring a Vibrant STEM Workforce Ready to Solve Tomorrow’s Grand Challenges. Office of Naval Research. $9,892,031.
Soowon Chang*, Yunfeng Chen*. Synthesis Study on Applying Solar Power Systems in Indiana’s Right of Way (ROW) and INDOT-Owned Facilities. U.S. Department of Transportation. $1,808,721.
Nikhilesh Chawla, Greg Buzzard, Hany Abdel-Khalik*, Charles Bouman. FuSe2 Topic 2: High Resolution Imaging of Defects in Semiconductors: Detection, Reliability, and Mitigation. National Science Foundation. $1,600,000.
Jie Chen*, George Eckert^^, Hakan Turkkahraman^^, and Sumit Yadav^^. Dose Analysis for Translating Animal Based Vibrational Force Study for Accelerating Orthodontic Tooth Movement to Clinic. National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research. $1,320,505.
Robert Cooks, Andrew Mesecar, David Thompson. High Throughput Infrastructure for Reaction Screening and Bioassays. National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences. $2,752,646.
Meng Cui, Takaki Komiyama.^^ Light Pipe Microscope for Ultra-Large-Scale Cellular-Resolution Whole-Neocortex Two-Photon Calcium Imaging of Mammalian Brains. National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. $1,886,913.
Vincent Davisson, Naoaki Fujii*, Gregory Knipp. Platinum Based Countermeasures and Combinations with Protective Agents. National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. $1,150,119.
Jennifer DeBoer. ALOA TO 1. Agency for International Development. $3,210,355.
Shengwang Du*. QuSeC-TAQS: Nanodiamond Quantum Sensing for Four-Dimensional Live-Cell Imaging. National Science Foundation. $1,634,839.
Bradley Duerstock. Universal Non-Invasive Detection of Autonomic Dysreflexia for Individuals with Spinal Cord Injury. US Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity. $1,502,238.
David Purpura. On My Way Prekindergarten 2024 Cohort. Family & Social Services Administration. $1,000,000.
Erin Dunn*. Childhood Adversity, DNA Methylation, and Risk for Depression: A Longitudinal Study of Protective Factors and Sensitive Periods in Development. National Institute of Mental Health. $2,235,071.
Emily Dykhuizen, Casey Krusemark. Development of Inhibitors to Selectively Target the CBX8 Chromatin Reader Domain. National Cancer Institute. $2,145,615.
Emily Dykhuizen. Purdue Drug Discovery Training Program. National Institute of General Medical Science. $1,553,805.
Marxa Figueiredo, Sandro Matosevic. Advancing Bispecific Engagers for NK Immunotherapy in Pediatric Gliomas. Food and Drug Administration. $1,531,286.
Craig Goergen, Kan Hor^^, Guang Lin, Larry Markham^^, Jonathan Soslow^^. Modeling Mortality in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Cardiomyopathy: Identification of Surrogate Outcome Measures for DMD Drug Trials. National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. $1,235,883.
Rajamani Gounder, Rakesh Agrawal, Mohit Tawarmalani. Electrified CO2 Hydrogenation to Olefins for Sustainable Aviation Fuel. Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy. $1,750,000.
Vijay Gupta*, Mahsa Ghasemi*. Securing High-Density Urban Airspaces. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. $1,079,923.
John Haddock, Richard Domonkos*, Laura Slusher*. HELPERS 2024-2028. Indiana Department of Transportation. $1,334,749.
John Haddock. Indiana Local Technical Assistance Program 2024-2025. Indiana Department of Transportation. $1,935,083.
John Haddock, Richard Domonkos*. Local Technical Assistance Program 2025-2026 (LTAP). Indiana Department of Transportation. $1,810,465.
Ahmed Hassanein, Valeryi Sizyuk. Integrated Simulation of Plasma Transients Effects and Comprehensive Assessment of Various Mitigation Methods. U.S. Department of Energy. $1,506,494.
Catherine Hill*. NECTAR Pillar 2: Toolkit for Natural Products Focused Screening on the African Pharmacopeia. Gates Foundation. $1,695,445.
Lori Hoagland, Ankita Raturi*. TOMI3: Bringing Our Insights to the Farm to Co-create More Effective Methods of Disease Control in Organic Tomato Crops. National Institute of Food and Agriculture. $3,500,001.
Tomas Hook, Angela Archer, Joshua Carlton, Ethan Chitty, Carolyn Foley, Megan Gunn, Kwamena Quagrainie, Kara Salazar, Amy Shambach*, Dominique Turney*, Daniel Walker. Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant 2024-2027 Omnibus. National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration. $6,704,292.
Inez Hua, Hua Cai*, Rebecca Ciez, John Mulrow*, John Howarter. Collaborative Research: NRT: Next Generation Technology and Talent for Environmental Sustainability. National Science Foundation. $1,500,000.
Libai Huang, Hadiseh Alaeian*, Alexandra Boltasseva, Jonathan Hood, Tongcang Li, Vladimir Shalaev, Valentin Walther*. Quantum Photonic Integrated Design Center (QuPIDC). U.S. Department of Energy. $12,740,604.
Martin Byung-Guk Jun*, Inseok Hwang, Byunghoo Jung*. Battery Management System for Flight Range Optimization and Stability Enhancement of AAM Aircraft with Non-Intrusive Sensor Fusion and Battery Diagnosis. Korea Institute for Advancement of Technology. $1,811,624.
Martin Byung-Guk Jun*, Stephan Biller*, Sabine Brunswicker*, Hua Cai*, Gary Cheng, Inseok Hwang, Byunghoo Jung*, Chi Hwan Lee, Damon Lercel*, Ajay Malshe, Byung-Cheol Min, Shaoshuai Mou, Crystal Murray*, Brandon Pitts, Vilas Pol, Leon Robert*, Julia Sibley, Ganesh Subbarayan-Shastri, Justin Weibel, Wenzhuo Wu. Center of Operation and Research for Industrial Advancement (CORIA) at Purdue as one of the Global Industrial Technology Cooperation Center (GITCC) of KIAT. Korea Institute for Advancement of Technology. $1,815,000.
Thomas Keon*^, Matthew Wells*^. Roberts Impact Lab at Purdue University Northwest. Indiana Economic Development Corporation. $4,500,000.
Seungjin Kim*, Stylianos Chatzidakis*, Mamoru Ishii, Shripad T. Revankar*, Lefteri Tsoukalas. A Consortium for Strategic Revitalization of Cyber-Physical Nuclear Infrastructure for Advanced Small Modular Reactors. U.S. Department of Energy. $6,000,000.
Younghyun Kim*. High-Fidelity and Trustworthy Teleinteraction Platform. National Research Foundation Korea. $1,008,189.
Richard Kuhn. Flavivirus and Alphavirus ReVAMMP (FLARE). National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. $3,241,190.
Richard Kuhn. Flavivirus and Alphavirus ReVAMPP (FLARE) — Core C. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. $1,953,522.
Richard Kuhn. Bunyavirus and Picornavirus Pandemic Pathogen Preparedness (BP4) Center. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. $1,376,781.
Chi Hwan Lee. Development of Electroceuticals for Functional Recovery after Spinal Cord Injury Using Biodegradable Semiconductor. Korea Institute for Advancement of Technology. $1,803,433.
Feng Li*, Brian King*. CyberCorps SFS: Building the Next Generation of Cybersecurity Engineering Workforces. National Science Foundation. $2,972,400.
Haitong Li*, Anand Raghunathan, Peide Ye. FuSe2 Topic 1: Bridging Atomic Layers and Foundation Models: An Indium-Oxide-Based Versatile Neural Computing Platform. National Science Foundation. $1,754,245.
Chien-Chi Lin*. Dynamic Double Network Hydrogel for Generating Pancreatic Organoids from Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells. National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Diseases. $1,146,975.
Stephen Lindemann. Identification of Human Gut Microbe-Derived Xenolipids: Impact of Fibers and Host Metabolic Health. National Institute of Health. $1,178,465.
Jing Liu*. Monitoring the Three-Dimensional Motion of Chromatin at Single Molecule Resolution. National Institute of General Medical Science. $1,427,521.
Xiaonan Lu*. Dynamic Modular Microgrids (DyM-MGs): Real-Time and Packetized Microgrid Implementation. U.S. Department of Energy. $1,441,992.
Angeline Lyon, Shalini Low-Nam*, John Tesmer. Mechanisms Underlying Regulation of PLCbeta by heterotrimeric G proteins. National Institute of General Medical Science. $1,404,864.
Shelley MacDermid Wadsworth, Kathy Broniarczyk, Aurie Swartz*, Dave Topp. Extending the Reach of SBHP, FY 25, Y6 (NGB). Uniformed Services University of the Health Science. $1,394,486.
Georgia Malandraki, Bruce Craig. Impact of Wearable Biofeedback for the Rehabilitation and Tele-Rehabilitation of Neurogenic Dysphagia. National Institute on Aging. $2,767,371.
Ajay Malshe, Monique McClain, Michael Sealy, Luz Sotelo. Space Strategic Technical Institute for In Space Operations. Air Force Research Laboratory. $5,850,000.
Carlos Martinez*, Linda Lee, Jeffrey Youngblood. Self-Assembly of PFAS Mixtures in the Presence of Inorganic Ions and Hydrocarbon Surfactants During Wetting and Drying. Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program. $1,708,968.
Monique McClain, Timothee Pourpoint, Carlo Scalo, Carson Slabaugh, Tyler Tallman*, Jeffrey Youngblood. Controllable Stimuli-Responsive Multiphase Polymeric Propellants Submission. Office of the Secretary of Defense. $1,500,000.
Andrew Mesecar. IUSM TREAT-AD CENTER. National Institute on Aging. $4,275,877.
Brian Metzger*. The Genetic and Evolutionary Mechanisms Underlying the Origins of New Molecular Functions. National Institute of General Medical Science. $1,930,635.
Partha Mukherjee. MonaLiSa: Mechanistic Modeling and Analytics of Li-S Batteries. U.S. Department of Energy. $1,752,714.
Linda Nie, Ulrike Dydak, Ellen Wells. Highly Sensitive Novel Neutron Activation Analysis (NAA) Technology to Quantify Multiple Metals in Human Bone In Vivo. National Institute of General Medical Science. $1,450,555.
Tyamo Okosun^, Armin Silaen^, Chenn Zhou^. Technical Development and Industrial Demonstration of Net-Zero Carbon EAF Steelmaking with Alternative Injection and Stirring Technologies. Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. $7,158,034.
Haley Oliver. Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Safety. U.S. Agency for International Development. $19,987,640.
Haley Oliver. NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) – Program Year 2024-25. National Science Foundation. $1,368,166.
Kevin Otto, Mark Orazem^^. Engineering the Neuronal Response to Electrical Microstimulation. National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. $1,949,463.
Guillermo Paniagua-Perez. Discovering Flow Control in Transonic Diffusing Passages. European Research Council. $3,904,372.
Elizabeth Parkinson. Mining Cryptic Biosynthetic Gene Clusters for Novel Bioactive Compounds and Biocatalysts. National Institute of General Medical Science. $2,211,006.
Dimitrios Peroulis. USNTPS Academic Curriculum Support Services. U.S. Department of the Navy. $9,171,952.
Jose E. Pietri*. Biological Vector Borne Transmission of Salmonella by Cockroaches. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. $1,429,428.
Byron Pipes, Eduardo Barocio Vaca*, Johnathan Goodsell. IACMI 2.0 – Total. U.S. Department of Energy. $4,100,000.
Timothee Pourpoint, Jonathan Poggie, Fabio Ribeiro. Long Duration Clean Air Tunnel for Research at Hypersonic Flow Conditions. U.S. Department of Defense. $1,499,893.
Senay Purzer, Virginia Gleghorn, Muhsin Menekse. Socially Transformative Engineering Pedagogy (STEP) for a Sustainable Future. National Science Foundation. $2,586,924.
Anand Raghunathan, Sumeet Gupta, Vijay Raghunathan, Kaushik Roy. COCOSYS: Center for the Co-Design of Cognitive Systems. Indiana Economic Development Corporation. $1,515,000.
Jessica Robertson*. Purdue Airport Project 426880. Indiana Economic Development Corporation. $1,000,000.
Kaushik Roy, Sumeet Gupta, Anand Raghunathan. CHEETA: CMOS+MRAM Hardware for Energy-EfficienT AI. National Security Technology Accelerator. $25,989,760.
Kara Salazar, Tamara Ogle*. Indiana Renewable Energy Siting through Technical Engagement and Planning (IN R-STEP) Collaboration. U.S. Department of Energy. $1,929,255.
Michael Sangid, Krzysztof Stopka*. Structures Uniquely Resolved to Guarantee Endurance (SURGE). Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. $1,924,574.
Karthik Sankaranarayanan*, Jay Keasling^^, Tanja Kortemme^^. Ideas Lab: USPRD: Programmable Small Molecule Biosynthesis. National Science Foundation. $7,199,398.
Gregory Scofield*, Joseph Jewell. Novel Testing Methods for Measuring Critical Gas Phase Interactions in Hypersonic Ground Test. Air Force Office of Scientific Research. $1,200,000.
Tom Shih. Thermal Management of Advanced Gas Turbines. U.S. Department of Energy. $1,200,000.
Senay Simsek. Heartland Children’s Nutrition Collaborative. Riley Children’s Foundation. $1,250,000.
Luis Solorio, Pavlos Vlachos, Michael Wendt^^. Engineering the Premetastatic Niche. National Cancer Institute. $2,606,200.
Luis Solorio, Brittany Allen-Petersen*, Tamara Kinzer-Ursem. Stromal Targeting to Improve the Efficacy of Systemically Administered Drugs for Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinomas. National Cancer Institute. $2,431,252.
Michelle Thompson, Candice Bedford*, Roger Bryant*, Marc Caffee, Michael Eddy*, Briony Horgan*, Ryan Ickert*, Ben K. D. Pearce*, Kelsey Prissel*, Tabb Prissel*, Cauê Borlina*, Marissa Tremblay*, Roger Wiens. Purdue Resources Empowering Coordinated Investigations for Sample Exploration (PRECISE). National Aeronautics and Space Administration. $5,220,382.
Satish Ukkusuri. Co-E3T: Energy-Efficient and Equitable Transit through usercentric hardware and software Co-development and community Co-design. U.S. Department of Energy. $1,099,998.
Vikki Weake. NSF-BSF: Redox Regulation of Drosophila Phototransduction. National Science Foundation. $1,155,315.
Justin A. Weibel, Fengqing Zhu. Machine learning Enabled Two-pHase flow metrologies, models, and Optimized DesignS (METHODS). Office of Naval Research (ONR) Multidisciplinary University Research Initiatives (MURI) Program. $4,435,247.
Yoon Yeo, Timothy Corson^^. Long-Acting Formulations of Griseofulvin for Ocular Neovascularization Therapy. National Institutes of Health. $2,142,277.
Yoon Yeo. Modulating Immunodominance to Support the Development of Universal Influenza Vaccines. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. $1,075,563.
Chongli Yuan, Ranjie Xu*, Yang Yang. Elucidate Gene-Environmental Interactions Employed by Pb in Promoting ADRD in Aging Brains. National Institute on Aging. $3,924,990.
Amanda Zelechoski^, Abigail Dempsey*^, John Moreland*^, Kyle Toth^, Matthew Wells*^, Chenn Zhou^. VR-FUTURES: Virtual Reality for Understanding Trauma and Utilizing Regulation When Experiencing Stress. Indiana Department of Education. $1,500,000.
Zhong-Yin Zhang, Karson Putt. Primary Screening and Hit Follow Up to Identify the First Selective Inhibitors of PLC-1 and PLC-2. National Cancer Institute. $1,507,558.
Zhong-Yin Zhang, Seung-Oe Lim*, Weiguo Tao. Structure/Function of Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases. National Cancer Institute. $1,765,823.
Fu Zhao, Chandra Nath*, John Sutherland. Integrated Technoeconomic, Lifecycle, and Circularity Analyses Tool for EV Batteries. U.S. Department of Energy. $1,631,000.
Qingfei Zheng*. Development of a Chemical Biology Toolbox to Investigate Histone Monoaminylation. National Institute of General Medical Science. $1,535,587.

Underlined names indicate Principal Investigators

* designates first-time Acorn Award recipients
^ indicates regional campuses
^^ indicates non-Purdue faculty

Awardees

Angela Abbott, Blake Connolly, Wanda Stevens. Indiana NEP: SNAP-Ed Plan 2024-NEPA Direct Ed. United States Department of Agriculture. $5,003,773.00.
Muhammad Alam, Joerg Appenzeller. Strengthen and Expand Collaboration between Universities on Research and Education in Semiconductors (SECURES)-Research. National Science Foundation. $1,666,665.00.
Marshallrhea Baker*, Willie Reed. Vet Up! The National HCOP Academy for Veterinary Medicine. Health Resources and Services Administration. $3,225,879.00.
Stephen Beaudoin, Bryan Boudouris+, Zoltan Nagy, Gintaras Reklaitis, Brian Tackett. Modern Manufacturing of Energetics. U.S. Department of Defense. $2,300,000.00.
Aaron Bowman, Priyanka Baloni*, Jyothi Thimmapuram. Mechanisms of Manganese Neurotoxicity. National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. $4,017,938.00.
James Braun. NSF Engines: Type 2: NSF Innovation Engine for Next-Generation Factory-Built Housing (NextHouse). National Science Foundation. $1,000,000.00.
Darcy Bullock. TPF-5(519): Expansion: Enhanced Traffic Signal Performance Measures. U.S. Department of Transportation. $1,020,000.00.
Jason Cannon, Uma Aryal, Jean-Christophe Rochet. Mechanisms of PhIP-Induced Dopaminergic Neurotoxicity. National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. $1,563,395.00.
Jason Cannon, Daniel Foti, Julia Chester, Linda Lee, Ellen Wells. PFAS Induced Alterations in Reward Processing. National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. $2,694,050.00.
Chad Carroll*, Deva Chan, Craig Goergen, Shihuan Kuang. Role of Serum Advanced Glycation End-Products in Altering Tendon Properties with Diabetes. The National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases. $3,066,018.00.
Leifu Chang. CAREER: Probing Structural Dynamics and Regulatory Mechanisms of RNA-Guided CRISPR-Cas12 Endonucleases and their Analogues. National Science Foundation. $1,296,592.00.
Zhihong Chen, Joerg Appenzeller, Pramey Upadhyaya. DMREF: GOALI: Designing Materials for Next-Generation Spintronic Devices. National Science Foundation. $2,000,000.00.
Zhihong Chen. ME Commons Capital. U.S. Department of Defense. $6,287,001.00.
Zhihong Chen. University Network to Accelerate Lab-to-Fab. U.S. Department of Defense. $4,569,800.00.
Gaurav Chopra. Artificial Intelligence Based Iterative Experimental Platform to Accelerate Drug Discovery. National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences. $2,650,000.00.
Alex Chortos*, Mukerrem Cakmak. FMRG: Eco: Circular Manufacturing of Sustainable Bioplastics from Hemp-Derived Building Blocks. National Science Foundation. $2,985,348.00.
Kari Clase, Stephen Byrn, Zita Ekeocha^^. Enhance SSA Reg Framework and Local manufacturing via Pharma Workforce Development. Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. $1,100,000.00.
Chittaranjan Das, Zhao-Qing Luo. .Mechanism of Atypical Ubiquitination and Deubiquitination by Bacterial Effectors. National Institute of General Medical Sciences. $1,769,331.00.
Supriyo Datta, Sunil Bhave. An Integrated Optomechanical Mid-IR Detector Based on Soft-Clamped Ultrahigh-Q Resonators. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. $1,077,938.00.
Supriyo Datta. Hybrid MEMS-Photonic Integrated Circuit-Based Convolution Accelerator. Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific. $2,680,189.00.
Supriyo Datta, Zhihong Chen. OptNet: Optimization with p-bit Networks. Office of Naval Research. $4,500,000.00.
Daniel DeLaurentis, Stephen Beaudoin, Edward Berger, Nathan Hartman. WRT 1080- Research in support of the Defense Civilian Training Corps (DCTC) Program Development, Piloting, and Instrumentation. Department of Defense Systems Engineering Research Center. $4,455,594.00.
Kerrie Douglas, Peter Bermel, Tamara Moore, Jason Morphew*. Silicon Crossroads Workforce Development. U.S. Department of Defense. $7,500,000.00.
Brenna Ellison*. The Center for Food Conservation and Waste Reduction: Designing Cocreated Solutions to Improve Nutrition Security, Health Equity, and Environmental Sustainability. National Institute of Food and Agriculture. $1,500,000.00.
Songlin Fei, Daniel Aliaga, Bedrich Benes, Yingjie Chen, Rado Gazo, Ayman Habib, Joseph Hupy, Jinha Jung, Ningning (Nicole) Kong, Michael Saunders*, Guofan Shao, Song Zhang. Engaging Family Forests to Improve Climate-Smart Commodities (EFFICACI). Natural Resources Conservation Service. $8,957,033.00.
Daniel Flaherty. Inhibitors of Adaptive Efflux Mediated Resistance in Acinetobacter Baumannii. National Institute Allergy and Infectious Diseases. $1,748,870.00.
Jennifer Freeman, Linda Lee, Chongli Yuan. Comparative Neurotoxicity of PFAS. National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. $3,281,440.00.
Roberto Gallardo*. READI 1.0 Evaluation. Indiana Economic Development Corporation. $1,699,759.00.
Jing Gao*, Fenglong Ma^^, Daniel Semenza^^, Jingbo Shang^^. Proto-OKN Theme 1: A Knowledge Graph Warehouse for Neighborhood Information. National Science Foundation. $1,500,000.00.
James Gibert*, Andres F. Arrieta*, John Evans, Gregory Shaver. Advance Concept Development: Energy Harvesting Technologies for Semi-Trailer Transportation Systems. Wabash National Corporation. $1,747,435.00.
Kevin Gibson, Felica Ahasteen-Bryant, Jacqueline McDermott, Kenneth Ridgway, Patrick Zollner, Stephanie Masta. The Sloan Indigenous Graduate Partnership. Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. $1,533,358.00.
Anne Gregory*^, Katie Bowers*^. Teach Dual Credit Indiana at PNW Grant Extension. Indiana Commission for Higher Education. $1,104,181.46.
Sumeet Gupta, Kaushik Roy, Peide Ye. FET: Medium: Scalable and Ultra-Low-Power Neural Accelerators Based on 2D Ferroelectric Semiconductors (SAFES). National Science Foundation. $1,200,000.00.
John Haddock. Indiana Local Technical Assistance Program 2023-24. Indiana Department of Transportation. $1,687,335.00.
Hana Hall*, Jean-Christophe Rochet. Role of R-loops in Transcriptional Stress, Genome Instability, and Chronic Immune Response in Alzheimer’s Disease. National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. $2,423,039.00.
Michael Heinz, Ananth Grama. Effects of Sensorineural Hearing Loss on Robust Speech Coding. National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders. $3,119,440.00.
G. Kenitra Hendrix*, Craig Bowen*. National Animal Health Laboratory Network Support Funding. Animal Plant Health Inspection Service. $1,000,000.00.
Elizabett Hillery*. Collaborative Research: SCIPE: Cyberinfrastructure Professionals Innovating and Broadening the Adoption of Advanced Technologies (CI PIVOT). National Science Foundation. $3,749,415.00.
Niranjan Hirisave Shivaram*, Christopher Greene*. Attosecond Entangled Photon Generation for Attosecond Quantum Spectroscopy. W.M. Keck Foundation. $1,200,000.00.
Lori Hoagland,Luiz Fernando Brito, G. Jonathon Day*, Walter Leon-Salas, Maria Bello Bravo*, Gary Burniske, Rosa Cossio*, Sarah Renkert*, Jennifer Richardson, Adel Sayedahmed*, Jon Schoonmaker. UNSA NEXUS-PH III. Universidad Nacional de San Agustin. $3,973,663.00.
Kathleen Howell*, David Arnas Martinez*, Kenshiro Oguri*. Characterizing Highways and Automated Navigation in Cislunar Environment (CHANCE). Air Force Office of Scientific Research. $4,499,998.00.
Libai Huang, Jonathan Hood*, Christina Li. Collaborative Research: DMREF: Designing Coherence and Entanglement in Perovskite Quantum Dot Assemblies. National Science Foundation. $1,200,000.00.
Rong Huang. Targeting NNMT to Inhibit Obesity-Associated Breast Cancer Development and Progression. Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity. $1,054,933.00.
Krishna Jayant. Massively Scalable 3D Electrophysiology and Two-Photon Imaging in Freely Moving Animals. National Institute of Mental Health. $1,304,216.00.
Wen Jiang. Structure of Amyloid Fibrils in Human and Neurodegenerative Diseases and Aging. National Institute for Neurological Disorders and Stroke. $1,102,994.00.
Eugene Jones*. Indiana Defense Industrial Base (DIB) Capability Accelerator Program (IDCAP) 2.0 – Modernization. Office of Local Defense Community Cooperation. $1,000,000.00.
Panagiota Karava, Ilias Bilionis, Rebecca Ciez*, Tianyi Li*, Julia Rayz, Torsten Reimer. SCC-IRG Track 1: Smart Energy Assistants for Affordable Housing Communities. National Science Foundation. $1,599,996.00.
Andrea Kasinski, Hyunyoung Jeong, Phillip Low. Enhancing miRNA Therapeutics through Vehicle Free Delivery. National Cancer Institute. $1,930,000,00.
Andrea Kasinski, Nadia Lanman, Philip Low, Andrea Pires dos Santos. Ligand-Mediated, Vehicle-Free Delivery of Small RNAs. National Cancer Institute. $1,930,108.00.
Tae Yoon Kim. Mitosis in Confining Microenvironments. National Institute of General Medical Sciences. $1,005,534.00.
James Krogmeier. SPR-4863: High Speed Deflectometer Study. Indiana Department of Transportation. $1,302,494.00.
Casey Krusemark. Harnessing the In Vitro Selection for Activity-based Proteomics and Chemical Probe Development. National Institute of General Medical Sciences. $2,113,567.00.
Richard Kuhn. Antibody-based Protection Against Flaviviruses. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. $1,299,725.00.
Samuel Labi*, Darcy Bullock, Yiheng Feng*, Konstantina Gkritza, Kumares Sinha*, Andrew Tarko*. New Center for Connected and Automated Transportation, for Safety, Cybersecurity, and Equity (CCAT-SCE). U.S. Department of Transportation. $1,750,000.00.
Julia Laskin. Next-Generation Spatial-Omics: High-Throughput, Single-Molecule Proteomic Imaging with Subcellular Resolution. National Institute of Mental Health. $1,501,555.00.
Chi Hwan Lee, Bryan Boudouris+, Pete Kollbaum^^, Shin Ae Park*. Smart Soft Contact Lenses for Continuous 24-Hour Monitoring of Intraocular Pressure in Glaucoma Care. The National Eye Institute. $2,177,089.00.
Christina Li. Heterogeneous Directed Hydrogenation of Arenes and Olefins with Chemo- and Stereoselectivity. National Institute of General Medical Sciences. $1,865,324.00.
Tongcang Li. Nuclear Spin Detection and Control in 2D Materials. Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. $1,250,000.00.
Mark Lundstrom, Muhammad Alam, Joerg Appenzeller, Thomas Beechem*, Zhihong Chen, John Howarter*, Anand Raghunathan, Kaushik Roy, Ganesh Subbarayan-Shastri, John Sutherland, Tiwei Wei*, Xianfan Xu, Peide Ye. IMEC-Purdue Collaboration. Indiana Economic Development Corporation. $1,750,000.00.
Shelley MacDermid Wadsworth, Kathy Broniarczyk, Dave Topp. Extending the Reach of SBHP, FY 24, Y5 (NGB). National Guard Bureau. $1,895,001.00.
Shelley MacDermid Wadsworth, Kathy Broniarczyk, Sharon Christ, Dave Topp. Turning Training into Action: Translating Training of Behavioral Health Providers into Evidence-Based Practices. U.S. Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity. $1,294,062.00.
Nina Mahmoudian*, Mo Rastgaar*. A Cross-Domain Dynamic Gateway. Office of Naval Research. $1,304,994.00.
Georgia Malandraki, Bruce Craig. . SimulScan: Simultaneous Functional and Dynamic MRI for Evaluating Swallowing Across Age and in Neurogenic Dysphagia. National Institute on Aging. $1,477,753.00.
Sanjeev Malushte*. Amit Varma. Geotechnical and Structural Document Review for LNG Facilities for FERC. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. $1,622,700.00.
Linda Mason*. NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) – Program Year 2023-24. National Science Foundation. $2,407,000.00.
Kevin Massey*, Darren Crum*. PARI Westgate Workforce Development. Department of the Army. $2,640,500.00.
Richard Mattes, Steve Lindemann. Health Effects of Consuming Categories of Grain Food in Adults. Grain Foods Foundation. $1,500,000.00.
Scott McLuckey. Novel Ion Chemistry and Instrument Development for the Characterization of Proteins, Nucleic Acids, and Heterogeneous Bio-complexes via Tandem Mass Spectrometry. National Institute of General Medicine Sciences. $1,827,864.00.
Scott Meyer. Increased High Pressure Air Storage for Zucrow Laboratories. Rolls-Royce Corporation. $3,348,000.00.
Tamara Moore, Kerrie Douglas, Siddika Guzey, Morgan Hynes, Greg Strimel*. SCALE K-12 Silicon Crossroads ME Commons. U.S. Department of Defense. $2,500,00.00.
Partha Mukherjee. Center for Advances in Resilient Energy Storage (CARES). UL Research Institutes. $4,500,000.00.
Casey D. Mull*. FY2023 Military Teen Adventure Camps. National Institute of Food and Agriculture. $1,140,000.00.
Casey D. Mull*. Lilly Endowment – Strengthening Youth Programs. Lilly Endowment Inc. $3,000,000.00.
Ming Yu Ngai*. Excited-State Catalysis in Organic Synthesis – Change of Recipient Organization/Transfer. National Institute of General Medicine Sciences. $1,295,883.00.
Tyamo Okosun*^. Scaling Hydrogen-Direct Reduced Iron Pathways to Decarbonize Iron and Steelmaking. Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. $1,152,104.00.
Andrew Otte, Kinam Park. Long-Acting Biodegradable Buprenorphine Depots. National Institute on Drug Abuse. $9,851,496.00.
Kinam Park, Andrew Otte. Injectable Naltrexone 2-Month Depot Formulations. National Institute on Drug Abuse. $2,768,235.00.
Laura Pyrak-Nolte, David Nolte. Center for Understanding Subsurface Signals and Permeability (CUSSP) Experimental Geochemistry/Geomechanics and Sensing Research and Development Support. U.S. Department of Energy. $1,296,000.00.
Taimoor Hasan Qazi*. Leveraging Cell-Instructive Hydrogels to Understand Microenvironmental Impact on Wound Healing Processes. National Institute of General Medical Sciences. $1,898,775.00.
Timothy Ratliff, Philip Low, Jiang Yang. Therapeutic Targeting of Bone Hydroxyapatite in Multiple Myeloma. Paula and Rodger Riney Foundation. $2,112,173.00.
Jenna Rickus, Inna Abramova*, Jasmine Begeske, Helen Bentley+, Nancy Boes*, Françoise Brosseau-Lapré*, Mary Ann Cahill*^+, Virak Chan, Sarah Eason, Jennifer Finders+, Kharon Grimmet, Teresa Hogg*^, Breanya Hogue*, Angela Holtsclaw, Holly Hullinger*^, Melanie Kuhn*, Chenell Loudermill, Kathleen Martin*, Catherine Mcbride*, Carolyn McCormick, Patricia Morita-Mullaney, Isabel Nunez*^, Grace Pigozzi*^, Megan Purcell*, David Purpura, Jennifer Renn, Brenda Sarmiento Quezada*, Ofelia Schepers*, Elizabeth Schlesinger-Devlin*, Jennifer Smith*, Christina Wessel-Powell, Wayne Wright. . Purdue University Science of Reading Implementation Grant. Lilly Endowment, Inc. $1,500,000.00.
Natalia Rodriguez. Addressing Cervical Cancer Disparities Among People Experiencing Homelessness. National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities. $1,382,625.00.
Michael Sangid. Growing Additive Manufacturing Maturity for Airbreathing Hypersonics. U.S. Department of Defense. $2,026,690.00.
Jonathan Schlebach*. Molecular Mechanisms of Membrane Protein Misfolding and Quality Control in Cellular Proteostasis. National Institute of General Medicine Sciences. $2,675,438.00.
Jonathan Schlebach*. Rational Optimization of Combinatorial Therapies for the Treatment of Rare Cystic Fibrosis Variants. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. $1,365,931.00.
Severin Schneebeli*. Robust Sequence-Defined Nanocages with Protein-Mimetic Cavities. National Institutes of Health. $1,832,411.00.
Kelly Schultz*. Characterizing the Feedback Loop Between Cells and the Pericellular Region During Cell-Material Interactions. National Institute of General Medical Sciences. $1,698,987.60.
Shweta Singh, Vaneet Aggarwal, Kari Clase, Zoltan Nagy, Gintaras Reklaitis, Xiaohui Carol Song. FMRG: Eco: Cyber Enabled Transformation to Circular Supply Chains for Sustainable Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Networks. National Science Foundation. $3,000,000.00.
Carson Slabaugh. Liquified Natural Gas for Aviation Propulsion. Air Force Research Laboratory. $3,500,000.00.
Steven Son, Diane Collard*, Jian Xie*. High Energy Density Battery Composed of Energetic Materials. Air Force of Scientific Research. $1,129,112.00.
Luz Sotelo*, Salil Bapat*, Michael Sealy*. FMRG: Eco: GOALI: CAS: Understanding the Sustainability Framework for Convergent In-Space Manufacturing. National Science Foundation. $1,062,941.00.
Alejandro Strachan, Gerhard Klimeck. Silicon Crossroads. Applied Research Institute. $1,000,000.00.
Shankar Thangamani*. Mechanisms of Candida auris Colonization in the Skin. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. $2,390,065.00.
Shiliang Tian*. Deciphering the Structures and Mechanisms of Metalloproteins Involved in Human Iron Homeostasis. National Institute of General Medicine Sciences. $1,897,223.00.
Michael Titus, Paul Mort*, Jeffrey Youngblood. Recycling of Refractory Alloy Powders via Surface Etching in Metal Additive Processes. Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program. $1,291,895.00.
Sydney Trask*. Behavioral, Circuit, and Molecular Mechanisms Underlying UCS Deflation. National Institute of Mental Health. $1,921,919.00.
Michael Tu^, Deborah Blades*^, Keyuan Jiang^. Continue, Sustain, and Expand the NCAE-C AI-Cybersecurity Workforce Certification Based Training Program CWCT. National Security Agency. $2,500,000.00.
Andrea Vacca, Lizhi Shang*, Gregory Shaver. High Energy-Efficient Hybrid Excavator Powered by Hydrogen Combustion Engine. U.S. Department of Energy. $2,492,978.00.
Amit Varma, Sanjeev Malushte. Steel Composition Qualification Study Phase 2. Los Alamos National Laboratory. $1,242,124.00.
Haiyan Wang. Peter Bermel, R. Edwin Garcia, Minghao Qi. DMREF: Magneto-Electro-Optically Coupled Hybrid Metamaterial Thin Film Platform for Photonic Integrated Circuits. National Science Foundation. $1,999,884.00.
Mark Ward, Luiz Fernando Brito, Mitchell Tuinstra, Fei Xue,* Raymond Yeh,* Ruqi Zhang.*. Machine Learning for Predictive Breeding Technology. Beck’s Superior Hybrids, Inc. $1,921,632.00.
Kevin Webb*. Super-Resolution Imaging and Sensing with Relative Motion in Structured Illumination and Multiply-Scattered Light. Air Force Office of Scientific Research. $1,255,785.00.
Tiwei Wei*, Justin Weibel. Confined Direct Two-Phase Jet Impingement Cooling with Topology Optimized Surface Engineering and Phase Separation using Additive Manufacturing. The Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy. $1,881,315.00.
Holly Wood. Academic Community Partnership. North Central Health Services. $4,000,000.00.
Dongyan Xu, Antonio Bianchi, Z. Berkay Celik*, James Goppert, Inseok Hwang, Aravind Machiry, Jing Tian. FIREFLY: A Cyber-Physical Framework for Scalable CPS Modeling and Simulation. Air Force Research Laboratory. $6,500,090.00.
Dongyan Xu, Elisa Bertino, Z. Berkay Celik*, Ninghui Li, Yung-Hsiang Lu*, Ming Yin*. Theme 1: Institute for Artificial Cyber Threat Intelligence and OperatioN (ACTION). National Science Foundation. $2,939,602.00.
Yuehwern Yih. . LASER Buy-in: Randomized Impact Evaluation of Citizen Security in Guatemala (Mod #26 7200AA18CA00009). Agency For International Development. 2,335,000.00.
Chongli Yuan, Jennifer Freeman, Fang Huang, Yang Yang. Mechanisms of Gene-Environment Interaction in Developmental Lead Exposure Leading to Alzheimer’s Disease Phenotypes. The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. $1,022,378.00.
Amanda Zelechoski*^, Carly Baetz^*. Northwest Indiana Identification and Management of Pediatric Experiences of Trauma and Underlying Stress (NWI IMPETUS). Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. $2,999,623.00.
Tianyi Zhang*, Xiangyu Zhang. Proto-OKN Theme 1: Knowledge Graph Construction for Resilient, Trustworthy, and Secure Software Supply Chain. National Science Foundation. $1,499,989.00.
Xinghang Zhang, Guang Lin*, Haiyan Wang, Yexiang Xue. Accelerating Discovery and Diagnostics of Plasma-Wall Interactions using Machine Learning. U.S. Department of Energy. $2,482,020.00. .
Zhong-Yin Zhang, Andrew Mesecar, Karson Putt. IUSM Alzheimer’s Disease Drug Discovery Center. National Institute on Aging. $2,140,014.00.
Chenn Zhou^, Tyamo Okosun*^, Armin Silaen*^, Kyle Toth*^, Nicholas J. Walla*^. Development and Demonstration of an Industrial Hydrogen-Fired Steel Reheating Furnace. Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. $8,861,243.00. .
Qi Zhou. Aerosol Delivery of Combinational Therapeutics Targeting Deadly Lung Infections. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. $2,430,837.00.
Davide Ziviani, Riley Barta*, Rebecca Ciez*, Eckhard Groll. CoolScrew: Holistic Optimization of a High Temperature Heat Pump System with Internally Cooled Screw Compressors. U.S. Department of Energy. $2,038,100.00.
Davide Ziviani, Eckhard Groll, Steven Son. Holistic Optimization of Air-Conditioning Systems for Military Use with Low-GWP Refrigerants. Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program. $1,425,160.00.

Underlined names indicate Principal Investigators

* designates first-time Acorn Award recipients
^ indicates regional campuses
^^ indicates non-Purdue faculty

Awardees

Ryan Alan Altman*. Fluorination and Fluoroalkylation Strategies for Synthetic and Medicinal Chemistry. National Institute of General Medical Science. $2,671,833.
Xiaoping Bao (PI)*, Qing Deng, Bumsoo Han, Sandro Matosevic, Aaron Cohen-Gadol (IU). Engineer Biomimetic Microfluidic Models to Investigate and Reprogram Tumor Associated Neutrophils for Cancer Therapy. National Cancer Institute. $1,922,681.00.
Jacquelyn P. Boerman*, Dennis Buckmaster, Linda J. Pfeiffer*, Amy R. Reibman. Stakeholder-informed Integrated Video and Data Systems for Improved Dairy Efficiency. National Institute of Food & Agriculture. $1,000,000.00.
Bryan W. Boudouris, Stephen P. Beaudoin, Edward J. Berger, Weinong W. Chen, Chelsea S. Davis, Christopher S. Goldenstein, Marcial Gonzalez, Amy Susanne Greenan, Marisol Koslowski, Monique Suzanne McClain*, Terrence R Meyer, Davin G. Piercey, Brett Savoie, Steven F. Son, Alejandro H. Strachan, Song Zhang. Energetics Materials Basic Research Center. Army Research Laboratory. $15,000,000.00.
Gary Cheng, Yong Cheng, Leonid Rokhinson. Track 2: Developing Research and Education Programs in Quantum Information Science and Engineering with Research on Locally Tunable 2D Topological Superconductors. National Science Foundation. $5,000,000.00.
Jeffrey Edward Dick*. Nanoelectrochemistry and Single Cell Metabolomics. National Institutes of Health. $1,117,155.00.
Behzad Esmaeili*. Collaborative Research: Worker-AI Teaming to Enable ADHD Workforce Participation in the Construction Industry of the Future. National Science Foundation. $1,200,000.00.
Songlin Fei*, Daniel G. Aliaga*, Bedrich Benes, John J. Couture*, Melba M. Crawford, Rado Gazo*, Ayman F. Habib, Brady S. Hardiman*, Joseph P. Hupy*, Douglass F. Jacobs*, Jinha Jung*, Ningning Nicole Kong*, Zhao Ma, Zhen Yu Qian*, Gang Shao, Guofan Shao*, Mark Daniel Ward, Keith E. Woeste*, Baijian Yang*, Carla B. Zoltowski*. Promoting Economic Resilience and Sustainability of the Eastern US Forests. National Institute of Food and Agriculture. (PERSEUS), $10,000,000.00.
David F. Gleich*. Sparsitute: A Mathematical Institute for Sparse Computations in Science and Engineering. U.S. Department of Energy. $1,480,268.00.
Mark C. Hall, Scott D. Briggs, Ahmed AbdelKhalek Hassan*, Sanjeev K. Narayanan*. Cdc14 phosphatase – novel roles in drug resistance, virulence, and the response to cell wall stress in fungal pathogens. National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases. $2,400,438.00.
Michael A. Hill*, Martin G. Deubler*. NPDN National Database/National Network of Diagnostic Center. National Institute of Food & Agriculture. $1,056,000.00.
Jen-Yi Huang*, Paul B. Brown, Natalie J. Carroll, Abigail S. Engelberth, Yaohua Feng*, Andrea M. Liceaga*, Jiqin Ni*, Lindsey B. Payne Haugen*, Kwamena Quagrainie, Halis Simsek*, Zhi Zhou*. When Blue is Green: Sustainable Blue Food Systems Driven by Integrated Aquaponics. National Institute of Food & Agriculture. $10,000,000.00.
Dan Jiao*, Tillmann C. Kubis. Readying TCAD for transient, DFT based quantum transport in the THz regime. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. $1,000,000.00.
Chrystal S. Johnson*, Cornelius L. Bynum*, Siddika Guzey, Weiling Li. Project RISE. U.S. Department of Education. $2,268,626.00.
Sabre Kais, David John Stewart*. Purdue University: Center for Quantum Technologies. National Science Foundation IUCRC Phase I. (CQT), $1,125,000.00.
Bridgette Kelleher*, Daniel J. Foti*, Sean P. Lane+, Kelly Lynn Lemaire+, Mandy J. Rispoli+. Optimizing a Personalized Health Approach for Virtually Treating High-Risk Caregivers During COVID-19 and Beyond. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. $2,971,906.00.
Young L. Kim*. Maternal mHealth blood hemoglobin analysis with informed deep learning. National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering. $1,960,944.00.
Adam J. Kimbrough*. Identifying the relationship between alcohol and Alzheimer’s Disease. National Institute on Alcohol Abuse. $1,716,398.00.
Christian H. Krupke, Ashley A. Adair*, William G. Johnson, Michael R. Langemeier, Darcy E. P. Telenko*. Bio-intensified field crop rotations in the upper Midwest: Quantifying effects upon pest management and yield. National Institute of Food and Agriculture. $1,499,944.00.
Jianing Li*. Project Name: Precision Design of Antimicrobial Peptides Against Bacterial Infections. National Institute of General Medical Science. $1,211,712.00.
Shihuan Kuang, Christina R. Ferreira, James Frederick Markworth*, Chi Zhang*. Metabolic regulation of muscle satellite cell homeostasis. National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. $2,514,970.00.
Sa Liu, Brandon E. Boor*. Addressing Tetrachloroethylene Exposure in an Impacted Community: Residents’ Concerns, Neurotoxic Effects, and Exposure Reduction. National Institute of Environmental Health Science. $2,844,752.00.
Georgia Malandraki*, Bruce A. Craig, Jessica E. Huber. Rehabilitation of Airway Protection in Parkinson’s Disease: Comparing In-person and Telehealth Service Delivery Models. National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. $1,459,823.00.
Steven K. McKinley* National Institute of Food and Agriculture. Military Teen Adventure Camp. . $1,140,000.00.
Dharmendra K. Mishra*, Karen A. Hudson*, Katherine Martin Rainey, Senay Simsek*. Building Infrastructure and Connectivity for Small and Medium Scale Processing of Soy-Based Value-Added Products: A Multistate Approach. United Soybean Board. $1,100,000.00.
Shaoshuai Mou, Christopher Greg Brinton, James Michael Goppert, David Iseri Inouye, Shreyas Sundaram*, Song Zhang, Michael D. Zoltowski*. Threat & Situational Understanding with Networked-Online Machine Intelligence. Office of Naval Research. (TSUNOMI), $4,372,073.00.
Cody James Mullen*, Randolph Duane Hubach*. Purdue University Community Health Worker Training Program. Health Resources and Services Administration. $2,407,068.00.
F. Richard Olenchak*, Kristen K. Seward, Anne Traynor. Underrepresented Students in Gifted & Talented Education: Positive Psychology Identification & Service. U.S. Department of Education. $2,808,089.00.
Michael John Poderycki*, Vincent Jo Davisson, Matthew Olson, Bartlomiej P. Rajwa. Biotechnology Biosurveillance Phase 2. DEFENSEWERX. $1,000,000.00.
Linda S. Prokopy, Beth Lynelle Hall, Austin M. Pearson*, Hans F. Schmitz*, Aaron W. Thompson, Amy F. Thompson*, Melissa J. Widhalm*. Integrated Midwest Partnerships for Actionable Climate Tools and Training (IMPACT2): Supporting System Transformation on Working Lands. National Institute of Food and Agriculture. $1,500,000.00.
David J. Purpura, Robert J. Duncan, Sarah Henkel Eason, Jennifer K. Finders*, Catherine McBride, Valerie Knopik, Sara A. Schmitt. , STEM Ed PRF: The PURPOSE Postdoctoral Training Initiative. National Science Foundation. $1,250,000.00.
Kurt David Ristroph*. An integrated platform for continuous RNA nanoparticle formulation and drying. Food and Drug Administration. $1,181,788.00.
Matthew Louis Scarpelli*, Robin T. Bentley*, Bennett D. Elzey, Philip S. Low, Isabelle F. Vanhaezebrouck*. Improving glioma radiotherapy by theragnostic targeting of tumor-supporting macrophages. National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. $1,906,450.00.
Kristen K. Seward*, Alissa P. Cress*, Marcia L. Gentry, Yukiko Maeda*, Nielsen L. Pereira, Jennifer C. Richardson. Promotes Excellence: Developing Scholar Identities Among Underserved Youth with Gifts and Talents. U.S. Department of Education, Having Opportunities. $3,537,136.00.
Muhammad Shahbaz*. Evolvable Computing for Next Generation Distributed Computer Systems. Semiconductor Research Corporation. $1,250,000.00.
Shweta Singh*, Vaneet Aggarwal, Kari L. Clase, Zoltan Nagy, Gintaras V. Reklaitis, Xiaohui Carol Song. FMRG: Eco: Cyber Enabled Transformation to Circular Supply Chains for Sustainable Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Networks. National Science Foundation. $3,000,000.00.
Aaron James Specht*. HRS Yrs 29-34: Heavy Metal Exposures Supplement. National Institute on Aging. $1,286,734.00.
Brian Michael Tackett*, Bryan W. Boudouris, Rajamani P. Gounder, Jeffrey P. Greeley, Jeffrey T. Miller. Low-Temperature Electrocatalytic Manufacturing of Essential Chemical Building Blocks. U.S. Department of Energy. $2,643,895.00.
Michelle S. Thompson*. An Experimental Investigation of Space Weathering Processes on the Surface of Mercury. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. $1,278,282.00.
Mohit S. Verma, Arezoo Motavalizadeh Ardekani, Greg S. Fraley, Jonathan A Pasternak, Jon Schoonmaker*, Patrick A. Zollner. A universal field-deployable test for measuring and predicting the spread of SARS-CoV-2 in any host species. Animal Plant Health Inspection Service. $2,729,261.00.
David M. Warsinger*, James E. Braun, Davide Ziviani*. MemDry: Vapor-Selective Membrane Heat Exchanger Cycle for Efficient Passive and Active Convective Drying. U.S. Department of Energy. $1,894,252.00.
Roger Craig Wiens*. SuperCam Mars Rover Laser Instrument Projects. U.S. Department of Energy / Triad National Security, LLC. $1,559,424.00.
George R. Wodicka, Andrew O. Brightman*, Abigail D. Cox, Daniel J. Foti, Perry M. Kirkham*, Aaron Edward Lottes*, Natasha Nicole Nikolaidis*, Natalia Maria Rodriguez*, Dennis Savaiano, Thomas G. Sors, Pavlos Vlachos. Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute. National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences. $6,849,951.00.
Chongli Yuan*, Jennifer L. Freeman, Fang Huang, Yang Yang. Mechanisms of gene-environment interaction in developmental lead exposure leading to Alzheimer’s disease phenotypes. National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. $3,725,717.00.
Vasileios Zikas*. MEGA-ACE: Multidisciplinary Educational Global Alliance for Algorand Center of Excellenc. Algorand Foundation. e, $7,946,351.00.
Patrick Zollner, Jeffrey Holland*. Alternative Management Strategies to Address Multiple Interacting Stressors on Least Bell’s Vireo Populations. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. $1,667,089.00.

Underlined names indicate Principal Investigators

* designates first-time Acorn Award recipients
^ indicates regional campuses
^^ indicates non-Purdue faculty

Awardees

Elisa Bertino, Chunyi Peng*. AI Institute: Symbiotic Foundations for AI and Network Research. National Science Foundation/Ohio State University. $1,098,176.00.
Christopher Greg Brinton, James V. Krogmeier, David J. Love, Chih-Chun Wang*. Dynamic Spectrum Sharing 5G Network Enhancements Prototype. U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command / Raytheon BBN Technologies. $1,570,653.00.
Douglas K. Brubaker*+. Sleep in Alzheimer’s Disease. Good Ventures Foundation. $1,500,000.00.
Shelley A. Claridge*. , 2022 Schmidt Science Polymath Awardee. Eric and Wendy Schmidt Fund. $2,500,000.00.
Letian Dou*, Jianguo Mei, Brett Savoie. Multi-Functional Semiconducting Ligand Design for Intrinsically Stable and Scalable Perovskite Solar Cells. U.S. Department of Energy. $1,500,000.00.
Douglas J. Gotham, Stacey L. Connaughton*. Continue the Work of the State Utility Forecasting Group from July 2021-June 2027. Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission. $4,767,813.15.
Konstantina Gkritza*, Dionysios Aliprantis, Darcy M. Bullock, Rosalee A. Clawson*, John E. Haddock, Steven D. Pekarek, Donna M. Riley*+. Advancing Sustainability through Powered Infrastructure for Roadway Electrification. National Science Foundation. (ASPIRE), $5,481,768.00.
Thomas W. Hertel, Jing Liu*. Understanding Multi-Stressor and Multi-Scale Drivers of Feedbacks, Cascading Failures, and Risk Management Pathways within Complex MSD Systems. U.S. Department of Energy. $1,106,419.00.
Tomas O. Hook, Angela S. Archer*, Paul B. Brown, Joshua S. Carlton, Hope K. Charters*, Ethan R. Chitty*, Andrew R. Coursey*+ , Carolyn J. Foley, Megan L. Gunn*, Kwamena K. Quagrainie, Kara A. Salazar, Benjamin Zachary Szczygiel*, Leslie E. Thompson, Daniel E. Walker*, Mitchell T. Zischke. Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant 2022-2023 Omnibus (Parent Record). National Oceanographic & Atmospheric Administration. $3,043,131.00.
Mahdi Hosseini*, Erica Carlson*, Muhsin Menekse. Innovation in Quantum Pedagogy, Application and its Relation to Culture (IQ-PARC). Department of Defense, National Defense Education Program. $2,788,583.00.
Laura Ingwell*, Wenjing Guan*, Ian Kaplan, Arianna P. Torres Bravo. Optimizing pest management in high tunnels to increase the resiliency of local food systems. National Institute of Food & Agriculture. $3,704,495.00.
Darrin M. Karcher*, Marisa A. Erasmus*, Esteban Fernandez-Juricic*, Greg S. Fraley*, Patrick A. Zollner. Agent Based Modeling to improve cage-free housing systems: What does the hen see?. National Institute of Food & Agriculture. $1,000,000.00.
Shihuan Kuang, Meng Deng*, Feng Yue*. Targeting PTEN to ameliorate muscular dystrophy in a mouse model. National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS). $1,664,881.00.
Ji Yeon Lee*, Sharon L. Christ. Implicit Structural Priming as a Treatment Component in Aphasia. National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders. $3,109,320.
Ying Li*, Natalia Doudareva. Elucidating the interplay between two chromatin regulators HDA8 and ELP3 in dynamic control of primary and secondary metabolic networks. National Science Foundation. $1,002,041.00.
Chenell Loudermill*, Jasmine L. Begeske*, Charna T. Greenwell, Anne M. Gritt*, Christi M. Masters*, Mandy J. Rispoli. Interprofessional Education Supporting the High Intensity Needs of Exceptional Students. U.S. Department of Education. (IPE-SHINES), $1,165,724.00 .
Philip S. Low, Madduri Srinivasarao*. Development of Targeted Therapies for Human Diseases. MorphImmune, Inc. $6,877,304.00.
Luna Lu, Yining Feng*. Specification Products, Systematic Testing and Understanding of Nanosilica Based Products on Concrete Curing, Performance and Durability. . $1,501,257.00.
Lauren Ann Metskas*. Partial maturation in mosquito-borne flaviviruses: developing new approaches to characterize the role of lattice heterogeneity in fusion, infectivity, and antibody neutralization. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. $2,243,578.00.
Patricia M. Morita-Mullaney, Jennifer E. Renn*, Wayne E. Wright. Parental Inclusion in Language and Research: An Indiana Scale up and Replication of Dual Language Education. U.S. Department of Education. $2,903,764.00.
Zoltan Nagy, Gintaras V. Reklaitis, Francesco Rossi*, David H. Thompson. EFRI DCheM: Digital design of a network of distributed modular and agile manufacturing systems with optimal supply chain for personalized medical treatments. National Science Foundation. $1,999,703.00.
Peristera Paschou*. Tourette Syndrome genetics and neuroimaging international collaborative study. National Institute of Mental Health. $2,483,845.00.
Linda S. Prokopy, Shalamar D. Armstrong*, Steven G. Hallett, Ian Kaplan, Sarah E. LaRose*, Elizabeth T., Maynard*, Aaron W. Thompson*, Ariana P. Torres Bravo. #DiverseCornBelt: Resilient Intensification through Diversity in Midwestern Agriculture. National Institute of Food and Agriculture. $10,000,000.00.
Laura J. Pyrak-Nolte*, Antonio Bobet. Role of Fluid and Temperature in Fracture Mechanics and Coupled THMC Processes for Enhanced Geothermal Systems. U.S. Department of Energy. $2,282,941.00.
Timothy L. Ratliff, Arun K. Ghosh, Philip S. Low, Sandro Matosevic*, Herman O. Sintim, John Tesmer. Multiple Myeloma Therapeutic Development. Paula and Rodger Riney Foundation. $4,262,869.00.
Catherine R. Scott*, Vicki L. Simpson*. Consortium for Opioids Response and Engagement-East Central Indiana (CORE-ECI). Health Resources and Services Administration. $1,000,000.00.
Jonathan H. Shannahan*, Kimberly K. Buhman*, Christina R. Ferreira*, Nadia Atallah Lanman*. , Compromised Resolution of Inflammation following Nanoparticle Exposure in Metabolic Syndrome. National Institute of Environmental Health Science. $1,876,239.00.
Ali Shakouri, Jan P. Allebach, Elisa Bertino, Alejandra J. Magana Deleon*, Jan-Anders E. Mansson. FMRG: Cyber: Privacy-Preserving Tiny Machine Learning Edge Analytics Enabling AI-Commons for Manufacturing. National Science Foundation. $2,999,999.00.
Gregory M. Shaver, Eric A. Holloway*. Advanced Valve Actuation, Sensing and Control of High Efficiency Natural Gas Engines, including those to be used in Commercial Range-Extended Electric. Cummins Engine Company Inc. $1,500,000.00.
Preeti Mahalakshmi Sivasankar, Abigail D. Cox*, Craig J. Goergen*, Andrea Pires Dos Santos*, Allison J. Schaser*, Jun Xie. Estrogenic regulation of systemic vocal fold dehydration. National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders. $3,653,404.00.
Xiaohui Carol Song, Vetria L. Byrd*, Iman Haqiqi*, Thomas W. Hertel, David R. Johnson, Venkatesh Mohan Merwade, Mark Daniel Ward. Geospatial Understanding through an Integrative Discovery Environment. HDR Institute:. HDR Institute: Geospatial Institute for Digital Innovation to Enhance Resilience and Sustainability, $2,450,000.00.
Bruno Tesini Roseguini*. Leg heat therapy to improve functional performance in peripheral artery disease. National Institute on Aging. $2,812,794.00.
Elizabeth M. Topp, Alina Alexeenko, Eric J. Munson*. Solid-state stability of mRNA vaccines. Pfizer, Inc. $1,471,064.00.
Elizabeth Tran, Sara C. Cloutier*+, Youssef Ahmad Hegazy*+, Matthew P. Russon*+, Kirsten M. Westerhouse*+. The Roles of DEAD-box Proteins in Gene Expression. National Institute of General Medical Science. $2,082,461.00.
David M. Umulis, Douglas Koehler Brubaker+, Adrian Buganza Tepole, Ignacio G. Camarillo*, Jason R. Cannon, Deva Di Hua Chan*, Qing Deng, Janice Perry Evans, Stephanie M. Gardner, Krishna Jayant*, Tae Yoon Kim, Tamara L. Kinzer-Ursem, Jacqueline C. Linnes, Alejandra J. Magana Deleon, Elsje Pienaar*, Christopher J. Staiger, Xiaoqian Wang*, Guangjun Zhang. BII: Emergent Mechanisms in Biology of Robustness, Integration, & Organization. National Science Foundation. (EMBRIO), $12,500,000.00.
Amit H. Varma, Robert J. Connor*, Jungil Seo*. Prototype development and Testing for NRIC – Phase 1. Battelle Energy Alliance Llc / GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy Americas. $1,400,000.00.
Mohit S. Verma, Jonathan A. Pasternak*, Darryl Ragland*. Point-of-care detection of African Swine Fever Virus: a paper-based device for molecular diagnostics. Animal Plant Health Inspection Service. $1,000,000.00.
Ellen M. Wells, Jason T. Harris*, Sa Liu, Jae Hong Park. Distance Education and Training on Emerging Contaminants and Technologies. National Institute of Environmental Health Science. (DETECT), $1,131,899.00.
Christina L. Wessel-Powell*, Helen Claire Bentley*, Virak Chan*, Patricia M. Morita-Mullaney. Student Learning Recovery Grant: Emergent Literacy and Language Development Clinics. Indiana Department of Education. $1,123,774.00.
Wojciech Szpankowski, Ananth Y. Grama, Mohsen Heidari Khoozani*+. CCF: Medium: Learning from Classical and Quantum Data: a Fourier Perspective. National Science Foundation. $1,199,996.00.
Holly Amber Wood*, Pavlos Vlachos. CDC National Initiative to Address Covid-19 Health Disparities. Center for Disease Control / Indiana State Department of Health. $10,474,429.00.
Yang Yang, Wendy Ann Koss*. Neuronal and behavioral deficits associated with Scn2a deficiency in autism spectrum disorder. National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. $1,907,470.00.
Denny Yu*, Felicia D. Roberts*, Arman Sabbaghi*, Dimitrios Stefanidis (IU) (add for now but likely will not include). Wearable sensors for modeling and assessing non-technical skills in surgery. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. $1,600,000.00.
Yun Zhou*. Molecular Mechanisms of Stem Cell Homeostasis in Arabidopsis. National Institute of General Medical Science. $1,552,759.00.

Underlined names indicate Principal Investigators

* designates first-time Acorn Award recipients
^ indicates regional campuses
^^ indicates non-Purdue faculty

Awardees

Angela R. Abbott, Blake A. Connolly*, Wanda J Stevens*. Indiana Nutrition Education Program: SNAP-Ed Plan 2021. U.S. Department of Agriculture. $5,895,566.
Mesut Akdere, Umit Karabiyik, Jin Kocsis*. Cyber Resilience Adaptive Virtual Reality Experiences (CRAVRE). U.S. Department of Homeland Security. $1,500,000.00.
Brittany Allensworth*. Horizons Student Support Services. U.S. Department of Education. $2,192,230.00.
Saurabh Bagchi, Somali Chaterji, Mung Chiang*, David Iseri Inouye*. Real-Time, Distributed Decision-Making for the Autonomous Battlefield. U.S. Army, Secure. $3,741,422.
Saurabh Bagchi, Stephen L Harrell*+, Rajesh Kalyanam*, Xiaohui Carol Song. CCRI: ENS: Collaborative Research: Open Computer System Usage Repository and Analytics Engine. National Science Foundation. $1,183,897.
Arielle Borovsky*. Lexico-semantic abilities in early language growth and delay. National Institute for Deafness and Communication Disorders. $3,050,172.00.
Antonio Bianchi*, Jing Tian*, Dongyan Xu. DICER: Directed Compilation for Assured Patching. Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific. $3,869,729.
Luciano Castillo*. Blue Integrated Partnerships (BIP): Mentoring the Medici Scholars to Solve Tomorrow’s Big Challenges. Office of Naval Research. $2,735,916.00.
Leifu Chang*. Molecular basis for CRISPR RNA-guided nucleic acid cleavage and DNA transposition. National Institute of General Medical Science. $1,705,317.
Yong P. Chen, Arnab Banerjee*, Sunil A. Bhave, Alexandra Boltasseva, Xingshan Cui*, Sabre Kais, Rafael F. Lang*, Ruichao Ma*, Michael James Manfra, Leonid P. Rokhinson, Vladimir M.
Gaurav Chopra*, Riyi Shi. Elucidating microglial immune regulation targets to remove protein aggregates in TBI. U.S. Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity. $1,300,000.
Daniel A. DeLaurentis, James Michael Goppert, Inseok Hwang, Shaoshuai Mou, Dengfeng Sun*. Secure and Safe Assured Autonomy (Thrust 6 – Assured Autonomy of Aviation Transformation). National Aeronautics and Space Administration. $2,054,000.00.
Ulrike Dydak, Aaron B. Bowman, Daniel Foti, Jonathan R. Kuhn^, Sa Liu*, Jae Hong Park*, Ellen M. Wells*. Neuroimaging of Manganese Toxicity. National Institute of Environmental Health Science. $3,544,660.00.
Beth Lynelle Hall*. Regional Climate Center Services: Midwestern Regional Climate Cente. National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration. r (MRCC), $3,112,500.
Carol A. Handwerker, Harvey Abramowitz^, John E. Blendell, Nikhilesh Chawla*, Ganesh Subbarayan-Shastri. USPAE Proposal to CIR CS-20-1302 for Lead Free Defense Electronics. Department of the Army/ Advanced Technology International. $26,000,000.00.
Thomas W. Hertel, Raquel Asencio*+, Xiaohui Carol Song. GLASSNET: Networking Global to Local Analyses to Inform Sustainable Investments in Land and Water Resources. National Science Foundation, AccelNet:. $1,999,991.00.
Inseok Hwang, James Michael Goppert*, Dongyan Xu. Cybersecurity for UAS Operations in Urban Environment. Technology Innovation Institute. $2,012,574.00.
Hyunyoung Jeong*. Molecular basis of altered drug metabolism during pregnancy. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. $1,243,534.00.
Sarah Karalunas*, Sean P. Lane. Biobehavioral validation of the ADHD emotion dysregulation phenotype. National Institute of Mental Health. $3,551,472.00.
Shihuan Kuang, Luiz Fernando Brito*, Matthew Olson*, Timothy Ratliff. Immunomyoblasts in muscle regeneration. National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS). $2,628,475.00.
Xiaojun Lin*, Dionysios Aliprantis*, Lu Liu*, Gesualdo Scutari*. Communication-Constrained Robust Control and Learning of Grid-Connected IoT. U.S. Department of Energy. $1,850,000.00.
Jacqueline C. Linnes, Sulma I. Mohammed*. Point-of-care screening test for early cervical cancer detection. National Cancer Institute. $1,996,330.00.
Xing Liu*. Regulatory Mechanism of Cullin-RING Ubiquitin Ligases. National Institute of General Medical Science. $1,880,740.00.
Ajay P. Malshe*, Yung C. Shin. Convergent manufacturing platform (CMP) for hybrid processing of heterogeneous structures. Army Research Laboratory. $5,051,004.00.
Susan M. Mendrysa, Latonia L. Craig, Marxa L. Figueiredo, Harm Hogenesch, Loran Carleton Parker, Malathi Raghavan*. Purdue PREP for Translational Biomedical Sciences. National Institute of General Medical Science. $1,193,892.00.
Nathan Mentzer*. Learning by evaluating (LbE): Engaging students in evaluation as a pedagogical strategy to improve design thinking. National Science Foundation. $1,257,321.00.
Timothy J. Newby*, Kharon D. Grimmet*, Adrie Anne Koehler-Blair*, Patricia M. Morita-Mullaney, Jennifer C. Richardson. Becoming an online teacher – even when I didn’t sign up for it. Indiana Department of Education. $1,548,823.68.
David J. Purpura, Robert J. Duncan*, Sarah Henkel Eason*, Sara A. Schmitt. My Math Stories: Taking My Place in Our Mathematical World. NewSchools Venture Fund. $2,000,000.00.
Timothy L. Ratliff, Majid Kazemian, Nadia Atallah Lanman*, Jiang Yang*. Impact of Inflammation on Adult Prostate Stem Cells. National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. $3,561,043.00.
Vitaliy L. Rayz*, Bruce A. Craig, Pavlos Vlachos. Risk Assessment of Cerebral Aneurysm Growth with 4D flow MRI. National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. $2,635,330.00.
Sandra San Miguel*, Wilella Daniels Burgess, Ladawn T. Lyle*+, Martha Lindley McDavid*, Loran Carleton Parker, Micha C. Simons+. See Us-Be Us: Inspiring future veterinarians using a Veterinary STEM Ecosystem. National Institute of General Medical Science. $1,350,000.00.
Brett Savoie, Julia Laskin*, Jianguo Mei*. An Informatics Paradigm for Predicting Organic Chemical Stability. Office of Naval Research. $7,483,688.00.
Steven F. Son, Timothy D. Manship*, Alejandro H. Strachan. Characterization of Novel Energetic Material with Sub-scale Experiments Correlated to Large Scale Tests Using Machine Learning. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. $1,436,144.00.
Zoe E. Taylor*, Yumary Ruiz*, J. Jill Suitor. Mental and Physical Health in Children of Latino Migrant Farm Workers: A Multi-Level Longitudinal Examination of Risk and Resilience Factors. National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD). $3,138,472.00.
Roger L. Tormoehlen*, William E. Field. Gearing Up for Youth Education and Development for Employment in Agriculture. National Institute of Food and Agriculture. $2,254,000.00.
Darci J. Trader*+. Monitoring and Manipulating the Activity of the Immunoproteasome with Small Molecules. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. $1,865,693.00.
Danzhou Yang, Herman O. Sintim*. Targeting MYC promoter G-quadruplex for MYC inhibition by Indenoisoquinolines. National Cancer Institute. $1,949,970.00.

Underlined names indicate Principal Investigators

* designates first-time Acorn Award recipients
^ indicates regional campuses
^^ indicates non-Purdue faculty

Awardees

Angela R. Abbott. NEP: SNAP-Ed Plan 2020. IN State Department of Health, Indiana. $6,008,510.
Rakesh Agrawal, Peter A. Bermel, Sylvie M. Brouder, Martins Ribeiro Bruno Felisberto, Margaret W Gitau, Juan P. Sesmero, Mitchell R. Tuinstra. INFEWS/T2: Solar Solutions for Food, Energy and Water Systems (S2FEWS). National Science Foundation. $2,499,999.
Peter A. Bermel, Muhammad A. Alam, Kerrie A. Douglas, Tamara J. Moore, Alejandro H. Strachan. Radiation-Hard Microelectronics Workforce Development Consortium. the Department of the Army. $19,197,828.
Jeffrey T. Bolin, Andrew D. Otte. The solvent-water mixing during the first few seconds of contact. Showalter Trust. $1,415,000.
Aaron B. Bowman, Yang Yang. Manganese exposure susceptibility as a modifier of excitotoxicity in Alzheimer’s Disease. Vanderbilt University Medical Center. $1,278,590.
Sylvie M. Brouder, Gregory J. Bossaer, Bruce A. Craig, Nathan D. Delay, Bruce J. Erickson, Nathanael M. Thompson, Jeffrey J. Volenec, Danielle N. Walker. FACT: AN Innovative Cyber-Framework Integrating Public/Private Data for Evidence-Based Recommendations. National Inst Of Food & Agriculture. $1,000,000.
Lynn A. Bryan, Siddika Guzey. STEM Teacher Residency in IPS. U.S. Department Of Education. $5,072,651.
Adrian Buganza Tepole, Sarah Calve. Multi-Scale Modeling to Predict Long-Term Growth and Remodeling of Skin in Response to Stretch. Phs-Nih Nat Inst Arthrit, Muscul, Skin Dis. $2,270,537.
Darcy M. Bullock. JTRP Admin. Budget FY 2021. Department Of Transportation. $9,848,202.
Barrett S. Caldwell, Dawn R. Whitaker. Indiana Space Grant Consortium Programs and Opportunities. National Aeronautics And Space Admin. 2020-2024, $2,815,000.
Stephen L. Cameron. Collaborative Research: Digitization TCN: Digitizing collections to trace parasite-host associations and predict the spread of vector-borne disease. National Science Foundation. $1,112,690.
Clint Chapple, Brian Dilkes. Coupling metabolic source isotopic pair labeling and genome wide association for metabolite and gene annotation in plants. U.S. Department Of Energy. $2,430,615.
Zhihong Chen, Joerg Appenzeller, Sumeet Kumar Gupta. NEW LIMITS – NEW materials for LogIc, Memory and InTerconnectS. Semiconductor Research Corporation. $4,905,949.
Candace C. Croney, Shanis Barnard, Kari J. Ekenstedt, Hannah E. Flint. Validation of welfare assessment, community building and engagement approaches to improve care standards for commercial breeding dogs. Life Of Riley At Spring Point. $2,026,354.
Daniel James Cziczo. Dynamics and Chemistry of the Summer Stratosphere. National Aeronautics And Space Admin. $1,567,166.
Vincent Jo Davisson, Gregory Thomas Knipp, Robert V. Stahelin. Antiviral Lead Identification to Treat Filovirus Infections. Phs-Nih Nat Inst Allergy Infectious Dis. $2,602,015.
Vincent Jo Davisson, Gregory Thomas Knipp. Pharmaceutical Sciences Core for Advancing novel cyanide countermeasures. Brigham And Women’s Hospital. $1,967,973.
Daniel A. DeLaurentis. WRT-1020: Systems Engineering Research Center (SERC) Program Management. Stevens Institute Of Technology. $1,400,000.
Shirley J. Dyke, Ilias Bilionis, Antonio Bobet, James E. Braun, David J. Cappelleri, George T. Chiu, Amin Maghareh, Karen Marais, Julio Alfonso Ramirez, Dawn R. Whitaker. Resilient ExtraTerrestrial Habitats. National Aeronautics And Space Admin. $15,000,000.
Nancy E. Edwards. Health Center Cluster (Grant 11000493). Health Resources & Services Admin. $1,646,219.
Daniel S. Elliott. Precision measurement of parity non-conserving, weak-force induced transitions in atomic cesium. National Science Foundation. $1,082,095.
Janice Perry Evans. The oocyte’s progression through meiosis: Involvement of a heart disease-associated protein. Phs-Nih Nat Inst Of Child Hlth, Human Dev. $1,646,875.
Audeen W. Fentiman, Daniel A. DeLaurentis, Kerrie A. Douglas, John W. Sutherland, from National Science Foundation, Development, Deployment, and Evaluation of Instructional Modules for Current and Future Practitioners of Model-based Systems Engineering, $1,989,709
James C. Fleet, Brian Dilkes, Abdolmajid Kazemian, Connie M. Weaver. Nutrigenetics of Intestinal Ca Absorption. Phs-Nih Nat Inst Diabetes, Kidney Dis. $1,406,320.
Doran C. French, Sara A. Schmitt. Early Learning Matters – NAF Blanket Purchase Agreement. Air Force, U.S. Dept Of The. $3,233,102.
Suresh V. Garimella, Matthew D. Lynall. I-Corps Node: Activating the Midwest I-Corps Network. University Of Michigan. $1,436,531.
Stanton B. Gelvin, Lan-Ying Lee, Jianxin Ma. TRTech-PGR: Ensifer-mediated transformation as an alternative to Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of model plants and crops. National Science Foundation. $1,196,191.
Kevin D. Gibson, Felica T. Ahasteen-Bryant, Jacqueline E. Mcdermott, Kenneth D. Ridgway, Patrick A. Zollner, Stephanie M. Zywicki. The Sloan Indigenous Graduate Partnership: A Force For Change. Sloan, Alfred P. Foundation. $1,089,403.
Robert K. Goosen, Nathan W. Hartman, Jan-Anders E. Mansson. Implementing Small Manufacturer Assistance with Robotic Technologies (I-SMART) Program. National Institute Of Standards & Tech. $1,000,000.
Jeffrey P. Greeley, Jeffrey T. Miller. Data Science-Driven Discovery of Multimetallic Oxygen-cycle Electrocatalysts for Enhanced Energy Conversion. U.S. Department Of Energy. $1,499,789.
Sumeet Kumar Gupta, Anand Raghunathan, from Army Research Office, Low Power Compact Non-Volatile Memory and In-Memory Compute Architectures enabled by 2D Piezoelectric Transistors, $1,169,993
Thomas W. Hertel, David R. Johnson. INFEWS/T2: Identifying Sustainability Solutions through Global-Local-Global Analysis of a Coupled Water-Agriculture-Bioenergy System. National Science Foundation. $2,500,000.
E. Daniel Hirleman, Marifran Mattson, Evan K. Perrault, Marcus K. Rogers. Cyber-readiness Partnership. Rolls-Royce Corporation. $1,225,142.
Lori A. Hoagland, Daniel S. Egel, Tesfaye D. Mengiste. Tomato Organic Management and Improvement Project (TOMI): Part II. National Inst Of Food & Agriculture. $1,999,614.
Tomas O. Hook, Joshua S. Carlton, Paris D. Collingsworth, Kara A. Salazar. Extending Impact of U.S. EPA’s Great Lakes National Program Office Using Sea Grant Outreach Capacity. National Oceanographic & Atmospheric Adm. $5,539,091.
Tomas O. Hook, Carolyn J. Foley. Improving Communication About Changing Lake Michigan Water Levels in the Chicago Metropolitan Area. National Oceanographic & Atmospheric Adm. $5,631,708.
Jason T. Hoverman, Robert W. Flynn, Tyler D. Hoskins, Linda S. Lee, Maria Soledad Sepulveda. The relative toxicities of current use aqueous film forming foams and next generation alternatives to aquatic species for informing risk assessment. Strategic Envrnmtl Res & Dev Program. $1,298,814.
Karen S. Hudmon. Advancing the Role of Pharmacy in Tobacco Cessation. Phs-Nih National Cancer Institute. $1,594,603.
Inseok Hwang, Brandon J. Pitts, Tahira Reid Smith, Neera J. Sundaram. CPS: Frontier: Collaborative Research: Cognitive autonomy for human CPS: Turning novices into experts. National Science Foundation. $2,246,039.
William G. Johnson, Bryan G. Young. Take Action – Multi State Herbicide Resistant Crops and Weeds Educational Program. United Soybean Board. $1,019,853.
Timothy Matthew Jones, Andreas Jung. CMS Upgrades for the High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider. Cornell University, U.S. $1,270,641.
Nicole L. Key. Research on Casing Treatments for Performance Enhancement of High-Speed Fans. Office Of Naval Research. $1,996,601.
Richard J. Kuhn. Consortium for Immunotherapeuthics against Emerging Viral Threats. La Jolla Inst For Allergy & Immunology. $1,032,210.
Milind Kulkarni, Saurabh Bagchi, Xiaozhu Lin, Xiaokang Qiu. Write Once, Run on Anything: Verified, Tuned Accelerator Kernels from High Level Specifications. National Science Foundation. $1,250,000.
Stephen R. Lindemann. Carbohydrate Structure Controls on Human Gut Microbial Ecology. Phs-Nih Nat Inst Of General Medical Sci. $1,879,605.
Jacqueline C. Linnes. Point-of-use Acute HIV Infection Diagnostic for Substance Using Populations. Natnl Inst On Drug Abuse. $2,325,000.
Philip S. Low. Universal CAR T Cell Therapy. Umoja Biopharma. $2,000,000.
Shelley Wadsworth MacDermid, Kathy M. Broniarczyk, Dave Topp. Innovating, Engaging, and Catalyzing to Support Military and Veteran Families. Lilly Endowment Inc. $4,500,000.
Shelley Wadsworth MacDermid, Sharon L. Christ, Dave Topp. Effects During Adolescence of Early Childhood Exposure to Parental Wartime Deployment. Phs-Nih Nat Inst Of Child Hlth, Human Dev. $2,935,238.
Theresa Stellwag Mayer, Muhammad A. Alam, Mingji Dai, Edward J. Delp, Heather A. Eicher-Miller, Pedro Irazoqui, Tamara L. Kinzer-Ursem, Chi Hwan Lee, Hyowon Lee, Jacqueline C. Linnes, Kinam Park, Rahim Rahimi, Jean-Christophe Rochet, Shreyas Sen, Alexey Shashurin, Luis Solorio, Mohit S. Verma, Yoon Yeo, Fengqing Zhu. Eli Lilly Connected Solutions 2020. Lilly (Eli) And Company. $5,810,040.
Theresa Stellwag Mayer, Kaethe A. Beck, Michael R. Ladisch, Gintaras V. Reklaitis, Pavlos Vlachos, Yoon Yeo. Lilly Injectable Biologics 2020. Lilly (Eli) And Company. $6,601,300.
James R. Mintert, Nathan D. Delay, Michael R. Langemeier, Nathanael M. Thompson. Purdue/CME Group Farm Economy Barometer Project. Chicago Mercantile Exchange. $2,231,862.
Zoltan Nagy, Marcial Gonzalez, Carl D. Laird, Gintaras V. Reklaitis, David H. Thompson. Risk-based process synthesis and Industry 4.0 framework for pharmaceutical manufacturing processes. Food And Drug Administration. $2,967,614.
Nicholas Noinaj. Unraveling the mechanism by which the BAM complex mediates OMP biogenesis. Phs-Nih Nat Inst Of General Medical Sci. $1,198,174.
Elizabeth I. Parkinson. Mining Cryptic Biosynthetic Gene Clusters for Novel Bioactive Compounds. Phs-Nih Nat Inst Of General Medical Sci. $1,852,360.
Nielsen Pereira. Closing Excellence and Opportunity Gaps for Students from Traditionally Underserved Populations in Gifted Education: A Multi-Tier Systems of Support Approach. U.S. Department Of Education. $2,172,719.
Dimitrios Peroulis, Alina Alexeenko, Sergey O. Macheret, Abbas Semnani. Wideband and High-Power Reconfigurable Plasma Matching Network for Compact and Efficient Phased Array Emitters. Office Of Naval Research. $1,707,961.
Jonathan Poggie, Sally P. M. Bane, Gregory A. Blaisdell, Brandon C. Chynoweth, Daniel A. DeLaurentis, Stephen D. Heister, Joseph S. Jewell, Terrence R. Meyer, Guillermo Paniagua Perez, Timothee L. Pourpoint, Steven P. Schneider, Carson D. Slabaugh, Vikas Tomar, Rodney W. Trice. Multidisciplinary Hypersonics Program. Air Force Research Laboratory. $5,810,347.
P Jonathan oggie, Gregory A. Blaisdell, Joseph S. Jewell, Steven P. Schneider. Development of Hypersonic Vehicle Flight Test Structure. University Of Dayton Research Institute. $1,400,000.
David J. Purpura, Sara A. Schmitt. Reading and Playing with Math: Promoting preschoolers’ math language through picture books and play activities. Institute Of Education Sciences. $1,109,963.
Arvind Raman. LASER Buy-In: Applied Nutrition Research Capacity Building in Laos. Agency For International Development. $5,100,000.
Arvind Raman. LASER Buy-In: Cultural Restoration Program for Northern Iraq. Agency For International Development. $5,120,000.
Arvind Raman. LASER Buy-In: Multi-Country Study on Inclusive Education (MCSIE) for learners with disabilities in Cambodia, Malawi, and Nepal. Agency For International Development. $3,584,995.
Karthik Ramani, David S. Ebert, Ananth V. Iyer, Thomas S. Redick, Song Zhang. RAISE: C-Accel Pilot – Track B1 (Future Jobs and AI): Collaborative Research: Skill-LeARn: Affordable Augmented Reality Platform for Scaling Up Manufacturing Workforce, Skilling, and Education. National Science Foundation. $1,000,000.
Jeffrey Frederick Rhoads, Jennifer J. Deboer. IUSE:EHR:ICT Propagation, Research, and Evaluation of an Educational Innovation in Multiple Settings with a Focus on the Role of Institutional Culture. National Science Foundation. $2,504,959.
Fabio H. Ribeiro, Denise M. Driscoll, Margaret M. Drummond Oakes, Michael T. Harris. CISTAR’s REM Program: Broadening Summer Participation of African American Undergraduates by Coupling an Engineering Research Experience with a NSBE SEEK Mentoring Experience. National Science Foundation. $16,649,170.
Mandy J. Rispoli. Leaders in Evidence Based Practices, Autism Spectrum Disorder, and Diversity. University Of Oregon, Project LEAD:. $1,206,874.
Marcus K. Rogers, Umit Karabiyik. AI Enabled Community Supervision for Criminal Justice Services. National Institute Of Justice. $1,999,778.
Kenneth H. Sandhage, Michael D. Sangid, Kevin P. Trumble. Oxidation-Resistant, Thermomechanically-Robust Ceramic Composite Heat Exchangers. U.S. Department Of Energy. $3,469,487.
Mohamed Seleem, Daniel P. Flaherty. Repurposing novel selective drugs for treatment and decolonization of vancomycin resistant enterococci. Phs-Nih Nat Inst Allergy Infectious Dis. $3,717,432.
Kavita Shah. Targeting Drug-Resistant Castration Resistant Prostate Cancer via LIMK2. Phs-Nih National Cancer Institute. $1,786,087.
Tom I-P. Shih. Computational Analysis of Advanced Cooling Strategies for High-Efficiency and Long-Service Life Gas Turbines. Ames Laboratory. $2,500,000.
Tom I-P. Shih. Computational Analysis of Advanced Cooling Strategies for High-Efficiency and Long-Service Life Turbines. Ames Laboratory. $3,096,106.
Thomas H. Siegmund, John A. Howarter, Laura J. Pyrak-Nolte. ENGINEERING NEW SOLUTIONS TO REDUCE THE BURDEN OF SKELETAL FRACTURE. National Science Foundation, LEAP-HI:. $1,996,957.
Lowell D. Snow. NIST MEP Emergency Assistance Program. National Institute Of Standards & Tech. $1,374,000.
Carol Xiaohui Song. XSEDE 2.0: Integrating, Enabling and Enhancing National Cyberinfrastructure with Expanding Community Involvement. Univ Of Illinois At Champaign-Urbana. $1,467,736.
Carol Xiaohui Song, Rajesh Kalyanam, Preston M. Smith, Xiao Zhu. Category I: Anvil – A National Composable Advanced Computational Resource for the Future of Science and Engineering. National Science Foundation. $9,952,154.
Christopher J. Staiger. Regulation of Cell Wall Assembly: Myosin and Exocyst Involvement in Cellulose Synthase Delivery to the Plasma Membrane. U.S. Department Of Energy. $2,145,000.
Alejandro H. Strachan, Ilias Bilionis, Kenneth H. Sandhage, Michael S. Titus. DMREF: Discovery of high-temperature, oxidation-resistant, complex, concentrated alloys via data science driven multi-resolution experiments and simulations. National Science Foundation. $1,738,752.
Ganesh Subbarayan-Shastri, Amy M. Marconnet, Justin A. Weibel. Evaluation of Strategies for Vapor Chamber Integration into Heterogeneous System-in-Package Architectures for Hot-Spot Damping. Semiconductor Research Corporation. $1,113,750.
Daniel M. Suter, Yuk-Fai Leung, Estuardo Robles. NADPH oxidase regulates growth cone guidance. Phs-Nih Nat Inst Neuro Disorders, Strokes. $1,770,658.
Daniel B. Szymanski, Jun Xie. RESEARCH-PGR: A System Biology Approach to enable Cotton fiber engineering. National Science Foundation. $2,297,960.
John Tesmer. Regulation of the metastasis promoting chemokine receptor ACKR3 by GPCR kinases, Gbg and arrestins. Phs-Nih National Cancer Institute. $3,235,727.
Mathew J Trampski (Proposal PI), Gloria H. Umberger, Mesut Akdere, Stephen John Elliott, Busiime Ida Ngambeki. Purdue Cybersecurity Apprenticeship Program (P-CAP): Apprenticeships that Address the Critical Workforce Shortage in Cybersecurity. U.S. Dept Of Labor. $11,999,996.
Mitchell R. Tuinstra, Keith A. Cherkauer, Melba M. Crawford, Edward J. Delp, David S. Ebert, Ayman F. Habib, Clifford F. Weil. Automated Sorghum Phenotyping and Trait Development Platform. Advanced Res Projects Agency – Energy. $4,500,000.
David M. Umulis, Adrian Buganza Tepole. Modeling and analysis of BMP-mediated Dorsal/Ventral patterning in zebrafish embryos. PHS-NIH Nat Inst Of General Medical Sci. $1,379,356.
Juan P. Wachs, Stephen P. Beaudoin, Bryan W. Boudouris, Hong Z. Tan, Wenzhuo Wu. NRI: INT: FIngers See Things Differently (FIST-D): A Robotic Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) based on Augmented Tactile Imaging. National Science Foundation. $1,499,795.
Danzhou Yang. Nucleolin recognition of MYC promoter G-quadruplex and its role in MYC regulation by MycG4-ligands. Phs-Nih National Cancer Institute. $1,925,519.
Min Zhang, Nadia M. Atallah Lanman, Timothy L. Ratliff, Dabao Zhang. Big Data Training for Cancer Research. Phs-Nih National Cancer Institute. $1,215,670.
Zhong-Yin Zhang, Andrew D. Mesecar, Karson S. Putt. IUSM Alzheimer’s Disease Drug Discovery Center. Indiana University. $3,404,025.

Underlined names indicate Principal Investigators

* designates first-time Acorn Award recipients
^ indicates regional campuses
^^ indicates non-Purdue faculty

Awardees

Peter Bermel, Gozdem Kilaz. Achieving Scientifically Secured User Reassurance in Electronics (ASSURE). Indiana Innovation Institute. $2,492,538.
Sunil A. Bhave. MCOQA: Mechanically-driven, Coherence-enhanced Quantum Angle sensor. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. $2,320,920.
Sunil A. Bhave. RAISE-TAQS: Multifunctional Hybrid Quantum Systems for Spin-Based Quantum Control and Metrology. National Science Foundation. $1,000,000.
James E. Braun. Center for High Performance Building Consortium. Consortium Members. $2,730,000.
Scott D. Briggs, Brian Dilkes, Mark C. Hall. SET domain epigenetic factors govern antifungal drug efficacy and fungal pathogenesis. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIH). $1,931,230.
Sarah Calve, Tamara L. Kinzer-Ursem. Biomechanical influence of ECM remodeling on the developing enthesis. National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIH). $1,694,706.
Noll L. Campbell. Reducing Risk of Dementia through De-prescribing (R2D2). National Institute on Aging (NIH). $3,281,773.
David J. Cappelleri, Song Zhang. RI: Medium: Light Responsive Polymer Magnetic Microrobots with Dual Mode Sensing for Biomedical and Advanced Manufacturing Applications. National Science Foundation. $1,000,000.
Alexander A. Chubykin. Neural Mechanisms of Predictive Impairments in Autism. National Institute of Mental Health (NIH). $1,866,265.
Meng Cui. High-throughput 3D random access three-photon structural and functional imaging. National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NIH). $1,405,558.
Mingji Dai. Synthesis and Study of Medicinally Important Molecules. National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIH). $1,909,120.
Edward J. Delp, from Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)/Air Force Research Laboratory Media Forensics Integrity Analytics, $5,165,055
Qing Deng. Role of microRNAs in neutrophil migration. National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIH). $1,845,890.
Shirley Dyke, Ilias Bilionis, Antonio Bobet, James E. Braun, David J. Cappelleri, George T. Chiu, Amin Maghareh, Karen Marais, Julio Alfonso Ramirez, Dawn Whitaker. Resilient Extraterrestrial Habitats Institute. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. $17,040,750.
David S. Ebert, Saurabh Bagchi, Bharat Bhargava, Christopher Brinton, Chris Clifton, Arif Ghafoor, Ninghui Li, Shaoshuai Mou, Joel Rasmus, Bowei Xi. Northrop Grumman. Northrop Grumman Corporation. $5,409,273.
Paul D. Ebner, Elizabeth Karcher, John H. Lumkes, Krishna Nemali, Haley F. Oliver, Kashchandra Raghothama, Mohamed Seleem, Ariana Torres Bravo. U.S. — Egypt Center of Excellence in Agriculture. U.S. Agency for International Development. $2,846,063.
Nancy E. Edwards, Karen J. Foli. Advanced Practice Nurses in the Primary Care Workforce: Increasing Care in Rural/Underserved Indiana. U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration. $2,188,753.
Anter A. El-Azab, Janelle P. Wharry. Center for Thermal Energy Transport Under Irradiation. U.S. Department of Energy. $1,710,030.
Timothy R. Filley, Dieudonne Baributsa, Amanda J. Deering, Emad Elwakil, Marty D. Frisbee, Bruce R. Hamaker, Charles P. Woloshuk, Jacob E. Ricker-Gilbert, Haley F. Oliver, Chad T. Jafvert, Walter Daniel Leon-Salas, Marshall A. Martin, Sara K. McMillan, Lori A. Hoagland, Ronald F. Turco, Greg M. Michalski, Lisa R. Welp-Smith, Mohsen Mohammadi, Cankui Zhang, Jian-Kang Zhu, Kashchandra G. Raghothama. Arequipa Nexus Institute for Food, Energy, Water and the Environment. Universidad Nacional de San Agustin. $14,668,400.
Daniel P. Flaherty, Chittaranjan Das. Antibacterial inhibitors of RnpA. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIH). $1,900,493.
James L. Garrison, David A. Spencer. SNOOPI: SigNals-of-Opportunity P-band Investigation. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. $1,205,133.
John E. Haddock. Work Plan and Budget Request for Indiana Local Technical Assistance Program 2018-2019. Indiana Department of Transportation. $1,313,372.
Jason R. Henderson, Lionel J. Beaulieu, Abby R. Hostetler, Michael D. Wilcox. Advancing Agrosecurity and Community Resilience through Collaboration, Capacity-Building and Extension Program Innovation. National Institute of Food and Agriculture. $1,529,600.
Randall A. Hountz, Natalie M. Stewart, George Bailey. FSSA – Statewide Medicaid EHR/Security Assistance. Indiana Family and Social Services Administration. $7,224,294.
Randall A. Hountz, Nicole Adams, Mark K. Clare, Daniel D. Degnan, Paul M. Griffin, Nan Kong, Laura Reese, Andrew Marimon-Cabamalan, Melanie Cline. An HIT-Enabled Community-Wide Approach to Opioid Treatment. Indiana Family and Social Services Administration. $3,998,872.
Randall A. Hountz, Kathleen Abrahamson, Gregory W. Arling, Mark K. Clare, Daniel D. Degnan, Paul M. Griffin, Zachary J. Hass, Nan Kong, Jack Fenton. Cost-Effective Quality Care for Indiana’s Long-Term Care (LTC) Medicaid Patients. Indiana Family and Social Services Administration. $3,997,723.
Rong Huang. Discovery of small molecule inhibitors for protein N-terminal methyltransferase. National Cancer Institute (NIH). $1,063,689.
Chen-Lung Hung, Sergei Khlebnikov, Martin Kruczenski, Qi Zhou. Exploring Strongly Coupled Systems by Experiment and String Theory Methods. W. M. Keck Foundation. $1,000,000.
Zubin Jacob, Tongcang Li, Na Lu, Yi Xuan. Designing quantum fluctuational meta-molecules for giant cooperative light-matter interaction beyond spectral boundaries. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. $3,873,103.
Wen Jiang. Atomic models of human tau filaments and development of tau ligands. National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NIH). $1,323,160.
Natalya B. Kaganovich, Sharon L. Christ, Charna T. Greenwell, Laurence B. Leonard. Audiovisual processing in children with developmental language disorder. National Institute on Deafness and Communication Disorders (NIH). $1,625,193.
Sabre Kais, Yong P. Chen, Libai Huang. Quantum Computing Algorithms and Applications for Coherent and Strongly Correlated Chemical Systems. U.S. Department of Energy. $2,475,000.
Gerhard Klimeck, Alejandro Strachan, Lynn Zentner. Network for Computational Nanotechnology Cyber Platform. National Science Foundation. $14,500,000.
Casey J. Krusemark. Harnessing the In Vitro Selection for Activity-based Proteomics and Chemical Probe Development. National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIH). $1,880,740.
Tillmann C. Kubis. Commercial Development and Implementation of Atomistic Level TCAD Simulation for the Advanced Semiconductor Market. Silvaco. $3,533,335.
Milind Kulkarni, Jeremiah M. Blocki, Benjamin J. Delaware, Christina L. Garman, Aniket Pundlik Kate, Hemanta K. Maji, Tiark Rompf, Roopsha Samanta. HACCLE: High-Assurance Compositional Cryptography: Languages and Environments. Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity. $10,732,899.
Sean P. Lane, Erin P. Hennes, Robert W. Proctor, X. Carol Song, Lan Zhao. Toward a Generalized Framework and Flexible Software Environment for Power Analysis of Alcohol Treatment Randomized Controlled Trials. National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIH). $3,411,401.
Jacqueline C. Linnes, Tamara Kinzer-Ursem, Steven T. Wereley, Ellen Gruenbaum. Smartphone-based diagnostic for HIV self-testing. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIH). $1,143,157.
Dianne Little, Uma K. Aryal, Sarah Calve, Bruce R. Cooper, Phillip J. SanMiguel, Jyothi Thimmapuram. Driver Genes for Engineered Rotator Cuff Development. National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIH). $2,455,911.
Shelley MacDermid Wadsworth, Kathy M. Broniarczyk, Dave Topp. Star Behavioral Health Providers – Indiana Department of Mental Health and Addiction. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. $1,000,000.
Renee K. McKee. Military Extension Internship Program and Teen Adventure Camps. National Institute of Food and Agriculture. $1,628,800.
Scott A. McLuckey. Gas-phase Bio-conjugation in the Tandem Mass Spectrometry of Peptides, Proteins and Protein Complexes. National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIH). $1,637,413.
Muhsin Menekse, Ala Samarapungavan. Enhancing Undergraduate STEM Education by Integrating Mobile Learning Technologies with Natural Language Processing. U.S. Department of Education. $1,398,642.
Scott E. Meyer. LLC, Blue Origin RCS Thruster Development Testing. Blue Origin. $1,157,348.
Norbert Neumeister, John P. Finley, Timothy Matthew Jones, Andreas Jung, David S. Koltick, Luis Martin Kruczenski. An Experimental and Theoretical High Energy Physics Program. U.S. Department of Energy. $9,327,000.
Haley F. Oliver, Amanda J. Deering, Paul D. Ebner, Jaco Ricker-Gilbert, Hui-Hui Wang, Jerry Shively. Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Safety. U.S. Agency for International Development. $9,989,774.
Guillermo Paniagua Perez. RR DAS for STARR Project. Rolls-Royce. $4,760,000.
Kinam Park, Andrew D. Otte. Injectable naltrexone 2-month depot formulations. National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIH). $2,861,170.
Dimitrios Peroulis, Dallas T. Morisette, Charilaos Mousoulis, Shreyas Sen. MEMS-Scale Accumulating Radiation Sensor Program. Landauer. $2,703,431.
Katherine Martin Rainey, Karen Hudson. Modifying Soluble Carbohydrates in Soybean Seed for Enhanced Nutritional Energy Meal. United Soybean Board. $2,439,019.
Arvind Raman, Joseph V. Sinfield, Yuehwern Yih, Jennifer J. DeBoer, Wilella D. Burgess, Andrea Burniske, Betty Bugusu. LASER Partners for University-Led Solutions Engine (PULSE). U.S. Agency for International Development. $70,000,000.
Karthik Ramani, Shimon Y. Nof, Alexander J. Quinn, Thomas S. Redick. FW-HTF Theme 2: Collaborative Research: Designing Future Reality Today: Physical-Reality Simulation Platform for Future Factories. National Science Foundation. $1,839,998.
Julio Alfonso Ramirez, Antonio Bobet, David R. Johnson. NHERI Network Coordination Office. National Science Foundation. $4,485,786.
Gintaras V. Reklaitis, Marcial Gonzalez, Zoltan Nagy. Assessment of Industry 4.0 in Advancing Continuous Pharmaceutical Manufacturing. U.S. Food and Drug Administration. $1,400,000.
Fabio H. Ribeiro, Rajamani P. Gounder, Jeffrey T. Miller. I2FE – Increase Gasoline Octane. Indiana Economic Development Corporation. $1,260,000.
Leonid P. Rokhinson. Engineering Topologically Protected Superconducting States. U.S. Department of Energy. $1,691,000.
Michael G. Rossman. Structural Studies of Togaviruses. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIH). $3,231,145.
Kenneth H. Sandhage, Kevin P. Trumble. Robust High-Temperature Heat Exchangers. U.S. Department of Energy. $1,960,745.
Kenneth H. Sandhage. Mechanisms Mediating Osseointegration of 3D Printed Titanium Constructs. National Institute of Arthritis and Musculosk1eletal and Skin Diseases (NIH). $1,445,402.
Sandra F. SanMiguel, Wilella D. Burgess, Henry W. Green III, Willie M. Reed, Bianca N. Zenor, Latonia Craig. Vet Up! The National HCOP Academy for Veterinary Medicine. U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration. $3,187,668.
Steven P. Schneider, Brandon C. Chynoweth. Design and Initial Development of Quiet Ludwieg Tube Wind Tunnels at Mach 8 and Mach 10. Air Force Research Laboratory. $5,908,000.
Shreyas Sen, Dana Weinstein. MIDAS TOUCHES: Tiles of Unreleased Clocks for Hybrid Electronic Steering. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. $1,139,965.
Gregory M. Shaver, Daniel DeLaurentis, Tony J. Vyn, John Evans. Autonomous Systems Development Tools. John Deere North American Agricultural. $2,860,140.
Margie E. Snyder, Matthew M. Murawski. An Evaluation of the Spread and Scale of PatientToc from Primary Care to Community Pharmacy Practice for the Collection of Patient-Reported Outcomes. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. $1,434,492.
Steven F. Son. Piezoenergetics: Coupled Piezoelectric and Nanoenergetic Materials with Tailorable and Switchable Reactivity. Air Force Office of Scientific Research. $4,499,963.
X. Carol Song, Jian Jin, Venkatesh M. Merwade, Uris Baldos. Framework:Data:HDR: Extensible Geospatial Data Framework towards FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) Science. National Science Foundation. $4,571,811.
Robert V. Stahelin. Lipid-Protein Interactions in Viral Assembly and Virus Like Particle Formation. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIH). $1,094,388.
Robert K. Swihart. Integrated Deer Management in Indiana. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. $1,269,380.
Lynne S. Taylor. Chemistry, Manufacturing and Control Pilot Project to Evaluate Novel Drug Product Manufacturing Technologies. Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. $1,173,871.
Dorothy Teegarden, Shawn S. Donkin, Michael K. Wendt. Obesity, Metabolism and Breast Cancer Metastasis. National Cancer Institute (NIH). $2,307,651.
John Tesmer. Purdue University Molecular Biophysics Training Program. National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIH). $1,286,856.
Christopher H. Uyeda. Transition Metal Catalyzed Reductive Carbene Transfer Reactions. National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIH). $1,836,355.
Richard M. Van Rijn, Julia A. Chester. G-protein-, beta-arrestin- and ERK-signaling in Alcohol Use- and Anxiety-disorders. National Institute on Alcohol Abuse (NIH). $1,691,423.
Juan P. Wachs, Vaneet Aggarwal, Richard D. Voyles, Yexiang Xue. A Fundamental Theory for Dexterous Surgical Skills Transfer to Medical Robots. U.S. Department of Defense. $1,285,500.
Andrew M. Weiner, Sabre Kais, Minghao Qi. RAISE:TAQS: High Dimensional Frequency Bin Entanglement — Photonic Integration and Algorithms. National Science Foundation. $1,000,000.
Jennifer H. Wisecaver. DIMENSIONS: Eco-Evolutionary Drivers of Diversity in Toxic Algal Blooms. National Science Foundation. $1,999,208.
Zhong-Yin Zhang. Structure/Function of Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases. National Cancer Institute (NIH). $1,628,090.
Wei Zheng, Linda H. Nie. Lead Exposure and Beta-Amyloid Transport by Brain Barriers. National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIH). $1,918,925.
Qi Zhou. Advancing innovative therapies against pandrug-resistant Gram-negative superbugs. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIH). $3,247,904.

Underlined names indicate Principal Investigators

* designates first-time Acorn Award recipients
^ indicates regional campuses
^^ indicates non-Purdue faculty

Awardees

Rakesh Agrawal, Peter A. Bermel, Sylvie M. Brouder, Nathalie Duval-Couetil, Margaret W. Gitau, Michael T. Harris, Juan P. Sesmero, Mitchell R. Tuinstra. NRT — INFEWS: Collaborative Research: Sustainable Food Energy and Water Systems. National Science Foundation. $2,510,755.
Jay Akridge, Mukerrem Cakmak, Bernard Engel, Nathan W. Hartman, Ananth V. Iyer, Dimitrios Peroulis, Karen I. Plaut, Ali Shakouri, John W. Sutherland. Creating a Prosperous Economic Ecosystem in the Wabash Heartland. Lilly Endowment Inc. $19,200,000.
Joerg Appenzeller, Zhihong Chen, Supriyo Datta, Mark S. Lundstrom. E2CDA: Type I: Probabilistic Spin Logic for Low-Energy Boolean and Non-Boolean Computing. National Science Foundation. $2,453,754.
Elias Bareinboim. RI: Medium: Collaborative Research: Casual Inference: Identification, Learning and Decision-Making. National Science Foundation. $1,061,682.
Peter Bermel, Muhammad A. Alam, Joerg Appenzeller, John E. Blendell, Zhihong Chen, Carol A. Handwerker, Mark C. Johnson, Gerhard Klimeck, Ali Shakouri, Alejandro Strachan, Ganesh Subbarayan-Shastri, Matthew A. Swabey, Peide Ye. Achieving Scientifically Secured User Reassurance in Electronics (ASSURE). Indiana Innovation Institute. $2,292,538.
Alexandra Boltasseva, Zubin Jacob, Vladimir M. Shalaev. Control of Light-Matter Interaction with Epsilon-Near-Zero Homogeneous Alternative Plasmonic Material. U.S. Department of Energy. $1,309,155.
Charles Bouman, Gregery T. Buzzard, Stanley H. Chan, Garth J. Simpson. CIF: Medium: Multi-Agent Consensus Equilibrium: Modular Methods for Integrating Disparate Sources of Expertise. National Science Foundation. $1,216,000.
Lynn Bryan, Paul A. Asunda, Siddika Guzey, Muhsin Menekse, Jill A. Newton. Project Einstein: Excellence in STEM Teaching in Indiana. National Science Foundation. $1,415,500.
Mukerrem Cakmak. Tracking, Diagnosing and Arresting Dielectric Breakdown Using Multiscale Characterization and Simulations. Office of Naval Research. $1,000,000.
Sarah Calve. Defining the Mechanical Link that Unites the Musculoskeletal System during Limb Development. National Center of Complementary and Integrative Health (NIH). $2,234,425.
Chun-Ju Chang. Targeting Metformin-Directed Stem Cell Fate in Triple Negative Breast Cancer. National Cancer Institute (NIH). $1,770,581.
Zhihong Chen, Joerg Appenzeller, Sumeet Kumar Gupta. NEW LIMITS — NEW materials for LogIc, Memory and InTerconnectS. Semiconductor Research Corp. $1,500,000.
Candace Croney, Kari J. Ekenstedt. Establishing a Scientific Basis for Improving Canine Welfare in Commercial Breeding Operations – Study 1: Does Risk Assessment Predict Rehoming Outcomes in Retiring CB Dogs? And Study 2: Does Maternal Fear and Stress Impact Puppy Health and Behavior?. Stanton Foundation. $1,986,350.
Chittaranjan Das, Zhao-Qing Luo. Mechanism of Atypical Ubiquitination and Deubiquitination by Bacterial Effectors. National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIH). $1,653,244.
Gebisa Ejeta, Tesfaye D. Mengiste, Patrick J. Rich. Integrated Striga Control II: Striga and Drought-Tolerant Sorghum (SDTS) Hybrid Seeds for Africa. Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. $4,984,153.
Marxa Figueiredo. Facilitating Endogenous Bone Repair in Arthritis with Targeted IL-27 Sonodelivery. National Institute of Arthritis, Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIH). $1,717,227.
Timothy Filley, Jonathan Bauchet, Carrie Berger, Laura Bowling, José M Garcia Bravo, Sylvie Brouder, Gary Burniske, Christian Butzke, Indrajeet Chaubey, Keith Cherkauer, David Ebert, Gebisa Ejeta, Bernie Engel, Jane Frankenberger, Jennifer Freeman, Margaret Gitau, Javier Gonzalez, Chi-Hua Huang, Bill Hutzel, Chad Jafvert, Cliff Johnston, Nicole Kong, Linda Lee, Walter Daniel Leon-Salas, Zhao Ma, Sara McMillan, Byung-Cheol Min, Brittany Newell, Suranjan Panigrahi, Linda Prokopy, J. Ricker- Gilbert, Darrell Schulze, John Sheffield, Diane Stott, Richard Voyles, Connie Weaver, S. Laurel Weldon, Laura Zanotti, Mark Zimpfer. Arequipa Nexus Institute for Food, Energy, Water and the Environment. Universidad Nacional de San Agustín. $7,287,293.
Suresh Garimella, Kaethe Beck, Thomas Verhoeven. Five-Year Life Science Strategic Research Collaboration. Eli Lilly and Co. $52,000,000. Year 1 Projects: Injectable Biologics, Michael R. Ladisch, Pavlos Vlachos, Arezoo Ardekani, Julie Liu, Scott A. McLuckey, Nathan Mosier, Gintaras Reklaitis, Riyi Shi, Luis Solorio, Yoon Yeo. Lilly — Connected Solutions, Pedro Irazoqui, Muhammad A. Alam, Edward J. Delp, Paul Griffin, Tamara Kinzer-Ursem, Chi Hwan Lee, Hyowon Lee, Jacqueline C. Linnes, Kinam Park, Shreyas Sen, Luis Solorio, Yoon Yeo, Fengqing Zhu. $1,603,208.
Nilupa Gunaratna. Engaging Fathers for Effective Child Nutrition and Development in Tanzania (EFFECTS). Project Concern International. $1,286,095.
John Haddock. Work Plan and Budget Request for Indiana Local Technical Assistance Program 2017-2018. Indiana Department of Transportation. $1,184,411.
Tomas Höök, Jayson S. Beugly, Carolyn J. Foley, Kwamena Quagrainie, Kara A. Salazar, Leslie E. Thompson, Mitchell T. Zischke. 2018-2022 IISG Omnibus Proposal. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. $5,431,708.
Randall Hountz, Natalie Stewart. Quality Payment Program Support for Small Practices. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. $1,374,970.
Rong Huang. Protein N-terminal Methylation Mechanisms and Inhibition. National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIH). $1,360,175.
Avinash Kak. Creation of Operationally Realistic 3D Environment (CORE3D). Intelligence Advance Research Projects Activity. $1,349,525.
Panagiota Karava, Ilias Bilionis, James E. Braun, Leigh S. Raymond, Torsten O. Reimer. SCC-IRG Track 1: Sociotechnical Systems to Enable Smart and Connected Energy-Aware Residential Communities. National Science Foundation. $3,581,912.
Andrea Kasinski, Philip S. Low. Enhancing miRNA Therapeutics through Combinatorial Targeting and Vehicle Free Delivery. National Cancer Institute (NIH). $1,757,121.
Andrea Kasinski, Philip S. Low. Ligand-mediated, Vehicle-free Delivery of Small RNAs. National Cancer Institute (NIH). $1,745,389.
Tae Yoon Kim. Universal Roles of Force Generation and Transmission in Biological Systems. National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIH). $2,164,941.
Gerhard Klimeck, Krishna Madhavan, Alejandro Strachan, Lynn Zentner, Michael Zentner. Network for Computational Nanotechnology Cyber Platform. National Science Foundation. $2,000,000.
James Krogmeier, Aaron Ault, Larry Biehl, Dennis Buckmaster, James J. Camberato, Melba M. Crawford, Amanda J. Deering, Richard H. Grant, Haley F. Oliver, Amy R. Reibman, Dharmendra Saraswat, Mark Tucker, Mark Daniel Ward. An Open-Source Framework and Community for Sharing Data and Algorithms. Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research. $1,066,348.
Michael Ladisch, Rose Prabin Ambrose, Abigail Engelberth, Kendra Erk, Marcial Gonzalez, Klein Ileleji, Nathan S. Mosier, Pankaj Sharma, Carl R. Wassgren, Eduardo A. Ximenes. Analytical Modeling of Biomass Transport and Feeding Systems. U.S. Department of Energy. $1,190,000.
Tongcang Li, Francis Robicheaux. Investigating Surface Interactions with Levitated Optomechanics at the Quantum Limit. Office of Naval Research. $1,701,918.
Faming Liang. An Imputation- Consistency Algorithm for Biomedical Complex Data Analysis. National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIH). $1,164,748.
Zhao-Qing Luo, Chittaranjan Das. Effector-Mediated Ubiquitin Manipulation in Legionella Pneumophila Pathogenesis. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIH). $1,582,412.
Angeline Lyon. Structural Studies of PLCß, a Regulator of Cardiac Contractility and Hypertrophy. National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NIH). $1,889,494.
Rose Mason, Yukiko Maeda, Jennifer Richardson, Mandy J. Rispoli. Para-Impact: Professional Development with Teacher-as-Coach for Paraeducators of Elementary Students with Moderate-to-Severe Developmental Disabilities. U.S. Department of Education. $1,393,765.
Nicolo Michelusi, James Krogmeier, David Love. EARS: Collaborative Research: Real-Time Control of Dense, Mobile, Millimeter Wave Networks Using a Programmable Architecture. National Science Foundation. $1,319,834.
Patricia Morita-Mullaney, Wayne E. Wright. Leveraging the Lectura y Lenguaje: A Collaborative Scale-up of Literacy and Language in Indiana Schools. U.S. Department of Education. $1,840,319.
Patricia Morita-Mullaney, Wayne E. Wright. Project PUEDE: Parent and Professional Understanding for Equity in Dual Language Education. U.S. Department of Education. $1,892,481.
Nicholas Noinaj. Structural Characterization of the TOC Protein Translocon Machinery. National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIH). $1,549,093.
Guillermo Paniagua Perez, Terrence R. Meyer. Rolls-Royce Small Turbine Aerothermal Research Rig (STARR). Indiana Economic Development Corp. $6,000,000.
Vilas Pol, Thomas E. Adams, Partha P. Mukherjee, Pankaj Sharma, Vikas Tomar. Lithium-ion Battery Safety by Prevention, Detection and Control. Office of Naval Research. $1,956,864.
David Purpura. CAREER: Mechanisms Underlying the Relation between Mathematical Language and Mathematical Knowledge. National Science Foundation. $1,444,280.
Jeffrey F. Rhoads, J. Stuart Bolton, Patricia Davies, Marcial Gonzalez, Steven F. Son. Exploring the Thermomechanics of Energetic and Mock Energetic Composite Materials under Quasi-Static and Near-Resonant Excitations. U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory. $1,732,776.
Jeffrey F. Rhoads, Bryan W. Boudouris, James E. Braun, George T.C. Chiu, from the U.S. Department of Energy Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy, Building Integrated Microscale Sensors for CO2 Monitoring, $1,533,407
Fabio Ribeiro, Rakesh Agrawal, Monica E. Cardella, Nicholas W. Delgass, Otto C. Doering, Rajamani P. Gounder, Jeffrey P. Greeley, Michael T. Harris, Christina W. Li, Jeffrey T. Miller, Jeffrey J. Siirola, Arvind Varma. Engineering Research Center for Innovative and Strategic Transformation of Alkane Resources. National Science Foundation. — CISTAR, $19,750,000.
Toni Rogat, Anne Traynor. Collaborative Research: Theoretical and Methodological Tools for Studying Group Productive Disciplinary Engagement. National Science Foundation. $1,100,000.
Kaushik Roy, Eugenio Culurciello, Suresh Jagannathan, Anand Raghunathan. C-BRIC — Center for Brain-Inspired Computing Enabling Autonomous Intelligence. Semiconductor Research Corporation. $30,090,888.
Kaushik Roy, Anand Raghunathan. Twenty- First Century Research and Technology Fund: Autonomous Intelligent Systems Lab. Indiana Economic Development Corp. $1,515,000.
Ala Samarapungavan, Kari L. Clase, Stephanie M. Gardner, Nancy Pelaez, Aaron D. Rogat. Exploring Biological Evidence (EBE): Helping Students Understand the Richness and Complexity of Evidentiary Constructs in Biology. National Science Foundation. $1,270,154.
Susan Sangha. Neural Circuitry of Safety, Fear and Reward Cue Discrimination. National Institute of Mental Health (NIH). $1,922,965.
Steven Schneider. Experimental Studies of Instability and Transition in a Mach-6 Quiet Tunnel. U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research. $1,740,227.
Steven Schneider, Jonathan Poggie. Reusable Hypersonic Vehicle Structures. U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory. $1,423,830.
William Schoenlein, Abigail C. Durkes. Pre-Clinical Device Testing Agreement. Cook Research Inc. $2,721,626.
Jeffrey Siskind. Deep Intermodal Video Activity (DIVA). the office of the Director of National Intelligence, Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA). $2,349,985.
Jeffrey Siskind, Evguenia A. Malaia, Ronnie B. Wilbur. NCS-FO: Neuroimaging to Advance Computer Vision, Neuro-Linguistic Programming and Artificial Intelligence. National Science Foundation. $1,000,000.
Daniel Szymanski, Tae Yoon Kim. An Integrated Experimental and Computational Approach to Discover Biomechanical Mechanisms of Leaf Epidermal Morphogenesis. National Science Foundation. $1,299,989.
John Tesmer. G Protein-Coupled Receptor (GPCR) — Linked Rho Guanine Nucleotide Exchange Factors (RhoGEFs) in Tumor Growth and Metastasis. National Cancer Institute (NIH). $1,875,849.
Manghui Tu, Keyuan Jiang. CyberCorps®: Scholarship for Service (SFS) Program at Purdue University Northwest. National Science Foundation. $3,578,689.
Andrea Vacca, Scott D. Sudhoff. Individual Electro- Hydraulic Drives for Off-Road Vehicles. U.S. Department of Energy. $1,500,000.
Richard Voyles, Bedrich Benes, Davin Huston, Hyowon Lee, Brittany A. Newell, Karthik Ramani, Wenzhuo Wu, Haiyan Zhang. MRI: Development of a Next-Generation 3-D Printer for Smart Product Design — Purdue PolymerMakers. National Science Foundation. $1,867,017.
Hong Wan. Blockchain Pioneer Research with Applications in Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence and Big Data. CollinStar Capital Pty Ltd. Amount withheld.
Mary Wirth. Sub-1 µm Particles for nanoLCMS of Intact Proteins. National Institutes of Health. $1,148,088.
Dongyan Xu, Byoungyoung Lee, Mathias Payer, Xiangyu Zhang. IoT-D: Toward Internets of Dialect-Speaking Things. Office of Naval Research. $4,000,000.
Gyeong Mee Yoon. Collaborative Research: Spatiotemporal Regulation of the Ethylene Signaling Network and Rapid Adaptive Responses in Plants. National Science Foundation. $1,200,028.
Bryan Young, William G. Johnson. Research to Integrate Best Management Practices for Glyphosate-Resistant Weeds in Soybean Production Systems. United Soybean Board. (FY18), $1,038,186.
Michael Zentner, Paul Parsons. The Science Gateways Community Institute (SGCI) for the Democratization and Acceleration of Science. National Science Foundation. $3,130,055.
GuangJun Zhang. Roles of Bioelectricity of Ion Channels in Developmental Patterning and Oncogenesis. National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIH). $1,881,070.
Xiangyu Zhang, Dongyan Xu. Learn-to-Reason: A Probabilistic Binary Analysis Infrastructure and its Application in Binary Reduction. Office of Naval Research. $1,180,223.
Qi (Tony) Zhou. Combating Deadly Gram-negative Lung Infections: An Inhalation and Systems Approach. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIH). $3,100,053.

Underlined names indicate Principal Investigators

* designates first-time Acorn Award recipients
^ indicates regional campuses
^^ indicates non-Purdue faculty

Awardees

Ourania M. Andrisani, Elizabeth Tran, Jun Xie. Mechanisms of Hepatocyte Transformation by the Hepatitis B Virus X Protein. National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIH). $1,731,614.
Regan K. Bailey, Anindya Bhadra, Heather A. Eicher-Miller. Development of a Total Nutrient Index. National Cancer Institute (NIH). $1,399,423.
Lionel J. Beaulieu, Robert K. Goosen. Defense Manufacturing Assistance Program. U.S. Department of Defense. — Phase II, $1,268,541.
Edward J. Berger, Allison F. Godwin. The Role of Non-Cognitive and Affective Factors in Engineering and Computing Student Academic Performance. National Science Foundation, IUSE:HER: Collaborative Research:. $1,035,728.
Hari M. Bharadwaj, Michael G. Heinz, Keith R. Kluender, Jennifer M. Simpson. Individualized Assays of Supra-Threshold Hearing Deficits. National Institute on Deafness and Other Communications Disorders (NIH). $1,883,662.
Sunil A. Bhave. MISC Clock: Miniaturized Silicon Carbide Clock. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. $1,124,418.
Deborah I. Birch. Education through Success. U.S. Department of Education. $1,629,600.
Darcy M. Bullock. Real Time Traffic Mobility Measures. U.S. Department of Transportation. $2,871,556.
Darcy M. Bullock. 2018 Joint Transportation Research Program Administration. Indiana Department of Transportation. $8,465,349.
Marc W. Caffee, Darryl E. Granger, Nathaniel A. Lifton, Paul F. Muzikar. Facility Support: Accelerator Mass Spectrometry at PRIME Lab. National Science Foundation. $3,540,000.
Brenda M. Capobianco, Robin S. Adams, David C. Eichinger, Kendra C. Erk, SiddikaGuzey, Nobel S. Rebello, Minjung Ryu. UPDATE — Using Principles of Design to Advance Teacher Education. National Science Foundation. $1,596,118.
David J. Cappelleri, Karthik Ramani, Song Zhang. NRI: Towards Dexterous Micromanipulation and Assembly. National Science Foundation. $1,000,000.
Ann Christine Catlin, Muhammad A. Alam, Joseph Francisco, Santiago Pujol, Maria S. Sepulveda, Connie M. Weaver. CIF21 DIBBs: EI: Creating a Digital Environment for Enabling Data-Driven Science. National Science Foundation. $3,456,281.
Srinivasan Chandrasekar, Scott D. Sudhoff, Kevin P. Trumble. High-Silicon Steel Strip by Single-Step Shear Deformation Processing. U.S. Department of Energy. $1,499,147.
Yong P. Chen, Zubin Jacob, Xianfan Xu. EFRI New Law: Topological Thermal Transport. National Science Foundation. $1,963,939.
Gabor A. Csathy, Michael J. Manfra. Understanding and Controlling Phases with Topological and Charge Order in the Two-Dimensional Electron Gas. U.S. Department of Energy. $1,412,000.
Emily C. Dykhuizen. The Tumor Suppressive Role of PBRM1, the Bromodomain-Containing Subunit of the PBAF Chromatin Remodeling Complex. National Cancer Institute (NIH). $1,746,316.
Nancy E. Edwards, Karen J. Foli, Sara A. McComb, Karla C. Ross. , Advanced Nursing Workforce Education. Health Resources and Services Administration, Bureau of Health Workforce, Division of Nursing and Public Health Advanced Education Branch. $1,371,589.
Levon T. Esters, Heidi A. Diefes-Dux, Neil A. Knobloch. Strategies: Enhancing Minority Middle School Student Knowledge, Literacy, and Motivation in STEM Using Contextualized Life Science Learning Experiences. National Science Foundation. $1,043,985.
Aly El Gamal, James V. Krogmeier, David J. Love, Nicolo Michelusi, Borja M. Peleato- Inarrea. Adaptive Wireless Networks for Spectrally Efficient Communication, $. Air Force Research Laboratory. 1,980,722.
Suresh V. Garimella. Cooling Technologies Research Center (CTRC) Membership – Memo Match for 106029. Aavid Thermalloy. $1,665,000.
Suresh V. Garimella. Lilly Planning Grant. Eli Lilly and Co. $2,000,000.
Stanton B. Gelvin, Lan-Ying Lee. TRANSFORM-PGR: Manipulating Agrobacterium-Mediated Transformation and T-DNA Integration for Plant Synthetic Biology and Genome Engineering. National Science Foundation. $1,467,146.
Arun K. Ghosh. Design and Synthesis of Nonpeptide Protease Inhibitors. National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIH). $2,558,400.
Nicholas W. Gray. IPFW Upward Bound I. U.S. Department of Education. $1,287,500.
Nicholas W. Gray. IPFW Upward Bound II. U.S. Department of Education. $1,287,500.
Siddika Guzey, Lynn A. Bryan, Kari L. Clase, Muhsin Menekse. LifeSTEM: The Integration of Engineering Design and Life Science: Investigating the Influence of an Intervention on Student Interest and Motivation in STEM Fields. National Science Foundation. $1,838,015.
Roy L. Hamilton. Purdue University Northwest Upward Bound Program. U.S. Department of Education. $2,811,900.
Alka R. Harriger, Bradley C. Harriger, Weiling Li, Loran C. Parker. Curriculum and Assessment Design to Study the Development of Motivation and Computational Thinking for Middle School Students across Three Learning Contexts. National Science Foundation. $2,499,739.
Marietta L. Harrison, Li Y Bermel, Edward A. Howell, Joseph F. Pekny. Walther Cancer Foundation Oncology Physical Sciences and Engineering Research Embedding Program. Walther Cancer Institute Foundation Inc. $1,000,000.
Marlene O. Heeg. 2016-2017 PBC Centers of Educational Expertise. Intercept Pharmaceuticals Inc. $1,878,797.
Marlene O. Heeg. 2017 IBS Prime Initiative. Salix Pharmaceuticals Inc. $1,179,486.
Randall A. Hountz, Natalie Stewart. Statewide Medicaid — Eligible Incentive Meaningful Use Assistance. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. $3,267,685.
Chang-Deng Hu. Role and Targeting of PRMT5 in Prostate Cancer. National Cancer Institute (NIH). $2,590,428.
Fang Huang. Interferometric 3D Super-Resolution Imaging and Structure and Stoichiometry Mapping in Living Cells. National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIH). $1,878,090.
Greg J. Hunt. Increasing Survival of Honey Bees and Ensuring Sustainable Pollination by Breeding for Mite Resistance. National Institute of Food and Agriculture. $2,982,760.
Wen Jiang. Midwest Consortium for High Resolution Cryoelectron Microscopy. National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIH). $3,502,640.
Carla C. Johnson. Indiana’s GEAR UP Program. U.S. Department of Education. $24,500,000.
Ian Kaplan, Ricky E. Foster, Christian H. Krupke. Navigating the Trade-Off Between Pest Management and Pollinator Conservation in Cucurbits. National Institute of Food and Agriculture. $3,673,611.
Regina A. Kreisle. FY16-17 IUSM-Lafayette General Fund. Indiana University. $2,404,863.
Shihuan Kuang, Bennett D. Elzey, Stephen F. Konieczny. Notch Signaling in Liposarcoma. National Cancer Institute (NIH). $1,772,815.
Shihuan Kuang, Xiaoqi Liu, Feng Yue. PTEN Function in Satellite Cells. National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIH). $1,705,000.
Douglas J. LaCount. Defining the Role of Host Factors in Ebola Virus RNA Synthesis. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIH). $1,356,250.
Heather J. Leidy. Increased Protein at Breakfast for Weight Management in Overweight Adolescents. National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIH). $3,274,108.
Wanqing Liu, Yava L. Jones-Hall, Min Zhang. Fatty Acid Desaturase 1 (FADS1) Variants and Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease. National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIH). $1,912,508.
Xiaoqi Liu, Timothy L. Ratliff. Treatment of Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer. National Cancer Institute (NIH). $1,776,786.
Xiaoqi Liu, Timothy L. Ratliff. Improving Chemotherapy of Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer. National Cancer Institute (NIH). $1,772,815.
Maureen C. McCann, Tom Adams, Peter Bermel, Gary Cheng, J. Eric Dietz, Hilkka Kenttamaa, Gozdem Kilaz, Vilas Pol, Timothée Pourpoint, Pankaj Sharma, Vikas Tomar, Rodney Trice, Justin Weibel, Peide Ye, Kejie Zhao. NEPTUNE Center for Power and Energy Research. Office of Naval Research. $2,997,000.
Michael J. Manfra. Microsoft Quantum Computing. Microsoft Corporation. Amount Withheld.
Lisa J. Mauer, Mary C. Aime, Jan P. Allebach, Bruce M. Applegate, Euiwon Bae, Arun K. Bhunia, George T. Chiu, Amanda J. Deering, Joseph M. Irudayaraj, Charilaos Mousoullis, Haley F. Oliver, Dimitrios Peroulis, Robert E. Pruitt, Bartlomiej P. Rajwa, Joseph P. Robinson, Lia A. Stanciu. Advanced Development of Innovative Technologies and Systematic Approaches to Foodborne Hazard Detection and Characterization for Improving Food Safety. Agricultural Research Service. $1,959,200.
Sabra R. Moulton. Strengthen and Rehabilitate Runway 10-28: Base Bid (Runway 10 End) Only (Federal). Federal Aviation Administration. $2,935,278.
Mathias J. Payer, Dongyan Xu. Toward Transformation- Based Legacy Software Fitness: Usage-Driven Binary Debloating and Hardening. Office of Naval Research. $1,049,028.
R. Byron Pipes, Johnathan E. Goodsell, Ronald Sterkenburg, Ron Steuterman, Alejandro H. Strachan, Wenbin Yu. Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation — BP3. U.S. Department of Energy. $6,083,716.
Carol B. Post. NMR Structure of Peptide and Protein Complexes. National Institute of Basic Medical Sciences (NIH). $1,295,718.
Terry L. Powley, Robert J. Phillips. Autonomic Control of Body Weight and Feeding. National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIH). $3,484,570.
Terry L. Powley, Pedro Irazoqui, Zhongming Liu, Robert J. Phillips, Bartlomiej P. Rajwa, Jenna L. Rickus, Joseph P. Robinson, Matthew P. Ward. Mapping Stomach Autonomic Circuitry and Function for Neuromodulation of Gastric Disorders. Office of the Director (NIH). $2,004,446.
Karthik Ramani, Ananth V. Iyer, Sanjay G. Rao. PFI: BIC MAKERPAD: Making Everyone a Maker Through Intuitive Shape-Modeling and 3-D Printing Service Platform. National Science Foundation. $1,000,000.
Julio Alfonso Ramirez, Antonio Bobet, David R. Johnson. NHERI Network Coordination Office. National Science Foundation. $4,100,000.
Timothy L. Ratliff. Walther Collaborative Core for Cancer Bioinformatics. Walther Cancer Institute Foundation Inc. $1,000,000.
Michael G. Rossmann. Structure and Function of Icosahedral Viruses. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIH). $2,407,670.
Jimmie L. Sanders. Educational Talent Search Program. U.S. Department of Education. $1,783,200.
Mohamed Seleem. Repurposing Auranofin and Ebselen for Treatment of Multidrug Resistant Pathogens. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIH). $2,251,541.
Maria Sepulveda Soledad, Jason T. Hoverman, Linda S. Lee. Development of Amphibian Poly- and Perfluoroalkyl Substances Toxicity Reference Values for use in Ecological Risk Assessment at Aqueous Film Forming Foam Sites. Department of the Army. $2,465,781.
Gregory M. Shaver, Daniel A. DeLaurentis, Shaoshuai Mou, Srinivas Peeta, Neera J. Sundaram. Enabling High-Efficiency Operation through Next-Generation Control Systems Development for Connected and Automated Class 8 Trucks. U.S. Department of Energy. $4,770,000.
Preeti M. Sivasankar, Sarah Calve, Abigail C. Durkes, Zhongming Liu. Pathobiology and Biomechanics of Vocal Fold Dehydration. National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIH). $1,574,925.
Carson D. Slabaugh, Stephen D. Heister; Guillermo Paniagua Perez. Advanced Turbine Components for Combined Cycle Power Applications. National Energy Technology Laboratory. $1,165,006.
Sara A. Schmitt, James G. Elicker, David J. Purpura. Evaluation of the Indiana Early Learning Pilot Grant Program. Family and Social Services Administration. $1,400,607.
Xiaohui Carol Song. XSEDE 2.0: Integrating. National Science Foundation. Enabling and Enhancing National Cyberinfrastructure with Expanding Community Involvement, $1,879,312.
Christopher J. Staiger. Regulation of Actin Stochastic Dynamics: Actin and Myosin Involvement in Delivery of Materials to the Cell Wall. U.S. Department of Energy. $1,160,000.
Scott D. Sudhoff, Steven D. Pekarek. Purdue 2017-21 ESRDC Efforts. Office of Naval Research. $2,500,000.
Elizabeth Tran, Pete E. Pascuzzi, Weiguo A. Tao. The Role of Dead-box Proteins in Gene Expression. National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIH). $1,270,293.
Satish V. Ukkusuri, Seung Yoon Lee, Shreyas Sundaram. CRISP Type 2: Collaborative Research: Critical Transitions in the Resilience and Recovery of Interdependent Social and Physical Networks. National Science Foundation. $2,204,202.
Shelley MacDermid Wadsworth. Transforming Transitions for Military and Veteran Families. Lilly Endowment Inc. $3,821,906.
Haiyan Wang, Edwin R. Garcia, Xinghang Zhang. Explore the Fundamentals for Field-Enhanced Mass Transport Phenomena in Ceramics. Office of Naval Research. $3,000,000.
Dana Weinstein, Sunil A. Bhave. NiNJA: Nitride-on-Niobate Jammer-Resistant Architecture. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. $1,136,854.
Michael K. Wendt, Emily C. Dykhuizen. Overcoming Metastatic Resistance to Erbb-Targeted Therapies. National Cancer Institute (NIH). $1,746,049.
Andrew J. Whelton. Right-Sizing Tomorrow’s Water Systems for Efficiency, Sustainability and Public Health. Environmental Protection Agency. $1,989,000.
Yu Xia. Mass Spectrometry Method with C=C Location Specificity for Qualitative and Quantitative Lipid Analysis. National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIH). $1,645,763.
Dongyan Xu, Xinyan Deng, Xiangyu Zhang. A Cross-Layer Framework for Retrofitting Robotic Vehicle Controllers. Office of Naval Research. $3,000,000.
Xianfan Xu, Bryan W. Boudouris, Liang Pan. SNM: Continuous and Scalable 3-D Nano printing. National Science Foundation. $1,250,000.
Danzhou Yang. Modulating c-MYC Transcription by G-Quadruplex-Interactive Small Molecules. National Cancer Institute (NIH). $1,150,798.
Michael G. Zentner, Mihaela Vorvoreanu. S2I2: Impl: The Science Gateways Community Institute (SGCI) for the Democratization and Acceleration of Science. National Science Foundation. $3,130,055.
Zhong-Yin Zhang. Development of SHP2 Inhibitors for Targeted Anti-Cancer Therapy. National Cancer Institute (NIH). $2,268,776.

Underlined names indicate Principal Investigators

* designates first-time Acorn Award recipients
^ indicates regional campuses
^^ indicates non-Purdue faculty

Awardees

Angela R. Abbott; Heather A. Eicher-Miller; Dennis A. Savaiano; Melissa Maulding from U.S. Department of Agriculture, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Education/Family Nutrition Program (. Snap Ed/FNP). . $1,506,728.
William E. Anderson; Stephen D. Heister; Timothée L. Pourpoint; Carson D. Slabaugh. Combustion Stability Tool Development. Armed Forces Services Corporation. $2,090,900.
Darcy M. Bullock. Joint Transportation Research Program Operating Budget Request FY 2017. U.S. Department of Transportation. $7,990,349.
Ryan A. Cabot. Developmental Requirements of SWI/SNF Chromatin Remodeling Complexes in Porcine Embryos. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NIH). $1,641,026.
Steven A. Cain; Abby R. Hostetler. EDEN Homeland Security Initiative VIII: Strengthening Eden’s Role in Homeland Security, Food and Ag Defense, and All Hazard Education. National Institute of Food & Agriculture, Extension Disaster Education Network. $1,356,885.
Jason R. Cannon; Jean-Christophe Rochet. Mechanisms of PhIP-induced Dopaminergic Neurotoxicity. National Institute of Environment Health Sciences (NIH). $1,683,647.
Monica E. Cardella; Sean Brophy; Morgan M. Hynes; Tamara J. Moore; Senay Purzer. Integrated STEM and Computing Learning in Formal and Informal Settings for Kindergarten to Grade 2. National Science Foundation. $2,044,930.
Ji-Xin Cheng. In Vivo Photoacoustic Sensing of Lipid Laden Plaque. National Heart, Lung & Blood Institute (NIH). $2,127,173.
Paris D. Collingsworth. Extending Impact of U.S. EPA’s Great Lakes National Program Office, Using Sea Grant Outreach Capacity. U.S. Geological Survey. $1,264,380.
R. Graham Cooks; Eric L. Barker; Ananth Y. Grama; Zoltan Nagy; David H. Thompson. Analytic-Directed Multi-scale Synthesis System. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. $8,263,198.
R. Graham Cooks. Charged Microdroplets in Air: Characterization and Use in Surface Functionalization & Nanomaterials Preparation. U.S. Department of Energy. $1,776,345.
Monica F. Cox; Joyce B. Main. Collaborative Research: Why We Persist: An Intersectional Approach to Characterizing and Examining the Experiences of Women of Color Tenure-Track Faculty in Engineering. National Science Foundation. $1,131,464.
Meng Cui. High Resolution Deep Tissue Calcium Imaging with Large Field of View Wavefront Correction. National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Strokes (NIH). $1,404,827.
Jennifer J. DeBoer; Edward J. Berger; Jeffrey F. Rhoads. IUSE: Understanding and Supporting Mechanical Engineering Undergraduate Student and Faculty Engagement with an Active, Blended and Collaborative (ABC) Learning Environment. National Science Foundation. $1,400,000.
Daniel A. DeLaurentis; Saurabh Bagchi. System of Systems Modeling and Analysis Innovations for Enhanced BMDS Architectures. Missile Defense Agency. $1,539,406.
Edward J. Delp, III. Media Forensics Integrity Analytics. Air Force Research Laboratory. $4,045,790.
Dilkes Brian; Gurmukh S. Johal. The Genetic and Genomic Exploration of the Maize Hypersensitive Response. National Science Foundation. $1,934,074.
Natalia Doudareva. , Evolution of Specialized Metabolite Biosynthetic Pathways in the Lamiaceae: Sources of Chemical Diversity for Molecules Essential for Human Use and Plant Defense. National Science Foundation. $1,369,992.
David S. Ebert; Edward J. Delp, III. Support for UCSBs Mobile Malware; Apex Programs: Border Situational Awareness; Wireless Broadband Tech Program, Wireless Communications – Objective Video Quality Metric with Applications in Video Analytics in Public Safety. U.S. Department of Homeland Security. $22,594,995.
Christopher I. Eckhardt. Mechanisms of Alcohol-Facilitated Intimate Partner Violence. National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIH). $1,335,101.
Marxa L. Figueiredo. Disrupting Tumor/Bone Malignant Interactions with Multifunctional Cytokine Sonodelivery. National Cancer Institute (NIH). $1,773,626.
Ananth Y. Grama; Saurabh Bagchi; Somali Chaterji. Continued Development and Maintenance of the MG-RAST Metagenomics Pipeline. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIH). $3,656,042.
Stacey L. Halum; Sherry L. Harbin. Muscle Progenitor Cell-Based Implants for Dynamic Laryngeal Muscle Reconstruction. National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIH). $2,182,110.
Carol A. Handwerker; John E. Blendell; Ganesh Subbarayan-Shastri. Reliability Risk Management of Gold Contaminated Tin-Lead and Lead-Free Solder Joints in Military Electronics. Missile Defense Agency. $1,499,425.
Marlene O. Heeg. 2016 Chronic Liver Disease Foundation EXPAND National Educational Initiative. Intercept Pharmaceuticals Inc. and Salix Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $1,500,000.
Stephen D. Heister; Jay P. Gore; Timothée L. Pourpoint; Carlo Scalo. Purdue University Technology Center in Advanced Thermal Management System. ROLLS-ROYCE, INC. $2,071,000.
Randall A. Hountz; Mark K. Clare. Midwest Small Practice Care Transformation Research Alliance. Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality. $1,256,568.
Randall A. Hountz; Allison Bryan-Jungels. Great Lakes Practice Transformation Network. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. $4,617,634.
Pedro Irazoqui; Zhongming Liu; Terry L. Powley; J. Paul Robinson; Matthew P. Ward. Suppressing Inflammation via Neuromodulation of the GI Tract. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. $5,414,980.
Pedro Irazoqui; Matthew P. Ward. GSK Innovation Challenge: Closed-Loop Neuromodulation of Urinary Incontinence. Glaxo Smith Kline. $1,000,000.
Carla C. Johnson. Battelle – Army Educational Outreach Program Cooperative Agreement. Department of the Army. $5,376,189.
Panagiota Karava; Ilias Bilionis; Jianghai Hu; Robert W. Proctor; Athanasios Tzempelikos. Cybersees: Type 2: Human-Centered Systems for Cyber-Enabled Sustainable Buildings. National Science Foundation. $1,200,000.
Shubitha S. Kever, from, U.S. Department of Education. TRIO Student Support Services at IPFW. . $1,100,000.
Chang H. Kim; Harm HogenEsch. Homing of Functionally Distinct Innate lymphoid cell Subsets. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIH). $1,894,175.
Jane M. Kirkpatrick. Health Center Cluster. Health Resources & Services Administration. $1,926,709.
Jane M. Kirkpatrick; Pamela M. Aaltonen. Health Center Cluster & Expanded Services Supplemental Funding. National Center for Health Services Resources. $5,301,006.
Regina A. Kreisle. Indiana University School of Medicine-Lafayette General Fund. Indiana University. $2,568,945.
Laurence B. Leonard; Sharon L. Christ; Patricia L. Deevy; Jeffrey D. Karpicke; Christine M. Weber. Retrieval-Based Word Learning in Specific Language Impairment. National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIH). $2,631,935.
Xiaoqu Liu; Timothy L. Ratliff. Overcoming Drug Resistance of Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer. National Cancer Institute (NIH). $1,302,434.
Xiaoqu Liu; Timothy L. Ratliff. Enhancing Anti-Neoplastic Activity of Metformin in Prostate Cancer. National Cancer Institute (NIH). $1,785,542.
Maureen C. McCann; Rakesh Agrawal; Peter A. Bermel; J. Eric Deitz; Suresh V. Garimella; Hilkka I. Kenttämaa; Gozdem Kilaz; Vilas G. Pol; Timothée L. Pourpoint; Pankaj Sharma; Rodney W. Trice; Justin A. Weibel; Clifford J. Wojtalewicz; Dongyan Xu; Peide Ye; Jeffrey P. Youngblood; Xiangyu Zhang. Naval Enterprise Partnership Teaming with Universities for National Excellence Center for Power and Energy Research. Office of Naval Research. $2,000,000.
Eric T. Matson; J. Eric Dietz; Anthony H. Smith; John A. Springer; Julia Taylor Rayz. Korean Software Square. Information & Communication Tech Promotion. $1,815,000.
Seema Mattoo. Role of Fic Proteins in Cellular Signaling. National Institute of General Medical Science (NIH). $1,507,601.
Lisa J. Mauer; Mary C. Aime; Jan P. Allebach; Bruce M. Applegate; Euiwon Bae; Arun K. Bhunia; George T. Chiu; Amanda J. Deering; Joseph M. Irudayaraj; Charilaos Mousoulis; Haley F. Oliver; Dimitrios Peroulis; Robert E. Pruitt; Bartlomiej P. Rajwa; J. Paul Robinson; Manpreet Singh; Lia A. Stanciu. Advanced Development of Innovative Technologies and Systematic Approaches to Foodborne Hazard Detection and Characterization for Improving Food Safety. Agricultural Research Service. $1,474,704.
Suresh K. Mittal. Adenoviral Vector-based Pandemic Influenza Vaccine. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIH). $1,564,716.
Dallas T. Morisette. Revolutionary Innovations in SiC Power Devices. Army Research Laboratory. $2,043,476.
Matthew W. Ohland; Russell A. Long. Expanding Access to and Participation in the Multiple-Institution Database for Investigating Engineering Longitudinal Development. National Science Foundation. $4,260,978.
Dimitrios Peroulis; Venkataramanan Balakrishnan; Jeffery L. Gray. Curriculum Development and Laboratory Support Package: Electrical Engineering Program. American University of the Middle East. $1,712,429.
Dimitrios Peroulis; Venkataramanan Balakrishnan; Jeffery L. Gray. Curriculum Development and Laboratory Support Package: Computer Engineering Program. American University of the Middle East. $1,227,383.
Dimitrios Peroulis; Charilaos Mousoulis. MEMS-Scale Accumulating Radiation Sensor Program. Landauer. $1,723,589.
R. Byron Pipes. IACMI – Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation. Indiana Economic Development Corporation. $15,000,000.
R. Byron Pipes; Johnathan E. Goodsell; Ronald Sterkenburg; Alejandro H. Strachan; Wenbin Yu. , IACMI – Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation. U.S. Department of Energy. $4,110,687.
Karen I. Plaut. Sponsorship Agreement between Indiana Corn Marketing Council and Purdue University. Indiana Corn Marketing Council. $1,000,000.
Karen I. Plaut. Research Agreement between Indiana Corn Marketing Council and Purdue University. Indiana Corn Marketing Council. $1,000,000.
Karen I. Plaut. Research Agreement between Indiana Soybean Alliance and Purdue University. Indiana Soybean Alliance. $1,000,000.
Karen I. Plaut. Sponsorship Agreement between Indiana Soybean Alliance and Purdue University. Indiana Soybean Alliance. $1,000,000.
Timothy L. Ratliff. Cancer Center Support Grant. National Cancer Institute (NIH). $7,334,397.
Gintaras V. Reklaitis; Zoltan Nagy; Lynne S. Taylor. US-Ireland Partnership in Continuous Manufacturing. National Science Foundation. $5,444,630.
Gintaras V. Reklaitis; Marcial Gonzalez, Carl D. Laird; Zoltan Nagy. Real Time Release in Continuous Solid Dose Manufacturing: Systematic Characterization of Material Properties, and Optimal Design of Sensing and Control Methods. Food and Drug Administration. $1,266,600.
Catalina E. Rodriguez. Student Support Services. U.S. Department of Education. $1,449,505.
Leonid P. Rokhinson. Engineering Topological Superconductivity Towards Braiding Majorana Excitations. U.S. Department of Energy. $1,245,000.
Michael G. Rossmann. X-ray Determinations of Proteins and Viruses. National Science Foundation. $1,584,059.
Kaushik Roy. , Unconventional Processing of Signals for Intelligent Data Exploitation Phase 1 – Resonant Body Oscillator Emerging Devices. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. $1,013,707.
Xiulin Ruan; Mark S. Lundstrom. First Principles-Based Predictive Design of Thermoelectric Materials under Large Temperature Gradients. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. $1,010,948.
Kenneth H. Sandhage. Robust, Cost-Effective Heat Exchangers for 800 °C Operation with Supercritical CO2. U.S. Department of Energy. $3,845,079.
Alejandro H. Strachan; Weinong W. Chen; Marisol Koslowski; Volkan Ortalan, Steven F. Son. PC@Xtreme – Predictive Chemistry & Physics at Extreme Temperature and Pressure: Molecules, Crystals and Microstructures. Office of Naval Research. $4,456,157.
Elizabeth A. Strickland; Michael G. Heinz. , Temporal Effects in Forward Masking, Suppression, and Simultaneous Masking. National Institute on Deafness and Other Communications Disorders (NIH). $1,506,728.
Lynne S. Taylor. Pharmaceutical Engineering 2015 Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need. U.S. Department of Education. $1,328,751.
Mitchell R. Tuinstra; Keith A. Cherkauer; Melba M. Crawford; Edward J. Delp, III; David S. Ebert; Ayman F. Habib; Michael L. Leasure; Clifford F. Weil. Automated Sorghum Phenotyping and Trait Development Platform. Energy Advanced Research Projects Agency. $6,500,000.
Satish V. Ukkusuri; Milind Kulkarni; Seungyoon Lee. Hazards SEES: Bridging Information, Uncertainty and Decision-Making in Hurricanes Using an Interdisciplinary Perspective. National Science Foundation. $2,475,000.
Rosa M. Villarreal, from, U.S. Department of Education. Horizons Student Support Services. . $1,841,585.
Connie M. Weaver; George P. McCabe; Kathleen Hill Gallant. DASH-Sodium Trial in Adolescents. National Heart, Lung & Blood Institute (NIH). $8,625,440.
Peide Ye; Xianfan Xu; Dmitry Y. Zemlyanov. Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation (EFRI) 2-Dimensional Atomic-layer Research and Engineering (2-DARE): Phosphorene, an Unexplored 2D High-mobility Semiconductor. National Science Foundation. $2,000,000.
Xiangyu Zhang; Dongyan Xu. Transparent Computing. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. $1,100,000.

Underlined names indicate Principal Investigators

* designates first-time Acorn Award recipients
^ indicates regional campuses
^^ indicates non-Purdue faculty

Awardees

Angela R. Abbott; Heather A. Eicher-Miller; Melissa Maulding. Snap Ed /FNP Project. U.S. Department of Agriculture. $5,813,552.
Anil Kumar Bajaj; Edward J. Berger; Edward F. Morrison. IUSE/PFE: RED: Thought Into Action. National Science Foundation. $1,993,490.
Gary R. Bertoline; Leah H. Jamieson; James L. Mullins. Purdue Moves Indiana Forward. Lilly Endowment Inc. $40,000,000.
Barrett Caldwell. IN Space Grant Fellowship Program. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. $1,375,000.
Weinong W. Chen; Marcial Gonzalez; Marisol Koslowski; Terry Meyer; Jeffrey F. Rhoads; Steven F. Son. Real-time Dynamic Measurements and Characterization of Mesoscale Deformation and Temperature Fields in Explosive Materials under Impact and Periodic Loading. Air Force Office of Scientific Research. $1,327,427.
Weinong W. Chen. Development of a Predictive Indicator for Fabric Ballistic Performance. Department of the Army. $1,013,400.
Ji-Xin Cheng; Mingji Dai; Andrew M. Weiner. Microsecond Time Scale Vibrational Spectral Imaging of Living Systems. W. M. Keck Foundation. $1,000,000.
Ryan M. Drenan. Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor Function in the Mesolimbic Dopamine System. National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIH). $1,667,829.
Ulrike Dydak; Sebastien Helie; Dorothy Teegarden. 3T MRI Scanner dedicated to Life Sciences Research. National Institutes of Health, Office of the Director. $2,000,000.
Jane R. Frankenberger; Laura C. Bowling; Bernard A. Engel; Eileen J. Kladivko; Linda S. Prokopy. Managing Water for Increased Resiliency of Drained Agricultural Landscapes. National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA). $4,997,009.
Marcia L. Gentry; Yukiko Maeda; Kristina Paul; Jennifer C. Richardson. Developing Talents and Improving Student Achievement Among Traditionally Underrepresented Populations: An Experimental Investigation Scaling-up the Total School Cluster Grouping Model. U.S. Department of Education. $2,468,371.
Arun K. Ghosh. Stem Cent Rx. Stem Cent Rx. $1,000,000.
Jeffrey P. Greeley; Volkan Ortalan; Fabio H. Ribeiro. DMREF: Collaborative Research: Design Of Multifunctional Catalytic Interfaces from First Principles. National Science Foundation. $1,160,000.
Marlene O. Heeg. 2015 CLF EXPAND Series. Salix Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $1,200,000.
Michael G. Heinz. Effects of Sensorineural Hearing Loss on Robust Speech Coding. National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIH). $1,612,027.
Lori A. Hoagland; Daniel S. Egel; Tesfaye D. Mengiste. Practical Approach to Controlling Foliar Pathogens in Organic Tomato Production through Participatory Breeding and Integrated Pest Management. National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA). $1,987,150.
Randall A. Hountz; David R. McKinnis. Statewide Medicaid-Eligible Incentive Meaningful Use Assistance. Indiana Family and Social Services Administration. $2,309,378.
Wen Jiang. HBGA Receptors in Host Cell Entry and Infection of Norovirus. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIH). $2,453,914.
Mary E. Johnson; Jay Gore; Gozdem Kilaz; James M. Thom. NextGeN Alternative for GA Phase I – Rig Testing Support. Federal Aviation Administration. $1,900,000.
Jeffrey D. Karpicke. Computer-Based Guided Retrieval Practice for Elementary School Children. U.S. Department of Education. $1,499,697.
Nicole L. Key. 3-Stage Compressor Research for Rear Block Performance. Rolls-Royce, Inc. $2,517,951.
Nicole L. Key. CSTAR Performance Research. Rolls-Royce, Inc. $2,250,248.
Yeong E. Kim. Low Energy Nuclear Reactions. Cumberland & Western Resources. $2,488,596.
Regina A. Kreisle. IUSM West Lafayette. Indiana University. $2,568,945.
Douglas J. LaCount; Ananth Y. Grama; Ernesto S. Nakayasu. Emerging Virus-Host Cell Protein Interaction Networks. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIH). $3,541,057.
Chantal Levesque-Bristol; David Nelson. Success through Transformative Education and Active Learning. U.S. Department of Education. $2,373,003.
Zhongming Liu. Multimodal Hyperspectral Imaging of Brain Activity and Connectivity. National Institute of Mental Health (NIH). $2,342,874.
Shelley MacDermid Wadsworth; Melissa M. Franks; Shawn D. Whiteman. Changing Family Roles-Across the Deployment Cycle. U.S. Army Medical Reserves Acquisition Activity. $3,547,933.
Shelley MacDermid Wadsworth; Sharon L. Christ; James E. Dietz; Dave Topp. Using ‘Practical Rigor’ to Evaluate U.S. Military Family Support Programs: Development and Implementation Plans. National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA). $1,363,636.
Shelley MacDermid Wadsworth. Mobilizing Innovation to Support Military and Veteran Families. Lilly Endowment Inc. $3,573,000.
Maureen C. McCann; Mahdi M. Abu-Omar; Rakesh Agrawal; Nicholas C. Carpita; Clint C. Chapple; W. Nicholas Delgass; Hilkka I. Kenttamaa; Richard Meilan; Nathan S. Mosier; Fabio H. Ribeiro. Center for Direct Catalytic Conversion of Biomass to Biofuels (C3Bio). U.S. Department of Energy. $12,000,000.
Kevin T. McNamara. Afghanistan Agricultural Extension Project – II. U.S. Agency for International Development. $2,999,398.
Michael J. Manfra. Materials for Topological Quantum Computing. Microsoft Corporation. $4,130,000.
Matthew W. Ohland; Daniel M. Ferguson. Optimizing Student Team Skill Development Using Evidence-Based Strategies. National Science Foundation. $1,707,830.
Helen Patrick, Panaota Y. Mantzicopoulos-James. Measuring Effective Teaching across Core Academic Content Areas in Kindergarten. Institute of Education Services. $1,599,681.
Santiago Pujol; Ann C. Catlin; Michael J. McLennan; Chungwook Sim; Lisa D. Zilinski. Building a Modular Cyber-Platform for Systematic Collection, Curation, and Preservation of Large Engineering and Science Data – A Pilot Demonstration Project. National Science Foundation. $1,500,000.
Jeffrey F. Rhoads; George T. Chiu; Steven F. Son. SecureMEMS: Fundamental Research in MEMS/Energetic Material Integration. Defense Threat Reduction Agency. $1,048,697.
Michael Rossmann. Structural Studies of Bacteriophage T4 and Their Potential Medical Applications. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIH). $3,207,875.
Sandra F. San Miguel; Omolola A. Adedokun; Wilella D. Burgess; Kauline S. Cipriani; Alejandro Cuza-Blanco; Loran C. Parker. This Is How We Role: Inspiring Future Researchers Through Veterinary Medicine. National Institutes of Health, Office of the Director. $1,184,230.
Susan M. Scachitti. VA-CASE Lean Management System. Department of Veterans Affairs. $2,081,738.
Vladimir M. Shalaev; Alexandra Boltasseva. Active Metasurfaces for Advanced Wavefronts Engineering and Waveguiding. Air Force Office of Scientific Research. $1,651,172.
Garth J. Simpson; Chittaranjan Das. NonLinear Optical Imaging for Guiding Protein Structure Determination. National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIH). $1,098,713.
Lowell D. Snow. Award Competition for Indiana Hollings NIST MEP Center. National Institute of Standards & Technology. $13,793,440.
Wojciech Szpankowski; Ruben C. Aguilar; 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 Daniel Ward. Emerging Frontiers of Science of Information. National Science Foundation. $25,681,884.
Lynne S. Taylor; Raymond E. Galinsky; Garth J. Simpson. Formulation, Processing and Performance Interrelationships for Amorphous Solid Dispersions. Food and Drug Administration. $1,500,000.
James M. Thom; Mary E. Johnson. NextGeN Alternative Fuels for GA Phase I Material Compatibility Testing. Federal Aviation Administration. $1,220,000.
Lefteri Tsoukalas; Chan K. Choi. Proposal for a Consortium for Nonproliferation-Enabling Capabilities. National Nuclear Security Administration. $1,587,000.
Fuqiang Wang; Wei Xie. Study QCD Matter Under Extreme Conditions By Particle Correlation And Heavy Flavor Probes In Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions. U.S. Department of Energy. $1,650,000.
Vikki Marie Weake. Epigenetic Regulation of Gene Expression in the Aging Eye. National Eye Institute (NIH). $1,902,765.
Connie M. Weaver; Bruce R. Cooper; Mario Ferruzzi; Elsa M. Janle; George P. McCabe. Berries and Bones. National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NIH). $3,698,084.
Fenggang Yang; Jonathan E. Pettit. Chinese Religious Markets and Spiritual Capital: A Research and Networking Initiative. John Templeton Foundation. $3,499,820.
Jeffrey P. Youngblood; George T. Chiu; Alexander Wei; Pablo D. Zavattieri. SNM: Roll-to-Roll Manufacturing of Films and Laminates Based on Cellulose Nanomaterials. National Science Foundation. $1,477,970.
Pablo D. Zavattieri. Convergent Evolution to Engineering: Multiscale Structures and Mechanics in Damage Tolerant Functional Bio-composite and Biomimetic Materials. Air Force Office of Scientific Research. $1,050,000.

Underlined names indicate Principal Investigators

* designates first-time Acorn Award recipients
^ indicates regional campuses
^^ indicates non-Purdue faculty

Awardees

Angela R. Abbott; Heather Eicher-Miller. Snap Ed /FNP Project. U.S. Department of Agriculture. $5,468,972.
Joerg Appenzeller; Zhihong Chen; Supriyo Datta. Institute for Nanoelectronics Discovery and Exploration (INDEX). Nanoelectronics Research Corporation. $2,441,674.
Dieudonné Baributsa; Corinne E. N. Alexander; James M. Lowenberg-DeBoer; Larry L. Murdock; Jacob E. Ricker-Gilbert; Charles P. Woloshuk. Commercializing Hermetic Technologies for Grain Storage to Improve Market Access and Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa. Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. $10,072,081.
Betty Bugusu; Corinne E. N. Alexander; Mario Ferruzzi; Bruce R. Hamaker; Klein E. Ileleji; James M. Lowenberg-DeBoer; S. Suzanne Nielsen; Jacob E. Ricker-Gilbert; Charles P. Woloshuk. Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Processing and Post-Harvest Handling. U.S. Agency for International Development. $4,999,478.
Hyunyi Cho; Michael Yu Zhu. Media Literacy Intervention for Indoor Tanning Prevention. National Institutes of Health. $1,499,632.
Gordon L. Coppoc. IUSM -Lafayette General Fund. Indiana University. $2,142,000.
William A. Cramer. Trans-Membrane Signaling in the Cytochrome b6f Lipoprotein Complex. National Institutes of Health. $1,550,261.
Carolyn Curiel. Purdue Institute for Civic Communication. Daniels Fund. $1,000,000.
Brent M. Drake; Eric D. Deemer; Douglas B. Samuel; Sien Chieh Tay. The Gallup-Purdue Index. Lumina Foundation. $2,000,000.
Timothy S. Fisher; Stephen D. Heister; Tom I-P. Shih. Center for Integrated Thermal Management of Aerospace Vehicles. Air Force Research Laboratory. $1,498,887.
Suresh V. Garimella; Bo Beaulieu; Gary Bertoline; Margarita Contreni; Greg Deason; David Hummels; Mary Anne Sloane. Transforming Indiana into a Magnet for High-Technology Jobs: Proposal for the Initiative to Promote Opportunities Through Educational Collaborations. Lilly Endowment Inc. $5,000,000.
James L. Garrison. Signals of Opportunity Airborne Demonstrator (SoOp-AD). National Aeronautics and Space Administration. $2,470,864.
Douglas J. Gotham; Paul V. Preckel. Provide Independent Energy and Peak Demand Forecasts to the Midcontinent System Operator (MISO). Midcontinent Independent System Operator. $1,527,055.
John E. Haddock. Local Technical Assistance Program. U.S. Department of Transportation. $1,358,063.
Carol A. Handwerker; Ananth V. Iyer; John W. Sutherland; Fu Zhao. Critical Materials Institute. U.S. Department of Energy. $2,595,000.
Bradley C. Harriger; Alka R. Harriger. Strategies: Teaching Engineering Concepts to Harness Future Innovators and Technologists (TECHFIT). National Science Foundation. $1,199,969.
Marlene O. Heeg. Hepatology Centers of Educational Expertise HE National Educational Initiative. Salix Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $2,000,000.
Tomas O. Höök; Brian K. Miller; Kwamena K. Quagrainie; Kara A. Salazar; Leslie E. Thompson. IL IN Sea Grant Omnibus. National Oceanographic & Atmospheric Administration. $1,065,968.
Karen S. Hudmon. Standardized Patients to Assess Competency in Tobacco Cessation Counseling. National Institutes of Health. $1,624,373.
Mamoru Ishii. Thermal Hydraulic Experimental and Model Development. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. $2,188,777.
Stephen F. Konieczny. Kras-Induced Cellular Plasticity in Pancreatic Cancer. National Institutes of Health. $1,906,930.
Stephen F. Konieczny; Elizabeth J. Taparowsky. Pancreas Transcription Factors and Disease Model Systems. National Institutes of Health. $1,841,895.
Niaz Latif; Mohammad A. Zahraee. AWAKE – Assisting Workforce by Advancing Knowledge for Employment. U.S. Department of Labor. $2,741,491.
Philip S. Low. Regulation of Erythrocyte Function. National Institutes of Health. $2,424,581.
James M. Lowenberg-DeBoer; Jerry L. Peters. Guinea Agriculture Education and Market Improvement Program. Agency for International Development. $1,000,000.
Mark S. Lundstom; Muhammad A. Alam; Kaushik Roy. Network for Computational Nanotechnology- NEEDS Node. Semiconductor Research Corporation. $1,000,000.
Shelley MacDermid Wadsworth. Mobilizing Innovation to Support Military and Veteran Families. Lilly Endowment Inc. $6,430,455.
Scott McLuckey. Gas-phase Bio-conjugation in the Tandem Mass Spectrometry of Peptides, Proteins, and Protein Complexes. National Institutes of Health. $1,249,777.
Kevin T. McNamara; James M. Lowenberg-DeBoer; Haley F. Oliver. STEP-UP-USAID. U.S. Agency for International Development. $4,946,772.
Jitesh H. Panchal; Mikhail J. Atallah; Karthik Ramani, fromNational Science Foundation. CPS: Synergy: Foundations of Cyber-Physical Infrastructure for Creative Design and Making of Cyber-Physical Products. . $1,000,000.
Alyssa Panitch; Julie C. Liu. Biomimetic Scaffolds to Promote Stem Cell Differentiation for Cartilage Engineering. National Institutes of Health. $1,064,208.
Alyssa Panitch; Gert J. Breur; Corey P. Neu; Paul W. Snyder. Investigation Of Proteoglycan Mimetics as Treatments for Osteoarthritis. National Institutes of Health. $1,612,468.
Laurie L. Parker. Biosensor Assay to Screen for Signaling Pathway Inhibition in Cancer. National Institutes of Health. $1,879,309.
Bryan C. Pijanowski; Daniel P. Shepardson. Collaborative Research: Full Scale Development: Global Soundscapes … The Big Data, Big Screens, Open Ears Project. National Science Foundation. $1,997,085.
Douglas R. Powell; James G. Elicker; Shelley MacDermid Wadsworth; Panaota Y. Mantzicopoulos-James; David J. Purpura. Department of Defense Child Care Curriculum Development. U.S. Department of Defense. $4,536,042.
Paul V. Preckel; Douglas J. Gotham. Continue the Work of the State Utility Forecasting Group. Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission. $1,139,653.
Katherine Martin Rainey. High-impact Public Research for Modified Carbohydrate Composition in U.S. Soybeans. United Soybean Board. $1,931,035.
Arvind Raman. Colciencias-Fulbright Fellowship. Colciencias. $1,491,538.
Arvind Raman; Alina Alexeenko, Euiwon Bae; Timothy Fisher; Esteban E. Marinero-Caceres; Alexander Wei; from National Science Foundation. SNM: Large Scale Manufacturing of Low-Cost Functionalized Carbon Nanomaterials for Energy Storage and Biosensor Applications. . $1,497,906.
Vladimir M. Shalaev; Alexandra Boltasseva; Alexander V. Kildishev. Flat Photonics with Metasurfaces. U.S. Army Research Development and Engineering Command. $1,000,000.
Vladimir M. Shalaev; Alexandra Boltasseva. Random Lasers, Nano-Spasers and Optical Rogue Waves. Office of Naval Research. $2,120,000.
Gregory M. Shaver. Enabling Ultra-High Engine System Efficiency via Flexible Valve Actuation. Cummins, Inc. $2,250,000.
Steven F. Son. Shock Wave-Processing of Advanced Reactive Materials Experiments. National Nuclear Security Administration. $1,285,000.
Xiaohui Carol Song; Larry L. Biehl; Venkatesh M. Merwade; Nelson B. Villoria. CIF21 DIBBs: Integrating Geospatial Capabilities into HUBzero. National Science Foundation. $4,543,420.
Scott D. Sudhoff; Steve D. Pekarek, fromOffice of Naval Research. ESRDC – Designing and Powering the Future Fleet. . $1,249,777.
Daniel B. Szymanski; Mark C. Hall; Daisuke Kihara; Jun Xie, fromNational Science Foundation. Novel Quantitative Proteomic Methods to Discover and Localize Endogenous Protein Complexes. . $1,104,241.
Mitchell R. Tuinstra; Brad C. Joern; Gurmukh S. Johal; Michael V. Mickelbart; Tony J. Vyn. Developing Climate Resilient Maize Production Systems. The Howard G. Buffett Foundation. $1,555,266.
David M. Umulis; Ann E. Rundell. Systems Analysis of BMP Regulation in Developing Zebrafish Embryos. National Institutes of Health. $1,907,112.
Juan P. Wachs; Voicu S. Popescu. See-what-I-do: Increasing Mentor and Trainee Sense of Co-Presence in Trauma Surgeries with the STAR Platform. Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity. $1,714,617.
Connie M. Weaver; Stephen R. Byrn; Wayne W. Campbell; Lynetta J. Freeman; James F. Leary; Richard D. Mattes; George P. McCabe; Alyssa Panitch; Timothy L. Ratliff; Dennis A. Savaiano; Thomas G. Sors; Jon A. Story; Dorothy Teegarden; John J. Turek; William G. Van Alstine; George R. Wodicka; Michael Dennis Murray. Indiana Clinical and Translational Science Institute. National Institutes of Health. $5,275,725.
Yoon Yeo; Bennett D. Elzey; Raymond E. Galinsky. Environmentally-adaptive Nanoparticles with Focal Irradiation for Cancer Therapy. National Institutes of Health. $1,565,500.

Underlined names indicate Principal Investigators

* designates first-time Acorn Award recipients
^ indicates regional campuses
^^ indicates non-Purdue faculty

Awardees

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

Underlined names indicate Principal Investigators

* designates first-time Acorn Award recipients
^ indicates regional campuses
^^ indicates non-Purdue faculty

Awardees

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

Underlined names indicate Principal Investigators

* designates first-time Acorn Award recipients
^ indicates regional campuses
^^ indicates non-Purdue faculty

Awardees

Angela R. Abbott; Amy R. Mobley and Karen L. Zotz. SNAP-Ed: Family Nutrition Program. Indiana Family and Social Services Administration. $5,582,349.
Douglas E. Adams, J. Stuart Bolton, Patricia Davies and Jeffrey F. Rhoads. Semiwave MURI:Sound and ElectroMagnetic Interacting Waves. National Science Foundation. $2,000,000.
Douglas E. Adams. Development and Testing of Innovative Health Management Tools for Damage Detection, Evaluation, and Repair of the CH-53K Composite Rotor Blades and Structures. CACI International, Inc. $2,772,170.
Jean P. Allain and Lisa M. Reece. Development and Fabrication of a Stent Prototype to Induce Closure of Post-traumatic Blast-induced Pseudo-aneurysms. Army Medical Research and Material Command. $1,067,257.
Dean M. Ballotti. HORIZONS Student Support Program. U.S. Department of Education. $1,889,885.
Gail A. Barker. Student Support Services. U.S. Department of Education. $1,495,875.
Linda S. Bergmann; Janet Alsup. Developing an Interactive On-line Writing Lab to Increase Student Success in Core Writing Standards. Gates Foundation. $1,453,832.
Keith J. Bowman; Brenda M. Capobianco, Todd R. Kelley, James D. Lehman, Johannes Strobel and Gabriela C. Weaver. Science Learning through Engineering Design Targeted Partnership. National Science Foundation. $3,862,372.
James E. Braun; Qingyan Chen, William T. Horton, Jianghai Hu, Panagiota Karava, Steven D. Pekarek, Maryam Saeedifard and Athanasios Tzempelikos. Energy Efficient Building Systems Regional Innovation Cluster Initiative. U.S Department of Energy. $5,960,000.
Yong P. Chen, Supriyo Datta, Mark S. Lundstrom, Anant K. Ramdas, Xianfan Xu and Peide Ye. Topological Insulator Coherent Energy-efficient Devices. Office of Naval Research. $2,492,613.
Barrett S. Caldwall. Indiana Space Grant Consortium. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. $2,875,000.
John P. Campbell, Joseph S. Francisco, Mark S. Lundstrom, Jayathi Y. Murthy and Norbert Neumeister. Energizing Research through Cyberinfrastructure: Renovation of the Research Data Center. National Science Foundation. $1,999,969.
Indrajeet Chaubey, Laura C. Bowling, Sylvie M. Brouder, Keith A. Cherkauer, Bernard A. Engel, Jane R. Frankenberger, Reuben R. Goforth, Benjamin M. Gramig, Patrick T. Murphy and Jeffrey J. Volenec. Watershed Scale Optimization to Meet Sustainable Cellulosic Energy Crop Demand. U.S. Department of Energy. $1,592,385.
Kenneth C. Christmon and Barbara Kirkwood. Student Support Services at IPFW. U.S. Department of Education. $1,100,000.
Christopher Clifton; Chyi-Kong K. Chang, Victor Raskin and Luo Si. Anonymizing Textual Data and its Impact on Utility. National Science Foundation. $1,554,441.
Gordon L. Coppoc. FY 2011 Indiana University School of Medicine – Lafayette General Fund. Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis. $1,665,143.
Mark S. Cushman. Novel Topoisomerase I Inhibitors. National Institutes of Health. $1,662,777.
Terry L. Davidson, Kimberly P. Kinzig and Susan E. Swithers. Signals to Feed: Biological and Associative Mechanisms. National Institutes of Health. $1,462,435.
Daniel A. DeLaurentis, Saurabh Bagchi, Stephen D. Heister and Muharrem Mane. An Agent-based Concept for an Enhanced C2BMC Architecture. Missile Defense Agency. $1,250,972.
James Eric Dietz, John Francis Burr, James M. Caruthers, Douglas E. Adams, Venkataramanan Balakrishnan, Anil Bajaj, Sanford Fleeter, Nancy L. Denton, David R. Hankins, Andrew L. Liu, Eric T. Matson, Vahid Motevalli, Joseph F. Pekny, Karl A. Perusich, Jeffrey J. Richardson, Maryam Saeedifard, Gregory M. Shaver, Steven D. Shelby, Anthony H. Smith, Oleg Wasynczuk and Clifford J. Wojtalewicz. Crossroads Smart Grid Workforce Development Program. U.S. Department of Energy. $2,200,760.
Bradley S. Duerstock and Susan M. Mendrysa. Institute for Accessible Science: Advancing Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities in Biomedical Laboratory Research. National Institutes of Health. $1,984,388.
Mohan J. Dutta, William B. Collins and Titilayo A. Okoror. Application and Dissemination of a Culture-centered Approach to Tailoring Comparative Effectiveness Research Summary Guides. National Institutes of Health. $1,494,475.
David S. Ebert, Mireille Boutin, Timothy F. Collins, Edward J. Delp, Niklas E. Elmqvist and Ross L. Maciejewski. VACCINE: Visual Analytics for Command, Control, and Interoperability Environments. U.S. Department of Homeland Security. $2,500,000.
Arif Ghafoor, Walid G. Aref, David S. Ebert and Ross L. Maciejewski. Development of a Real-time Infectious Disease Surveillance and Response System for Pakistan:Responding to Human Well-being in Times of Threat. U.S. Department of Defense. $1,594,655.
Arun K. Ghosh. Inhibition and Mechanism of Flavivirus Methyltransferase. Wadsworth Center Health Research Inc. $1,194,494.
Arun K. Ghosh and Thomas J. Kappock. Broad-spectrum Antibiotic against Category A Agents. National Institutes of Health. $1,860,683.
Kevin D. Gibson, Corinne E.N. Alexander, Janna L. Beckerman, Steven G. Hallett, Lori Hoagland, Ian Kaplan, Maria I. Marshall, Eileen J. Kladivko and Clifford S. Sadof. Economics, Ecology, Education: An Integrated Approach to Ensure the Success of Organic Vegetable Growers. National Institute of Food and Agriculture. $1,288,010.
Barbara L. Golden. Coupling of Structure and Dynamics in RNA Catalysis. National Institutes of Health. $1,801,848.
Indiana Local Technical Assistance Program
John E. Haddock, from Indiana Department of Transportation
$1,266,796
Marietta L. Harrison, Ann Christine Catlin, David S. Ebert, Michael D. Murray, Joseph Pekny, Dan Raftery, Dorothy Teegarden, Dabao Zhang and Min Zhang. Cancer Care Engineering. Army Medical Research and Material Command. $1,208,307.
William Travis Horton, James E. Braun and Eckhard A. Groll. Development of a High Performance Cold Climate Heat Pump. U.S. Department of Energy. $1,331,435.
Gregory S. Hundley. Center for International Business Education and Research. U.S. Department of Education. $1,798,317.
Scott Jackson and Jianzin Ma. SoyMapII: Leveraging Untapped Genetic Diversity in Soybean. National Science Foundation. $1,473,266.
Sabre Kais. Centers for Chemical Innovation, Phase I:Quantum Information and Computation for Chemistry. National Science Foundation. $1,500,000.
Jeffrey D. Karpicke. Retrieval-Oriented Learning Strategies. Institute of Education Sciences. $1,600,000.
Chang H. Kim and Harm HogenEsch. Migration and Function of Th17 Cells in the Gut. National Institutes of Health. $1,347,428.
Jane M. Kirkpatrick, Pamela M. Aaltonen, Jennifer A. Coddington and Elizabeth A. O’Neil. North Central Nursing Clinics. Health Resources and Services Administration. $3,250,000.
Eileen J. Kladivko, Laura Bowling, Phillip Owens and Jane Frankenberger. Climate Change, Mitigation, and Adaptation in Corn-Based Cropping. National Institute of Food and Agriculture. $1,400,940.
Richard J. Kuhn, Wen Jiang and Michael G. Rossmann. Structure-function Studies of Alpha- and Flaviviruses. National Institutes of Health. $1,962,284.
Douglas J. LaCount. A Temporal View of the Plasmodium-Red Blood Cell Interactome. National Institutes of Health. $1,464,666.
Markus A. Lill. Novel Computational Methods for Modeling Cytochrome P450 Mediated Drug Metabolism. National Institutes of Health. $1,336,745.
Richard H. Linton, Bruce M. Applegate, Arun K. Bhunia, Michael R. Ladisch and Lisa J. Mauer. Improved Detection Techniques for Foodborne Pathogens. National Institute of Food and Agriculture. $1,496,658.
Philip S. Low. Delivery of Hemotherapeutics — Development of Targeted Therapeutics for Cancer and Inflammation. Endocyte, Inc., Folate Chemo: Novel, Non-toxic. $1,384,986.
Mark S. Lundstrom, Gerhard K. Klimeck, Michael L. McLennan and George B. Adams III. Network for Computational Nanotechnology. National Science Foundation. $3,648,333.
Shelley MacDermid Wadsworth. Strengthening Supports to Military Families in Indiana and Beyond. Lilly Endowment Inc. $6,328,144.
Renee K. McKee, Charles A. Hibberd and Shelley MacDermid Wadsworth. Military Community, Family and Youth Extension Program. National Institute of Food and Agriculture. $10,482,038.
Renee K. McKee. Afternoons ROCK in Indiana. Indiana State Department of Health. $1,194,111.
Kevin T. McNamara and James M. Lowenberg-DeBoer. Afghan Agriculture University Faculty Strengthening. Agency for International Development. $5,000,000.
Andrew D. Mesecar and Susan C. Baker. Mechanisms of Viral Proteases in Coronavirus Replication and Pathogenesis. National Institutes of Health. $1,635,125.
Dennis J. Minchella, Edward L. Bartlett, James D. Forney, George P. McCabe, Nancy Pelaez and Ann E. Rundell. Deviating from the Standard: Integrating Statistical Analysis and Experimental Design into Life Science Education. Howard Hughes Medical Institute. , $1,500,000.
Cary A. Mitchell, John Francis Burr and Roberto G. Lopez. Developing LED Lighting Technology and Practices for Sustainable Specialty-crop Production. National Institute of Food and Agriculture. $2,441,298.
Larry L. Murdock and James M. Lowenberg-DeBoer. Encouraging Marketing and Trade in Sub-Saharan Africa through Hermetic Storage of Crops by Smallholder Farmers. Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. $1,099,709.
Agbai Agwu Nnanna and Robert Kramer. Purdue University Water Institute and Energy-Efficiency and Water Institute Research Facility. U.S. Department of Energy. $1,944,000.
Matthew W. Ohland and Russell Long. Characterizing and Modeling the Experience of Transfer Students in Engineering. National Science Foundation. $1,500,000.
Kevin J. Otto and Alyssa Panitch. Normal and Accelerated Failure Assessment of New Quantitative in vitro and in vivo Neural Interfaces. Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center. $1,978,517.
Alyssa Panitch and Kinam Park. Improved Therapeutics for Drug Eluting Stents. National Institutes of Health. $1,521,403.
Srinivas Peeta. NEXTRANS: Integrated Solutions for Mobility, Safety and Infrastructure. U.S. Department of Transportation. , $2,082,800.
Paul V. Preckel and Douglas J. Gotham. State Utility Forecasting Group. Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission. $1,139,653.
Linda Prokopy, Otto C. Doering, Benjamin M. Gramig, Devdutta S. Niyogi and Xiaohui C. Song. Useful to Usable: Transforming Climate Variability and Change Information for Cereal Crop Producers. National Institute of Food and Agriculture. $1,000,000.
Julio A. Ramirez, Saurabh Bagchi, Sean Brophy, Rudolf Eigenmann, Thomas J. Hacker, Ayhan Irfanoglu, Santiago Pujol, Barbara Fossum, Shirley Dyke and Scott A. Newbolds. the George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation Operations. National Science Foundation. $18,844,107.
Timothy L.Ratliff. Cancer Center Support Grant. National Institutes of Health. $1,258,258.
Fred E. Regnier and John A. Springer. Analytical Proteomics Team. National Institutes of Health. $1,032,527.
J. Paul Robinson, Arun K. Bhunia, Vincent Jo Davisson, Eric James Dietz, Daniel E. Hirleman and Bartlomiej P. Rajwa. A Distributed Clinical and Biodefense National Network for Rapid Organism Identification. National Institutes of Health. $1,309,177.
J. Paul Robinson and Vincent Jo Davisson. Specific Detection of Cervical Cancers Using Cytometry-Based Molecular Diagnostics. National Institutes of Health. $1,570,140.
Torbert R. Rocheford. Elucidating the Genetic Architecture of ProVitamin A and Vitamin E Biosynthesis in Seed. National Science Foundation. $1,400,777.
Michael G. Rossmann. Structure and Function of Icosahedral Viruses. National Institutes of Health. $2,103,440.
Michael G. Rossmann. X-ray Determinations of Proteins and Viruses. National Science Foundation. $1,350,000.
David E. Salt. TRMS:From Ionome to Genome: Mapping the Gene Networks Controlling Nutrient Content in Rice Grain. National Science Foundation. $1,302,944.
David E. Salt. The Genetic Basis of Natural Ionomic Variation. National Institutes of Health. $1,857,862.
Timothy D. Sands, Kari Clase, Peggy A. Ertmer, Lisa Kirkham, Maureen C. McCann, Sidney M. Moon, and Gabriela C. Weaver. A Sustainable Energy Concepts Professional Development Model for Rural Schools and its Extension to a Systemic Approach for Integrating STEM Research and Education. National Science Foundation. $1,250,000.
Vladimir M. Shalaev and Alexandra Boltasseva. Large-area 3D Optical Metamaterials with Tunability and Low Loss. the Office of Naval Research. $1,950,000.
Gregory M. Shaver and Robert P. Lucht. Technology and System Level Demonstration of Highly Efficient and Clean Diesel Powered Class 8 Trucks. Cummins, Inc. $1,262,495.
Paul B. Shepson. The O-Buoy Network of Chemical Sensors in the Arctic Ocean. National Science Foundation. $1,041,211.
Cleveland B. Shields. Social and Behavioral Influences on Clinical Communication and Pain Management. National Institutes of Health. $3,437,436.
Ian P. Shipsey, Virgil E. Barnes, Daniela Bortoletto, Thomas Clark, Wei Cui, John Finley, Ephraim Fischbach, Arthur Garfinkel, Matthew Jones, W. C. Sergei Khlebnikov, Luis Martin Kruczenski, Sherwin Love, David Miller, Norbert Neumeister and John Peterson. An Experimental and Theoretical High Energy Physics Program. U.S. Department of Energy. $1,976,000.
Garth J. Simpson, Chittaranjan Das and Minghao Qi. Nonlinear Optical Imaging for Guiding Protein Structure Determination. National Institutes of Health. $1,549,599.
Jeffrey M. Siskind, Sven Dickinson and Song Wang. Robust and Principled Visual Intelligence. Army Research Laboratory. $6,000,000.
Mark J.T. Smith. Midwest Crossroads Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate. National Science Foundation. $1,259,559.
Steven F. Son and Timothee L. Pourpoint. Nanoenergetics and High Hydrogen Content Materials for Space Propulsion. Air Force Office of Scientific Research. $1,090,150.
Steven F. Son, Lori J. Groven and Alejandro H. Strachan. Chemical Decomposition in High Energy Density Materials Induced by Coupled Acoustic and Electromagnetic Energy Insult. Office of Naval Research. $1,200,000.
Brandon Sorge and William S. Walker. I-STEM Resource Network/Indiana Science Initiative. Eli Lilly and Company Foundation. $1,500,000.
Eugene H. Spafford, Melissa J. Dark and Victor Raskin. Preparing Cyber Security Leaders. National Science Foundation. $1,039,953.
Christopher J. Staiger. Arabidopsis 2010: Dissecting Cortical Actin Function During Arabidopsis-Pseudomonas Interactions. National Science Foundation. $1,108,984.
David L. Stanley, Denver W. Lopp, Robert P. Lucht and James Mark Thom. Development and Implementation of the National Test Facility for Fuels and Propulsion. Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. $1,283,000.
Alejandro H. Strachan and Steven F. Son. Multi-Resolution Modeling and Experiments of Nanostructured Reactive Materials. Defense Threat Reduction Agency. $1,861,054.
Beverly Davenport Sypher, G. Christine Taylor and Monica Cox. Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation in Indiana. National Science Foundation. $1,301,948.
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, Doraiswami Ramkrishna, Yuan Qi, Vernon J. Rego, Luo Si, and Mark Daniel Ward. Emerging Frontiers of Science of Information. National Science Foundation. $2,500,000.
Weiguo Andy Tao, Robert L. Geahlen, Scott A. McLuckey and Olga Vitek. New Proteomic Technologies for the Analysis of Tyrosine Kinase Signaling Pathways. National Institutes of Health. $1,854,175.
Elizabeth Tran. The Role of DEAD-box Proteins in Gene Expression. National Institutes of Health. $1,819,192.
Clifford F. Weil and Rebecca W. Doerge. Genetic and Genomic Approaches to Understanding Long-distance Transport and Carbon Partitioning in Plants. National Science Foundation. $1,735,212.
Steven M. Witz and Kenneth J. Musselman. From Research to Impact. Regenstrief Foundation. $3,000,000.
Xianfan Xu, Timothy Fisher, Timothy D. Sands, Stephen D. Heister and Yue Wu. Thermoelectrics Partnership:Thermoelectrics for Automotive Waste Heat Recovery. National Science Foundation. $1,391,825.
Chenn Qian Zhou. The Center for Computational Simulation and Visualization Project. U.S. Department of Energy. $3,000,000.
Jian-Kang Zhu. Plant Abiotic Stress Tolerance. King Abdullah University of Science and Technology. $6,033,300.
Qianlai Zhuang; Melba M. Crawford, Dongbin Xiu and Hao Zhang. A Paradigm Shift in Ecosystem and Environmental Modeling: An Integrated Stochastic, Deterministic, and Machine Learning Approach. National Science Foundation. $1,591,428.

Underlined names indicate Principal Investigators

* designates first-time Acorn Award recipients
^ indicates regional campuses
^^ indicates non-Purdue faculty

Awardees

Angela R. Abbott; Karen L. Zotz. Foods and Nutrition Program 2010. Indiana Family and Social Services Administration/U.S. Department of Agriculture. $5,048,854.
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. Department and Testing of Innovative Health Management Tools for Damage Detection, Evaluation, and Repair of the CH-53K Composite Rotor Blades and Structure. CACI International Inc. $3,107,550.
Rakesh Agrawal; Mahdi M. Abu-Omar, Nicholas C. Carpita, W. Nicholas Delgass, Maureen C. McCann, Fabio H. Ribeiro. EFRI-HyBi : Maximizing Conversion of Biomass Carbon to Liquid Fuel. National Science Foundation. $2,000,000.
Rakesh Agrawal; George Bodner, Brenda M. Capobianco, Hugh W. Hillhouse and Wallace E. Tyner. IGERT: The Solar Economy IGERT (SEIGERT). National Science Foundation. $3,100,000.
Erik S. Barton. Interferon Alpha Regulation of Murine. PHS-NIH National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. $1,850,944.
Gregory A. Blaisdell; Zhiyuan Li, Anastasios S. Lyrintzis. Realistic Simulation of Jet Engine Noise Using Petaflop Computing. National Science Foundation. $1,291,668.
James M. Caruthers; John F. Burr, J. Eric Dietz, Steve Dunlop, Steve Shelby and Ron Steuterman. Indiana Advanced Electric Vehicle Education and Training Consortium. U.S. Department of Energy. $6,135,839.
James A. Cooper. State of Indiana Funded Activities for Midwest Institute of Nanoelectronics Discovery (MIND). James A. Cooper. $1,102,200.
Gordon L. Coppoc. Indiana University School of Medicine-Lafayette. Indiana University School of Medicine. $1,777,362.
William A. Cramer; Jue Chen, Wen Jiang, Garth J. Simpson, Cynthia V. Stauffacher, Dinesh A. Yernool. Innovative Methods in Membrane Protein Production for Structure Determination. PHS-NIH National Institute of General Medical Sciences. $1,053,187.
Patricia Davies; James E. Braun, Qingyan Chen, Daniel E. Hirleman, Larry Fusaro, Robert E. Olson. A Center for High Performance Buildings at the Ray W. Herrick Laboratories. National Institute of Standards & Technology. $11,750,000.
W. Nicholas Delgass; Mahdi M. Abu-Omar, James M. Caruthers, Fabio H. Ribeiro, Kendall T. Thomson. Catalyst Design by Discovery Informatics. U.S. Department of Energy. $2,340,000.
Natalia Doudareva. Benzoic Acid Biosynthesis in Plants. National Science Foundation. $1,042,558.
Shirley J. Dyke. NEESR-SG: Performance-Based Design and Real-Time Large-Scale Testing to Enable Implementation of Advanced Damping Systems. National Science Foundation. $1,046,483.
David S. Ebert; Mireille Boutin, William S. Cleveland, Timothy F. Collins, Edward J. Delp, Niklas Emanuel Elmqvist. VACCINE: Visual Analytics for Command, Control, and Interoperability Environments. U.S. Department of Homeland Security. $1,684,999.
Timothy Fisher; Suresh V. Garimella, Jayathi Y. Murthy, Xianfan Xu. Development of Nano Thermal Interface Materials. Raytheon. $2,185,654.
Marcia L. Gentry; Luciana De Oliveira, Eric L. Mann, Rebecca L. Mann, Yukiko Maeda, Jean P. Peterson, Ala Samarapungavan. Developing Talents and Improving Student Achievement Among Traditionally Underrepresented Populations. Donna M. Fekete. from U.S. Department of Education $2,243,965.
Arif Ghafoor; Walid G. Aref, Ahmed K. Elmagarmid. TC: Medium: Security and Privacy Preserving Data Mining and Management for Distributed Domains. National Science Foundation. $1,192,870.
Lisa A. Goffman; Anne Smith, Howard N. Zelaznik. Language Motor Relations in Children’s Speech Production. PHS-NIH National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders. $1,741,227.
John E. Haddock. INLTAP2010. Indiana Department of Transportation. $1,229,458.
Kamyar Haghighi. Operating Grant for the Second Year Institute P-12 Engineering Research and Learning(INSPIRE). S. D. Bechtel, Jr. $1,000,000.
Qingyou Han and Keith Bowman; David R. Johnson, Matthew J. M. Krane, Rodney W. Trice, Kevin P. Trumble. Hypercast Program. North American Die Casting Association. $2,165,000.
Marietta L. Harrison; Joseph F. Pekny. Walther Oncology Physical Sciences & Engineering Research Embedding Program. Walther Cancer Institute Foundation Inc. $1,000,000.
Tony R. Hazbun. Integrated Genomewide Analysis of the ipl1 Kinase Signaling Network. PHS-NIH National Institute of General Medical Sciences. $1,538,322.
Michael G. Heinz. Effects of Sensorineural Hearing Loss on Robust Speech Coding. PHS-NIH National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders. $2,156,977.
Stephen D. Heister; William E. Anderson, Osvaldo H. Campanella, Carlos M. Corvalan, Robert P. Lucht, Charles L. Merkle, Timothee Pourpoint, Paul E. Sojka, Steven F. Son. Spray & Combustion of Gelled Hypergolic Propellants. Army Research Office. $1,250,000.
Gregory H. Hockerman. L-type Ca2+ channel modulation of beta cell function. PHS-NIH National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. $1,642,628.
Peter J. Hollenbeck. Control of Neural Organelle Transport. PHS-NIH National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Strokes. $1,627,858.
Pedro Irazoqui. Core Technology Development Plan for Cyberonics Next-Generation Devices. Cyberonics, Inc. $1,200,000.
Scott A. Jackson;Jianxin Ma. SoyMapII:Leveraging Untapped Genetic Diversity in Soybean–Amendment 1. National Science Foundation. $2,281,276.
Brian C. Kell. Prescription Drug Abuse in Club Subcultures: Contexts & Risks. PHS-NIH National Institute on Drug Abuse. National Cancer Institute $3,026,205.
Chang H. Kim; Harm Hogenesch. Migration and Function of Th17 Cells in the Gut. PHS-NIH National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. $1,670,758.
Gerhard Klimeck; George B. Adams, Michael J. McLennan. Instant-On Simulation Delivery: Helping Teragrid Achieve its Wide and Open Strategic Goals. National Science Foundation. $1,426,404.
Stephen F. Konieczny. Pancreas Transcription Factors and Disease Model Systems. PHS-NIH National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. $1,311,316.
Shihuan Kuang. Notch Regulation of Stem Cell Fate in Muscle. PHS-NIH National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases. $1,906,250.
Richard J. Kuhn. A Multidisciplinary Cancer Research Facility at Purdue University. PHS-NIH National Center for Research Resource. $14,902,414.
Richard J. Kuhn; Wen Jiang, Michael G. Rossmann. Structure-Function Studies of Alpha-and Flaviviruses. PHS-NIH National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. $3,946,282.
Richard H. Linton; Bruce M. Applegate, Arun K. Bhunia, Michael R. Ladisch, Lisa J. Mauer. Improved Detection Techniques for Foodborne Pathogens. Agricultural Research Service. $1,496,658.
Philip S. Low; Yeong E. Kim, Ronald G. Reifenberger, Alexander Wei. Development, and Engineering Command, Rapid and Accurate Pathogen Identification/Detection. U.S. Army Research. $1,438,585.
Mark S. Lundstrom; George B. Adams, Gerhard Klimeck, Michael McLennan and Alejandro Strachan. Network for Computational Nanotechnology. National Science Foundation. $3,648,333.
Mark S. Lundstrom; Muhammad A. Alam, Supriyo Datta, Gerhard Klimeck, Alejandro H. Strachan, Peide Ye. Theory, Modeling, and Simulation of Nanotransistors. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. $2,039,235.
Maureen C. McCann; Mahdi M. Abu-Omar, Rakesh Agrawal, Nicholas C . Carpita, Clint C.S. Chapple, W. Nicholas Delgass, Hilkka I. Kenttamaa, Nathan S. Mosier, Fabio H. Ribiero, Garth J. Simpson, Christopher J. Staiger, Daniel B. Szymanski, Kendall T. Thomson. Center for the Catalytic Conversion of Biomass to Bioenergy (C3Bio). U.S. Department of Energy. $15,074,136.
Kevin T. McNamara; James M. Lowenberg-DeBoer. Advancing Afghan Agriculture Alliance. Agency for International Development. $1,246,857.
Megan A. McCrory; Carol J. Boushey, Stacey L. Mobley, Mario Ferruzzi. Biomarkers of Dietary Variables Commonly Misreported. PHS-NIH National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. $1,143,006.
Renee K. McKee. Afternoons ROCK in Indiana. Indiana State Department of Health. $1,194,111.
David R. McKinnis; Mary Ann Sloan, Steven M. Witz. Purdue University Establishment of the Indiana Health Information Technology Extension Center. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. $12,000,000.
Kevin T. McNamara. Advancing Afghan Agriculture Alliance. Agency for International Development. $2,010,738.
. A Genetically Tractable Microalgal Platform for Advanced Biofuel Production. John A. Morgan. from Iowa State University $1,034,523.
Jayathi Y. Murthy. PRISM: Center for Prediction of Reliability, Integrity, and Survivability of Microsystems – Amendment 4. U.S. Department of Energy. $3,300,000.
Kinam Park; Ji-Xin Cheng. Adaptable Polymer Micelles for Tumor Targeting. PHS-CDC Centers for Disease Control. $1,854,476.
Srinivas Peeta. NEXTRANS: Integrated Solutions for Mobility, Safety and Infrastructure. U.S. Department of Transportation. $2,085,000.
Carol B. Post. NMR Structure of Peptide and Protein Complexes. PHS-NIH National Institute of General Medical Sciences. $1,851,266.
Paul V. Preckel; Douglas J. Gotham. To Continue the Work of the State Utility Forecasting Group. Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission. $1,298,974.
Julio A. Ramirez; Saurabh Bagchi, Sean Brophy, Rudolf Eigenmann, Barbara Fossum, Thomas J. Hacker, Ayhan Irfanoglu, Tanu Malik, Santiago Pujol, Mete A. Sozen. George E. Brown Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation. National Science Foundation. $20,000,000 multi-year award totaling $105 million.
Timothy L. Ratliff. Cancer Center Support Grant (CORE). PHS-NIH National Cancer Institute. $1,165,056.
Timothy L. Ratliff; Sandra F. Amass, Wilella D. Burgess, Kauline S. Davis, Marcia L. Gentry, Rebecca L. Mann, John R. Staver. Fat Dogs and Coughing Horses: Animal Contributions towards a Healthier Citizenry. PHS-NIH National Center for Research Resource. $1,334,422.
Teri Reed-Rhoads; Peter K. Imbrie, Johannes Strobel. Collaborative Research: ciHub, a Virtual Community to Support Research, Development, and Dissemination of Concept Inventories. National Science Foundation. $1,064,603.
Fred E. Regnier; Jiri Adamec, John A. Springer. APT: The Analytical Proteomics Team. PHS-NIH National Cancer Institute. $1,178,066.
Gintaras V. Reklaitis; Gary E. Blau, Michael J. Mclennan. CDI-Type II: Cyber-enabled Engineering of Pharmaceutical Products. National Science Foundation. $1,932,768.
Fabio H. Ribeiro; Chelsey D. Baertsch, W. Nicholas Delgass, Eric A. Stach. Institute for Atom-efficient Chemical Transformations (IACT). Argonne National Laboratory. $2,150,000.
Ralph V. Rogers; Agbai Agwu Nnanna. Emerging Technologies and Approaches to Minimize Discharges into Lake Michigan – Module 3 of Phase 2. BP America Inc. $2,688,213.
Michael G. Rossmann; Siyang Sun. Structural Studies of Bacteriophage T4. PHS-NIH National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. $3,105,219.
Ann E. Rundell; Gregery T. Buzzard, Marietta L. Harrison. Quantitative Design of Experiments to Predictably Alter Intracellular Signaling Dynamics. National Science Foundation. $1,216,337.
David E. Salt; Ivan R. Baxter, Min Zhang. TRMS: From Ionome to Genome: Mapping the Gene Networks Controlling Nutrient Content in Rice Grain. National Science Foundation. $1,305,452.
Laura P. Sands; Bruce A. Craig, Joseph Thomas. Prognostic Significance of Insufficient ADL Help on Health Outcomes/Utilization. PHS-NIH National Institute on Aging. $1,112,313.
Vladimir M. Shalaev; Evgueni Nariminov. Tunable and Reconfigurable Optical Negative-Index Materials with Low Losses. Army Research Office. $1,052,215.
Vladimir M. Shalaev; Alexandra Boltasseva, Evgueni E. Narimanov. Transformation Optical Metamaterials. Duke University. $2,152,964.
Paul B. Shepson; Kevin R. Gurney. Development, Improvement & Assessment of the Accuracy of Aircraft-Based Mass Balance Measurements of Integrated Urban Emission Fluxes of Greenhouse Gas. National Institute of Standards & Technology. $1,500,000.
Tom I-P. Shih. Computational Analysis of Advanced Cooling Strategies for High-Efficiency and Long Service Life Turbines. Ames Laboratory. $1,065,530.
Ian P. Shipsey; Virgil Barnes, Daniela Bortoletto, Thomas Clark, Wei Cui, John Finley, Ephraim Fischbach, Arthur Garfinkel, Matthew Jones, Sergei Khlebnikov, Luis Martin Kruczenski, Sherwin Love, David Miller, Norbert Neumeister, John Peterson. Experimental and Theoretical High Energy Physics Program Modification 44. U.S. Department of Energy. $1,903,500.
M.J.T. Smith. NSF Stimulus Graduate Fellowship Research Program 2009-2012. National Science Foundation. $1,000,000.
Xiaohui Carol Song. Teragrid Extension: Bridging to XD. University of Chicago. $1,329,806.
David L. Stanley; Denver W. Lopp, James M. Thom. Development and Implementation of the National Test Facility for Fuels and Propulsion. Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. $1,356,000.
Amit H. Varma. Large-Scale Testing of SC Shield Building Components for Nuclear Power Plants. Westinghouse Electric Corporation. $1,723,287.
Bill Walker and Brandon Sorge. New Lilly/CICP Resource Network Grant. Central Indiana Corporate Partnership. $2,000,000.
Barry L. Wanner; Michael R. Gribskov, Daisuke Kihara. Comprehensive Mapping and Annotation of the E. Coli Transcriptome. PHS-NIH National Institute of General Medical Sciences. $1,000,000.
Connie M. Weaver; George P. McCabe. Calcium Metabolism in Mexican American Adolescents. PHS-NIH National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. $2,053,264.
Connie M. Weaver; George P. McCabe. Supplemental Vitamin D and Functional Outcomes in Early Adolescence. University of Georgia. $1,077,209.
Andrew M. Weiner. Novel Ultrabroadband Photonic and Radio-Frequency Systems for Communications, Sensing and Countermeasures. Naval Post-Graduate School. $4,214,174.
William J. Weiss; Weinong W. Chen, Carol A. Handwerker, Eric A. Stach. Nano-modified Cement for High Strength Concrete with Improved Mechanical Performance and Blast Resistance. Army Corps of Engineers. $1,000,000.
Bill Walker and Brandon Sorge. Nanoscale Optical Antenna Array for Controlled Massively Parallel Manufacturing of Nanowire Devices Modification 2. Central Indiana Corporate Partnership. $2,000,000.
Xianfan Xu; Minghao Qi, Eric A.Stach, Chen Yang. Comprehensive Mapping and Annotation of the E. Coli Transcriptome. Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center. $1,422,587.
Fenggang Yang. Chinese Spirituality and Society Program: A Research and Training Initiative. John Templeton Foundation. $1,998,426.
Wei Zheng; Yulia N. Pushkar. Choroid Plexus as a Target in Metal-induced Neurotoxicity. PHS-NIH National Institute of Environment Health Sciences. $2,041,292.
Chenn Qian Zhou. The Center for Computational Simulation and Visualization Project. Department of Energy. $4,757,500.

Underlined names indicate Principal Investigators

* designates first-time Acorn Award recipients
^ indicates regional campuses
^^ indicates non-Purdue faculty

Awardees

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