Recent Awards, May 2016

March 2016

Understanding Health with Modeling

Tanya Miura, Christine Parent, Paul Rowley and Holly Wichman — faculty members in the UI College of Science’s Department of Biology — and Bert Baumgaertner, an assistant professor of philosophy in the College of Letters, Arts and Society Sciences, received a combined $2.13 million from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for six projects through the Center for Modeling Complex Interactions. Learn more about CMCI.

Inspiring a Love of Science in Native Students

Karla Eitel, Teresa Cohn, Lee Vierling and Jan Eitel — all faculty members at the UI College of Natural Resources’ McCall Field Campus — received $1.1 million from the National Science Foundation for “ITEST: Building STEM Identity in Native American Students with UAV Technology.” Learn more about this grant.

Ahmed Ibrahim, Richard Nielsen and Ahmed Abdel-Rahim, College of Engineering, $49,285 from the Idaho Transportation Department for “Guidance to Assist Non-Engineering Staff at Local Highway Jurisdictions Evaluate 105,500 and 129,000 Pound Truck Route Requests.”

Alexander Karasev, College of Agricultural and Life Sciences (CALS), $4,000 from the Snake River Research and Seed Alliance LLC for “Diagnosis and management of curly top virus in sugar beet in Idaho.”

Amber Moore, CALS, $20,000 from the Idaho Dairymen’s Association, Inc., for “Long-Term Impacts of Manure Applications.”

Amin Ahmadzadeh, CALS, $15,000 from the Idaho Dairymen’s Association, Inc., for “Dairy Science Learning Experience: Cultivating a Better and Progressive Dairy Education Program for Idaho.”

Anthony Davis, College of Natural Resources (CNR), $41,500 from the Potlatch Corporation for “Seedling Root Egress Trial.”

James Barbour, CALS, $15,394 from the Hop Research Council for “Development of Hop Integrated Pest Management Strategies.”

James Barbour, CALS, a total of $14,563 from the Mint Industry Research Council for two projects related to “Drip Irrigation of Mint in an Arid Pacific Northwest Climate.”

Jocelyn Aycrigg, CNR, $19,217 from TerraGraphics Environmental Engineering, Inc., for “Clark County, Nevada: Science Advisor Panel for the Desert Conservation Program.”

Jodi Johnson-Maynard and Sanford Eigenbrode, CALS, $270,364 from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture for “Interdisciplinary Climate Change Research and Extension for Building Sustainable Agroecological Systems.”

Julie Fodor, College of Education, $31,070 from Behavior Imaging Solutions for “NIH-NODA Clinical Study.”

Katherine Hegewisch and John Abatzoglou, College of Science, $33,129 from the University of Washington for “Bias Correcting Climate and Hydrologic Outputs from MRF/MACA and VIC.”

Lauren Golden, CALS, $23,000 from Utah State University for “Idaho SARE Implementation Program for 2016.”

Mark Solomon, Idaho Water Resources Research Institute, a total of $92,335 from the U.S. Geological Survey for four awards related to “FY 2016 Annual Application under §104 of the Water Resources Research Act of 1984, as amended.”

Matthew Hedman, College of Science, $18,000 from the Jet Propulsion Laboratories for “Ice Giants Science Definition Team.”

Paul Lewin, James Lindstrom, Liliana Vega, Darin Saul, Nancy Deringer, and Ling-Ling Tsao, CALS, received a combined total of $431,585 from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture for seven projects related to “AFRI Foundational: Innovation for Rural Entrepreneurs and Communities (Latina Entrepreneurship).”

Priscilla Salant, College of Letters, Arts and Social Sciences, $53,700 from the Idaho Dairymen’s Association, Inc., for “An Update of Community Level Impacts of Idaho's Changing Dairy Industry.”

Richard Stoddart, Library, $900 from the Idaho Commission for Libraries for “American Association of Engineering Educators Conference Travel.”

Scott Metlen, College of Business and Economics, $1,000 from Boise Cascade Corporation for “Automatic Grading and Stacking Evaluation.”

Scott Metlen, CBE, $500 from Gritman Medical Center for “Develop and utilize a what-if tool to determine the best staffing model for the maternity area.”