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The University of Delaware derives its research funding from a broad base of sources reflecting a diversity of initiatives across our seven colleges. This page includes contracts and grants that are received for research projects, public service/extension projects, education activities and equipment over the course of the month highlighted below. To view previous activity select the month/year in the Archive sidebar.

 

June 2025 (58 Projects)

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SPONSOR
AMOUNT
YEAR

Center of Biomedical Research Excellence in Multiscale Biomolecular Sensing
LENGTH: 4 yr. 9 mo.
SPONSOR: National Institutes of Health
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Donald Watson

HHS 12,091,546 2025

Peptidoglycan Fragment Library to Investigate Innate Immune Responses
LENGTH: 5 yr.
SPONSOR: National Institutes of Health
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Catherine Grimes

HHS 4,055,550 2025

Phages as Lenses to Study Virus Assembly and Virus: Host Interactions
LENGTH: 5 yr.
SPONSOR: University of Connecticut
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Tatyana Polenova

HHS 1,246,296 2025

Administrative Support for the Technology Transfer Center
LENGTH: 1 yr.
SPONSOR: Delaware Department of Transportation
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Earl Lee

DOT 564,000 2025

COBRE
LENGTH: 1 yr.
SPONSOR: Delaware State University
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Anna Klintsova

HHS 457,237 2025

An Ai-Based Ground Robotic Vision System to Automate Inventory and Quality Assessment of Bareroot Seedlings In Forest Tree Nursery Production
LENGTH: 4 yr.
SPONSOR: National Institute of Food and Agriculture
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Yin Bao

USDA 456,071 2025

Energetic Materials Basic Research: Structural Energetics
LENGTH: 2 yr. 6 mo.
SPONSOR: Purdue University
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Chelsea Davis

DOD 420,000 2025

AI VRU-Safe Project
LENGTH: 1 yr.
SPONSOR: Delaware Department of Transportation
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Ajay Prasad

DOT 299,351 2025

Machine Learning-Enhanced Molecular Dynamics for Predictive LiNb’/Si’ Wafer Bonding
LENGTH: 1 yr.
SPONSOR: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agcy
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Nuwan Dewapriya Mallika Arachchige

DOD 265,513 2025

Rural Community Capacity Accelerator
LENGTH: 3 yr.
SPONSOR: US Department of Agriculture
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Troy Mix, Chase Barnes

USDA 253,962 2025

Delaware Center for Transportation
LENGTH: 1 yr.
SPONSOR: Delaware Department of Transportation
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Earl Lee

DDOT 249,999 2025

Expanding and Supporting Equity and Inclusion in Financial Literacy for All Students
LENGTH: 6 mo.
SPONSOR: Delaware Department of Education
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Kelly Sherretz, Scott Bacon, Gail Colbert, Amy Krzyzanowski, Sarah Marshall, Bonnie Meszaros, Haley Qaissaunee

Delaware Department of Education 200,000 2025

UTC Smarter Center
LENGTH: 1 yr.
SPONSOR: Delaware Department of Transportation
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Ardeshir Faghri, Philip Barnes, Andrea Pierce

DOT 195,999 2025

Travel Demand Model Analysis Activities
LENGTH: 1 yr.
SPONSOR: Delaware Department of Transportation
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: David Racca

DOT 149,976 2025

Migration Chronology, Bbreeding Distribution and Winter Site Fidelity of Atlantic Population of Canada Geese
LENGTH: 2 yr.
SPONSOR: Wildlife Management Institute
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Christopher Williams

Wildlife Management Institute 149,962 2025

Understanding & Predicting Work Zone Impacts on Traffic
LENGTH: 2 yr.
SPONSOR: Delaware Department of Transportation
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Mahyar MovahedNejad

DOT 149,718 2025

Development of Performance-Based Specifications for Tack Coats
LENGTH: 2 yr.
SPONSOR: Delaware Department of Transportation
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Haritha Malladi, Jovan Tatar

DOT 140,722 2025

Economic Development Planning Activities
LENGTH: 1 yr.
SPONSOR: Delaware Department of Transportation
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Troy Mix

DOT 140,000 2025

A Digital Twin of the Charles W. Cullen Bridge: The Next Big Step in Management and Operation of a Delaware Major Asset
LENGTH: 2 yr.
SPONSOR: Delaware Department of Transportation
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Harry Shenton, Michael Chajes

DOT 128,534 2025

Develop Project Evaluation Methods for Measuring Improvements to Pedestrian Accessibility and Safety
LENGTH: 2 yr.
SPONSOR: Delaware Department of Transportation
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Ardeshir Faghri

DOT 128,314 2025

Accreditation of DelDot Biochar Treatments for Maintenance and Regulatory Compliance
LENGTH: 2 yr.
SPONSOR: Delaware Department of Transportation
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Paul Imhoff

DOT 122,870 2025

Integrated Statewide Planning and Policy Analysis Activities
LENGTH: 1 yr.
SPONSOR: Delaware Department of Transportation
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Julia O’Hanlon

DOT 120,000 2025

TID Application and Analysis Activities
LENGTH: 1 yr.
SPONSOR: Delaware Department of Transportation
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: William DeCoursey

DOT 100,000 2025

Delaware Travel Monitoring System
LENGTH: 1 yr.
SPONSOR: Delaware Department of Transportation
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Edward Ratledge

DOT 100,000 2025

Sustainabiity Modeling Activity
LENGTH: 1 yr.
SPONSOR: Delaware Department of Transportation
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Earl Lee

DOT 99,826 2025

Delaware Byways Program Support
LENGTH: 1 yr.
SPONSOR: Delaware Department of Transportation
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Catherine Morrissey

DOT 94,948 2025

A Network Perspective on the Neurodevelopment of Emotion Dysregulation in Adolescence: Insights into Depression and Anxiety
LENGTH: 2 yr.
SPONSOR: National Institutes of Health
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Leah Church

HHS 90,366 2025

Integrated Community Planning and Policy Analysis Activities
LENGTH: 1 yr.
SPONSOR: Delaware Department of Transportation
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: William DeCoursey, Jennifer Reitz

DOT 80,000 2025

Bicycle and Pedestrian Pop-Up Facilities
LENGTH: 1 yr.
SPONSOR: Delaware Department of Transportation
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Matthew Harris

DOT 75,000 2025

Comprehensive Reproducibility Initiative for Scientific Integrity and Standardization
LENGTH: 1 yr.
SPONSOR: Research Corporation for Science Advance
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Jessica Sampson

Research Corporation for Science Advance 66,000 2025

Elizabethtown Independent School (KY) – Literacy
LENGTH: 1 yr.
SPONSOR: Elizabethtown Independent Schools
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Kimberly Wheedleton

Elizabethtown Independent Schools 51,600 2025

ITS LAB Administration
LENGTH: 1 yr.
SPONSOR: Delaware Department of Transportation
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Earl Lee

DOT 50,000 2025

Lets Grow Outside Initiative
LENGTH: 1 yr.
SPONSOR: Delaware Department of Education
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Kristy Jo Sheffler

DDOE 45,990 2025

Predictive Ultrafast Low-Rank Simulations Via Embedded Tensor Networks
LENGTH: 4 mo.
SPONSOR: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: William Sands

DOE 45,934 2025

Development of Model Lessons and Professional Development for Elementary and Middle School Geography
LENGTH: 1 mo.
SPONSOR: Delaware Department of Education
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Mary Schorse

DDOE 45,000 2025

Managing Notifiable Avian Influenza
LENGTH: 3 mo.
SPONSOR: Delaware Department of Agriculture
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Brian Ladman

USDA 43,540 2025

Special Education Partnership for the Amicable Resolution of Conflict
LENGTH: 1 yr.
SPONSOR: Delaware Dept of Health and Social Service
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Kathleen Murphy

Dept of Educ 37,763 2025

An Exploratory Mixed-Methods Study of the Experiences and Perceived Usefulness of School Principal Professional Development
LENGTH: 2 yr.
SPONSOR: University of Delaware Research Foundation
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Bryan VanGronigen

UDRF 35,000 2025

Enabling Scalable Evaluation of Fairness in Health LLMs
LENGTH: 2 yr.
SPONSOR: University of Delaware Research Foundation
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Rahmatollah Beheshti, Cathy Wu

UDRF 35,000 2025

Delaware’s 2025 Statewide Seat Belt Use Observational Survey Data for OHS
LENGTH: 2 mo.
SPONSOR: Delaware Office of Highway Safety
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Edward Ratledge

DOT 24,500 2025

IR 4 Northeast Region Minor Crop Pest Management Program
LENGTH: 1 yr.
SPONSOR: University of Maryland Eastern Shore
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: David Owens

USDA 21,665 2025

Emergency Prepardness for Individuals with Disabilities and the Public
LENGTH: 2 yr. 3 mo.
SPONSOR: Delaware Emergency Management Agency
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Sarah Mallory

DHS 16,000 2025

4D KNIT: Innovating Sustainable Textile Design for Next-Generation Fabrications
LENGTH: 2 yr.
SPONSOR: General University Research Program
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Adriana Gorea

GUR 15,000 2025

Understanding Black History Education in Practice: A Multi-Site Case Study of HB-198 Implementation in Delaware Schools
LENGTH: 2 yr.
SPONSOR: General University Research Program
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Soo Bin Jang

GUR 15,000 2025

Developing White Preservice Teachers Racial Literacy with Black Clinical Educators
LENGTH: 2 yr.
SPONSOR: General University Research Program
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Kisha Porcher

GUR 15,000 2025

Brain Networks, Peripheral Factors and Individual Vulnerability to Postpartum Mood Disorder
LENGTH: 2 yr.
SPONSOR: General University Research Program
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Jaclyn Schwarz

GUR 15,000 2025

Project STREAM: Strategic and Community-Engaged Teaching, Research and Education across Multimodal Podcast Use
LENGTH: 2 yr.
SPONSOR: General University Research Program
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Jin Yao Kwan

GUR 15,000 2025

Making Self-Expression Accessible with User-Centered Design
LENGTH: 2 yr.
SPONSOR: General University Research Program
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Ashley Pigford

GUR 15,000 2025

Experiences of Gender-Based Violence and Institutional Betrayal Among Indigenous Women in the US
LENGTH: 2 yr.
SPONSOR: General University Research Program
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Angela Hattery

GUR 14,909 2025

Latinx and Hispanic Historic Resources
LENGTH: 3 mo.
SPONSOR: City of Wilmington
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Catherine Morrissey

City of Wilmington 13,447 2025

Policy and Practice Institute: Delaware’s Conference on Public Education
LENGTH: 1 mo.
SPONSOR: Delaware Department of Education
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Alison Travers

DDOE 11,633 2025

Reciprocal Influences of Discrimination and Loneliness on Cognitive Trajectories in Black Older Americans
LENGTH: 1 yr.
SPONSOR: A.P. Sloan Foundation
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Heather Farmer

A.P. Sloan Foundation 10,000 2025

Mesoscale Eddies as a Freshwater Export Mechanism Along the Antarctic Peninsula
LENGTH: 1 yr.
SPONSOR: Antarctic Science Ltd
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Frederike Benz

Antarctic Science Ltd 7,440 2025

Innovations in Tendon Structure-Function Characterization for Improved Rehabilitation Strategies
LENGTH: 1 yr.
SPONSOR: Oak Ridge Assocaited Universities
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Stephanie Cone

Oak Ridge Assocaited Universities 5,000 2025

Delivering Soybean Insect Scouting Support Tools
LENGTH: 9 mo.
SPONSOR: Delaware Soybean Board
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: David Owens

Delaware Soybean Board 3,758 2025

Colonial School District Seminars for Delaware Teachers Institute
LENGTH: 6 mo.
SPONSOR: Colonial School District
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Jonathan Cox

Dept of Educ 3,750 2025

The Ocular Lens Capsule Regulates Tissue Biomechanical Properties
LENGTH: 1 yr.
SPONSOR: Sigma Xi
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Thomas Manzoni

Sigma Xi 2,500 2025

Early Development of Knee Osteoarthritis following ACL Reconstruction
LENGTH: 1 yr.
SPONSOR: Rheumatology Research Foundation
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Karin Gravare Silbernagel

Rheumatology Research Foundation 1,000 2025


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