Recently Funded Projects

Strengthening Partnerships for Advancing Research Capacity in Delaware
LENGTH: 4 yr.
SPONSOR: National Science Foundation
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Amy Slocum, Chuming Chen, John Huffman, Julius Korley, Xi Peng, Amalea Rassias, K Wommack, Cathy Wu

H2CIRC- Circular Recycling for the Hydrogen Economy
LENGTH: 5 yr.
SPONSOR: American Institute of Chemical Engineers
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Ajay Prasad, Marianthi Ierapetritou, Raul Lobo, Randolph McGee, Levi Thompson, Dionisios Vlachos, Bingqing Wei

Scalable Stable Perovskite Solar Cells for Soldier and Small Unit Tactical Energy Technology
LENGTH: 1 yr. 6 mo.
SPONSOR: Department of the Army
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: William Shafarman

Transcriptional Control of Gene Expression in the Lens
LENGTH: 5 yr.
SPONSOR: National Institutes of Health
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Salil Lachke

Smith-Lever Act Capacity Grant
LENGTH: 5 yr.
SPONSOR: National Institute of Food & Agriculture
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Erik Ervin

Graduate Research Fellowship Program
LENGTH: 5 yr.
SPONSOR: National Science Foundation
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Louis Rossi, Ariel Alperstein, Christina Barbieri, Federica Bianco, Mark Blenner, Ho Ming Chow, Zoubeida Dagher, Vincenzo Ellis, Elizabeth Farley-Ripple, Catherine Fromen, Lars Gundlach, Edward Hale, Aditya Kunjapur, Abraham Lenhoff, Miling Li, Xin Lu, Peter Mende-Sie

Bacterial Cytochrome C Biogenesis Synthase Function, Specificity and Evolution
LENGTH: 5 yr.
SPONSOR: National Science Foundation
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Molly Sutherland

Advancing Sustainable Economic and Environmental Development Through the Creation of Production Systems for a Fisheries & Aquaculture Innovation Center
LENGTH: 4 yr.
SPONSOR: National Oceanic/Atmospheric Admin.
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Edward Hale

Hatch Regular
LENGTH: 2 yr.
SPONSOR: National Institute of Food & Agriculture
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Brian Farkas

Living Shoreline and Oyster Reef Habitat Creation at Port Mahon (DE)
LENGTH: 1 yr. 6 mo.
SPONSOR: National Fish & Wildlife Foundation
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Edward Hale, Jack Puleo, Arthur Trembanis

Implementation of Encroachment Mitigation and Military Installation Resilience Strategy Through Coordination and Involvement in Community Planning
LENGTH: 5 yr.
SPONSOR: Department of the Air Force
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Edward Hale, Jack Puleo, Arthur Trembanis

High-Resolution 13C-DIC Data Collection on GO-SHIP Cruises in the Indian & Pacific Oceans for Constraining the Oceanic 13C Suess Effect and Anthropogenic CO2 Uptake & Storage Rates
LENGTH: 4 yr.
SPONSOR: National Science Foundation
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Wei-Jun Cai

Too Hot, Too Cold or Just Right? Investigating the Controls on the Loss of Oceanic Organic Carbon in Aged Basaltic Crust
LENGTH: 5 yr.
SPONSOR: National Science Foundation
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Sunita Walter

Streamlining Integration and Distribution of Metocean Data from Offshore Wind Operations for Marine Stakeholders
LENGTH: 3 yr.
SPONSOR: NE Reg Assoc of Coastal Ocean Observing
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Mary Ford

New Directions in the Development of Atomic Clocks
LENGTH: 3 yr.
SPONSOR: Office of Naval Research
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Marianna Safronova

Regional Centers for Public Health Preparedness and Response
LENGTH: 5 yr.
SPONSOR: Johns Hopkins University
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Jennifer Horney, James Kendra

Novel Magnetic Material Platforms for Probing Mechanobiology in Space and Time
LENGTH: 5 yr.
SPONSOR: National Science Foundation
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Elise Corbin

Summer REU Program in Marine Science
LENGTH: 3 yr.
SPONSOR: National Science Foundation
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Joanna York

Hatch Multistate
LENGTH: 2 yr.
SPONSOR: National Institute of Food & Agriculture
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Brian Farkas

Spintronics with Entangled and Strongly Correlated Magnetic Quantum Matter
LENGTH: 3 yr.
SPONSOR: National Science Foundation
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Branislav Nikolic

Theoretical Support for the MMS Mission: Reconnection and Particle Acceleration in a Turbulent Environment
LENGTH: 3 yr.
SPONSOR: National Aero and Space Administration
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: William Matthaeus

Persistent Oceanographic Device Power
LENGTH: 2 yr. 6 mo.
SPONSOR: Maryland-College Park,University of
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Jennifer Biddle

High-Resolution Mass Spectrometry for Biocontainment Research & Education
LENGTH: 1 yr.
SPONSOR: Office of Naval Research
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Aditya Kunjapur

Deciphering Cognition with Geometry
LENGTH: 5 yr.
SPONSOR: Burroughs Welcome Fund
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Manuel Schottdorf

Mapping of Natural Disasters by Deep Subspace Learning in Multi-band and Multi-spectral Satellite Images
LENGTH: 3 yr.
SPONSOR: Delaware State University
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Chandra Kambhamettu

Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program
LENGTH: 1 yr.
SPONSOR: National Institute of Food & Agriculture
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Erik Ervin, Diane Oliver

Deterministic Communication and Computation for Connected Autonomous Driving as a Service
LENGTH: 3 yr.
SPONSOR: National Science Foundation
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Weisong Shi

Four-Coordinate Iron- and Cobalt-Carbene Complexes for Carbene-Transfer Catalysis
LENGTH: 1 yr.
SPONSOR: National Science Foundation
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Carsten Milsmann

Secure Containers in High-Performance Computing Infrastructure
LENGTH: 1 yr. 11 mo.
SPONSOR: University of Texas at Arlington
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Xing Gao

Quantum Correlations in Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithms and their Implementation
LENGTH: 2 yr. 11 mo.
SPONSOR: University of Rhode Island
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Ilya Safro