Recently Funded Projects

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Outreach, Education and Technical Assistance for Beginning Farmers and Ranchers in TN and DE Counties with Critical Service Gap
LENGTH: 3 yr.
SPONSOR: Tennessee State University
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Kofi Britwum

Real-Time Pond Level Monitoring Year XI
LENGTH: 1 yr.
SPONSOR: Delaware Department of Natural Resources
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Kevin Brinson

Farm to School Contractor
LENGTH: 1 yr. 11 mo.
SPONSOR: Delaware Department of Education
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Gina Crist

Assessing the Impact of a Satellite Based Atlantic Sturgeon Forecasting Tool
LENGTH: 1 yr.
SPONSOR: National Aero and Space Administration
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Matthew Oliver

Delaware Sea Grant Knauss Fellowship
LENGTH: 1 yr. 1 mo.
SPONSOR: National Oceanic/Atmospheric Admin.
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Joanna York

Brandywine School District Elementary Teacher Support for Effective Literacy Instruction
LENGTH: 7 mo.
SPONSOR: Brandywine School District
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Kimberly Wheedleton

Eureka Math Squared Coaching and PL
LENGTH: 10 mo.
SPONSOR: Brandywine School District
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Steven Skolfield

In situ Studies of Charge Transfer in 3d and 5d Complex Oxides
LENGTH: 11 mo.
SPONSOR: Auburn University
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Ryan Comes

Delaware’s Quality Improvement System for Early Care & Education Programs
LENGTH: 10 mo.
SPONSOR: WELS Systems Foundation
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Jessica Peace

Quantifying the Effects of Drinking Water Salinity on Hydration, Kidney Function and Blood Pressure in a Hot-Dry Environment
LENGTH: 4 yr. 9 mo.
SPONSOR: Pennsylvania State University
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: William Farquhar

Examining the Modulating Effects of Exercise and Sleep Timing on Cardiovascular Disease Risk in Early-Mid-Life Adults
LENGTH: 2 yr.
SPONSOR: American Heart Association
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Thomas Keiser

Introduction to Contemporary English Language Teaching Methods
LENGTH: 8 mo.
SPONSOR: FHI360
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Cheryl Ernst

Botvins Prevention Program
LENGTH: 1 yr.
SPONSOR: Delaware Dept for Children Youth and Families
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Jennifer Volk

Delaware’s Quality Improvement System for Early Care & Education Programs
LENGTH: 10 mo.
SPONSOR: WELS Systems Foundation
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Dorit Radnai-Griffin

Delaware Desegregation Curriculum Project
LENGTH: 3 yr. 2 mo.
SPONSOR: National Park Service
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Bonnie Lewis, Hannah Kim

Delaware Environmental Observing System Operations and Support
LENGTH: 2 yr. 9 mo.
SPONSOR: Delaware Emergency Management Agency
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Kevin Brinson

University of Delaware Center for Behavioral and Experimental Agri- Environmental Research
LENGTH: 1 yr.
SPONSOR: US Department of Agriculture
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Kent Messer

Enhancing Security Access to the Carvel Research and Education Center’s Lasher Laboratory
LENGTH: 1 yr. 5 mo.
SPONSOR: Delaware Emergency Management Agency
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Mark Isaacs

Enhancing Maize Resistance to Pathogens Causing Pythium Root Rot: Germplasm Characterization and Phenomics
LENGTH: 2 yr.
SPONSOR: University of Delaware Research Foundation
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Qi Mu, Alyssa Betts

Machine Learning Projections of Future Wind Energy
LENGTH: 2 yr.
SPONSOR: University of Delaware Research Foundation
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Shuai Wang

Farm to School Contractor
LENGTH: 1 yr. 3 mo.
SPONSOR: Delaware Department of Agriculture
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Gina Crist