Faculty Grants—2018
External Grant Funding, July 2018–June 2019.
Grants listed are valued at $100,000 or more.
BIOLOGY
CHEMISTRY AND BIOCHEMISTRY
MATHEMATICS
MODERN LANGUAGES
PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY
SOCIOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY
BIOLOGY
Joshua Bloomekatz primary investigator
Investigating the Role of the Local Tissue Environment in Heart Tube Assembly
Sponsor: American Heart Association
Award Amount: $231,000.00
Patrick Curtis
CAREER: Investigation of Conserved Global Regulatory Systems Using Cross-Organism Comparison
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Award Amount: $146,096.00
Tamar Goulet primary investigator
EAGER: Coral Chimeras—A Novel Perspective on Coral Reef Ecology and Evolution
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Award Amount: $274,997.00
Wayne Gray primary investigator
Effect of Immunization Route and Prior Immunity for a Live-attenuated Varicella AIDS Vaccine
Sponsor: Tulane University/NIH
Award Amount: $103,715.00
Erik Hom primary investigator
CAREER: Tempo, Contingency, and Gene Flow in the Coevolution of a Model Microbial Mutualis
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Award Amount: $414,560.00
Colin Jackson and Ryan Garrick
Dimensions: Collaborative Research: Processes that generate and maintain phylogenetic, genetic, and functional diversity of the freshwater mussel holobiont across multiple scales
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Award Amount: $799,456.00
CHEMISTRY AND BIOCHEMISTRY
Delcamp, Jared H., primary investigator
NSF Track 1 CEMOs Startup Funds
Sponsor: Mississippi State University/National Science Foundation
Award Amount: $145,500.00
RII Track-1 Mississippi EPSCoR: Center for Emergent Molecular Optoelectronics (CEMOs)
Sponsor: Mississippi State University/National Science Foundation
Award Amount: $815,157.00
DOE Early Career: Controlling Interfacial Charge Separation Energetics and Kinetics
Sponsor: U.S. Department of Energy
Award Amount: $181,710.00
Fortenberry, Ryan, primary investigator
Development of a Reparametrized Semi-empirical Force Field to Compute the Rovibrational Structure of Large Pahs
Sponsor: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Award Amount: $121,392.00
Godfrey, Murrell, primary investigator
A Computational Approach to Predicting New Psychoactive Substances (NPS) for Developing a NIST/UM Database
Sponsor: National Institute of Standards and Technology
Award Amount: $106,500.00
Hammer, Nathan I., and, Tschumper, Gregory S.
REU Site: Ole Miss Physical Chemistry Summer Research Program
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Award Amount: $200,979.00
MATHEMATICS
Lisi, Samuel Thomas, primary investigator
RII Track-4: Applied Symplectic Topology
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Award Amount: $190,024.00
MODERN LANGUAGES
Dyer, Donald L., primary investigator
(Chinese) Flagship Scholarship Support
Sponsor: Institute of International Education
Award Amount: $131,107.00
Arabic Flagship (2018)
Sponsor: Institute of International Education
Award Amount: $274,999.00
PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY
Stolzenburg, Maribeth, and, Marshall, Thomas C.,
Collaborative Research: High-speed Slitless Spectroscopy Studies of Natural Lightning Flashes
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Award Amount: $144,452
SOCIOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY
Boudreaux, Edmond, Meyers, Maureen, and, Harris, Stephen
University of Mississippi Archaeological Curation Project
Sponsor: National Park Service
Award Amount: $499,998.00
Boudreaux, Edmond, primary investigator
Collaborative Research: Long-Term Human Responses to Ecological Instability
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Award Amount: $112,461.00
Cafer, Anne Elizabeth, primary investigator
Carnegie Fellowship – Transcending Vulnerability: Merging Large Scale Data Systems and Case Study Approaches for Innovative Empirical Resilience Modeling in the US
Sponsor: Carnegie Corporation of New York
Award Amount: $200,000.00
Cafer, Anne Elizabeth, Rosenthal, Meagan, and, Haines, Seena L.
HUNGer in Rural communities (HUNGR): Integrating health and food systems for a sustainable food Rx approach
Sponsor: Wal-Mart Foundation
Award Amount: $442,154.00