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

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

Lisi, Samuel Thomas, primary investigator

RII Track-4: Applied Symplectic Topology

Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Award Amount: $190,024.00

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

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

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