Faculty Grants
External Grant Funding, July 2019–June 2020.
Grants listed are valued at $100,000 or more.
BIOLOGY
CHEMISTRY AND BIOCHEMISTRY
MATHEMATICS
MODERN LANGUAGES
PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY
SOCIOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY
BIOLOGY
Curtis, Patrick D. primary investigator
CAREER: Investigation of Conserved Global Regulatory Systems Using Cross-organism Comparison
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Award Amount: $148,746.00
Hoeksema, Jason, and Brewer, John Stephen
IRES Track II: Dynamics, consequences, and management of plant-fungal co-invasions
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Award Amount: $274,867.00
Hom, Erik F. Y., primary investigator
CAREER: Tempo, Contingency, and Gene Flow in the Coevolution of a Model Microbial Mutualism
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Award Amount: $366,542.00
Parsons, Glenn R., primary investigator
Shark Bycatch Reduction in Tuna/Swordfish Fisheries: The Potential for Using Ultra-High Molecular Weight Polyethylene Leaders to Encourage Shark “Bite-Offs”
Sponsor: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Award Amount: $125,250.00
Roman, Gregg, primary investigator
Serotonergic Modulation of Novelty-Seeking Behavior and Confinement Stress
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Award Amount: $425,478.00
Zee, Peter, primary investigator
RII Track-4: Evolutionary genomics of multispecies ecological interactions
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Award Amount: $106,184.00
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
Arabic Flagship (2018)
Sponsor: Institute of International Education
Award Amount: $324,998.00
Project GO – Chinese Overseas Program
Sponsor: Institute of International Education
Award Amount: $356,999.00
Chinese Flagship Renewal, Year 4 (2019-20)
Sponsor: Institute of International Education, Inc./U.S. Department of Defense
Award Amount: $324,994.00
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