Research and Creative Activity

2008 Major Sponsored Programs

and Faculty Awards
for Research and Creative Activity

Office of Research
University of Nebraska–Lincoln ®
3 Awards of $3 million or more
16 Awards of $1 million to $2,999,999
24 Awards of $200,000 to $999,999
58 Early Career Awards
62 Arts and Humanities Awards of $50,000 or more
65 Arts and Humanities Awards of $5,000 to $49,999
67 Patents Issued
69 Intellectual Property Licences
71 Creative Works in Fine and Performing Arts
74 Books
87 Recognitions and Honors
95 Glossary of Federal Agency Abbreviations

On the Cover: Climate change is a global concern with potential to

alter the life and landscape of Nebraska and the High Plains. On the
cover, a thunderstorm moves toward the Upstream Ranch along the
Calamus River in Nebraska’s Sandhills, one of the fragile ecosystems
that could see significant impacts of climate change. Diverse research
by UNL scientists is expanding our understanding of climate change and
providing tools to help preserve the region’s long-term sustainability.
UNL is partnering with the U.S. Geological Survey to explore developing
a regional climate change research framework.
Chancellor Harvey Perlman and Vice Chancellor Prem Paul

This is the seventh annual “Major Sponsored Programs and Faculty

Awards for Research and Creative Activity” report. This booklet
highlights the successes of University of Nebraska–Lincoln faculty
during 2008. It lists the funding sources, projects and investigators
on major grants and sponsored program awards received
during the year, as well as patents issued; published books and
scholarship; fellowships and other recognitions; intellectual
property licenses; and performances and exhibitions in the fine
and performing arts. This impressive list grows each year and I am
pleased to present evidence of our faculty’s accomplishments.

From climate change, water and renewable energy, to math

and science education, virology and transportation safety, UNL
faculty are addressing important challenges for Nebraska, our
nation and the world. Our external research funding reflects their
achievements, growing 115 percent since 2000 to a record $106.1
million in fiscal year 2008.

How have we achieved this success? We have worked to integrate

our research priorities with our established programs of excellence,
building on each success. We zealously foster interdisciplinary
research and collaborations with public and private partnerships,
thus expanding our economic development efforts by working with
business and industry. And we celebrate our achievements and
recognize that excellence attracts excellence.

These accomplishments exemplify how UNL’s emphasis on

innovation, interdisciplinarity and international collaborations is
propelling our research into new arenas, producing new products
and technologies for the marketplace and offering our students
intensive research experiences.

Thank you for your interest in and support of research at the

University of Nebraska–Lincoln!

Prem S. Paul
Vice Chancellor for Research and
Economic Development
AWARDS OF $3 MILLION OR MORE
Active awards in 2008
* Indicates new in 2008

Allen, David Engineering

Blast Wave Absorbing Structures:
An Experimental & Modeling Program
$7,500,000 DOD-Army Research Laboratory
6/25/04 – 6/24/09
David Allen, dean of the College of
Engineering and professor of engineering
mechanics, with funding from the Army
Research Laboratory-Weapons and Materials
Research Directorate, directs a collaborative
effort focused on development of new
materials and technologies relevant to blast
mitigation and weapons detection. The program includes 24 UNL
faculty from six different departments—civil engineering, structural
engineering, chemical and biomolecular engineering, electrical
engineering, engineering mechanics and mechanical engineering—
working on 15 multidisciplinary projects. The projects have the
common objective of providing new materials and technologies for
blast mitigation, mine detection and pathogen detection.

Cassman, Kenneth Nebraska Center for Energy Sciences

Research; Agronomy and Horticulture
Nebraska Center for Energy Sciences Research
$5,000,000 Nebraska Public Power District
4/1/06 - 3/31/2011
Paul, Prem Office of Research
Kenneth Cassman directs the Nebraska
Center for Energy Sciences Research, a
collaboration between UNL and the
Nebraska Public Power District. The center
was established in April 2006 with NPPD’s
five-year, $5 million commitment to support
energy research that produces new
technologies, processes and systems that provide new or
significantly enhanced renewable energy sources, improves the
quality of life and boosts economic opportunity. The center fosters
interdisciplinary collaboration among UNL faculty and with other
research institutions, public-sector agencies and private sector
companies with similar interests. The center supports both basic
and applied research and has a broad mandate to explore a range
of renewable energy opportunities (including biofuels, wind and
solar energy), as well as opportunities for energy conservation.

AWARDS OF $3 MILLION OR MORE

Chandra, Namas Engineering
* Army-UNL Center for Trauma Mechanics
$3,261,250 DOD-Army Research Office
10/01/08 – 09/30/09
Namas Chandra, associate dean in the
College of Engineering, has received a grant
from the Army Research Office to create the
UNL Center for Trauma Mechanics. The
center will focus on the effects of blast waves
on the head and brain of a fully equipped
soldier in the field. The project will study
wave propagation effects on the skull and brain especially under
mild traumatic brain injury (TBI) pressure loading conditions. The
work of the center will be instrumental in improving understanding
of TBI and may lead to design of more effective protection systems
that shield soldiers from the combined effects of both blast waves
and impact.

Cotton, Dan eXtension

National eXtension Project
$8,870,000 National Association of State
10/1/04 - 12/31/11 Universities and Land-Grant Colleges

eXtension: The Transformation of Cooperative Extension

$5,702,400 Department of Agriculture-CSREES
8/15/07 - 8/14/11
Dan Cotton directs the eXtension Initiative,
an Internet-based Cooperative Extension
Service education and information system.
UNL is the lead institution in this multi-year
project, which partners with the University of
Kentucky, North Carolina State University
and Virginia Tech University. This is a
collaborative effort of the nation’s 107 land-grant universities and
the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Cooperative State Research,
Education and Extension Service to develop content and
technology for the eXtension project. eXtension is a virtual
educational environment that provides science-based, objective
information. Users may take advantage of learning opportunities
and interact with the expertise available from the land-grant
university system by visiting www.extension.org.

AWARDS OF $3 MILLION OR MORE

Couture, Barbara Academic Affairs
* ADVANCE-Nebraska: An Institutional Approach to Hiring,
Retaining, and Promoting Women STEM Faculty at the
University of Nebraska–Lincoln
$3,801,443 NSF
09/01/08 – 08/31/13
Holmes, Mary Anne Geosciences
McQuillan, Julia Sociology
Manderscheid, David Arts and Sciences
Allen, David Engineering
Fritz, Susan IANR
Chandra, Namas Engineering
Barbara Couture, vice chancellor for
academic affairs, with funding from the
National Science Foundation, directs
ADVANCE-Nebraska, a program intended to
significantly increase the gender and racial
diversity of the UNL faculty, especially in the
science, technology, engineering and
mathematics (STEM) fields. The ADVANCE office, led by program
director Mary Anne Holmes, professor of geosciences, will
coordinate recruitment and retention-enhancing activities,
disseminate information to the campus and the academic
community at large, and serve as liaison for the many groups
engaged in diversity-focused activities on campus. Other
ADVANCE efforts include initiatives related to flexible work
arrangements to accommodate work-life issues of faculty;
development of a dual career partner program; training programs
to minimize the influence of bias on decision-making processes;
and informal networking through professional development
workshops, luncheons and retreats. The five-year, $3.8 million
grant is from NSF’s ADVANCE program, which aims to increase
participation and advancement of women in academic science and
engineering careers.

AWARDS OF $3 MILLION OR MORE

Ells, Mark Center on Children, Families and the Law
* Midwest Child Welfare
Technical Assistance Implementation Center
$8,695,645 DHHS-Administration for Children & Families
09/01/08 – 08/31/13
Graef, Michelle Center on Children, Families and the Law
A five-year, $8.7 million grant from the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services
Children’s Bureau has helped establish the
Midwest Child Welfare Technical Assistance
Implementation Center. The new center will
provide long-term consultation and support
to child service agencies and tribes in
Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Michigan, Missouri,
Minnesota, Ohio and Wisconsin. It will partner with state and
tribal child welfare agencies to assess their inner workings and
identify broad changes that could help them operate more
efficiently and effectively to serve families and children; identify
obstacles to helping families; build the capacity of state and tribal
child welfare systems; and work toward significant changes to
improve outcomes for children and families involved with these
system. The ultimate goal is to ensure all children have safe, stable
and permanent homes. Co-leaders of the project are Mark Ells and
Michelle Graef of the Center on Children, Families and the Law.

Farritor, Shane Mechanical Engineering

* Track Stability Assessment & Data Transmission
$3,034,439 Department of Transportation-FRA
9/17/04 – 12/31/10
Turner, Joseph Engineering Mechanics
Nelson, Carl Mechanical Engineering
Sharif, Hamid Computer and Electronics Engineering
With more than $3 million in support from
the Department of Transportation’s Federal
Railroad Administration, associate professor
of mechanical engineering Shane Farritor
and colleagues are continuing to develop
techniques to assess track stability and
related high-speed wireless communication
to improve the safety of railroad operations. This funding supports
research in three different areas of railroad track safety: 1)
real-time measurement of track modulus from a moving car,
leading to preventative maintenance strategies that relate track
modulus data to specific track problems; 2) study of the
measurement of rail longitudinal stress, to help reduce rail failure;
and 3) study of the use of electrical energy from passing trains to
power an efficient warning light system at grade crossings that are
not equipped with warning light systems due to the lack of
electrical infrastructure, thus reducing accidents at these “passive”
grade crossings.

AWARDS OF $3 MILLION OR MORE

Gladyshev, Vadim Biochemistry
Redox Biology Center
$10,577,043 DHHS-NIH-NCRR
8/1/07 – 7/31/12
Vadim Gladyshev, Charles Bessey professor
of biochemistry in the Institute of Agriculture
and Natural Resources, is the director of the
Redox Biology Center. Established in 2002
with a grant from the National Institutes of
Health as a Center of Biomedical Research
Excellence, the center received a competitive
renewal grant in 2007 to support it through 2012. The center’s
researchers investigate how cells maintain a reduction-oxidation
balance, a process called redox homeostasis, and study links
between redox homeostasis and diseases such as cancer,
cardiovascular disease, Alzheimer’s disease and cataracts. The
center’s research will provide important advances in the
understanding of redox regulation, comprising aspects of cellular
aging and controlled cell death.

Goddard, Stephen Computer Science and Engineering

Drought Risk, Impact and Mitigation Information System
$6,407,473 Department of Agriculture-RMA-FCIC
9/1/05 – 8/31/10
Wilhite, Donald School of Natural Resources
Stephen Goddard, associate professor of
computer science and director of UNL’s
Laboratory for Advanced Research
Computing, is principal investigator in a $6.4
million joint effort by climatologists and
computer scientists to bring cutting-edge
computer science technologies to agricultural
Stephen Goddard producers’ age-old decision-making
processes. The three-year partnership
agreements are between the U.S.
Department of Agriculture’s Risk
Management Agency, UNL’s Department of
Computer Science and Engineering and the
UNL-based National Drought Mitigation
Center. A separate $1 million cooperative
Donald Wilhite agreement, directed by Donald Wilhite,
professor in the School of Natural Resources and director of the
National Drought Mitigation Center, will support continued work
on a tool that uses satellite technology and climate information to
detect vegetation stress on the ground for a much more detailed
view of drought’s scope and potential impact.

AWARDS OF $3 MILLION OR MORE

Harwood, David Geosciences
ANDRILL: Investigating Antarctica’s Role in
Cenozoic Global Environmental Change
$12,978,160 NSF
6/1/05 – 5/31/10
Levy, Richard Geosciences
David Harwood, professor of geosciences,
leads an international team of scientists
drilling beneath the Antarctic ice pack to
unearth geological strata that could hold
ancient clues to contemporary global
warming trends. The National Science
Foundation has awarded $12.9 million to a
consortium of five U.S. universities headed by UNL and Northern
Illinois University. Dubbed ANDRILL (ANtarctic geological
DRILLing), the project is administered by the ANDRILL Science
Management Office headquartered at UNL. ANDRILL is backed by
more than $30 million in funding, including $9.7 million in previous
and ongoing national agreements to support operations and
nearly $8 million from the other countries to support scientific
research. Other members of the U.S. consortium making up the
American portion of the ANDRILL program are Florida State
University, The Ohio State University and the University of
Massachusetts Amherst. The project also includes scientists from
Germany, Italy and New Zealand.

Jose, H. Douglas Agricultural Economics

North Central Risk Management Education Center
$3,600,000 Department of Agriculture-CSREES
9/15/07 – 9/14/10
The North Central Risk Management
Education Center provides program
leadership and coordination for risk
management education in the North Central
Region (Kansas, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa,
Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska,
Ohio, North Dakota, South Dakota and
Wisconsin). It is one of four risk management education centers in
the United States. They were established in 2001 to provide risk
management education for agricultural producers to help them
develop knowledge, skills and tools needed to make informed risk
management decisions for their operations.

AWARDS OF $3 MILLION OR MORE

Lewis, Jim Center for Science, Mathematics and
Computer Education; Mathematics
* Nebraska MATH
$9,235,407 NSF
01/01/09 – 12/31/13
Heaton, Ruth Teaching, Learning and Teacher Education;
CSMCE
McGowan, Thomas Teaching, Learning and Teacher Education
Stroup, Walter Statistics
Edwards, Carolyn Child, Youth and Family Studies;
Psychology
Papick, Ira Mathematics; CSMCE
Jacobson, Barbara Lincoln Public Schools
Drs. Lewis, Heaton, McGowen and Jacobson
are joined by Walter Stroup, professor of
statistics, Ira Papick, professor of
mathematics, and Carolyn Edwards,
professor of psychology, in directing
NEBRASKA MATH, a statewide program
aimed at improving mathematics
achievement for all students and narrowing the achievement gap
for at-risk students in kindergarten through third grade. The
program is supported by a $9.3 million grant from the National
Science Foundation. NEBRASKA MATH is a partnership of UNL,
public schools in Lincoln, Grand Island, and Papillion-La Vista, and
14 rural Educational Service Units. It builds on the success of UNL’s
Math in the Middle Institute, by initiating new programs that focus
on enhancing teachers’ knowledge of mathematics and teaching
methods.

Math in the Middle Institute Partnership

$5,600,000 NSF
8/1/04 – 7/31/11
Heaton, Ruth Teaching, Learning and Teacher Education;
CSMCE
McGowan, Thomas Teaching, Learning and Teacher Education
Jacobson, Barbara Lincoln Public Schools
Jim Lewis, professor of mathematics; Ruth
Heaton, associate professor of teaching,
learning and teacher education; Tom
McGowan, professor of teaching, learning
and teacher education; and Barbara
Jacobson, curriculum director for Lincoln
Public Schools, are co-leaders of a $5.6
million project titled the Math in the Middle Institute Partnership.
The goal is to create the next set of leaders in middle school
mathematics who will mentor peers and offer challenging courses
to their students. During the five years of the project, about 120
teachers will participate in three in-residence summer sessions,
four non-resident academic semesters and take 10 courses created
by math and pedagogy experts. Middle school is a gateway to high
school success, and efforts to improve middle school learning,
especially in mathematics, show benefits at later stages in
students’ academic careers.

AWARDS OF $3 MILLION OR MORE

Lu, Yongfeng Electrical Engineering
* Multi-Laser-Beam Open-Atmosphere Surface
Coating Techniques Based on Precursor Excitation,
Photodissociation and Controlled Cooling
$4,014,962 DOD-Office of Naval Research-MURI
3/15/050 – 7/31/10
Zeng, Xiao Cheng Chemistry
With support from the Department of
Defense, electrical engineering professor
Yongfeng Lu is conducting a five-year study
to investigate a new process to deposit a
diamond or diamond-like coating on surfaces
to create thermal barriers and increase
corrosion protection. He is developing a
coating technique that employs multiple laser beams to deposit the
coating at room temperature in an open atmosphere – a
significant improvement over conventional coating techniques that
require low vacuum and high temperature. The resulting process
will be more energy-efficient, improve the quality of materials on
which the coating is deposited, and minimize thermal stress.

Meagher, Michael Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Process Research & Development of Antibodies as
Countermeasures for C. Botulinum Neurotoxin
$10,627,000 DOD-Army Medical Research
3/1/02 – 2/28/09
Michael Meagher, Donald F. Othmer
professor of chemical and biomolecular
engineering, is the director of the Biological
Process Development Facility. The facility
provides clients with process research and
early manufacturing of new therapeutic
molecules for human clinical testing. The
facility is also involved in the development of vaccines against
biological warfare agents and products that can be used as
therapeutic countermeasures to treat people who have been
exposed to biological agents. Department of Defense funding has
led to the building of new laboratories that give the Biological
Process Development Facility new capabilities in mammalian cell
culture process research and development.

Fast-Track Production of a Heptavalent Botulinum Vaccine

$6,857,345 DynPort Vaccine Company
9/1/03 – 11/29/08
Meagher is also collaborating with DynPort Vaccine Co., the
University of Colorado, and the U.S. Army Medical Research
Institute of Infectious Disease to develop a vaccine that protects
against botulinum neurotoxin, a lethal agent that could be used for
bioterrorism. The goal is to develop vaccines that protect against
five subtypes of the toxin within the next one to two years and to
develop a vaccine for the other two types within five years. The
new vaccines could eliminate the threat of botulism as a weapon of
mass destruction.

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AWARDS OF $3 MILLION OR MORE

Rilett, Laurence Civil Engineering
Region 7 University Transportation Center
$6,225,000 Department of Transportation-Research and
10/1/06 – 9/30/11 Innovative Technology Administration
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s
Research and Innovative Technology
Administration has designated UNL’s
Mid-America Transportation Center as a
regional university transportation center.
MATC is a consortium with UNL as the lead
institution with regional partners Kansas
State University, University of Kansas, University of Missouri-Rolla
and Lincoln University of Missouri. The Nebraska Department of
Roads and the Kansas and Missouri Departments of
Transportation also are key partners. Laurence Rilett, Keith W.
Klaasmeyer chair in engineering and technology in UNL’s civil
engineering department, directs the center. Its focus is “improving
safety and minimizing risk associated with increasing multi-modal
freight movement on the U.S. surface transportation system.”
MATC will focus on safety research related to rural transportation.
Key safety research areas include traffic control, animal crashes,
safer at-grade railway crossings and work zones, and the
development of more effective and economical roadside crash
barriers. The university transportation center program supports
transportation research, education and technology transfer that
promote scientific innovations in a variety of transportation modes
and disciplines. Region 7 serves Iowa, Kansas, Missouri and
Nebraska. It is one of 10 regional university transportation centers
in the nation.

Sheridan, Susan Educational Psychology; Center on

Children, Youth, Families and Schools
Parent Engagement and Learning Birth to Five
$5,077,441 DHHS-NIH-NICHD
9/26/03 – 7/31/09
Edwards, Carolyn Psychology; Child, Youth and Family Studies
Susan M. Sheridan, Willa Cather professor of
educational psychology, and co-investigator
Carolyn Edwards, Willa Cather professor of
psychology and child, youth and family
studies, are leading a team of researchers
from UNL and UNMC in a school-readiness
project funded by three federal agencies. The
team will launch and evaluate a comprehensive, community-based
early education program for children aged 0-5. The goal is to
increase children’s readiness for school by teaching parents to
build an effective relationship with their children at home and to be
active participants in their children’s learning when they enter
school. The program is designed to enhance children’s cognitive,
behavioral and socioemotional well-being, which together set the
stage for school readiness.

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AWARDS OF $3 MILLION OR MORE

Tsymbal, Evgeny Nebraska Center for
Materials and Nanoscience
* Materials Research Science & Engineering
Center: Quantum Spin
$6,321,899 NSF
9/1/08 – 8/31/14
Evgeny Tsymbal, professor of physics and
astronomy at UNL, leads the Materials
Research Science and Engineering Center.
The center was established in 2002 with a
grant from the National Science Foundation
and involves scientists from the Departments
of Physics and Astronomy, Chemistry and
Mechanical Engineering, and the School of Biological Sciences.
MRSEC projects focus on fabricating and studying new magnetic
structures and materials at the nanometer scale. The research has
applications in advanced computing and data storage, handheld
electronic devices, advanced sensors and future medical
technologies.

Umstadter, Donald Physics and Astronomy

* High-Energy Laser for Detection,
Inspection, & Non-Destructive Testing
$4,759,860 DOD-Air Force Office of Scientific Research
5/15/08 – 5/14/10
Banerjee, Sudeep Physics and Astronomy
Shadwick, Bradley Physics and Astronomy
With support from the Department of
Defense Air Force Office of Scientific
Research, Donald Umstadter, professor of
physics and astronomy, will complete
construction of a high-energy laser system at
the UNL Extreme Light Laboratory capable of
delivering a peak power of 1 petawatt. This
project is critical to the development and performance of
laser-driven radiation sources used for detection, inspection and
non-destructive testing. The most immediate result will be a
dramatic increase in the brightness and quality of the laser-driven
electron beams and x-rays, with applications for detecting cracks
in aging critical components and detecting special nuclear
materials through large thicknesses of shielding.

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AWARDS OF $3 MILLION OR MORE

Velander, William Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
cGMP Recombinant FIX and Oral Hemophilia B Therapy
$9,587,071 DHHS-NIH-NHLBI
9/6/05 – 8/31/10
Van Cott, Kevin Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
William Velander, Donald R. Voelte Jr. and
Nancy A. Keegan endowed chair in
engineering, is principal investigator in a
partnership funded by a $9.9 million grant
from the National Institutes of Health/
National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute.
The goal is to develop an abundant, pure,
safe and effective therapy for Hemophilia B using recombinant
human coagulation proteins produced in the milk of transgenic
pigs. The project builds on innovative bioengineering technologies
pioneered by Velander that enable improved intravenous and novel
oral delivery of hemophilic factors to patients. Hemophilia B is a
congenital bleeding disorder that causes pain, crippling injuries
and early death. It can be treated by Factor IX, a blood protein, but
the costs are prohibitive and most patients do not receive it.
Velander’s project isolates Factor IX in the milk of transgenic pigs.

Production and Purification of Fibrinogen Components

for Production Fibrin Sealant of Hemostatic Dressing
$5,398,990 DOD-Army Medical Research
8/1/05 – 10/31/09
Van Cott, Kevin Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Velander is also leading a project, funded by the Department of
Defense, to develop processes to produce recombinant fibrinogen
and other blood proteins for bandages and implant devices, and
to conduct research and clinical trials on their effectiveness.
The fibrinogen bandage is a potentially life-saving technology
for patients who lose large amounts of blood. When applied,
the bandage immediately begins clotting the wound, stemming
blood loss. The technology could be used in battlefield or other
applications where patients are hemorrhaging. Fibrinogen
technology could also play a role in helping develop implantable
devices with increased biological compatibility. Fibrinogen made
from human plasma is scarce and expensive; Velander has
developed a process for producing it from transgenic cattle bred
with a human gene that enables them to produce fibrinogen.

Whitbeck, Les Sociology

Ojibwe Pathways Through the High School Years
$3,121,678 DHHS-NIH-NIDA
9/3/05 – 6/30/12
Johnson, Kurt Sociology
Les Whitbeck, professor of sociology, is
coordinating a seven-year project, funded by
the National Institute on Drug Abuse, to
investigate risk and resilience for early onset
substance use and abuse among pre-teen
Native children in the Upper Midwest.

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AWARDS OF $3 MILLION OR MORE

Wood, Charles Biological Sciences
Nebraska Center for Virology
$10,149,257 DHHS-NIH-NCRR
9/26/05 – 4/30/10
Charles Wood, Lewis Lehr/3M university
professor of biological sciences, is the
director of the Nebraska Center for Virology.
The center, funded by the National Institutes
of Health, combines the expertise and
facilities of Nebraska’s leading biomedical
research institutions: UNL, the University of
Nebraska Medical Center and Creighton University. Center
research addresses pathogenic and therapeutic aspects of some of
the most devastating viral and neuroimmune disorders facing the
global community, including AIDS, HIV-associated cancers,
Alzheimer’s disease and chronic infections caused by herpes
viruses and a new class of infectious agents called prions.

Kaposi’s Sarcoma & Human Herpesvirus in Africa

$3,580,682 DHHS-NIH-National Cancer Institute
9/30/03 – 6/30/09
Since the onset of the AIDS epidemic, Kaposi’s sarcoma has
become the most frequently diagnosed pediatric cancer in
sub-Saharan Africa. It is associated with Human Herpesvirus 8
(HHV-8) and Kaposi’s Sarcoma Herpesvirus (KSHV). The project
looks to understand how these viruses are transmitted to children
by studying children in Lusaka, Zambia. The goal is to establish
the rates of transmission and to identify virologic, immunologic
and ethnographic risk factors that predispose children to HHV-8
infection. It is anticipated that the information could be used to
develop intervention strategies.

Yohe, John IANR-International Programs

International Sorghum/Millet Collaborative
Research Support Program (INTSORMIL)
$9,000,000 U.S. Agency for International Development
9/30/06 – 9/29/11
John Yohe, associate professor in the
Department of Agronomy and Horticulture,
directs the International Sorghum/Millet
(INTSORMIL) Collaborative Research Support
Program. INTSORMIL is a collaborative
international organization that supports
research focused on improving nutrition and
increasing income in developing countries and the United States.
Scientists from U.S. land grant universities collaborate with
scientists in host countries in the development of technology to
improve production and utilization of sorghum and millet and
facilitate natural resource management. Their work is done in
Africa, Eurasia, Latin America and the United States.

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AWARDS OF $3 MILLION OR MORE

Interdisciplinary Team
Infrastructure for the Enhancement of Systems
Biology Research & Development at UNL
$4,329,877 NSF-EPSCoR
7/1/07 – 6/30/10
This grant supports multi-campus collaborative research between
biologists and engineers for creating a strategic research
niche in epigenetics– the study of heritable changes in gene
functions not associated with changes in DNA sequence. Much
of what comprises the complexity of multi-cellular organisms is
programmed within the network of interacting molecules – protein,
RNA and DNA – known collectively as chromatin. Engineers will
create nano-devices for delivering molecules into cells for better
understanding the role of chromatin in cell function and its
response to the environment.

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AWARDS OF $3 MILLION OR MORE

Awards of $1 Million to $2,999,999
Active awards in 2008
* Indicates new in 2008

Alfano, James Center for Plant Science Innovation;

Plant Pathology
Suppression of Innate Immunity by
ADP Ribosyltransferase Type III Effectors
$1,779,178 DHHS-NIH-NIAID

Azizinamini, Atorod Nebraska Transportation Center

* Bridges for Service Life Beyond 100 Years: Innovative Systems
$1,999,637 National Academy of Sciences-
Transportation Research Board
Tadros, Maher Civil Engineering

Barker, Bradley Center on Children, Youth, Families

and Schools; 4-H State Office
* Scale-UP: National Robotics in 4-H:
Workforce Skills for the 21st Century
$2,498,908 NSF
Nugent, Gwen Center on Children, Youth,
Families and Schools
Adamchuk, Viacheslav Center on Children, Youth, Families and
Schools; Biological Systems Engineering

Barycki, Joseph Biochemistry

Structural Insights into Redox Homeostasis
$1,067,922 DHHS-NIH-NIGMS

Becker, Donald Biochemistry

* Role of Proline in Redox Homeostasis and Apoptosis
$1,097,641 DHHS-NIH-NIGMS

Mechanistic Studies of Functional Switching

in the PutA Flavoprotein
$1,218,025 DHHS-NIH-NIGMS

Bellows, Laurie Graduate Studies

McNair Scholars Project and the University of Nebraska–Lincoln
$1,125,000 Department of Education

Blum, Paul Biological Sciences

* Value-Added Products from Renewable Biofuels
$1,968,000 Department of Energy
Cassman, Kenneth Nebraska Center for
Energy Sciences Research

Chen, Bing Computer and Electronics Engineering

SPIRIT^2.0 Silicon Prairie Initiative for Robotics in IT
$2,999,963 NSF

Cupp, Andrea Animal Science

Role of VEGF in Testis Morphogenesis
$1,066,625 DHHS-NIH-NICHD
Weber, John Animal Science
White, Brett Animal Science

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$1 MILLION — $2,999,999
DeKraai, Mark Public Policy Center
Child Mental Health SIG
$2,379,313 Nebraska Department of
Health and Human Services

Diamond, Judy University of Nebraska State Museum

* Omaha Science Media Project:
Improving Science Literacy through Media Experiences
$1,471,768 Omaha Public Schools
Struthers, Amy Journalism and Mass Communications
Angeletti, Peter Biological Sciences

World of Viruses
$1,266,290 DHHS-NIH-NCRR
Wood, Charles Nebraska Center for Virology

Doll, Elizabeth Educational Psychology

Evolving Inquiry: Science Instruction Model for
Teachers in Rural, Culturally Diverse Schools
$1,261,684 Department of Education
Bruning, Roger Educational Psychology
Bonnstetter, Ron Teaching, Learning and Teacher Education
Horn, Christy Educational Psychology

Dzenis, Yuris Engineering Mechanics

NIRT: Manufacturing of Novel Continuous
Nanocrystalline Ceramic Nanofibers
$1,095,200 NSF
Zeng, Xiao Cheng Chemistry
Feng, Ruqiang Engineering Mechanics
Turner, Joseph Engineering Mechanics
Larsen, Gustavo Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

NIRT: Nanomanufacturing and Analysis of

Active Hierarchical Nanofilamentary Nanostructures
$1,000,000 NSF
Zeng, Xiao Cheng Chemistry
Feng, Ruqiang Engineering Mechanics
Turner, Joseph Engineering Mechanics
Poser, Susan Center for the Teaching and Study of
Applied Ethics
Tomkins, Alan Public Policy Center

Eccarius, Malinda Special Education and

Communication Disorders
Mountain-Prairie Upgrade Partnership
$1,155,054 Department of Education

Epstein, Michael Special Education and

Communication Disorders
On the Way Home: A Family-Centered Academic
Reintegration Intervention Model
$1,443,284 Department of Education
Torkelson-Trout, Alexandra Special Education and
Communication Disorders

17

$1 MILLION — $2,999,999
Espy, Kimberly Office of Research
Prenatal Tobacco Exposure: Perinatal and Genetic Risks
$1,207,660 DHHS-NIH-NIDA
Wiebe, Sandra Office of Research

Executive Function Development in Preschool Children

$1,168,281 DHHS-NIH-NIMH
Wiebe, Sandra Office of Research

Faller, Ronald Civil Engineering

Evaluation & Field Installation of Steel Tube &
Foam Energy Reduction (SAFER) Barrier
$1,045,913 Indianapolis Racing League
Holloway, Jim Civil Engineering
Reid, John Mechanical Engineering
Rohde, John Civil Engineering
Sicking, Dean Civil Engineering

Farrell, Michael University Television

IPY: Engaging Antarctica
$1,246,068 NSF
Diamond, Judy University of Nebraska State Museum

Gladyshev, Vadim Biochemistry

Functions of Mammalian Thioredoxin Reductases
$1,155,459 DHHS-NIH-NIGMS

Selenoprotein as a Target for Cancer Prevention

$1,334,624 DHHS-NIH-NCI

Methionine Sulfoxide Reduction, Selenium and Aging

$1,451,400 DHHS-NIH-NIA

Identity & Functions of Selenoprotein Genes

$1,114,032 DHHS-NIH-NIGMS

Goddard, Stephen Computer Science and Engineering

Climate & Soil Risk Information System
$1,212,056 Department of Agriculture-RMA
Wilhite, Donald School of Natural Resources
Hubbard, Kenneth School of Natural Resources

Green, Jordan Special Education and
Communication Disorders
Early Speech Motor Development
$1,754,412 DHHS-NIH-NIDCD

Heusel, Gary Student Involvement

Midwest Consortium for Service-Learning in Higher Education
$1,411,709 Corporation for National Service
Major, Linda Student Involvement

Hoagland, Kyle School of Natural Resources

DNR Ground Water Management and
Protection Act Service Agreement
$1,500,000 Nebraska Department of Natural Resources

18

$1 MILLION — $2,999,999
Horn, Christy Equity, Access and Diversity Programs
* Building Accepting Campus Communities
$1,003,691 Department of Education
Bruning, Roger Educational Psychology
Sydik, Jeremy Equity, Access and Diversity Programs

Hubbard, Kenneth School of Natural Resources

Regional Climate Services Support in the High Plains
Region: The High Plains Regional Climate Center
$1,200,000 Department of Commerce-NOAA

Jones, David Biological Systems Engineering

Strengthening Transitions into Engineering Program
$1,648,354 NSF
Ballard, John Engineering
Perez, Lance Electrical Engineering

Jones, Vicky Northeast Research & Extension Center

Northeast Nebraska Paraprofessional Ladder Project
$1,976,095 Department of Education
Lopez, William Teaching, Learning and Teacher Education

Josiah, Scott Nebraska State Forest Service

Cooperative Forestry Program
$2,594,613 Department of Agriculture-FS

Kamil, Alan Biological Sciences

Mechanisms of Visual Search and Attention
$1,029,062 DHHS-NIH-NIMH
Bond, Alan Biological Sciences

Kirby, Roger Physics and Astronomy

Track 2, GK-12: Project Fulcrum: Phase II
$1,987,732 NSF
Claes, Daniel Physics and Astronomy

Knoche, Lisa Center on Children, Youth,

Families and Schools
Rural Language and Literacy Connections (Rural LLC)
$2,741,563 Department of Education
Raikes, Helen Center on Children, Youth, Families
and Schools; Child, Youth and Family Studies

Koszewski, Wanda Nutrition and Health Sciences

Food Stamp Nutrition Education Program
$1,362,934 Nebraska Department of Health & Human Services
Birnstihl, Elizabeth IANR Cooperative Extension
Schnepf, Marilynn Nutritional and Health Sciences

Lee, Jaekwon Biochemistry

Mechanistic Insights into Homeostatic Copper Ion Acquisition
$1,058,638 DHHS-NIH-NIDDK

Lou, Marjorie Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences

Protein-Thiol Mixed Disulfide in Cataractogenesis
$2,116,675 DHHS-NIH-National Eye Institute

19

$1 MILLION — $2,999,999
Mackenzie, Sally Center for Plant Science Innovation
* TRMS: An Integrative Study of Plant Mitochondrial Biology
$1,420,753 NSF
Christensen, Alan Biological Sciences
Elthon, Thomas Agronomy and Horticulture
Wang, Dong Statistics

Meagher, Michael Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

* USAMRAA CGMP Production Contract #1
$2,083,998 DOD-Army Medical Research
Swanson, Stephen Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Van Cott, Kevin Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Process Research and Development of Antibodies as

Countermeasures for C. Botulinum Neurotoxin
$2,877,000 DOD-Army Space and Missile Defense Command

Therapeutic Agents & Vaccines against Biological Warfare

$2,905,899 DOD-Army Medical Research

Purification of proPRT-201 and Production of Reference Standard

$2,464,390 Proteon Therapeutics

Process Development & cGMP Production

$1,228,735 Targepeutics Inc.

Mendoza-Gorham, Joan Student Affairs

Classic Upward Bound
$1,250,000 Department of Education

Upward Bound Math/Science Program

$1,000,000 Department of Education

Nelson, J. Ron Special Education and

Communication Disorders
Portales a Aprender Leer (PAL)
$2,687,442 Department of Education

Parkhurst, Lawrence Chemistry

Assembly Mechanisms of TBP–Nucleated Complexes
$1,107,318 DHHS-NIH-NIGMS

Robertson Jr., Vaughn Student Affairs

UNL Educational Talent Search
$2,091,823 Department of Education

Rutenbeck, Kathy Student Affairs

Upward Bound-Northeast Nebraska
$1,458,320 Department of Education

Schaefer, Matthew Law

* University of Nebraska College of Law Space
& Telecommunications Law Program:
Filling a National Need, Advancing the Field
$1,717,370 NASA
Willborn, Steven Law
Leiter, Richard Law

20

$1 MILLION — $2,999,999
Scott, Stephen Computer Science and Engineering
* An Extensible Semantic Bridge between
Biodiversity and Genomics
$1,367,121 NSF
Soh, Leen-Kiat Computer Science and Engineering
Henninger, Scott Computer Science and Engineering
Jameson, Mary Liz University of Nebraska State Museum
Moriyama, Etsuko Biological Sciences;
Center for Plant Science Innovation

Sheridan, Susan Educational Psychology; Center on

Children, Youth, Families and Schools
Evaluation of Efficacy of CBC for Addressing Disruptive
Behaviors of Children-at-Risk for Academic Failure
$1,368,067 Department of Education
Glover, Todd Center on Children, Youth, Families and Schools

Simpson, Melanie Biochemistry

Role of Hyaluronan Matrix in Prostate Cancer Progression
$1,056,209 DHHS-NIH-NCI

Spreitzer, Robert Biochemistry

Role of the Rubisco Small Subunit
$1,001,500 Department of Energy

Starace, Anthony Physics and Astronomy

Dynamics of Few-Body Atomic Processes
$1,216,337 Department of Energy

Storz, Jay Biological Sciences

* Mechanisms of Hemoglobin Adaption
to Hypoxia in High-Altitude Rodents
$1,323,748 DHHS-NIH-NHLBI
Moyiyama, Hideaki Center for Biotechnology

Swanson, David Computer Science and Engineering

US CMS Tier 2 Center
$1,973,813 University of California-Los Angeles
Bloom, Kenneth Physics and Astronomy
Dominguez, Aaron Physics and Astronomy

Umstadter, Donald Physics and Astronomy

Research & Development of a High-Power-Laser-Driven
Electron Accelerator Suitable for Applications
$1,250,029 DOD-DARPA
Banerjee, Sudeep Physics and Astronomy

Tunable, Monoenergetic Gamma-Ray Source

for Identification of Embedded SNM
$2,940,284 Department of Homeland Security-DNDO
Banerjee, Sudeep Physics and Astronomy

21

$1 MILLION — $2,999,999
Van Etten, James Plant Pathology
DNA Replication & Gene Expression of Chlorella Viruses
$1,215,694 DHHS-NIH-NIGMS
Dunigan, David Plant Pathology
Kang, Ming Plant Pathology
Agarkova, Irina Plant Pathology
Gurnon, James Plant Pathology

Verma, Shashi School of Natural Resources

Carbon Sequestration in Dryland & Irrigated Agroecosystems
$1,950,000 Department of Energy
Cassman, Kenneth Agronomy and Horticulture
Knops, Johannes Biological Sciences
Hubbard, Kenneth School of Natural Resources
Arkebauer, Timothy Agronomy and Horticulture
Dobermann, Achim Agronomy and Horticulture
Yang, Haishun Agronomy and Horticulture
Walters, Daniel Agronomy and Horticulture
Suyker, Andrew School of Natural Resources
Ginting, Daniel Agronomy and Horticulture

Viljoen, Hendrik Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

A Rational Design of a Platform for de novo Gene Synthesis
$1,315,289 DHHS-NIH-NCRR
Subramanian, Anu Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Vortex-Tube Based Thermocycler w/Intelligent Software

$1,068,925 DHHS-NIH-NCRR
Gogos, George Mechanical Engineering

Walker, Judy Mathematics

EMSW21-MCTP: Nebraska Mentoring
through Critical Transition Points
$2,500,000 NSF
Marley, Tom Mathematics

Weeks, Donald Biochemistry

Development of Dicamba-Resistant Crops
$2,500,000 Monsanto Co.

Whitbeck, Les Sociology

*Resilience through the High School Years
$2,654,155 DHHS-NIH-NIMH

Great Plains Cultural Ways Mental Health Careers Program

$1,120,576 DHHS-NIH-NIMH
Moore, Helen Sociology

White, Lynn Sociology

Infertility: Pathways & Psychosocial Outcomes
$2,559,414 DHHS-NIH-NICHD
McQuillan, Julia Sociology

22

$1 MILLION — $2,999,999
Wilcke, William IANR-Research
North Central Regional Sustainable Agriculture
Research & Education Program – SARE
$2,707,719 Department of Agriculture-CSREES

Wilcox, Brian Center on Children, Families and the Law

Midwest Child Care Research Consortium
$1,200,000 DHHS-ACF
Torquati, Julia Family and Consumer Sciences

Wilhite, Donald School of Natural Resources

Rangeland and Forage Geospatial Decision
Support System for Drought Risk Management
$1,023,038 Department of Agriculture-RMA

Wood, Charles Biological Sciences

Programs in HIV & AIDS Assoc Diseases/Malignancies
$2,130,669 DHHS-NIH-Fogarty International Center

Research Training in Comparative Viral Pathogenesis

$1,218,789 DHHS-NIH-NIAID

Yamamoto, Catherine Student Affairs

Student Support Services Program
$1,913,874 Department of Education

Zempleni, Janos Nutrition and Health Sciences

* Biotin Deficiency Impairs Silencing of
Repeat Regions and Retrotransposons
$1,233,088 DHHS-NIH-NIDDK

Zhang, Luwen Center for Virology

Oncogenic Properties of Interferon Regulatory Factor 7
$1,126,847 DHHS-NIH-NCI

23

$1 MILLION — $2,999,999
Awards of $200,000 - $999,999
Active awards in 2008
* Indicates new in 2008

Adenwalla, Shireen Center for Materials and Nanoscience

* Development of Semiconducting Boron Carbide Neutron
Detectors for Astrobiological Applications
$299,991 NASA

Admiraal, David Civil Engineering

Low-Cost Energy Dissipation at Culvert Exits
$201,856 Nebraska Department of Roads

Albrecht, Julie Nutrition and Health Sciences

* Food Safety for Families with Young Children
$599,503 Department of Agriculture-NRICGP

Alexander, Dennis Electrical Engineering

Ultrafast Laser Interaction Processes
for Libs & Other Sensing Technologies
$600,000 University of Central Florida

Alfano, James Center for Plant Science Innovation;

Plant Pathology
Secretion Signals & Type III Chaperones in
Pseudomonas Syringae Type III Secretion System
$440,000 NSF

Dissecting the Function of HrpJ & HrpK – Two Type III Secreted
Proteins Required for Injection of Effectors into Plant Cells
$398,500 Department of Agriculture-NRICGP

Allen, Craig School of Natural Resources

Monitoring, Mapping & Risk Assessment for
Non-Indigenous Invasive Species in Nebraska
$325,081 Nebraska Environmental Trust
Merchant, James School of Natural Resources

Cross-Scale Structure & Scale Breaks in Complex Systems

$248,986 James S. McDonnell Foundation

Allen, David Engineering

U.S.-Brazil Dual-Degree in Infrastructure &
Sustainability Engineering Program
$208,211 Department of Education-FIPSE

EMME: US-EU Transatlantic Degree Program in Engineering

Mechanics/Materials Engineering
$407,997 Department of Education
Chandra, Namas Engineering
Negahban, Mehrdad Engineering Mechanics

24

$200,000 — $999,999
Anderson, Mark Geosciences
* Development of Northern Hemisphere
Snow & Ice Climate Data Records
$213,461 Rutgers University

Atmospheric Conditions Associated with Sea Ice

Characteristics over Arctic Ocean during Melt Season
$208,699 NASA

Asgarpoor, Sohrab Electrical Engineering

* Reliability Modeling and Maintenance
Optimization of Aging Substations
$206,082 NSF

Atkin, Audrey Biological Sciences

Wild-Type PPR1 mRNA Decay by
Yeast Nonsense-Mediated mRNA Decay Pathway
$403,219 NSF
Moriyama, Etsuko Center for Plant Science Innovation

Avramov, Luchezar Mathematics

* Cohomology and Structure of Commutative Algebras
$260,667 NSF

Homology & Cohomology over Commutative Rings

$356,322 NSF

Avramova, Zoya Biological Sciences

* Lipid-Signaling and Epigenetic Regulations in Arabidopsis:
Are Myotubularins the Link?
$450,000 NSF

ATX1, Epigenetic Regulator of Plant Development

$442,500 NSF

25

$200,000 — $999,999
Azizinamini, Atorod Civil Engineering
* Comprehensive Evaluation of Fracture Critical Bridges
$286,348 Nebraska Department of Roads

Simple for Dead-Continuous for Live Load System

with Partial Pre-Fabricated Deck System
$242,038 Nebraska Department of Roads

Development of Design Tools for Steel Bridge Systems,

Simple for Dead Loads & Continuous for
Superimposed Dead Load & Live Loads
$226,306 Nebraska Department of Roads

Steel Box System Monitoring of N-2 over I-480 Bridge

$292,244 Nebraska Department of Roads

IBRC 2002 Project

$240,000 Nebraska Department of Roads

Folded Plate Technology: Research, Design & Monitoring

$445,000 Nebraska Department of Roads

Development of Field Data for Effective Implementation of

Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Procedure
$315,252 Nebraska Department of Roads
Negahban, Mehrdad Engineering Mechanics

Baenziger, P. Stephen Agronomy and Horticulture

Developing Winter Wheat with Improved Fusarium Head Blight
Tolerance by Conventional and Transgenic Approaches
$354,437 Department of Agriculture-ARS
Mitra, Amit Plant Pathology
Watkins, John Plant Pathology
Clemente, Thomas Agronomy and Horticulture
Baltensperger, David Panhandle Research and Extension Center

Genetic Basis of Agronomic Traits

Controlled by Chromosome 3A in Wheat
$390,000 Department of Agriculture-NRICGP
Eskridge, Kent Statistics
Dweikat, Ismail Agronomy and Horticulture

Developing Small Grains Cultivars

Optimally Suited for Organic Production
$755,937 Department of Agriculture-NRICGP
Flores, Rolando Food Science and Technology
Wegulo, Stephen Plant Pathology
Russell, William Agronomy and Horticulture
Shapiro, Charles Agronomy and Horticulture
Schlegel, Vicki Food Science and Technology
Wehling, Randy Food Science and Technology
Knezevic, Stevan Northeast Research and Extension Center
Hein, Gary Panhandle Research and Extension Center
Lyon, Drew Panhandle Research and Extension Center

26

$200,000 — $999,999
Balkir, Sina Electrical Engineering
All Solid-State Wireless Sensor Network for
Nuclear Proliferation Detection
$417,191 Department of Energy
Hoffman, Michael Electrical Engineering

Barker, Bradley Center on Children, Youth, Families

and Schools; 4-H State Office
Robotics & GPS/GIS in 4-H: Workplace Skills for the 21st Century
$864,139 NSF
Adamchuk, Viacheslav Center on Children, Youth, Families and
Schools; Biological Systems Engineering

Basolo, Alexandra Biological Sciences

Behavioral Plasticity in Preexisting Receiver Bias
$378,000 NSF

Batelaan, Herman Physics and Astronomy

Matter Optics with Intense Laser Light
$462,590 NSF

Becker, Donald Biochemistry

MRI: Acquisition of Beckman XL-I Analytical Ultracentrifuge
$284,160 NSF

Belli, Robert Gallup Research Center

Verbal Behaviors in Computerized Lifecourse Surveys
$409,889 DHHS-National Institute on Aging

Benson, Andrew Food Science and Technology

* Pyrosequencing and Community Profiling for
Risk Assessment in Leafy Greens
$370,927 Department of Agriculture-NRICGP
Walter, Jens Food Science and Technology
Hutkins, Robert Food Science and Technology

Berkowitz, David Chemistry

* Stereocontrolled Total Synthesis of
(-)-Picropodophyllin Analogues
$500,000 Stockbridge Pharmaceuticals Inc.

New Approaches to Catalyst Screening & Development

$423,000 NSF

Beukelman, David Special Education and

Communication Disorders
Rehabilitation Engineering Research
Center on Communication Enhancement
$392,328 Duke University Medical Center

Bevins, Rick Psychology

* Altering Nicotine Reward through Conditioning
$339,446 DHHS-NIH-NIDA

Acquired Appetitive Properties of Nicotine

$881,371 DHHS-NIH-NIDA

27

$200,000 — $999,999
Bien, Mary Management
* Examining Leadership and Adaptability
in the Healthcare Industry
$308,473 Booz Allen Hamilton

Bilder, Christopher Statistics

Disease Detection and Prevalence Estimation
through Informative Group Testing
$713,250 DHHS-NIH-NIAID

Billesbach, David Biological Systems Engineering

Development & Field Testing of a Rapidly Deployable
Carbon Dioxide Flux Management System
$559,675 Department of Energy-Berkeley National Lab

Blum, Paul Biological Sciences

* Biohydrogenesis in the Thermotogales
$525,000 North Carolina State University

Bobaru, Florin Engineering Mechanics

Adaptivity in Peridynamics for Composite Plates
$269,880 Department of Energy–Sandia National Laboratories

Bond, Alan Biological Sciences

Mechanisms of Social Cognition
$540,260 DHHS-NIH-NIMH
Kamil, Alan Biological Sciences

Brand, Jennifer Center for Materials and Nanoscience

Novel Rare-Earth Semiconductors for
Solid-State Neutron Detectors
$449,999 DOD-Defense Threat Reduction Agency
Belashchenko, Kirill Physics and Astronomy
Dowben, Peter Physics and Astronomy

Direct Energy Conversion with

Heteroisomeric Boron Carbide Diode Devices
$238,398 Central Intelligence Agency

Brown, Mary School of Natural Resources

* Advancing Tern and Plover Common Sense
Conservation into the Future
$270,000 Nebraska Environmental Trust

Bulling, Denise Public Policy Center

Hospital Preparedness — Bioterrorism
$230,000 Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services

Critical Incidence Stress Management Program Coordination

$309,812 Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services

Burbach, Mark School of Natural Resources

Integrated Real-Time Groundwater-Level Monitoring Network to
Support Drought Impact Assessment and Mitigation Programs
$403,293 Department of Agriculture-RMA
Ramamurthy, Byrav Computer Science and Engineering

28

$200,000 — $999,999
Burson, Dennis Animal Science
Listeria Monocytogenes Controls in Ready to Eat Meat Products
$599,732 Department of Agriculture-CSREES
Thippareddi, Harshavardhan Food Science and Technology

Cady, Daniel Cooperative Extension

Nebraska Technology Transfer Center at UNL
$280,000 Nebraska Department of Roads

Development of Tools for Rating Bridges

& Application to State Bridges
$893,418 Nebraska Department of Roads
Azizinamini, Atorod Civil Engineering

Cantrell, Randolph Center for Applied Rural Innovation

* Marketing Rural Communities to Attract and Retain Workers
$498,558 Department of Agriculture-NRICGP
Burkhart-Kriesel, Cheryl Panhandle Research
and Extension Center

Relocation to the Buffalo Commons: Marketing Approach to

Understand Residential Decisions among Migrants
$220,387 Department of Agriculture-NRICGP
Burkhart-Kriesel, Cheryl Panhandle Research
and Extension Center
Johnson, Bruce Agricultural Economics

Carr, Timothy Nutrition and Health Sciences

Regulation of Cholesterol Absorption by
Plant Sterol & Stanol Esters
$466,915 Department of Agriculture-NRICGP

Cassman, Kenneth Agronomy and Horticulture

Demonstration/Validation of a Dynamic
Real-Time Decision Support System for
Irrigation Management with Limited Water Supply
$230,537 Nebraska Corn Board
Dobermann, Achim Agronomy and Horticulture
Walters, Daniel Agronomy and Horticulture
Yang, Haishun Agronomy and Horticulture
Irmak, Suat Biological Systems Engineering
Kranz, William Northeast Research and Extension Center
Shapiro, Charles Northeast Research and Extension Center
Tarkalson, David West Central Research and Extension Center

Cerutti, Heriberto Biological Sciences;

Center for Plant Science Innovation
Histone Modifications & Transcriptional
Silencing in Chlamydomonas
$448,235 NSF

RNA-Mediated Silencing: Mechanisms and

Biological Roles in Chlamydomonas
$994,854 DHHS-NIH-NIGMS

29

$200,000 — $999,999
Chen, Xun-Hong School of Natural Resources
* Development of Groundwater Flow Model
in the Lower Platte North NRD Area
$220,458 Lower Platte North NRD

Ci, Song Computer and Electronics Engineering

* IHCS: ARMS: A Novel Adaptive Configurable Multi-Cell
Battery System for Power-Aware Electronics
$299,626 NSF
Alahmad, Mahmoud Architectural Engineering
Sharif-Kashani, Hamid Computer and Electronics Engineering

Claes, Daniel Physics and Astronomy

Experimental High Energy Physics
$573,000 NSF
Snow, Gregory Physics and Astronomy

Clemente, Thomas Biotechnology; Plant Science

Initiative; Agronomy and Horticulture
* Necessary Resources to Aid in the Translation
of Genomics Information into Applied Technologies
$459,396 University of Georgia

Functional Analysis of Soybean Genes

through Transposon Mutagenesis
$262,268 United Soybean Board/Smith/Bucklin
Specht, James Agronomy and Horticulture

Enhancing Disease Resistance in Soybean through Biotechnology

$456,000 North Central Soybean Research Program
Alfano, James Center for Plant Science Innovation;
Plant Pathology
Morris, T. Jack Biological Sciences

Comfort, Steven School of Natural Resources

Field-Scale Demonstrations of Innovative Remediation
Techniques for Contaminated Soil and Water
$994,100 Environmental Protection Agency

Costello, Don Computer Science and Engineering

GAANN Fellowships for Computer Science & Engineering
$500,000 Department of Education

Daly, Edward Educational Psychology

School Psychology Leadership Specialization in
Response-to-Intervention Research & Systems Change
$800,000 Department of Education
McCurdy, Merilee Educational Psychology
Sheridan, Susan Educational Psychology
Kunz, Gina Educational Psychology

DeKraai, Mark Public Policy Center

* Evaluation of Public Engagement Demonstration Projects
on Pandemic Influenza (E-PEDPPI)
$348,716 DHHS-Centers For Disease Control
Bulling, Denise Public Policy Center

30

$200,000 — $999,999
DiMagno, Stephen Chemistry
Anhydrous Fluoride Salts
$420,000 NSF

Dominguez, Aaron Physics and Astronomy

PIRE: Collaborative Research with the Paul Scherrer Institute and
Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule on Advanced Pixel Silicon
Detectors for the CMS Detector
$406,500 University of Kansas Center for Research
Bloom, Kenneth Physics and Astronomy

Dowben, Peter Center for Materials and Nanoscience

Surface Chemistry of Adsorbates on Crystalline Polymers
$690,000 NSF

Drijber, Rhae Agronomy and Horticulture

Developing Technologies to Improve Soil & Nutrient Management
$261,000 Department of Agriculture-ARS

Du, Liangcheng Chemistry

Biosynthesis of Mycotoxin Fumonisins: Characterization of
Enzymes for Vicinal Diol & Tricarballylic Ester Formation
$284,667 NSF

Ducharme, Stephen Center for Materials and

Nanoscience; Physics and Astronomy
* Rational Design of Molecular Ferroelectric
Materials and Nanostructures
$419,054 Department of Energy-EPSCoR
Takacs, James Chemistry

Nanostructure-Designed Dielectric Material for

High-Energy-Density Capacitors
$586,000 DOD-DEPSCoR

Ferroelectric Polymer Langmuir-Blodgett Films for

Nonvolatile Random-Access Memory Applications
$240,000 NSF

Duppong Hurley, Kristin Special Education and

Communication Disorders
* Treatment Implementation and Mental Health Outcomes
for Youth in Residential Care
$510,300 DHHS-NIH-NIMH
Epstein, Michael Special Education and Communication Disorders

Dussault, Patrick Chemistry

* Detection of Emerging Classes of Explosives
$950,000 DOD-DARPA
Cerny, Ronald Chemistry
DiMagno, Stephen Chemistry
Hage, David Chemistry
Harbison, Gerard Chemistry
Redepenning, Jody Chemistry

* Directed Reactions of Carbonyl Oxides:

A New Approach to Ozonolysis
$360,000 NSF

31

$200,000 — $999,999
Dwyer, Matthew Computer Science and Engineering
Program Analysis Techniques to Support
Dependable RTSJ Applications
$207,519 NSF
Elbaum, Sebastian Computer Science and Engineering
Goddard, Stephen Computer Science and Engineering
Rothermel, Gregg Computer Science and Engineering

Finite-State Verification for High-Performance Computing

$300,000 NSF

CSR-EHS Predictable Adaptive Residual

Monitoring for Real-time Embedded Systems
$500,000 NSF
Goddard, Stephen Computer Science and Engineering
Elbaum, Sebastian Computer Science and Engineering

Dzenis, Yuris Engineering Mechanics

Nanoengineered Interfaces
$250,002 NSF

Modeling-Based Control of Electrospinning Process

$275,000 NSF

Eccarius, Malinda Special Education and

Communication Disorders
Mountain Prairie Upgrade Partnership - Early Childhood
$781,642 Department of Education
Marvin, Chris Special Education and Communication Disorders

Eckhardt, Craig Chemistry

Experimental Investigation of the Role of Defects in
Detonation Sensitivity of Energetic Materials
$600,000 DOD-Office of Naval Research

A Study of the Mechanochemistry of Carbamazepine Polymorphs

$227,200 Pfizer Inc./PGRD Groton Labs

Elbaum, Sebastian Computer Science and Engineering

ITR: Dependable End-User Software
$253,573 NSF

Engen-Wedin, Nancy Teaching, Learning and Teacher Education

Indigenous Roots Teacher Education Program
$704,730 Department of Education
McGowan, Thomas Teaching, Learning and Teacher Education

Epstein, Michael Special Education and

Communication and Disorders
* Evaluation of Family Reunification Program
$219,454 Father Flanagan’s Boys’ Home

Leadership Training in Emotional Disturbance Disorders

$601,733 Department of Education
Duppong Hurley, Kristin Special Education and
Communication and Disorders
Torkelson-Trout, Alexandra Special Education and
Communication and Disorders

32

$200,000 — $999,999
Fabrikant, Ilya Physics and Astronomy
Collision Processes Involving Low-Energy Electrons
$215,000 NSF

Electron-Molecule Collisions in Different Environments

$240,000 NSF

Faller, Ronald Civil Engineering

* Dynamic Evaluation of Box Beam End Terminal
Using the MASH 2008 Guidelines
$204,533 Nebraska Department of Roads
Sicking, Dean Midwest Roadside Safety
Reid, John Mechanical Engineering

Development of a New Precast Concrete

Bridge Railing System
$229,820 Nebraska Department of Roads
Bielenberg, Robert Civil Engineering
Reid, John Mechanical Engineering
Tadros, Maher Civil Engineering

Development of an Economical Guardrail

System for Use on Gabion Walls
$400,000 Department of Transportation-FHWA
Sicking, Dean Midwest Roadside Safety
Rohde, John Midwest Roadside Safety
Reid, John Mechanical Engineering

Flores, Rolando Food Science and Technology

Midwest Advanced Food Manufacturing Alliance
$340,764 Department of Agriculture-CSREES

Foley, Brett Educational Psychology

Consulting Services/Assist Oklahoma Commission
for Teacher Preparation
$452,064 Oklahoma Office of Public Affairs

Conducting Validity Studies for South Dakota

Department of Education
$372,435 South Dakota Department of Education
Geisinger, Kurt Educational Psychology

Fromm, Michael Center for Biotechnology

* MRI: Acquisition of High Capacity DNA Sequencing System
$714,750 NSF

Gardner, Scott University of Nebraska State Museum;

Biological Sciences
Mongolia Vertebrate Parasite Project
$619,991 NSF

Enabling Access to Priority Taxa for Biodiversity Studies

in the Manter Laboratory of Parasitology
$507,397 NSF
Jimenez-Ruiz, Francisco University of Nebraska State Museum

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$200,000 — $999,999
Gay, Timothy Physics and Astronomy
* MRI: Development of a Rubidium Spin Filter
as a Source of Polarized Electrons
$285,000 NSF
Batelaan, Herman Physics and Astronomy
Uiterwaal, Kees Physics and Astronomy

Polarized Electron and Photon Physics

$375,000 NSF

Geisinger, Kurt Educational Psychology

* Technical Review of the 2006 Grade 3 Florida Comprehensive
Assessment Test Results and Related Tasks
$200,000 Florida Department of Education

Giesler, Loren Plant Pathology

* Improving Management of Soybean Cyst Nematode
through Extension Demonstration and Outreach
$205,000 North Central Soybean Research Program

Gibson, Robert Biological Sciences

GAANN Fellowship for Ecology, Evolution & Behavior at UNL
$625,000 Department of Education

Gitelson, Anatoly School of Natural Resources

* Improving Management of Soybean Cyst Nematode
through Extension Demonstration and Outreach
$496,124 NASA
Verma, Shashi School of Natural Resources
Suyker, Andrew School of Natural Resources

*Responses of Coastal Waters to Terrestrial Inputs

of Elemental CNP in Urbanizing Coastal Regions
$264,990 University of Maryland
Rundquist, Donald School of Natural Resources

Land Cover Land Use Change Effects on Surface

Water Quality: Integrated MODIS & SeaWiFS Assessment
of Dnieper & Don River Basins
$598,130 NASA

Glover, Todd Center on Children, Youth, Families and Schools

Establish a State-Wide Response-to-Intervention
Consortium for Training & Evaluation
$499,936 Nebraska Department of Education
Daly, Edward Center on Children, Youth, Families
and Schools; Educational Psychology
McCurdy, Merilee Center on Children, Youth, Families
and Schools; Educational Psychology

Goddard, Stephen Computer Science and Engineering

CRI: IAD: Towards Cyber-Physical Computing at Scale: A Life-Size
Experimental Facility for Applied Sensor Networks Research
$200,000 NSF
Ci, Song Computer and Electronics Engineering
Peng, Dongming Computer and Electronics Engineering
Sharif-Kashani, Hamid Computer and Electronics Engineering
Perez, Lance Electrical Engineering

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$200,000 — $999,999
Goedert, James Construction Systems
Rebuilding New Orleans
$293,660 Department of Housing and Urban Development
Bernstein, Stuart Construction Systems
Holmes, William Construction Systems
Morcous, George Construction Systems
Schwer, Avery Construction Systems

Goodman, Richard Food Science and Technology

Assessing the Potential Allergenicity of
Proteins Introduced by Genetic Engineering
$450,000 Environmental Protection Agency
Schlegel, Vicki Food Science and Technology
Taylor, Stephen Food Science and Technology

Gosselin, David School of Natural Resources

Earth Science Institute for Elementary Educators
$356,094 NASA
Bonnstetter, Ronald Teaching, Learning and Teacher Education

Online Master’s Degree in Applied Science Education

$540,345 Toyota USA Foundation
Bonnstetter, Ronald Teaching, Learning and Teacher Education
Strand, Billie Extended Education and Outreach

Graef, George Agronomy and Horticulture

* Quality Traits Regional Tests
$225,535 United Soybean Board/Smith/Bucklin

* Soybean Breeding and Genetic Studies for Nebraska

$203,443 Nebraska Soybean Board
Specht, James Agronomy and Horticulture

Sclerotinia Resistance Enhanced by

Accumulation of QTL Transgenic Approaches
$371,120 Department of Agriculture-ARS
Clemente, Thomas Agronomy and Horticulture
Steadman, James Plant Pathology

Greve, Vickie Northeast Research and Extension Center

Communities Together Can
$657,000 Department of Agriculture-CSREES
Swanson, Douglas Cooperative Extension

Hage, David Chemistry

Chromatographic Automation of Immunoassays
$946,982 DHHS-NIH-NIGMS

Chromatographic Studies of Functional Proteomics

$756,640 DHHS-NIH-NIDDK

Harris, Steven Center for Plant Science Innovation;

Plant Pathology
Autophagy in Fungal Hyphae: Functional
Genomic & Mechanical Strength Studies
$417,852 University of Maryland-Baltimore

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$200,000 — $999,999
Harshman, Lawrence Biological Sciences
Comparative Functional Genomics of Drosophila Obesity
$516,548 Cornell University

Molecular Evolution of Genes Expressed in

D. melanogaster Sperm Storage Structures
$289,213 NSF
Moriyama, Etsuko Center for Plant Science Innovation

Genome Biology of Innate Immunity: Genetic Dissection of

Drosophila melanogaster Responses to Bacillus Infection
$452,163 DOD-DEPSCoR
Benson, Andrew Food Science and Technology
Kachman, Stephen Statistics

Harvey, F. Edwin School of Natural Resources

* Investigation of the Role of Rainwater Basin Wetlands in
Contributing to the Functions of Groundwater Recharge, Water
Quality Improvement, and the Wildlife Habitat, including an
Assessment of the Impact of Sediment on these Functions
$386,520 Nebraska Game and Parks Commission

Habitat Conservation Plan for the Salt Creek Tiger Beetle

and the Eastern Saline Wetlands of Nebraska
$380,000 Nebraska Game and Parks Commission

Hay, DeLynn IANR-Cooperative Extension

North Central Region Sustainable Agriculture
Professional Development Program—FY 2005
$910,283 Department of Agriculture-CSREES

Hayes, Michael School of Natural Resources

* Drought Mitigation, Nebraska Project
$347,246 Department of Agriculture-CSREES
Svoboda, Mark School of Natural Resources
Knutson, Cody School of Natural Resources
Wardlow, Brian School of Natural Resources

Transitioning the Drought Impact

Reporter into an Operational System
$445,257 Department of Commerce-NOAA-NCTP

Estimating the Impacts of Complex Climatic Events:

Drought in Colorado, Nebraska & New Mexico
$300,000 Department of Commerce-NOAA

Developing a Drought Preparedness Framework for Tribal

Governments: Moving from Crisis to Risk-Based Management
$609,539 Department of Interior-BIA
Knutson, Cody School of Natural Resources
Svoboda, Mark School of Natural Resources

Hebets, Eileen Biological Sciences

Searle Scholar: Exploring Neural Basis of
Complex Behavior in Amblypygids
$240,000 Chicago Community Trust/Searle Scholar

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$200,000 — $999,999
Henry, Christopher Biological Systems Engineering
Livestock Producer Environmental Assistance Project
$600,000 Nebraska Environmental Trust

Development of Alternative Technologies

for Small Livestock Producers
$221,881 Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality
Gross, Jason Biological Systems Engineering

Hergert, Gary Panhandle Research and Extension Center

Enhancing Irrigation Management Tools & Developing
a Decision Support System for Managing Limited
Irrigation Supplies for the High Plains
$885,093 Department of Agriculture-RMA-FCIC
Burgener, Paul Panhandle Research and Extension Center
Lyon, Drew Panhandle Research and Extension Center
Martin, Derrel Biological Systems Engineering
Pavlista, Alexander Panhandle Research and Extension Center
Supalla, Raymond Agricultural Economics
Urrea Florez, Carlos Panhandle Research and Extension Center
Yonts, C. Dean Panhandle Research and Extension Center

Demonstrate & Adapt Remote Sensing Technology to Produce

Consumptive Water Use Maps for the Nebraska Panhandle
$239,951 Department of Agriculture-NRCS
Baltensperger, David Panhandle Research and Extension Center
Berger, Aaron Panhandle Research and Extension Center
DeBoer, Karen Panhandle Research and Extension Center
Hla, Aung Panhandle Research and Extension Center
Lyon, Drew Panhandle Research and Extension Center
Pavlista, Alexander Panhandle Research and Extension Center
Yonts, C. Dean Panhandle Research and Extension Center

Hibbing, John Political Science

* DHB: Identifying the Biological Underpinnings
of Political Temperaments
$587,068 NSF
Espy, Kimberly Office of Research; Psychology
Smith, Kevin Political Science
Dodd, Michael Psychology
Wiebe, Sandra Psychology

Hoagland, Kyle School of Natural Resources

Solving Complex Issues in Nebraska:
Modeling the Western Platte River Valley-Phase ll
$347,200 Environmental Protection Agency
Fritz, Sherilyn Geosciences

Hoffman, Lesa Psychology

* Visual Attention in Aging: Bridging Experimental
and Psychometric Approaches
$322,745 DHHS-NIH-NIA

Hogan, Tiffany Special Education and

Communication Disorders
* The Lexicon and Phoneme Awareness
$430,591 DHHS-NIH-NIDCD

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$200,000 — $999,999
Holmes, Mary Anne Geosciences
Building a Community of Women Geoscience Leaders
$228,774 NSF

Holz, John School of Natural Resources

Fremont Lake #20 Alum Treatment Evaluation Project
$201,700 Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality
Barrow, Tadd School of Natural Resources
Hoagland, Kyle School of Natural Resources
Holz, Aris School of Natural Resources

Hu, Qi (Steve) School of Natural Resources

Transition of Weather & Climate Forecasts
into Effective Decision-Making Tools
$293,732 Department of Commerce-NOAA
Hubbard, Kenneth School of Natural Resources
Lynne, Gary Agricultural Economics
Pytlik Zillig, Lisa Educational Psychology
Bruning, Roger Educational Psychology

Hudgins, Jerry Electrical Engineering

Development of System Level Modeling & Simulation
Capability for SiC Power Semiconductor Devices
$246,935 University of South Carolina

Hunt, Robert University of Nebraska State Museum

Renovation & Computerization of University of Nebraska
Vertebrate Paleontology Collection
$498,368 NSF
Voorhies, Michael University of Nebraska State Museum

Hygnstrom, Scott School of Natural Resources

Development of Spatially Explicit Models of Wildlife Diseases
$588,945 Department of Agriculture-APHIS

Irmak, Suat Biological Systems Engineering

* Quantifying Evaporation, Crop Evapotranspiration,
and the Water Balance for Tilled and Untilled Fields
$679,160 Nebraska Department of Natural Resources
Irmak, Ayse School of Natural Resources
Rundquist, Donald School of Natural Resources
Eisenhauer, Dean Biological Systems Engineering
Van Donk, Simon Biological Systems Engineering
Zoubek, Gary Southeast Research and Extension Center
Rees, Jennifer Southeast Research and Extension Center
Siekman, Darrel Southeast Research and Extension Center
VanDeWalle, Brandy Southeast Research and Extension Center
Yoder, Ronald Biological Systems Engineering

Measurement of Growing Season Actual Crop Evapotranspiration

and Crop Coefficients, and Dormant Season Evaporative Losses
for Key Vegetation Surfaces in the Central Platte Natural
Resources District
$492,564 Central Platte NRD
Irmak, Ayse Biological Systems Engineering
Martin, Derrel Biological Systems Engineering
van Donk, Simon Biological Systems Engineering
Verma, Shashi School of Natural Resources

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$200,000 — $999,999
Jameson, Mary Liz University of Nebraska State Museum
Monography & Phylogeny of New World Scarabaeoid Beetles
$755,300 NSF
Ratcliffe, Brett Entomology

Jiang, Hong Computer Science and Engineering

SAM^2 Toolkit: Scalable & Adaptive Metadata
Management for High-End Computing
$602,326 NSF

Jones, Clinton Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences

Functional Analysis of biCPO
$375,000 Department of Agriculture-NRICGP

Functional Analysis of Proteins Encoded by the Bovine

Herpesvirus 1 Latency Related Gene
$374,475 Department of Agriculture-CSREES

Does HSV-1 Latency Associated Transcript (LAT)

Encode a Protein?
$402,122 DHHS-NIH-NIAID

Jones, Erick Industrial and Management

Systems Engineering
* RFID License Plate System Feasibility Study
for Commercial Vehicle Operators
$250,000 Nebraska Department of Roads

Jose, H. Douglas Agricultural Economics

Trade Adjustment Assistance Program
$705,000 Department of Agriculture-RMA

Josiah, Scott Nebraska State Forest Service

Community Enhancement Program
$500,000 Nebraska Department of Roads

NRCS-Technical Service Provider Project

$323,778 Department of Agriculture-NRCS

Hazardous Fuels Reduction: Pine Ridge

$582,380 Department of Agriculture-FS

Kennedy, Patricia Marketing

Socially Constituted Food Consumption of Adolescents
$350,000 Department of Agriculture-CSREES
McGarvey, Mary Economics
Stanek-Krogstrand, Kaye Nutrition and Health Sciences

Kim, Yong Rak Civil Engineering

Asphalt Research Consortium
$350,000 Texas A & M Research Foundation
Allen, David Engineering Mechanics

Layer Moduli of Nebraska Pavements for the New Mechanistic-

Empirical Pavement Design Guide (MEPDG)
$255,367 Nebraska Department of Roads

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$200,000 — $999,999
Knutson, Cody School of Natural Resources
Development of a Drought Decision Support Portal for the
Republican River Basin of Colorado, Nebraska & Kansas
$223,524 Department of Commerce-NOAA
Svoboda, Mark School of Natural Resources
Ryu, Jae School of Natural Resources

Koelsch, Richard Biological Systems Engineering

Heartland Integrated Water Quality Coordination Initiative
$338,650 Iowa State University
Wortmann, Charles Agronomy and Horticulture

Kostelnik, Marjorie Education and Human Sciences

Osher Lifelong Learning Institute
$450,000 Bernard Osher Foundation
Eversoll, Deanna Education and Human Sciences
Aguilar, Deanna Education and Human Sciences

Krull, Dean Agronomy and Horticulture

Managing Irrigation Systems Today & Tomorrow
$621,816 Central Platte NRD
Benham, Brian Agronomy and Horticulture
Ferguson, Richard Agronomy and Horticulture

Lackey, Susan School of Natural Resources

Eastern Nebraska Water Resources Assessment LPNRD
$459,588 Lower Platte North NRD
Ayers, Jerry School of Natural Resources
Hanson, Paul School of Natural Resources
Joeckel, Robert School of Natural Resources

Developing Hydrogeologic Databases to Assist

in Water Resources Management — UENRD
$459,600 Upper Elkhorn NRD

Ledder, Glenn Mathematics

UBM: Research for Undergraduates in
Theoretical Ecology (RUTE)
$905,000 NSF
Deng, Bo Mathematics
Gibson, Robert Biological Sciences
Loladze, Irakli Mathematics
Louda, Svata Biological Sciences

Lee, Kevin Physics and Astronomy

ClassAction: Model Rapid-Feedback &
Dynam Formative Assess System
$359,768 NSF
Schmidt, Edward Physics and Astronomy

Lenters, John School of Natural Resources

* Riparian Vegetation Impacts on Water
Quantity, Quality, and Stream Ecology
$433,960 Nebraska Department of Natural Resources
Istanbulluoglu, Erkan Geosciences
Scott, Durelle Geosciences

40

$200,000 — $999,999
Lewis, Charlotte Center on Children, Families and the Law
* Answers4Families/NRRS Database
$217,718 Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services

Li, Ming Psychology

* Anxiolytic Property of Atypical Antipsychotics
$345,699 DHHS-NIH-NIMH

Lindquist, John Agronomy and Horticulture

Contribution of Fusarium lateritium to Weed
Suppressive Soils & Weed Abundance
$366,186 Department of Agriculture-NRICGP
Drijber, Rhae Agronomy and Horticulture
Yuen, Gary Plant Pathology

Liou, Sy-Hwang Physics and Astronomy

* Advanced Probes for Characterizations
of Magnetic Nanostructures
$539,998 DOD-DEPSCoR
Sellmyer, David Center for Materials and Nanoscience
Skomski, Ralph Physics and Astronomy

Liu, Mingsheng Architectural Engineering

* CC Implementation of VA Medical Center at Omaha
$414,963 Omaha Public Power District

Lodl, Kathleen 4-H State Office

Health Rocks-Healthy Life Curricula Development
$250,700 National 4-H Council
Birnstihl, Elizabeth Cooperative Extension
Fox, Marilyn Southeast Research and Extension Center

Louda, Svata Biological Sciences

Single vs. Multiple Insect Herbivore Guild
Interactions in Canada Thistle Dynamics
$408,760 Department of Agriculture-NRICGP

41

$200,000 — $999,999
Lu, Yongfeng Electrical Engineering
* Coating and Patterning Diamond Films by
Laser Resonant Bond Breaking in Polymer Precursors
$259,384 NSF

Laser-Assisted Fabrication of
Large-Scale 3-D Photonic Bandgap Structures
$350,000 DOD-DEPSCoR

Self-Integration of Carbon-Nanotube Sensors

in Functional Integrated Circuits
$240,000 NSF

MRI: Development of Multifunctional

Nanoscale Measurement System
$220,000 NSF
Alexander, Dennis Electrical Engineering
Ducharme, Stephen Physics and Astronomy

Tunable Photonic Bandgap Crystals

with Integrated Functionalities
$330,000 DOD-Air Force Office of Scientific Research

Near-Field-Controlled Nanoscale Coating

of Functional Thin Films for Nanodevices
$240,000 NSF

Mackenzie, Sally Center for Plant Science Innovation

* Nuclear Mechanisms that Influence
Mitochondrial Genome Stability
$450,000 NSF
Christensen, Alan Biological Sciences

Nuclear-Organellar Interactions
Involving AtMSH1 in Arabidopsis
$650,000 Department of Energy

Training Graduate Students in Plant Breeding Using

Crop Drought Tolerance Improvement as a Model
$599,999 Department of Agriculture-NRICGP
Fromm, Michael Center for Plant Science Innovation

Mamo, Martha Agronomy and Horticulture

Pollution & Economic Decision Support Tool for Impaired
Watershed Management Plans in Eastern Nebraska
$335,000 Department of Agriculture-CSREES
Helmers, Glenn Agricultural Economics
Ginting, Daniel Agronomy and Horticulture
Wortman, Charles Agronomy and Horticulture

Martin, Derrel Biological Systems Engineering

Modeling and Field Experimentation to Determine
Effects of Land Terracing-Republican River Basin (CESU)
$477,267 Department of Interior-BR

McQuillan, Julia Sociology

Infertility: Pathways & Psychosocial Outcomes
$637,373 Pennsylvania State University

42

$200,000 — $999,999
Meagher, Michael Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
* Manufacture of a cGMP Lot of a Recombinant Next Generation
PA Vaccine for Phase l Clinical Trial and Toxicity Testing
$428,325 Emergent Product Development,
Gaithersburg Inc.
Swanson, Stephen Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Van Cott, Kevin Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Melvin, Steven West Central Research and Extension Center

Irrigation Management with Limited Water:
A Farm Education Program
$287,080 Department of Interior-BR
Martin, Derrel Biological Systems Engineering
Corr, Alan West Central Research and Extension Center
van Donk, Simon West Central Research and Extension Center

Merchant, James School of Natural Resources

* Initial Design and Implementation of the Nebraska
Geospatial Data Sharing and Web Services Network
$260,870 Nebraska Office of the Chief Information Officer

Miller, Nancy Textiles, Clothing and Design

Collaborative Research on Small Business Network
Creation and Outcomes for Change and Innovation
$230,011 NSF

Mitra, Amit Plant Pathology

Functional Map of Tomato Genome using
Direct Repeat Induced Gene Silencing
$301,000 Department of Agriculture-NRICGP

Moore, Raymond Engineering

* Students United in Classes, Community, Engineering,
Service and Study Abroad
$591,995 NSF

Moriyama, Etsuko Center for Plant Science Innovation;

Biological Sciences
Efficient and Sensitive Mining System for
G-Protein Coupled Receptors
$577,014 DHHS-NIH-NLM

Large-Scale Simultaneous Multiple

Alignment & Phylogeny Estimation
$223,215 NSF

Morris, T. Jack Biological Sciences

The Role of a Host Protein (TIP) in the Resistance
Response of Arabidopsis to Turnip Crinkle Virus Infection
$360,000 Department of Energy
Qu, Feng Biological Sciences

Moxley, Rodney Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences

Influence of Enterotoxins on Virulence and
Colonization of Porcine Intestine by E.coli
$270,000 Department of Agriculture-NRICGP

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$200,000 — $999,999
Nelson, J. Ron Special Education and
Communication Disorders
Effects of a Supplementary Vocabulary Intervention for
Students with Limited English Proficiency
$694,884 Department of Education

Nickerson, H. Doak Nebraska State Forest Service

Restoring the Pine Ridge Forest Ecosystem
$300,000 Nebraska Environmental Trust

Nguyen, Lim Computer and Electronics Engineering

* Self-Encoded Spread Spectrum Modulation for
Robust Anti-Jamming Communication
$379,767 DOD-DEPSCoR
Jang, Won Computer and Electronics Engineering

Norton, Will Journalism and Mass Communications

* Carnegie-Knight Initiative on the Future of Journalism Education
$250,000 Carnegie Corporation of New York

Noureddini, Hossein Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Reduction of Phosphorus from Ethanol
By-Product used as Livestock Feed
$210,781 Nebraska Corn Board

Oglesby, Robert Geosciences

Evaluating the Role of Global Snow Cover on Seasonal to
Interannual Predictability of Temperature & Precipitation
$598,216 NASA

Orti, Guillermo Biological Sciences

RCN: DeepFin Will Advance the Phylogeny of “Fishes”
$500,000 NSF

Assembling the Euteleost Tree of Life - Addressing the

Major Unresolved Problem in Vertebrate Phylogeny
$602,956 NSF
Li, Chenhong Biological Sciences
Diamond, Judy University of Nebraska State Museum

Osorio, Fernando Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences

* Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Virus:
Role of Viral Genes in Virulence/Attenuation
$375,000 Department of Agriculture-NRICGP
Pattnaik, Asit Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences

Pattnaik, Asit Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences

VSV RNA Transcription and Replication
$996,128 DHHS-NIH-NIAID

Pegg, Mark School of Natural Resources

* Sturgeon Management in the Platte River
$801,000 Nebraska Game and Parks Commission

44

$200,000 — $999,999
Perez, Lance Electrical Engineering
Self-Configuration & Localization in
Ad Hoc Wireless Sensor Networks
$548,807 DOD-DEPSCoR
Goddard, Stephen Computer Science and Engineering

GAANN in Engineering & Assistive Technology

$384,390 Department of Education
Goddard, Stephen Computer Science and Engineering

Pilson, Diana Biological Sciences

Transgenic Virus Resistant Squash: Ecological Effect
$314,877 Department of Agriculture-CSREES
Morris, T. Jack Biological Sciences

Platt, Stephen Mechanical Engineering

In Vivo Robotic Camera System for Laparoscopic Surgery
$389,358 DHHS-NIH-NIBIB
Farritor, Shane Mechanical Engineering

Pope, Kevin School of Natural Resources

Recruitment of Walleye and White Bass in Irrigation Reservoirs
$484,448 Nebraska Game and Parks Commission

Powell, Larkin School of Natural Resources

Assessing Local & Regional Variability in Productivity & Fidelity of
Grassland Birds on National Park Service Units in the Great Plains
$212,122 Dept of Interior-GS
Allen, Craig School of Natural Resources

Rajca, Andrzej Chemistry

* High-Spin Nitroxide Diradical for
Biomedical Imaging Applications
$421,174 DHHS-NIH-NIBIB
Rajca, Suchada Chemistry

Stable High-Spin Polyradicals & Chiral Pi-Conjugated Systems

$570,715 NSF

Rajurkar, Kamlakar Industrial and Management

Systems Engineering
Analysis & Gap Monitoring for Improving
Micro EDM Performance-Supplement
$202,500 NSF

Modeling and Analysis of Material Removal and

Tool Wear in Micro Ultrasonic Machining
$247,760 NSF

Ratcliffe, Brett University of Nebraska State Museum;

Entomology
Faunistic Survey of Dynastinae of Mexico, Guatemala, & Belize
$481,493 NSF

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$200,000 — $999,999
Redepenning, Jody Center for Materials and Nanoscience
Chemically Modified Nano-Electrodes
for Magnetoelectronics Applications
$390,000 NSF
Binek, Christian Physics and Astronomy
Sokolov, Andrei Physics and Astronomy

Reichenbach, Stephen Computer Science and Engineering

SEI: Information Modeling for
Comparative Visualizations & Analyses
$389,228 NSF

Reid, John Mechanical Engineering

Midwest States Regional Pooled Fund Program
$590,000 Nebraska Department of Roads
Sicking, Dean Midwest Roadside Safety
Faller, Ron Midwest Roadside Safety

Reid, Robert Special Education and

Communication Disorders
Leadership Training in Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
$620,006 Department of Education

Rilett, Laurence Civil Engineering

* Nebraska Transportation Center Seed Funding
$300,000 Nebraska Department of Roads

Development of State of the Art Traffic

Micro-Simulation Model for Nebraska
$222,896 Nebraska Department of Roads
Jones, Elizabeth Civil Engineering

Intelligent Transportation System Deployment Project

$831,942 Nebraska Department of Roads
Jones, Elizabeth Civil Engineering
Khattak, Aemal Civil Engineering

Robertson, Brian Center for Materials and Nanoscience

Spintronic Devices Enabled by Semiconducting Boron Carbide
$299,998 NSF
Adenwalla, Shireen Center for Materials and Nanoscience
Dowben, Peter Center for Materials and Nanoscience

Rothermel, Gregg Computer Science and Engineering

CRI: Community Resource to Support Controlled
Experimentation with Program Analysis and Testing Techniques
$874,636 NSF
Elbaum, Sebastian Computer Science and Engineering
Dwyer, Matthew Computer Science and Engineering

ITR: Dependable End-User Software

$439,593 Oregon State University

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$200,000 — $999,999
Ryu, Jae School of Natural Resources
* Developing Seasonal Predictive Capability for
Drought Mitigation Decision Support System
$311,000 University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Svoboda, Mark School of Natural Resources
Knutson, Cody School of Natural Resources
Sittler, Megan School of Natural Resources

Samal, Ashok Computer Science and Engineering

Building Knowledge Discovery & Information Fusion
Tools for Collaborative Systems to Adaptively
Manage Uncertain Hydrological Resources
$601,816 NSF
Chen, Xun-Hong School of Natural Resources
Soh, Leen-Kiat Computer Science and Engineering
Tomkins, Alan Public Policy Center
Zellmer, Sandra College of Law

Saraf, Ravi Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

* Nanodevice for Digital Imaging of Palpable Structure at
Human-Finger Resolution for Clinical Breast Examination
$377,552 DHHS-NIH-NIBIB

Nanodevice for Imaging Normal Stress Distribution with

Application in Sensing Texture and Feel by Touching
$332,156 NSF

Schacht, Walter Agronomy and Horticulture

Grasslands Ecological Monitoring System
$608,880 Department of Agriculture-RMA-FCIC

Scheel, Joan Food Science and Technology

Development, Coordination & Delivery of Information on Food
Defense to Small & Medium Food Manufacturers
$291,123 Department of Commerce-NIST

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$200,000 — $999,999
Scheffler, Marilyn Special Education and
Communication Disorders
* Project RTI: Building Capacity Together
to Implement Response to Intervention
$800,000 Department of Education
Sanger, Dixie Special Education and Communication Disorders

Project PROMOTE
$797,184 Department of Education
Sanger, Dixie Special Education and Communication Disorders

Project Support: Speech-Language

Pathologists Supporting Literacy Instruction
$800,000 Department of Education
Sanger, Dixie Special Education and Communication Disorders

Project Re-entry: Preparing Speech-Language

Pathologists to Serve Students with Traumatic Brain Injury
$800,000 Department of Education
Hux, Karen Special Education and Communication Disorders

Project NETS: Nebraska Educational Transition Specialists

$798,624 Department of Education

Sellmyer, David Physics and Astronomy; Center

for Materials and Nanoscience
Studies of Artificially Structured Composite Magnets
$492,000 Department of Energy

Materials Research Science & Engineering Center:

Quantum and Spin Phenomena in Nanomagnetic Structures
$200,000 NanoElectronics Research Corporation
Belashchenko, Kirill Physics and Astronomy
Tsymbal, Evgeny Physics and Astronomy

Shadwick, Bradley Physics and Astronomy

* Wavebreaking and Particle Trapping in Collisionless Plasmas
$561,840 Department of Energy

Shank, Nancy Public Policy Center

HIT Regional Health Records Implementation & Evaluation
$402,186 Rural Nebraska Healthcare Network

Shapiro, Charles Northeast Research and Extension Center

Improving Organic Farming Systems
across Nebraska Agroecosystems
$762,949 Department of Agriculture-CSREES
Baltensperger, David Panhandle Research and Extension Center
Brandle, James School of Natural Resources
Francis, Charles Agronomy and Horticulture
Knezevic, Stevan Northeast Research and Extension Center
Wright, Robert Entomology
Johnson, Ron School of Natural Resources

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$200,000 — $999,999
Shea, Patrick School of Natural Resources
Targeting Watershed Vulnerability & Behaviors Leading to
Adoption of Conservation Management Practices
$570,000 Department of Agriculture-CSREES
Burbach, Mark School of Natural Resources
Lynne, Gary Agricultural Economics
Martin, Alexander Agronomy and Horticulture
Milner, Maribeth Agronomy and Horticulture

Sheridan, Susan Center on Children, Youth, Families

and Schools; Educational Psychology
* Consultation Based Interventions for Students
with Social and Behavioral Concerns
$599,694 Deptartment of Education
Glover, Todd Center on Children, Youth, Families and Schools
Bovaird, James Center on Children, Youth, Families and Schools;
Educational Psychology

Leadership Training in Interdisciplinary Collaboration

$800,000 Department of Education

Shield, Jeffrey Mechanical Engineering

* Novel Nanostructures for High-Energy
Nanocomposite Permanent Magnets
$251,819 NSF

The Effect of Long-Range Dumbbell Ordering on the Properties &

Microstructures of Rare Earth Permanent Magnets
$340,000 NSF

Sicking, Dean Civil Engineering

* Enhancement of Research Infrastructure
at the Midwest Roadside Safety Facility
$346,000 Nebraska Department of Roads

Identification of Vehicular Impact Conditions

Associated with Serious Ran-Off-Road Crashes
$634,521 National Cooperative Highway Research Program
Khattak, Aemal Civil Engineering
Jones, Elizabeth Civil Engineering

Improved Procedures for Safety Performance

Evaluation of Roadside Features
$833,940 National Cooperative Highway Research Program
Reid, John Mechanical Engineering
Rohde, John Civil Engineering
Faller, Ronald Civil Engineering

Siegfried, Blair Entomology

Quantifying Risk Factors for Evolution of European
Corn Borer Resistance to Cry1F Expressing Corn Hybrids
$346,845 Department of Agriculture-CSREES

Evaluating Bioactivity of Insecticidal Proteins against

European Corn Borer (Lepidoptera: Crambidae)
$220,000 Pioneer Hi-Bred

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$200,000 — $999,999
Smith, Andrew University of Nebraska State Museum
Scarab Biodiversity of Southern South America
$300,000 NSF
Ocampo, Federico University of Nebraska State Museum

Snow, Daniel School of Natural Resources

Effects of Cattle Manure Handling & Management
Strategies on Fate & Transport of Hormones
$699,607 Environmental Protection Agency
Bartelt-Hunt, Shannon Civil Engineering
Zhang, Tian Civil Engineering
Kranz, William Northeast Research and Extension Center
Mader, Terry Northeast Research and Extension Center
Shapiro, Charles Northeast Research and Extension Center
Shelton, David Northeast Research and Extension Center

Snow, Gregory Physics and Astronomy

* The Luminosity Measurement for the
DZERO Experiment at Fermilab
$395,352 Department of Energy-EPSCoR
Bloom, Kenneth Physics and Astronomy
Claes, Daniel Physics and Astronomy
Dominguez, Aaron Physics and Astronomy

GAANN Fellowships for Physics at UNL

$383,181 Department of Education

Soh, Leen-Kiat Computer Science and Engineering

iLOG: Embedding & Validating Empirical
Usage Intelligence in Learning Objects
$409,705 NSF
Samal, Ashok Computer Science and Engineering
Nugent, Gwen Center on Children, Youth, Families and Schools

Somerville, Greg Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences

Environmental Regulation of
Staphylococcus epidermidis PIA Synthesis
$361,679 DHHS-NIH-NIGMS

Soukup, Rodney Electrical Engineering

A Novel Variable Wide Bandgap Material
for High Power, High Frequency Devices
$368,008 DOD-DEPSCoR
Hudgins, Jerry Electrical Engineering
Ianno, Natale Electrical Engineering

Spalding, Roy Agronomy and Horticulture

Effectiveness of Irrigated Crop Management Practices in
Reducing Groundwater Nitrate Contamination
$630,768 Department of Agriculture-CSREES
Ferguson, Richard Agronomy and Horticulture
Marx, David Statistics
Spalding, Mary School of Natural Resources

Spaulding, William Psychology

Decision Science in Rehabilitation
$860,775 DHHS-NIH-NIMH
Garbin, Calvin Psychology

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$200,000 — $999,999
Specht, James Agronomy and Horticulture
Genetic Mapping & Application of SNP DNA Markers in Soybean
$389,391 Department of Agriculture-ARS

Spreitzer, Robert Biochemistry

Rubisco Phylogenetic Engineering
$202,383 Department of Agriculture-NRICGP

Srisa-an, Witawas Computer Science and Engineering
Building Scalable & Adaptive Garbage Collector
for Server Systems
$281,000 NSF
Elbaum, Sebastian Computer Science and Engineering

CSR-PDOS: Memory Efficient Garbage Collection

Framework for Java Server Applications
$300,000 NSF

Stansbury, John Civil Engineering

* Feasibility of Integrating Natural and Constructed Wetlands
in Roadway Drainage System Design
$255,562 Nebraska Department of Roads
Moussavi, Massoum Civil Engineering
Zhang, Tian Civil Engineering

Starace, Anthony Physics and Astronomy

Strong Field & Ultrafast Atomic and Molecular Processes
$250,000 NSF

Staswick, Paul Agronomy and Horticulture

* Deciphering Novel Signaling Roles for
Amino Acid Conjugates of Jasmonic Acid
$249,969 NSF

Steadman, James Plant Pathology

Resistance Improvement of Bean thru Multi-Site
Screening & Pathogen Characterization
$204,650 Department of Agriculture-ARS

Steffen, David Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences

* Avian Influenza (AI) - High Path Surveillance
$224,052 Nebraska Department of Agriculture
Kelling, Clayton Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences

Stentz, Terry Construction Management

Human Factors in Railway Operation
$344,575 Department of Transportation-FRA
Jones, Elizabeth Civil Engineering
Rilett, Laurence Civil Engineering
Khattak, Aemal Civil Engineering
Riley, Michael Industrial and Management Systems Engineering
Jones, Erick Industrial and Management Systems Engineering

Analytic Study of Acute Extremity Lacerations in Meat Packing

$593,333 Harvard School of Public Health

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$200,000 — $999,999
Stockton, Matthew West Central Research
and Extension Center
Whole-Farm Economic Biological Stochastic Simulation
Model of Small to Medium Cow-calf Firms with Research,
Teaching and Extension Modules
$499,740 Department of Agriculture-NRICGP

Stone, Julie Center for Plant Science Innovation;

Biochemistry
Role of Transcriptional Regulator in
Programmed Cell Death & Plant Development
$354,000 Department of Energy

Storz, Jay Biological Sciences

Test of Adaptive Divergence across Altitudinal
Gradients: Population Genomics of Deer Mice
$492,000 NSF

Stowell, Richard Biological Systems Engineering

Air Quality Extension & Education:
Enhanced Learning Opportunities for Addressing
Air Quality Issues in Animal Agriculture
$498,562 Department of Agriculture-NRICGP

Stubbendieck, James Great Plains Studies

Farm Viability, Farmland Preservation and Smart Growth
$308,000 Department of Agriculture-NRICGP
Esseks, J. Dixon Great Plains Studies

Subbiah, Jeyamkondan Biological Systems Engineering;

Food Science and Technology
* Improving the Safety of Prepared, But Not Ready-To-Eat
Microwavable Foods through Heat Transfer
and Pathogen Destruction Modeling
$599,985 Department of Agriculture-CSREES
Jones, David Biological Systems Engineering
Thippareddi, Harshavardhan Food Science and Technology

Subramanian, Anu Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Biomimetic Nanofibrillar Scaffolds for Tissue Engineering
$390,720 DHHS-NIH-NIBIB
Larsen, Gustavo Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Svoboda, Mark School of Natural Resources

* Development of a “Drought Ready Communities” Program
$288,670 Department of Commerce-NOAA
Sittler, Meghan School of Natural Resources
Smith, Kelly School of Natural Resources
Knutson, Cody School of Natural Resources
Woudenberg, Donna School of Natural Resources

* Integrating Enhanced GRACE Water Storage Data

into the U.S. and North American Drought Monitors
$224,991 NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center
Wardlow, Brian School of Natural Resources
Fuchs, Brian School of Natural Resources
Scott, Soren School of Natural Resources

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$200,000 — $999,999
Swanson, David Computer Science and Engineering
MRI: Acquisition of Affordable Shared-Memory
Computing & Scalable Storage for Scientists & Engineers
$300,000 NSF

Tadros, Maher Civil Engineering

Class C Fly Ash in Concrete Pavement
$321,379 Nebraska Department of Roads

Evaluation & Repair Procedures for Precast/Prestressed

Concrete Girders w/Longitudinal Cracking in the Web
$300,000 National Cooperative
Highway Research Program
Tuan, Christopher Civil Engineering

Impact of Large 0.7 inch Strand on NU-I Girder and NUDeck

$244,408 Nebraska Department of Roads
Morcous, George Construction Systems

Takacs, James Chemistry

* Ligand Scaffold Optimization for
Catalytic Asymmetric Hydroboration
$420,000 NSF

Tan, Li Engineering Mechanics

* Self-Organized Nanolayers for Organic Thin-Film Transistors
$387,463 NSF
Zeng, Xiao Cheng Chemistry

* Bi-Functional Pentacene Monolayer

for Organic Field-Effect Transistors
$299,410 DOD-DEPSCoR
Zeng, Xiao Cheng Chemistry

Taylor, Steve Food Science and Technology

Food Allergen Database
$617,846 Various Industries
Goodman, Richard Food Science and Technology

Allergenicity Evaluation of Isinglass

$555,035 Various Industries

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$200,000 — $999,999
Thippareddi, Harshavardhan Food Science and Technology
Understanding and Controlling Listeria Monocytogenes
Transmission through Ready-to-Eat Meat Products
$222,270 Colorado State University

HACCP Assistance for Small & Very Small Processors with

Development & Validation of Safe Meat Chilling Processes
$599,916 Department of Agriculture-CSREES
Wang, Lijun Biological Systems Engineering
Weller, Curtis Biological Systems Engineering
Burson, Dennis Animal Science

Improving Safety of Shell Eggs & Egg Products by

Addressing Critical Research Needs for Salmonella
Enteritidis & Salmonella spp
$599,951 Department of Agriculture-NRICGP
Froning, Glenn Food Science and Technology
Subbiah, Jeyamkondan Biological Systems Engineering

Thomas, Steven School of Natural Resources

FIBR: Linking Genes to Ecosystems
$307,189 University of California-Riverside

Torquati, Julia Child, Youth and Family Studies

Evaluation of Promising Models and Delivery
Approaches to Child Care Provider Training
$484,658 Iowa State University
Wilcox, Brian Center on Children, Families and the Law
Raikes, Helen Center on Children, Families and the Law

Trainin, Guy Teaching, Learning and Teacher Education

Arts Linc
$261,674 Lake Elsinore USD

Turner, Joseph Engineering Mechanics

Development of Improved Product Performance
through Optimization & Modeling of
Engineering Materials Processing & Function
$588,028 Brenco/Amsted Industries
Cole, Kevin Mechanical Engineering

Tyler, Kimberly Sociology

Social Networks, HIV Risk Behaviors & Homeless Youth
$356,771 DHHS-NIH-NIDA

Uiterwaal, Kees Physics and Astronomy

Inside a Focused Laser Beam: Molecular Dynamics
$477,001 NSF

Umstadter, Donald Physics and Astronomy

Laser Produced Coherent X-Ray Sources
$570,000 Department of Energy

Van Etten, James Plant Pathology

Center for Innovation in Membrane Protein Production
$553,105 University of California-San Francisco
Dunigan, David Plant Pathology

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$200,000 — $999,999
Variyam, Vinod Computer Science and Engineering
Studies in Computational Complexity Theory
$200,000 NSF

Velipasalar, Senem Electrical Engineering

* CSR-DMSS, SM: Cooperative Activity Analysis in
Wireless Smart-Camera Networks (Wi-SCaNs)
$300,000 NSF
Gursoy, Mustafa Electrical Engineering

Wagner, William Biological Sciences

* Effects of Predation by a Phonotactic Parasitoid on Male
and Female Reproductive Behavior in a Field Cricket
$499,414 NSF

Communication of Direct Mating Benefits to Females

$313,283 NSF

Waldren, Vernon Southeast Research and Extension Center

HUD Omaha Lead Site
$300,000 Department of Housing and Urban Development

Waller, Steven Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources

* Agriculture in the Classroom
$236,742 Nebraska Foundation for Agricultural Awareness

Walstad, William Economics

Interactive Teaching in Undergraduate Economic Courses
$674,928 NSF

Wang, Jun Geosciences

* Regional Air Quality and Climate Impact of
Biomass-Burning Aerosols from Central America:
An Analysis with EOS Data and Numerical Models
$300,676 NASA

Weisz, Victoria Center on Children, Families and the Law

Nebraska State Court Improvement
$236,714 Supreme Court of Nebraska

Weller, Curtis Biological Systems Engineering

Purification Process Influences on Structural &
Nutritional Function of Grain Sorghum
$338,000 Department of Agriculture-NRICGP
Carr, Timothy Nutrition and Health Sciences
Schlegel, Vicki Food Science and Technology
Cuppett, Susan Food Science and Technology
Hwang, Keum Taek Industrial Ag Products Center
Wang, Lijun Biological Systems Engineering

Wiegand, Roger Mathematics

GAANN Fellowship Program: Mathematics at UNL
$638,635 Department of Education
Pitts, David Mathematics
Walker, Judy Mathematics
Walker, Mark Mathematics
Bellows, Laurie Graduate Studies

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$200,000 — $999,999
Wiener, Richard Psychology
REU Site: Psychology and Law
$200,000 NSF

Jury Bias in Criminal Cases: Sexual Assault,

Homicide and Generic Prejudice
$233,883 NSF

Self-referencing, Social Identity &

Judgments of Sexual Harassment
$302,364 NSF

Wilson Jr., Robert Panhandle Research and Extension Center

Assessing the Long Term Viability of Roundup Ready
Technology as a Foundation for Cropping Systems
$880,000 Monsanto Co.

Woldt, Wayne Biological Systems Engineering

Advancing Onsite Wastewater Treatment in Nebraska
$259,742 Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality
Skipton, Sharon Southeast Research and Extension Center

Wood, Charles Biological Sciences

AIDS and Cancer Specimen Bank
$383,601 George Washington University

Research and Training on HIV/AIDS

Neuropathogenesis in Zambia
$273,363 DHHS-NIH-NIMH

Vaccination against Mucosal HIV Clade C Transmission

$506,753 Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Woodward, Gordon Mathematics

Increasing Participation in Computer Science, Engineering, &
Mathematics through NSF Scholarships at UNL
$400,000 NSF
Ballard, John Engineering
Ramamurthy, Byrav Computer Science and Engineering
Goddard, Steve Computer Science and Engineering
Lee, Kevin Arts & Sciences

Nebraska REU in Applied Mathematics

$251,823 NSF
Rebarber, Richard Mathematics

Wortmann, Charles Agronomy and Horticulture

Integrated Approach to Reduced Risk of Phosphorus
Pollution of Surface Waters in Crop-Livestock Based
Managed Ecosystems of the Midwest
$235,839 Nebraska Corn Board
Erickson, Galen Animal Science
Schulte, Dennis Biological Systems Engineering
Franti, Tom Biological Systems Engineering
Jose, H. Douglas Agricultural Economics

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$200,000 — $999,999
Yang, Yiqi Textiles, Clothing and Design
Resistance of Sulfur Dyed Fabrics to Oxidative
Bleaching & Acidic Tendering: Improvement & Application
$300,618 Procter & Gamble

Yoder, Ronald Biological Systems Engineering

* Enhancing the Value of Water through Management Education
$225,000 Nebraska Department of Natural Resources

Nebraska AgrAbility
$800,000 Department of Agriculture-CSREES
Baquet, Alan Agricultural Economics

Yohe, John IANR-International Programs

Transfer of Sorghum & Millet Production,
Processing & Marketing Technologies Program in Mali
$750,000 U.S. Agency for International Development

Zempleni, Janos Nutrition and Health Sciences

Biotin Affects Cytokine Metabolism
$409,586 Department of Agriculture-NRICGP

Epigenetic Effects of Biotin on Activation of

Endogenous Viral Sequences
$395,601 DHHS-NIH-NIEHS

Zeng, Xiao Cheng Chemistry

ITR: Multiscale Treatment of Systems with Strong Heterogeneities
$715,121 NSF
Diestler, Dennis Agronomy and Horticulture
Feng, Ruqiang Engineering Mechanics

Zera, Anthony Biological Sciences

Enzymatic and Molecular Bases of Trade-Offs in
Lipid Metabolism that Underlie Life History Trade-Off
$435,682 NSF
Harshman, Lawrence Biological Sciences

Zhang, Luwen Center for Virology

Interferon Regulatory Factor 7 and NPC
$393,855 DHHS-NIH-NIAID

Zlotnik, Vitaly Geosciences

Mechanisms Producing Variation in Lake Salinity in
Dune Environments: Nebraska Sand Hills
$219,958 NSF
Fritz, Sherilyn Geosciences
Swinehart, James School of Natural Resources

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$200,000 — $999,999
Early Career Awards
Active awards in 2008
* Indicates new in 2008

NSF CAREER Grants
National Science Foundation CAREER grants are awarded only to
untenured junior faculty. NSF emphasizes that the grants recognize
research and education “of the highest quality and in the broadest
sense.” CAREER grants are unique in requiring a four- to five-year
plan for the scientist’s development as both a researcher and an
educator.

Adams, Stephanie
Industrial and Management Systems Engineering
Designing Effective Teams in the Engineering
Classroom for the Enhancement of Learning
$643,418 NSF

Binek, Christian
Physics and Astronomy
Education & Research on Nanoscale Spintronic
Systems & Heterostructures
$500,000 NSF

Bloom, Kenneth
Physics and Astronomy
Top-Quark Physics, Computing & Software at
Large Hadron Collider
$550,000 NSF

Choueiry, Berthe
Computer Science and Engineering
Detecting Interchangeability Relations in
Constraint Satisfaction Problems and Exploiting
them in Problem Solving and Interactions with
Users
$600,000 NSF

Cohen, Myra
Computer Science and Engineering
* Configuration-Aware Testing Through Intelligent
Sampling to Improve Software Dependability
$400,000 NSF

Dominguez, Aaron
Physics and Astronomy
Superior Silicon Tracking & Discovery as CMS &
D0
$550,000 NSF

Elbaum, Sebastian
Computer Science and Engineering
Leveraging Field Data to Test Pervasive Systems
$412,594 NSF

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Early Career Awards

Enders, Axel
Physics and Astronomy
* Self-Assembled Magnetic Nanostructures
$400,000
NSF

Frank, Tracy
Geosciences
Exploring the Geologic Record of Major Climate
Transitions: Causes, Consequences, & Impacts
on the Evolution of Earth Systems
$583,816
NSF
Gursoy, Mustafa
Electrical Engineering
CAREER: Energy-Efficient Wireless
Communications under Channel Uncertainty
$400,000 NSF

Hebets, Eileen
Biological Sciences
Evolution and Function of Complex Signaling in
Wolf Spider Genus Schizocosa
$680,351
NSF
Kim, Yong Rak
Civil Engineering
Research & Education on Advanced Multiscale
Modeling-Analysis of Roadway Materials,
Mixtures, & Infrastructure Systems
$402,044 NSF

Wang, Lily
Architectural Engineering
Integrating Time-Variant Source Directivity into
Architectural Acoustic Auralizations
$406,376
NSF
Xu, Lisong
Computer Science and Engineering
Stochastic TCP Friendliness: Exploring the Design
Space of TCP-Friendly Traffic Control in Best-
Effort Internet
$400,000 NSF

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Early Career Awards

K Awards
National Institutes of Health K Awards provide support for
intensive development experiences in one of the biomedical,
behavioral or clinical sciences leading to research independence.
Candidates for these awards normally must have a research
or health-professional doctorate and postdoctoral research
experience at the time of application. The proposed career-
development experience must be in a research area new to the
applicant and/or one in which an additional supervised research
experience will substantially add to the applicant’s research
capabilities. Candidates must provide a plan for achieving
independent research support by the end of the award, and must
be willing to spend a minimum of .75 FTE conducting research and
career development during the award three-, four-, or five-year
project period.

Angeletti, Peter
Biological Sciences
Maintenance of Human Papilloma Virus Genes
$613,512 DHHS-NIH-NCI

DiLillo, David
Psychology
Family Functioning of Adults Maltreated as
Children
$670,286 DHHS-NIH-NIMH

Peterson, Daniel
Food Science and Technology
* Adaptive Immune Response to Symbiotic
Bacteria as a Mediator of Gut Homeostasis
$379,890 DHHS-NIH-NIAID

Sayood, Khalid
Electrical Engineering
Identification of Biological Materials of Unknown
Origin
$764,005 DHHS-NIH-NIAID

Tyler, Kimberly
Sociology
Neglect and Abuse Histories Among Homeless
Young Adults
$659,525 DHHS-NIH-NIMH

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Early Career Awards

Young Investigator Research Program (YIP)
The Department of Defense-Air Force Office of Scientific Research
bestows its Young Investigator Research Program (YIP) award on
scientists and engineers at research institutions across the United
States who have received Ph.D. or equivalent degrees in the last
five years and show exceptional ability and promise for conducting
basic research. The objective of the program is to foster creative
basic research in science and engineering, enhance early career
development of outstanding young investigators and increase
opportunities for the young investigators to recognize the Air Force
mission and the related challenges in science and engineering.
Those selected receive the grants over a three-year period.

Cohen, Myra
Computer Science and Engineering
* Just-Enough-Testing: Adaptive Targeted Testing
of Software Product Lines
$316,551 DOD-Air Force Office
of Scientific Research

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Early Career Awards

Arts and Humanities Awards
$50,000 or more
Active awards in 2008
* Indicates new in 2008

Awakuni-Swetland, Mark Anthropology

* Omaha and Ponca Digital Dictionary
$348,800 National Endowment for the Humanities
09/01/08 – 08/31/11
Walter, Katherine Center for Digital Research
in the Humanities/Libraries
Mark Awakuni-Swetland, assistant professor
of anthropology, and colleagues are creating
a comprehensive Omaha and Ponca digital
dictionary that will be available online for
native communities, students, researchers
and the public. The National Endowment for
the Humanities funds this work through a
joint NEH-National Science Foundation-Smithsonian Institution
“Documenting Endangered Languages” initiative. It’s also a “We
the People” project, a special NEH recognition for model projects
advancing the study, teaching and understanding of American
history and culture. This project will provide extensive information
on the Omaha and Ponca language and will be far more robust
and usable than existing resources.

Kooser, Ted English

American Life in Poetry Project
$141,800 Poetry Foundation
1/1/05 – 6/30/09
The Poetry Foundation, in partnership with
the Library of Congress, supports the
American Life in Poetry project, an initiative
of Ted Kooser, the 2004-2006 Poet Laureate
Consultant in Poetry to the Library of
Congress. American Life in Poetry is a free
weekly column for newspapers and online
publications featuring a poem written by a contemporary
American poet, chosen by Kooser, with a brief introduction written
by Kooser. The sole mission of this project is to promote poetry. The
Poetry Foundation funds the project, with administrative support
provided by the UNL English Department, where the project office
is located.

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arts and humanities $50,000 or more

Price, Kenneth Center for Digital Research
in the Humanities; English
Walt Whitman Archive
$500,000 National Endowment for the Humanities
8/1/05 – 3/31/09
Ken Price, professor of English and Hillegass
chair of 19th Century American Literature, is
principal investigator for a $500,000 We the
People Challenge Grant from the National
Endowment for the Humanities. The award is
contingent on UNL acquiring a 3-1 match of
$1.5 million in the next four years. When
fundraising is completed, the $2 million establishes an endowment
at the University of Nebraska Foundation, the proceeds of which
provide permanent annual operating funding for the Walt
Whitman Archive. The Whitman Archive is an electronic research
and teaching tool that makes Whitman’s huge body of work easily
and conveniently accessible. Whitman amassed a huge volume of
work during his life. Some 70,000 manuscripts are housed in about
80 locations, although the bulk is known to be in just five libraries.
But the logistics of finding these various documents, let alone
assessing and comparing their relevance and content, are
daunting. The Archive allows scholars to search the entire body of
Whitman’s writings and scholarship on those works and offers
scholarly analysis.

* Walt Whitman’s Civil War Writings

$300,000 National Endowment for the Humanities
07/01/08 – 06/30/11

* Walt Whitman’s Civil War Writings

$80,000 American Council of Learned Societies
07/01/08 – 12/31/09

* Walt Whitman and the Civil War

$75,000 National Historical Publications
and Records Commission
10/01/08 – 09/30/09
With grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the
American Council of Learned Societies and the National Historical
Publications and Records Commission, the Walt Whitman Archive
will create a comprehensive edition of the Civil War writings of
Walt Whitman. The War profoundly shaped Leaves of Grass, the
first masterpiece of American poetry, and Whitman extensively
depicted and analyzed the Civil War in journals, notebooks, letters,
essays, journals, memoirs and manuscript drafts. The hundreds
of documents that give voice to Whitman’s experience of the war
will be electronically edited, arranged and published. In addition
to making these documents freely available, this work will help to
model for other scholars best practices in creating, publishing and
sustaining electronic editions. The project will provide scholars and
students—of the Civil War, of Whitman and of American history in
general—a site where they can read, evaluate and experience a set
of texts that provide unique insight into the American experience of
the Civil War.

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arts and humanities $50,000 or more

Walter, Katherine Libraries
Interoperability of Metadata Standards for
Digital Thematic Research Collections
$169,651 Institute of Museum and Library Services
11/1/05 – 4/30/08
Price, Kenneth English
Bolin, Mary Libraries
Barney, Brett Libraries
Katherine Walter, chair of special collections
and preservation and professor of libraries,
is principal investigator on a team hoping to
develop guidelines that will serve as a model
for the integration of standards used by
scholarly digital projects and could influence
future development. Metadata integration is
an important but yet unattained goal for digital thematic research
collections, which employ standards for transcriptions, digital
images, finding aids and administrative records. These standards
have been developed by different communities. The Metadata
Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS) shows promise as a
means of integrating various standards, but no testing of METS
has been done using digital thematic research as a model; thus ad
hoc and idiosyncratic solutions have sprung up, with various
unreliable results. UNL will create a METS profile to test its
reliability and also submit the package to two digital library
systems at Brown University and the University of Virginia.

National Digital Newspaper Program: Nebraska

$271,016 National Endowment for the Humanities
7/1/07 – 6/30/09
Wunder, John Journalism and Mass Communications
Mering, Margaret Center for Digital Research in the Humanities
Pytlik Zillig, Brian Center for Digital Research in the Humanities
Walter, who co-directs UNL’s Center for Digital Research in the
Humanities, leads the Nebraska Digital Newspapers Project,
through which about 100,000 pages of Nebraska newspapers
from 1880 through 1910 will be digitized for inclusion in the
Library of Congress’ national “Chronicling America” Web
site. UNL’s University Libraries is partnering with the College
of Journalism and Mass Communications and the Nebraska
State Historical Society on the two-year, “We the People” grant.
Nebraska is one of nine states selected in the early phases of this
project, which eventually will include all 50 states. “We the People”
grants recognize model projects that advance the study, teaching
and understanding of American history and culture.

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arts and humanities $50,000 or more

Arts and Humanities Awards
$5,000-$49,999
Active awards in 2008
* Indicates new in 2008

Bleed, Peter Anthropology and Geography

Archaeological Investigation of the Battle of El Viso, July 1, 1898
$30,220 National Geographic Society

Engen-Wedin, Nancy Lied Center for Performing Arts

* Nebraska’s Rural Arts Education Initiative
$25,000 National Endowment for the Arts

ArtsReach
$50,000 Nebraskans for the Arts

Umonhon Cultural Arts Program

$23,250 Kennedy Center for Performing Arts

Handa, Rumiko Architecture

Spirit of Design: Multidisciplinary,
Multimedia Database and Website
$12,000 Graham Foundation
Potter, James Architecture

Hanson, Marin Textiles, Clothing and Design

International Quilt Study Center New Building Opening Exhibition
$21,274 Cooper Foundation
Ducey, Carolyn International Quilt Study Center & Museum

Jewell, Andrew Center for Digital Research in the Humanities

* The Crowded Page
$49,577 National Endowment for the Humanities

Mapping a Writer’s World: A Geographic

Chronology of Willa Cather’s Life
$7,800 Nebraska Humanities Council

Kendall, Laura Lied Center for Performing Arts

* Loop Divers by Troika Ranch
$35,000 Woods Charitable Fund/
Lincoln Community Foundation

Lundine, Heather University Press

* Literary Publishing at the University of Nebraska Press
$20,000 National Endowment for the Arts

Access to Artistic Excellence: International Translations

$25,000 National Endowment for the Arts

Price, Kenneth English

Walt Whitman Archive
$14,000 Cooper Foundation

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arts and humanities $5,000 — $49,999

Richmond, John School of Music
*2009 Honors Jazz Weekend & Summer Camp
$10,000 Berman Music Foundation
Haar, Ora School of Music

Stubbendieck, James Great Plains Studies

* Celebrating Darwin’s Legacy
$8,960 Nebraska Humanities Council

Walter, Katherine University Libraries

Quilt Index National Leadership Project
$20,000 Michigan State University
Crews, Patricia Textiles, Clothing and Design

Weiss, Wendy Textiles, Clothing and Design

Hillestad Textiles Gallery
$9,000 Friends of the Hillestad Textiles Gallery

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arts and humanities $5,000 — $49,999

PATENTS ISSUED IN 2008
Recognition for faculty who received patents
UNL faculty indicated in red

Divya Jaroni, Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences; Mindy

Brashears
Title: Lactic acid bacteria cultures that inhibit food-borne
pathogens
Date: 1/29/2008
Number: 7,323,166
Country: United States of America

Stephen Robert Platt, Mechanical Engineering; Shane Farritor,

Mechanical Engineering; Dmitry Oleynikov; Adnan Hadzialic
Title: Surgical Camera Robot
Date: 3/4/2008
Number: 7,339,341
Country: United States of America

Bernard Doudin, Physics & Astronomy; Christian Binek, Physics &

Astronomy
Title: Magnetic Spin Valve With a Magnetoelectric Element
Date: 4/15/2008
Number: 7,358,846
Country: United States of America

Raul Barletta, Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences; Ofelia

Barletta-Chacon, Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences
Title: Recombinant Mycobacteria Overexpressing D-alanine Ligase
Gene and Uses Therefore
Date: 5/13/2008
Number: 7,371,571
Country: United States of America

Alan Christensen, Biological Sciences; Douglas Dorer

Title: Nucleic Acid Sequences Found in Drosophilia Melanogaster
That Encode Proteins Essential for Viability and Method of Use
Date: 6/10/2008
Number: 7,384,745
Country: United States of America

Jody Redepenning, Chemistry

Title: Electrolytic Deposition of Coatings for Prosthetic Metals and
Alloys
Date: 6/17/2008
Number: 7,387,846
Country: United States of America

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patents issued
Richard Arnold, Engineering Research Centers; Shane Farritor,
Mechanical Engineering; Chris Norman
Title: Method and apparatus for noncontact relative rail
displacement, track modulus and stiffness measurement by a
moving rail vehicle
Date: 7/22/2008
Number: 7,403,296
Country: United States of America

Dean Sicking, Civil Engineering; Jim C. Holloway, Midwest

Roadside Safety Program; John D. Reid, Mechanical Engineering;
John R. Rohde, Civil Engineering; Karla Polivka, Midwest Roadside
Safety Program; Robert W. Bielenberg, Midwest Roadside Safety
Program; Ronald Faller, Midwest Roadside Safety Program; Eric
Keller; Kenneth Addink
Title: High-impact, energy-absorbing vehicle barrier system
Date: 8/12/2008
Number: 7,410,320 B2
Country: United States of America

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patents issued
2008 INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LICENSES
Recognition for faculty who licensed intellectual property
UNL faculty indicated in red

George Graef, Agronomy and Horticulture; Leslie Korte,

Agronomy and Horticulture; Dennis White, Agronomy and
Horticulture
Technology: Soybean variety NE3001
Two licensees: Grain Place Foods, Inc.; Hendrick Seeds

Shane Farritor, Mechanical Engineering; Dmitry Oleynikov
Technology: Devices for surgical applications
Licensee: Virtual Incision Corp.

J. Ron Nelson, Educational Psychology

Technology: Online vocabulary: Progress monitoring assessment
Licensee: Cambium Learning, Inc.

Vadim Gladyshev, Biochemistry

Technology: A system for efficient expression of selenoproteins in
mammalian cells
Licensee: R&D Systems, Inc.

Maher Tadros, Civil Engineering

Technology: Pre-cast post-tensioned segmental concrete pole
system
Licensee: Superior Concrete Products

Milford Hanna, Biological Systems Engineering; Robert Weber,

Industrial Ag Products Center
Technology: Bio-based polymer and method for making the same
(packing peanuts made mostly of starch with physical properties
superior to all starch peanuts)
Licensee: StarchTech, Inc.

Stefan Newbold, Facilities Management; Lalit Agarwal, Facilities

Management; Jim Hines, Facilities Management; and others
Technology: Campus energy management & control system
Licensee: DTL Controls, LLC

Donald Rundquist, School of Natural Resources; Bryan Leavitt,

School of Natural Resources
Technology: CALMIT (Center for Advanced Land Management
Information Technologies) data acquisition program software
for hyperspectral, photographic and DPS data collection and
management
Licensee: South Dakota State University

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intellectual property licenses

Subramaniam Srikumaran, Veterinary & Biomedical Sciences;
Martha Gentry-Nielsen
Technology: Hybridoma cell lines for the production of antibodies
against P. haemolytica A1 leukotoxin
Licensee: Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica, P. (BIVI)

Peter Stephen Baenziger, Agronomy and Horticulture

Technology: Wheat variety NE01643
Three licensees: North Dakota Crop Improvement and Seed
Association (NDCISA, dba Dakota Select Seed); Albert Lea Seed
House; James Stewart II

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intellectual property licenses

CREATIVE WORKS IN
FINE AND PERFORMING ARTS
Faculty who created, performed or produced creative works
in fine and performing arts, nationally or internationally

Scott Anderson School of Music
Soloist, trombone, Johan De Meij’s T-Bone Concerto, Twin Ports
Wind Orchestra, University of Minnesota-Duluth, Duluth, MN

John Bailey School of Music

Soloist, piccolo and piano, Chutzpah! Florida Flute Fair,
Orlando, FL
Conductor and featured soloist (with Christian Bohnenstengel),
Venezuelan National Flute Choir, South American flute orchestra
concert tour, Caracas, Venezuela
Conductor, International Flute Orchestra (35 professional flutists
from around the U.S. and Canada), South American flute orchestra
concert tour, Valparaiso, Concepción and Santiago, Chile
Conductor, High Winds Flute Orchestra (150 flutists) opening
concert; International Flute Orchestra showcase concert, National
Flute Association’s annual national convention, Kansas City, MO

Carolyn Barber School of Music

Conductor, Dorian Festival Honor Band, Luther College,
Decorah, IA
Conductor, Maryland Music Educators Association Junior All-State
Band, Baltimore, MD
Conductor, with U.S. Air Force Heartland of America Band, Percy
Grainger’s The Merry King, 2008 College Band Directors National
Association Conference

Paul Barnes School of Music

Artist in residence, 2008 Oxbridge International C.S. Lewis
Conference, Oxford and Cambridge, England

Peter Bouffard School of Music

Director of jazz and featured performer, University of Maine
Summer Youth Music Camp, Orono, ME

Kate Butler School of Music

Artist in residence, 2008 Oxbridge International C.S. Lewis
Conference, Oxford and Cambridge, England
Alto soloist, Honegger’s King David, Tulsa Oratorio Chorus and
Orchestra, Tulsa, OK
Soloist, Music for a Summer Afternoon, Redlands, CA

Mark Clinton School of Music

Featured artist, piano, Seattle International Piano Festival and
Competition, Seattle, WA

Chris Ford Architecture

Artist, residential architecture, TAIMEN, H&R Block Artspace
Exhibit: “The Design Flatfile,” Kansas City, MO

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creative works in fine and performing arts

Dana Fritz Art and Art History
Artist, photography, The Culture of Nature, Kansas City Artists
Coalition, Kansas City, MO

Therees Hibbard School of Music

Workshop leader and guest conductor, St. Olaf Choir, Chapel Choir
and Viking Chorus, St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN
Conductor, presenter and workshop leader, Conference on
Worship, Theology and the Arts, St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN

Michael James Textiles, Clothing and Design

Artist, wall quilts, The Life in a Day: New Work, Modern Arts
Midwest, Lincoln, NE
Artist, Structure, Surface and Expression: Quilt Directions Today.
Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC
Artist, Interference Effect: (Betrayed) Lover’s Knot #2, Craft
in America touring exhibit, Little Rock, AR; Portland, OR; San
Diego, CA; Houston, TX; Bloomfield Hills, MI; Oklahoma City, OK
Brockton, MA

Karen Kunc Art and Art History

Artist, prints, Visualizing the Urban/Rural Divide, Malaspina Print
Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Artist, prints, IMPRINT 2008, Clashes Between Civilizations,
Kulisiewicz International Graphics Triennial, Palace of Culture and
Science, Warsaw, Poland

Christopher Marks School of Music

Featured recitalist, organ, 2008 National Convention of the Organ
Historical Society, Seattle, WA

Jeffrey McCray School of Music

Performer, bassoon, Samuel Adler’s Canto XII for solo bassoon,
2008 Conference of the International Double Reed Society,
Brigham Young University, Provo, UT

William McMullen School of Music

Recitalist (accompanied by Donna Harler-Smith, UNL School of
Music, Charles (Chip) Smith and pianist Christopher Koelzer),
oboe, Randall Snyder’s Lagu Obo (Song of the Oboe) with poetry
by Goenawan Mohamad; Paul Reade’s Aspects of a Landscape
with poetry by Rosemary Bergstrom; and Benjamin Britten’s Two
Insect Pieces with poetry by Abraham Cowley and Daryl Hine,
2008 Conference of the International Double Reed, Brigham Young
University, Provo, UT

Eric Richards School of Music

Composer, premiere, Fantasia on Kang Ding Love Song, Shanghai
Conservatory of Music Jazz Orchestra, Shanghai, China
Composer, Three Scenes for American Trombone and Brass
Orchestra, Holland Center for the Performing Arts, Omaha, NE

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creative works in fine and performing arts

Francisco Souto Art and Art History
Artist, prints on paper, 7th Kochi International Triennial of Prints,
Ino-Cho Paper Museum, Kochi, Japan
Artist, prints on paper, 2008 New York International Print Fair, The
Park Avenue Armory, New York City, New York
Artist, prints on paper, Subject(s) to Change: American Art from
the Permanent Collection, Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE

Sandra Williams Art and Art History

Artist, mixed media, Dark Sky Preserve, The Arts Mission,
Binghamton, New York
Artist, mixed media, 30 Years of Clay, Borelli Edwards Gallery,
Pittsburgh, PA

The Moran Woodwind Quintet School of Music

Jeffrey McCray, bassoon
Diane Barger, clarinet
John Bailey, flute
Alan Mattingly, horn
William McMullen, oboe
Performers, University of Kansas at Lawrence, William Jewell
College, the University of Missouri-Columbia and Washburn
University, Topeka

UNL Faculty Brass Quintet School of Music

Darryl White and Craig Bircher, trumpets
Alan Mattingly, horn
Scott Anderson, trombone
Craig Fuller, tuba
Guest artists, Season opener, Black Hills Chamber Music Society,
Rapid City, SD
Performers, International Brass Chamber Music Festival, University
of Louisville, Louisville, KY
Performers, University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory of
Music, Washburn University and Kansas State University

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creative works in fine and performing arts

BOOKS
Recognition for faculty who wrote or edited books in 2008.

Douglas A. Abbott Child, Youth and Family Studies

Co-editor, with Rochelle L. Dalla, Child, Youth and Family Studies;
John DeFrain, Child, Youth and Family Studies; Julie Johnson,
Child, Youth and Family Studies. Strengths and Challenges of New
Immigrant Families: Implications for Research, Education, Policy,
and Service. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.

Katherine S. Ankerson Architecture

Co-author, with Jill Pable. Interior Design: Practical Strategies for
Teaching and Learning. New York, NY: Fairchild Books, Inc.

Mark J. Awakuni-Swetland Anthropology;

Institute for Ethnic Studies
Author. Dance Lodges of the Omaha People. Lincoln, NE: University
of Nebraska Press.

Stephen C. Behrendt English

Author. British Women Poets and the Romantic Writing Community.
Baltimore, MD/London: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Susan Belasco English

Editor, with Linck Johnson. The Bedford Anthology of American
Literature Vol. 2, 1865-Present. Boston, MA/New York, NY:
Bedford/St Martin’s Press.

Mark Bernards Agronomy and Horticulture

Co-author, with Roch E. Gaussoin, Agronomy and Horticulture;
Robert N. Klein, West Central Research and Extension Center;
Stevan Z. Knezevic, Northeast Research and Extension Center;
Drew J. Lyon, Panhandle Research and Extension Center; Lowell D.
Sandell, Agronomy and Horticulture; Robert G. Wilson, Panhandle
Research and Extension Center; Patrick J. Shea, School of Natural
Resources; Clyde L. Ogg, Agronomy and Horticulture. Guide
for Weed Management in Nebraska. Lincoln, NE: University of
Nebraska–Lincoln.

John E. Bernthal Special Education and

Communication Disorders
Co-editor/author, with Nicholas Bankson; Peter Flipsen. Articulation
and Phonological Disorders, 6th ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ:
Pearson Education.

David R. Beukelman Special Education and

Communication Disorders
Co-author, with Dr. Pat Mirenda. Augmentative and Alternative
Communication (Korean Translation) . Seoul, Korea: Hakjisa
Publisher.

Brian H. Bornstein Psychology

Co-editor, with Richard L. Wiener, Psychology and College of Law;
Robert F. Schopp, College of Law; Steven L. Willborn, College of Law.
Civil Juries and Civil Justice: Psychological and Legal Perspectives.
New York, NY: Springer.

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books
Thomas Borstelmann History
Co-author, with Jacqueline Jones; Peter H. Wood; Elaine Tyler May;
Vicki Ruiz. Created Equal: A Social and Political History of the
United States, 3rd ed. New York, NY: Pearson Longman.

C. Stephen Bradford College of Law

Co-author, with Gary Ames. Basic Accounting Principles for
Lawyers, 2nd ed. LexisNexis.

Dawn O. Braithwaite Communication Studies

Co-editor and author, with Leslie A. Baxter. Engaging Theories in
Interpersonal Communication: Multiple Perspectives. Thousand
Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

David O. Carter Entomology

Co-editor, with Mark Tibbett. Soil Analysis in Forensic Taphonomy:
Chemical and Biological Effects of Buried Human Remains. Boca
Raton, FL: CRC Press.

Brent Cejda Educational Administration

Co-editor, with J. H. Johnson. Community College Exemplary
Initiatives. Lincoln, NE: National Council of Instructional
Administrators.

Enrique Martínez Celaya Art and Art History

Author. Nomad. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press.

John Comer Political Science

Co-author, with John Gruhl, Political Science; Susan Rigdon; Susan
Welch. Understanding American Government. Belmont, CA:
Thomson Wadsworth.

Sidnie W. Crawford Classics and Religious Studies

Author. Rewriting Scripture in Second Temple Times. Grand Rapids,
MI: Eerdmans.

John W. Creswell Educational Psychology

Co-editor, with Vicki L. Plano Clark, Educational Psychology. The
Mixed Methods Reader. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Rochelle L. Dalla Child, Youth and Family Studies

Primary editor, with John DeFrain, Child, Youth and Family Studies;
Julie Johnson, Child, Youth and Family Studies; Douglas A. Abbott,
Child, Youth and Family Studies. Strengths and Challenges of New
Immigrant Families: Implications for Research, Education, Policy,
and Service. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.

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books
John D. DeFrain Child, Youth and Family Studies
Co-author, with David H. Olson; Linda Skogrand. Marriages and
Families: Intimacy, Diversity, and Strengths, 6th ed. New York, NY:
McGraw-Hill Higher Education.
Co-editor, with Rochelle L. Dalla, Child, Youth and Family Studies;
Julie Johnson, Child, Youth and Family Studies; Douglas A. Abbott,
Child, Youth and Family Studies. Strengths and Challenges of New
Immigrant Families: Implications for Research, Education, Policy,
and Service. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
Co-author, with Eileen M. Krumbach, Southeast Research and
Extension Center; LaDonna A. Werth, Northeast Research and
Extension Center; Mary K. Warner, West Central Research and
Extension Center; Ruth E. Vonderohe, Northeast Research and
Extension Center; Debra E. Schroeder, Northeast Research and
Extension Center; Sarah Effken Purcell, South Central Research
and Extension Center; Mary E. Nelson, Southeast Research
and Extension Center; Janet S. Hanna, Northeast Research
and Extension Center. Fun to Play, Ready to Learn. Lincoln, NE:
University of Nebraska–Lincoln.

Judy Diamond University of Nebraska State Museum

Primary editor for revision, with Judy Scotchmoor. Animal
Coloration: Activities on the Evolution of Concealing Coloration in
Animals. Arlington, VA: National Science Teachers Association Press.

Lester A. Digman Management

Author. Strategic Management: Competing in the Global
Information Age, 9th ed. Mason, OH: Cengage Learning.

Wheeler Winston Dixon English

Co-author, with Gwendolyn A. Foster, English. A Short History of
Film. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.

Richard Dooling College of Law

Author. Rapture for the Geeks: When AI Outsmarts IQ. New York,
NY: Harmony Books.

Kwakiutl L. Dreher English; Institute for Ethnic Studies

Author. Dancing on the White Page: Black Women Entertainers
Writing Autobiography. Albany, NY: State University of New York
Press.

Judy A. Driskell Nutrition and Health Sciences

Co-editor, with Ira Wolinksy. Sports Nutrition: Energy Metabolism
and Exercise. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group.

Carolyn P. Edwards Psychology; Child, Youth

and Family Studies
First editor, with Carlina Rinaldi. The Diary of Laura: Perspectives on
a Reggio Emilia Diary. St. Paul, MN: Redleaf Press.

Michael Epstein Special Education and

Communication Disorders
Co-author, with Marc Atkins; Douglas Cullinan; Krista Kutash; Robin
Weaver. Reducing Behavior Problems in the Elementary School
Classroom: A Practice Guide. Washington, DC: National Center for
Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance.

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books
Patricia Fairchild 4-H State Office
Co-author, with Diane Vigna, Textiles, Clothing and Design.
Entrepreneurship Investigation ESI: Leader’s Guide; Unit 1:
Discover the E-Scene; Unit 2: The Case of Me; Unit 3: Your Business
Inspection. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska–Lincoln.

Christopher R. Fielding Geosciences

Co-editor, with Tracy D. Frank, Geosciences; John Isbell. Resolving
the Late Paleozoic Ice Age in Time and Space. Boulder, CO: The
Geological Society of America, Inc.

Gwendolyn A. Foster English

Co-author, with Wheeler Winston Dixon, English. A Short History of
Film. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.

Tracy D. Frank Geosciences

Co-editor, with Christopher R. Fielding, Geosciences; John Isbell.
Resolving the Late Paleozoic Ice Age in Time and Space. Boulder,
CO: The Geological Society of America, Inc.

Patricia W. Freeman School of Natural Resources;

University of Nebraska State Museum
Co-author, with Hugh H. Genoways, University of Nebraska State
Museum; Justin D. Hoffman, School of Natural Resources; Keith
Geluso; Russell A. Benedict; Jeffrey J. Huebschman. Mammals of
Nebraska: Checklist, Key, and Bibliography. Lincoln, NE: University
of Nebraska State Museum.

Chris Gallagher English

Co-author, with Amy Lee. Teaching Writing That Matters. New York,
NY: Scholastic.

James A. Garza History; Institute for Ethnic Studies

Author. El Lado Oscuro del Porfiriato: Sexo, crimenes, y vicios en la
Ciudad de Mexico (The Imagined Underworld: Sex, Crime, and Vice
in Porfirian Mexico City). Mexico City, D.F., Mexico: Editorial Aguilar.

Roch E. Gaussoin Extension; Agronomy and Horticulture

Co-author, with Mark L. Bernards, Agronomy and Horticulture;
Robert N. Klein; West Central Research and Extension Center;
Stevan Z. Knezevic, Northeast Research and Extension Center;
Drew J. Lyon, Panhandle Research and Extension Center; Lowell D.
Sandell, Agronomy and Horticulture; Robert G. Wilson, Panhandle
Research and Extension Center; Patrick J. Shea, School of Natural
Resources; Clyde L. Ogg, Agronomy and Horticulture. Guide
for Weed Management in Nebraska. Lincoln, NE: University of
Nebraska–Lincoln.

Marilyn L. Grady Educational Administration

Co-author with D. Gosmire. DIAL’s Interactive Learning Campus:
Connecting, Learning and Sharing. Platte, SD: Mid-Central Coop
and Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska–Lincoln.

William M. Grange Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film

Author. Cultural Chronicle of the Weimar Republic. Lanham, MD:
Scarecrow Press.

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books
John Gruhl Political Science
Co-author, with John Comer, Political Science; Susan Rigdon; Susan
Welch. Understanding American Government. Belmont, CA:
Thomson Wadsworth.

Janet S. Hanna Northeast Research

and Extension Center
Co-author, with Eileen M. Krumbach, Southeast Research and
Extension Center; LaDonna A. Werth, Northeast Research and
Extension Center; Mary K. Warner, West Central Research and
Extension Center; Ruth E. Vonderohe, Northeast Research and
Extension Center; Debra E. Schroeder, Northeast Research and
Extension Center; Sarah Effken Purcell, South Central Research
and Extension Center; Mary E. Nelson, Southeast Research and
Extension Center; John D. DeFrain, Family and Consumer Sciences.
Fun to Play, Ready to Learn. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska–
Lincoln.

Steven A. Hardy Architecture

Editor and co-author. Environmental Tectonics: Forming Climatic
Change. London, England: AA Publications.

Terry Housh Nutrition and Health Sciences

Co-author, with Glen Johnson, Nutrition and Health Sciences; Joel
Cramer; Joseph Weir; Travis Beck. Physical Fitness Laboratories on
a Budget. Scottsdale, AZ: Holcomb Hathaway Publishers.

Karen O. Janovy Sheldon Museum of Art

Editor. The Unknown Blakelock. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska
Press.

Paul A. Johnsgard School of Biological Sciences, emeritus

Author. The Platte: Channels in Time. Lincoln, NE: University of
Nebraska Press.

Glen Johnson Nutrition and Health Sciences

Co-author, with Terry Housh, Nutrition and Health Sciences; Joel
Cramer; Joseph Weir; Travis Beck. Physical Fitness Laboratories on
a Budget. Scottsdale, AZ: Holcomb Hathaway Publishers.

Julie Johnson Child, Youth and Family Studies

Co-editor, with Rochelle L. Dalla, Child, Youth and Family Studies;
John DeFrain, Child, Youth and Family Studies; Douglas A. Abbott,
Child, Youth and Family Studies. Strengths and Challenges of New
Immigrant Families: Implications for Research, Education, Policy,
and Service. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.

Wendy J. Katz Art History

Co-editor, with Timothy R. Mahoney, History. Regionalism and the
Humanities. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press.

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books
Robert N. Klein West Central Research
and Extension Center
Co-author, with Mark L. Bernards, Agronomy and Horticulture;
Roch E. Gaussoin, Agronomy and Horticulture; Stevan Z. Knezevic,
Northeast Research and Extension Center; Drew J. Lyon, Panhandle
Research and Extension Center; Lowell D. Sandell, Agronomy and
Horticulture; Robert G. Wilson, Panhandle Research and Extension
Center; Patrick J. Shea, School of Natural Resources; Clyde L. Ogg,
Agronomy and Horticulture. Guide for Weed Management in
Nebraska. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska–Lincoln.

Stevan Z. Knezevic Northeast Research

and Extension Center
Co-author, with Mark L. Bernards, Agronomy and Horticulture; Roch
E. Gaussoin, Agronomy and Horticulture; Robert N. Klein; West
Central Research and Extension Center; Drew J. Lyon, Panhandle
Research and Extension Center; Lowell D. Sandell, Agronomy and
Horticulture; Robert G. Wilson, Panhandle Research and Extension
Center; Patrick J. Shea, School of Natural Resources; Clyde L. Ogg,
Agronomy and Horticulture. Guide for Weed Management in
Nebraska. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska–Lincoln.

Ted Kooser English

Author, with illustrations by Robert Hanna. Valentines. Lincoln, NE:
University of Nebraska Press.

Marjorie Kostelnik Child, Youth and Family Studies

Co-author, with Alice Whiren; Anne Soderman; Kara Gregory.
Guiding Children’s Social Development & Learning, 6th ed. Clifton
Park, NY: Delmar Cengage Learning.

Eileen Krumbach Southeast Research

and Extension Center
Co-author, with LaDonna A. Werth, Northeast Research and
Extension Center; Mary K. Warner, West Central Research and
Extension Center; Ruth E. Vonderohe, Northeast Research and
Extension Center; Debra E. Schroeder, Northeast Research and
Extension Center; Sarah Effken Purcell, South Central Research
and Extension Center; Mary E. Nelson, Southeast Research and
Extension Cente; Janet S. Hanna, Northeast Research and Extension
Center; John D. DeFrain, Family and Consumer Sciences. Fun to Play,
Ready to Learn. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska–Lincoln.

Thomas Larson School of Music

Author. Modern Sounds: The Artistry of Contemporary Jazz.
Dubuque, IA: Kendall/Hunt.
Author. The History and Tradition of Jazz, 3rd ed. Dubuque, IA:
Kendall/Hunt.

Carole Levin History; Medieval & Renaissance Studies

Author. Dreaming the English Renaissance: Politics and Desire in
Court and Culture. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan.

Suping Lu Libraries-Books
Editor. Terror in Minnie Vautrin’s Nanjing: Diaries and
Correspondence, 1937-38. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press.

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books
Tom Lynch English
Author. Xerophilia: Ecocritical Explorations in Southwestern
Literature. Lubbock, TX: Texas Tech University Press.

Drew J. Lyon Panhandle Research

and Extension Center
Co-author, with Mark L. Bernards, Agronomy and Horticulture;
Roch E. Gaussoin, Agronomy and Horticulture; Robert N. Klein;
West Central Research and Extension Center; Stevan Z. Knezevic,
Northeast Research and Extension Center; Robert G. Wilson,
Panhandle Research and Extension Center;Lowell D. Sandell,
Agronomy and Horticulture; Patrick J. Shea, School of Natural
Resources; Clyde L. Ogg, Agronomy and Horticulture. Guide
for Weed Management in Nebraska. Lincoln, NE: University of
Nebraska–Lincoln.

Timothy R. Mahoney History

Co-editor, with Wendy J. Katz, Art History. Regionalism and the
Humanities. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press.

Ann Mari May Economics

Editor and contributor. The ‘Woman Question’ and Higher
Education: Perspectives on Gender and Knowledge Production in
America. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar.

Joseph Mendola Philosophy

Author. Anti-Externalism. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

Dona-Gene Mitchell Political Science

Co-editor, with Jeffery J. Mondak. Fault Lines: Why the Republicans
Lost Congress. New York, NY: Routledge.

Nancy A. Mitchell Advertising; Undergraduate Studies

Co-author, with Sandra Moriarty; William Wells. Advertising
Principles and Practice, 8th ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson/
Prentice Hall.

J. Ron Nelson Special Education and

Communication Disorders
Co-author, with Gregory J. Benner, Paul Mooney. Scientifically
Based Instructional Practices for Teaching Students with Serious
Behavioral Disorders: Strategies for Reading, Writing and Math.
New York, NY: Guilford Press.

Mary E. Nelson Southeast Research

and Extension Center
Co-author, with Eileen M. Krumbach, Southeast Research and
Extension Center; LaDonna A. Werth, Northeast Research and
Extension Center; Mary K. Warner, West Central Research and
Extension Center; Ruth E. Vonderohe, Northeast Research and
Extension Center; Debra E. Schroeder, Northeast Research and
Extension Center; Sarah Effken Purcell, South Central Research
and Extension Center; Janet S. Hanna, Northeast Research and
Extension Center; John D. DeFrain, Family and Consumer Sciences.
Fun to Play, Ready to Learn. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska–
Lincoln.

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books
Clyde L. Ogg Extension; Agronomy and Horticulture
Co-author, with Mark L. Bernards, Agronomy and Horticulture;
Roch E. Gaussoin, Agronomy and Horticulture; Robert N. Klein;
West Central Research and Extension Center; Stevan Z. Knezevic,
Northeast Research and Extension Center; Drew J. Lyon, Panhandle
Research and Extension Center; Lowell D. Sandell, Agronomy and
Horticulture; Patrick J. Shea, School of Natural Resources; Robert G.
Wilson, Panhandle Research and Extension Center. Guide for Weed
Management in Nebraska. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska–
Lincoln.

Marshall C. Olds Modern Languages and Literature

Editor of critical edition. Le Nègre et la Créole, ou Mémoires
d’Eulalie D***. Paris, France: L’Harmattan.

David L. Olson Management

Co-author, with Desheng Wu. Enterprise Risk Management.
Singapore: WorldScientific.
Co-author, with Dursun Delen. Advanced Data Mining Techniques.
Heidelberg, Germany: Springer.
Co-editor, with Desheng Wu. New Frontiers in Risk Management.
Heidelberg, Germany: Springer.

Paul A. Olson English, emeritus

Author. Beyond a Common Joy: An Introduction to Shakespearean
Comedy. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press.

Michael R. Page English

Editor. The Man with the Strange Head and Other Early Science
Fiction Stories by Miles J. Breuer. Lincoln, NE: University of
Nebraska Press.

M.J. Paulsen University of Nebraska State Museum

Co-author, with Brett C. Ratcliffe, University of Nebraska State
Museum and Entomology. The Scarabaeoid Beetles of Nebraska.
Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska State Museum.

Vicki L. Plano Clark Educational Psychology

First editor, with John W. Creswell, Educational Psychology. The
Mixed Methods Reader. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Sarah Effken Purcell South Central Research

and Extension Center
Co-author, with Eileen M. Krumbach, Southeast Research and
Extension Center; LaDonna A. Werth, Northeast Research and
Extension Center; Mary K. Warner, West Central Research and
Extension Center; Ruth E. Vonderohe, Northeast Research and
Extension Center; Debra E. Schroeder, Northeast Research and
Extension Center; Mary E. Nelson, Southeast Research and
Extension Center; Janet S. Hanna, Northeast Research and
Extension Center; John D. DeFrain, Family and Consumer Sciences.
Fun to Play, Ready to Learn. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska–
Lincoln.

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books
Mary Kay Quinlan News-Editorial
Co-author, with Charles E. Trimble; Barbara W. Sommer. The
American Indian Oral History Manual: Making Many Voices
Heard. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press.

Brett C. Ratcliffe University of Nebraska State Museum;

Entomology
First author, with M.J. Paulsen, University of Nebraska State
Museum. The Scarabaeoid Beetles of Nebraska. Lincoln, NE:
University of Nebraska State Museum.

Hilda Raz English; Women’s and Gender Studies

Author. All Odd and Splendid. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan
University Press.
Editor. Loren Eiseley: Commentary, Biography, and Remembrance.
Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press.

George E. Rejda Finance

Author. Principles of Risk Management and Insurance. Boston, MA:
Pearson Education, Inc.

Guy J. Reynolds English

Author. Apostles of Modernity: American Writers in the Age of
Development. Lincoln, NE: Nebraska.

Lowell D. Sandell Extension; Agronomy and Horticulture

Co-author, with Mark L. Bernards, Agronomy and Horticulture;
Roch E. Gaussoin, Agronomy and Horticulture; Robert N. Klein;
West Central Research and Extension Center; Stevan Z. Knezevic,
Northeast Research and Extension Center; Drew J. Lyon, Panhandle
Research and Extension Center; Robert G. Wilson, Panhandle
Research and Extension Center; Patrick J. Shea, School of Natural
Resources; Clyde L. Ogg, Agronomy and Horticulture. Guide
for Weed Management in Nebraska. Lincoln, NE: University of
Nebraska–Lincoln.

Robert F. Schopp College of Law

Co-editor, with Steven L. Willborn, College of Law; Richard L. Wiener,
Psychology; Brian H. Bornstein, Psychology. Mental Disorder and
Criminal Law. New York, NY: Springer.

Debra E. Schroeder Northeast Research

and Extension Center
Co-author, with Eileen M. Krumbach, Southeast Research and
Extension Center; LaDonna A. Werth, Northeast Research and
Extension Center; Mary K. Warner, West Central Research and
Extension Center; Ruth E. Vonderohe, Northeast Research and
Extension Center; Sarah Effken Purcell, South Central Research
and Extension Center; Mary E. Nelson, Southeast Research and
Extension Center; Janet S. Hanna, Northeast Research and
Extension Center; John D. DeFrain, Family and Consumer Sciences.
Fun to Play, Ready to Learn. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska–
Lincoln.

Mathias M. Schubert Electrical Engineering

Editor, with Uwe Beck; Hans Arwin. 4th International Conference on
Spectroscopic Ellipsometry. Berlin, Germany: Wiley.

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books
Alan T. Seagren Educational Administration
Co-author, with Daniel Wheeler, Agricultural Leadership, Education
and Communication; Linda Wysong Becker; Edward R. Kinley; Dara
D. Mlinek; Kenneth J. Robson. The Academic Chair’s Handbook, 2nd
ed. San Francisco, CA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Patrick J. Shea Extension; School of Natural Resources

Co-author, with Mark L. Bernards, Agronomy and Horticulture;
Roch E. Gaussoin, Agronomy and Horticulture; Robert N. Klein;
West Central Research and Extension Center; Stevan Z. Knezevic,
Northeast Research and Extension Center; Drew J. Lyon, Panhandle
Research and Extension Center; Lowell D. Sandell, Agronomy and
Horticulture; Robert G. Wilson, Panhandle Research and Extension
Center; Clyde L. Ogg, Agronomy and Horticulture. Guide for Weed
Management in Nebraska. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska–
Lincoln.

Keng Siau Management

Editor. Advanced Principles for Improving Database Design,
Systems Modeling, and Software Development. Hershey, NY:
IGI Global.

Ralph Skomski Nebraska Center for Materials

and Nanoscience; Physics and Astronomy
Author. Simple Models of Magnetism. New York, NY: Oxford
University Press, Inc.

Jolene D. Smyth Sociology; Survey Research

and Methods Program
Co-author, with Don A. Dillman; Leah M. Christian. Internet, Mail,
and Mixed-Mode Surveys: The Tailored Design Method. Hoboken,
NJ: John Wiley & Sons.

Stephen M. Spomer Entomology

Author, with Mathew L. Brust; Douglas C. Backlund; Scott Weins.
Tiger Beetles of South Dakota and Nebraska. Lincoln, NE:
University of Nebraska–Lincoln Entomology.

Joseph Starita News - Editorial

Author. I Am a Man: Standing Bear’s Journey for Justice. New York,
NY: St. Martin’s Press

Alison G. Stewart Art and Art History

Author. Before Bruegel. Sebald Beham and the Origins of Peasant
Festival Imagery. Aldershot, UK, and Burlington, VT: Ashgate.

Zhenghong Tang Community and Regional Planning

Author. Integrate Strategic Environmental Assessment in Local
Land Use Planning: Thinking Globally, Acting Locally. Saarbruken,
Germany: VDM Verlag.

Steven Taylor Food Science and Technology

Editor. Advances in Food and Nutrition Research, 54 and 55. San
Diego, CA: Academic Press.

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books
Eric Thompson Bureau of Business Research; Economics
Co-author, with William Walstad, Center for Economic Education.
Entrepreneurship in Nebraska: Conditions, Attitudes, and Actions.
New York, NY: Gallup Press.

Diane Vigna Extension; Textiles, Clothing and Design

Co-author, with Patricia Fairchild, 4-H State Office. Entrepreneurship
Investigation ESI: Leader’s Guide; Unit 1: Discover the E-Scene;
Unit 2: The Case of Me; Unit 3: Your Business Inspection. Lincoln,
NE: University of Nebraska–Lincoln.

Franz von der Dunk College of Law

Series editor. Studies in Space Law Series: Lotta Viikari, The
Environmental Element in Space Law. Leiden, The Netherlands, and
Boston, MA: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers.

Ruth E. Vonderohe Northeast Research

and Extension Center
Co-author, with Eileen M. Krumbach, Southeast Research and
Extension Center; LaDonna A. Werth, Northeast Research and
Extension Center; Mary K. Warner, West Central Research and
Extension Center; Debra E. Schroeder, Northeast Research and
Extension Center; Sarah Effken Purcell, South Central Research
and Extension Center; Mary E. Nelson, Southeast Research and
Extension Center; Janet S. Hanna, Northeast Research and
Extension Center; John D. DeFrain, Family and Consumer Sciences.
Fun to Play, Ready to Learn. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska–
Lincoln.

William B. Walstad Economics

Co-author, with Eric C. Thompson, Economics. Entrepreneurship in
Nebraska: Condition, Attitudes, and Actions. New York, NY:
Gallup Press.

LuAnn Wandsnider Anthropology

Co-editor, with Simon J. Holdaway. Time in Archaeology. Salt Lake
City, UT: University of Utah Press.

Mary K. Warner West Central Research

and Extension Center
Co-author, with Eileen M. Krumbach, Southeast Research and
Extension Center; LaDonna A. Werth, Northeast Research and
Extension Center; Ruth E. Vonderohe, Northeast Research and
Extension Center; Debra E. Schroeder, Northeast Research and
Extension Center; Sarah Effken Purcell, South Central Research
and Extension Center; Mary E. Nelson, Southeast Research and
Extension Center; Janet S. Hanna, Northeast Research and
Extension Center; John D. DeFrain, Family and Consumer Sciences.
Fun to Play, Ready to Learn. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska–
Lincoln.

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LaDonna A. Werth Northeast Research
and Extension Center
Co-author, with Eileen M. Krumbach, Southeast Research and
Extension Center; Mary K. Warner, West Central Research and
Extension Center; Ruth E. Vonderohe, Northeast Research and
Extension Center; Debra E. Schroeder, Northeast Research and
Extension Center; Sarah Effken Purcell, South Central Research
and Extension Center; Mary E. Nelson, Southeast Research and
Extension Center; Janet S. Hanna, Northeast Research and
Extension Center; John D. DeFrain, Family and Consumer Sciences.
Fun to Play, Ready to Learn. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska–
Lincoln.

Daniel W. Wheeler Agricultural Leadership,

Education and Communication
Co-author, with Alan T. Seagren, Educational Administration; Linda
Wysong Becker; Edward R. Kinley; Dara D. Mlinek; Kenneth J.
Robson. The Academic Chair’s Handbook, 2nd ed. San Francisco,
CA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Richard L. Wiener Psychology; College of Law

Co-editor, with Brian H. Bornstein, Psychology; Robert F. Schopp,
College of Law; Steven L. Willborn, College of Law. Civil Juries and
Civil Justice: Psychological and Legal Perspectives. New York, NY:
Springer.

Steven L. Willborn College of Law

Co-author, with Robert F. Schopp, College of Law; Richard L. Wiener,
Psychology; Brian H. Bornstein, Psychology. Mental Disorder and
Criminal Law. New York, NY: Springer.

Robert G. Wilson Panhandle Research

and Extension Center
Co-author, with Mark L. Bernards, Agronomy and Horticulture;
Roch E. Gaussoin, Agronomy and Horticulture; Robert N. Klein;
West Central Research and Extension Center; Stevan Z. Knezevic,
Northeast Research and Extension Center; Drew J. Lyon, Panhandle
Research and Extension Center; Lowell D. Sandell, Agronomy and
Horticulture; Patrick J. Shea, School of Natural Resources; Clyde L.
Ogg, Agronomy and Horticulture. Guide for Weed Management in
Nebraska. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska–Lincoln.

Rachelle Winkle-Wagner Educational Administration

Co-editor, with Mary F. Howard-Hamilton; Carla L. Morelon-
Quainoo; Susan D. Johnson; Lilia Santiague. Standing on the
Outside Looking in: Underrepresented Students’ Experiences in
Advanced Degree Programs. Hendon, VA: Stylus Publishing.

Simon Wood Classics and Religious Studies

Author. Christian Criticisms, Islamic Proofs: Rashid Rida’s
Modernist Defence of Islam. Oxford, UK: Oneworld.

Robert J. Wright Entomology

Co-author, with Mathew L. Brust; W.W. Hoback. The Grasshoppers
(Orthoptera: Acrididae and Romaleidae) of Nebraska. Lincoln, NE:
UNL Extension.

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John Wunder History; College of Journalism
and Mass Communications
Co-editor, with Joann M. Ross. The Nebraska-Kansas Act of 1854.
Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press.

Janos Zempleni Nutrition and Health Sciences

Co-editor, with Carolyn Berdanier. Advanced Nutrition. Boca Raton,
FL: Taylor and Francis.

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2008 RECOGNITIONS AND HONORS
Faculty who have been elected to honor academies
or who have received national or international honors or awards

Brian Larkins Office of Research;

Agronomy and Horticulture
National Academy of Science membership

William Splinter Larsen Tractor Test and Power Museum;

Biological Systems Engineering, Emeritus
National Academy of Engineers

James Van Etten Plant Pathology

National Academy of Science

Elton Aberle Animal Science

Fellow, American Meat Science Association
R.C. Pollack Award, American Meat Science Association

Viacheslav Adamchuk Biological Systems Engineering

Pierre C. Robert Precision Agriculture Young Scientist Award, Ninth
International Conference on Precision Agriculture

David Allen Engineering

Michael P. Malone International Leadership Award, National
Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges
International TTH Pian Medal, International Congress of
Computational Engineering Sciences

Jane Armstrong Northeast Research

and Extension Center
National Family Strengthening Award, National 4-H Council/Annie
E. Casey Foundation

Diane Barger School of Music

Treasurer, International Clarinet Association

Herman Batelaan Physics and Astronomy

Fellow, Division of Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics of the
American Physical Society

Frederick Baxendale Entomology

2008 Distinguished Achievement Award in Extension,
Entomological Society of America

Don Beermann Animal Science

Fellow, American Meat Science Association

Kirill Belashchenko Physics and Astronomy

Cottrell Scholar Award, Research Corporation

David Berkowitz Chemistry

Promotion of Science Fellowship, Japan Society

87

RECOGNITIONS and honors

Bruce W. Brodersen Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences
Outstanding Service Award, Nebraska Veterinary Medical
Association

David Brooks Teaching, Learning and Teacher Education

Fellow, American Education Research Association

Amy Burnett History

Gerald Strauss Book Prize for Teaching the Reformation: Ministers
and Their Message in Basel, 1529-1629 (Oxford University Press,
2007), Sixteenth Century Society & Conference

Chris Calkins Animal Science

Fellow, American Meat Science Association

Gustavo Carlo Psychology

Visiting Scholar Fellowship, University of Valencia, Spain

Ann Chang-Barnes Lied Center for Performing Arts

Fulbright Scholar Award for 2009, Royal Conservatory of Music,
Brussels, Belgium, U.S. Fulbright Commission

Xun-Hong Chen School of Natural Resources

Chang Jiang Scholars Professor, Ministry of Education, People’s
Republic of China

Dennis Conley Agricultural Economics; Marketing

Outstanding Contribution as Co-Chair of the 18th Annual IAMA
Forum, International Food and Agribusiness Management
Association

John W. Creswell Educational Psychology

2008 Senior Fulbright Fellowship to South Africa, U.S. Fulbright
Commission

Elbert Dickey Cooperative Extension

Inductee, U.S. Agriculture Hall of Fame

Lester Digman Management

Fellow, Midwest Decision Sciences Institute

Liangcheng Du Chemistry
Invited lecturer, SINO-US Round-table Conference on Chemical
Biology and New Drug Discovery, Changsha, China

Sarah Effken Purcell Southeast Research

and Extension Center
National Family Strengthening Award, National 4-H Council/Annie
E. Casey Foundation

Dean Eisenhauer Biological Systems Engineering

2008 Award for the Advancement of Surface Irrigation, American
Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE)

Marion Ellis Entomology

Award of Excellence, American Association of Professional
Apiculturists

88

RECOGNITIONS and honors

Ece Erdogmus Architectural Engineering
Journal of Architectural Engineering Best Paper Award, 2008,
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
2008 Architectural Engineering Conference Best Structures Paper
Award, Architectural Engineering Institute (AEI)

John Foster Entomology

John V. Osmun Alumni Professional Achievement Award for
Entomology, Purdue University

Roch Gaussoin Extension; Agronomy and Horticulture

Fred V. Grau Turfgrass Science Award, Crop Science Society of
America

Kurt Geisinger Educational Psychology

2008 Jacob Cohen Award for Distinguished Teaching and
Mentoring, American Psychological Association

Marilyn L. Grady Educational Administration

2008 Living Legends Award, National Council of Professors of
Educational Administration

Mark Griep Chemistry

Officer Grant, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

David Hage Chemistry

Top 20 Most Cited Review Author from 2002 to 2007, Journal of
Chromatography B
Fellow, National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry

Ronald Hampton Marketing

2008 International Scholar of the Year Award, Phi Beta Delta

Janet Harkness Survey, Research and Methodology Program/

Gallup Research Center; English
Invited member of the Special Survey Research Statistics
“Committee of Visitors,” NSF Advisory Committee for the Social,
Behavioral and Economic Sciences

Jeff Hart Southeast Research

and Extension Center
National Family Strengthening Award, National 4-H Council/Annie
E. Casey Foundation

Edwin Harvey School of Natural Resources

Distinguished Service Award, Geological Society of America
Hydrogeology Division

Tiffany Heng-Moss Entomology

Distinguished Achievement Award in Teaching, National
Entomological Society of America

Alice Henneman Southeast Research

and Extension Center
Food Safety Award (1st Place) – Team Award, National Extension
Association of Family and Consumer Sciences

89

RECOGNITIONS and honors

Mary Anne Holmes Geosciences
Fellow, Association for Women in Science

Melissa J. Homestead English; Women’s and Gender Studies

Knopf Fellowship, Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at
Austin
Everett Helm Visiting Fellowship, Lilly Library, Indiana University

Roger Hoy Biological Systems Engineering

Next Generation Award, American National Standards Institute
(ANSI)

Suat Irmak Biological Systems Engineering

Educational Aids Competition Blue Ribbon Award in the
Educational Publications Category, American Society of
Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE)
2008 New Holland Young Researcher Award, American Society of
Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE)

Rodger Johnson Animal Science

Research Fellow Award, American Society of Animal Science

Clinton J. Jones Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences

Honorary Cell Death Editorial Board Member, International Cell
Death Society

Jeannette Eileen Jones History;

Institute for Ethnic Studies
Deutsche Bank Junior Scholar-in-Residence Fellowship, Heidelberg
Center for American Studies, Universitat Heidelberg, Germany

Wendy Katz Art and Art History

Jay T. Last Fellowship, American Antiquarian Society

Karen Kunc Art and Art History

Visiting Artist Residency, Malaspina Printmakers Society,
Vancouver, Canada

Sang Lee Management

Distinguished Global Leadership Award, Pan-Pacific Business
Association

Carole Levin History; Medieval & Renaissance Studies

2008 Roland Bainton Prize for Best Reference Work published in
2007, Sixteenth Century Studies and Conference
Best Collaborative Project published in 2007, Society for the Study
of Early Modern Women

Donald Levis Northeast Research

and Extension Center
ASAS Fellow Award – Extension Category, American Society of
Animal Science

Nancy Lewis Nutrition and Health Sciences

Distinguished Alumni Award, New Mexico State University

90

RECOGNITIONS and honors

Marjorie F. Lou Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences;
Redox Biology
International Honorary University Professorship, Xian Jiaotong
University

Yongfeng Lu Electrical Engineering

Fellow, Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE)

Fred Luthans Management

Distinguished Global Leadership Award, Pan-Pacific Business
Association

Craig MacPhee Economics

2008 International Scholar of the Year Award, Phi Beta Delta

Terry Mader Animal Science

Honorary Professor, School of Animal Studies at the University of
Queensland, Australia
Contributor to the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change (IPCC), co-recipient (with Al Gore) of the 2007
Nobel Peace Prize, Nobel Foundation

Roger Mandigo Animal Science

Fellow, American Meat Science Association

Leanne Manning Southeast Research

and Extension Center
National Family Strengthening Award, National 4-H Council/Annie
E. Casey Foundation

Stephen Mason Agronomy and Horticulture

Crop Science Outstanding Teaching Award, Crop Science Society
of America

Martin Massengale Center for Grassland Studies

Distinguished Achievement in Agriculture, Gamma Sigma Delta

George Meyer Biological Systems Engineering

BAE Division Best Paper Award for 2008, American Society for
Engineering Education (ASEE)

Nancy Miller Textiles, Clothing and Design

Best Research Paper in Merchandising, Marketing, Retailing,
International Textiles and Apparel Association

Rodney A. Moxley Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences

National Research Council Member and President, Conference of
Research Workers in Animal Diseases

Glenn Nierman School of Music

President, North Central Division, MENC, The National Association
for Music Education

Giacomo Oliva Fine and Performing Arts

2008 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award, New York
University’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human
Development

91

RECOGNITIONS and honors

Dongming Peng Computer and Electronics Engineering
Best Paper Award for 2008 IEEE Wireless Communications and
Networking Conference, IEEE

Amy Peterson Southeast Research

and Extension Center
2008 Distinguished Achievement Award in Teaching, National
Extension Association of Family and Consumer Sciences

Reece Peterson Special Education and

Communication Disorders
Outstanding Leadership Award, Midwest Symposium for
Leadership in Behavioral Disorders

Larkin Powell School of Natural Resources

Fulbright Scholar Fellowship, Council for International Exchange of
Scholars

M. Kathleen Prochaska-Cue Child, Youth and Family Studies

Communication – Education Publication Award, National Extension
Association of Family and Consumer Science

Rick Rasby Animal Science

Excellence in Extension Award, National Association of State
Universities and Land-Grant Colleges

Brett Ratcliffe Entomology

Selection of the rhinoceros beetle, Megaceras briansaltini, as
one of the top ten species described in 2007 (the only insect
so designated), International Institute for Species Exploration,
Arizona State University

David Rosenbaum Economics

Nebraska Professor of the Year, CASE - Carnegie Foundation for
the Advancement of Teaching

John Rupnow Food Science and Technology

Fellow of the Institute of Food Technologists, Institute of Food
Technologists

Hamid Sharif Computer and Electronics Engineering

Best Paper Award for 2008 IEEE Wireless Communications and
Networking Conference, IEEE

Lee Sherry Northeast Research

and Extension Center
National Family Strengthening Award, National 4-H Council/Annie
E. Casey Foundation

Keng Siau Management

Outstanding Leader Award, Information Resource Management
Association
IBM Faculty Award, IBM

Richard Sincovec Computer Science and Engineering

Coleman-Richardson Distinguished Chaired Professorship for
2008-09, U.S. Air Force Academy

92

RECOGNITIONS and honors

David R. Smtih Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences
Wendall Burgher Beef Industry Award, University of Nebraska
Foundation

Rodney Soukup Electrical Engineering

Education Society Finance Committee, IEEE

Walter Stroup Statistics

Fellow, American Statistical Association

William G. Thomas History

Digital Innovation Fellowship, American Council of Learned
Societies
Visiting Professor of North American Studies, British Association of
American Studies

Eric Thompson Bureau of Business Research; Economics

President, Association for University Business and Economic
Research

Evgeny Tsymbal Physics and Astronomy

Fellow, American Physical Society
Fellow, Institute of Physics, UK

Harriet Turner International Affairs;

Modern Languages and Literature
Membership, The Royal Academy of Fine Arts and Historical
Sciences of Toledo (Spain)

Hamid Vakilzadian Electrical Engineering

Associate Editor of Simulation, Transactions of the Society for
Modeling and Simulation International (SCS)

Anne Vidaver Plant Pathology

ASM Founders Distinguished Service Award, American Society for
Microbiology
Pioneering Women in Plant Pathology, American Phytopathological
Society

Jerry Volesky West Central Research and Extension Center;

Agronomy and Horticulture
Outstanding Achievement Award - Research/Academia, Society for
Range Management

Brian Wilcox Center on Children, Families and the Law;

Psychology
Public Service Award, Society for Prevention Research

Mary S. Willis Anthropology

Interview and research synopsis featured in “Current Applications,”
2008, Volume 49(4), of the journal Current Anthropology

Robert Wilson Panhandle Research

and Extension Center
Fellow Award, Weed Science Society of America

93

RECOGNITIONS and honors

John R. Wunder History; College of Journalism
and Mass Communications
President-elect, 2008-09, Western History Association

Ronald Yoder Biological Systems Engineering

PEI Professional Engineer of the Year for 2008, American Society of
Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE)

94

RECOGNITIONS and honors

Glossary of Federal Agency Abbreviations
USAID United States Agency for International Development

CNS Corporation for National Service

USDA
United States Department of Agriculture
ARS Agricultural Research Service
BRDC Biotechnology Research and
Development Corporation
CSREES Cooperative State Research,
Education & Extension Service
ERS Extension Research Service
FAS Foreign Agriculture Service
FS Forestry Service
NRCS Natural Resources Conservation Service
NRICGP National Research Initiative Competitive
Grant Program
RMA Risk Management Agency
SARE Sustainable Agricultural Research
and Education Program

DOC Department of Commerce

EDA Economic Development Administration
NOAA National Oceanic &
Atmospheric Administration

DOD Department of Defense

ARO Army Research Office
DEPSCoR Defense Experimental Program to
Stimulate Cooperative Research
ONR Office of Naval Research

DEd Department of Education

FIPSE Fund for the Improvement
of Postsecondary Education
GAANN Graduate Assistance in Areas of
National Need

DOE Department of Energy

EPSCoR Experimental Program to Stimulate
Cooperative Research
NIGEC National Institute for Global
Environmental Change

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DHHS Department of Health and Human Services
ACF Administration for Children and Families
CDC Centers for Disease Control
NIH National Institutes of Health
FIC Fogarty International Center
NCI National Cancer Institute
NCRR National Center for Research Resources
NEI National Eye Institute
NHLBI National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute
NIA National Institute on Aging
NIAID National Institute on Allergy &
Infectious Diseases
NICHD National Institute of Child Health and
Human Development
NIDCD National Institute on Deafness &
Communication Disorders
NIDDK National Institute of Diabetes,
Digestive & Kidney Disease
NIDA National Institute on Drug Abuse
NIGMS National Institute on General
Medical Sciences
NIMH National Institute of Mental Health

HUD Department of Housing and Urban Development

DoI Department of Interior

BR Bureau of Reclamation
FWS Fish & Wildlife Service
GS Geological Survey
NPS National Park Service

DoT Department of Transportation

FRA Federal Railroad Administration

EPA Environmental Protection Agency

IMLS Institute of Museum & Library Services

NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration

NCHRP National Cooperative Highway

Research Program

NEA National Endowment for the Arts

NEH National Endowment for the Humanities

NSF National Science Foundation

EPSCoR Experimental Program to
Stimulate Cooperative Research

NSA National Security Agency

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