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Selected Current Research Grant and Contract Awards

  1. Quantum Materials for a Sustainable Energy Future solution in Qatar (QSTAR)
    Principal Investigator: Mahmoud Abdel-Hafiez (U. Doha); PI for UL Lafayette: Michalis Charilaou (Physics)
    Sponsor: Qatar Research Development and Innovation Council
    Amount Awarded: $133,857 for UL Lafayette (total $697,927)
    Grant Period: 01/01/2024 - 12/31/2026
  2. Harmful Algae Event Response & Monitoring for the Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion
    Principal Investigator: Beth Stauffer (Biology)
    Sponsor: Coastal Protection & Restoration Authority (CPRA)
    Amount Awarded: $293,519
    Grant Period: 2024-2026
  3. Characterizing plankton dynamics on GOMECC-5 to improve understanding of regional OA impacts on ecosystem productivity, food webs, and carbon export in the Gulf of Mexico
    Principal Investigator: Beth Stauffer (Biology) Co-PIs: Astrid Schnetzer (NC State)
    Sponsor: NOAA Ocean Acidification Program
    Amount Awarded: $147,843
    Grant Period: 2024-2026
  4. LO-SPAT: Leveraging Opportunities and Strategic Partnerships to Advance Tolerant Oysters for Restoration, Years 4-5
    Principal Investigator: Beth Stauffer (Biology) Co-PIs: Durga Poudel (Geosciences), Natalia Sidorovskaia (Physics), and Geoffrey Steward, G. (Business), S. Barnes (UL Lafayette), M. La Peyre (USGS/LSU AgCenter), L. Plough (UMCES/USDA)
    Sponsor: Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries
    Amount Awarded: $7,079,373
    Grant Period: 2024-2026
  5. Collaborative Tools for Scouting Locations in Virtual Reality
    Principal Investigator: Arun Kulshreshth (Computing and Informatics)); Co-PIs: Christoph Borst (Computing and Informatics)
    Sponsor: Louisiana Board of Regents Research and Development Program - Industrial Ties Research Subprogram (ITRS)
    Amount Awarded: $311,010
    Grant Period: 2024-2027
  6. Enhancement to Support Multidisciplinary Research on Emotion and Virtual Reality
    Principal Investigator: Hung-Chu Lin (Psychology)); Co-PIs: Christoph Borst (Computing and Informatics), Arun Kulshreshth (Computing and Informatics), Heather Stone (Education)
    Sponsor: Louisiana Board of Regents Research and Development Program – Enhancement Subprogram (ENH)
    Amount Awarded: $75,540
    Grant Period: 2024-2025
  7. NSF Student Travel Grant for 2024 37th IEEE International System-on-Chip Conference (IEEE SoCC)
    Principal Investigator: Magdy Bayoumi (Computing and Informatics)
    Sponsor: NSF Award Number: 2436586
    Amount Awarded: $10,000.00
    Grant Period: 08/01/2024 - 07/31/2025 (Estimated)
  8. Collaborative Research: Computational Methods for Optimal Transport via Fluid Flows
    Principal Investigator: Yangwen Zhang (Mathematics)
    Sponsor: NSF Award Number: 2432134
    Amount Awarded: $56,877.00
    Grant Period: 05/15/2024 - 06/30/2025 (Estimated)
  9. Embedding Calculus and its Applications
    Principal Investigator: Robin Koytcheff (Mathematics)
    Sponsor: NSF Award Number: 2405370
    Amount Awarded: $150,000.00
    Grant Period: 07/15/2024 - 06/30/2026 (Estimated)
  10. Organotellurium Compounds as Supramolecular Building Blocks
    Principal Investigator: Thomas Junk (Chemistry)
    Sponsor: NSF Award Number: 2404400
    Amount Awarded: $453,317.00
    Grant Period: 07/01/2024 - 06/30/2027 (Estimated)
  11. Collaborative Research: Drivers and Dynamics of Methane Seepage Along the US Atlantic Margin
    Principal Investigator: Davide Oppo (Geosciences)
    Sponsor: NSF Award Number: 2342976
    Amount Awarded: $186,006.00
    Grant Period: 09/01/2024 - 08/31/2027 (Estimated)
  12. Collaborative Research: IHBEM: Three-way coupling of water, behavior, and disease in the dynamics of mosquito-borne disease systems
    Principal Investigator: Hayriye Gulbudak (Mathematics)
    Sponsor: NSF Award Number: 2327817
    Amount Awarded: $146,041.00
    Grant Period: 09/01/2023 - 08/31/2027 (Estimated)
  13. RII Track-4:NSF: HEAL: Heterogeneity-aware Efficient and Adaptive Learning at Clusters and Edges
    Principal Investigator: Li Chen (Computing and Informatics)
    Sponsor: NSF Award Number: 2327452
    Amount Awarded: $322,361.00
    Grant Period: 02/01/2024 - 01/31/2026 (Estimated)
  14. Research Infrastructure: Increasing Capacity at the University of Louisiana Lafayette Ecology Center
    Principal Investigator: Mark Genung (Biology); Co-PIs: Nicholas Kooyers (Biology), Andre Daugereaux (Ecology Center), Robyn Zerebecki (Biology)
    Sponsor: NSF Award Number: 2244712
    Amount Awarded: $412,064.00
    Grant Period: 05/01/2023 - 04/30/2025 (Estimated)
  15. Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)
    Principal Investigator: Davide Oppo (Geosciences)
    Sponsor: NSF Award Number: 2240700
    Amount Awarded: $201,000.00
    Grant Period: 09/01/2022 - 08/31/2027 (Estimated)
  16. Quantum Chemical Studies of the Thermal and Photo-induced Chemistry of Criegee Intermediates
    Principal Investigator: Tolga Karsili (Chemistry)
    Sponsor: NSF Award Number: 2003422
    Amount Awarded: $248,499.00
    Grant Period: 09/01/2020 - 08/31/2025 (Estimated)
  17. Modeling Across-Scale Feedback of Pathogen Virulence, Host Immunity, and Disease Control
    Principal Investigator: Hayriye Gulbudak (Mathematics)
    Sponsor: NSF Award Number: 1951759
    Amount Awarded: $239,939.00
    Grant Period: 08/01/2020 - 07/31/2025 (Estimated)
  18. RII Track-2 FEC: Consortium for Plant Invasion Genomics (CPING): Combining Big Data and Plant Collections to Understand Invasiveness
    Principal Investigator: Nicholas Kooyers (Biology); Co-PIs: Erin Sigel (University of New Hampshire), Maribeth Latvis (University of Arkansas), Michael McKain (University of Alabama), Craig Barrett (West Virginia University)
    Sponsor: NSF Award Number: 1920858
    Amount Awarded: $4,031,497.00
    Grant Period: 08/01/2019 - 07/31/2025 (Estimated)
  19. CAREER: Making Type Error Debugging Work
    Principal Investigator: Sheng Chen (Computing and Informatics)
    Sponsor: NSF Award Number: 1750886
    Amount Awarded: $522,060.00
    Grant Period: 02/01/2018 - 01/31/2026 (Estimated)
  20. Connecting ecosystem models with evolutionary genetics: Fitness landscapes, persistent networks, and phylodynamic simulation
    Principal Investigator: Cameron Browne (math)
    Sponsor: NSF Award Number: 2413769
    Amount Awarded: $261,226.00
    Grant Period: 08/01/2024 - 07/31/2027
  21. CAREER: Unary Computing in Memory for Fast, Robust and Energy-Efficient Processing
    Principal Investigator: M Hassan Najafi (Computing and Informatics)
    Sponsor: NSF Award Number: 2339701
    Amount Awarded: $599,996.00
    Grant Period: 03/01/2024 - 02/28/2029 (estimated)
  22. Exploring the Potential of Hyperspectral EMIT data to Assess Phytoplankton Community Composition and Carbon Dynamics in the Wetland-Estuarine Systems of the northern Gulf of Mexico
    Principal Investigator: Bingqing Liu (Geosciences); Co-PIs: Melissa M.Baustian (USGS) and Eurico J. D'Sa (LSU)
    Sponsor: NASA NNH23ZDA001N-EMIT, Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Science (ROSES-2023) Award Number: 23-EMIT23-0047
    Amount Awarded: $600,000.00
    Grant Period: 04/01/2023 - 03/31/2027
  23. Benefits of native seed mixes for pollinations in longleaf pine habitats
    Principal Investigator: Mark Genung (Biology)
    Sponsor: US Fish and Wildlife Service through the Louisiana State Wildlife Grants Program of the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries
    Amount Awarded: $82,616.00
    Grant Period: 01/01/2024 - 12/31/2025
  24. Conference: Lloyd Roeling Conference in Topology at UL Lafayette
    Principal Investigator: Robin Koytcheff (math) Co-PIs: Philip Hackney (math) and Daniel Davis (math)
    Sponsor: NSF Award Number: 2341618
    Amount Awarded: $14,931.00
    Grant Period: 01/04/2024 - 12/31/2025
  25. Coastal Hypoxia Research Program: Biological Vulnerability to Hypoxia from Climate Warming and Eutrophication in the Northern Gulf of Mexico
    Principal Investigator: Junhong Liang (LSU); Co-PI's: Bingqing Liu (Geosciences); Cassie Glaspie (LSU), Nancy Rabalais (LSU) , Curtis A. Deutsch (Princeton), Melissa M. Baustian (USGS)
    Sponsor: NOAA National Centers For Coastal Ocean Science
    Amount Awarded: $1,563,015.00
    Amount Awarded to UL Lafayette: $210,000.00
    Grant Period: 09/01/2023 - 08/30/2027
  26. Collaborative Research: Unraveling the Initial Charge Separation Mechanism in Photosystem I: A synergistic Approach
    Principal Investigator: Wu Xu (Chemistry)
    Sponsor: NSF Award Number: 2313482
    Amount Awarded: $450,000.00
    Grant Period: 09/15/2023 - 08/31/2026
  27. Collaborative Research: EDGE CMT: Predicting the evolution of disease resistance across heterogeneous landscapes
    Principal Investigator: Loren Cassin-Sackett (Biology)
    Sponsor: NSF Award Number: 2220815
    Amount Awarded: $1,030,611.00
    Grant Period: 04/01/2023 - 03/31/2027
  28. Sculpting sculpins: form and function of pectoral fin specialization in intertidal fishes
    Principal Investigator: Emily Kane (Biology)
    Sponsor: Louisiana Board of Regents, Research Competitiveness Subprogram
    Amount Awarded: $159,000.00
    Grant Period: 06/01/2023 - 06/30/2026
  29. Building a network of nutrient sensing in the northern Gulf of Mexico, Phase 1-2
    Principal Investigators: Beth A. Stauffer (Biology); Co-PIs: E. Milbrandt (SCCF), E. Hall (Mote), B. Roberts (LUMCON)
    Sponsor: NOAA National Ocean Service (via GCOOS)
    Amount Awarded: $500,000.00
    Grant Period: 2022 - 2025
  30. 20,000 knots under the sea: toward AUVs AI/ML guided missions
    Principal Investigator for UL Lafayette: Gabriele Morra (Physics)
    Sponsor: NOAA - Ocean Exploration Cooperative Institute
    This is the UL Lafayette part of the NOAA grant
    "Advancing AUV Autonomy with Machine Learning and CoExploration"
    awarded to Leonardo Macelloni (Univ. Southern Miss.) and Mike Jakuba (Woods Hole)
    Amount Awarded to UL Lafayette: $396,000.00
    Grant Period: 08/01/2023 - 07/31/2025
  31. Decoding the Unifying Microbial Metabolic Controllers on Soil Carbon Cycling Across Freshwater Wetlands
    Principal Investigator: Kelly Wrighton (Colorado State U); Co-PIs: Jorge Villa (Geosciences), Bailey Fosdick (Colorado State U), Michael Wilkins (Colorado State U), Gil Bohrer (Ohio State U), Yu-Ping Chin (U Delaware), Sheel Bansal (USGS), Eric Ward (USGS), William Riley (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Christopher Henry (Argonne National Laboratory).
    Sponsor: DOE Award: DE-SC0023084
    Amount awarded: $399,380.00
    Grant period: 09/01/2022 - 08/31/2025
  32. Assessing greenhouse gas structural and functional resilience of freshwater coastal wetlands subject to persistent saltwater intrusion events
    Principal Investigator: Jorge Villa (Geosciences)
    Sponsor: DOE Award DE-SC0022972
    Amount awarded: $749,956.00
    Grant Period: 07/01/2022 - 06/30/2027
  33. SaTC: CORE: Small: Mitigating Threats of Physical-Domain Signal Injections on Security, Reliability, and Safety of Sensing and Control Systems
    Principal Investigator: Xiali (Sharon) Hei (CACS); CoPI: Yazhou Tu (CACS)
    Sponsor: NSF Award Number: 2231682
    Amount Awarded: $599,984.00
    Grant Period: 07/01/2023 - 06/30/2026 (Estimated)
  34. RII Track-4:NSF: Photochemical Studies of Isoprene Oxidation Products and their Atmospheric Implications
    Principal Investigator: Tolga Karsili (Chemistry)
    Sponsor: NSF Award Number: 2229695
    Amount Awarded: $201,579.00
    Grant Period: 03/01/2023 - 02/28/2025 (Estimated)
  35. Visual Effects Workforce Solution (VEWS) and Scouting Locations in Metaverse (SLiM)
    Principal Investigator: Arun Kulshreshth (CACS)
    Sponsor: Louisiana Economic Development - Entertainment Development Fund
    Amount Awarded: $920,000.00
    Grant Period: 2022 - 2027
  36. Advanced Time-Lapse Seismic Characterization of a Methane Hydrate-Bearing System
    Principal Investigator: Davide Oppo (geosciences)
    Sponsor: ACS Petroleum Research Fund
    Amount Awarded: $110,000.00
    Grant Period: 05/01/2023 - 08/31/2025
  37. RII Track-4:NSF: Fundamentals of Creating Trustworthy Medical Cyber-Physical Systems Under EMI Attacks
    Principal Investigator: Xiali (Sharon) Hei (CACS)
    Sponsor: NSF Award Number: 2229752
    Amount Awarded: $286,453.00
    Grant Period: 01/01/2023 - 04/30/2025 (Estimated)
  38. Collaborative Research: ORCC: Harnessing Adaptive Variation in Drought Resistance Strategies to Manage Populations Under Climate Change
    Principal Investigator: Nicholas Kooyers (Biology)
    Sponsor: NSF Award Number: 2222466
    Amount Awarded: $178,638.00
    Grant Period: 11/01/2022 - 10/31/2026 (estimated)
  39. US:UK Collab: Multi-scale infection dynamics from cells to landscapes: FMD in African buffalo
    Principal Investigator: Anna Jolles (Oregon State University) Co-PIs: Jan Medlock, Brianna Beechler, Hayriye Gulbudak (Mathematics)
    Sponsor: NSF Award Number: 2208087
    Amount Awarded: $2,608,206.00
    Grant Period: 10/01/2022 - 08/31/2027
  40. CAREER: Holistic Framework for Constructing Dynamic Malicious Knowledge Bases in Social Networks
    Principal Investigator: Xu Yuan (CACS)
    Sponsor: NSF Award Number: 2146447
    Amount Awarded: $98,988.00
    Grant Period: 10/01/2022 - 03/30/2027 (Estimated)
  41. Improving Inductive Reasoning Skills in Polymer Science Through Open Virtual Experiment Simulator Education Tools
    Principal Investigator: Yu Wang (Chemistry); Co-PIs: Manyu Li (Psychology)
    Sponsor: NSF Award Number: 2142043
    Amount Awarded: $299,832.00
    Grant Period: 07/01/2022 - 06/30/2025 (Estimated)
  42. Classifying Student Distraction Level in Educational Virtual Reality
    Principal Investigator: Arun Kulshreshth (CACS)
    Sponsor: Louisiana Board of Regents Research and Development Program ‐ Research Competitiveness Subprogram
    Amount Awarded: $182,928.00
    Grant Period: 2022 - 2025 (Estimated)
  43. Enhanced Machine Learning and Dynamic Optimal Control of Emerging Infectious Diseases
    Principal Investigator: Xiang-Sheng Wang (Mathematics)
    Sponsor: Louisiana Board of Regents Research and Development Program ‐ Research Competitiveness Subprogram
    Amount Awarded: $141,088.00
    Grant Period: 2022 - 2025 (Estimated)
  44. Improving Engineering Education and the Pipeline of Engineering Majors Through a Preservice Teacher Bioinspired Engineering Maker Space and Curricular Enhancements
    Principal Investigator: Douglas Williams (Education) Co-PIs: Mark Genung (Biology), Aimee Barber (Education)
    Sponsor: Louisiana Board of Regents Departmental Enhancement Program
    Amount Awarded: $94,476.00
    Grant Period: 2022 - 2025
  45. CAREER: Empirically evaluating the genomic consequences of assisted migration in heterogeneous environments
    Principal Investigator: Nicholas Kooyers (Biology)
    Sponsor: NSF Award Number: 2045643
    Amount Awarded: $440,668.00
    Grant Period: 04/01/2021 - 03/31/2026 (Estimated)
  46. MRI: Development of High-Confidence Medical Cyber-Physical System Research Instrument with Benchmark Security Software
    Principal Investigator: Xiali (Sharon) Hei (CACS) Co-PIs: Zhongqi Pan (CACS), Christoph Borst (CACS), Raju Gottumukkala (CACS), and Mohsen Amini Salehi (CACS)
    Sponsor: NSF Award Number: 2117785
    Amount Awarded: $1,153,897.00
    Grant Period: 10/01/2021 - 09/30/2025 (Estimated)
  47. GP-UP: Geosciences Students Excelling in Real, Vital Investigations with Community Engagement (GEO SERVICE)
    Principal Investigator: Brent Yantis (Regional Application Center) Co-PIs: Jennifer Hargrave (Geosciences), and Brittany Cook (College of Liberal Arts)
    Sponsor: NSF Award Number: 2120015
    Amount Awarded: $364,874.00
    Grant Period: 09/01/2021 - 08/31/2025 (Estimated)
  48. CAREER: Integrating Seascapes and Energy Flow: learning and teaching about energy, biodiversity, and ecosystem function on the frontlines of climate change
    Principal Investigator: James Nelson (Biology)
    Sponsor: NSF Award Number: 2046460
    Amount Awarded: $227,697.00
    Grant Period: 05/01/2021 - 04/30/2026
  49. CAREER: Developing a Flexible Serverless Multimedia Streaming Cloud Platform
    Principal Investigator: Mohsen Amini Salehi (CACS)
    Sponsor: NSF Award Number: 2047144
    Amount Awarded: $231,642.00
    Grant Period: 02/15/2021 - 01/31/2026 (Estimated)
  50. RII Track-1: Louisiana Materials Design Alliance (LAMDA)
    Principal Investigator: Michael Khonsari (LSU); Co-PIs: Guoqiang Li (LSU), Shengmin Guo (LSU), Miao Jin (CACS), Arden Moore (Louisiana Tech)
    Sponsor: NSF Award Number: 1946231
    Amount Awarded: FY 2020 $4,334,558.00, FY 2021 $8,128,786.00
    Grant Period: 07/01/2020 - 06/30/2025 (Estimated)
  51. RII Track-2 FEC: Precise Regional Forecasting via Intelligent and Rapid Harnessing of National Scale Hydrometeorological Big Data
    Principal Investigator: Nian-Feng Tzeng (CACS); Co-PIs: Sytske Kimball (South Alabama), Eric Rappin (Western Kentucky), Stuart Foster (Former Co-PI), Richard Day, Xu Yuan (CACS)
    Sponsor: NSF Award Number: 2019511
    Amount Awarded:$5,000,000.00
    Grant Period: 09/01/2020 - 08/31/2025 (Estimated)

Recently Ended

  1. Predictive Link Analyses in Computer Network Domains
    Principal Investigator: Mehmet E Tozal (CACS)
    Sponsor: The MITRE Corporation Award Number: MITRE-1161269-A1
    Amount Awarded: $225,000.00
    Grant Period: 01/01/2023 - 12/31/2023
  2. VAX-UP: A Strategic Partnership for Immunization
    Principal Investigator: Ramesh Kolluru (CACS); Co-PI: Henry Chu (CACS);
    Sponsor: Louisiana Department of Health
    Amount Awarded: $9,500,000.00
    Grant Period: 07/01/2023 - 06/30/2024
  3. The effect of sewage effluent exposure on mosquitofish survival and prey capture
    Principal Investigator: Emily Kane (Biology); Co-PI Nigel D'Souza (Gonzaga University)
    Sponsor: St. Tammany Parish Mosquito Abatement District
    Amount Awarded: $9,879.00
    Grant Period: 03/15/2023 - 12/31/2023
  4. Evaluation of OA impacts to plankton and fish distributions in the Gulf of Mexico during GOMECC-4 with a focus on HAB-interactions (Bio-GOMECC-4)
    Named Collaborator for UL Lafayette: Beth A. Stauffer (Biology)
    Principal Investigators: I L. Barbero (UM/CIMAS), F. Hernandez (USM), G. Zapfe (NOAA SEFSC), A. Schnetzer (NCSU)
    Sponsor: NOAA Ocean Acidification Program (OAP)
    Amount Awarded: $210,000.00 ($28,906.00 + 1 cruise berth to UL Lafayette)
    Grant Period: 2021 - 2024
  5. A combined chemical and physical investigation of metal-silicate reactions in magma oceans
    Principal Investigator: Colin Jackson (Tulane); Co-PIs: Bijaya Karki (LSU), Gabriele Morra (Physics), Kevin Righter (NASA JSC)
    Sponsor: NASA Emerging World Program (20-EW20_2-0026)
    Amount Awarded to UL Lafayette: $237,000.00
    Grant Period: 08/01/2021 - 07/31/2024
  6. Functional-type modeling approach and data-driven parameterization of methane emissions in wetlands
    Principal Investigator: Gil Bohrer (Ohio State U); Co-PIs: Jorge Villa (Geosciences), Kelly Wrighton (Colorado State U), William Riley (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Eric Ward (USGS)
    Sponsor: DOE Award DE-SC0021067
    Amount awarded: $ 215,545.00
    Grant period: 10/01/2020 - 09/30/2023
  7. Inventory of Heavy Metal Soil Concentrations in Lafayette, Louisiana Using X-ray Fluorescence Analysis, Geographic Information Systems, and Geostatistical Interpolation Methods
    Principal Investigator: Anna Paltseva (Geosciences)
    Sponsor: Louisiana Board of Regents Research and Development Program ‐ Research Competitiveness Subprogram
    Amount Awarded: $78,467.00
    Grant Period: 2022 - 2024 (Estimated)
  8. Development of a new computational method for predicting drug - target interactions using a TSR-based representation of 3-D structures
    Principal Investigator: Wu Xu (Chemistry)
    Sponsor: NIH: National Institute Of General Medical Sciences Project Number: 1R15GM144944-01
    Amount Awarded: $420,456.00
    Grant Period: 09/15/2021 - 08/31/2025
  9. (DEPSCOR) Gliders Deepwater Hurricane Reconnaissance in the Gulf of Mexico
    Principal Investigator: Sidorovskaia, N. (Physics) Co-PIs: Griffin, S. and Ioup, J.
    Sponsor: DOD Project: FA95502110215
    Amount Awarded: $598,977.00
    Grant Period: 06/01/2021 - 05/31/2024
  10. LO-SPAT: Leveraging Opportunities and Strategic Partnerships to Advance Tolerant Oysters for Restoration
    Principal Investigator: Beth Stauffer (Biology) Co-PIs: Durga Poudel (Geosciences), Natalia Sidorovskaia (Physics), and Geoffrey Steward, G. (Business)
    Sponsor: Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries
    Amount Awarded: $14,065,204.00
    Grant Period: 04/01/2021 - 03/31/2024
  11. RCN-HERS: Research Coordination Network for Hurricane Ecosystem Response Synthesis
    Principal Investigator: Christopher Patrick (VIMS) Co-PIs: Beth Stauffer (Biology), William McDowell (UNH), John Kominoski (FIU)
    Sponsor: NSF Award Number: 2003292
    Amount Awarded: $489,960.00
    Grant Period: 01/15/2021 - 12/31/2024 (Estimated)
  12. Uncovering the Genetic Basis of Survival from Plauge in Gunnison's Prairie Dogs
    Principal Investigator: Loren D. Cassin-Sackett (Biology)
    Sponsor: Arizona Game and Fish Department Heritage Fund
    Amount Awarded: $69,925.00
    Grant Period: 03/19/2021 - 03/18/2024
  13. Exploring the Role of Emerging Technologies in Digital Health Interventions for Older Adults
    Principal Investigator: Beenish M. Chaudhry (CACS)
    Sponsor: --
    Amount Awarded: $149,199.00
    Grant Period: 06/01/2021 - 06/30/2024
  14. Collaborative Research: CNS Core: Small: SmartSight: an AI-Based Computing Platform to Assist Blind and Visually Impaired People.
    Principal Investigator: Mohsen Amini Salehi (CACS)
    Sponsor: NSF Award Number: 2007209
    Amount Awarded: $265,687.00
    Grant Period: 10/01/2020 - 03/31/2024
  15. Multi-Scale Structured Models of Infectious Disease Dynamics
    Co-Principal Investigator: Hayriye Gulbudak (math)
    Sponsor: Simons Foundation Collaboration Grants for Mathematicians
    Amount Awarded: $42,000
    Grant Period: 09/01/2019-08/31/2024
  16. Collaborative Proposal: MSB-FRA: Scaling Climate, Connectivity, and Communities in Streams
    Principal Investigator: Katie Costigan (biology)
    Sponsor: NSF Award Number: 1802855
    Amount Awarded: $308,466.00
    Grant Period: 01/01/2019 - 11/30/2021
  17. Quantum Chemical Studies of the Thermal and Photo-induced Chemistry of Criegee Intermediates
    Principal Investigator: Tolga Karsili (Chemistry)
    Sponsor: NSF Award Number: 2003422
    Amount Awarded: $248,499.00
    Grant Period: 09/01/2020 - 08/31/2023
  18. Functional-type modeling approach and data-driven parameterization of methane emissions in wetlands
    Principal Investigator: Gil Bohrer (Ohio State) Co-PIs: Kelly Wrighton (Colorado State), Jorge Villa (Geosciences), William Riley (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab), Eric Ward (USGS)
    Sponsor: DOE Award: DE-SC0021067
    Amount Awarded: $808,246.00
    Grant Period: 08/15/2020 - 08/14/2023
  19. High-Efficiency Electrochemical Conversion of CO2 to Ethylene
    Principal Investigator: Zhou, X.-D. (Chemical Engineering) Co-PIs: Depan, D. (Chemical Engineering), Karsili, T. (Chemistry), and Wang, Y. (Chemistry), and Jingjie Wu (U. Cincinnati)
    Sponsor: DOE Synthesis of Value-Added Organic Products Award
    Amount Awarded: DOE Funding: $1,000,000.00; Non-DOE Funding: $250,000.00
    Grant Period: 09/01/2020 - 08/31/2023
  20. Patch-scale effects of acute saltwater intrusion on carbon fluxes in a simulated coastal freshwater marsh environment
    Principal Investigator: Jorge Villa; CoPI: Diana Taj (GRA)
    Sponsor: RESTORE Act Center of Excellence for Louisiana Award: CPRA-2020-COE-JH
    Amount awarded: $86,250.00
    Grant period: 9/2021 - 8/2023
  21. Combining Physical and Numerical Models to Characterize the Contribution of Semi-Brittle Rheology to Deformation Dynamics
    Principal Investigator for UL Lafayette: Gabriele Morra (Physics)
    Sponsor: NSF
    This is the UL Lafayette part of the NSF grant
    "CAREER: Combining physical and numerical modes to characterize the contribution of semi-brittle rheology to deformation dynamics and strain transients"
    NSF Award Number:1843676; Principal Investigator:Jacqueline Reber (Iowa State Univ.)
    Amount Awarded to UL Lafayette: $27,000.00
    Grant Period: 08/01/2021 - 07/31/2023
  22. CRII: SaTC: Empowering Elastic-honeypot as Real-time Malicious Content Sniffers for Social Networks
    Principal Investigator: Xu Yuan (CACS)
    Sponsor: NSF Award Number: 1948374
    Amount Awarded: $175,000.00
    Grant Period: 03/01/2020 - 02/28/2023 (Estimated)
  23. Science Advisor to the NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer
    Principal Investigator: Scott France (Biology)
    Sponsor: University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR)/ NOAA Ocean Exploration
    Amount Awarded: $565,169.00
    Grant Period: 08/01/2017 - 07/31/2023
  24. Unsuspected eukaryotic life inhabits rhodolith-forming coralline algae (Hapalidiales, Rhodophyta), a remarkable marine benthic microhabitat
    Principal Investigator: Suzanne Fredericq (Biology), co-PI: Sherry Krayesky-Self (Biology)
    Sponsor: NSF Award Number: 1754504
    Amount Awarded: $928,161.00
    Grant Period: 05/15/2018 - 04/30/2023
  25. The effects of environmental salinity changes on eco-mechanical performance in mosquitofish (Gambusia affinis)
    Principal Investigator: Emily Kane (Biology)
    Sponsor: Louisiana Water Resources Research Institute
    Amount Awarded: $17,872.00
    Grant Period: 09/01/2022 - 08/31/2023
  26. Restoration of Gulf of Mexico Islands and Beaches for Wildlife: Reducing the Uncertainty
    Principal Investigator: James Nelson (Biology)
    Sponsor: NOAA RESTORE Science Program
    Amount Awarded: $102,694.00
    Grant Period: 09/01/2021 - 08/31/2022
  27. Understanding the pathophysiology of GBS UTI in diabetes
    Principal Investigator: Ritwij Kulkarni (Biology)
    Sponsor: NIH: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Project Number: 1R21AI165939-01
    Amount Awarded: $208,856.00
    Grant Period: 09/24/2021 - 08/31/2023
  28. Acquisition of a tabletop SEM/EDS system at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette
    Principal Investigator: Eric Ferre (Geosciences) Co-PIs: Brian Schubert (Geosciences), Raphael Gottardi (Geosciences), Aubrey Hillman (formerly Geosciences), Davide Oppo (Geosciences)
    Sponsor: NSF Award Number: 2041040
    Amount Awarded: $162,850.00
    Grant Period: 06/01/2021 - 05/31/2023 (Estimated)
  29. The Eighth International Conference on Mathematical Modeling and Analysis of Populations in Biological Systems
    Principal Investigator: Amy Veprauskas (Math) Co-PI: Azmy Ackleh (Math)
    Sponsor: NSF Award Number: 2137047
    Amount Awarded: $26,247.00
    Grant Period: 10/01/2021 - 09/30/2022
  30. Modeling Across-Scale Feedback of Pathogen Virulence, Host Immunity, and Disease Control
    Principal Investigator: Hayriye Gulbudak (Math)
    Sponsor: NSF Award Number: 1951759
    Amount Awarded: $239,939.00
    Grant Period: 08/01/2020 - 07/31/2023
  31. MRI: Acquisition of a Closed-Loop PPMS Enhanced for Multidisciplinary Research and Education at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette
    Principal Investigator: Gabriela Petculescu (Physics) Co-PIs: Carl Richter (Geosciences), Ling Fei (Chemical Engineering), Michalis Charilaou (Geosciences), Jonathan Raush (Mechanical Engineering)
    Sponsor: NSF Award Number: 2018984
    Amount Awarded: $362,772.00
    Grant Period: 09/01/2020 - 08/31/2022
  32. Understanding the Effects of Varying Prey Assemblages on Oyster Feeding in Restoration and Climate-Impacted Estuaries
    Principal Investigator: Beth Stauffer (Biology) Co-PIs: Jerome LaPeyre, (LSU AgCenter)
    Sponsor: Louisiana Sea Grant - Omnibus Research Project
    Amount Awarded: --
    Grant Period: 2020 - 2022
  33. Optimizing the use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVS) to Identify and Track Finfish Schools for the Commercial Fishing Industry
    Principal Investigator: Kelly Robinson (Biology) Co-PIs: James Nelson (Biology), Guillaume Rieucau, (LUMCON)
    Sponsor:Louisiana SeaGrant
    Amount Awarded: $49,989.00
    Grant Period: 08/01/2020 - 07/31/2022
  34. Algebraic structures and geometric phenomena in spaces of embeddings
    Principal Investigator: Robin Koytcheff (math)
    Sponsor: Louisiana Board of Regents Support Fund, Research Competitiveness Subprogram
    Amount Awarded: $137,644.00
    Grant Period: 07/01/2019 - 06/30/2022
  35. RII Track-2 FEC: Consortium for Plant Invasion Genomics (CPING): Combining Big Data and Plant Collections to Understand Invasiveness
    Principal Investigator: Nicholas Kooyers (biology) Co-PIs: Maribeth Latvis, Erin Sigel (biology), Michael McKain (biology), Craig Barrett
    Sponsor: NSF Award Number: 1920858
    Amount Awarded: $2,039,766.00
    Grant Period: 08/01/2019 - 07/31/2023 (Estimated), last amended 08/08/2019
  36. Structure and Cohomology in Fusion Systems
    Principal Investigator: Justin Lynd (math)
    Sponsor: NSF Award Number: 1902152
    Amount Awarded: $135,000.00
    Grant Period: 08/01/2019 - 07/31/2022 (estimated), last amended 07/11/2019
  37. Collaborative Proposal: Fluid flow metamorphism and strain localization in mid-crustal shear zones
    Principal Investigator: Raphael Gottardi (geosciences)
    Sponsor: NSF Award Number: 1849812
    Amount Awarded: $319,973.00
    Grant Period: 08/01/2019 - 07/31/2022 (estimated), last amended 05/20/2019
  38. Collaborative Research: Coupling and Cohesion as Factors Affecting Vulnerability to Abrupt Climate Change
    Principal Investigator: Aubrey Hillman (geosciences)
    Sponsor: NSF Award Number: 1848722
    Amount Awarded: $33,106.00
    Grant Period: 07/01/2019 - 06/30/2023 (estimated), last amended 04/09/2019
  39. Expanding COVID-19 Vaccinations for Underserved Populations of Louisiana (VAX-UP Louisiana)
    Principal Investigator: Ramesh Kolluru (CACS); Co-PI: Henry Chu (CACS) Sponsor: Louisiana Department of Health
    Amount Awarded: $15,000,000.00
    Grant Period: 08/01/2022 - 06/30/2023
  40. Development of High-Performance Metal-Supported Solid Oxide Electrolysis Cells (MS-SOECs) and Innovative Diagnostic Methodologies
    Principal Investigator: Xiao-Dong Zhou (Chemical Engineering); Co-PI's: Thomas Pesacreta (Biology), Henry Chu (CACS) Sponsor: United States Department of Energy
    Amount Awarded: $1,000,000.00
    Grant Period: 09/10/2021 - 09/09/2023
  41. Partnership for COVID-19 Vaccination of Underserved Populations (VAX-UP)
    Principal Investigator: Ramesh Kolluru (CACS); Co-PI's: Henry Chu (CACS), Raju Gottumukkula (Mechanical Engineering), David Kim (Communications) Sponsor: Louisiana Department of Health
    Amount Awarded: $21,900,000.00
    Grant Period: 08/01/2021 - 07/31/2022
  42. Predicting Dynamic Communication Links in IT Systems
    Principal Investigator: Mehmet E Tozal (CACS)
    Sponsor: The MITRE Corporation Award Number: MITRE-1161269
    Amount Awarded: $106,683.00
    Grant Period: 01/01/2022 - 12/31/2022
  43. Collaborative Research: TIDE: Legacy effects of long-term nutrient enrichment on recovery of saltmarsh ecosystems
    Principal Investigator: James Nelson (biology)
    Sponsor: NSF Award Number: 1902704
    Amount Awarded: $100,041.00
    Grant Period: 05/01/2019 - 04/30/2023 (estimated), last amended 03/12/2020
  44. III: Medium: Collaborative Research: KMELIN: Knowledge Mining and Embedding Learning for Complex Dynamic Information Networks
    Principal Investigator: Xindong Wu (CACS) Co-PIs: Louis Caillouet
    Sponsor: NSF Award Number: 1763620
    Amount Awarded: $600,000.00
    Grant Period: 06/01/2018 - 05/31/2022 (estimated), last amended 09/13/2018
  45. CAREER: Making Type Error Debugging Work
    Principal Investigator: Sheng Chen (CACS)
    Sponsor: NSF Award Number: 1750886
    Amount Awarded: $242,421.00
    Grant Period: 02/01/2018 - 01/31/2023 (estimated), last amended 02/11/2019
  46. Dixmier sets of C*-algebras
    Co-Principal Investigator: Leonel Robert Gonzalez (math)
    Sponsor: Simons Foundation Collaboration Grants for Mathematicians
    Amount Awarded: $42,000
    Grant Period: 09/01/2017-08/31/2022
  47. Persistence in Concrete Biological Systems
    Co-Principal Investigator: Paul Salceanu (math)
    Sponsor: Simons Foundation Collaboration Grants for Mathematicians
    Amount Awarded: $42,000
    Grant Period: 09/01/2017-08/31/2022
  48. I/UCRC Phase II Renewal: Center for Visual and Decision Informatics (CVDI)
    Principal Investigator: Vijay Raghavan (CACS) Co-PIs: Xindong Wu (CACS), Christoph Borst (CACS), Raju Gottumukkala, Jian Chen (CACS), Mehmet Tozal (CACS)
    Sponsor: NSF Award Number: 1650551
    Amount Awarded: $406,996.00
    Grant Period: 03/01/2017 - 02/28/2022 (estimated), last amended 04/12/2019
  49. Spatial Eco-epidemiology of Tick-Borne Rickettsial Pathogens
    Principal Investigator: Holly Gaff (Old Dominion University); Co-Principal Investigator: Scott Duke-Sylvester (Biology)
    Sponsor: NIH: National Institute Of Allergy And Infectious Diseases Project number: 1R01AI136035-01.
    Amount Awarded: $2,455,904 (total), $248,000 (Scott Duke-Sylvester - UL Lafayette)
    Grant Period: 8/18/2017 - 7/31/2022
  50. I/UCRC Phase II Renewal: Center for Visual and Decision Informatics (CVDI)
    Principal Investigator: Vijay Raghavan (CACS); Co-PIs: Miao Jin (CACS), Mehmet Tozal (CACS), Christoph Borst (CACS), Raju Gottumukkala (Mechanical Engineering); Former Co-PIs: Jian Chen, Xindong Wu
    Sponsor: NSF Award Number: 1650551
    Amount Awarded: $656,994.00
    Grant Period: 03/01/2017 - 02/28/2023 (Estimated)
  51. Fast and Efficient Scheduler for Deep Learning in GPU Cluster
    Principal Investigator: Li Chen (CACS)
    Sponsor: --
    Amount Awarded: $39,990.00
    Grant Period: 06/01/2021 - 06/30/2022
  52. Acquiring a Gas Analysis System Integrated to Materials Characterization Suite for In-Situ Research in Chemistry
    Principal Investigator: Hui Yan (Chemistry)
    Sponsor: --
    Amount Awarded: $72,557.00
    Grant Period: 06/01/2021 - 06/30/2022
  53. RAPID: Visual Analytics Approach to Real-Time Tracking of COVID-19
    Principal Investigator: Raju Gottumukkala (Mechanical Engineering); Co-PIs: Satya Katragadda, Vijay Raghavan (CACS), Ravi Teja Bhupatiraju; former Co-PI: Ziad Ashkar
    Sponsor: NSF Award Number: 2027688
    Amount Awarded: $187,477.00
    Grant Period: 06/01/2020 - 5/31/2022 (Estimated)
  54. RII Track 4: Heavy Element Isotopic Characterization of Stardust
    Principal Investigator: Manavi Jadhav (Physics)
    Sponsor: NSF Award Number: 2033380
    Amount Awarded: $232,500.00
    Grant Period: 02/01/2021 - 01/31/2023 (Estimated)