Selected Current Research Grant and Contract Awards
CAREER: CAS: Discovering the Early Stages of Photodegradation of Emerging Contaminants in Marine Relevant Environments
Principal Investigator: Tolga Karsili (Chemistry)
Sponsor: NSF Award Number: 2443447
Amount Awarded: $700,000
Grant Period: 07/01/2025 - 06/30/2030
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
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
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
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
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)
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)
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: $789,076.00
Grant Period: 09/01/2024 - 08/31/2026 (Estimated)
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)
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 - 01/31/2027 (Estimated)
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)
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 - 01/31/2027 (Estimated)
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
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
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
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 - 08/31/2027
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
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
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
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: $629,984.00
Grant Period: 07/01/2023 - 06/30/2026 (Estimated)
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
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)
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
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 - 06/30/2026 (Estimated)
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 - 09/30/2027 (Estimated)
MRI: Track 1 Development of Metal 3D Printing Research Instrument with In-situ Characterization and Closed-loop Control Capability
Principal Investigator: Sen Liu (Mechanical engineering) CoPIs:Gabriela Petculescu (physics), Xiali Hei (computing), Ling Fei (chemical engineering), Jonathan R Raush (mechanical engineering)
Sponsor: NSF Award Number: 2510512
Amount Awarded: $650,000.00
Grant Period:09/01/2025-08/31/2029 (Estimated)
EPSCoR Research Fellows: NSF: Cost-Effective AI for Image Analysis
Principal Investigator: Min Shi (computing)
Sponsor: NSF Award Number: 2531324
Amount Awarded: $285,122.00
Grant Period:02/01/2026-01/31/2028 (Estimated)
CAREER: Empirically evaluating the genomic consequences of assisted migration in heterogeneous environments
Principal Investigator: Nicholas J Kooyers (biology)
Sponsor: NSF Award Number: 2045643
Amount Awarded: $997,269.00
Grant Period:04/01/2021-03/31/2027 (Estimated)
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:03/01/2023-02/28/2027 (Estimated)
Conference: Southern Regional Algebra Conference 2025
Principal Investigator: Justin Lynd (mathematics) CoPI: Arturo V Magidin (mathematics)
Sponsor: NSF Award Number: 2508150
Amount Awarded: $12,037.00
Grant Period:07/01/2025-06/30/2027
IUCRC Planning Grant University of Louisiana at Lafayette (Lead Site): Center for Accessible Healthcare through AI-Augmented Decisions (AHeAD)
Principal Investigator: Raju Gottumukkala (Mechanical engineering) CoPIs:Xiali Hei (computing), Ravi Teja Bhupatiraju (Louisiana center for health innovation), Scott Sittig (Louisiana center for health innovation), Gabriela Mustata Wilson (Louisiana center for health innovation)
Sponsor: NSF Award Number: 2515284
Amount Awarded: $19,999.00
Grant Period:07/01/2025-06/30/2027 (Estimated)
Computer Science and AI for All in Louisiana: Developing a Comprehensive PreK-12 Pathway
Principal Investigator: Chee-Hung H Chu (computing) CoPIs:Douglas C Williams (education), Emily G Blosser (sociology), Manyu Li (psychology), Lionel K Asare (psychology)
Sponsor: NSF Award Number: 2524574
Amount Awarded: $299,748.00
Grant Period:10/01/2025-09/30/2027 (Estimated)
RII Track-2 FEC: Tri-state Research Institute of Manufacturing for Managing CO2 (TRIMMing CO2)
Principal Investigator: Ling Fei (Chemical engineering) CoPIs:David S Mebane (West Va Univ), Meng Zhou (New Mexico State Univ), Shuya Wei (Univ New Mexico), Barbara Marchetti (chemistry), Delia J Valles-Rosales (New Mexico State Univ)
Sponsor: NSF Award Number: 2119688
Amount Awarded: $6,000,000.00
Grant Period: 10/01/2021-09/30/2026 (Estimated)
