Research Award Announcements

Featured grants and awards

Dr. Adam Dempsey receives $4.2 million Department of Energy grant for methane-reduction technology

Marquette awarded $3.8 million grant from Department of Defense for new ‘In Defense of Water’ program

Dr. Somesh Roy receives $550,000 NSF CAREER grant to model soot emissions from combustion engines

Dr. Adam Dempsey and Dr. Casey Allen awarded $2.5 million Department of Energy grant

 

 

 

 

 

 

Grants by department: July-December 2021

  • Biomedical
  • Civil, Construction & Environmental
  • Electrical & Computer
  • Mechanical
  • Dr. Brian Schmit is a sub-awardee on a project led by Drs. Xiaoyan Li and Paul Barkhaus at the Medical College of Wisconsin. The 15-month project is funded by NIH in the amount of $431,700 for the project titled, “High-density surface EMG based CMAP scan for motor unit number estimation.”  The subaward to Marquette is $36,581.

  • Dr. Jordan Williams has been awarded a 1-year $125,000 NIH K12 grant from the Interdisciplinary Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center Development Program for the project titled, “Addressing the clinical feasibility of peripheral optogenetic strategies for spinal cord injury rehabilitation.”

  • Dr. Bob Scheidt (PI) along with Co-Is Dr. Scott Beardsley, Dr. Leigh Ann Mrotek, and Dr. Kristy Nielson, have received a 2-year $420,750 award from the National Institutes of Health for the project titled, “Neural mechanisms of error correction during manual interception of moving targets.”

  • Dr. Rob Cooper received a 1-year award in the amount of $39,226 for a collaborative project with Translational Imaging Innovations, Inc. titled, “Validating Automated Photoreceptor Analytics Software For Degenerative Eye Disease Research and Biopharma Clinical Trials.”  The work is sponsored by the National Institutes of Health.

  • Dr. Adam Greenberg, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, has received a 3 year, $695,051 grant from the National Science Foundation for the project titled, “fMRI Reverse Correlation as a Novel Method for Revealing Computations Underlying Perceptual Grouping.” The project employs a completely new approach to studying both object perception and perceptual grouping, and their relationship.

  • From the Water Equipment and Policy I/UCRC, Dr. Brooke Mayer (PI) and Dr. Pat McNamara (Co-PI) have received a 1-year award in the amount of $75,000 for the project, “Novel Iron-Based Electrocoagulation-Peroxidation Treatment Process for Removal of PFAS.”
  • From the Water Equipment and Policy I/UCRC, Dr. Walter McDonald has received a 1-year award in the amount of $50,000 for the project, “Remote sensing and machine learning to assess urban watershed best management practices.”
  • Drs. John Borg and Brooke Mayer are Co-Investigators on a 1-year award from Kohler Company along with Drs. Krassimira Hristova (PI) and Chris Marshall (Co-I) from Biological Sciences. The award is $84,707 for the project titled, “Shear Stress Required to Remove Microorganisms from Common Bath Surfaces Using Moving Air.”

  • Dr. Brooke Mayer, Associate Professor of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, Marquette is part of a 5-year, $25M dollar initiative, Science and Technologies for Phosphorus Sustainability (STEPS) Science and Technology Center (STC), funded by the National Science Foundation.

  • The following faculty have received grant awards from WaterCARE:

    • Patrick McNamara (PI) and Dr. Dan Zitomer (Co-PI) received $70,037 for a 1-year project titled, “Understanding Microbial Community Dynamics of Activated Sludge to Predict and Mitigate Foaming Events – Phase II.”
    • Baolin Wan received $62,702 for a 1-year project titled, “Use of Wastewater Grit and Milorganite Chaff in Concrete.”
    • Tony Parolari received $81,377 for a 1-year project titled, “Green Infrastructure Impact on Sewer Overflows.”
    • Dan Zitomer (PI) and Dr. Dong Hye Ye (Co-PI) received $60,837 for a 1-year project titled, “Supplement 2021: Novel Algorithm to Increase Anaerobic Co-Digestion.”
  • Dr. Qindan Huang received a 1-year award in the amount of $50,000 for a collaborative project with Dr. Hao Wang at Rutgers titled, “Probabilistic Performance Modeling and Optimum Maintenance Planning of Plastic Pipeline with Piezoelectric Based NDE Updating.”  This work is supported by the US Department of Transportation.

  • Drs. Dan Zitomer (PI) and Brooke Mayer (Co-PI) have received a 5-year, $225,000 award from the National Science Foundation for the project, “IUCRC Phase III: Marquette University: Center for Water Equipment and Policy (WEP).”  Other collaborating faculty include Drs. Patrick McNamara, Walter McDonald, Tony Parolari, and Kaushik Venkiteshwaran.

  • From the Water Equipment and Policy I/UCRC, Dr. Chung Hoon Lee (PI) and Dr. Jim Richie (Co-PI) have received a 1-year award in the amount of $50,000 for the project, “Ultra sensitive 30 nm thick SiN membrane pressure sensors.”
  • From the Water Equipment and Policy I/UCRC, Dr. Chung Hoon Lee (PI), Dr. Jim Richie (Co-PI), and Dr. Henry Medeiros (Co-PI) have received a 1-year award in the amount of $50,000 for the project, “A Continuous Heavy Metal Contaminant Measurement System in Drinking Water.”
  • Dr. Dong Hye Ye received a 1-year award in the amount of $93,643 for a collaborative project with Purdue University titled, “Novel Platform for Quantitative Subcellular Resolution Imaging of Human Tissues Using Mass Spectrometry.”  This work is funded by the National Institutes of Health.  Dr. Ye has also received a 1-year award in the amount of $45,350 for the project “Deep Learning-based Image Enhancement and Standardization for Multi-Contrast Brain MRI” from Hankuk University.

  • From WaterCARE, Dan Zitomer (PI) and Dr. Dong Hye Ye (Co-PI) received $60,837 for a 1-year project titled, “Supplement 2021: Novel Algorithm to Increase Anaerobic Co-Digestion.”
  • Drs. John Borg and Brooke Mayer are Co-Investigators on a 1-year award from Kohler Company along with Drs. Krassimira Hristova (PI) and Chris Marshall (Co-I) from Biological Sciences. The award is $84,707 for the project titled, “Shear Stress Required to Remove Microorganisms from Common Bath Surfaces Using Moving Air."

  • Two faculty members in Mechanical Engineering have forged a new relationship with Deublin USA and have received funding.  Dr. John Moore received $8,600 for the project, “Elastoplastic Thermo-Mechanical Modeling of Steel/SiC Shrink Fits,” and Dr. Phil Voglewede received $25,000 for “The MIRT.”