Grants & Contracts for May 2014
May 30, 2014
The Research Foundation announces the following grants and contracts for May 2014. Award amounts are totals expected for the entire funding period. The list does not include supplements, modifications or other changes to existing grants or contracts. For awards that have more than one investigator, the first faculty member listed is the principal investigator.
HOLLY HANDLEY, engineering management, "Driving Distractions Human View Modeling for Volvo Group Trucks Technology"; Volvo Technology of America, $30,000.
JAMES F. PAULSON, psychology, "Pectus Carinatum Body Image and Patient Quality of Life Study"; Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters, $12,000.
TODD EGERTON, biological sciences, "Lake Guija Phytoplankton Monitoring Project: 2014"; Everlife S.A., $2,754.
JEAN DELAYEN, physics, "Development of a Crabbing System for the LHC Upgrade - FY 14"; Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, $250,000.
WAYNE L. HYNES and HOLLY GAFF, biological sciences, "Tidewater Spotted Fever Surveillance in the Hampton Roads Region"; Henry M. Jackson Foundation, $10,000.
HANS-PETER PLAG, ocean, earth and atmospheric sciences, "Great Alert Prototype Development and Demonstration"; Jet Propulsion Laboratory, $60,000.
PETER BERNATH, chemistry and biochemistry, "Molecular Opacities for Exoplanets"; NASA-Headquarters, $423,000.
CHARLES I. SUKENIK, physics, "Diagnostics for Characterizing Hypersonic Wakes"; National Institute of Aerospace Associates, $17,113.
GUANG-LEA LEE, teaching and learning, "Tidewater Writing Project"; National Writing Project, $20,000.
YAOHANG LI, computer sciences, "Career: Novel Sampling Approaches for Protein Modeling Applications"; National Science Foundation, $11,307.
HENRY RODGE HARVEY and KATHERINE FILIPPINO, ocean, earth and atmospheric sciences, "REU SITE: An Interdisciplinary Program for Climate Change Science in Metropolitan Coastal Communities at Old Dominion University"; National Science Foundation, $181,832.
MARGARET MULHOLLAND, ocean, earth and atmospheric sciences, "Collaborative Research: Dinitrogen Fixation Rates and Diazotrophic Communities in Contrasting Oxygen Regimes of the Eastern Pacific Ocean"; National Science Foundation, $501,142.
ANGELA ECKHOFF and PETER BAKER, teaching and learning, "State of Early Childhood Initiative"; Old Dominion University, $112,500.
DALE NASH and BILLIE M. REED, Virginia Commercial Space Flight Authority, "Demo Launch"; Orbital Sciences Corp., $23,700.
DALE NASH and BILLIE M. REED, Virginia Commercial Space Flight Authority, "Demo Launch"; Orbital Sciences Corp., $16,430.
EILEEN E. HOFMANN, Center for Coastal Physical Oceanography, "Synergistic Impacts of Population Growth, Urbanization, and Climate Change on Watershed and Coastal Ecology of the Northeastern United States"; Pennsylvania State University, $25,365.
GHAITH RABADI, engineering management, "Analytics for System-Wide Infrastructure and Capacity Planning for Qatar 2022 FIFA World Cup"; Qatar University, $33,258.
JEROME C. BRINKER, ODU Business Gateway, "Sentara 2014-48"; Sentara Hospitals, $7,000.
JEROME C. BRINKER, ODU Business Gateway, "Sentara 2014-51"; Sentara Hospitals, $7,000.
LARRY P. ATKINSON, Center for Coastal Physical Oceanography, "Ray Toll Statement of Work for US IOOS QA/QC of Real Time Ocean Data (January 2014-March 2014)"; State University of New Jersey (all campuses), $25,000.
MARY L. SANDY, Virginia Space Grant Consortium, "Graduate Research Award Program on Public Sector Aviation Issues and Airport Research for Universities"; The National Academies, $340,000.
RICHARD G. WHITTECAR, ocean, earth and atmospheric sciences, "Cretaceous Deltas and Quaternary Dunes-Geology of the Patrick, S.C. (1:24,000) Quadrangle"; U.S. Geological Survey, $10,475.
CHARLES E. HYDE, STEPHEN BUELTMANN, MOSKOV AMARYAN, GAIL E. DODGE, SEBASTIAN E. KUHN and LARRY WEINSTEIN, physics, "Quarks to Nuclei"; U.S. Department of Energy, $722,000.
MARY L. SANDY, Virginia Space Grant Consortium, "STEMTASTIC"; Virginia Department of Education, $46,728.
ROBERT A. GABLE, communication disorders and special education, "VTTS Virginia Beach-PBIS Behavior Forum"; Virginia Department of Education, $277,000.
JOHNNY YOUNG, miscellaneous ODU units, and BEVERLY FORBES, Career Development Services, "2014 EEAP"; Virginia Space Grant Consortium, $10,000.
