May 12, 2023
Vern Grubinger (CALS) was awarded $11,255,000 for the project, "Application to Serve as a Regional SARE Host Institution"
Vern Grubinger (CALS) was awarded $11,255,000 for the project, "Application to Serve as a Regional SARE Host Institution"
Heather Marie Darby (CALS) was awarded $49,996 for the project, "Capturing Sunlight - Using Row Orientation to Maximize Photosynthesis, Soil Moisture, and Weed Suppression in Cover Crop-Based Systems"
Heather Marie Darby (CALS) was awarded $34,833 for the project, "UVM Preliminary Study on Neonicotinoids Presence in Soil and Water on Corn Fields in Vermont"
Sean Diehl (LCOM) was awarded $86,218 for the project, "Mucosal immunity to sapovirus in early childhood"
Mark Henderson (RSENR) was awarded $147,629 for the project, "Genetic causes of melanomas in Lake Memphremagog brown bullhead"
Lisa Chase (Extension) was awarded $49,965 for the project, "Agritourism Business Planning"
Leight Knodler (LCOM) was awarded $349,401 for the project, "Epithelial intrinsic inflammasomes direct host defense against gut microbes"
Heather Marie Darby (CALS) was awarded $74,947 for the project, "Optimizing Forage Yields and Quality through Precision Manure Management"
Joseph Near (CEMS) was awarded $212,575 for a National Science Foundation CAREER Award: Distributed Differential Privacy via Secure Multiparty Computation
Ellen McGinnis (LCOM) was awarded $49,999 for the project, "BioBee"
Safwan Mshah (CEMS) was awarded $122,899 for the project, "Precision Design of Antimicrobial Peptides against Bacterial Infections"
J. Ellen Marsden (RSENR)) was awarded $700,000 for the project, "Lake Champlain Fish and Community Ecology: A Multi-Basin Mesocosm for the Great Lakes"
Kirk Dombrowski (OVPR) was awarded $9,500,000 for the project, "Renovation Of The University Of Vermont's Hills Agricultural Building To Establish An Institute Of Rural Partnership (IORP-VT)"
Laura Lewis (CNHS) was awarded $45,120 for the project, "Unfolding Clinical Narratives: Understanding the Health Stories of Autistic People with Multiple Diagnoses"
Brittany Mosher (RSENR) was awarded $172,690 for the project, "The Impact of Aquatic Invasive Species Mechanical Harvesting on Eastern Musk Turtle (Sternotherus odoratus) Populations in the Lake Champlain Basin"
Heather Marie Darby (CALS) was awarded $222,259 for the project, "Catalyzing Cover Crop Advancement as a Climate-Smart Practice through a National Variety Improvement and Seed Production Program"
Cynthia Forehand (Graduate College) was awarded $230,000 for the Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GFRP)
Lisa Chase (CALS) was awarded $35,000 for the project, "Destination and Tourism Development Specific to Vermont"
Elizabeth Doran (CEMS) was awarded $227,844 for the project, "Evaluating Habitat Function in Floodplain Natural Communities of the Lake Champlain Basin to Support Conservation and Restoration Prioritization"
Brittany Mosher (RSENR) was awarded $167,351 for the project, "Chronic wasting disease management: a proactive decision framework"
Anne Jefferson (RSENR) was awarded $7,167,773 for the project, "Northeastern States Research Cooperative (NSRC) 2023"
Alexandra Kosiba (CALS) was awarded $97,684 for the project, "VT FY23 Forest Pest Outreach Project"
Elizabeth Cote (LCOM) was awarded $763,888 for the project, "FY23 UVM AHEC State Loan Repayment Program (SLRP)"
Anthony D'Amato (RSENR) was awarded $90,000 for the project, "NH Climate Resilient Forest Management"
Kelly Hamshaw (CALS) was awarded $65,000 for the project, "Vermont MHP Flood Risk Assessment"
Sarah Kleinman (CALS) was awarded $251,779 for the project, "Youth Innovators Empowering Agriculture Across America (YEA) with Maine"
Deborah Neher Weicht (CALS) was awarded $298,338 for the project, "Companion planting Stropharia mushrooms with hemp for nutrient recovery and economic return"
Josh Bongard (CEMS) was awarded $232,500 for the project, "AI guided biotronic inter-kingdom interoperability: a universal adaptor for life"
Anne Jefferson (RSENR) was awarded $165,288 for the project, "Geomorphic effects and distribution of anthropogenic debris in urbanstreams"
Nicholas Klug (LCOM) was awarded $231,000 for the project, "Regulation of Blood Flow in the Brain by Capillary KATP Channels"
Christopher Lindgren (CALS) was awarded $720,533 for the project, "Vermont Housing and Conservation Board Service Provider FY2023"
Gillian Trevithick (RSENR) was awarded $237,737 for the project, "Socioeconomic and environmental dynamics of land-cover and land-use change in the Cerrado frontier"
Jason Garvey (CESS) was awarded $461,837 for the project, "Catalyzing a Data Infrastructure to Support LGBTQ in STEM"
Mary Cushman (LCOM) was awarded $212,124 for the project, "Reasons for Geographic and Racial Difference in Stroke (REGARDS)"
Brian Sprague (LCOM) was awarded $339,001 for the project, "Advancing Equitable Risk-based Breast Cancer Screening and Surveillance in Community Practice"
David Warshaw (LCOM) was awarded $140,400 for the project, "Impact of dilated cardiomyopathy mutations on myosin structure and function.""
Leigh Knodler (LCOM) was awarded $301,904 for the PATH Award: Remain Confined or Break Free? Intracellular Niche Selection by Gram-Negative Bacteria
Kristine Stepenuck (RSENR) was awarded $37,338 for the project: "WATR (Watershed Alliance Teacher and Researcher) Partnership"
Brittany Williams (CESS) was awarded $74,857 for the project: ""The Whole System is Rigged:" Citational (In)Equity and (In)Justice in Academe"
Jason Stockwell (RSENR) was awarded $100,000 for the project: "Synthesizing Patterns and Drivers of Changes in Lake Zooplankton Community Dynamics Worldwide"
Heather Darby (Extension) was awarded $46,000 for the project: "Precision Manure Technology Transfer"
Anthony Sgherza (Extension) was awarded $93,096 for the project: "Military Teen Adventure Camps"
David Lunardini (LCOM) was awarded $3,255 for the project: "2023 Combined Neurosurgery/Orthopaedic Spine Surgery Symposium"
Jason Stockwell (RSENR) was awarded $306,141 for the project: "Evaluating Vessel Avoidance During Acoustic/Trawl Surveys of Pelagic Forage Fish Using a Hybrid Research Vessel"
Stephen Robert Keller (CALS) was awarded $22,343 for the project: "Assessing bud phenology and cold tolerance of American elms planted across a latitudinal gradient"
Glenn McRae (CEMS) was awarded $70,000 for the project: "Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) Professional Capacity Building (PCB)"
John Gordon Crock (CAS) was awarded $143,467 for the project: "Archaeological Laboratory Work and Reporting for Segment LVRT(11) of the Swanton-St. Johnsbury Lamoille Valley Rail Trail Design and Construction Services Project, Vermont"
Juan Pablo Alvez (CALS) was awarded $34,846 for the project: "A Novel Approach to Expand Our Understanding of Alfalfa Hay Spoilage & Improve the Efficacy of Hay Preservatives"
Marie Vea (RSENR) was awarded $8,000 for the project: "Support to Collaborate on Community-Based and Service Learning (CBL) Efforts"
Nicholas Cheney (CEMS) was awarded $564,034 for the project: "Explainable and Adaptable Artificial Intelligence for Advanced Manufacturing"
Mads Almassalkhi (CEMS) was awarded $945,801 for the project: "Hybrid Solar Testing Platform for Cold Weather Climates"
Timothy Plante (LCOM) was awarded $220,214 for the project: "Improving Participation Among diverse populations in Cardiovascular clinical Trials (IMPACT)"
Jason Garbarino (CNHS) was awarded $20,344 for the project: "Northern New England Geriatric Workforce Enhancement Program - Nursing Home Supplement"
Thomas Simpatico (LCOM) was awarded $1,631,188 for the project: "Supportive Services for Veteran Families (SSVF)"
Heather Darby (CALS) was awarded $149,362 for the project: "Enhancing Grass-Fed Dairy Viability in the Northeast through improved Forage Management.""
Julia Smith (CALS) was awarded $23,694 for the project: "Enhancing resilience of the New England milkshed by engaging producers in Secure Milk Supply planning."
Joshua Faulkner (CALS) was awarded $25,000 for the New England Grazing Network.
Breena Holmes (LCOM) was awarded $210,468 for the "Screening, Treatment, and Access for Mothers and Perinatal Partners (STAMMPP) VCHIP" grant
Anthony D'Amato (RSENR) was awarded $23,744 for the project: "Climate-Adaptive Population Supplementation (CAPS) to Enhance Fishery and Forestry Outcomes"
Lisa Chase (CALS) was awarded $158,635 for the project: "Developing a National Network and Resource Repository for Agritourism"
Dana Rowangould (CEMS) was awarded $31,5000 for the project: "Dwight D. Eishenhower Transportation Fellowship: Travel Burdens in Rural US Households"
Dana Rowangould (CEMS) was awarded $31,5000 for the project: "Dwight D. Eishenhower Transportation Fellowship: Travel Burdens in Rural US Households"
Isaac Leslie (CALS) was awarded $29,997 for the project: "VT Foodbank."
Kristine Stepenuck (RSENR) was awarded $16,707 for the project: "Advancing the Great Lakes Aquaculture Collaborative"
Christopher Burns was awarded $2.5 million for the project: "Preserving and Making Accessible the Papers of Senator Patrick Leahy"
Ann Hazelrigg (CALS) was awarded $25,000 for NEPDN 2023
Charles MacLean (LCOM) was awarded $288,500 for the Vermont Area Health Education Centers (AHEC) Program
Heather Marie Darby (CALS) was awarded $42,532 for the project: "The return on investment in soil fertility on organic dairy farms"
Kirk Dombrowski, Vice President for Research, was awarded $9,302,160 for the "Vermont Institute for Rural Partnerships (IFRP-VT)"
Sarah Kleinman (CALS) was awarded $49,538 for the project: "Community First Responders"
Abby Katrien van der Berg (CALS) was awarded $34,950 for the project: "Long-Term Impacts of Tapping and Sap Collection on Tree Growth and Health"
Charles Duncan MacLean (LCOM) was awarded $100,000 for the project: "Opioid Prescribing Quality Improvement"
Heather Marie Darby (CALS) was awarded $373,200 for the project: "Uniting the Regional Cover Crop Councils to Build National Cover Crop Decision Support"
Jarlath O'Neil-Dunne (RSENR) was awarded $397,134 for the project: "Training and Standards for Uncrewed Aircraft System (UAS) Certification "
Mark Henderson (RSENR) was awarded $241,971 for the project: "Impacts of Predation and Habitat on Central Valley Chinook Smolt Survival"
Christopher Huston (LCOM) was awarded $185,000 for the project: "Methods to Study Cryptosporidium Drug Resistance"
William Gabriel Tharp (LCOM) was awarded $175,000 for the project: "Impaired Lung Mechanics and Intraoperative Ventilator Induced Lung Injury"
Yvonne Janssen-Heininger (LCOM) was awarded $100,000 for the project: "Glutaredoxin, Glutathione Metabolism And Lung Cancer"
Dianna Katharine Murray-Close (CAS) was awarded $25,159 for the project: "The Early Childhood FRIENDS Project: Testing Key Mechanisms and the Moderating Role of Physiological Reactivity"
Brittany Mosher (RSENR) was awarded $209,406 for the project: "VT C-SWG Conserving Vermont's Spotted Turtles"
Jon Durda (LCOM) was awarded $152,630 for the project: "RURAL: Risk Underlying Rural Areas Longitudinal Cohort"
Heather Darby (CALS) was awarded $263,000 for the project: "Building Soil Health through Farmer Peer Learning Networks"
Darren McIntyre (CESS) was awarded $537,000 for the project: "Vermont Deaf/Hard of Hearing DeafBlind Services Partnership between CDCI CARES and UVMMC DHHDB Educational Services Program"
Samantha Alger (CALS) was awarded $49,345 for the project: "Supporting Vermont Bee Producers in Developing Disease and Pest Resistant Bee Stock"
Susan Hodgson (CALS) was awarded $50,000 for the project: "Climate Learning Forum"
Charles G. Irvian (LCOM) was awarded $486,000 for the project: "IDeA Entrepreneurship Training and Community Development"
Terence Lee Bradshaw (CALS) was awarded $13,529 for the project: "Enhanced digital communications platform for Vermont fruit producers and next-generation food systems professionals"
Deborah Neher Weicht (CALS) was awarded $102,698 for the project: "Clivus Multrum Compost Toilet Liquid Fertilizer Study"
Bindu Panikkar (RSENR) was awarded $80,000 for the project: "NNA Incubator: Collaborative Research: Sustainable Transitions through Arctic Redevelopment (STAR)"
Linda Sue Schadler Feist (CEMS) was awarded $2.6 million for a New Semiconductor Engineering Curriculum at the University of Vermont
Tian Xia (CEMS) was awarded $118,600 for the project: "A Cost-Effective Wildlife Activity and Mortality Detection System"
Kristine Stepenuck (RSENR) was awarded $55,405 for the project: "Lake Champlain Aquatic Nonindigenous Species Information System Creation"
Dana Rowangould (CEMS) was awarded $20,000 for the project: "Health Equity and Community Design Technical Assistance Pilot "
Matthew White (CAS) was awarded $1,499,583 for the project: "PIRE: US-Japan Partnership in Excitonic Soft Materials for Clean Energy"
Natalie Bidad (LCOM) was awarded $749,162 for the project: "Building a better STAR: Start Treatment and Recovery in the Emergency Department"
Jarlath O'Neil-Dunne (RSENR) was awarded $2,000,000 for the project: "Mapping & Monitoring for Climate Resiliency"
Daniel Lerner (CALS) was awarded $1,364,024 for CWIP, the 2022 Agricultural Clean Water Initiative Program.
Marie Floan (CALS) was awarded $40,217 for the SNAP-Ed Obesity Prevention Program
Jon Durda (LCOM) was awarded $736,008 for the project: "Reasons for Geographic and Racial Difference in Stroke (REGARDS)""
Kelly Hamshaw (CALS) was awarded $34,405 for the project: "Collaborating Towards Increased Climate Resiliency and Adaptation for Mobile Home Park Communities in Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont"
Ryan McGinnis (CEMS) was awarded $30,000 for the Center for Reliable Sensor Technology-Based Outcomes for Rehabilitation (RESTORE)
Abby ban den Berg (CALS) was awarded $499,589 for the project: "Increasing crop value and income of U.S. maple producers through education and research on practices to increase the production of maple syrup with Grade A flavor"
Beverly Wemple (CAS) was awarded $739,000 for the CIROH project: Improved Representation of Floodplains and Natural Features for Channel Routing in the National Water Model
Justin Garwood (CESS) was awarded $249,000 for Project RESILIENCY: Recruiting Specialized and Interdisciplinary Leaders in the Education of Children and Youth with/at risk for emotional and behavioral disorders
Sarah Kleinman (CALS) was awarded $592,000 for the 2022 Migrant Education Program
James Murdoch (RSENR) was awarded $151,625 for their project, "Estimating Coyote Density in Cape Cod National Seashore"
Heather Marie Darby (CALS) was awarded $129,984 for their project, "A Smart, Sensible and Sustainable Approach to Neonicotinoid Seed Treatments"
Markus Thali (LCOM) was awarded $589,388 for their project, "Multiscale analysis of HIV-1-induced small T cell syncytia"
Dimitry Krementsov (CNHS) was awarded $516,463 for their project, "Novel mouse models to dissect the role of genetics, sex, and environment in heterogeneous outcomes in CNS autoimmune disease"
Richard Single (CEMS) was awarded $20,000 for their project, "Analysis and Statistical Support for the Vermont Youth Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) Project"
Jarlath O'Neil-Dunne (RSENR) was awarded $1.195 million for their project, "Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Response" Phase III
Katherine Forrer (CALS) was awarded $158,453 for the 2022 Urban & Community Forestry Program
Jane Kolodinsky (CALS) was awarded $547,198 for the FY23-24 Consumer Assistance Program
Richard Watts (CAS) was awarded $200,000 for the Center for Community News
Joshua Faulkner (CALS) was awarded $9,698 for their project, "Dairy Soil and Water Regeneration"
Christopher Callahan (CALS) was awarded $400,000 for their project, "Understanding and Addressing Needs for On-Farm Produce Safety Education in Hydroponics and Aquaponics"
Ellen Marsden (RSENR) was awarded $171,000 to study re-establishing lake trout population by close-kin mark-recapture
Matthias Brewer, Professor and Chemistry Department Chair, was awarded $5000 for the ASCS Division of Organic Chemistry Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship.
Eric Hernandez (CEMS) was warded $200,000 for their project, "Structural Health Monitoring of a Historic Vermont Covered Bridge"
Andrew Schroth (CAS) was awarded $28,000 for their project, "Going Deep: Evaluating deep and shallow water drivers of mercury in Lake Champlain Fish."
Taylor Ricketts (RSENR) was awarded $50,000 for their project, "Assessing Management Activities Compatibility with the provision of biodiversity, carbon, and equity on Public and Private Lands and Waters."
Jesse Suter (CESS) was awarded $113,000 for their project, "Core Expanding Public Health Workforce within Disability Networks ".
Mary Cushman (LCOM) was awarded $2,000 for their reseearch in imporiving stroke risk prediction in atrial fibrillation.
Roy Beckford (CALS) was awarded $125,000 to research the potential development of the goat dairy sector in Vermont.
Jean-Gabriel Young (CEMS) was awarded an OVPR Express grant to organize a workshop on network dynamics and Choice Theory
Samantha Alger (CALS) was award $13,800 for the 2022 National Honeybee Survey.
Eline van den Broek-Altenburg (LCOM) was awarded $100,000 for their project, "Unraveling Patient Preference Heterogeneity: Creating Better Models for Value Assessment"
Heather Marie Darby (CALS) was awarded $25,000 to study soybean production practices to yield and enhance environmental stewardship in northern climates
Daniel Jay Weiss (LCOM) was awarded $430,000 to study increasing functional recellularization of decellularized pig lungs with human lung cells
UVM named a top 100 public research university in the United States
Eva K. Wollenberg (RSENR) was awarded $162,000 for their project, "Scaling climate action in food systems"