Research Awards
Park Service — Badlands National Park for the project, “Curatorial Backlog of Museum Specimens, Badlands National Park.” Dr. James Stone, associate professor, civil and environmental engineering, received $22,603 in additional funding from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for the project, “Statewide Mercury TMDL Assessment Project.” Dr. P.V. Sundareshwar, assistant professor, Institute of Atmospheric Sciences, received $10,000 from the State of Oklahoma — University of Oklahoma for the project, “31P NMR Analyses of Playa Wetlands.” Dr. Michael Terry, assistant professor, geology and geological engineering, received $10,900 from the West River Water Development District for the project, “Preparation of a Geological Map and Fracture Analysis of Major Rock Types Using the Laser Scanning Technique, Rochford Quadrangle, (1:24,000), Pennington County, South Dakota.” Dr. Michael West, assistant professor, materials and metallurgical engineering, and Dr. Jon Kellar, head and Fuerstenau Professor, materials and metallurgical engineering, received $220,500 from the National Science Foundation for the project, “REU Site: Back to the Future.” Dr. Keith Whites, professor and Steven P. Miller Chair, electrical and computer engineering; Anthony Amert (EE04), research engineer II, electrical and computer engineering; and Dr. Dimitrios Anagnostou, assistant professor, electrical and computer engineering, received $6,000 in additional funding from the National Science Foundation for the project, “Multi-Scale Artificial Dielectric Materials and Their Applications.” Whites and Amert also received $70,000 from BerrieHill Research Corporation for the project, “An Integrated Computational/Measurement Technique for Accurate Electromagnetic Characterization of Materials.” Dr. Zhengtao Zhu, assistant professor, chemistry, received $40,000 from the Research Corporation for the project, “Probing the Interactions Between Conjugated Polymer and ZnO Nanostructure Through Nanostructure Surface Engineering.”
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Research Awards
Dr. Andre Petukhov, professor and head, physics, received $15,000 in additional funding from the National Science Foundation for the project, “Spintronic Devices Enabled by Semiconducting Boron Carbide.” Dr. Jan Puszynski, professor, chemical and biological engineering, received $24,563 from United States Department of Defense — Office of Naval Research for the project, “Coating of Temperature Sensitive Crystals or Particles with Aluminum.” Puszynski also received $3,000 from Black Hills Power and Light for the project, “HydroTech Hill City Well Arsenic Testing.” Dr. William Roggenthen (GeolE69), professor, geology and geological engineering, received $5,230,370 in additional funding from the National Science Foundation for the project, “Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory (DUSEL) Site Selection and Technical Design Development.” Dr. Rajesh Sani, assistant professor, chemical and biological engineering; Dr. Lew Christopher, director, Center for Bioprocessing and Development; and Dr. David Dixon, professor, chemical and biological engineering, received $25,875 from the KL Energy Corporation for the project, “Development of a Thermostable Enzyme Cocktail for Rapid Release of Fermentable Sugars from Lignocellulosic Materials/KL Energy Corporation.” Sani also received $156,333 in additional funding from the U.S. Department of Energy for the project, “Biogeochemical Mechanisms of Nanocrystalline Uraninite Oxidation by Fe(III)-(hydr)oxides.” Dr. James Sears, director, Additive Manufacturing Laboratory (AML), received $127,175 from the Black Hills Nanosystems Corporation for the project, “Safe-andArm Devices for the U.S. Army.” Sears also received $50,000 from Lockheed Martin Aeronautics for the project, “Deposition Technique Development,” and $24,731 from the National Science Foundation for the project, “Rock-Rapid Optimization of Commercial Knowledge for Army Vehicles.” Sally Shelton, collections manager, Museum of Geology, and instructor, geology and geological engineering, received $14,700 from the U.S. Department of Interior — National
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