January 15, 2010

Funding Received

54,878,225

Proposals Awarded

Stimulus Working Group

On February 17, 2009, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) was signed into law. This Web page provides public information on the ARRA funding awarded, to date, to the University of Delaware, including sortable lists by agency sponsor and selected project highlights.

This Web page also serves as an ongoing resource for UD researchers seeking information on ARRA funding announcements, opportunities, and grant requirements from federal and state agencies, as well as the Recovery.gov general list. Additional announcements will be posted as more information becomes available.

ARRA Guidelines

Rachel Davidson, UD associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, has won a $796,255 grant from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to develop models that support the design of a regional natural disaster risk management system. The three-year project will also demonstrate application of the new models in case studies focusing on earthquake risk in Los Angeles and hurricane risk in North Carolina.

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In a three-year, $1.1 million project funded by the National Science Foundation, Christopher Sommerfield, associate professor of oceanography at UD, in collaboration with a colleague at Rutgers, is working to determine just how efficient the estuary is at trapping sediment supplied by rivers. The research could shed light on how human or natural changes to the flow of sediment could affect the estuary.

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A University of Delaware research team led by Thomas Gaisser has won a $1.1 million grant from the National Science Foundation to support data analysis associated with the “IceCube” neutrino telescope at the South Pole, which UD is helping to construct as part of an international team. Neutrinos are weakly interacting, high-energy particles that can tell us more about the sun’s activity and Earth’s structure, to the origins of cosmic-ray particles in the early universe.

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The University of Delaware is part of a multi-state team that has been awarded a total of more than $14 million from the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health to improve networking capabilities among the Northeast Regional IDeA and EPSCoR states--Delaware, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont.

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Roberta Golinkoff, H. Rodney Sharp Professor in UD’s School of Education (far left in photo), has received a $904,828 grant from the National Institutes of Health to examine young students' geometric abilities. She will lead a study of 150 preschool children over a span of two years to determine what children know about shapes at three years of age and how this predicts their future mathematics achievement. The research will lead to new teaching curricula.

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The University of Delaware has won a $4.4 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA-E) to lead a multidisciplinary, multi-institutional research project to develop the next generation of high-performance permanent magnets. Led by George Hadjipanayis, UD’s Richard B. Murray Professor of Physics and chairperson of the Department of Physics and Astronomy, the project is among 37 projects selected nationwide.

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Eleftherios Papoutsakis, the Eugene du Pont Chair of Chemical Engineering at UD and a faculty fellow at the Delaware Biotechnology Institute, has received $961,000 from the Department of Defense to explore the development of complex phenotypes in microbial cells so that the cells can better withstand stressful bioprocessing conditions such as the accumulation of toxic products and byproducts.

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The University of Delaware, in collaboration with Stroud Water Research Center in Avondale, Pa., has received a $4.3 million grant from the National Science Foundation to establish the Christina River Basin as a new “Critical Zone Observatory” for researching questions relating to climate change. It is one of six in the United States.

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Cathy Wu, Edward G. Jefferson Chair of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology at UD, has won a $473,350 grant from the National Institutes of Health to support ongoing efforts to develop a Protein Ontology (PRO) to facilitate protein annotation and functional discovery, enabling the identification of pathways of disease.

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A team of UD faculty members has received a $1,064,500 grant from the National Science Foundation to conduct research on multiscale modeling of turbulent clouds on petascale computers. They will be working in collaboration with scientists from the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). “Petascale” refers to a computer system capable of reaching a speed of quadrillion operations per second.

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UD has been awarded $17.5 million from the U.S. Department of Energy to establish an Energy Frontier Research Center. Led by faculty in the College of Engineering, the new interdisciplinary center will develop innovative technologies to convert biomass such as grasses and trees into electricity, chemicals, and fuels. Outreach and education also will be key components.

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With support from the National Science Foundation, E. Fidelma Boyd, assistant professor of biological sciences in the College of Arts & Sciences, is examining Vibrio parahaemolyticus, a pathogen that lives in seawater, to determine how bacteria adapt to changes in the marine coastal ecosystem. Although V. parahaemolyticus has been around for a long time, it is now expanding its range in North America.

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New oceanographic instrumentation is being added to the University of Delaware's 146-foot coastal research vessel Hugh R. Sharp, thanks to funding from the National Science Foundation. The ship serves researchers throughout the Mid-Atlantic region as a member of the University-National Oceanographic Laboratory System (UNOLS) fleet. The vessel is operated by the College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment at the Lewes campus.

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With funding from the Department of Health and Human Services, UD's Center for Disabilities Studies in the College of Education & Public Policy is continuing the successful New Directions Early Head Start (NDEHS) program. The NDEHS consortium brings together the University with a diversity of nonprofit community agencies to provide child care and disability support services to over 100 children and families in New Castle and Kent counties.

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A team of researchers at UD, led by Cole Galloway, associate professor of physical therapy in the College of Health Sciences, has received additional funding from the National Institutes of Health to continue to develop a miniature power chair, armed with a robotic brain and affectionately known as “UD2,” that keeps kids safe and empowers them to explore the world while providing researchers with valuable data.

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Funded by the National Institutes of Health, Harsh Bais, assistant professor of plant and soil sciences in the College of Agriculture & Natural Resources, will mine the root exudates of plants for novel antimicrobial agents and therapeutics to thwart Enterococcus species. These bacteria are highly resistant to antibiotics, and some particularly virulent strains have emerged recently in infections of hospitalized patients in the United States.

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Below is a chart summarizing the amount of ARRA funding the University has received by sponsor. Select a heading to sort this list. For a detailed list of proposals by agency select a sponsor's name.

Sponsor	Total
Grand Total	$54,878,225
Corporation for National and Community Service	$155,250
Department of Health and Human Services	$653,907
National Institutes of Health	$16,652,818
National Institute of Standards & Technology	$796,225
National Science Foundation	$13,142,057
U.S. Department of Defense	$342,376
U.S. Department of Education	$85,767
U.S. Department of Energy	$22,160,421
U.S. Department of Labor	$889,404