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  Learning by teaching with constructive tutee inquiry for robust learning in algebra

  Matsuda, N. (PI) & Jiang, S. (CoPI)

  National Science Foundation

  15/8/24 → 31/7/27

  Project: Research Project

  • Learning-by-teaching 100%
  • Large Language Model 100%
  • Follow-up Question 50%
  • Linear Equation 25%
  • Science Learning 25%

• Innovative Resources: MorFa3D: A Platform for Reconstructing 3D Morphology of Foraminifera from 2D Images

  Lobaton, E. E. (PI), Daniele, M. M. (CoPI) & Davis, C. C. V. (CoPI)

  National Science Foundation

  15/8/24 → 31/7/27

  Project: Research Project

  • 2D Image 100%
  • 3D Morphology 100%
  • Imaging Systems 66%
  • Artificial Intelligence 66%
  • Innovative Resources 50%

• Collaborative Research: Rising seas, failing infrastructure: Characterizing microbial risks from exposure to tidal floods

  Grimes, D. J. (PI)

  National Science Foundation

  1/8/24 → 31/7/27

  Project: Research Project

  • Collaborative Research 100%
  • Rising Seas 100%
  • Tidal Flooding 100%
  • Microbial Risk Assessment 100%
  • Coastal Water 100%

• SCH: Synchronous Dyadic Physiological Monitoring for Real Time In Vivo Measurement and

  Roberts, D. D. L. (PI)

  National Cancer Institute

  1/8/24 → 31/7/25

  Project: Research Project

  • Animal-assisted Intervention 100%
  • Human-Animal Bond 100%
  • Physiological Monitoring 100%
  • In Vivo Measurement 50%
  • Therapeutic Outcome 33%

• Collaborative Research: CyberTraining: Implementation: Medium: CyberTraining on Accelerating Infrastructure Workloads using Next-Generation SmartNICs/DPUs

  Ruth, P. P. (PI) & Cevik, M. (CoPI)

  National Science Foundation

  1/8/24 → 31/7/27

  Project: Research Project

  • Cybertraining 83%
  • Collaborative Research 83%
  • Training Material 23%
  • Domain-Specific Processor 23%
  • Effective Support 23%

• Excellence in Research: DISES EX: Using multipollutant mixture models to assess dynamic outcomes for humans in a socio-environmental system

  Bollen, K. K. A. (CoPI) & Obeng-gyasi, E. E. (PI)

  National Science Foundation

  1/8/24 → 31/7/27

  Project: Research Project

  • Socioeconomics 100%
  • Pollutants 50%
  • Mixture Model 50%
  • Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons 50%
  • Environmental Data 50%

• A Privacy-Preserving Collaborative Condition Monitoring and Decision-Making Methodology for Distributed Manufacturing Systems

  Fang, X. (PI)

  National Science Foundation

  1/8/24 → 31/7/27

  Project: Research Project

  • Condition Monitoring 100%
  • Industrial Data Analytics 50%
  • Decision-Making 50%
  • Gas Fuel Manufacture 50%
  • Data Analytics 28%

• NC State STEM Education Scholars Program (NC S3)

  Hollebrands, K. (PI), Reynolds, W. M. (CoPI), Edgington, C. P. (CoPI) & Little, J. (CoPI)

  National Science Foundation

  1/8/24 → 31/7/29

  Project: Research Project

  • Scholar Programs 100%
  • STEM Education 100%
  • School Districts 60%
  • Teacher Shortage 40%
  • Beginning Teachers 40%

• Collaborative Research: Rising seas, failing infrastructure: Characterizing microbial risks from exposure to tidal floods

  Anarde, K. (CoPI), Nelson, N. G. (PI) & Harris, A. (CoPI)

  National Science Foundation

  1/8/24 → 31/7/27

  Project: Research Project

  • Tidal Flooding 100%
  • Microbial Risk Assessment 100%
  • Collaborative Research 50%
  • Rising Seas 50%
  • Coastal Water 50%

• CRII: CIF: Leveraging the Laplacian Paradigm for Efficient Non-Convex Optimization in Transportation and Payment Channel Networks

  Kümmerle, C. (PI)

  National Science Foundation

  1/8/24 → 31/7/26

  Project: Research Project

  • Transportation Channel 50%
  • Laplacian 50%
  • Limitations 50%
  • Least Squares Method 25%
  • Continuous Optimization 25%

• HCC: Small: Brain to Brain Interfacing Achieving Direct Bidirectional Noninvasive Brain-to-Brain Communication

  Nam, C. S. (PI) & Jiang, X. (CoPI)

  National Science Foundation

  15/7/24 → 30/6/27

  Project: Research Project

  • Brain-to-brain 100%
  • Brain-body Communication 100%
  • Human Communication 25%
  • Mutual Information 16%
  • Duty Cycle 16%

• Collaborative Research: SaTC: EDU: Enhancing IoT Software and System Security Education with Student-centered Pedagogy and Next Generation Capture-the-Flag Platform

  Khorsandroo, S. (PI)

  National Science Foundation

  1/7/24 → 30/6/27

  Project: Research Project

  • Capture the Flag 100%
  • Student-centered Pedagogy 100%
  • IoT Software 100%
  • Software Security 100%
  • Cyberspace 50%

• CAREER: Robust and Lightweight Formal Methods for Mobile Robot System Development

  Ore, J.-P. W. (PI)

  National Science Foundation

  1/7/24 → 30/6/29

  Project: Research Project

  • Lightweight Formal Methods 100%
  • System Development 50%
  • Robot 50%
  • Robot System 33%
  • Robotic System 25%

• Flexible fMRI-Compatible Neural Probes with Organic Semiconductor based Multi-modal Sensors for Closed Loop Neuromodulation

  Wang, Y. (CoPI), Lee, S. (CoPI), Lee, Y.-S.Y.-S. (CoPI) & Dong, J. J. (PI)

  National Science Foundation

  1/7/24 → 30/6/27

  Project: Research Project

  • Closed-loop Stimulation 100%
  • Organic Semiconductor 100%
  • Organic Semiconductors 50%
  • Neurological Disorder 50%
  • Closed Loop Control 33%

• Collaborative Research: SaTC: CORE: Small: Towards Secure, Resilient, Privacy-enhancing Digital World Experiences

  Das, A. (PI) & Liu, Y. (CoPI)

  National Science Foundation

  1/7/24 → 30/6/27

  Project: Research Project

  • Collaborative Research 50%
  • Security Privacy 50%
  • Virtual Reality 37%
  • Road Traffic Prediction 25%
  • Trim Strategy 25%

• Cooperativity Driven Communication through Noncovalent Networks in Biomimetic Systems

  Waters, M. L. (PI)

  National Science Foundation

  1/7/24 → 30/6/27

  Project: Research Project

  • Biomimetics 100%
  • Stimuli-responsive Behavior 50%
  • Negative Cooperativity 50%
  • Cooperativity 50%
  • Nanofibers 50%

• DEVELOPING A CHEMICAL PLATFORM BASED ON COTTONSEED OIL TO DEVELOP FUNCTIONAL FINISHES FOR CELLULOSIC SUBSTRATES

  Venditti, R. R. (PI)

  National Institute of Food and Agriculture

  1/7/24 → 30/6/27

  Project: Research Project

  • Chemical Platform 100%
  • Cellulosic Substrate 100%
  • Cottonseed Oil 100%
  • Durable Press 100%
  • Wet Strength 25%

• Unraveling the Mechanisms Behind the Workings of the DNA Mismatch Repair Systems

  Roland, C. C. M. (CoPI), Sagui, C. C. (PI) & Weninger, K. K. R. (CoPI)

  National Science Foundation

  1/7/24 → 30/6/27

  Project: Research Project

  • Inter-simple Sequence Repeat 50%
  • Microsatellite DNA 35%
  • Mismatch Repair 30%
  • Repeat Expansion 30%
  • Action-related 20%

• Role of codon usage bias in eukaryotic evolution and regulation

  Labella, A. A. (PI)

  1/7/24 → 31/5/25

  Project: Research Project

  • Codon Usage Bias 100%
  • Dynamics 57%
  • Budding Yeast 42%
  • Codon 42%
  • Codon Bias 28%

• EAGER: Exploring Automatic Optimization of Multi-tiered HPC Storage Systems via Practical Reinforcement Learning

  Dai, D. D. (PI)

  National Science Foundation

  1/7/24 → 30/6/25

  Project: Research Project

  • Automatic Optimization 100%
  • Storage System 100%
  • High-Performance Computing 100%
  • Input/Output 50%
  • Input-output 40%

• DEBOTTLENECKING FIBER PRODUCTION: FIELD EVALUATION OF LOW-LIGNIN POPLAR VARIETIES FOR PULP INDUSTRIES

  Chen, H. H. (PI)

  National Institute of Food and Agriculture

  1/7/24 → 30/6/27

  Project: Research Project

  • Debottlenecking 100%
  • Paper Industry 33%
  • Lignin 27%
  • Wood 27%
  • Landowners 27%

• Fundamental Study and Modeling of Pressure-Tolerant Power Electronics Systems

  Ngaile, G. G. (CoPI), Hopkins, D. C. (CoPI) & Pantic, Z. (PI)

  National Science Foundation

  15/6/24 → 31/5/27

  Project: Research Project

  • Pressure Tolerance 100%
  • Power Electronic Components 66%
  • Hydrostatic Pressure 50%
  • Implosion 33%
  • Ocean Exploration 33%

• AN IN-PERSON MEETING OF THE FOOD SAFETY EXTENSION NETWORK: SUPPORTING CONSUMER, RETAIL, AND HOME-BASED BUSINESSES

  Chapman, B. B. (PI)

  National Institute of Food and Agriculture

  15/6/24 → 14/6/25

  Project: Research Project

  • Home-based Business 100%
  • In-person Meetings 50%
  • Publication Guidelines 18%
  • Cottage 9%
  • Member 6 9%

• Collaborative Research: SHF: Small: Access Patterns in Massive Parallelism: Abstractions and Oriented Unified Memory Management for GPU Accelerated Systems

  Allen, T. (PI)

  National Science Foundation

  15/6/24 → 31/5/27

  Project: Research Project

  • Accelerated Systems 100%
  • Unified Memory 100%
  • Memory Management 100%
  • Collaborative Research 50%
  • Graphics Processing Unit 50%

• Benefits of panaxynol on gut resilience in colitis

  Bullard, B. B. (PI)

  6/6/24 → 5/6/25

  Project: Research Project

  • Gut 100%
  • Ablation Strategy 18%
  • Gut Microbiome 18%
  • Intestinal Mucosal Barrier 9%
  • Rectal Bleeding 9%

• Neutralizing C. difficile toxicity with probiotics that secrete rationally-designed inhibitory peptides.

  Crook, N. N. C. (PI)

  6/6/24 → 31/5/25

  Project: Research Project

  • Inhibitory Peptide 100%
  • Difficile 100%
  • TcdB 100%
  • Clostridium Difficile Infection 100%
  • Peptides 100%

• Travel: AF: Small: NSF Student Travel Grant for ISSAC 2024 & Precursor Macaulay2 Mini-School

  Papp, D. (CoPI) & Helmer, M. (PI)

  National Science Foundation

  1/6/24 → 31/5/25

  Project: Research Project

  • Symbolic Computation 50%
  • North Carolina 16%
  • Computer Algebra 14%
  • Computer Algebra System 7%
  • Algebraic Geometry 7%

• LTREB: Population persistence in a variable world: spatiotemporal variation in climate and demography across the range of scarlet monkeyflower

  Angert, A. L. (CoPI) & Sheth, S. (PI)

  National Science Foundation

  1/6/24 → 31/5/29

  Project: Research Project

  • Population Growth 100%
  • Spatiotemporal Variation 50%
  • Mimulus 50%
  • Climate Change 37%
  • Evolutionary Adaptation 33%

• Development and Initial Validation of a Palliative Care Readiness Tool for Older Adults with Cancer.

  Parajuli, J. J. (PI)

  1/6/24 → 31/5/27

  Project: Research Project

  • Early Palliative Care 33%
  • Quality of Life 14%
  • Convergent Validity 13%
  • Healthcare Utilization 6%
  • Comorbidity 6%

• Collaborative Research: CIRC: Planning-C: Building a Safer Cyberspace by Creating a Centralized Research Infrastructure to Track and Mitigate Privacy Harms

  Faklaris, C. N. (PI)

  National Science Foundation

  1/6/24 → 30/11/25

  Project: Research Project

  • Cyberspace 100%
  • Collaborative Research 100%
  • Privacy Concerns 100%
  • Data Repository 50%
  • Online Platform 50%

• 2024 US-EU Transport Taskforce Workshop

  Mckee, G. G. (PI)

  Fusion Energy Sciences

  1/6/24 → 31/5/25

  Project: Research Project

  • Transport Task 100%
  • Fusion Plasmas 50%
  • Physics 50%
  • Burning Plasma 30%
  • Transport Property 25%

• BRINGING THIRD GENERATION DOWNY MILDEW RESISTANT CUCUMBERS TO MARKET

  Mazourek, M. M. (PI)

  National Institute of Food and Agriculture

  1/6/24 → 31/5/27

  Project: Research Project

  • Cucumber 100%
  • Third Generation 50%
  • Resistance Sources 42%
  • Seed Companies 28%
  • Growers 25%

• Regulation of Pathologic Inflammasome Responses to SARS-CoV-2

  Barnett, K. K. C. (PI)

  National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

  23/5/24 → 30/4/25

  Project: Research Project

  • Interleukin 1 100%
  • Inflammasome 100%
  • Interleukin-1β 100%
  • COVID-19 50%
  • Infection 37%

• I-Corps: Translation Potential of an Autonomous Wireless Charging System for Vertical Takeoff and Landing of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

  Pantic, Z. (PI)

  National Science Foundation

  15/5/24 → 30/4/25

  Project: Research Project

  • Wireless Charging System 100%
  • Vertical Landing 100%
  • Wireless Charging 60%
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicle 50%
  • Stand-alone Operation 20%

• Collaborative Research: III: Small: High-Performance Scheduling for Modern Database Systems

  Berg, B. (PI)

  National Science Foundation

  1/5/24 → 30/4/27

  Project: Research Project

  • Collaborative Research 74%
  • Parallelizable 74%
  • High Performance 74%
  • Scheduling Policy 74%
  • Database Systems 74%

• Comparison of Antimicrobial Safety and Effectiveness for the Treatment of Urinary Tract Infections During Pregnancy

  Kahrs, J. J. (PI)

  Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

  1/5/24 → 30/4/25

  Project: Research Project

  • Antiinfective Agent 100%
  • Urinary Tract Infection 100%
  • Pyelonephritis 28%
  • Sepsis 28%
  • Antimicrobial 25%

• I-Corps: Translation Potential of a Web-based Tool for Multi-dimensional Data Integration and Population Health Prediction

  Fry, R. (PI)

  National Science Foundation

  1/5/24 → 30/4/25

  Project: Research Project

  • Resource Allocation 100%
  • Information System 100%
  • Health Condition 100%
  • Mobile Application 100%
  • Geospatial Data 100%

• Travel: NSF Student Travel Grant for 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust (HOST)

  Saqib, F. (PI)

  National Science Foundation

  1/5/24 → 30/4/25

  Project: Research Project

  • Secure Hardware 50%
  • System Operation 50%
  • Printed Circuit Board 50%
  • Computational Power 50%
  • Communication System 50%

• Changes in Exposures to PFAS, Metals, Dioxins, and Furans following Cessation of Open Burning of Munitions Wastes at a Hazardous Waste Thermal Treatment Facility

  Richmond-bryant, J. J. (PI)

  National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

  16/4/24 → 31/3/25

  Project: Research Project

  • Munition 100%
  • Thermal Burn 100%
  • Dioxin 100%
  • Atmospheric Aerosol 57%
  • Dioxins 50%

• CRII: RI: mmWave-based Human Motion and Activity Sensing Under Unseen Scenarios

  Xue, H. (PI)

  National Science Foundation

  15/4/24 → 31/3/26

  Project: Research Project

  • Smart City 100%
  • Generalized Solution 100%
  • Diverse Background 100%
  • Research Community 100%
  • Activity Recognition 100%

• Development of point-of-care mobile health technology to reduce heat and pesticides-induced farmworker health disparity

  Wang, J. J. (PI) & Du, X. X. (CoPI)

  7/3/24 → 28/2/25

  Project: Research Project

  • Farmworkers 100%
  • Health Disparities 100%
  • Point-of-care 100%
  • Creatinine 60%
  • Acetylcholinesterase 60%

• The Influence of Symptoms, Functional Status, and Social Vulnerability on Healthcare Use Among Patients Receiving Dialysis

  Noorani, N. N. P. (PI)

  1/3/24 → 28/2/25

  Project: Research Project

  • Health Care Use 100%
  • Functional Status 100%
  • Symptom Status 18%
  • Emergency Department Visits 18%
  • Social Vulnerability Index (SoVI) 18%

• CAREER: Integrating Robotics and Socio-emotional Learning for Incarcerated Middle School Students

  Kelly, D. P. (PI)

  National Science Foundation

  1/3/24 → 28/2/29

  Project: Research Project

  • Middle School Students 100%
  • Engineering Identity 66%
  • Technology Identity 66%
  • Pre-service Teachers 44%
  • Student Perceptions 44%

• Mentoring in Pediatric Cardiovascular Pharmacology and Early Phase Trials

  Hornik, C. C. (PI)

  1/3/24 → 28/2/25

  Project: Research Project

  • Early Phase Clinical Trials 100%
  • Cardiovascular System 100%
  • Clinical Pharmacology 60%
  • Cardiovascular Agent 50%
  • Drug Development 50%

• Neuroprotection for chemotherapy induced peripheral neuropathy

  Yang, I. H. I. (PI)

  1/3/24 → 28/2/27

  Project: Research Project

  • Chemotherapy-induced Peripheral Neuropathy 100%
  • Neuroprotection 100%
  • Neuropathy 100%
  • Fluocinolone Acetonide 100%
  • Cargo 25%

• NSF Engines: Piedmont Triad Regenerative Medicine Engine

  Green, G. M. (PI)

  National Science Foundation

  1/3/24 → 28/2/26

  Project: Research Project

  • Historically Black University 26%
  • Economic Drivers 13%
  • Technical University 13%
  • Reinforced 6%
  • Developmental Systems 6%

• Proteomics and Metabolomics Shared Resource

  Pasche, B. B. (PI)

  National Cancer Institute

  1/2/24 → 31/1/25

  Project: Research Project

  • Liquid Chromatography Mass Spectrometry (LCMS) 100%
  • Ultra High Performance Liquid Chromatography 100%
  • Mass Spectrometry 100%
  • Fluorescence Spectroscopy 50%
  • Tandem Mass Spectrometry 50%

• Uncovering the Mechanisms of PFAS-induced Immunotoxicity

  Kullman, S. S. W. (PI)

  National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

  1/2/24 → 31/1/25

  Project: Research Project

  • Immunotoxicity 100%
  • Polyfluoroalkyl Substances 100%
  • Zebra Fish 25%
  • Perfluorooctanesulfonic Acid 25%
  • Mouse Model 25%

• North Carolina Center for Coastal Algae, People, and Environment NC-CAPE

  Obenour, D. (CoPI), Belcher, S. M. (CoPI), Cutts, B. B. (CoPI) & Schnetzer, A. A. (PI)

  National Science Foundation

  1/2/24 → 31/1/29

  Project: Research Project

  • Harmful Algal Blooms 100%
  • North Carolina 100%
  • Algal Bloom 100%
  • Human Health 66%
  • Public Health 66%

• NSF-BSF: Macromolecular crowding in vitro and in cells

  Pielak, G. J. (PI)

  National Science Foundation

  1/2/24 → 31/1/27

  Project: Research Project

  • Dimerization 100%
  • Israeli 50%
  • Crowded Environment 50%
  • Protein Complex Stability 50%
  • Applicable Knowledge 50%