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  IntBIO: Collaborative Research: Integrating molecular, cellular, organismal and community scales to understand how plants structure pollinator-pathogen dynamics

  Irwin, R. (PI)

  National Science Foundation

  1/10/18 → 31/12/26

  Project: Research Project

  • Pollinators 100%
  • Underserved Communities 40%
  • Pollinator Health 40%
  • Plant Species 40%
  • Pollinator Habitat 40%

• A Mobile High Performance Computing System for Deployment in the Field

  Clay, G. G. (PI)

  Office of the Secretary of Defense

  30/9/18 → …

  Project: Research Project

  • Less Power 100%
  • Key Enabling Technologies 50%
  • Unmanned Vehicle 50%
  • Sensor Camera 50%
  • Unmanned Autonomous Systems 50%

• Tick Bites in Transmission of the Alpha Gal Allergen Eliciting Red Meat Allergy

  Park, Y. Y. (PI)

  U.S. Army

  30/9/18 → …

  Project: Research Project

  • Allergen 100%
  • Galactose 100%
  • Mouse Mutant 100%
  • Galactosyltransferase 44%
  • Amblyomma Americanum 44%

• Adoptive Cell Therapy Against Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Using a Novel tMUC1 Antibody-Derived CAR

  Mukherjee, P. P. (PI)

  U.S. Army

  15/9/18 → …

  Project: Research Project

  • Mucin 1 100%
  • Triple-negative Breast Cancer 50%
  • Adoptive Cell Therapy 50%
  • Tumor-specific 50%
  • Triple-negative Breast Cancer Cells 16%

• DURIP: Pre-heating Constant Volume Combustion Chamber System for Characterization of Spray Compression-Ignition Combustion

  Tiegang, F. F. (PI)

  U.S. Army

  14/9/18 → …

  Project: Research Project

  • Constant Volume 100%
  • Ambient Environment 14%
  • Ignition Condition 14%
  • Fuel Combustion 14%
  • Diesel Engine 14%

• AlGaN/AlN-based Quantum Cascade Lasers for mid-IR applications

  Zlatko, S. S. (PI)

  U.S. Army

  1/8/18 → …

  Project: Research Project

  • Valence Band 100%
  • Dislocation Density 100%
  • IR Application 100%
  • Quantum Well 50%
  • Band Offset 50%

• Arsenic Valved Cracker for Molecular Beam Epitaxial System for Research on GaAsSb(N) Nanowires based Optoelectronic Device Applications

  Shanthi, I. I. (PI)

  U.S. Army

  19/6/18 → …

  Project: Research Project

  • Based Optoelectronic Device 100%
  • Arsenic 100%
  • Nanowires 50%
  • Infrared Region 33%
  • Nano-semiconductors 16%

• LWR Integrated Energy Systems Interface Technology Development & Demonstration

  Tusar, J. J. (PI), Gerren, D. D. (PI), Lieb, R. R. (CoPI), Garber, R. R. (CoPI), Scheanwald, A. A. (CoPI), Halbert, B. B. (CoPI), Boardman, R. R. (CoPI), Panwar, M. M. (CoPI), Rabiti, C. C. (CoPI), Green, M. M. (CoPI), Brown, J. J. (CoPI), Burke, P. P. (CoPI), Anderson, M. M. (CoPI) & Strasser, M. M. (CoPI)

  1/1/18 → …

  Project: Research Project

  • Integrated Energy System 100%
  • Technology Development 100%
  • System Interface 100%
  • Light Water Reactors 100%
  • Hydrogen Generation 100%

• Understanding of degradation of SiC/SiC materials in nuclear systems and development of mitigation strategies

  Hosemann, P. (PI), Deck, C. C. (CoPI), Tucker, J. J. (CoPI), Kaoumi, D. D. (CoPI) & Wang, Y. Y. (CoPI)

  Nuclear Energy University Program

  1/1/18 → …

  Project: Research Project

  • SiCf 100%
  • SiC Material 50%
  • Light Water 50%
  • Corrosion 50%
  • Corrosion Monitoring 25%

• CAREER: Dynamic sea-level trends during the past two millennia

  Kemp, A. A. (PI)

  National Science Foundation

  1/10/17 → 31/3/25

  Project: Research Project

  • North America 28%
  • Salt Marsh 25%
  • Past 2000 Years 18%
  • Sedimentary Sequence 14%
  • Atmospheric Circulation 14%

• High Efficiency Low-cost Nanocomposite for Radiation Detection Enabled by Charge Triggered Secondary Charge Injection

  Huang, J. J. (PI)

  Defense Threat Reduction Agency

  1/9/17 → …

  Project: Research Project

  • High Efficiency 100%
  • Charge Injection 100%
  • Nanocomposite 100%
  • Silicon Detectors 50%
  • High Detection Efficiency 50%

• Neural circuit elements that orchestrate cue-reward associations

  Stuber, G. D. (CoPI)

  15/3/17 → 31/1/26

  Project: Research Project

  • Neural Circuits 100%
  • Reward Association 100%
  • Behaving Mice 25%
  • Reward Prediction 25%
  • Awake Mice 25%

• Faculty Start-up Package to Strengthen Materials Research at ECSU

  Newkirk, V. V. (PI)

  U.S. Navy

  24/2/17 → …

  Project: Research Project

  • Start-up Company 100%
  • Materials Research 50%
  • Environmental Economics 50%
  • Applied Science 50%
  • Department of Defense 33%

• ONR Proposal for 2017 Ship Operations on R/V SAVANNAH

  Bichy, J. J. (PI)

  U.S. Navy

  1/2/17 → …

  Project: Research Project

  • Ship Operation 100%
  • Handling Equipment 50%
  • Port Call 12%
  • Knuckle Boom Crane 12%
  • Handling System 12%

• FDXR Regulates ER-Positive Breast Tumorigenesis via Reprogramming Metabolism

  Zhang, J. J. (PI)

  U.S. Army

  15/1/17 → …

  Project: Research Project

  • Metabolism 100%
  • Breast Cancer 100%
  • Carcinogenesis 100%
  • Cancer Cell 100%
  • Mitochondrion 50%

• Experimentally Validated Physics-Based Coarse-Grained and Multiscale Simulations of Soft Matter Cavitation

  Berkowitz, M. M. (PI)

  U.S. Navy

  11/1/17 → …

  Project: Research Project

  • Physics-based 100%
  • Coarse-grained Simulations 100%
  • Ion Conductance 100%
  • Brain Areas 100%
  • Myelin 100%

• Cellular Senescence as a driver and therapeutic target for osteoarthritis (OA)

  Diekman, B. B. (PI)

  American Federation for Aging Research

  1/1/17 → …

  Project: Research Project

  • Senolytics 80%
  • Therapeutic Target 50%
  • Osteoarthritis 50%
  • Cellular Senescence 50%
  • Age-related 20%

• Exploiting Inhibitory Siglecs to Combat Food Allergies

  Kulis, M. D. M. D. (PI)

  U.S. Army

  30/9/16 → …

  Project: Research Project

  • Siglec 100%
  • Sialic Acid Binding Immunoglobulin Like Lectin 100%
  • Food Allergy 50%
  • Peanut 35%
  • Immunoglobulin E Antibody 30%

• Development of Atomically Precise Nanoscale Graphitic Devices

  Bernholc, J. J. (PI)

  U.S. Navy

  2/9/16 → …

  Project: Research Project

  • Graphene 100%
  • Nanoribbon 100%
  • Graphene Nanoribbon 50%
  • Atomically Precise 50%
  • Graphene Properties 40%

• Instrumentation for the Computational and Engineering Sciences

  Alade, T. T. (PI)

  Office of the Secretary of Defense

  1/9/16 → …

  Project: Research Project

  • Engineering Science 50%
  • multiple robot 50%
  • Engineering Discipline 50%
  • Gathering Data 50%
  • Underrepresented Minority 50%

• Strategies to Counteract Resistance Mechanisms in CAR+ T-Cell-Based Immunotherapy for Triple-Negative Breast Cancer

  Dotti, G. G. (PI)

  U.S. Army

  1/9/16 → …

  Project: Research Project

  • Triple-negative Breast Cancer 50%
  • Chimeric Antigen Receptor T Cells (CAR-T) 50%
  • Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-Cell 50%
  • Triple Negative Breast Cancer 50%
  • Immunotherapeutic Strategy 37%

• Acquisition of Multi-functional Nanoprobe Station-based Measurement System for Comprehensive In Situ Materials Characterization and Measurement in SEM

  Haitao, Z. Z. (PI)

  Office of the Secretary of Defense

  1/9/16 → …

  Project: Research Project

  • Historically Black University 100%
  • Measurement System 100%
  • Station-based 100%
  • Department of Defense 100%
  • Scanning Electron Microscopy 100%

• Establishment of Metal/Ceramic Additive Manufacturing (3D Printing) Infrastructure towards Advanced Interdisciplinary Research, Education and Outreach.

  Salil, D. D. (PI)

  Office of the Secretary of Defense

  19/8/16 → …

  Project: Research Project

  • Ceramic Additive Manufacturing 100%
  • Additive Manufacturing 100%
  • Infrastructure 100%
  • Three Dimensional Printing 100%
  • Historically Black University 50%

• Reliable and Flexible Teaming of Heterogeneous Autonomous Vehicles

  Ali, K. K. (PI)

  Office of the Secretary of Defense

  18/8/16 → …

  Project: Research Project

  • Historically Black University 100%
  • Autonomous Vehicles 100%
  • Autonomous Cooperative Control 50%
  • Large Teams 50%
  • Reasoning Tasks 50%

• Nonlinearity and Information Processing

  Ditto, W. W. (PI)

  U.S. Navy

  16/8/16 → …

  Project: Research Project

  • Nonlinearity 100%
  • Shannon Entropy 100%
  • Dynamical Signature 28%
  • Logic Gates 28%
  • Physical Concepts 28%

• Exploiting Hypoxia for T-Cell Immunotherapy in Neuroblastoma

  Xu, Y. Y. (PI)

  U.S. Army

  15/8/16 → …

  Project: Research Project

  • Hypoxia 100%
  • Ganglioneuroblastoma 100%
  • Chimeric Antigen Receptor T Cells (CAR-T) 58%
  • Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-Cell 46%
  • Tumor Cells 25%

• Stochastic Optical Resolution Microscope for Super-Resolution Fluorescence Imaging

  Ray, R. R. (PI)

  U.S. Navy

  22/6/16 → …

  Project: Research Project

  • Source Data 100%
  • Axial Direction 100%
  • 3D Analysis 100%
  • Diffraction Limit 100%
  • Diffraction 100%

• A Network-Science-Integrated Feedback Loop for Design of Multifunctional Polymeric Rod-Like Nanocomposites

  Mark, F. F. (PI)

  U.S. Army

  10/6/16 → …

  Project: Research Project

  • Feedback Loop 100%
  • Polymer Nanocomposites 50%
  • Network Science 50%
  • Polyetherimide 50%
  • Nanocomposite 50%

• An FPGA Testbed for Characterizing and Mapping DOD Applications

  Clay, G. G. (PI)

  U.S. Army

  30/5/16 → …

  Project: Research Project

  • Field Programmable Gate Arrays 100%
  • Sensor Type 50%
  • Military Applications 50%
  • Unmanned Vehicle 25%
  • Air-sea 25%

• Additive Manufacturing 3-D Printer for Hierarchical Material Composition-Morphology-Lattice Structure Developments and Investigations

  Ram, M. M. (PI)

  U.S. Army

  20/4/16 → …

  Project: Research Project

  • Structure Investigation 100%
  • 3D Additive Manufacturing 50%
  • Printhead 50%
  • Structure Development 50%
  • Material Composition 50%

• 'Social and Behavioral Science: Monitoring Social Foraging Behavior in a Biological Model System'

  Olav, R. R. (PI)

  U.S. Army

  15/4/16 → …

  Project: Research Project

  • Social Foraging 100%
  • Foraging Behavior 100%
  • Biological Models 100%
  • Social Sciences 50%
  • Honey Bees 50%

• Data Assimilation for a new generation of Sea Ice Models

  Jones, C. C. (PI)

  U.S. Navy

  1/4/16 → …

  Project: Research Project

  • Sea Ice 30%
  • Lagrangian 23%
  • Lagrangian Model 15%
  • Dynamical Features 15%
  • Data Assimilation Method 15%

• Comprehensive Ocean Data Assimilation

  Jones, C. C. (PI)

  U.S. Navy

  29/3/16 → …

  Project: Research Project

  • Lagrangian 50%
  • Based Kalman Filter 25%
  • Key Parameter 25%
  • Gulf of Mexico 25%
  • Ocean Models 25%

• Insect Bite-Proof textiles for Military Uniforms

  Mccord, M. M. (PI)

  U.S. Army

  2/12/15 → …

  Project: Research Project

  • Insect Bite 100%
  • Military Uniform 100%
  • Clothing 60%
  • Chemical Treatment 50%
  • Field Condition 50%

• Neurophysiological Outcomes of mTBI

  Tommerdahl, M. A. (PI)

  U.S. Navy

  10/11/15 → …

  Project: Research Project

  • Central Nervous System 50%
  • Neurologic Disease 50%
  • Extensive Literature Review 25%
  • Tactile Evaluation 25%
  • Eye Examination 25%

• Spatio-temporal Control of Rho Family Signaling Networks in Motility

  Timothy, E. E. (PI)

  U.S. Army

  28/9/15 → …

  Project: Research Project

  • Signaling Network 100%
  • Cell Motion 100%
  • Cell Migration 66%
  • Cell Biology 33%
  • Biological Context 33%

• Laser Damage Threshold Tester for testing Large Windows and Components for High-Energy Lasers

  Aggarwal, I. I. (PI)

  U.S. Navy

  23/9/15 → …

  Project: Research Project

  • Optical Window 80%
  • Navy 40%
  • Kilowatt 40%
  • Collaborative Work 40%
  • Coated Film 40%

• The Role of Astrocyte Activation in Anticholinesterase-induced Synaptic Changes and Behavioral Deficits

  Bahr, B. B. (PI)

  Office of the Secretary of Defense

  21/8/15 → …

  Project: Research Project

  • Acetylcholinesterase Inhibitor 100%
  • Paraoxon 87%
  • Slice Model 28%
  • Reactive Astrocytes 14%
  • Seizure 14%

• Characterization of Nanowire Photodetectors

  Shanthi, I. I. (PI)

  U.S. Army

  15/8/15 → …

  Project: Research Project

  • Nanowires 50%
  • Semiconductor Materials Measurements 33%
  • V-module 33%
  • Cross-correlation Technique 33%
  • Trap Density 33%

• High Dynamic Range Measurement System

  Michael, S. S. (PI)

  U.S. Army

  13/8/15 → …

  Project: Research Project

  • High Dynamic Range Measurement 100%
  • Sidebands 50%
  • Measurement System 50%
  • Transmission Signal 50%
  • Dynamic Range 50%

• Mitigation of heat strain through the USMC training continuum

  Ruby, B. B. (PI)

  U.S. Navy

  4/8/15 → …

  Project: Research Project

  • Heat-related Injuries 100%
  • Heat Strain 100%
  • Heat Injury 100%
  • Core Temperature 40%
  • Camp Lejeune 20%

• Vibratory Stimuli: A Novel Rehabilitation Method for Preventing Post-Traumatic Knee Osteoarthritis

  Blackburn, T. T. (PI)

  U.S. Army

  1/8/15 → …

  Project: Research Project

  • Knee Osteoarthritis 100%
  • Rehabilitation Protocol 100%
  • Rehabilitation Engineering 100%
  • Knee Injury 72%
  • Surgical Reconstruction 50%

• A Computational Infrastructure for Algorithmic Implementation: A Step Closer to Theater Deployment

  Hamid, K. K. (PI)

  U.S. Army

  1/8/15 → …

  Project: Research Project

  • Centralized Algorithm 50%
  • Output Capability 50%
  • Parallel Implementation 50%
  • Computational Efficiency 50%
  • Graphic User Interface 50%

• Studies of Heat Transport and its Underlying Stochastic Dynamics in Smallest Thermal Engines: An Approach to Novel Form of Energy-Harvesting

  Ilki, K. K. (PI)

  U.S. Army

  1/7/15 → …

  Project: Research Project

  • Thermal Engine 100%
  • Energy Forms 50%
  • Novel Form 50%
  • Energy Harvesting 50%
  • Energy Engineering 50%

• STIR: Novel magnetically responsive and self-repairing particle-lipid-water gels: Exploring nanocapillarity as a tool for making materials with extraordinary properties

  Orlin, V. V. (PI)

  U.S. Army

  1/6/15 → …

  Project: Research Project

  • Polydimethylsiloxane 100%
  • Self-repair 100%
  • Gel Water 100%
  • Novel Electronics 25%
  • Linear Structure 25%

• Effects of Heat Release on Shock-Train Development in COIL Laser Diffuser Systems

  Edwards, J. R. J. R. (PI)

  U.S. Air Force

  13/4/15 → …

  Project: Research Project

  • Diffuser 100%
  • Heat Effect 100%
  • Large Eddy Simulation 60%
  • Shear Layer 20%
  • Pressure Level 20%

• Regulation of Synaptic Vesicle Dynamics in the Auditory System

  Young, S. M. (CoPI), Young, S. S. M. (PI) & Young, S. S. M. (CoPI)

  1/4/15 → 31/5/25

  Project: Research Project

  • Synaptic Vesicle Cycle 100%
  • Action Potential 100%
  • Trapezoid Body 100%
  • Synaptic Vesicle 100%
  • Auditory System 100%

• UNC Pembroke Laser Scanning Confocal Microscopy Facility

  Ben, B. B. (PI)

  Office of the Secretary of Defense

  1/2/15 → …

  Project: Research Project

  • Department of Defense 100%
  • Historically Black University 100%
  • Army 100%
  • Alzheimer's Disease 100%
  • Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy 100%

• Development of Aviation Air Quality Tools for Airport-Specific Impact Assessment: Air Quality Modeling

  Arunachalam, S. S.

  Federal Aviation Administration

  1/1/15 → …

  Project: Research Project

• Innovative Approach to SCC Inspection and Evaluation of Canister in Dry Storage

  Shayer, Z. Z. (PI), Olson, D. D. (CoPI), Liu, S. S. (CoPI), Yu, Z. Z. (CoPI), Murty, K. K. (CoPI), Kaoumi, D. D. (CoPI), Bryan, C. C. (CoPI), Enos, D. D. (CoPI), Anderson, B. E. B. E. (CoPI), Flynn, E. E. (CoPI), Almer, J. D. (CoPI), Kenesei, P. P. (CoPI), Lewis, D. W. D. W. (CoPI) & Johns, J. J. (CoPI)

  Nuclear Energy University Program

  1/1/15 → …

  Project: Research Project

  • Chloride 100%
  • Dry Storage 100%
  • Stress Corrosion Cracking 100%
  • Canister 100%
  • Crack Initiation 27%