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<\/p>\nCollege of Science faculty were awarded $11.3 million in new research grants and awards in fiscal year 2018. The awards are distributed equally between the School of Life Sciences\u2014which includes integrative biology, microbiology and biochemistry and biophysics) and our departments of physical and mathematical sciences.<\/p>\n
As the chart below indicates, most of the College\u2019s funding was awarded by federal agencies with the National Science Foundation (45%) and National Institutes of Health (23%) leading the list. Foundation and industrial awards contributed 6%.<\/p>\n
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For the fiscal year, the number of research proposals submitted by the College was up 5% relative to FY17.\u00a0 The total requested funds from grant proposal submissions increased from $62M to $95M.<\/p>\n
Research expenditures for the year totaled $12M. With expenditures greater than $1.25M each, Doug Keszler and Bruce Menge ranked among the top 20 PIs on campus. We had 63 science faculty expend more than $25K with median and mean amounts of $196K\u00a0and $111K, respectively.\u00a0 See chart below for award distribution.<\/p>\n
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Many science faculty received substantial research grants this year. Below are a just a few notable awards.<\/p>\n
Viviana Perez<\/strong> (Biochemistry) was awarded a $2.3M National Institutes of Health grant for a period of five years for her project, \u201cBrain cellular senescence as a driver of Alzheimer’s Disease.\u201d<\/p>\n Chemist May Nyman<\/strong>\u00a0was awarded $1 million as part of a\u00a0five-year, $12.5 million National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) grant<\/a>\u00a0for an Actinide Center of Excellence (ACE) to conduct research in actinide and nuclear chemistry important for Stockpile Stewardship, the certification that the nation’s nuclear weapons are secure and operational.<\/p>\n Statistician Yuan Jiang<\/strong>\u00a0has been awarded a four-year, $770K grant by NIH\u2019s National Institute of General Medical Sciences for his project “Network-based statistical methods to decode interactions within microbiomes<\/a>\u201d to innovate statistical methods to study the human microbiome and its role in human health. Duo Jiang<\/strong> and Thomas Sharpton<\/strong> are co-investigators on this grant.<\/p>\n Congratulations to\u00a0David Koslicki<\/strong>\u00a0who received a $437K award from NIH’s National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS<\/a><\/strong>), the first NIH grant in the\u00a0Department of Mathematics. The\u00a0project<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0seeks to build a Biomedical Translator, which is a software system that connects various databases of biomedical knowledge and has the capability to “reason” through these data sources to answer relevant biomedical questions.<\/p>\n Oskana Ostroverkhova<\/strong>\u00a0(Physics) received a three-year, $410K NSF award for her project \u201cNaturally produced fungal compounds for sustainable (opto)electronics.\u201d<\/p>\n Jerri Bartholomew<\/strong>\u00a0was awarded $404K by the Oregon Department of Fish and wildlife for a Fish Health Graduate Research Fellowship in Microbiology.<\/p>\n Chemist Chong Fang<\/strong> received a three-year, $400K award from NSF for his project on \u201cDissecting Photoconversion in Fluorescent Proteins Frame by Frame.\u201d<\/p>\n Biochemist David Hendrix<\/strong> and biologist Jaga Giebultowicz<\/strong> have teamed up on a project that received a one-year, $360K grant for their proposal, \u201cUncovering the Gene Regulatory Mechanisms Governing the Aging Circadian Clock.\u201d<\/p>\n Chemist\u00a0Wei Kong<\/strong>\u00a0received a $354K NIH award for her project \u201cSerial single molecule electron diffraction imaging: atomic structures of biological macromolecules without crystals.\u201d<\/p>\n Biochemist Colin Johnson<\/strong> won a $338K NIH grant for his project, “In vivo and in vitro studies of the deafness associated protein otoferlin.\u201d<\/p>\n Biologist Michael Blouin<\/strong> received a $332K grant from the Bonneville Power Administration for his project \u201cEvaluate the Relative Reproductive Success of Hatchery-Origin and Wild-Origin Steelhead Spawning Naturally in the Hood River.\u201d<\/p>\n Just two months into the new fiscal year and the College is seeing strong momentum with the following significant awards totaling more than $6.4M. Below are just a few of the recent funding awards.<\/p>\n Chemist\u00a0Dipankar Koley<\/strong>\u00a0received a five-year NIH\/NIDCR R01 grant for $2.17M to fund his project \u201cManipulation of Bacterial Metabolism: A New Approach to Develop Smart Dental Composites.\u201d<\/p>\n Biochemist\u00a0Michael Freitag<\/strong>\u00a0received a 4-year, $840K NSF grant for his project “Control and Function of Chromatin-mediated Gene Silencing in Fungi.”<\/p>\n Physicist\u00a0Heidi Schellman<\/strong>\u00a0is lead PI on a three-year, $665K NSF grant for her project “Experimental Neutrino Physics.”<\/p>\n Chemist\u00a0David (Xiulei) Ji<\/strong>\u00a0received a $475K award from the University of California, San Diego for his project “Aqueous Iron-Sulfur Batteries.”<\/p>\n Physicist\u00a0Oksana Ostroverkhova<\/strong>\u00a0received a 3-year, $450K NSF grant for her project “Designing light-matter hybrid states for high-performance organic (opto)electronics.”<\/p>\n Chemist\u00a0Sandra Loesgen<\/strong>\u00a0has received a three-year, $428K NSF grant for her project “New Tools to Access the Fungal Metabolome and its Ecological Function.”<\/p>\n Microbiologist Steve Giovannoni<\/strong> received a three-year, $424K award from NSF for his project \u201cRegulation of Nutrient Assimilation in Streamlined Oligotrophic Microorganisms.\u201d<\/p>\n Chemist\u00a0Chong Fang<\/strong>\u00a0received a three-year, $400K award from NSF for his project on “Dissecting Photoconversion in Fluorescent Proteins Frame by Frame.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The College of Science received $11.3 million in research grants and awards in 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ahead: $6.4M in funding already for FY19<\/strong><\/h2>\n