Funded Projects

Proposal Title	Principal Investigator	Campus	Shared Core Facility	Institute	Award Year
Stardust is Coming! - Electron Microscopy Analysis of Meteorites in Preparation for Hayabusa2 Mission Sample	Abreu, Neyda Margarita	DuBois	MCL	MRI	18/19
Cr and Mo Metal-Metal Bonded Oxalates	Van Der Sluys, William Gustav	Altoona	MCL	MRI	18/19
Examination of the Extent of Dietary Overlap Between Bobcats and Coyotes on Cumberland Island, GA, Using Next-Generation Sequencing	Miller-Butterworth, Cassandra	Beaver	Huck	Huck	18/19
Chemical mapping of charged and discharged state of prelithiated anodes in Li-ion capacitors	Rajagopalan, Ramakrishnan	DuBois	MCL	MRI	18/19
Determination of long non-coding RNAs as potential vitamin D targets for podocyte rescue in diabetic kidney disease	Tsotakos, Nikolaos	Harrisburg	Huck	Huck	18/19
Method development for diet analysis of invasive flathead catfish using DNA barcoding	Schall, Megan	Hazleton	Huck	Huck	18/19
The effects of metallurgical parameters on the electrical current annealing of metallic materials	Waryoba, Daudi Rigenda	DuBois	MCL	MRI	18/19
PFAS Water Contamination in the Greater Pittsburgh Area	Gwin, Carley	New Kensington	EESL	IEE	18/19
Urban Forest Regeneration and Soils Elements and Chemicals Analysis in Laboratory for Isotopes and Metals in the Environment	Loeb, Robert	DuBois	EESL	IEE	18/19
Three-dimensional visualization of brain morphology in zebrafish, Danio rerio, using contrast enhanced X-ray micro-CT	Depasquale, Cairsty	Altoona	EESL	IEE	18/19
First complete genome sequence of the lizard malaria parasite, Plasmodium mexicanum	Vardo-Zalik, Anne Marie	York	Huck	Huck	18/19
Lipidomics: Microbial Biomarkers from Cold and Hot Desert Soils	Bakermans, Corien	Altoona	EESL	IEE	18/19
Soft piezoelectric devices for wearable and implantable electronics	Liao, Yabin	Behrend	NF	MRI	18/19
Influence of solvent on protein intrinsic dynamics based on the normal mode analysis	Na, Hyuntae	Harrisburg	ICDS	ICDS	18/19
Culturally relevant substance use prevention interventions for sexual gender minority population	Scroggs, Barrett	Mont Alto	SSRI	SSRI	18/19
Families forging a path to treatment: Opioid Addiction	Adam, Marianne	Schuylkill	SSRI	SSRI	18/19
Investigation of the form and function of casques	MACK, ANDREW L	Altoona	EESL	IEE	19/20
In-depth study of Euplectella Aspergillum (EA) spicule microstructure and its fracture mechanism	Tavangarian, Fariborz	Harrisburg	MCL	MRI	19/20
Precision Size Control in Graphene Quantum Dots by Photo-thermal Tuning	ADU, KOFI W	Altoona	MCL	MRI	19/20
Agricultural chemicals in Antietam Creek – When, Where and What?	Zhong, Linghao	Mont Alto	EESL	IEE	19/20
Urban Forest Tree Leaf Analysis by Laboratory for Isotopes and Metals	Loeb, Robert Eli	DuBois	LIME	EMS	19/20
Predator-prey interactions in a green Microbial World	PRINCIOTTA, SARAH	Schuylkill	Huck	Huck	19/20
Genomic characterization of two unique Rhizobium strains	Eardly, Bertrand D	Berks	Huck	Huck	19/20
Towards a High Power Conversion Efficiency CN T/Si Metamaterial Solar Cell	Weisel, Gary	Altoona	MCL, EESL, NF	MRI, IEE	19/20
Novel Shape-Memory Bio-Based Polymer Blends With Enhanced Properties For Biomedical Applications	Madbouly, Samy	Behrend	MCL	MRI	19/20
Exploring the possibility of trapping Arsenic pollutants inside denatured proteins	Warrier, Ajaya	Fayette	LIME	EMS	19/20
Macro to micro: Quantitative analysis of size-fractionated plastics in a lacustrine environment	KAHL, ALANDRA FRANCES	Greater Allegheny	EESL	IEE	19/20
Characterization of microplastics in sediments and surface waters of a headwater catchment	Emili, Lisa	Altoona	EESL	IEE	19/20
Extending Minority Stress Theory to Atheists and Other Nonbelievers: Implications for Substance Use	Sawyer, Jacob	Mont Alto	SSRI	SSRI	19/20
Infant Emotion Regulation and Sleep Quality in the Context of Poverty: The Role of Fathers	Altenburger, Lauren	Shenango	SSRI	SSRI	19/20
Opioid misuse among college athletes: Characterizing sports-specific risk environments	Mclean, Katherine	Greater Allegheny	SSRI	SSRI	19/20
3D magnetohydrodynamical simulations of obliquely rotating massive stars	Ud-Doula, Asif	Scranton	ICDS	ICDS	19/20
Protecting IoT Devices: A New Vulnerability Discovery Technique for Penetration Testing	Cao, Chen	Behrend	ICDS	ICDS	19/20
Direct Computation of Capillary Force Constitutive Relations for Nanosuspensions with a Push-based Data Analysis System	Shi, Baiou	Behrend	ICDS	ICDS	19/20
Transcriptomic analyses of coding genes related to sex determination in hemp (Cannabis sativa L.)	Deguchi, Michihito	Harrisburg	COM	COM	20/21
Biomechanical mechanisms of flow-induced conformational change in biopolymers	Shi, Baiou	Behrend	ICDS	ICDS	20/21
Pennsylvania pandemic hospital capacity prediction	Best, Eric	Harrisburg	ICDS	ICDS	20/21
Development of novel flavonoid therapeutics to treat COVID-19 and other coronaviruses	Sigmon, Anna	Brandywine	Huck	Huck	20/21
Beyond earth applications of TMDs: Uncovering ferromagnetism from a range of TMDs through radiation studies	Ozden, Burcu	Abington	MCL	MCL	21/22
Cranial capacity as indicator of human-driven selection on cognitive and behavioral flexibility in brown bears and gray wolves	Mahan, Carolyn	Altoona	EESL	EESL	21/22
Differences in the distribution of the contrast agent, phosphotungstic acid (PTA), in the zebrafish (Danio rerio) during preparation of neural tissue for micro-CT	Depasquale, Cairsty	Altoona	EESL	EESL	21/22
Accumulation of metals by invasive aquatic snails	Nutile, Samuel Anthony	Behrend	LIME	LIME	21/22
Metabolic changes in potato tubers and grape vines as they transition through the dormancy cycle	Campbell, Michael	Behrend	Huck	Huck	21/22
Chemical biology of ligninbiomolecules complexes	Zhu, Yimin	Altoona	Huck	Huck	21/22
Documentation of the spotted lanternfly internal anatomy	Acevedo, Flor	Behrend	EESL	EESL	21/22
Testing enhanced degradation of plastic polymers during chemical pretreatment to extract microplastics from environmental matrices	Emili, Lisa	Altoona	MCL	MCL	22/23

Key

EESL-Energy and Environmental Sustainability Laboratories
EMS-College of Earth and Mineral Sciences
Huck-Huck Institute of the Life Sciences
ICDS-Institute for Computational and Data Sciences
IEE-Institutes of Energy and the Environment
LIME-Laboratory for Isotopes and Metals in the Environment
MCL-Materials Characterization Laboratory
MRI-Material Research Institute
NF-Nanofabrication Laboratory
SSRI-Social Science Research Institute