Names of Principal Investigator (PI) and Co-PI(s)

PI’s Department  

 PI’s Affiliation

Research Project Title

Amount Awarded ($)

Balazs Siminszky

Agronomy Department

University of Kentucky

In Vitro Selection of Oligonucleotide Aptamers that Recognize Herbicides

$14,850

Christopher Richards

Mechanical Engineering Department

University of Louisville

Using Modal Analysis to Improve Reliability of Artificial Heart Valves

$13,841

Cathleen Webb

Chemistry Department

Western Kentucky University

A Novel, Inexpensive Arsenic-Removal System for Rural and Home Drinking Water Supplies

$13,825

Jun Zhang

Computer Science Department

University of Kentucky

Preliminary Study on Modeling and Simulation of Thermomechanical Interactin of Biological Bodies at High Temperature

$14,705

Lynn Penn

Chemical and Materials Engineering Department

University of Kentucky

Nanoscale Composites Based on Coronenes: Two-Dimensional Reinforcement

$11,000

William Ehringer

Physiology and Biophysics Department

University of Louisville

A New Energy Delivery Vehicle to Combat Ischemia

$14,844

Fuqian Yang

Chemical and Materials Engineering Department

University of Kentucky

Subsurface Damage in the Lapping of Silicon Wafers

$15,000

Clair Hicks

Animal Sciences Department

University of Kentucky

Development of Bio-active Probes Derived from Bacteriophage

$15,000

Tzu-Liang "Bill" Tseng

Architectural and Manufacturing Services Department

Western Kentucky University

Applying Data Mining and Fuzzy Adaptive Approaches to Control Surface Roughness Under Process Variations in Turning

$14,362

David Atwood

Chemistry Department

University of Kentucky

Removal of Uranium from Groundwater Using "Lattice Match" Precipitation

$14,771

Peter Quesada

Mechanical Engineering Department

University of Louisville

Patient Control of Low-Load Passive Stretch

$14,945