External grants awarded >$50,000
Download a PDF of the April 2024 Grant Report.
| Project Title | Principal Investigator | Sponsor Name | Award Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| A nanocellulose-enabled solution for passive cooling food packaging | Qing Jin Ling Li Colleen Walker |
US Endowment for Forestry and Communities | $77,547 |
| Advancing the use of Forest-based Materials in Sustainable Packaging | Colleen Walker Douglas Gardner Jinwu Wang |
US Dept of Agriculture | $75,000 |
| Collaborative Research: DTI: Learning Semiconductors with AI and Friends | Prabuddha Chakraborty Rosemary Smith |
National Science Foundation | $415,000 |
| Enhancing the internal curing of concrete from cellulose nanofibrils (CNFs) | Linfei Li Colleen Walker Eric Landis |
US Dept of Agriculture | $99,148 |
| Integrating seed- and seedling-focused weed management in organic vegetable systems | Eric Gallandt | US Dept of Agriculture | $131,000 |
| mCDR 2023: Developing a coupled benthic-pelagic biogeochemical model to evaluate the durability of mCDR interventions | Damian Brady | Northeastern University US Dept of Commerce |
$69,999 |
| Personnel support for the Gulf of Maine buoy network | Diane Rowland | Northeastern Regional Association of Coastal Ocean Observing Systems US Dept of Commerce |
$84,000 |
| Satellite Monitoring of Eastern White Pine (EWP) Health by Assessing the Forest Structure | Pulakesh Das Parinaz Rahimzadeh-Bajgiran |
Northeastern States Research Cooperative University of Vermont and State Agricultural College |
$122,671 |
| Science Education Addressing the Blue Economy And Rural Success (SEA-BEARS) | Heather Hamlin Mary Tudor Carla Scocchi William Ellis Melissa Malmstedt Marilana (Mari) Glatter Laura Wilson Sara Lindsay |
National Science Foundation | $2,496,113 |
| SRA Agreement NIST MEP FY25 | John Belding | Maine Manufacturing Extension Partnership US Dept of Commerce |
$130,000 |
| The Penobscot Nation Food and Farm Sovereignty Project | Darren Ranco | Sovereign Equity Fund Native American Agriculture Fund |
$359,246 |
| UMaine Support for United States Air Force Weather Project | Seth Campbell Karl Kreutz |
ManTech US Dept of Defense |
$131,202 |
| °µÍø¸£Àûapp PFAS Research: Informing Farm Management Decisions | Jason Bolton Hannah Carter |
US Environmental Protection Agency | $3,000,000 |
| USAFA Distinguished Visiting Professorship IPA | Margaret Killinger | US Dept of Defense | $169,412 |