2023 New Sponsored Awards
The University of Idaho continues to be a global leader in research across a wide array of disciplines. We are proud of all of the amazing research contributions that the faculty, staff and students at U of I are involved in. Here are our most recent sponsored awards, demonstrating the breadth and depth of innovation happening at U of I. Please join ORED in congratulating the PIs and their teams as you see them across campus for a job well done and as always: Go Vandals!
4th Quarter New Sponsored Awards
3rd Quarter New Sponsored Awards
2nd Quarter New Sponsored Awards
USDA NRCS Climate Smart 2022
Jodi Johnson-Maynard, Sanford Eigenbrode
USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service
May 3, 2023 through April 30, 2028
$55,000,000
USDA NIFA Pines Fires and Nitrogen
Alistair Smith, Aaron Sparks, Mark Kimsey, Grant Harley
National Institute of Food and Agriculture/USDA
May 1, 2023 through April 30, 2026
$792,650
USDA NIFA Fire Smoke Animal Disease
Amy Skibiel, Pedram Rezamand, Denise Konetchy
National Institute of Food and Agriculture/USDA
May 1, 2023 through April 30, 2027
$771,596
USDI BLM Diverse wildfire recovery
Travis Paveglio, Eva Strand
USDI Bureau of Land Management
January 30, 2023 through January 31, 2026
$347,304
USDA NIFA Post Falls Phosphorus
Mark Coleman, Daniel Strawn
National Institute of Food and Agriculture/USDA
June 1, 2023 through May 31, 2025
$300,000
NIFA Downwind Fire Effects Fellowship
Justin Mathias, Tara Hudiburg
National Institute of Food and Agriculture/USDA
April 1, 2023 through May 31, 2023
$225,000
Reed Lewis | IDL Abandoned Mines task 7 - 218,840.00 | Idaho Department of Lands
James Nagler and Lea Medeiros | CRITFC Hatchery Production Minijack - 207,616.00 | Columbia River Inter-Tribal
Melissa Crist | IAEYC Idaho School Readiness Proj ect - 195,982.78 | Idaho Association for the Education of Young Children
Daniel Robertson | NIFA Tabaracci Fellow Crop Lodge - 180,000.00 | National Institute of Food and Agriculture/USDA
Karla Eitel | NPT AISL Stewardship Program - 177,928.00 | Nez Perce Tribe
Brian K. Johnson and Herbert Hess, Hangtian Lei, Romulo Goncalves Bainy | INL Time Domain Simulation - 160,000.00 | Battelle Energy Alliance LLC
Emad Kassem | ITD ALKALI-SILICA REACTION MIT STRT - 150,000.00 | Idaho Transportation Department
Robert Keefe | UW-PNASH: Wearable Health and Safety - 147,861.00 | University of Washington
John Russell and Indrajit Charit, Krishnan Raja, Haiyan Zhao, Qiuyan Fu, Aleksandar Vakanski, Ahmed Ibrahim, Min Xian | INL 2023 CAES Collaboration Funds - 141,082.88 | Battelle Energy Alliance LLC
Robert Stephens | EPRI Creep Crack Growth Test/Assess - 131,348.00 | Electric Power Research Institute, Inc.
Timothy Link | SAC Interlab Comparison 2023 2024 - 122,420.00 | Stibnite Advisory Council
Michael Strickland | USDA NIFA Du WASTE - 119,755.00 | National Institute of Food and Agriculture/USDA
Courtney Conway | USGS Doris Duke-NIDGS Grad Funds - 115,190.04 | US Geological Survey
Ronda Hirnyck | UCD NIFA 2022 UI IR-4 Field Trials - 93,888.00 | University of California, Davis
Mark McGuire | USDA ARS FY24 ADRU - 80,000.00 | USDA Agricultural Research Service
Vikas Kumar | USB Insect larval meal organic acid - 78,897.00 | Smithbucklin Corporation
Kurtis Schroeder | GENLLC Ascochyta Resistance - 77,500.00 | Geneshifters LLC
James Nagler | CTUIR Mussel Project - 62,106.00 | Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation
Kenneth Cain | UW WRAC oral vaccine delivery 2023 - 57,969.00 | University of Washington
Michael Quist | IDFG Kootenai Riv Microchem FY24 - 55,056.00 | Idaho Department of Fish and Game
James Nagler and Lea Medeiros | CRITFC Pacific Lamprey Maturation - 54,907.00 | Columbia River Inter-Tribal
Shirley Luckhart and Edwin Lewis | NSF UI IHHE BVBD Course - 50,000.00 | National Science Foundation
Scott Lawrence | MCC SEA - 49,980.00 | Moscow Chamber of Commerce
Madison Powell and Jacob Bledsoe | UW Trout Diet Acidification - 49,117.00 | University of Washington
Michael Colle and Phillip Bass | NCBA Aging Strategies - 47,829.00 | National Cattlemen's Beef Association
Jae Ryu | ISCA IDRONE Summer - 45,000.00 | Idaho STEM Action Center
Benjamin Barton | INL Thermal Power Dispatch 2023 - 44,273.00 | Battelle Energy Alliance LLC
Stephen Miller | IDL Prescribed Fire Project - 42,210.00 | Idaho Department of Lands
Matthew Falcy | IDFG FY24 Burbot - 42,112.00 | Idaho Department of Fish and Game
Courtney Conway | IDFG NIDGS-year 4 - 40,000.00 | Idaho Department of Fish and Game
Emad Kassem and Sunil Sharma | LST GEOTECH ASSET MNGMNT ROCK SLOPE - 38,555.00 | Landslide Technology
Gustavo de Almeida Teixeira | USDA ARS Pressure Bruise - 37,286.00 | USDA Agricultural Research Service
Ming Hsun Cheng | INL Municipal Solid Waste Sampling - 36,075.42 | Battelle Energy Alliance LLC
Scott Clyde and Meize Guo | ISAC AC Pizza-ology - 35,751.11 | Idaho STEM Action Center
Vikas Kumar | PPI Trout - 33,380.00 | Protein Products, Inc
Terry Shaw | POTCOR 2023 NDGY Forest Res.- 32,200.00 | PotlatchDeltic Forest Holdings Inc
Holly Wichman | UTA Center Pandemic Decision Science - 31,865.00 | University of Texas at Austin
Albert Adjesiwor | MSU WSARE Bean - 30,000.00 | Montana State University
Vivek Utgikar | INL Heat Pump Systems - 30,000.00 | Battelle Energy Alliance LLC
Louise-Marie Dandurand | MSU WSARE PCN Nematicide Development - 29,943.00 | Montana State University
Vivek Utgikar | INL Molten salt corrosion - 24,999.95 | Battelle Energy Alliance LLC
Haiyan Zhao | INL TECHNICAL SUPPORT OF LDRD - 24,996.00 | Battelle Energy Alliance LLC
Linda Schott | SRS FY24 Amalgamated POxC 2.0 - 24,079.00 | Snake River Research and Seed Alliance LLC
Ahmed Ibrahim | ISU Bridge Roadmap - 20,008.30 | Idaho State University
Albert Adjesiwor | SRS FY24 HR Survey - 19,880.00 | Snake River Research and Seed Alliance LLC
Tyler Bland | UNLV NIH CTR-IN Bayesian Approach - 19,312.00 | University of Nevada Las Vegas Board of Regents
Alexander Woo | NSF Permutation Patterns 2023/2024 - 17,700.00 | National Science Foundation
Shanara Spang Gion | USGS TR2100 - 15,673.00 | US Geological Survey
Erik Wenninger | SRS FY24 Mass Trapping SBRM - 15,000.00 | Snake River Research and Seed Alliance LLC
Xiaoli Etienne | UG ERS FPO Forecast - 13,166.00 | University of Georgia
James Woodhall | SRS FY24 CLS Air - 12,607.00 | Snake River Research and Seed Alliance LLC
Lisette Waits | IDFG Intern Program-Bennett - 10,545.00 | Idaho Department of Fish and Game
Lisette Waits | IDFG Intern Program-Ahmed - 10,500.00 | Idaho Department of Fish and Game
James Woodhall | SRS FY24 Cerc Fungicide Screen - 10,404.00 | Snake River Research and Seed Alliance LLC
Juliet Marshall | Syngenta 2023 Spring EVT - 10,085.40 | Syngenta Seeds, Inc.
Lisette Waits | IDFG Intern Program-Marklund - 9,775.00 | Idaho Department of Fish and Game
Lisette Waits | IDFG Intern Program-Robinson - 9,775.00 | Idaho Department of Fish and Game
Albert Adjesiwor | SRS FY23 Herbicide - 9,597.00 | Snake River Research and Seed Alliance LLC
Lisette Waits | IDFG Intern Program-Bouhanna - 9,360.00 | Idaho Department of Fish and Game
Lisette Waits | IDFG Intern Program-Holwagner - 9,307.00 | Idaho Department of Fish and Game
Lisette Waits | IDFG Intern Program-Muniz - 9,055.00 | Idaho Department of Fish and Game
Lisette Waits | IDFG Intern Program-Dash - 9,055.00 | Idaho Department of Fish and Game
Lisette Waits | IDFG Intern Program-Cissna - 8,640.00 | Idaho Department of Fish and Game
Lisette Waits | IDFG Intern Program-Miller - 8,640.00 | Idaho Department of Fish and Game
Lisette Waits | IDFG Intern Program-Strickland - 8,640.00 | Idaho Department of Fish and Game
James Woodhall | SRS FY23 SB Soil - 8,545.00 | Snake River Research and Seed Alliance LLC
Jennifer Ladino | IHC WLA Conference - 8,000.00 | Idaho Humanities Council
Albert Adjesiwor | SRS 2023 Sequence - 5,964.00 | Snake River Research and Seed Alliance LLC
Albert Adjesiwor | SRS 2023 Adjuvants - 5,963.00 | Snake River Research and Seed Alliance LLC
Heather Maib and Arielle Horan | ION Summer of Innovation - 5,919.84 | Jannus Inc.
Chantal Vella | UNLV CTR-IN PD Core - 5,436.00 | University of Nevada Las Vegas Board of Regents
Elizabeth Wargo and Juhee Kim | Spark IRP Photovoice R1 - 5,000.00 | Spark Strategic Solutions LLC
Chandra Vaughan | USDA FS AdvQuest - 4,000.00 | USDA Forest Service
Audra Cochran and Erin Rodgers | ISAC FY23 P3 Clearwater Robot Program - 3,900.00 | Idaho STEM Action Center
Erik Wenninger and Aleksandar Karasev | SRS FY24 Leafhopper Monitoring - 3,670.00 | Snake River Research and Seed Alliance LLC
Julia Stone | ICL First Time Conference Grant - 1,125.00 | Idaho Commission for Libraries
Katherine Himes | IHC Murphy - 1,000.00 | Idaho Humanities Council
Ronda Hirnyck | SRS PNW PestAlert.net YR3 - 750.00 | Snake River Research and Seed Alliance LLC
Lisette Waits | IDFG Intern Program-Ryan - 420.00 | Idaho Department of Fish and Game
1st Quarter New Sponsored Awards
AEG AREAS
Krista Soria
Ascendium Education Group, Inc. March 1, 2023 through February 28, 2026 $499,600
BSU DOC NWRuralFood Mnfctr Spt Cntr
Janna Verburg-Hamlett
Boise State University October 1, 2022 through September 30, 2025 $367,825
Idaho Power 2023
Lindsay Woods
Idaho Power Company January 1, 2023 through January 15, 2024 $362,318
IDC IGEM Weed Killing Robot
Jae Ryu
Idaho Department of Commerce March 7, 2023 through October 31, 2024 $348,632
USGS Earth MRI Sheep Creek-Mineral
Reed Lewis, Virginia Gillerman
US Geological Survey December 30, 2022 through December 29, 2025 $300,000
USDA NIFA Risk Management
Xiaoli Etienne, Brett Wilder, Andres Trujillo-Barrera, Patrick Hatzenbuehler
National Institute of Food & Agriculture/USDA march 15, 2023 through March 14, 2025 $300,000
Louise-Marie Dandurand | USDA NIFA LT Toxins - $300,000 | National Institute of Food & Agriculture/USDA
James VanLeuven & Craig Miller | USDA NIFA Phage bacteria Interaction - $299,997 | National Institute of Food & Agriculture/USDA
Xiao Wu | NIFA-Seed-fungicide - $299,985 | National Institute of Food & Agriculture/USDA
Iris Mayes | USDA-AMS Tuesday Market - $295,000 | USDA - Department of Agriculture
Elowyn Yager | USGS Remote Sensing of River - $249,998 | US Geological Survey
Christopher Nomura | ASU NSF I-Corps Hub - $214,761 | Arizona State University
Brian Small | CRITFC Hagerman Lab Supplies 2023 - $206,697 | Columbia River Inter-Tribal
Larry Stauffer | BSU CY23 TechHelp NIST PI - $200,000 | Boise State University
Larry Stauffer | BSU CY23 TechHelp NIST - $188,673 | Boise State University
Edwin Lewis | Idaho Wine SCBGP FY23 Grapes - $150,000 | Idaho Wine Commission
Gulhan Unlu & Janna Verburg-Hamlett | BSU NSF Convergence Accelerator (1) - $149,798 | Boise State University
Liugun Li | NSF Drone Enabled Active Sensing - $148,159 | National Science Foundation
Courtney Conway | USGS FY23 Phase I Demography of Squ - $147,169.81 | US Geological Survey
J.D. Wulfhorst | NCBA Rural Comm/Cattle Migration - $145,600 | National Cattlemen’s Beef Association
Stephen Love | INLA Domestication of Native Plants - $135,701 | Idaho Nursery and Landscape Association
Lucas Sheneman | UOI DISES-L Coupled Wildlife - $128,221 | University of Illinois
Chris Zajchowski | KSU GW Parkway - $120,960 | Kansas State University
Eric Sudebaker | IDHW ECHO ID Infectious Disease - $115,000 | Idaho Dept. of Health & Welfare
Gail Silkwood | ISDE FY23 UpRiver Elem. 21st CLC - $102,385 | Idaho State Department of Education
Albert Adjesiwor | IBC SCBG Cover Crop - $101,583 | Idaho Bean Commission
Vikas Kumar | SAA Feed Efficient Rainbow Trout - $100,000 | Soy Aquaculture Alliance
James Woodhall | IEOOC SCBG Onion Weather DSS - $99,230 | Idaho Eastern Oregon Onion Commission
David Seamon & Helen Brown | IDHW Model COVID Disease Severity - $92,414 | Idaho Dept. of Health & Welfare
Jason Karl | WDFW Drones for game bird surveys - $91,304 | Washington Dept. of Fish & Wildlife
Janet Rachlow Witham & Leona Svancara | USDI BLM Pygmy rabbit habitat - $80,840 | USDA Bureau of Land Management
Michael McKellar & David Arcilesi | INL Process Modeling - $80,000 | Battelle Energy Alliance LLC
Kasee Smith & Jeremy Falk | PSU GOALS Expansion - $62,024 | Pennsylvania State University
Robert Hiromoto | INL LDRD Auth Protocol Wireless Net - $60,998 | Battelle Energy Alliance LLC
Michael Quist | IDFG YR2 White Sturgeon Harvest - $57,270.00 | Idaho Department of Fish & Game
Michael Quist | IDFG YR@ Yellow Perch Lake Cascade - $53,608 | Idaho Department of Fish & Game
Ryan Long & Eva Strand | IDFG FY23 Demography - $52,932 | Idaho Department of Fish & Game
Virginia Lane | UC DASH Diet Food Box - $52,133 | University of Colorado Denver
Lee Vierling | IDPR Assistant Professor of Parks, Tourism - $52,040 | Idaho Dept. of Parks and Recreation
Indrajit Charit | INL U-Zr U-Mo Nuclear Fuels - $51,716 | Battelle Energy Alliance LLC
Matthew Hedman | CU NASA Vertical Structure SaturnRi - $50,836 | Cornell University
Joan Campbell & Timothy Prather, Anne Knerr | USDI BLM Mirabilis Herbicide - $49,300 | USDI Bureau of Land Management
Albert Adjesiwor | NAFA FY24 AFA – Weed Burndown - $48,549 | National Alfalfa & Forage Alliance
Andrew Nelson | POTCOR Stocktype Release 23 - $48,000 | Potlatch Deltic Forest Holdings Inc
Lanya McKittrick | CLE Gates SpEd in Charter Sector - $46,000 | The Center for Learner Equity
Cari Murphy | ISDE SPDG Evaluation - $44,149 | Idaho State Department of Education
Dennis Scarnecchia | NDGFD North Dakota Paddlefish CY23 - $40,000 | North Dakota Game & Fish Dept.
Haiyan Zhao | INL LDRD: Net-Zero - $39,001 | Battelle Energy Alliance LLC
Matthew Falcy | IDFG YR2 Steelhead Run Reconstruct - $36,674 | Idaho Department of Fish & Game
Dakota Roberson | INL Congressional Report - $35,299 | Battelle Energy Alliance LLC
Michael Quist | IDFG YR2 Bull Trout Abundan St. Joe - $35,163 | Idaho Department of Fish & Game
Patricia Colberg | ISAC 2023 EXPO P3 - $33,600 | Idaho STEM Action Center
Kenneth Cain & Jie Ma | Zeigler Health Promoting Diet Study - $29,741 | Zeigler Bros. Inc.
Scott Lawrence | PALLAN SEA-Neuman Learning Pavilion - $28,596 | Palouse Land Trust Inc
Eva Strand & Timothy Prather | USDI BLM Sagebrush Shrub Biomass - $24,997 | USDI Bureau of Land Management
Charles Goebel | USDI BLM Shrub Nutritional Quality - $24,220 | USDI Bureau of Land Management
Tasha Howard | IDHW Dementia Friends - $21,000 | Idaho Dept. of Health & Welfare
Michael Thornton | Simplot Food Group - $20,000 | J.R. Simplot Company
Ryan Gillespie & Julie Amador | ISBOE HighImpact Accelerate Student - $19,293 | Idaho State Board of Education
Nora Olsen Nelson | USDA ARS Innovation Biocontrol - $18,460 | USDA Agricultural Research Service
Helen Brown | CCI MSHS Health - $16,007 | Community Council of Idaho Inc.
Mike Knutz | National | 4-H council Pollinator Habitat - $15,000 | National 4-H Council
Amin Ahmadzadeh | IDA CY23 Dairy Education Program - $15,000 | Idaho Dairymen’s Association, Inc.
Andrew Fields & Sharon Bosley | Kootenai County APD Confluence Project - $15,000 | Kootenai County
Jonathan Moore & Russell Baker, Madeline Casanova | ICHA Profile Project - $14,987 | Idaho Commission on Hispanic Affairs
Vikas Kumar | PBP Fish Soluble Protein Trout Diet - $13,245 | Pacific Bio Products, LLC
Gail Silkwood | UNIWAY Care Fund - $11,000 | United Way of Kootenai County
John Hinton | IRS Low Income Taxpayer Clinic - $10,000 | Internal Revenue Service
David Ausband | IDFG Wolf Dispersal - $9,893 | Idaho Department of Fish & Game
Janet Rachlow Witham | IF&G Moose Ecology - $9893 | Idaho Department of Fish & Game
Sharon Bosley & Andrew Fields | ISAC STEM AC Ecosystem Grant for TC - $7,500 | Idaho STEM Action Center
Christine Parent | GWIS 22 Kelly Martin - $6,500 | Graduate Women in Science
Brenda Murdoch | IOSU AG2PI Seed Research - $5,851 | Iowa State University
Michael Colle & Phillip Bass | ICF Meat Animal Evaluation - $5,216 | Idaho Cattle Foundation, Inc.
Phillip Bass & Michael Colle | ICF Idaho Beef 2023 - $5,000 | Idaho Cattle Foundation, Inc.
Roger McVey | WESTAF FY23 ACMS Telegraph Quartet - $4,000 | Western States Arts Federation
Timothy Prather | WSSA Plant-Soil Feedback - $3,854 | Weed Science Society of America
Tracey Johnson | Raynes Sagebrush Songirds in GTNP - $3,400 | Meg & Bert Raynes Wildlife Fund
Sawyer Fonnesbeck | ISAC Oneida STEM 2023 - $3,00 | Idaho STEM Action Center
Sydel Samuels | SKC CRIRE 2022 – ANAMP - $2,500 | Salish Kootenai College
Joey Peutz & Lindsey McConnell-Soong | National 4-H True Leaders Action Project - $1,500 | National 4-H Council
Lisette Waits | IDFG Intern Program – Seggerman - $1,015 | Idaho Department of Fish & Game
Leah Evans-Janke | USDA FS CVS 2022 - $799 | USDA Forest Service
Kristiana Pierce | IHB Horseless STEP - $750 | Idaho Horse Board