Research and Economic Development Committee Clemson University Board of Trustees

Thursday, July 14, 2016

1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. Executive Board Room

Madren Center Clemson, South Carolina

Joe Swann, Chair Louis Lynn, Vice Chair

Mark Richardson Kim Wilkerson David Wilkins

Fletcher Derrick Allen Wood

Call to Order..................................................................................................................Joe Swann Introductions..................................................................................................................Joe Swann Action Item:

1. Approval of Minutes – April 12, 2016................................................................Joe Swann Information Items:

1. Research Report................................................................................... Dr. Tanju Karanfil 2. New NIH COBRE Award: EPIC*.……….....Dr. Lesly Temesvari & Dr. Kerry Smith 3. Center for Human Genetics – Greenwood*………………………..….Dr. Mark Leising

Executive Session Other Business Adjourn *No backup

Action 1.

Approval of Minutes – April 12, 2016

Information 1.

Research Report

Item 1. Research Report

• Focus on Faculty• Research Metrics• Significant Awards

Focus on FacultyCollege by College - Notable Faculty Achievements - Dollars alone do not give a complete

indication of institutional research and scholarly productivity. National awards and quality publications also contribute to faculty and institutional reputation. Each college was requested to send a brief write-up of three top faculty with high research and scholarly productivity. This section

includes the write-ups received.

Focus on Faculty 1

College of Architecture, Arts, and Humanities

Cliff Ellis Professor and Masters’ Degree Program Director; City & Regional Planning

Dr. Ellis has been a faculty member of Clemson’s City & Regional Planning program since

2006, and is a specialist in urban design. For the past 10 years, he has taken the lead in managing and developing Clemson’s Public Service Assistantship (PSA) program. This program engages local governments and private firms to support second-year graduate students in the MCRP program. Agencies provide small grants of approximately $6,000 to support the stipend and tuition of the best second year students, in exchange for 15 hours of work for 30 weeks during the year on a specified project under the supervision of a professional director. The student gains significant work experience prior to graduation, a modest stipend, and tuition support, the agencies receive trained support for a discrete project, and the Department of Planning, Development and Preservation maintains a very positive professional relationship with local government and other supporters across the state. Dr. Ellis has secured over $89,000 in 13 awards this year for PSA’s.

Peter Laurence Associate Professor; Architecture

Dr. Laurence published Becoming Jane Jacobs in 2016 with University of Pennsylvania Press. (http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/15508.html) Jane Jacobs is universally recognized as one of the key figures in American urbanism. The author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities, she uncovered the complex and intertwined physical and social fabric of the city and excoriated the urban renewal policies of the 1950s. What is missing from such discussions and other myths about Jacobs, according to Dr. Laurence, is a critical examination of how she arrived at her ideas about city life. Laurence shows that although Jacobs had only a high school diploma, she was nevertheless immersed in an elite intellectual community of architects and urbanists.Becoming Jane Jacobs is an intellectual biography that chronicles Jacobs's development, influences, and writing career, and provides a new foundation for understanding Death and Life and her subsequent books.

Maribel Morey

Assistant Professor; History

The Carnegie Corporation of New York has named Maribel Morey, assistant professor of history at Clemson University, a 2016 Andrew Carnegie Fellow for her research on the role of elite philanthropy in the lives of black Americans. She is one of 33 individuals

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across the country selected for this honor. Fellows were selected based on the originality, promise, and potential impact of their proposals. Each will receive up to $200,000 to fund one to two years of scholarly research and writing aimed at addressing some of the world’s most urgent challenges to U.S. democracy and international order. This is one of the most prestigious awards in the social sciences and humanities. (http://newsstand.clemson.edu/mediarelations/clemson-history-professor-awarded-andrew-carnegie-fellowship/)

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College of Agriculture, Forestry, and Life Sciences

Susan K. Duckett Ernest L. Corley Jr. Trustees Endowed Chair & Professor; Animal & Veterinary Sciences

Dr. Duckett’s research examines how nutrition alters animal metabolism, growth and

composition. She is nationally and internationally recognized as an expert in fatty acid composition of beef and lamb raised under different nutritional regimens. She has given numerous invited presentations throughout the U.S. as well as Uruguay, Argentina, Brazil, and Chile. Her research directly benefits livestock producers in South Carolina and throughout the world, and influences how consumers perceive animal products in a healthy diet.

Received the Advanced Degree Graduate of Distinction Award from Oklahoma

State University, Animal Science Department. This award is made, “in recognition

of exemplary professional and personal accomplishments, and especiallyleadership and research excellence in support of Ruminant Nutrition”. The award

was granted on April2, 2016 at the 46th Annual Animal Science Banquet atOklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK.

Received the Service Award at the Grassfed Exchange on April 27, 2016 for herservice in documenting the differences in the fatty acid composition and meatquality of grass-fed vs. grain-fed beef.

Principal Investigator for an USDA-NIFA grant focusing on the Impact of fescuetoxicosis on fetal development and postnatal growth, awarded in the amount of$450,500.

Named a CU Health Faculty Scholar, 2016-2019.

Elliot D. Jesch Assistant Professor (Nutrition Physiologist); Food, Nutrition, and Packaging Sciences

Dr. Jesch’s research agenda focuses on examining recommendations intended to improve human health. During his three years at Clemson, one of his charges was to establish a new and novel research laboratory. He has diligently worked to renovate a laboratory space in Poole Agricultural Center that will accommodate clinical research, including procurement of equipment, and assurance that all research safety approvals are in place and appropriate for completing quality applied research in the area of human nutrition and physical activity. He is making his way through completing his first, as well as Clemson University’s first, clinical trial that was registered with clinicaltrials.gov and completed on Clemson’s campus. Not only was he the first to have a registered clinical trial on Clemson’s campus, but he maintains the only lab on campus to have a dual energy x-ray absorption scanner (DXA). DXA is one of the gold standards of body composition

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and bone mineral density assessment, and we fully intend on developing its use as a means of non-invasively examining one’s health. He has conducted two separate studies assessing physical fitness, body composition, and energy expenditure in Clemson University undergraduates and the data from these two projects have yielded one undergraduate led manuscript that is currently under revision, a second graduate student led manuscript, and a third undergraduate led manuscript that is in preparation and nearing submission.

He has developed a collaborative research relationship with the ClemsonLIFE program, which is a postsecondary education program designed for students with intellectual disabilities and his lab’s role is to evaluate the lifestyle intervention that the ClemsonLIFE program is implementing with their students through encouragement of nutritious diets and active lifestyles. This relationship has led to the submission of a capacity building grant to the Department of Education to help fund the expansion of the ClemsonLIFE program. Other collaborative work includes faculty from Education, Plant and Environmental Science, Psychology, Electrical Engineering, and the Center for Integrative Oncology and Survivorship at GHS.

Accomplishments: • First registered clinical trial at Clemson University - clinicaltrials.gov identifier

NCT02380833: Effectiveness of a Paleolithic Based Diet Compared to MyPlate Guidelines, With and Without Exercise, in Women. https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT02380833

• Five major publications to highly competitive peer reviewed journals and four presentations at national conferences.

John H. Rodgers, Jr. Professor; Forestry & Environmental Conservation

Dr. Rodgers’ research program focuses on two pressing issues: mitigating ecological risks at the environment-energy nexus and managing invasive species in critical water resources. This pioneering research has put biogeochemistry to work in constructed wetlands cleaning polluted water at Savannah River Site and provided recent discovery of a transformative solution for oil sands process waters in Alberta, Canada so the U.S. can have reliable energy for the next century. For critical water resources often supplying drinking water, Rodgers’ team has found environmentally sound,

economically viable and socially acceptable ways to restore the waters for their intended use (drinking, fish and wildlife, etc.). The two products from his program (well-prepared students and scientific information) are actively pursued and widely utilized.

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Science Advisory Panel, Aquatic Ecosystem Restoration Foundation, 2010-present.

Science Advisory Panel, National Council for Air and Stream Improvement, 1999-present.

Vice-president, Aquatic Plant Management Society, elected 2015. Council for Agricultural Science and Technology, Certificate of Excellence –

Educational Materials Award for Benefits of Controlling Nuisance Aquatic Plantsand Algae in the United States, 2014.

Aquatic Plant Science Award. Northeast Aquatic Plant Management Society,Saratoga Springs, NY, January, 2015.

Co-Author (A.J. Calomeni) 3rd prize Student Presentation Presented at the 55th

Annual Meeting of the Aquatic Plant Management Society, Myrtle Beach, SC. July12-15, 2015.

Co-Author (T. Geer) 1st Prize Student Poster Presented at the 55th Annual Meetingof the Aquatic Plant Management Society, Myrtle Beach, SC. July 12-15, 2015.

Aquatic Plant Management Society Technical Contributor Award, Presented at the55th Annual Meeting of the Aquatic Plant Management Society, Myrtle Beach, SC.July 12-15, 2015.

Clean and odor-free water for Clemson and Clemson University in conjunction withAnderson Regional Joint Water System, Anderson, SC. 2014-2016.

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College of Engineering and Science

Shuhong Gao Professor; Mathematical Sciences

Dr. Gao’s research interests include the discrete logarithm problem, systems of polynomials (linear and nonlinear), factoring integers and polynomials (univariate and multivariate), primary decomposition, decoding of algebraic geometry codes, quantum algorithms for the hidden subgroup problem, reverse engineering of gene networks. Recent accomplishments include:

Four of his former Ph.D. students are now employed by the National SecurityAgency.

Funding:o PI on NSF grant ($253,000) and co-PI on NSF grant ($210,000)o Several previous grants from National Science Foundation, National

Security Agency, Office of Naval Research.o Dr. Gao served as a co-PI on two major grants for developing wireless

communication technology, with Clemson ECE faculty members. Publications: 67 book chapters or journal articles Associate Editor, Designs, Codes and Cryptography, 1998–2011. Associate Editor, Finite Fields and Their Applications, since 2005. Associate Editor, Applicable Algebra in Engineering, Communication and

Computing, since 2014.

Miguel Larsen Professor; Physics & Astronomy

Dr. Larsen’s group explores the atmosphere with rocket and ground based experiments,

satellite data, and various models. Ground based instruments, such as optical imagers, radar and lidar provide continuous monitoring and important long-term observations. Satellites allow them to study the atmosphere on a global-scale. Numerical models are used to untangle the various interacting dynamical, chemical and electrodynamics processes that occur over a wide range of spatio-temporal scales.

Prof. Larsen has lead six NASA projects and two NSF projects to study thedynamics and electrodynamics of the upper atmosphere and ionosphere.

He has developed a series of new techniques for making measurements in theEarth's geospace environment on rockets.

In a collaborative effort with Cornell University he has developed new techniquesfor high-resolution radar mapping of structure in the ionosphere.

He has served as the U.S. Chair for the Trans-Atlantic Sounding Rocket Working

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Group and has been a member of two NASA advisory groups. He and his students carried out observational campaigns at remote locations in

Alaska, Norway, and Virginia to better understand the response of the upperatmosphere to solar storms.

His H-index is 26 During the 2015 FY, he was the PI on several funded projects primarily from NSF

and NASA with total research expenditures exceeding $500,000. He and his students made 8 presentations at national meetings.

Marek W. Urban J.E. Sirrine Foundation Endowed Chair and Professor; Materials Science & Engineering

Dr. Urban’s research interests include colloidal synthesis; self-healing polymers; surface and interfacial reactions; stimuli-responsive materials; biopolymers; vibrational spectroscopy and molecular imaging. Recent achievements include:

In June 2016, Prof. Urban published a book entitled ‘Stimuli-Responsive Materials.’

Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry. He also published a book chapter andseven peer-reviewed articles in high impact journals including two review articles.

He was an invited conference/seminar speaker at eight conferences in severalcountries in 2014-16. Four keynote lectures: Switzerland (Bio-Inspired Materials;Italy (Cimtec Congress); The Netherlands (World Self-Healing School); Germany(Polymer Hydrogels).

He was invited by the American Chemical Society to participate in Journal ofScience Reddit AMA (2016):

o https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/40m8bk/american_chemical_society_ama_im_marek_w_urban/

His research was featured at the national American Chemical Society as thePresentation on Demand; San Diego ACS National Meeting; March 2016.https://presentations.acs.org/common/presentation-detail.aspx/Spring2016/PODS/PODPOLY/PODPOLY7

He was a Guest Editor of the Progress in Polymer Science (Impact Factor: 26.3):Special Volume on Self-Healing and Memory-Shape Materials; 2015/16.

The articles co-authored by Prof. Urban have been cited more than 1000 times in2014-2016 in the scientific literature.

His H-index is impressive ~40, with over 10,000 total citations. During 2015-16 he was the PI of Science and Technology Center research

preproposal submitted to the NSF that was invited to the full proposal stage (firsttime in the history of Clemson). He is also the PI of NSF Research Traineeship(NRT) (pending). He is the co-PI of three other proposals with total researchfunding exceeding $500,000.

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College of Business and Behavioral Sciences

Daniel Thomas Greene Assistant Professor; Finance

Daniel joined the faculty at Clemson in 2014 after completing his PhD at Georgia State University. His research focuses on empirical corporate finance including corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, private firms, and executive compensation. One stream of research examines factors that affect the wealth of private firm owners when they sell their firms. A paper that was recently accepted for publication in the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis shows that better access to financing improves the bargaining position of private firm owners when they sell their firms to public companies. Daniel teaches a course on financial institutions and markets, which surveys the financial sector of our economy. One goal of this course is to provide students with knowledge about the career paths available to them in the financial sector. To achieve this goal, Daniel incorporates experience gained during his career in the insurance industry.

Derek Dalton

Associate Professor; Accounting

Since completing earning his Ph.D. from Texas Tech and joining Clemson Fall 2010 Dr. Dalton has been a model of what is desired of a new faculty member. From day one he has delivered high quality instruction, research, and service. He teaches in both our graduate and undergraduate programs and has active roles on several departmental committees. Dr. Dalton has published 13 manuscripts in peer reviewed journals widely recognized for excellence and made 11 research presentations at national conferences. He has twice received the KPMG Best Paper Award from the Gender and Work-Life Balance Sections of the American Accounting Association (2015, 2014) and also won the Clemson CBBS 2013-14 Emerging Scholar Research Excellence Award. He is recognized his peers national and has been asked to serve at the Program Coordinator of the 2016 AAA Accounting, Behavior, and Organization Conference.

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College of Health and Human Development

Brent L. Hawkins Assistant Professor; Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management

Dr. Hawkins’ research focuses on investigating functional and quality of life outcomes

associated with recreational therapy and other rehabilitation programs for civilians and veterans with disabilities. A primary goal of this research program is to better understand community reintegration and how health-care professionals, including recreational therapists, can better assist injured military service members return to their homes and communities and lead active lifestyles. According to Hawkins’ ongoing research, service members who experience influential rehabilitation experiences, participate in adapted sports and recreation, wounded warrior support and vocational and educational support programs have higher general self-efficacy and more social support. These experiences act as facilitators of community reintegration. Hawkins also examines the reintegration experiences of injured female service members given that previous studies in this area have focused on predominantly male samples. This research will help inform rehabilitation and other support programs provide services that meet the unique needs of female service members. Hawkins is currently part of a collaborative interdisciplinary research group that includes faculty from PRTM, Psychology, and Public Health Sciences along with representatives from GHS and Upstate Warrior Solutions that is focused on improving health outcomes for veterans in the Upstate and that organized a 2015 Conference at GHS entitled “Coming Home: Key Transitions for Warriors and Families.”

Veterans Affairs Outreach Team concerning implementation guidance of the ClayHunt Suicide Prevention for American Veterans Act Section 5 (Peer SupportCommunity Outreach Partnerships) (2016)

R4 Alliance Research Committee Member (2014-current) Returning Veterans section lead for the American Journal of Recreation Therapy

(2014- current) Reviewer for the American Journal of Recreation Therapy and Therapeutic

Recreation Journal (2014 – current) Chair of the American Therapeutic Recreation Association’s Veterans/Military

Service Treatment Network (2013- current)

Natallia (Natasha) Sianko

Assistant Professor; Youth, Family, and Community Studies and The Institute on Family

and Neighborhood Life

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There are two strands in Dr. Sianko’s research. The first concerns research in the general

area of youth violence with a particular emphasis on dating violence. To this end, Natasha has served as co-investigator on a four year study or rural adolescent dating violence funded by NIH. The second concerns democratic orientations among young people in post-communist countries. After delays in securing IRB approval to conduct research in Belarus, Natasha implemented a pilot study funded through a Project Initiation Grant. Natasha’s contributions to the University include service as a member of the University-wide Graduate Advisory Committee, the CBSHS Elections Committee, and the YFCS Faculty Committee.

Co-chair, National Working Group, Science and Human Rights Coalition,American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Reviewer, Review of European Studies

William C. Norman, Ph.D.

Professor and Graduate Coordinator; Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism

Management

Dr. Norman works closely with graduate students from the United States and around the world conducting theoretically-based and applied recreation and tourism research that assists South Carolina's tourism industry and outdoor recreation service providers. Over his 21 years at Clemson University, his consumer-based research has focused on leisure travel decision making, recreation behavior, leisure constraints, tourism marketing and the study of niche travel markets (i.e., agritourism, heritage tourism, sport tourism, fisheries tourism, culinary tourism, and nature-based tourism). His current research examines the contribution and impact of tourism and outdoor recreation to the sustainability of South Carolina's rural and coastal communities. Over the last ten years much of his research has been funded by NOAA and the South Carolina Sea Grant Consortium and has focused on South Carolina’s working waterfronts. Specifically, his research has explored how travel and tourism can contribute to the profitability of traditional (i.e., shrimping) and new (i.e., aquaculture) coastal industries in order to benefit South Carolina’s coastal economy. Recent accomplishments include:

Chaired or co-chaired five (5) Ph.D. students who graduated. Chaired or co-chaired three (3) master’s students who graduated. Co-authored 16 peer reviewed articles with former doctoral or master’s

students. Co-presenter on seven peer reviewed academic presentations with

doctoral or master’s students. External tenure and promotion reviewer for eight professors in the United

States.

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Eugene T. Moore School of Education

Faiza Jamil Assistant Professor; Education and Human Development

Dr. Jamil joined the Clemson faculty in 2013, during which time she has taught undergraduate (e.g., Child Development) and graduate level courses (e.g., Bioecological Perspectives on Learning & Development), with student evaluations in the highest range and a nomination for a School of Education teaching award. In addition, Dr. Jamil has been a central figure in the development of our Doctoral program in Learning Sciences.

In her short time at Clemson, Dr. Jamil has: Published articles in the top journals in her field, including Child Development,

Early Childhood Research Quarterly, and The Elementary School Journal. Authored the chapter on teacher assessment in the Handbook of Early Childhood

Teacher Education, situating her as recognized authority on the topic. Made 12 presentations at national and state research conferences. Been the recipient of URGC and TIGER grants, and submitted approximately $4

million in external funding proposals. Served on the dissertation committees of 4 doctoral students. Established the Child Learning & Development Lab, which has provided

professional development to over 100 early childhood teachers in South Carolinaon STEAM education practices.

Corrine Sackett Assistant Professor; Education and Human Development

Dr. Sackett joined the Clemson faculty in 2013 and teaches at the graduate level in the counselor education master’s program. Dr. Sackett’s research focuses on client

perspectives of their experiences in counseling and implications for clinical supervision. Her current research research features a methodology called photovoice, a group analysis method combining photography with grassroots social action. Dr. Sackett’s

photovoice studies have focused on childhood obesity and barriers to outdoor physical activity for youth. Her studies have demonstrated positive impact on individuals and communities in their understanding, motivation and decision-making in these critical areas. Accomplishments in the past two years include:

Published (or in press) seven national peer reviewed articles in counselingjournals, including top tier journals in the field with acceptance rates between 10and 15%

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Gave four national conference presentations Mentored graduate students in research, publishing two peer reviewed articles and

giving two national presentations with master’s students

Received a Research and Best Practices Grant from the Southern Association forCounselor Education and Supervision for examining adolescent girls’ perspectives

of childhood obesity through photovoice Selected for the editorial review board for the counseling profession’s flagship

journal, Journal of Counseling and Development and served on the review boardfor the Journal of Humanistic Counseling

Andrew M. Tyminski Associate Professor; Teaching & Learning and Mathematical Sciences

Dr. Tyminski joined the Eugene T. Moore School of Education faculty in 2010. Dr. Tyminski holds a joint appointment with the Department of Mathematical Sciences. Since his arrival he has served as the primary mathematics educator for the elementary education program in the Department of Teaching and Learning, teaching all required content and methods courses, designing the field experiences, and teaching graduate courses for the Masters of Arts in Teaching program. Dr. Tyminski’s research addresses

the design, implementation and empirical examination of activities for elementary mathematics methods courses and also examines the larger topic of the role of scholarly inquiry and practice in the design of mathematics methods courses.

In the past two academic years, Dr. Tyminski has: Published 5 peer reviewed journal articles, 1 book chapter, 8 refereed conference

paper proceedings, and presented at 4 other national conferences. Served as a Co-PI on the Scholarly Inquiry and Practices (SIP) Conference for

Mathematics Education Methods (#1503358). National Science Foundation DRK-12 Grant Submission, $99,974. The conference resulted in the edited book:

o Kastberg, S., Tyminski, A. M., Lischka, A. E., & Sanchez, W. (Eds.) Building

support for scholarly practices in mathematics methods. Charlotte, NC:Information Age Publishing. Accepted for publication.

Served as Co-PI on the LMaST: Learning Mathematics and Science with

Technology. South Carolina State Department of Education, $279,215. Served as the advisor/chair for 2 Ph.D. students and 3 M.Ed. students Nominated for Outstanding Teaching Award – Eugene T. Moore School of

Education, Clemson University, April 2015

Junior Faculty AchievementsAs junior faculty members are the future of Clemson University's research

endeavors, it is important to highlight their activity and accomplishments. Each college was requested to submit information regarding young faculty who have received major awards and recognition within the 2015-2016 school year. This

section includes the information received.

Junior Faculty Achievements 1

College of Agriculture, Forestry, and Life Sciences

Honors and Recognition

David Jachowski, Assistant Professor, Forestry & Environmental Conservation Appointed an Associate Fellow by the Board of Governors of the Center for Great Plains Studies. For more information about the Center visit at http://www.unl.edu/plains/

Junior Faculty Achievements 2

College of Art, Architecture, and Humanities

Honors and Recognition

Todd Anderson, Assistant Professor of Art

Awarded Best in Show at the Edinboro University of Pennsylvania National Printmaking Exhibition.

Stephen Fitzmaurice, Assistant Professor of Interpreting: American Sign Language Awarded the Golden Hand Award from the National Association of the Deaf. The award is presented to individuals for exemplary volunteer contributions to the Deaf Community.

Anthony Bernarducci, Assistant Director of Choral Activities Two music publications released in January for the 2016 catalog of choral music through Hinshaw Music Publishing.

David Stevenson, Applied Lecturer of Guitar Received a patent for a device that allows guitarists to secure their instruments

more tightly to their bodies when they perform

Elizabeth Jemison, Assistant Professor of Religion

Selected for the 2016 cohort of the Young Scholars in American Religion program, organized through the Center for the Study of Religion & American Culture at IUPUI

Junior Faculty Achievements 3

College of Engineering and Science

Honors and Recognition

Fadi Abu Farha, Assistant Professor of Automotive Engineering Light Metals Division Award - recognizes the best paper among submissions in all The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (TMS) areas.

Light Metals Subject Award – recognizes paper on “Characterizing and Modeling

the Deformation of AA5182 for Hot Blank – Cold Die (HB-CD) Stamping.” (TMS)

The Light Metals Division Young Professional Poster Award for “DIC In-Situ of Tensile Deformation and Synchrotron Diffraction for the Accurate Investigation of Austenite-to-Martensite Transformation in AHSSs.” (TMS)

2015 Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award from the Society of Manufacturing Engineering (SME) – recognizes innovators, age 35 and younger, in both academia and industry for exceptional accomplishments, such as technical publications, patents or technical-professional leadership.

2016 SAE Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award - recognizes significant contributions to teaching, curriculum development and research, including grants, independent research and professional development.

Sabarish Babu, Assistant Professor of Computing Served as General Chair: IEEE International Conference on Virtual Reality 2016

Best Poster Award: IEEE International Symposium on 3D User Interfaces 2016

NSF Presenter's Choice Winner - NSF STEM for All video showcase competition: http://stemforall2016.videohall.com/presentations/777

Featured in the IEEE Xplore Research Innovation Spotlight (competitively selected among 1000s of research papers published by IEEE) - Front Page of the June 2016 Edition (Title: Humanizing VR: How Photorealistic Should A 3D Virtual Human Be?): http://ieeexplore-spotlight.ieee.org/

Simona Onori, Assistant Professor of Automotive Engineering The 2015 InnoVision Sustainability Award, which recognizes some of South Carolina’s top technological advancements.

Junior Faculty Achievements 4

Srikanth Pilla, Assistant Professor of Automotive Engineering 2016 Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award from Society of Manufacturing Engineering - Recognizes innovators, age 35 and younger, in both academia and industry for exceptional accomplishments, such as technical publications, patents or technical-professional leadership.

Michael Porter, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering

The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society’s (TMS) Structural Materials Division

Young Leaders Professional Development Award for 2015

Sapna Sarupria, Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Received the American Chemical Society (ACS) OpenEye Outstanding Junior Faculty Award.

Beth Stephan, Senior Lecturer of General Engineering Tau Beta Pi’s 2015 Outstanding Advisor Award

Research Awards and Funding

Michael Burr, Assistant Professor of Mathematical Sciences National Science Foundation Algorithmic Foundations (AF): “Subdivision

Methods: Correctness and Complexity” Principal Investigator ($246,411)

Feng Ding, Assistant Professor of Physics

National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Program Award (NSF CAREER Award) “Multiscale Study of the Structure and Dynamics of Nanoparticle-Protein Coronae” Principal Investigator ($506,569)

Curtiss Fox, Director of the Duke Energy eGRID U. S. Department of Energy “Development of a pre-commercial megawatt class variable speed drive based on new motor power converter technologies” Principal Investigator ($6.7M)

Rachel Getman, Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Program Award (NSF CAREER Award) “Hierarchical Modeling for Rational Catalyst Design in Aqueous Conditions” Principal Investigator ($503,922)

Junior Faculty Achievements 5

Akshay Gupte, Assistant Professor of Mathematical Sciences

Office of Naval Research Award for “Optimization under Uncertainty and Conflict:

Algorithms for Heterogenous Quadratic Programs” Co-Principal Investigator ($431,507)

Timo Heister, Assistant Professor of Mathematical Sciences

National Science Foundation Geoinformatics “Facility Support: Computational

Infrastructure for Geodynamics” Subaward from UC-Davis ($140,000)

Kapil Chalil Madathil, Assistant Professor of Civil and Industrial Engineering American International Group, 07/01/2015 to 12/30/2016, “Virtual Reality

Environments for Risk Evaluation” Principal Investigator ($252,086)

Mishko Mitkovski, Assistant Professor of Mathematical Sciences National Science Foundation “Hilbert Spaces of Analytic Functions and their

Applications” 2011-2015 Principal Investigator ($101,944)

Srikanth Pilla, Assistant Professor of Automotive Engineering

U.S. Department of Energy – “Functionally Designed Ultra-lightweight Carbon Fiber Reinforced Thermoplastic Composites Door Assembly” Principal Investigator ($5.81M)

Svetlana Poznanovikj, Assistant Professor of Mathematical Sciences National Science Foundation “Analysis of Stochastic Context-Free Grammars for RNA Secondary Structure Prediction” Principal Investigator ($129,020)

Sara Riggs, Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering NSF CISE CRII (Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Research Initiation Initiative (CRII) “Collaboratively perceiving, comprehending, and projecting into the future: Supporting team situational awareness with adaptive collaborative tactons” Principal Investigator ($174,807)

Brandon Ross, Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering

National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Program Award (NSF CAREER Award) Quantifying the Adaptability of Building Structures, Envelopes and Foundations” Principal Investigator ($500,000)

Junior Faculty Achievements 6

Sapna Sarupria, Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering National Science Foundation – “An integrated multiscale modeling and

experimental approach to design fouling-resistant membranes Principal Investigator ($970,000)

Joseph Scott, Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Program Award: “Rapid and Accurate Uncertainty Propagation for Nonlinear Dynamic Systems by Exploiting Model Redundancy” Principal Investigator ($330,000)

Yue “Sophie” Wang, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Program Award: Trust-based Human-Robot Collaboration (HRC) for High-Level Distributed Multi-Robot Motion Planning with Temporal Logic Constraints Principal Investigator ($360,000)

Junior Faculty Achievements 7

College of Health and Human Development

Research Awards and Funding

Liwei Chen, Assistant Professor of Public Health Sciences Reducing Disparities in Birth Outcomes: A Randomized Controlled Trial on Centering Pregnancy. Year 1 Awarded $457,760 with a total of $2,674,467 over five years. https://projectreporter.nih.gov/project_info_description.cfm?aid=8964607&icde=28745231

Junior Faculty Achievements 8

Eugene T. Moore School of Education

Honors and Recognition

Celeste (C.C.) Bates, Assistant Professor of Literacy Education Named to the S.C. Department of Education’s Read to Succeed Advisory Group – June 2015

Received the InnoVision Award for Innovation in Education for the development of the Record of Reading App which has been downloaded over 100,000 times.

Anna Hall, Assistant Professor of Early Childhood Education Early Career Research Award from the American Educational Research Association’s Early Education and Child Development Special Interest Group April 2015

Hans Klar, Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership 2015 Journal of Educational Administration Highly Commendable Paper Award – May 2015

Selected to serve as a faculty mentor for the David L. Clark National Graduate Student Research Seminar in Educational Leadership and Policy. The seminar will take place in April 2016 in Washington, D.C.

Research Metrics

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July Aug Sept Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb March April May JuneFY2013 $30.1 $50.4 $73.3 $108.3 $145.0 $172.9 $196.0 $261.9 $315.7 $340.8 $363.1 $386.1FY2014 $33.7 $75.8 $101.6 $147.5 $204.0 $220.5 $287.9 $353.2 $383.0 $428.6 $484.8 $547.1FY2015 $45.4 $60.7 $86.1 $146.5 $186.1 $204.1 $255.4 $314.3 $347.3 $387.9 $445.9 $510.5FY2016 $36.6 $78.6 $130.7 $183.3 $219.1 $242.3 $288.3 $345.9 $398.2 $433.6 $463.1 $505.0

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July Aug Sept Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb March April May JuneFY2013 $8.5 $17.0 $25.5 $34.0 $42.5 $51.0 $59.5 $68.0 $76.5 $85.0 $93.5 $102.0FY2014 $6.7 $15.2 $25.4 $27.1 $31.6 $38.3 $57.4 $68.0 $73.7 $79.1 $85.2 $108.3FY2015 $9.4 $17.2 $28.1 $33.6 $38.6 $41.8 $48.4 $55.6 $63.3 $87.9 $94.4 $121.8FY2016 $8.9 $15.3 $29.2 $41.0 $46.0 $50.3 $73.1 $84.3 $90.1 $101.4 $112.1 $132.8

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Clemson University Research Report Card Fiscal Year 2016 July - May

2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 Data Trends

Total

July - May

2011-2015

1,376 1,408 1,414 1,443 1,489 1,350

1 AAH 55 63 40 54 64 62

2 CAFLS 328 352 340 304 309 247

3 CBBS 37 17 23 36 35 31

4 COES 676 700 686 724 757 735

5 HEHD 91 84 115 125 118 67

6 SOE 0 0 0 0 - 40

7 CCIT 8 12 11 11 6 2

8 PSA 151 157 168 163 154 137

9 VP for Res & Interdisc Inst 15 13 11 9 5 14

10 All Other 15 10 20 17 41 15

502,157,776$ 398,713,988$ 386,106,648$ 547,095,092$ 510,484,443$ 463,088,955$

11 AAH 7,325,668$ 9,523,827$ 3,650,477$ 14,984,174$ 13,064,926$ 10,541,041$

12 CAFLS 121,371,081$ 71,559,256$ 75,291,981$ 76,268,616$ 71,078,042$ 36,636,072$

13 CBBS 7,616,801$ 7,907,829$ 3,981,672$ 5,922,989$ 7,491,370$ 7,484,364$

14 COES 298,107,680$ 249,023,166$ 224,796,342$ 369,099,628$ 342,578,889$ 341,605,437$

15 HEHD 26,838,493$ 27,529,360$ 21,875,971$ 32,875,243$ 35,504,538$ 26,589,191$

16 SOE -$ -$ -$ -$ -$ 15,109,931$

17 CCIT 2,012,226$ 876,679$ 37,896,464$ 12,458,160$ 2,116,258$ 2,120,901$

18 PSA 28,126,835$ 22,687,186$ 15,014,300$ 21,633,793$ 21,948,519$ 7,892,835$

19 VP for Res & Interdisc Inst 1,726,026$ 6,687,123$ 676,125$ 5,339,755$ 833,705$ 9,526,959$

20 All Other 9,032,966$ 2,919,562$ 2,923,316$ 8,512,734$ 15,868,196$ 5,582,224$

95,396,252$ 99,020,700$ 102,023,163$ 108,295,780$ 121,846,378$ 112,115,657$

21 AAH 2,279,404$ 969,469$ 185,075$ 590,154$ 687,135$ 1,417,696$

22 CAFLS 13,228,013$ 11,861,247$ 9,933,616$ 9,000,911$ 17,725,969$ 13,671,256$

23 CBBS 2,566,791$ 2,077,129$ 1,729,794$ 1,572,604$ 1,676,742$ 1,426,770$

24 COES 44,333,016$ 46,597,203$ 41,123,732$ 43,162,183$ 49,709,012$ 47,537,993$

25 HEHD 5,898,881$ 5,287,325$ 4,955,945$ 7,017,521$ 7,470,101$ 3,743,331$

26 SOE -$ -$ -$ -$ -$ 2,694,101$

27 CCIT 18,477,271$ 21,051,844$ 24,995,729$ 34,243,344$ 33,201,657$ 21,820,900$

28 PSA 5,445,654$ 9,776,557$ 16,444,018$ 12,284,142$ 9,588,294$ 12,587,523$

29 VP for Res & Interdisc Inst 984,725$ 1,158,652$ 2,192,465$ 268,882$ 573,565$ 4,996,640$

30 All Other 2,182,497$ 241,274$ 462,789$ 156,039$ 1,213,903$ 2,219,449$

31 NSF CAREER Awards (by start date) 6 5 4 1 3 5

32 NIH R01-Equivalent Awards (by start date) 1 3 0 0 2 1

33 NIH Career Awards (by start date) 0 0 1 0 - -

34 Air Force Young Investigator Awards 0 1 2

35 DOE Early Career Awards 1 0 - -

36 Graduate Student Enrollment 3,994 4,078 4,206 4,372 4,670 4,664

37 Sponsored Graduate Research Assistants 852 805 822 745 707 671

38 Postdoctoral Fellows 47 44 48 64 83 85

39 Research Faculty: Permanent 100% Non-E&G

Funded

3 3 6 6 6 11

40 Research Faculty: Temporary 100% Non-E&G

Funded

21 24 18 18 15 14

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75,388,679$ 69,907,663$ 73,307,908$ 65,733,716

41 AAH 504,683$ 378,112$ 419,826$ 854,710$

42 CAFLS 13,786,867$ 11,367,002$ 9,948,298$ 10,921,798$

43 CBBS 1,906,528$ 1,585,854$ 1,686,018$ 1,501,141$

44 COES 43,244,291$ 41,407,944$ 41,147,344$ 35,797,840$

45 HEHD 5,586,560$ 5,671,050$ 6,782,152$ 2,727,176$

46 SOE -$ -$ -$ 2,136,102$

47 CCIT 1,996,620$ 1,631,199$ 3,400,258$ 2,616,900$

48 PSA 5,294,784$ 5,598,121$ 5,765,430$ 4,875,867$

49 VP for Res & Interdisc Inst 1,330,014$ 563,027$ 372,808$ 2,985,310$

50 All Other 1,738,332$ 1,705,355$ 3,785,775$ 1,316,872$

RESEARCH PROCESSf. Sponsored Research Expenditures by Business

Unit **

e. SUPPORTING WORKFORCE:

RESEARCH INPUTSa. Proposal Submissions (Count)

b. Proposal Submissions (Value)

c. Awards *

d. Notable Awards

Research Metrics 5

Clemson University

Research Report Card

Fiscal Year 2016

July - May

2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 Data Trends

Total

July - May

2011-2015

75,388,679$ 69,907,663$ 73,307,908$ 65,733,716

51 Advanced Materials 14,258,840$ 11,288,090$ 10,713,746$ 8,505,288$

52 Automotive & Transportation Technology 4,687,300$ 5,680,684$ 7,236,984$ 6,435,380$

53 Biotechnology & Biomedical Sciences 11,953,360$ 9,459,648$ 10,060,574$ 9,708,453$

54 Family & Community Living 5,110,644$ 4,332,146$ 4,989,424$ 4,762,137$

55 General Education 2,618,598$ 2,929,771$ 4,023,792$ 2,946,443$

56 Information & Communication Technology 10,277,111$ 10,513,388$ 10,137,409$ 7,754,667$

57 Leadership & Entrepreneurship 1,633,044$ 1,235,240$ 818,397$ 857,361$

58 Other 6,518,006$ 7,591,364$ 7,401,285$ 7,095,682$

59 Sustainable Environment 18,331,776$ 16,877,332$ 17,926,295$ 17,668,307$

75,388,679$ 69,907,663$ 73,307,908$ 65,733,716$

60 Federal Gov 62,890,679$ 56,872,229$ 58,457,288$ 53,443,199$

61 Foundations, Societies, and Associations 4,221,409$ 4,294,121$ 4,743,649$ 3,435,383$

62 Industry/Other 4,930,465$ 5,641,543$ 6,069,562$ 5,966,456$

63 International 813,542$ 577,879$ 765,179$ 632,334$

64 Local Gov 597,732$ 614,527$ 578,235$ 457,874$

65 State Gov 1,934,852$ 1,907,364$ 2,693,993$ 1,798,471$

66 AAH 3,115$ 2,264$ 2,345$ 4,856$

67 CAFLS 93,788$ 77,856$ 65,022$ 68,691$

68 CBBS 13,916$ 11,168$ 11,628$ 10,008$

69 COES 146,096$ 134,006$ 132,733$ 115,106$

70 HEHD 51,253$ 48,060$ 56,518$ 45,453$

71 SOE -$ -$ -$ 37,475$

72 Doctorates Awarded (Aug, Dec, May) 192 220 187 217 237 235

73 STEM Doctorates Awarded (Aug, Dec, May) 130 145 118 153 165 150

76 Disclosures 124 114 102 129 70 59

77 Patents 20 14 16 15 15 13

78 Licenses/Options 12 11 9 7 7 1

79 Royalty Revenue 937,273$ 853,504$ 1,134,289$ 762,811$ 360,131 274,853

80 Start-up Companies (based on

licenses/options above) 2 6 1 4 4 1

2013 2014 2015 2016

* Awards Total (pg. 7, Annual Report) 102,023,163$ 108,295,780$ 121,846,378$

** Research Expenditures 75,388,679$ 69,907,663$ 73,307,908$

Other Sponsored Programs Expenditures 26,827,035$ 28,371,149$ 32,569,780$

Less CURF Indirect Expenditures 1,303,354$ 743,951$ 684,695$

Sponsored Research and Programs Expenditures (pg. 1, Annual Report) 100,912,360$ 97,534,861$ 105,192,993$

* See section c. above

** See section f. above

THE BOTTOM LINE

g. Sponsored Research Expenditures by

Emphasis Area

h. Sponsored Research Expenditures by

Funding Source

i. Sponsored Research Expenditures per T/TT

Faculty by College

RESEARCH OUTPUTS/OUTCOMES

Research Metrics 6

Significant Awards

Top 10 Awards

FY2016

April - June 22nd

Meeting

Date PI Full Name PI Department Sponsor Project Title Award Date

Project

Total Award Subcontracted Collaborators

Jul-16 Temesvari, Lesly Biological Sciences National Institutes of Health/DHHS COBRE: Eukaryotic Pathogens Innovation Center

(EPIC)

4/13/2016 $ 10,891,053 None

Jul-16 Brown, James L Mathematical Sciences National Science Foundation RTG: Coding Theory, Cryptography, and Number

Theory

4/27/2016 $ 2,126,971 None

Jul-16 Ogale, Amod A Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering Univ. of Deleware (DARPA) Tailored Universal Feedstock for Forming (TuFF) 4/6/2016 $ 2,002,000 None

Jul-16 Alexov, Emil Georgiev Physics and Astronomy National Institutes of Health/DHHS New Generation DelPhi: Large Systems and Beyond

Electrostatics

5/31/2016 $ 1,815,595 None

Jul-16 Blenner, Mark Alan Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering Defense Threat Reduction Agency Predictive Structure-Function Relationships for

Enzymes Immobilized on Complex Surfaces

4/5/2016 $ 823,900 None

Jul-16 Tennyson, Andrew

Gregory

Chemistry National Science Foundation CAREER: Self-Protecting Artificial Implants and

Invigorating the US STEM Education Pipeline with

Biomaterials

4/12/2016 $ 500,000 None

Jul-16 Tharayil, Nishanth Ag & Environmental Sciences USDA Enhancing the Nutrient use Efficiency in Crop

Plants by Tailoring the Nitrogen and Phosphorous

Release Rates from Rendered Animal Materials

5/10/2016 $ 499,919 None

Aug-16 Ingram-Smith, Cheryl

Jean

Genetics and Biochemistry National Institutes of Health/DHHS Entamoeba Metabolism: The Role of Acetate

Kinase and ADP-Forming Acetyl-CoA Synthetase

4/4/2016 $ 423,966 None

Sep-16 Tong, Chenning Mechanical Engineering National Science Foundation Investigation of multi-point Monin-Obukhov

similarity and spectral dynamics in the convective

atmospheric surface layer

4/12/2016 $ 366,257 None

Oct-16 Sun, Ya-Ping Chemistry US AIR FORCE Exploration of Carbon-Based Hybrid

Nanoarchitectures as a Unique Platform for

Managing Excited State Energies and Processes

6/13/2016 $ 332,115 None

1Significant Awards

Top 10 Awards Project Abstracts FY2016

Jan - Mar 8th

PI Full Name Project Title Abstract

Temesvari, Lesly COBRE: Eukaryotic Pathogens Innovation Center (EPIC) Eukaryotic pathogens are the causative agents of some of the most devastating and intractable diseases ofhumans, including

malaria, amebic dysentery, sleeping sickness, Chagas disease, and meningitis. The globalimpact of these diseases is immense. It is

noteworthy that many of these parasitic infections are alsoclassified as bioterrorism agents and/or neglected tropical diseases

(NTDs). Furthermore, infections causedby eukaryotic pathogens are increasing in the US due to globalization. We propose to

establish a world-classresearch center, the Eukaryotic Pathogens Innovation Center (EPIC), at Clemson University (CU) that

willfocus on the study of parasitic diseases using state-of-the-art approaches. Eukaryotic pathogens have variousmodes of

transmission that may involve a complex interplay between host, vector, pathogen andenvironmental factors. As a result, the

study of eukaryotic pathgens must be an interdisciplinary undertakingoriented toward understanding transmission, host defense,

and pathogen biology. This further supports theappropriateness of establishing this center through the NIH COBRE program.

Brown, James L RTG: Coding Theory, Cryptography, and Number Theory The proposed RTG activities will improve the recruitment, retention, and training of codingtheory, cryptography, and number

theory students at Clemson University; support students from HBCUs and small colleges in the region;and provide research growth

and professional development for postdocs and early career faculty and provide research growth and professional development

for postdocs and early career faculty. The planned RTG adds new programs at the undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral

levelswith strong vertical integration components. The proposed research focuses on automorphicforms and codes, modular

forms and algebraic geometry codes, and cryptography and computationalnumber theory.

Ogale, Amod A Tailored Universal Feedstock for Forming (TuFF) The proposed effort is a 36 month project to identify precursor(s) (mesophase pitch)and appropriate spinning

conditions to develop short carbon fibers suitable as high performancereinforcement for further composite fabrication

and analysis of following tasks. The effort willbe carried out by Clemson University (in collaboration with University of

Delaware and VirginiaTech). The project will include a systematic assessment of precursor to identify high-volumefiber

spinning approaches to develop short carbon fibers. The novel approaches will includedesign and fabrication of

appropriate dies and processing conditions, followed by identificationof stabilization, carbonization, and graphitization

protocols to develop the necessary propertieswithin the resulting carbon fibers.

Alexov, Emil Georgiev New Generation DelPhi: Large Systems and Beyond

ElectrostaticsThe main objects in molecular biology are proteins, DNAs and RNAs, along with various small moleculesand large

macromolecular assemblages. These objects are frequently involved in various phenomena innano-science together

with nano-particles. With the progress of both experimental and computationalapproaches, nowadays researchers are

expanding the repertoire by investigating biological characteristicsof systems like microtubules, viruses and cellular

organelles. Such systems are posing two majorchallenges: (a) frequently their atomic structures are not experimentally

available and have to be modeled;and (b) they have large dimensions above 1,000 Å, which cannot be handled by most

of the existingmodeling packages. With this proposal we plan to address these challenges: (a) further expand

thecapabilities of Protein-Nano Object Integrator (ProNOI) which allows for atomic style modeling of objectstraced

from experimental images (as Cryo-EM image); (b) expand DelPhi capabilities, in terms of RAMusage and speed of

calculations, to allow systems with large dimensions to be modeled routinely.

Blenner, Mark Alan Predictive Structure-Function Relationships for Enzymes

Immobilized on Complex Surfaces

The overall objective of this project is to combine experimental and molecular simulationdata to develop a mechanism-based

design strategy for immobilizing enzymes on complexpolymeric surfaces for optimal biosensor performance to detect and combat

CBNRE attacks. Thedesign strategy is aimed at understanding how to choose the linker attachment site withoutcompromising

activity and how to optimally position an enzyme active-site relative to anunstructured surface.

2Significant Awards

Top 10 Awards Project Abstracts FY2016

Jan - Mar 8th

PI Full Name Project Title Abstract

Tennyson, Andrew Gregory CAREER: Self-Protecting Artificial Implants and Invigorating

the US STEM Education Pipeline with Biomaterials

The objective in this applicationis to develop biocompatible SRAC-functionalized AIMs that actively prevent deterioration

bydecreasing ROS-induced material damage and host inflammatory responses. The rationale is thatsignificantly extending the

functional lifetimes of artificial implants will decrease theneed for surgical repairs, thus reducing morbidity and mortality risks,

particularly amongelderly and infirm patients. The objective will be pursued by creating biocompatible SRAC-AIMswhich retain

catalytic radical degrading activity in cellular environments then evaluatingmaterial damage and inflammation under simulated

FBR conditions. The proposed research ispotentially creative and original because it is expected to provide new opportunities to

eliminatea key contributor to artificial implant failure via the novel application of a relativelycommon class of organometallic

catalyst to the degradation of ROS generated by FBR.c8

Tharayil, Nishanth Enhancing the Nutrient use Efficiency in Crop Plants by

Tailoring the Nitrogen and Phosphorous Release Rates

from Rendered Animal Materials

We propose to produce a pelletized material of varying formulations of RM and amendments, and test thenitrogen and

phosphorous use efficiency on food crops in greenhouse and field conditions. Ourapproach is rooted in knowledge-based

manipulation of various biological/chemical processesinvolved in soil N and P cycling, and hence would result in wider adoption of

RM-basedfertilizer formulation. The proposed research would substantially improve N and P use efficiencyin managed

agroecosystems through the efficient and economical recapture and reuse of animalbyproduct, which would otherwise be

landfilled, and would potentially be a source ofenvironmental pollution. Thus the proposed project adopts a transformative

approach to addressthe program priority A1401 (Nitrogen and Phosphorus Cycling).

Ingram-Smith, Cheryl Jean Entamoeba Metabolism: The Role of Acetate Kinase and

ADP-Forming Acetyl-CoA Synthetase Entamoeba histolytica is a leading cause of death due to parasitic disease, with an estimated 50 million casesof invasive

disease and 50,000 to 100,000 deaths annually. A thorough understanding of the physiology andbiochemistry of this

pathogen is necessary to fully combat it. To this end, this research examines the roles oftwo enzymes proposed to play

a role in a key pathway for generation of ATP, the primary energy moleculeused in all cells.

Tong, Chening Investigation of multi-point Monin-Obukhov similarity and

spectral dynamics in the convective atmospheric surface

layer

This research will provide a systematic understanding of MMO (multi-point Monin-Obukhov) and its physical basis, whichwill be

important for using MMO as a new framework to investigate the convective surface layer.The new understanding gained will also

have a strong impact on the modeling of surface layerturbulence and the ABL in general.

Sun, Ya-Ping Exploration of Carbon-Based Hybrid Nanoarchitectures as a

Unique Platform for Managing Excited State Energies and

Processes

The proposed project has two closely related focuses, one on the materials development and theother on the use of

the materials for "excited state engineering" (generally referring to the abilityto manipulate, direct, and/or control the

excited state energies and their associated processes andspecies).

3Significant Awards

Information 2.

New NIH COBRE Award: EPIC (No backup)

Item 2. New NIH COBRE Award

Eukaryotic Pathogens Innovations Center (EPIC)

Drs. Lesly Temesvari & Kerry Smith

(presentation - no backup)

Information 3.

Center for Human Genetics – Greenwood (No backup)

Item 3. Programmatic Review

Center for Human Genetics Dr. Mark Leising

(presentation - no backup)