Round Three Funding Results
2005-2006
In answer to the Targeted Excellence RFP that was extended in June 2005, 32 pre-proposals were received for
consideration. Of these, 12 were chosen to submit full proposals, with 6 of those receiving funding. Recommendations
regarding proposals to be funded were made to Provost Nellis by a panel of reviewers from on, and off, campus.
This group was chaired by K-State Professor Ronaldo Maghirang (Biological and Agricultural Engineering), with
final allocations for funding as follows:
- Africa in the Global Context: The Political Economy of Agriculture, the Environment, and Human
Health-$253,726-E. Wayne Nafziger, Emizet F. Kisangani, David Hartnett, co-PIs
- Center for Genomic Studies on Arthropods Affecting Human, Animal, and Plant Health-$2,000,000-Susan J. Brown,
Michael Kanost, Roman Ganta, Michael Smith, Ming-Shun Chen, and Rollie Clem , co-PIs
- Center for Quantitative Education-$100,000-Andrew Bennett, N. Sanjay Rebello, Steven Warren, co-PIs
- Collaborative for Outreach, Recruitment, and Engagement in STEM (CORES): GROWing Diversity in STEM at a
Student-centered,
Land Grant University-$404, 324-Beth Montelone, Kimberly D. Douglas, Ruth A. Dyer, Lisa C. Freeman,
Jacqueline D. Spears, co-PIs
- A Functional Genomics Consortium: Building Research Productivity through Education, Interaction,
and Full Utilization of the
Functional Genomics Laboratories at Kansas State University-$1,998,944--Ruth Welti, Michael Kanost,
John Tomich, Om Prakash,
Susan Brown, Jyoti Shah, Gary Conrad, Eric Maatta, co-PIs
- Molecular Infrastructure to Assess Flow of Genetic Elements in Food Production
Systems-$100,000-Sanjeev Narayanan,
T.G. Nagaraja, Charles Rice, Jim Drouillard, co-PIs