Kansas State University

Alavi, Sajid, Dogan, Hulya, and Shi, Yong Cheng, Frito Lay, Inc., $32,000, "Effect of Fruit/Vegetable Powders on Physio-Chemical Properties of Starch Based Matrices."

Andresen, Daniel A., Erickson, Howard H., Poole, David C., Spire, Mark F., and Warren, Steven, National Science Foundation, $219,999, "Infrastructure for Veterinary Telemedicine - Proactive Herd Health Management for Disease Prevention from Farm to Market."

Aramouni, Fadi M., and Herald, Thomas J., Kansas Department of Commerce, $70,000, "Food and Feed Value Added Program Project."

Aramouni, Fadi M., Kansas Department of Commerce, $10,000, "Equipment Grant."

Aslin, Raymond G., US Environmental Protection Agency, $12,000, "Marais des Cygnes Basin WRAPS Implementation: Riparian Forestry - Part 3."

Aslin, Raymond G., US Department of Agriculture, $25,000, "Consolidated Payment Grant 2007."

Barkley, Andrew P., Dhuyvetter, Kevin C., and Olson, Brian L., Kansas Crop Improvement Association, $2,000, "Who Plants Certified Wheat Seed in Kansas, and Why Do They Plant It? The Determinants of Certified Wheat Seed Purchases in Kansas."

Blasi, Dale A., and Moser, Daniel W., Kansas Bioscience Authority, $25,000, "Value-Added Animal Identification for the US Beef Industry."

Bockus, William W., US Department of Agriculture, $55,520, "Marker-Assisted Characterization and Selection of Wheat Cultivars for Scab Resistance."

Bolton, Timothy A., Horton-Smith, Glenn A., Maravin, Yurii, Ratra, Bharat, and Stanton, Noel R., US Department of Energy, $36,000, "Heavy Quark and Neutrino Physics."

Boyle, Elizabeth, Kansas Department of Commerce, $16,880, "Value Added Meats Program for Kansas Companies and Entrepreneurs."

Bradford, Barry J., and Titgemeyer, Evan C., American Feed Industry Association, $15,863, "Assessing the Ability of Molasses to Prevent Milk Fat Depression from Distillers Grains and Solubles."

Caragea, Doina, National Science Foundation, $46,297, "Collaborative Research: Learning Classifiers from Autonomous, Semantically Heterogeneous, Distributed Data."

Chowdhury, Shafiqul I., and Wilkerson, Melinda, US Department of Agriculture, $375,000, "Regulation of Pathogenicity and Immunogenicity by BHV-1 Envelope Glycoproteins gM/gN."

Cloyd, Raymond A., Ohio Floriculture Foundation, $400, "Ohio Floriculture Association Fellowship."

Corwin, Kristan L., National Science Foundation, $17,000, "Fiber-Based Optical Frequency Standards Characterized with Optical Frequency Combs."

Crane, Louis, Foundational Questions Institute, $3,000, "Mini-Grant."

DeLuccie, Mary L., USD 383, Manhattan, $19,992, "Early Childhood Lab."

DeLuccie, Mary L., US Department of Agriculture, $609, "Federal Aid in Support of the Child and Adult Care Food Program."

Dritz, Steven S., DeRouchey, Joel M., Goodband, Robert D., Nelssen, Jim L., and Tokach, Michael D., Purco, $28,000, "PURCO Project."

Drouillard, James S., Dakota Gold Research Association, $52,500, "Dried Distillers Grains with Solubles In-Kind Contribution."

Edgar, James H., National Science Foundation, $134,565, "Boron-Rich Semiconductors for Neutron Detectors."

Erickson, Larry E., US Environmental Protection Agency, $10,000, "Water: Mother Earth's Gift."

Erickson, Larry E., and Brandon, Brenda L., Kansas Technology Enterprise Corporation, $8,607, "Education and Diversity Grant: Recruiting Native Americans into the Environmental Sciences."

Friebe, Bernd, Kansas Crop Improvement Association, $6,400, "Transfer of New Sources of Barley Yellow Dwarf Resistance from Haynaldia villosa to Adapted Kansas Winter Wheats."

Frieman, Jerome, and Monaco, Gregory E., Great Plains Network Consortium, $180,648, "Funding for Director of Research - Great Plains Network."

Fritz, Allan K., US Department of Agriculture, $89,325, "Wheat Applied Genomics."

Fritz, Allan K., Kansas Crop Improvement Association, $9,600, "Enhanced Disease/Insect Resistance in Kansas-Adapted Wheat Cultivars."

Ganta, Roman Reddy R., and Chapes, Stephen K., US Department of Health and Human Services, $60,948, "Cellular Immunity Against Ehrlichia chaffeensis."

Ganta, Roman Reddy R., KRA Corporation, $20,000, "American Society for Rickettsiology Conference 2007."

Gipson, Philip S., Blecha, Kevin A., and Conard, Jonathan M., US Department of the Interior, $19,000, "Chronic Wasting Disease - Whitetail Deer - Kansas."

Glasscock, Marlene K., US Department of Agriculture, $4,368,870, "4-H/Army Youth Development Project - Kansas."

Glymour, Bruce D., Downey, Ronald G., Lara, Amy, Rintoul, David A., and Weaver, Oliver L., National Science Foundation, $100,000, "Research Communications Ethics Project."

Goff, Briana S., and Griffin, Charles L., US Department of Health and Human Services, $110,000, "Kansas All Hazards Behavioral Health Plan."

Goodson, F. Todd, International Reading Association, Inc., $6,000, "Editorship of Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy."

Gould, Rebecca A., Kansas State University Foundation, $3,500, "Using the Theory of Reasoned Action to Assess Participation in Congregate Meal Programs (Kuei-l Lee)."

Hargrove, William L., and Kahl, Daniel W., US Environmental Protection Agency, $20,000, "Healthy Ecosystems, Healthy Communities: PRIDE Initiated Community Water Quality Action Plans."

Hargrove, William L., US Environmental Protection Agency, $90,000, "EARTH Program."

Herman, Michael A., Blair, John M., Jones, Kenneth L., and Todd, Timothy C., National Science Foundation, $622,598, "Ecological Genomics of Soil Nematode Community Responses: Model and Non-Model Approaches."

Herrera, Socorro G., US Department of Education, $148,253, "Project CARE."

Holland, Kenneth M., Peace Corps, $15,800, "Peace Corps Recruitment."

Hossain, Mustaque A., Kansas Department of Transportation, $20,000, "Administration of KDOT/KTRAN Program."

Jackson, Thomas E., National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities, $3,000, "Latino Culture Project."

Jones, Rodney D., Herbel, Kevin L., and Hund, Duane M., US Department of Agriculture, $50,000, "Transition Planning Assistance for Kansas."

Koelliker, James K., US Department of the Interior, $18,900, "Modeling and Field Experimentation to Determine the Effects of Land Terracing and Non-Federal Reservoirs on Water Supplies in the Republican River Basin above Hardy, Nebraska."

Kramer, Bradley A., and Tucker, Jeffrey W., US Department of Commerce, $170,000, "Early-Stage Technology Development Assistance Center: Bridging the Gap between New Technologies and Commercialization."

Lee, Charles D., Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks, $2,709, "Extension Education Position Support."

Lei, Shuting, US Department of Defense, $22,062, "5-Axis Laser Assisted Machining of Silicon Carbide Ceramic Matrix Composites."

Leslie, John F., US Department of Agriculture, $103,549, "Molecular Genetics of Virulence and Resistance to Wheat Diseases."

Lewis, Christopher L., and Schinstock, Dale E., US Department of Defense, $20,000, "Passive Target Tracking Using Immediate Terrain Mapping to Disambiguate Target States."

Li, Dong, Kansas Health Institute, $15,961, "Health Issues for Children in Kansas - Bhavneet Walia."

Lillich, James D., American Quarter Horse Association, $19,442, "Development of a Minimally Invasive Surgical Approach to Arthrodesis of the Osteoarthritic Equine Proximal Interphalangeal Joint."

Logan, Brad R., US Department of the Interior, $42,790, "National Register of Historic Places Evaluation of Selected Sites at Lovewell Reservoir, Jewell County, Kansas."

Mankin, Kyle R., US Environmental Protection Agency, $74,000, "Big Hill Creek/Big Hill Lake Watershed Assessment."

Martin, Terry J., Bockus, William W., and Seifers, Dallas L., Kansas Crop Improvement Association, $9,800, "Use of Virus Induced Stress to Create Genome Mutations that Restore or Create Resistance to Different Fungal Diseases in the Popular Wheat Varieties Jagger, 2137, Karl 92, and Ike."

McGregor, Douglas S., US Department of Energy, $294,914, "Advanced Materials and Processes for High-Energy-Resolution Room-Temperature-Operated Gamma Ray Spectrometers."

McGregor, Douglas S., Dunn, William L., and Shultis, J. Kenneth, US Department of Defense, $377,014, "Perforated Neutron Detectors and New Materials Development and Shielding Structures."

McKinney, Leland, Plains Grains Incorporated, $49,503, "Memorandum of Agreement."

Middendorf, B. Jan, and Thurston, Linda P., Kansas Board of Regents, $212,500, "Kan-ed Evaluation - Phase V."

Murphy, James P., US Department of Agriculture, $53,500, "Kansas Agricultural Mediation Service."

Nechols, James R., US Department of Agriculture, $43,903, "Facilitate Multiple Pest Resistant Wheat Germplasm Research."

Nelson, Richard G., US Department of Agriculture, $10,000, "Extension Network on Bio-Based Renewable Energy from Agriculture."

Olson, K C, and Drouillard, James S., New Generation Feeds, $35,000, "Effect on Mineral Supplement Delivery System on Mineral Intake, Frequency of Use, and Performance by Beef Cows."

Ou, Xinming (Simon), National Science Foundation, $140,000, "Model-Based, Automatic Network Security Management."

Pierzynski, Gary M., and Stamm, Michael J., Kansas Crop Improvement Association, $5,000, "Improving Shatter Resistance of Winter Canola."

Pierzynski, Gary M., Kansas Department of Health and Environment, $120,361, "Soil Treatment Field Trials - Cherokee County Superfund Site."

Prasad, P. V. Vara, Fritz, Allan K., and Martin, Terry J., Kansas Crop Improvement Association, $11,000, "Pre-Harvest Sprouting Resistance in Hard White Wheat."

Rahman, Talat S., Hsu, William H., and Wallentine, Virgil E., National Science Foundation, $98,099, "Parallel Data Mining for Nanoscale Kinetic Monte Carlo Simulation Models."

Ransom, Michel D., US Department of Agriculture, $10,000, "Soil Laboratory Analysis to Support Soil Properties for Use in Determining How Soils Interpret for Various Uses."

Rasheed, Hayder A., and Esmaeily, Asadollah, Kansas Department of Transportation, $39,000, "Software for the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials Load and Resistance Factor Design Combined Shear and Torsion Computations using Modified Compression Field Theory and 3D-Truss Analogy."

Reagan, Charles, US Department of Defense, $1,000,000, "Kansas State University Graduate Degree Program Development and Implementation for U. S. Army Command and General Staff College Leadership and Security Studies; Enhance Cooperative Degree Program in History."

Reid, William R., University of Missouri, $8,672, "Missouri Pecan Growers."

Rezac, Mary E., National Science Foundation, $10,000, "Center for Biofuels Research and Development."

Robby, -, National Science Foundation, $80,023, "Formal, Integrated Analysis Framework for Contract-Based Reasoning of Strong Properties of Open Systems."

Rogers, Danny H., and Staggenborg, Scott A., Kansas Grain Sorghum Commission, $3,600, "Improving Crop Management Decisions with Soil Moisture Monitoring."

Rogers, Danny H., and Alam, Mahbub U., Kansas Water Office, $75,000, "K-State Mobile Irrigation Lab."

Rys, Malgorzata J., and Russell, Eugene R., Kansas Department of Transportation, $59,000, "Promoting Center Line Rumble Strips to Increase Rural, Two-Lane Highway Safety."

Sanderson, Michael W., US Department of Agriculture, $4,501, "Kansas Johnes Work Plan 2007."

Smith, Paul E., US Department of Health and Human Services, $219,000, "Accurate Simulations of Peptide Aggregation."

Sorensen, Christopher M., Cabot Corporation, $22,000, "Light Scattering Studies of Fumed Silica Morphology Changes in Suspension During Shear."

Staggenborg, Scott A., and Mengel, David B., Ventria Bioscience, $23,360, "Development of Rice Production Recommendations in Kansas."

Staggenborg, Scott A., and Duncan, Stewart R., Cotton Foundation, $5,000, "Yield Risk Assessment and Support for the Inclusion of Cotton as a Limited Water Use Alternative to Corn Over the Ogallala Aquifer."

Steichen, Ethel M., Corporation for National and Community Service, $48,723, "Evaluation for the Corporation for National and Community Service-Funded Service-Learning Project."

Tucker, Jeffrey W., Kansas Department of Transportation, $135,000, "Final Development and Marketing of Driver Notification Sign and Pavement Steel Finder Equipment."

Turner, Margaret A., American Chemical Society, $1,500, "Kansas State University Upward Bound Program - Student Support."

Upton, Steve J., and Woods, Keith M., US Department of Health and Human Services, $93,849, "Growth and Purification of Cryptosporidium Development Stages."

Walton, Krista S., US Department of Defense, $50,000, "Multifunctional Nanostructures for Adsorption of Toxic Materials."

Wang, Donghai, US Department of Agriculture, $32,000, "Fermentation Quality of Sorghum."

Wang, Youqi, US Department of Defense, $155,179, "High Speed Penetration Failure Mechanisms of Textile Fabrics and Armor-Grade Textile Composites."

Weiss, Mark L., Arthritis Foundation, $2,700, "Umbilical Cord Stem Cells for Engineering TMJ Osteochondral Constructs."

Whitfield, Anna E., US Department of Agriculture, $399,500, "Molecular Determinants of Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus Glycoprotein Gn Involved in Virus Acquisition by Thrips and Transmission to Plant Hosts."

Wisely, Samantha, USDA & W. K. Kellogg Foundation, $149,846, "Effects of Wind Power on Greater Prairie Chickens."

Wood, Mary, NCN Institute, $8,201, "English Training Sponsorship."