Sponsored Projects 2025-2026

Drinfeld, Andrey V.
Linguistic and cultural documentation of Yabong [ybo], a Madang language of Papua New Guinea
$222,487, Endangered Languages Documentation Programme

Kapatsinski, Vsevolod M.
The evolution of non-concatenative morphology
$443,996, European Commission

Sheppard, Beth E.
AY25-26 FSME & SC Course Delivery
$284,480, U.S. Department of State (DOS)

Sheppard, Beth E.
AY26-27 FSME & SC Course Delivery
$180,970, U.S. Department of State (DOS)

Sheppard, Beth E.
Fostering Student Motivation [3 sections] - Fall 2025
$53,340, U.S. Department of State (DOS)

Sheppard, Beth E.
Successful Classrooms [2 sections] - Fall 2025
$35,560, U.S. Department of State (DOS)

Bowerman, Bruce
Cytoskeletal Function in C. elegans Embryos
$76,247, National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Diehl, Elizabeth J.
Determining trophic relationships between invasive European green crabs(Carcinus maenas) and shellfish communities in the South Slough
$60,000, U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC)

Eisen, Judith
NiCE: The intersection of pollutants and temperature on the neurobiology of reproduction
$500,000, National Science Foundation (NSF)

Eisen, Judith
NiCE: The intersection of pollutants and temperature on the neurobiology of reproduction
$500,000, Kavli Foundation

Grimes, Daniel T.
Cell-cell communication mediated by fluid flows (MIRA-renewal)
$404,138, National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Guillemin, Karen J.
Mechanism and therapeutic potential of BefA, a bacterial protein that promotes pancreatic beta cell proliferation and function [R01]
$1,287,252, National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Guillemin, Karen J.
Characterizing individual responsiveness to engineered mito-stimulatory probiotics (R61-R33)
$1,025,888, National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Guillemin, Karen J.
CIFAR program in Humans & the Microbiome
$100,076, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research

Kern, Andrew D.
Deep Learning for Population Genetics
$715,759, National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Mazzucato, Luca
Data-driven control of primate prefrontal neural activity using patterned microstimulation [NIMH R01 subaward with NYU]
$1,219,864, National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Mazzucato, Luca
Causal power of cortical neural ensembles: mechanisms and utility for brain perturbations [NIMH R01 subaward with NYU]
$36,380, National Institutes of Health (NIH)

McCormick, David A.
Family Re-union: facilitation of healthy student - parent dialogue
$25,388, Unlikely Collaborators, Inc

Niell, Cristopher M.
HHMI Gilliam Fellowship
$15,000, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Noma, Kenichi
Epigenetics of Aging and Age-Associated Diseases
$1,526,305, National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Postlethwait, John H.
A 3D zebrafish microanatomical and gene expression atlas for disease modeling [R24 sub resubmission]
$223,500, National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Postlethwait, John H.
Mechanisms of Sex Determination in Zebrafish [MIRA R35]
$36,875, National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Spero, Melanie A.
Influence of oxygen availability on novel combination therapies for killing cystic fibrosis pathogens
$110,320, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation

Stankunas, Kryn
Ion signaling, cell transitions, and organ scaling during fin regeneration [R01 - Budget Modification]
$41,079, National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Streisfeld, Matthew A.
Collaborative Research: Developmental Selection During Reproduction Contributes to Plant Evolution and Adaptation
$507,077, National Science Foundation (NSF)

Sutherland, Kelly C.
Tentaculate ambush predators in 3D: Trophic effects of tentacle arrangement and morphology in an understudied group
$732,650, National Science Foundation (NSF)

Sutherland, Kelly C.
Hydrodynamics and electromechanics of multifunctional biohybrid propulsors
$25,583, U.S. Department of Defense (DOD)

Sylwestrak, Emily L.
Cell type-specific reward computations at multiple timescales
$50,000, Esther A. & Joseph Klingenstein Fund, Inc.

Westerfield, Monte
ZFIN: The Zebrafish Model Organism Database
$4,656,958, National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Cook, Amanda K.
Iron-catalyzed 1,2-selective hydrovinylation of dienes
$125,000, American Chemical Society

Hansen, Scott D.
Deciphering the Mechanism of SHIP1 Regulation in Human neutrophils (equipment supplement)
$77,777, National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Harlow, Gary S.
Molecular and Atomic Engineering of Interfacial Electro-catalytic Environments (MARIE)
$336,414, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)

Harms, Michael J.
Graduate Training in Molecular Biology and Biophysics
$2,006,964, National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Harms, Michael J.
Dissecting mechanisms of epistasis in transcription factors
$50,000, OHSU

Jasti, Ramesh
Expanding the supramolecular chemistry of carbon nanohoops
$320,000, National Science Foundation (NSF)

Johnson, Darren W.
Dynamic covalent self-assembly and self-sorting of 2D and 3D nanohoops and cages
$588,783, National Science Foundation (NSF)

Johnson, Darren W.
CCI Phase I: NSF Center for Aqueous Supramolecular Chemistry
$244,000, National Science Foundation (NSF)

Johnson, David C.
Extraordinary Electronic Switching of Thermal Transport
$82,823, U.S. Department of Defense (DOD)

Kempler, Paul A.
Iron Feedstock Development and Refining for Structural Steel Production
$41,076, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)

Kempler, Paul A.
Domestic production and manufacturing of electrical steels with zero carbon emission
$10,983, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)

Marcus, Andrew H.
Structure and Relations of Proteins and Nucleic Acids (MIRA)
$2,019,070, National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Melamed, Celeste L.
Acquisition of D8 Discover X-Ray Diffractometer for the CAMCOR at the University of Oregon
$350,000, U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC)

Pluth, Michael D.
Responsive and Targeted Modulation of Reactive Sulfur Species [MIRA]
$398,464, National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Rapp, Teresa L.
Photodynamic Biomaterials for Microphysiological Tissue Engineering [MIRA R35]
$1,992,320, National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Rapp, Teresa L.
Photorelease of immunomodulatory cytokines for improved survival of islet cell hydrogel depots
$50,000, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)

Ray, Dhiman
Molecular Mechanisms of Antimicrobial Resistance from Machine Learning Augmented Enhanced Sampling [MIRA]
$2,006,425, National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Ariola, Zena
Travel: Oregon Programming Languages Summer School 2026: Types, Proofs, and Program Logics
$20,000, National Science Foundation (NSF)

Chen, Jieyang
CAREER: ProTrain: Enabling Efficient Large Language Model Training via Performance, Energy, and Reliability Co-optimizations
$533,628, National Science Foundation (NSF)

Chen, Jieyang
[M2] Adapting to Diverse Data Retrieval Patterns in Scientific Campaigns [contract from Oak Ridge National Lab]
$100,000, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)

Choi, Jee W.
In Situ Data Analysis Through Physics-constrained and Goal-oriented Tensor Decompositions
$15,000, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)

Durairajan, Ramakrishnan
CAREER: Argus: A Measurement-informed Learning Approach to Managing Multi-cloud Networks
$119,991, National Science Foundation (NSF)

Durairajan, Ramakrishnan
Travel: NSF Student Travel Grant for 2025 ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC)
$14,500, National Science Foundation (NSF)

Erickson, Brittany A.
Collaborative Research: Exploring the Role of Rapid Cementation, Cohesion, and Pore Fluid Pressure Evolution in the Dynamics of Slow Slip Events
$92,260, National Science Foundation (NSF)

Misa, Christopher H.
CICI: TCR: Realizing the Potential of Multifractal Address-Structure Anomaly Detection to Secure Scientific Cyberinfrastructure Against Unsolicited Internet Traffic
$1,200,000, National Science Foundation (NSF)

Nguyen, Thien H.
HIATUS-Human Interpretable Attribution of Text using Underlying Structure Program
$82,660, U.S. Department of Defense (DOD)

Plale, Beth A.
AI Institute: ICICLE: Intelligent Cyberinfrastructure with Computational Learning in the Environment
$471,680, National Science Foundation (NSF)

Plale, Beth A.
Mid-scale Research Infrastructure Incubator: Incubating the Use of Artificial Intelligence for Conducting High-Quality Research Syntheses
$25,786, National Science Foundation (NSF)

Rejaie, Reza
The Oregon Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (OCCOE)
$1,400,000, U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ)

Wang, Yu
Collaborative Research: Towards Well-Rounded Graph Retrieval for Retrieval-Augmented Generation
$199,997, National Science Foundation (NSF)

Ralph, Peter L.
2024BBSRC-NSF/BIO: TSLMM: Methodology, software, and applications for tree-sequence-based linear mixed modelling
$553,321, National Science Foundation (NSF)

Giachetti, Thomas
Collaborative Research: The interplay of surface evolution, shallow magmatism, a large hydrothermal system, and hazards at Puyhue-Cordon Caulle Volcanic Complex, Chile
$65,398, National Science Foundation (NSF)

Harper, Christopher R.
Postdoctoral Fellowship: EAR-PF: Temporal Discretization and Areal Metrics for Revealing Statistically Powerful Patterns in Volcanic Processes
$387,558, National Science Foundation (NSF)

Karlstrom, Leif A.
Collaborative Proposal: NSFGEO/NERC: After the cataclysm: cryptic degassing and delayed global recovery in the wake of Large Igneous Province volcanism [INTERN DCL supplement: Keel Wilde]
$50,000, National Science Foundation (NSF)

Melgar Moctezuma, Diego
The Cascadia Region Earthquake Science Center (CRESCENT)
$309,272, U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI)

O'Driscoll, Leland J.
BLM Oregon/Washington Remote Wildfire Detection and Monitoring Systems (supplement 4)
$664,640, U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI)

Paty, Carol S.
James Webb Telescope - STSI
$36,605, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Paty, Carol S.
2026 NASA ICONS
$36,417, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Paty, Carol S.
NASA Europa ICONS Summer Internship Mentor
$35,520, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Paty, Carol S.
Particle Environment Package (PEP) is selected to fly on the Jupiter Icy moon Explorer (JUICE) [JUICE PEP Hi-Phase E] Cruise Phase 7/1/23-06/30/31][Nominal Mission Tasks 07/01/31-09/30/2035]
$5,000, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Roering, Joshua J.
Track 2 – Center Operations: Center for Land-Surface Hazards (CLaSH)
$431,592, National Science Foundation (NSF)

Sahakian, Valerie J.
Collaborative Research: Estimating shallow shear-wave velocity in basins throughout the Pacific Northwest: an imperative for accurate ground motion prediction
$282,492, National Science Foundation (NSF)

Sutherland, David A.
Underwater shape matters: characterizing subsurface ice morphology at tidewater glaciers
$50,000, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Toomey, Douglas R.
Sage Grande: An Open Access Artificial Intelligence Testbed for Edge Computing and Intelligent Sensing
$1,008,800, National Science Foundation (NSF)

Wallace, Paul J.
Collaborative Research: Size, depth and longevity of magma reservoirs under Kilauea's rift zones: Integrating melt inclusion data and thermal modeling [Proposal to (INTERN)Supplemental Funding Opportunity]
$54,473, National Science Foundation (NSF)

Dantas, Wagner S.
The Role of Nuclear Factor Erythroid 2-related factor 2 in Sarcopenic Obesity [R00]
$742,020, National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Dreyer, Hans C.
Does Nutrition Supplementation Improve Muscle Physiology in Older Adults with Hip Fracture [Prime: OTA; PTE: UIowa]
$25,000, Orthopaedic Trauma Association

Greenhouse, Ian
Computational roles of inhibition in human action control [Diversity Supplement for Hayami Nishio]
$48,532, National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Hahn, Michael E.
Soccer cleat biomechanics research
$40,000, Puma SE

Marneweck, Michelle
Interaction of age-associated sensory and motor changes on cognitive aspects of human function [OPAR]
$35,000, OHSU

Swann, Nicole C.
Electrophysiological and blood-based biomarkers associated with dementia in Parkinson’s disease
$30,000, OHSU

Wilkins, Bradley W.
Physiological Characteristics of Performance in Elite Trail Runners
$11,771, Nike, Inc.

Wollman, Lila B.
The influence of nicotine withdrawal on the control of blood pressure, heart rate, and breathing [Incoming Transfer]
$37,228, Arizona Biomedical Research Centre

Zhang-Lea, Janet H.
Evaluating impairment of neuromuscular control in people with lower limb amputations with effect of external visual feedback at different time points post-amputation [MRF New Investigator]
$50,000, OHSU

Erchenko, Alena
Flexibility and Rigidity in Dynamics and Geometry
$200,377, National Science Foundation (NSF)

Hanlon, Andrew D.
Collaborative Research: FRGMS: Multigraded Commutative Algebra, Toric Varieties, and Homological Mirror Symmetry
$116,307, National Science Foundation (NSF)

Hanlon, Andrew D.
Homological Mirror Symmetry and Fukaya Categories from a Toric Perspective
$111,345, National Science Foundation (NSF)

Kleshchev, Alexander
Classical Representation Theory and Categorification
$71,918, National Science Foundation (NSF)

Lipshitz, Robert
Third Floer: Refined invariants in low-dimensional topology
$150,000, National Science Foundation (NSF)

Proudfoot, Nicholas J.
Conference: Arrangements in Oregon
$19,774, National Science Foundation (NSF)

Zemke, Ian M.
CAREER: Dehn Surgery and the Homology Cobordism Group
$450,000, National Science Foundation (NSF)

Galloway, Aaron W.
Quantifying the impacts of coastal sediment dynamics on Oregon's kelp forests [OR Sea Grant]
$249,277, U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC)

Mace, Patricia M.
Exploring our Coast: Marine Science and Native Cultures
$22,500, Justice Outside

Mace, Patricia M.
CMLC Internships – Aquarium Care and Animal Husbandry [Year 2 Funding]
$12,300, U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC)

von Dassow, George R.
Dynamic Pattern Formation in the Cell Cortex [R35] [Year 1 Budget Revision]
$65,138, National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Watts, Maya W.
The Annual Recruitment of Dungeness Crab Megalopae and the Prediction of the Future Commercial Catch; Funding for Spring/Summer 2025
$9,880, Oregon Dungeness Crab Commission

Aleman, Benjamin J.
ExpandQISE: Track 1: Fingerprinting and Engineering Tunable Carbon-based Quantum Emitters in Hexagonal Boron Nitride
$79,843, National Science Foundation (NSF)

Corwin, Eric I.
Non-commutative Fourier transformation for quantum materials, simulations and experiments
$20,833, Simons Foundation

Desai, Ansh S.
URA Visiting Scholars Program - Fermilab
$20,000, Universities Research Association

Farr, Benjamin F.
CAREER: Education and Discovery in Astrophysics with Gravitational Waves (revised budget)
$100,000, National Science Foundation (NSF)

Frey, Raymond E.
Gravitational Wave Astrophysics with LIGO: The Oregon Experimental Relativity Group
$400,000, National Science Foundation (NSF)

Frey, Raymond E.
QuarkNet Summer 2025 Workshop - MOU Year 13
$1,440, National Science Foundation (NSF)

Goering, Andrea E.
BCSER: What motivates general educational science students? A mixed methods approach
$350,000, National Science Foundation (NSF)

Kribs, Graham D.
Theoretical Investigations in Particle Physics
$400,000, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)

Majewski, Stephanie A.
Trigger Global Event Processor R&D (Dudley/Research Tech) [Revision of EPCS 34901]
$156,768, National Science Foundation (NSF)

Majewski, Stephanie A.
US ATLAS Trigger and Data Acquisition System Upgrade, Event Filter Tracking [Revision of EPCS 35246]
$59,536, National Science Foundation (NSF)

McMorran, Benjamin J.
Controlling Skyrmion Dynamics Using Nanomagnet and Antidot Arrays
$225,000, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)

Nguyen, Kayla X.
MRI Consortium Track 2: Acquisition of an Aberration-Corrected Scanning Transmission Electron Microscope for Multidisciplinary Research and Training
$2,705,396, National Science Foundation (NSF)

Nguyen, Kayla X.
Visualizing Defects and Dopants in Three-Dimensions using Ptychography and Physics-Informed Machine Learning
$185,762, Intel Corporation

Smith, Brian J.
NQVL:QSTD:Design: Attosecond Synchronized Photonic Entanglement Network (ASPEN-Net)
$4,000,000, National Science Foundation (NSF)

Strom, David M.
FY25 WBS 3.6 TDAQ - Winklmeier [249385 AMEND #9]
$72,000, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)

Strom, David M.
FY26 WBS 3.6 TDAQ - Winklmeier
$54,000, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)

Strom, David M.
FY25 WBS 3.6 TDAQ - Winklmeier [249385 AMEND #19]
$29,949, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)

Wang, Hailin
Quantum spin mechanics with diamond color centers
$375,000, National Science Foundation (NSF)

Wang, Hailin
Toward Fault Tolerant Quantum Computing with Mechanical Networks of Spins in Diamond
$350,000, U.S. Department of Defense (DOD)

Allen, Nicholas B.
Social Processing Deficits in Remitted Adolescent Depression - Year 4
$22,177, National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Gomez, Douglas I.
Brain Injury Resource Navigator Training Program
$66,000, Oregon Department of Human Services

Kuhl, Brice A.
Linking temporal context reinstatement to temporal memory interference [R21]
$227,025, National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Mayr, Ulrich E.
The role of conjunctive representations in cognitive control, learning, and aging (Resubmission) [R01]
$303,163, National Institutes of Health (NIH)

McCart, Melissa A.
TBI SOS 4 Kids: Implementation and Evaluation of the Parent and Community Support in Washington
$925,000, State of Washington

McCart, Melissa A.
Implementation and Evaluation of the TBI System of Support for Kids (TBI SOS 4 Kids) Model
$700,000, Toyota

McCart, Melissa A.
Teams TBI 2025-2027
$484,580, DEd

McCart, Melissa A.
Caregiver 2 Caregiver
$62,161, Moody Foundation

McCart, Melissa A.
Evaluation of a Youth Sports Concussion Prevention Toolkit
$39,750, State of Washington

Park, Alayna
Development of a decision support tool for culturally adapting mental health treatment to improve outcomes for Latine youths [R34]
$669,133, National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Park, Alayna
Developing and Testing a Coordinated Knowledge System for Improving the Use of Research Evidence in Clinical Decisions around Cultural Adaptations
$550,000, William T. Grant Foundation

Park, Alayna
Expert guidance on culturally adapting treatment for ethnic-racial minoritized clients
$1,500, Society for a Science of Clinical Psychology

Reck Rognstad, Ava J.
Bidirectional Dynamics of Daily Mood and Behavior Associated with Adolescent Non-suicidal Self-Injury in a Clinical and Community Sample: A Passive Mobile Sensing Study [F32]
$79,780, National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Shirtcliff, Elizabeth A.
The Role of Puberty in Corticostriatal Circuitry Development and Avoidance in Adolescents with Anxiety: A Multimodal Approach using Ultra High-Field 7T MRI
$312,747, National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Unsworth, David I.
Formal and Informal Learning and Development: Facilitating attention management for self-directed learning
$791,670, U.S. Department of Defense (DOD)

Blumenthal, Scott A.
A high-resolution multiproxy approach for investigating climate-mediated modern human dispersal in the Middle Paleolithic microfaunal record of Southwest Asia
$42,796, Israel Science Foundation

Cohn De Leon, Liesl M.
The Role of Guatemalan Maya Commercial Establishments in the Protection of Indigenous Migrant Consumers in Oregon
$14,215, Oregon Consumer Justice

Cotton, Sara J.
The importance of estrogen in bonobo sociosexual behavior: a model for understanding context-dependent female human sexual behaviors
$25,000, Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Inc.

Sanchez, Gabriel M.
The Impact of Climate Change on Hunter-Gatherer Subsistence
$8,568, National Science Foundation (NSF)

Wainwright, Jensen M.
Small mammals as isotopic proxies for early hominin environments and diet
$20,000, Leakey Foundation

Hansen, Benjamin C.
The Effects of Driving Under the Influence
$62,560, Arnold Ventures

Miller, Keaton S.
The Pass-Through of Packaging Fees
$38,626, Oregon Consumer Justice

Rubin, Edward A.
Who Pays for AI? Household Electricity Cost Burdens from Data Center Expansion
$21,203, Oregon Consumer Justice

Wilson, Wesley W.
Effective Rate Regulation Methodology Design for Agricultural and Other Small Shippers
$220,999, DOT

Aoki, Lillian R.
Eelgrass status, ecological interactions, and ecosystem services in southern Oregon
$249,415, U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC)

Stasiewicz, Amanda M.
Expertfluencers in Action: Using Network Mapping to Mobilize Wildfire Mitigation Markets (WIRC IAB)
$109,000, National Science Foundation (NSF)

Stasiewicz, Amanda M.
Pre-fire planning for post-fire hazards: Barriers and opportunities across jurisdictions
$87,026, U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI)

Cooley, Sarah W.
Harmonizing satellite sensors to improve the temporal resolution of SWOT river observations
$50,000, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Johnson, Leigh
Documenting Oregon’s home insurance crisis amid rising wildfire risk
$29,000, Oregon Consumer Justice

Lucash, Melissa S.
Collaborative Research: IUSC: Using the past, present, and future to investigate the effects of global change agents on tree reproduction across the boreal forest
$469,943, National Science Foundation (NSF)

Meek, David D.
Educating for Food Sovereignty: Social Movements, Sustainable Agriculture, and Latin American Institutes of Agroecology
$16,071, Spencer Foundation

Heinz, Annelise M.
Expanding Queer Cartographies: Mapping Lesbian Travel Guides
$99,840, American Council of Learned Societies

Rosenberg, Daniel B.
The Age of the Keyword [Center for Advanced Studies on Applied Humanities Fellowship]
$23,806, Center for Advanced Studies on Applied Humanities

Kauffman, Craig
Eco Jurisprudence Monitor Phase 4: Expanding Educational Impact
$250,000, Rockefeller Brothers Fund

Kauffman, Craig
Eco Jurisprudence Monitor Phase 4: Expanding Educational Impact
$35,000, Environment Now

Wiley, Stephanie A.
Interactive Materials for SOC 280: Intro to Criminology
$2,196, Open Oregon Educational Resources