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Published
by the MU College of Agriculture,
Food and Natural Resources, Vol. 5, No. 3, May/June 06
    
• April Awards
• May Awards
Grants
Awarded April 2006
There
were a total of 22 grants awarded for April 2006.
Note: Some
of the dollar amounts listed below represent awards that span more
than one reporting period.
| PI |
Project Title |
Agency |
Amount |
| Chris Barnett |
Creation of a Web-based framework for an interactive mapping and reporting system for the hazardous substance emergency events surveillance (HSEES) program |
Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services |
$9,810 |
| John Faaborg |
Nest predation and predators in rural and urban Golden-cheeked warbler habitat |
Forest Service |
$44,153 |
| Keith Goyne |
Adsorption of the Isoxaflutole Degradate Diketonitrile to Aluminum and Iron Hydrous Oxides |
Geological Survey |
$22,000 |
| Patrick Guinan |
Paper birch decline in the Niobrara Valley: Interactions of weather, microclimate and genetics |
Geological Survey |
$27,134 |
| Lewis Jett |
Managing Late Season Cucumber Beetles on Watermelons with Trap Cropping and Reduced-Risk Insecticides |
Environmental Protection Agency |
$22,030 |
| Michael Kaylen |
TERI Tourism Project, 2006 |
Missouri Division of Tourism |
$105,000 |
| Michael McMullen |
Molecular and Functional Diversity in Maize |
University of Wisconsin - Madison |
$224,067 |
| Joshua Millspaugh |
Wildlife habitat suitability and population viability models for application in southern Indiana |
Forest Service |
$4,818 |
| Nadia Navarrete-Tindall |
Restoring Native Grasses and Forbs as Living Mulches in Woodland Plantings |
Forest Service |
$10,000 |
| Kelly Nelson |
Hybrid/Inbred Testing Program |
Ricetec, Inc |
$2,520 |
| Henry Nguyen |
Genetic Modification of sterol composition in soybean seeds |
Missouri Soybean Merchandising Council (MSMC) |
$61,682 |
| Henry Nguyen |
Metabolic Profiling of Soybean: Identificaton of Novel Compounds for Human Health |
Mid-America Research and Development Foundation |
$81,321 |
| Henry Nguyen |
Development of Flooding Tolerant Soybeans by Genetic Engineering and Germplasm Screening Techniques |
Foreign Agricultural Service |
$25,000 |
| Henry Nguyen |
Development and Deployment of Biotechnology Tools for Soybean Improvement |
Missouri Soybean Merchandising Council (MSMC) |
$300,000 |
| Michael Nolan |
Africa Bureau - Technical Support |
Foreign Agricultural Service |
$1,509,031 |
| Andrea Phillips |
Measurement and Prediction of Boll Internal temperatures for Comparison with Ambient Temperatures for Calculation of Heat Units to Determine Defoliation Timing |
Cotton Incorporated |
$1,250 |
| Linda Randall |
Export of Proteins in Escherichia coli |
National Institutes of Health |
$421,531 |
| Grover Shannon |
Identification and utilization of exotic germplasm to improve soybean productivity |
Agricultural Research Service |
$39,000 |
| Peter Tipton |
Isotope effects on the urate oxidase reaction |
National Science Foundation |
$144,087 |
| Steven Van Doren |
800 MHz Spectrometer for Biomolecular NMR in Missouri |
National Institutes of Health |
$500,000 |
| Charles Vessell |
2005-2007 State Park Agenda Professional Development |
Unlisted Sponsor |
$25,119 |
| Zhanyuan Zhang |
Functional analysis of soybean genes through transposon mutagenesis |
University of Nebraska, Lincoln |
$54,000 |
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Grants Awarded May 2006
There were a total of 31 grants awarded for May 2006. Note: Some of the dollar amounts listed below represent awards that span more than one reporting period.
| PI |
Project Title |
Agency |
Amount |
| Wayne Bailey |
YieldGard Rootworm IRM Studies for 2006 |
Monsanto Corporation |
$25,000 |
| Johann Bruhn |
USDA Forest Service /Forest Health Monitoring Program: SOD Survey for the Ozarks 2006-2007 |
Forest Service |
$23,000 |
| Marcia Carlson |
Reduced Nocturnal Temperature for Early-Weaned Pigs |
South Dakota State University |
$2,000 |
| Andrew Clarke |
Southeast Iowa's Food Safety and Animal Handling Procedures for Meat Processors and Livestock Producers |
Iowa State University |
$40,000 |
| Georgia Davis |
Genomic Evaluation of the Defense Response of Maize (Zea mays L.) against Herbivory by the Western Corn Rootworm (Diabrotica virgifera LeConte) |
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
$45,000 |
| Jeffre Firman |
Nitrogen Reduction Through Use of Low Protein Diets Balanced for Digestible Amino Acids |
Iowa State University |
$40,087 |
| Jose Garcia |
Inclusion Leads to Success: Assisting Minority Farmers and Ranchers to Use Federal Agricultural Services in Missouri and beyond |
Cooperative State Research Education and Extension Service |
$108,697 |
| Matthew Gompper |
Home range and habitat use of the eastern spotted skunk in the Ouachita Mountains |
Arkansas Game and Fish Commission |
$36,590 |
| Mark Haidekker |
Noninvasive Imaging for Quality Control in Tussue Engineering |
Jurgen Manchot Stiftung |
$50,265 |
| Hong He |
Developing a Computer Support System to Assist Forest Management in Decision-Making |
Forest Service |
$109,862 |
| Mary Hendrickson |
Empowering New and Diversifying Farmers with the Tactics to Become Successful Market Growers |
University of Nebraska, Lincoln |
$39,999 |
| Fu-hung Hsieh |
Commercial Technologies for Highly Functional of Polyols Derived from Soybean Oil |
Smith Bucklin and Associates |
$73,935 |
| Thomas Johnson |
Bio-processing Input Procurement Strategies:
A Non-Technical Barrier to Industry Development |
Missouri Department of Natural Resources |
$44,000 |
| Thomas Johnson |
The Kansas Child Care Industry 2006 |
Kansas Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies |
$14,994 |
| Nicholas Kalaitzandonakes |
EMAC Unitized Agreement- North American Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture |
North American Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture |
$1,000 |
| Marc Linit |
Resource Conservation with Herbaceous Cropland Field Borders |
Missouri Department of Conservation |
$10,000 |
| Patrick Market |
CAREER: Research on Convective Snow in the Central U.S. |
National Science Foundation |
$103,319 |
| Patrick Market |
Field Investigation of U.S. Midwestern Thundersnow Events |
National Geographic Society Education Foundation |
$10,000 |
| Anne McKendry |
Fusarium Head Blight Research in Winter Wheat |
Agricultural Research Service |
$126,218 |
| Kelly Nelson |
Influence of an intergrated water management system on soybean grain yield |
Missouri Soybean Merchandising Council (MSMC) |
$3,200 |
| Henry Nguyen |
Translational Genomics for Drought Tolerance in Soybean |
Mid-America Research and Development Foundation |
$55,297 |
| Michael Nolan |
Africa Program Support |
Foreign Agricultural Service |
$376,750 |
| Michael Nolan |
Southern Sudan Agricultural Revitalization Proj (SSARP) |
Foreign Agricultural Service |
$7,409,400 |
| Michael Nolan |
Senior Regional Environmental Advisor |
Foreign Agricultural Service |
$268,103 |
| David O'Brien |
Ethnicity and Entrepreneurship in Rural Russia |
Southern Methodist University |
$4,500 |
| Stephen Pallardy |
National Atmospheric Deposition Program |
Geological Survey |
$7,946 |
| Randall Prather |
Production of Transgenic Pigs by Nuclear Transplantation |
National Center for Research Resources |
$176,991 |
| Charles Rabeni |
Effects of low thiamine on swim-up fry behavior and the interaction with dioxin-like chemicals |
Geological Survey |
$20,500 |
| Robert Sites |
Tsunami effects on the distribution of aquatic insects adjacent to the Andaman Sea coastline in Thailand |
National Science Foundation |
$32,824 |
| Laura Sweets |
Uniform Trial To Evaluate Efficatcy of Fungicides and Biologicals Against Fusarium Head Blight |
Agricultural Research Service |
$15,300 |
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