Faculty Research Awards

On Feb. 8, 2018, the Office of Research and Creative Activity (ORCA) held its first ever Faculty Research Awards Event. The event was developed to recognize the efforts of faculty pursuing external funding. Over 40 faculty and staff attended the event which included awards from serious to amusing such as “Longest Title” to “Most in advance of submission deadline”.

The full list of award winners can be found below. Congratulations to the award winners!

First Time Award Recipients

The following received their first external funding award as UNO project directors this past year.

Gaylene Armstrong - School of Criminology & Criminal Justice

Jodi Benenson - School of Public Administration

Aretha Boex - Nebraska Business Development Center

David Boocker - College of Arts & Sciences-Dean’s Office

Tara Bryan - School of Public Administration

Juan Casas - Office of Latino/Latin American Studies

Kathy Coufal - Special Education & Communication Disorders

Kathryn Dempsey - School of Interdisciplinary Informatics

Shari DeVeney - Special Education & Communication Disorders

Washington Garcia - School of Music

Jason Heppler - Criss Library Archives & Special Collections

Curtis Hutt - Religious Studies

Wei Jing - Nebraska Business Development Center

Tammie Kennedy - English

Miriam Kuhn - Special Education & Communication Disorders

Md Mahbubul Majumder - Mathematics

Elaine Marie Nelson - History

Abhishek Parakh - School of Interdisciplinary Informatics

Steve Rodie - Biology

Christine Wilcoxen - College of Education-Dean’s Office

Ryan Wong - Biology

Jorge Zuniga Ulloa - Biomechanics

Special Award Recipients

The Office of Research and Creative Activity recognizes the following project directors for proposal related awards:

LONGEST TITLE - Jeffrey French (Psychology)

“UNM Subcontract: RII Track-2 FEC: Developmental Chronnecto-Genomics (Dev-CoG): A Next Generation Frame-work for Quantifying Brain Dynamics and Related Genetic Factors in Childhood”

LARGEST AWARD AMOUNT - Jerome Deichert (Center for Public Affairs Research)

$2,443,037

“Transit Project” (With Yu-Che Chen, David Drozd, Melanie Kiper, and Jooho Lee)

MOST ACRONYMS IN A TITLE - Scott Tarry

“NASA Nebraska EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Development (RID) Program FY 2015-2017”

SHORTEST LONG TITLE - Tie: Anne Hobbs (School of Criminology & Criminal Justice) and Roni ReiterPalmon (Psychology)

“STOP Plan” (Hobbs) and “GA for C1C” (Reiter-Palmon)

LONGEST SHORT TITLE - Magie Hall (School of Interdisciplinary Informatics)

“Noninclusion impact healthdisparity”

MOST SUB CONTRACTORS - Scott Tarry (Aviation Institute) 117 sub contractors

“Space Grant FY15-FY17 Augmentation”

LARGEST NUMBER OF PRIMARY INVESTIGATORS - Tie: Peter Szto (Grace Abbott School of Social Work) and Jong-Hoon Youn (Computer Science)

“Project NETWORK” (Peter Szto, Sandy Cook-Fong, Jerome Deichert, David Drozd, Susan Feyen-Reay, and Konnie Kirchner)

“RET Site: Wearable Research for In-service STEM Teachers (WRIST)” (Jong-Hoon Youn, Michelle Friend, Yuliya Lierler, Briana Morrison, Harvey Siy, and Qiuming Zhu)

FASTEST ROUTER - Elaine Marie Nelson (History)

42 minutes

“John Trudell Lecture in Native American History” (Signed by John Grigg and David Boocker)

MOST IN ADVANCE OF SUBMISSION DEADLINE - Douglas Derrick (School of Interdisciplinary Informatics)

44 days early “Legacy System Redesign Phase III”

Fiscal Year 2017 Project Directors

The following project directors were awarded external funding this past fiscal year:

Chris Allen - UNO Television

Joe Allen - Psychology

Gaylene Armstrong - School of Criminology & Criminal Justice

Dhundy Bastola - School of Interdisciplinary Informatics

Kerry Beldin - Grace Abbott School of Social Work

Jodi Benenson - School of Public Administration

Robert Bernier - Nebraska Business Development Center

Jill Blankenship - Biology

Aretha Boex - Nebraska Business Development Center

David Boocker - College of Arts & Sciences - Dean's Office

Tara Bryan - School of Public Administration

Dana Buckingham - KVNO

Sarah Burke - Student Affairs

Rex Cammack - Geography/Geology

Juan Casas - Office of Latino/Latin American Studies

Yu-Che Chen - School of Public Administration

Mel Clancy - Project Achieve

Jason Coleman - School of Health & Kinesiology

Kathy Coufal - Special Education & Communication Disorders

Christine Cutucache - Biology

Raj Dasgupta - Computer Science

Paul H. Davis - Biology

Jerome Deichert - Center for Public Affairs Research

Kathryn Dempsey - School of Interdisciplinary Informatics

Douglas Derrick - School of Interdisciplinary Informatics

Shari DeVeney - Special Education & Communication Disorders

Arthur Diamond - Economics

Kenneth Dick - School of Interdisciplinary Informatics

Danae Dinkel - School of Health & Kinesiology

Veronica Doga - Nebraska Business Development Center

Sarah Edwards - Teacher Education

Angela Eikenberry - School of Public Administration

Zac Fowler - College of Information Science & Technology - Dean's Office

Jeffrey French - Psychology

Ann Fruhling - School of Interdisciplinary Informatics

Robin Gandhi - School of Interdisciplinary Informatics

Washington Garcia - School of Music

Matt Germonprez - Information Systems & Quantitative Analysis

Dario Ghersi - School of Interdisciplinary Informatics

Nealy Grandgenett - Teacher Education

Matt Hale - School of Interdisciplinary Informatics

Magie Hall - School of Interdisciplinary Informatics

Jeanette Harder - Grace Abbott School of Social Work

Jason Heppler - Criss Library Archives & Special Collections

Anne Hobbs - School of Criminology & Criminal Justice

Curtis Hutt - Religious Studies

Sofia Jawed-Wessel - School of Health & Kinesiology

Wei Jing - Nebraska Business Development Center

Jeremy Johnson - School of the Arts

Tammie Kennedy - English

Deepak Khazanchi - College of Information Science & Technology - Dean's Office

Ramazan Kilinc - Political Science

Brian Knarr - Biomechanics

Alan Kolok - Biology

Alexey Krasnoslobodtsev - Physics

Miriam Kuhn - Special Education & Communication Disorders

Natasa Kyvelidou - Biomechanics

Thomas Lawson - NARI Cyber Physical Systems

Gina Ligon - Marketing & Management

Jeremy Lipschultz - College of Fine Arts & Media - Dean's Office

Guoqing Lu - Biology

Lilly Lu - School of the Arts

Pete Madsen - School of Music

William Mahoney - School of Interdisciplinary Informatics

Md Mahbubul Majumder - Mathematics

Julie Masters - Gerontology

Sheryl McGlamery - Teacher Education

Patrick McNamara - International Studies & Programs - Dean's Office

Sara Myers - Biomechanics

Elaine Marie Nelson - History

Abhishek Parakh - School of Interdisciplinary Informatics

Rebecca Pasco - Teacher Education

Roni Reiter-Palmon - Psychology

Brian Ricks - Computer Science

Steve Rodie - Biology

Jim A. Rogers - Mathematics

Adam Rosen - School of Health & Kinesiology

Vincent Salerno - Public Safety

Harold Sargus - Nebraska Business Development Center

Dustin Slivka - School of Health & Kinesiology

Ryan Spohn - Nebraska Center for Justice Research

Benjamin Steiner - School of Criminology & Criminal Justice

Nikolaos Stergiou - Biomechanics

Rose Strasser - Psychology

Bill Swanson - Executive MBA Program

Andrew Swift - Mathematics

Peter Szto - Grace Abbott School of Social Work

Kota Takahashi - Biomechanics

William Tapprich - Biology

Scott Tarry - Aviation Institute

James Taylor - Peter Kiewit Institute

Jamie Wagner - Center for Economic Education

Jean Waters - Nebraska Business Development Center

Jeremy White - Biology

Christina Wilcoxen - College of Education - Dean's Office

L. LaReesa Wolfenbarger - Biology

Ryan Wong - Biology

Sara Woods - Community Engagement Center

Jenna Yentes - Biomechanics

Richard Yoder - Nebraska Business Development Center

Jong-Hoon Youn - Computer Science

Jorge Zuniga Ulloa - Biomechanics