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RESEARCH FUNDING

IRFAN AHMAD , Department of Defense Strategic Environmental R & D Program , Mechanism of Fungal Degradation on Military Aircraft Coatings , Aug . 2016 – July 2018 , $ 200,000 .
RASHID BASHIR , Purdue University , Advanced Development of Innovative Technologies and Systemic Approaches to Foodborne Hazard Detection and Characterization for Improving Food Safety , April 2016 – April 2017 , $ 67,500 .
BRIAN CUNNINGHAM , National Institutes of Health- Stanford University , Portable Nanostructured Photonic Crystal Devices for HIV1 Viral Load , Nov . 2016 – June 2020 , $ 1.6 million .
JOHN DALLESASSE , MILTON FENG , and LYNFORD GODDARD , National Science Foundation / SRC , Electronic-Photonic Integration Using the Transistor Laser for Energy-Efficient Computing , Sept . 2016 – August 2019 , $ 2.5 million .
GARY EDEN and PETER DRAGIC , Air Force Office of Scientific Research , Internal Cooling of Fiber and Disc Lasers by Radiation Balancing and Other Optical or Phonon Processes , Sept . 2016 – August 2019 , $ 7.5 million .
LYNFORD GODDARD ( co-PI ), National Science Foundation , The Redshirt in Engineering Consortium , Sept . 2016 – August 2021 , $ 5 million .
SONGBIN GONG , Sandia National Lab , Frequency Agile RF Photonics Platform Based on Lithium Niobate Microresonators , April 2016 – Sept . 2016 , $ 50,000 .
SONGBIN GONG and DANIEL SHOEMAKER ( Materials Science and Engineering ), Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency , Chip-Scale Anti-Reciprocal Platform of Electromechanical Elements , Nov . 2016 – Jan . 2018 , $ 205,000 .
VICTOR GRUEV , National Science Foundation , UV Multispectral-Polarization 3D Imaging of the Underwater World , Sept . 2016 – August 2019 , $ 404,000 .
MINJOO LARRY LEE , National Science Foundation , Growth of Tensile Ge Nanowires Embedded in a III-V Matrix , Sept . 2016 – May 2018 , $ 352,000 .
MINJOO LARRY LEE , National Science Foundation , Low-Cost High-Performance Ultrathin GaAs Solar Cells for Terrestrial Photovoltaics , Nov . 2016 – May 2018 , $ 213,000 .
XIULING LI , University of Texas Arlington , Single Sheet Lasers for Attojoule Optoelectronics , Dec . 2015 – Nov . 2018 , $ 25,000 .
LOGAN LIU and IRFAN AHMAD , National Science Founation , I / UCRC University of Illinois site : Center for Advanced Research in Drying , July 2016 – June 2021 , $ 299,000 .
GANG LOGAN LIU , University of Minnesota , Measuring and Modeling Dentrification Hot Spots on Agricultural Landscapes , Aug . 2015 – July 2018 , $ 114,000 .
ANDREW SMITH and KELLY SWANSON ( Nutritional Sciences ), National Institutes of Health , Targeted Drug Delivery to Adipose Tissue Macrophages in Obesity , Sept . 2016 – Aug . 2021 , $ 2.07 million .
ANDREW SMITH , PAUL SELVIN ( Physics ), and HEE JUNG CHUNG ( Molecular & Cellular Biology ), National Institutes of Health , Super-Resolution Microscopy of Small Qunatum Dots to Elucidate the Mechanisms of Alzheimer ’ s Disease , May 2016 – April 2021 , $ 2.74 million .
WENJUAN ZHU , National Science Foundation , Resonant Tunnel Field-Effect Transistors Based on Vertical 2D Crystal Heterostructures , Oct . 2016 – Sept . 2019 , $ 370,000 .
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