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RESEARCH INITIATION AWARDS

As a mechanism for recruiting new research projects, the Vermont-NASA EPSCoR program has developed its Research Initiation Awards. These minigrants assist Vermont faculty investigators who wish to develop promising research projects which may be included in future Vermont submissions to the NASA EPSCoR program. Research Initiation minigrants average $2,500, and up to four of these awards may be made yearly with EPSCoR Preparation Grant funding. Possible uses for minigrant awards include travel to visit a NASA Center to explore possible links with a NASA collaborator, summer support for a graduate student, and seed money for project initiation. The first of these potential uses is especially encouraged as developing and strengthening links between Vermont universities and NASA Centers and Enterprises is a mandate for the Vermont-NASA EPSCoR effort.

Research Initiation minigrants are awarded on a competitive basis. Applicants should send a short proposal detailing the research project and its relevance to NASA priorities to the Vermont-NASA EPSCoR Project Director.

VT-NASA EPSCoR  PROJECT AWARDS

Dr. William D. Lakin        
Emeritus Professor
The University of Vermont
Applied Mathematics

Director of VT-NASA Space Grant Consortium
Research Principle Investigator
Intracranial Pressure Modeling Project

Development of Space Adaptation Syndrome
Modeling the Role of Intracranial Pressure
in the Development of Space Adaptation Syndrome

Latest News On the Patent
GRANTED!

A/V Showcase of UVM Office of Technology Transer
Our patent application, which is being handled by Jamie Gallagher of Downs Rachlin Martin, is in the final stages of review by the US Patent Office.  The patent application is titled "A Whole-Body Mathematical Model for Simulating Intracranial Pressure Dynamics."  Others involved in the patent application are Scott Stevens (currently at Penn. State Erie) and Paul Penar and Bruce Tranmer (UVM Division of Neurosurgery).  Jamie tells us that we should have formal approval and a patent granted within the next 4 months.

THE  RESEARCH GROUP-
CORE RESEARCH
Medical Aspects of Human Health in Space

Dr. Jun Yu
Associate Dean of Research & Scholarship
Associate Director of VT Space Grant Consortium
University of Vermont
Dept.of Mathematics & Statistics
16 Colchester Ave.
Burlington, VT  05401
802-656-2552

Jun.Yu@uvm.edu
http://www.cems.uvm.edu/~jun/

"Sea Ice Dynamics in the Marginal Ice Zone"
Dr. Darren L. Hitt
Website:
The University of Vermont
Numerical Simulation of Bleeding in Microgravity
Experimental, theoretical and computational  micro-fluid 
mechanics;  bubble dynamics; multiphase flows; bio-
fluid mechanics

"Particulate Effects on Species Mixing of Converging Flows in Microchannels"

 

Vermont's New  Phase III CORE Research Infrastructure Development (RID)

Vermont's Phase III RID Project Plan has been crafted
to increase the National competitiveness of Vermont's academic researchers,
 to increase the NASA-related research infrastructure,
to develop new contacts and collaborative research ties with NASA Field Centers and
Mission Directorates, to promote academic-industrial partnerships that support state goals for economic development, and to develop collaborations among Vermont's colleges and universities that enhance Vermont's ability to respond to the evolving research and technology needs of NASA.

Proposal for EPSCoR Phase III RID funding to
NASA National Space Grant College & Fellowship Program...3 years.

 

NASA EPSCoR Phase III Research Group

"Investigation of Critical Aerothermodynamic Phenomena for Hypersonic Vehicles:

Douglas Fletcher, PI
College of Engineering/UVM

Office: 201 Votey
Phone: 656 9863
E-Mail:
dfletche@cems.uvm.edu

"Pyrolysis Gas Interaction with Shock-Heated Boundary Layer"

 

Dr. Darren L. Hitt
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
The University of Vermont
201D Votey Building,
Burlington, VT  05405
802-656-1940

Daren.Hitt@cems.uvm.edu
Website
:
"Particulate Effects on Species Mixing of Converging Flows in Microchannels"

Prof. Dryver Huston
College of Engineering/UVM
Office: 201E Votey
Phone: (802)-656-1922
E-Mail:
huston@cems.uvm.edu
 http://www.cems.uvm.edu/capsel

Yves Dubief
College of Engineering/UVM

Office: 201D Votey
Phone: 802 656 1930
E-Mail:
ydubief@uvm.edu
 
Website

Frederick Sansoz
Engineering, UVM
Co-Investigator

Office: 201B Votey
Phone: 802-656-3837
E-Mail:
frederic.sansoz@uvm.edu3
 Website
R. Danner Friend
Norwick University, Student Mech.Engr
Project Coordinator
Phone: (802) 485-2279

 

NASA EPSCoR Phase III Research Team

"Active Surface Technologies for Dust Mitigation in Martian and Lunar Environments"

Jeffrey Marshall (Team Leader)
Office: 231A Votey
Phone: (802) 656-3826
Fax Number: (802) 656-3358
E-Mail:
jeffm@cems.uvm.edu3
Website
 
Jeff Frolik
Office: 357 Votey
Phone: 656-0732
E-Mail:
jfrolik@uvm.edu
 Website
Dr. Darren L. Hitt
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
The University of Vermont
201D Votey Building,
Burlington, VT  05405
802-656-1940

Daren.Hitt@cems.uvm.edu
Website:
Junru Wu, Ph.D.
Professor of Physics
Department of Physics Cook Physical Science Bldg. A526 OR
University of Vermont
Burlington, VT 05405-0125
(802) 656-8357
(802) 656-0817 [Fax]

mailto:Jun-Ru.Wu@uvm.edu http://www.uvm.edu/~jwu/Wu.html
 

NASA EPSCoR Phase III Research Team

"Improved Modeling of Coupled Ocean/Ice Dynamics in the Marginal Ice Zone"

Dr. Jun Yu
Associate Dean of Research & Scholarship
Associate Director of VT Space Grant Consortium
University of Vermont
Dept.of Mathematics & Statistics
16 Colchester Ave.
Burlington, VT  05401
802-656-2552

Jun.Yu@uvm.edu
http://www.cems.uvm.edu/~jun/

"Sea Ice Dynamics in the Marginal Ice Zone"

 
Chris Danforth
email: chris.danforth at uvm.edu
office: 16 Colchester Ave, Rm 207B
phone: (802) 656-3062

Website

"Estimating and Correcting Systematic Model Errors in Climate Forecasts"
Carl Brandon
Vermont Technical College
"VTC-UVM Sea Ice Buoy Project"

 

CORE RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE
FACULTY MINIGRANTS, SMALL GRANTS

Guiseppe Petrucci
Graduate
2006-07
 

"Chemical Reactivity of Fatty Acids in Atmospheric Particles"
 

Jianke Yang, Mathematics & Statistics
University of Vermont

New Ultrafast Optical Switching Devices Using Directional Couplers

Light Propagation in Optically-Induced Photonic Lattices (SBIR)
Xindong Wu, Computer Science

Interactive Programming(for academic and Industrial applications)

Dr. Darren L. Hitt, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
The University of Vermont

Daren.Hitt@cems.uvm.edu
Website:
"Numercial Simulations of 3-D Supersonic Flow in Realistic MEMS Nozzle Geometrics with Heat Loss."
James Iatrides
SoE, UVM
"Mechanics and Remodeling of the Injured Intervertebral Disc Under Simulated Hyper-and-Hypogravity Environments"
Beverly Wemple,  Geography
    and Jeff Frolik,SoE, UVM
,
"Understanding Spatial and Temporal Distribution of Snow and Water Equivalency in Mixed Hardwood-Conifer Forests"
Dr. Scott A. Stevens
Associate Professor / Mathematics
Division of Information Technology & Sciences
Wick 203
(802) 865-6448,

stevens@champlain.edu
Website
"Improving a Model for Intracranial Pressure Dynamics"

INDUSTRIAL PARTNERS INITIATIVE-IPI

Junru Wu
Physics, UVM
"Analytical Modeling and Verification of Piezoelectronic Energy Harvester For Wireless Sensor Network Applications"
Jie Yang
"Developments of Capillary Technologies to use Intensified CCD Camera and Microscopic Imaging for Online Laser Light Scattering"

SBIR

   
 


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