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Research and Economic Development News from Mississippi State University
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A FEW WORDS ABOUT FUNDINGI hope that your fall went well. It has been a very successful semester in the Office of
Research and Economic Development, and I am pleased to be able to share a selection of our
activities with you in this issue of Maroon Research.
As you can imagine, having the funding necessary to support our research remains a top
priority for us. Appropriation cuts, the federal budget sequester, and the recent government
shutdown have all contributed to heightened concern. Quite frankly, less money for research
affects major land-grant universities like MSU in a number of counterproductive ways.
We are working diligently to mitigate these effects by, among other things, supporting
faculty with their funding proposals, and providing resources to enable successful grant
writing. Contact Assistant Vice President for Research Teresa Gammill at tgammill@research.
msstate.edu with your questions, or visit http://www.research.msstate.edu/rresources for
more information.
As you may know, MSU recently launched the public phase of a major fundraising program
called Infinite Impact: The Mississippi State University Campaign. We work closely with the
MSU Foundation, and its work plays a crucial role in supporting research at our institution,
and so will this capital campaign. I encourage you to learn more about Infinite Impact at
http://www.infiniteimpactmsu.com
As always, thank you for taking the time to read this quarter’s issue of Maroon Research.
Please feel free to contact me at [email protected] with your research or
economic development questions or suggestions.
David Shaw is vice president for research and economic development at Mississippi State University. Contact him at [email protected].
ON THECOVER
Undergraduate Research SymposiumMississippi State University undergraduates and
faculty browse poster displays at the summer
2013 Undergraduate Research Symposium in
August. Read more on page 7.
College Board Approves The Mill MSU’s E.E. Cooley Building, originally Starkville’s
John M. Stone Cotton Mill, lost its recognizable
“face” in mid-October when university journey
linemen Bubba Forrester and Ken Palmer removed
the fiberglass Bully statue that had adorned the
front entrance since the early 1960s. The iconic
figure has been moved to the Gast Building,
where previous Cooley Building employees now
work. The Cooley Building has been vacated
recently in anticipation of renovation work for
The Mill multi-use development project. Read
more on page 10.
Mississippi Economic Council Mississippi State University President Mark E.
Keenum addressed the Mississippi Economic Council
board of directors Oct. 4 during its meeting at
the Hunter Henry Center on the campus of MSU.
The MEC is best known as “the state chamber
of commerce” and has been at the forefront of
good government and pro-education issues for
decades. MSU and MEC partner on the STAR
Scholarship for students who earn MEC STAR
Student status.
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MISSISSIPPI STATE IN TOP 100 FOR RESEARCH
Mississippi State continues to rank among the nation’s top
research universities, according to new data from the National
Science Foundation.
The recently released NSF Higher Education Research and
Development Survey for Fiscal Year 2011 places Mississippi State
at 91st overall among public and private institutions based on
$226.1 million in total research and development expenditures.
Nationally, MSU is ranked 53rd in non-medical school
R&D expenditures.
The land-grant institution remains a top 10 school in the U.S. for
agricultural sciences, as well as a top 50 university in engineering.
In computer science, MSU climbed from 39th to 37th. It also
achieved top 30 status in social sciences, and rose from 82nd to
75th in environmental science, according to the NSF.
“These significant totals are the result of very hard work by
our faculty, and they represent the commitment we have as a
university to providing innovative solutions, creative works and
new scholarship that address pressing local, state, regional, national
and global needs,” said David Shaw, the university’s vice president
for research and economic development.
At 48 percent, MSU’s research expenditures accounted for nearly
half of the total for Mississippi institutions, the survey found.
Additionally, the university had more than 4,000 research
personnel — accounting for 60 percent of the total for the state.
“We have an innovation ecosystem in place on campus that is
leveraging our research to grow capacity and the economy by creating
jobs, enhancing quality of life and providing new opportunities
in communities around our state,” Shaw said.
The full NSF report is online at www.nsf.gov/statistics/nsf13325/
pdf/nsf13325.pdf.
In addition to its NSF status, Mississippi State is designated by the
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching as a “Very
High Research Activity University,” which represents the highest
level of research activity for doctorate-granting universities in the
country. MSU is the only school in the state with the distinction,
and one of only 108 nationwide.
Visit www.research.msstate.edu to learn more about Mississippi
State’s research and economic development activities.
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VILSACK PRAISES MSU’S AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH CONTRIBUTIONS
Mississippi State University officials toured U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack around campus in late September in a rare opportunity to brief a sitting Cabinet member on significant federally funded research projects.
Vilsack spent a whirlwind afternoon with MSU researchers and students, learning about ongoing research and answering questions and listening to comments from MSU students.
“Mississippi State is targeted right where it needs to be,” Vilsack said. “It’s important to this country that we continue to have a vital economy, and to do that, we have to have production agriculture, and we need to continue to expand agriculture, and particularly export opportunities.
“Here we are at the veterinary school, which basically allows Mississippi producers and others to continue to be productive in agriculture of all kinds,” he said.
MSU ranks ninth in the country by the National Science Foundation for research and development expenditures in agricultural sciences among private and public institutions. In 2011, the university conducted nearly $97 million in agriculture-related research, and last year, the U.S. Department of Agriculture granted MSU more than $28 million in federal research dollars.
“I’m proud of the relationship we have between USDA and Mississippi State,” Vilsack said.
MSU President Mark E. Keenum, a past undersecretary of agriculture, welcomed Vilsack’s interest in MSU research.
“The USDA touches everyone in our country, and one-fourth of income in Mississippi comes from agriculture,” Keenum said. “Secretary Vilsack is over one of the largest departments in the American government, and one that touches practically every American.”
Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, left, toured several U.S. Department of Agriculture research projects being conducted on the Starkville campus of Mississippi State University on Sept. 25, and joined MSU President Mark E. Keenum for a press conference after the tour. Keenum is a former Under Secretary of Agriculture. Vilsack also met with a group of students from the Division of Agriculture, Forestry and Veterinary Medicine during his MSU visit.
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MSU RANKS IN THE TOP 10 FOR AG SCIENCES RESEARCH
Mississippi State University’s commitment to its land-grant mission
and to the state’s $7.5 billion agriculture and forestry industry resulted
in a top spot in a recently released National Science Foundation report.
The National Science Foundation’s Higher Education Research and
Development Survey for Fiscal Year 2011 ranked MSU ninth in the
nation for research and development expenditures in agricultural
sciences among public and private institutions. MSU has ranked in
the top 10 in this category for 11 consecutive years. The university
spent $96.6 million in agriculture-related research.
The report ranked MSU 91st overall among public and private
institutions based on $226.1 million in research and development
spending in FY 2011.
“Our talented faculty members, researchers and Extension specialists
address real-world problems that impact people in Mississippi and
across the globe,” said Greg Bohach, vice president of MSU’s Division
of Agriculture, Forestry and Veterinary Medicine. “Their work
inspires the next generation of MSU scientists to look for innovative
and practical solutions to the agricultural challenges of producing
food, fiber and fuel in the 21st century.”
The Division of Agriculture, Forestry and Veterinary Medicine
includes the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, the Mississippi
Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station, the College of Forest
Resources, the Forest and Wildlife Research Center, the College of
Veterinary Medicine and the MSU Extension Service.
George Hopper, who directs four of the division’s six units, said
stations and centers around the state allow scientists to address a
wide variety of research topics that target the unique needs of the
state’s agricultural producers and landowners.
“From the row crop and catfish research at the Delta Research
and Extension Center in Stoneville to the horticulture, truck crops,
forestry, poultry and beef cattle research throughout the state, MSU
experts work hard to respond to the needs of our farmers, landowners
and manufacturing industries while contributing to the greater body
of knowledge in a variety of fields,” Hopper said.
Mississippi State University research in support of the state’s $2.5 billion poultry industry, such as that conducted by Dr. Alejandro Banda at the College of Veterinary Medicine’s Poultry Research and Diagnostic Laboratory in Pearl, helped MSU rank ninth in the nation in agricultural sciences research and development spending.
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The state’s premier research university is boosting its high-performance comput-ing capabilities with the installation of a new supercomputer.
Mississippi State’s High Performance
Computing Collaboratory (HPC2) will soon be
home to a CS300-LC cluster supercomputer — a
liquid-cooled system manufactured by Cray
Inc. (Nasdaq: CRAY).
Named “Shadow,” the new system will serve
as the primary high-performance computing
asset for shared research, according to an
MSU official.
“This investment is the latest example of
Mississippi State’s commitment to providing
powerful, technologically-advanced resources
for our researchers,” said Trey Breckenridge,
director of high performance computing.
The installation is expected to be completed
by December. Once operational, Shadow
will be 10 times faster than the university’s
previous fastest system, but consume far less
energy, Breckenridge said.
According to the company, the CS300-LC
system features an innovative, liquid-cooled
design that uses warm water heat exchangers
instead of chillers to directly cool the computer’s
processors and memory, allowing for a more
efficient removal of system heat.
“This new cooling technique is revolution-
ary. The water used to cool the system is
the temperature of the outside air, up to
104 degrees, with almost no additional air
conditioning required,” Breckenridge said.
“There are a few systems doing this in
Canada and northern Europe, but as far as
I know, we are the first to ever try this in a
subtropical environment,” he added.
Shadow will be housed at the HPC2 facility
in the Thad Cochran Research, Technology
and Economic Development Park adjacent
to the MSU campus in Starkville.
“Shadow achieves its tremendous comput-
ing power largely due to the use of 260 new
Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors. They are so
powerful that two of them, which combined
are smaller than a loaf of bread, are as fast as
our fastest computer just 10 years ago — and
that system was the size of six refrigerators,”
Breckenridge said.
The supercomputer will support research
for the land-grant institution’s Center for
Advanced Vehicular Systems, Center for
Computational Sciences, Geosystems Research
Institute, Center for Battlefield Innovations
and Institute for Genomics, Biocomputing
and Biotechnology, as well as the MSU-led
Northern Gulf Institute.
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HPC2’s members are focused on multidis-
ciplinary, team activities that share a common
objective of advancing the state-of-the-art in
computational science and engineering using
high-performance computing, Breckenridge
said.
“The supercomputing power we have in
Mississippi is becoming more important as
the state and region develop an economy
where businesses built on technology thrive,”
Breckenridge said.
“The economic impact of Shadow and
our other resources is significant now and
will be much more so in the years to come,”
he added.
The Cray system will run a broad set of
applications for research projects, including
fluid dynamics, structural mechanics, materials
modeling, astrophysics, molecular modeling,
transportation modeling and planning, weather
and ocean modeling, geographic information
systems, genomics and bioinformatics.
Mississippi State consistently ranks among
the nation’s fastest academic computing
sites as compiled by TOP500.org, which
is an international organization dedicated
to cataloging the world’s most powerful
supercomputers.
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UNIVERSITY RECOGNIZES UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCHERS
Mississippi State University recognized the 2013 Summer Research Program for Undergraduate Underrepresented Minority Students who participated in the summer 2013 Undergraduate Research Symposium. From left are Morgan Ford of Olive Branch, Ianna May of Indianola, MSU Provost and Executive Vice President Jerry Gilbert and Britney Mack of Edwards.
Dedicated Mississippi State undergradu-
ates from Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas,
Louisiana, Tennessee and abroad didn’t
take a break from their research during
the summer.
Instead, they explored questions relevant
to their majors, which culminated in honors
and recognition at the university’s summer
Undergraduate Research Symposium in
August. MSU’s Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society
sponsored gift cards for the winners, who
also received award certificates.
“Whatever you do, the experiences of
doing undergraduate research — wrestling
with interesting and important questions
— really have an impact on you for the rest
of your life,” said Seth F. Oppenheimer,
professor of mathematics and director of
undergraduate research for MSU’s Shackouls
Honors College. “It will make you much
more competent to judge issues in the world
and to understand how new knowledge
is discovered.”
“These posters and papers that were
presented here today suggest that you are
beginning on the path to discovery that
will take you to remarkable places,” said
Christopher A. Snyder, dean of Shackouls
Honors College and MSU history professor.
Students competed in one of four
categories: arts and humanities, biological
sciences and engineering, physical sciences
and engineering, and social sciences.
The best poster presentations were
recognized, and the top three projects in
biological sciences and engineering, and in
physical sciences and engineering received
awards. The arts and humanities track
had one winner and physical sciences and
engineering had two because those categories
had fewer participants, Oppenheimer said.
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YOKOHAMA TIRE OPENS OFFICE IN COCHRAN RESEARCH PARK
One of the world’s leading premium tire manufacturing companies
recognized for its technology and innovation is locating in the Thad
Cochran Research, Technology and Economic Development Park.
Yokohama Tire Corporation is opening an office in the state’s largest
research park that will serve as the company’s operational headquarters
while its new manufacturing plant in Clay County is under construction,
according to a Mississippi State University official.
“We are very pleased to welcome members of the Yokohama Tire
team to the Thad Cochran Research Park and Industry Partners Building,
and to develop a new pipeline of communication between us,” said Marc
McGee, director of the MSU Research and Technology Corporation, the
entity that manages the park.
The Research Park space will form the center for strategic and logistical
operations for Yokohama Tire while overseeing the development of its
manufacturing facility. It will house several business functions including
general management, human resources management, information
management and business planning.
The plant is expected to have a total investment of $300 million initially
and employ approximately 500 employees. Additional phases are expected
to create up to 2,000 jobs and up to $1.2 billion over the next decade.
According to Joey Deason, chief operating officer for the Golden
Triangle Development Link and vice president for Oktibbeha Economic
Development, “Yokohama’s presence in the Thad Cochran Park will
encourage and foster not only a relationship with the university, but also
with Starkville and Oktibbeha County. It will drive economic growth and
showcase the quality of life for the local community.”
David Shaw, MSU’s vice president for research and economic
development, said that the land-grant institution is looking forward to
working further with Yokohama Tire, its suppliers, economic developers
and elected officials as the project moves forward.
“Yokohama Tire’s decision to build in the Golden Triangle is a very
strong example of how a major research university is a significant economic
development asset,” he added.
The 272-acre park is a joint venture of the City of Starkville, Oktibbeha
County and the university, with the MSU RTC responsible for day-to-day
management. A recent expansion added an additional 45 acres complete
with roads, dual-fiber capabilities and utilities. The 38,000-square-foot
Industry Partners Building opened in 2010 and is among 10 buildings
in the park.
For additional information about locating or building in the park,
contact McGee at [email protected] or 662-325-9575.
Yokohama Tire Corporation, the North American manufacturing
and marketing arm of Tokyo, Japan-based The Yokohama Rubber Co.,
Ltd., is online at www.yokohamatire.com.
Joey Deason, left, chief operating officer for the Golden Triangle Development Link; Marc McGee, director of the Mississippi State University Research and Technology Corp.; and Alan Easome, senior director of operations-new plant development for Yokohama Tire Corp., pose for a photograph in front of Yokohama’s new office in the Cochran Research Park in August.
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A leading Mississippi-based communication and technology solutions
provider will build a new $20 million, 22,400-square-foot data center in the
Thad Cochran Research, Technology and Economic Development Park.
C Spire Wireless officials announced their plans during an October
news conference at Mississippi State University’s High Performance
Computing Collaboratory, which is also located in the park.
“This is a great day,” said David Shaw, MSU’s vice president for research
and economic development.
The state-of-the-art facility will offer businesses a full suite of cloud
solutions to help them manage mission-critical data, infrastructure and
enterprise applications.
“Now, more than ever before, businesses need to intelligently manage
their data and critical operational processes to handle the explosive
growth of mobile, Internet and corporate-based data demands through
cloud-based solutions,” said Kevin Hankins, chief operations officer for
C Spire, citing recent trends that show data center IP traffic is continuing
to grow at an annual rate of 31 percent.
“Business is not going to the cloud. Business has gone to the cloud,”
he said.
Construction on the 6.5-acre site is scheduled to begin in November,
and is expected to take about a year to complete, according to Hankins.
The company has plans for two more phases.
Along with its location in a low-risk geographic zone, the center
boasts direct access to C Spire’s ring-protected fiber network and will
be managed 24 hours, seven days a week and 365 days a year by the
company’s locally-based IT staff.
“This project is an excellent example of how a university-led research
park can make a significant economic contribution to the communities it
serves, particularly in a rural state like Mississippi,” Shaw said, following
the announcement.
“We are very pleased by C Spire’s decision to build in the park,
and look forward to working with them further as this project moves
forward,” he said.
The 272-acre park is a joint venture of the City of Starkville, Oktibbeha
County and the university, with the MSU Research and Technology
Corporation responsible for day-to-day management. The park is home to
more than 1,500 employees, 10 buildings and a diverse lineup of tenants,
including private businesses, start-up companies, government offices and
research centers and institutes.
A recent expansion added an additional 45 acres complete with roads,
dual-fiber capabilities and utilities.
C SPIRE SELECTS RESEARCH PARK FOR DATA CENTER
David Shaw (right), vice president for research and economic development at Mississippi State University, joined local elected officials, economic developers and company executives in October for C Spire’s announcement that the Ridgeland-based company will build a state-of-the-art data center in the Cochran Research Park.
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COLLEGE BOARD APPROVES THE MILL AT MSU DEVELOPMENT
The Mississippi Board of Trustees of State
Institutions of Higher Learning Oct. 17 approved
a series of interrelated agreements that finalize
plans for The Mill development, according to
Mississippi State University President Mark E.
Keenum.
“We have refused to settle for anything
that did not meet our highest expectations—
logistically, aesthetically or financially,” said
Keenum. “And we are confident that we have
it right and we’re grateful that the state College
Board shares our vision.”
The project will bring a conference center,
hotel and parking garage complex centered
around MSU’s historic E.E. Cooley Building. The
Mill development includes three main projects:
transforming the landmark former cotton mill
into a conference center with adjacent office
space, building an adjacent hotel and developing
mixed-use business parcels in the land adjacent
to the university’s old physical plant.
Plans call for MSU to sell some property to
the developer to become the site of a Marriott
Courtyard Hotel and one or more restaurants,
lease the Cooley Building to the developer to be
renovated as a conference center, and for MSU
to lease back some office space in the building
for university use.
MSU’s Facilities Management staff is already
moving out of the Cooley Building, which has
been their base of operations for many years. The
division will be housed in various temporary
locations until a replacement facility can be built
on Buckner Lane, near existing services such as
landscaping and transportation—actions which
the College Board also approved.
Keenum said: “Mississippi State has needed
a conference center capable of accommodating
large academic and professional meetings for
many years. The university also needs a more
dynamic gateway directly across the street from
this main entrance to campus, where we adjoin
the city of Starkville.
“The project as a whole will be a boon to our
ability to attract important academic conferences
and visitors, provide much needed office space,
and make us more appealing to prospective
students and faculty members,” said Keenum.
“It will also create closer town-gown relations
and give an economic boost to the area. And it
will preserve and protect one of the oldest and
most historic buildings on our campus.
“Efforts to bring this development to fruition
on this site have been under way for about 10
years,” said Keenum. “It has been a long and rocky
road, as you well know. But our staff, working
with the city, state and federal offices, the current
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private partner and others, have been persistent.”
MSU purchased the John M. Stone Cotton
Mill in 1965 and renamed it after the school’s
former superintendent of utilities, E.E. Cooley.
The building was placed on the National Register
of Historic Places in 1975.
In August, the state College Board approved
a land-use agreement between MSU and the
city of Starkville for the project’s parking garage.
The prior agreement leased a 1.67-acre parcel
on which a 450-space parking garage will be
constructed to lease to the city for 10 years. The city
will use an $8 million Community Development
Block Grant from the Mississippi Development
Authority to construct the facility. At the end of
the lease, the garage will become MSU’s property.
The August agreement provided that MSU
and the city will equally share any profits generated
from the garage and obligated the university to
provide public parking space, including slots for
the planned Cooley Center’s conference and office
space and the incoming Marriot hotel.
In April, the Starkville Board of Aldermen
approved a 15-year, $3.25 million-maximum tax
increment financing agreement associated with
the project. The TIF utilizes 75 percent of ad
valorem and sales tax returns for debt payments.
Monies from the agreement will help pay for
various infrastructure projects associated with
The Mill at MSU.
BROWN NAMED NEW LAB DIRECTOR, STATE CHEMIST
An accomplished Mississippi State researcher
and administrator for the Mississippi State
Chemical Laboratory is taking the helm of
that state agency housed on the land-grant
institution’s campus.
Ashli Brown has been named State
Chemist and director of the MSCL, effective
Oct. 1 and pending formal approval by the
Mississippi Senate.
Previously, she served as the MSCL’s
director of research and agriculture forensics.
The lab provides critical support to Mississippi
agriculture — the state’s No. 1 industry,
generating approximately $7 billion in revenue in 2012, according to data from the
MSU Extension Service. Additionally, agriculture employs nearly 30 percent of the
state’s workforce directly or indirectly.
“The lab’s work affects Mississippians throughout the state every day,” Brown said.
Established in 1892 at the university — then Mississippi A&M College — the
MSCL is a state regulatory agency. Offices are located in the Hand Chemical Laboratory
Building.
Working with the Mississippi departments of Agriculture and Commerce, of
Health and of Marine Resources, the MSCL jointly develops, promulgates, modifies
and enforces regulations, standards and specifications of animal feeds, food, fertilizers,
gasoline, kerosene, diesel and antifreeze sold within the state’s borders. The agencies
also provide analytical data to ensure the quality, accurate labeling of these materials.
Other MSCL duties include research to promote the regulatory sciences, including
a fellows program in which MSU faculty and students may collaborate on projects of
mutual interest. (For more, visit www.mscl.msstate.edu/.)
Brown, a University of South Florida doctoral graduate, is a biochemist and
molecular biologist with a research and teaching focus on aflatoxin — a group of toxic
compounds produced by some molds that can contaminate stored food supplies like
animal feed and peanuts.
Her research interests include physical biochemistry, enzymology, protein kinases,
insect pheromones, and gas chromatography and mass spectrometry.
She is on the faculty of MSU’s Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology,
Entomology and Plant Pathology in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences,
and is also a scientist in the university’s Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry
Experiment Station.
Ashli Brown
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By creating a new energy curriculum for high
school students, the Research and Curriculum Unit at
Mississippi State is developing yet another collaboration
between education and industry.
The latest career pathway constitutes the 17th
developed by the university resource center, in
partnership with the Mississippi Department of
Education and Mississippi Energy Workforce
Consortium.
The curriculum was pilot tested in three public
school districts during the 2012-13 academic year —
Lamar and Lawrence counties and Pascagoula, said
LeAnn Miller, RCU instructional design specialist.
Mike Mulvihill, bureau director for the MDE’s
Office of Career and Technical Education, said RCU’s
role in writing the curriculum was just one facet of the
long-term partnership between the state department
and the university research unit.
“RCU does a lot of the research as to what the
national trends are and the best practices for teaching
students, as well as working with industries to write
the curriculum,” Mulvihill said. “RCU also does the
professional development for our teachers to make
sure they’re properly trained to teach the students.
They help in the assessment, too.
“They have the expertise and opportunity to do
that type of research and find the trends and best
practices. They get us the best coursework that we
can get,” he continued.
Other Mississippi school districts considering
adoption of the energy curriculum during the 2013-14
school year include Claiborne, DeSoto and Jefferson
counties, as well as Madison, Mulvihill said.
Entergy, Mississippi Power, Gulf Power, Strategic
Biomass Solutions, and Alstom are among the
participants that helped develop the curriculum.
Miller said Southern Power, the Southern Company’s
electric generation company, as well as the National
Center for Construction Education and Research
also provided valuable input.
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MOFFATT TO SERVE AS RESEARCH ETHICS CONSULTANT FOR STUDENTS
Enhancing research opportunities for our undergraduate and graduate students is a very important
priority for Mississippi State, and the university is taking a number of steps to support faculty and student
researchers in their endeavors.
Recently, the MSU selected Bart Moffatt, assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religion,
to serve as the new research ethics consultant for students. In this role, he is available to interact with any
undergraduate or graduate student with questions about research ethics.
Students may do so anonymously by using this email address: [email protected] -- or
they may interact directly with him by contacting him at [email protected] and setting up a consultation.
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MISSISSIPPI STATE RESEARCHERS SECURE MAJOR NIH GRANT
Mississippi State University has been awarded a $10 million grant
for five years of support from the National Institutes of Health to further
research focusing on diseases that affect animal and human health.
NIH’s Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence, or COBRE, provides
competitive grants in support of multidisciplinary centers that strengthen
institutional biomedical research capacity. MSU researchers started the
planning process for competing for the grant in 2010. The research will
be conducted among three core centers at MSU: the College of Veterinary
Medicine, the Institute of Genomics, Biocomputing and Biotechnology,
and the Institute for Imaging and Analytical Technologies. The MSU-
CVM will administer the grant and research activities.
“It is an extremely competitive process,” said Stephen Pruett, MSU-
CVM’s head of basic sciences and principal investigator on the COBRE
grant. “Most of the applicants are human medical colleges, so we were
in the minority as a veterinary college. We have great leadership and a
talented group of researchers that helped us achieve this.”
The unique nature of the grant establishes a mentoring program for
a core group of researchers. The MSU researchers in this group include
Janet Donaldson, associate professor in biological sciences; Mariola
Edelmann, assistant research professor with the Institute of Genomics,
Biocomputing and Biotechnology; Bindu Nanduri and Keun Seok Seo,
both MSU-CVM assistant professors in basic sciences; and Henry Wan,
an MSU-CVM associate professor. Over the course of the five-year grant,
the researchers will work on projects that promote a greater understanding
of animal and human health. The success of the grant will be measured
by the researchers’ ability to get additional NIH-funded grants to further
research in infectious diseases that impact both animal and human health.
“Dr. Seo is leading the way in Staphylococcus aureus, or staph,
research. What he’s studying is leading to vaccines that could protect
cattle and humans from dangerous staph infections.” Pruett said. “Dr.
Donaldson is providing important research on how listeria behaves in
the gall bladder. Her discoveries are paving the way for new methods to
control or prevent dangerous listeria outbreaks.”
The researchers also will work collaboratively to design new infectious
disease research projects and compete for further NIH funding as a team.
“Mississippi State has a tremendous amount of expertise in
infectious disease,” said Greg Bohach, vice president for MSU’s Division
of Agriculture, Forestry, and Veterinary Medicine. “We are honored to
have NIH recognize this and provide the funding and the trust to take
our research to the next level. The talent and focus is here, and we will
continue to provide research that protects the safety of animals, humans,
and the food supply.”
Research reported in this publication was supported by the National
Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health
under Award Number P20GM103646. The content is solely the responsibility
of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the
National Institutes of Health.
For more information on NIH COBRE grants, visit http://www.
nigms.nih.gov/Training/IDeA/COBRE.htm.
Dr. Keun Seok Seo examines cultures of staph organisms in his laboratory at Mississippi State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine.
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AAHRPP ACCREDITS UNIVERSITY’S HUMAN-RESEARCH PROTECTIONS PROGRAM
Mississippi State is the first
university in the state to attain a
highly-sought endorsement from the
Association for the Accreditation of
Human Research Protection Programs.
In September the nonprofit
organization announced that MSU has
earned full accreditation for three years.
“This accreditation is very important to our research enterprise
because it ensures funding agencies and sponsors of our commitment to
the protection of human subjects and building public trust,” said David
Shaw, MSU’s vice president for research and economic development.
AAHRPP provides accreditation for U.S. and international
organizations that conduct biomedical, behavioral or social sciences
research involving human participants and can demonstrate that their
protections exceed the safeguards required by the U.S. government.
“AAHRPP accreditation is widely regarded as the mark of a quality
human research protection program worldwide,” said Marjorie A.
Speers, AAHRPP president and CEO.
According to an MSU official, the multi-year process to achieve
accreditation required extensive planning and preparation by faculty
and staff that culminated in a site visit over the summer.
“We were able to earn accreditation by working together as a
team,” said MSU Institutional Review Board Officer Jodi Roberts, who
coordinated the university’s application.
“We would like to thank all of the researchers who assisted in this
effort,” she said.
An Institutional Review Board for the Protection of Human Subjects,
commonly shortened to IRB, is the method by which institutions facilitate
human subjects research and ensure that the rights and welfare of the
subjects are protected. It is a major component of an overall human
research protection program.
“AAHRPP accreditation illustrates our focus on the safety of
human subjects, regulatory compliance and high ethical standards,”
said Kacey Strickland, the director of the land-grant institution’s Office
of Research Compliance.
“Ongoing quality improvement and performance assessments are
priorities for our Human Resources Protection Programs” she said.
Mississippi State is classified as a “Very High Research Activity”
university by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
This designation represents the highest level of research activity for
doctorate-granting universities in the U.S. Mississippi State is the only
school in the state with the distinction, and one of only 108 nationwide.
For more, visit www.research.msstate.edu.
Sponsored Programs Administration at Mississippi State University is committed to helping faculty find the resources needed to support
research endeavors.
Recognizing that not all faculty members have departmental support for proposal development, SPA is working to provide this support as
needed.
Please let Jennifer Easley know if the SPA team can assist you with creating your proposal budget, completing Grants.Gov forms, or performing
other administrative tasks related to your funding proposals.
Contact her at [email protected] or 662-325-3751.
SPONSORED PROGRAMS ADMINISTRATION HERE TO HELP
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KITECH TAPS MSU’S KING FOR ADVISORY BOARD
A South Korean institute
has asked a senior research
administrator at Mississippi State
University to provide counsel on
international collaborative issues.
The Korea Institute of In-
dustrial Technology, known as
KITECH, has appointed Roger
King to its international advisory
board, which has a focus on the
industrialization of advanced
technologies. Board members
include eminent scientists and engineers from around the world.
“It is an honor to assist KITECH, and I am looking forward to
working with institute officials and other board members,” said King,
who is director of the Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems and Giles
Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at MSU.
“I believe we will be able to enhance international partnerships
with South Korea and the state of Mississippi, as well as expand MSU’s
relationship with KITECH,” he said.
In 2012, the land-grant institution and KITECH signed a memorandum
of understanding to support global manufacturers’ efforts, like Hyundai
and Kia, to develop products and train employees for their facilities in
the southeastern United States.
The agreement created the KITECH-CAVS Center for Root
Technologies. “Root technology” refers to several key technologies
of the manufacturing industry, including casting, molding, forming,
surface treatment, thermal treatment, welding/joining technologies
and related fields.
The partnership has fostered joint research projects, as well as
facilitated personnel exchanges, King said.
“We have two KITECH researchers working at CAVS right now,”
he said.
Hwi-jun Kim is working on experimentation and modeling of
compaction and extrusion of novel aluminum metal matrix composite,
while Jung-hwan Bang is working on fatigue analysis of lead-free
soldering printed circuit boards using finite elements.
In addition to a focus on root technology for industry, manufacturing
system technology and industry convergence technology are priorities
for KITECH, which has created an effective system to move research
from the lab into real-world situations that benefit companies, according
to King.
“Moving forward, I anticipate many more opportunities for our
institutions to work together — through technology transfer and
application for companies, for example,” King said.
Located in the Cochran Research Park, CAVS is a premier research
center within the Bagley College of Engineering. The research and
economic impact produced by the center and its extension office
in Canton has garnered prestigious national awards. For additional
information, visit www.cavs.msstate.edu.
Roger King
Eric Hill and Julie Lopez have joined the Office of Entrepreneurship and Technology Transfer team at Mississippi State University.
Hill is now coordinating OETT’s entrepreneurship-related endeavors, and Lopez is the new licensing associate.
Innovation, entrepreneurship and taking ideas from inception into the marketplace are priorities on our campus, and OETT is playing a
vital role in these activities.
Learn more about OETT at www.oett.msstate.edu.
OETT WELCOMES HILL AND LOPEZ
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Mississippi State’s land-grant tradition of service through learning
and research was recently recognized by a $25,000 National Endowment
for the Arts grant benefitting the city of Leland.
Officials with the university’s landscape architecture program and
John C. Stennis Institute of Government and Community Development
collaborated with counterparts in the Washington County municipality
and its Jim Henson Museum to apply for an “Our Town” grant.
Joan Shigekaw, NEA acting chair, said these
awards fund community projects designed
to improve quality of life through creative
placemaking. The grant will be used to develop
the Creative Park, to be located along the shores
of Deer Creek where the Muppets creator may
have first imagined Kermit the Frog.
Joe Fratesi, Stennis project director;
Jeremy Murdock, Stennis research associate;
and Taze Fulford, MSU associate professor
of landscape architecture, were instrumental
in securing the selective grant. Of the 59
awarded communities, Leland is the only
one in Mississippi and one of just seven first-
time grantees with populations under 5,000.
“Being the land-grant institution that we are, it is our mission and our
privilege to work with Leland and offer assistance in landscape architecture
and community planning,” Fratesi said. “That expertise, combined with
the institute’s ability to identify what resources the university can provide,
is just another good example of the university engaging the community.”
MSU, LELAND RECEIVE NEA GRANT FOR CREATIVE PARK
Art created as part of the T.K. Martin Center for Technology and Disability “EXPRESS Yourself !”
The future home of Leland’s Creative Park will be funded, in part, by a recent $25,000 federal grant resulting from collaboration between the city and Mississippi State University.
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STATE ARTS COMMISSION SUPPORTS T.K. MARTIN CENTER WITH NEW GRANT
Mississippi State’s T.K. Martin Center is receiving another grant from the Mississippi Arts Commission to enable individuals with severe physical
disabilities to express themselves through art.
Officially known as the T.K. Martin Center for Technology and Disability, the university facility works to provide comprehensive, multi-disciplinary
evaluations to remove limitations through the application of assistive technology. Enabling individuals to participate in educational, vocational and
leisure activities to the fullest degree they choose is its primary mission.
As have others in previous years, this year’s arts commission award of $3,800 supports “EXPRESS Yourself!,” the Martin Center’s widely
recognized art project.
“The creative economy has never been more vibrant than it is today in the communities across Mississippi,” said Sallye Killebrew, MAC’s former
interim executive director.
Killebrew said her agency was honored to assist the Martin Center and other organizations “to continue their work of reinforcing the value of
the arts and the role they play in creative place-making and economic development.”
MSU RESEARCHERS SEEK TO DEVELOP NERVE AGENT ANTIDOTES
Ever since World War II, nerve agents have been a concern in modern
warfare and up until now, the only antidotes available acted after the agents
damaged the nervous system. However, new research at the Mississippi
State University College of Veterinary Medicine may lead to the creation
of an antidote that works before severe damage occurs.
Jan Chambers, director of the MSU-CVM Center for Environmental
Health Sciences, and her colleagues have grant funding through the
Department of Defense’s Defense Threat Reduction Agency to develop
nerve agent antidotes that can be used by DOD in cases of chemical warfare.
No actual nerve agents used in chemical warfare are being stored or used
at MSU; instead, the researchers are using compounds that resemble the
agents, so that they can safely conduct testing.
Current antidotes act by restoring function to the nervous system
after the nerve agent has already degraded it.
“There is the possibility that too much damage to the nervous system
occurs before the antidote can reverse the damage and save the victim’s
life,” Chambers, a Giles Distinguished Professor, said. “The antidote
compounds we are developing would enhance the ability of a blood
enzyme, called paraoxonase or PON, to degrade the nerve agents before
they enter the nervous system.”
The antidote, being developed with Howard Chambers, professor in
MSU’s Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Entomology and
Plant Pathology and Steven Gwaltney, professor in MSU’s Department
of Chemistry, could save victims from the usual signs of nerve agent
poisoning which include tremors, seizures, and respiratory collapse.
“Many of us have seen some of the devastating effects of the nerve
agent, sarin, on television news reports on its recent use in Syria,” Chambers
said. “These are the toxic reactions we are trying to prevent.”
Because many insecticides work in the same way that nerve agents
do, the antidote being developed by the MSU research team may also be
used in cases of insecticide poisoning.
The compounds used in the research were first invented by Dr.
Howard Chambers and are being tested in the MSU-CVM Center for
Environmental Health Sciences laboratory. The laboratory has been
recognized for its safety and adherence to state and federal compliance
regulations.
Currently, the research team is working through the patent approval
process and is collecting more data.
“There is nothing currently available that acts in the same way as the
antidote compounds we are researching,” Chambers said. “The process
of making the compounds available for use will be a long one, but we
look forward to the next steps and further collaboration across MSU
and with other agencies.”
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MSU RESEARCH: EFFECTIVE ARTS INTEGRATION IMPROVES TEST SCORES
Lori Neuenfeldt, coordinator of Mississippi State University’s Visual Arts Center Gallery and Outreach Programs, reinforces a lesson about animals with an arts activity. A new report by MSU’s Stennis Institute of Government and Community Development finds classroom arts integration can reduce or eliminate students’ educational achievement gaps.
Effective classroom arts integration can reduce or eliminate educational
achievement gaps for economically disadvantaged students, according
to a Mississippi State University research report.
In other words, when teachers reinforce academic concepts with the
arts, students learn more and score higher on standardized tests.
MSU’s John C. Stennis Institute of Government and Community
Development generated the report, which evaluated the impacts of the
Mississippi Whole Schools Initiative. The program supports teachers’
efforts to use the arts—composing, painting, drawing or sculpting; playing,
singing or listening to music; and dancing and dramatic performance—to
foster retention and learning.
Judith Philips, Stennis research associate, headed the development of
“Arts Integration and the Mississippi Arts Commission’s Whole Schools
Initiative: A Stennis Institute Study for Decision-Makers.” The report
initially was presented at the Mississippi Arts Commission’s 2013 Whole
Schools Initiative Summer Institute.
Philips said the research verifies that effective arts integration reinforces
classroom learning.
“Schools that effectively implement arts integration have either
significantly reduced or completely eliminated the educational achievement
gap for economically disadvantaged students,” she said. “This research
indicates that arts integration can achieve that objective in Mississippi
public schools.”
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CAMPUS BLINDNESS RESEARCH CENTER RECEIVES ANOTHER NATIONAL GRANT
A major research grant to Mississippi State’s National Research and Training Center on Blindness and Low Vision is expected to
have a national impact on services for persons with combined vision and hearing loss.
The university center recently received more than $300,000 to conduct and analyze three national surveys for the Helen Keller
National Center for Deaf-Blind Youths and Adults. The HKNC is located in Sands Point, N.Y.
Funded by the Helmsley Charitable Trust of New York, the project will continue through September 2015 and represents the
most recent partnership between the two entities.
The surveys will focus on the needs of adults 55 years of age and over with both vision and hearing losses, and the availability of
mental health and support services providers for the entire population of deaf-blind people in the U.S.
“The surveys will examine where the needs are in terms of training and what professionals need to know in order to work with
the population,” said research professor Michele McDonnall, NRTC’s interim director.
“This is a great opportunity for us to continue to work with the HKNC, as well as do some more research in the area of deaf-
blindness,” she added.
Established at MSU more than three decades ago, the research and training center is the only U.S. Department of Education-
funded program focused on employment outcomes of persons with blindness or low vision. Its professional staff regularly provides
technical assistance to comsumers, families and professionals throughout the country.
McDonnall said research projects over the decades have provided invaluable information used by professionals ranging from
direct-service practitioners to state and federal agency program administrators.
“We offer vision specialist graduate certificate training, annual K-12 teacher workshops and educational outreach to school
districts in North Mississippi,” she said, citing just a few of the services currently provided.
Authorized by a 1967 congressional act, the HKNC serves both deaf-blind youth and adults. The center also operates a national
residential and training facility at its Sands Point, N.Y., headquarters.
For more information about the NRTC and its work, contact McDonnall at 662-325-2001 or [email protected].
SEC VISITING FACULTY TRAVEL GRANTS AWARDED
After carefully reviewing 31 applications for the 2014 SEC Visiting Faculty Travel Grant Program, the Office of Research
and Economic Development recently joined the Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost and the Division of
Agriculture, Forestry and Veterinary Medicine to announce this year’s recipients from Mississippi State:
• Robert Crossler, assistant professor of management and information systems;
• Nick Fitzkee, assistant professor of chemistry;
• Daniel Petrolia, associate professor of agricultural economics; and,
• Morgan Varner, assistant professor of forestry.
Each will receive a $2,500 grant intended to enhance faculty collaborations that stimulate scholarly initiatives between
SEC universities.
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BROWN, RESEARCH TEAM DISCOVER UNICELLULAR PROTIST
From Massachusetts to Mississippi, a unicellular protist is hinting
at answers about the evolution of multicellularity while raising a whole
new set of questions.
Matthew Brown, assistant professor of biological sciences at
Mississippi State University, recently led a research team that identified
the protist as a new organism and classified its genomics.
Jeffrey Silberman collected sediment specimens in Marstons Mills,
a village in Barnstable, Mass., and the University of Arkansas associate
professor isolated an organism he found. Since Brown had begun post-
doctoral work in genomics at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia,
Silberman offered his former UA doctoral student the opportunity to
name and classify it on the evolutionary tree of life.
Brown headed the investigation that discovered the unicellular
organism’s proteins and genes are similar to those found in multicellular
life-forms. The protist Pygsuia biforma belongs to a newly identified
group they named “Obazoa,” which is closely related to animals and fungi.
“We then looked for specific multicellular toolkit genes, and we found
genes that scientists had believed to be animal-specific,” Brown said.
“Integrins and the whole suite of proteins that work with integrins
were thought to be something innate to multicellularity and used
only for cell-to-cell communication.
“This discovery shows that these genes have been co-opted for a
different use. We don’t know what it does in unicellular organisms,
but we can now place the origin of genes that are associated with
multicellularity in unicellular organisms.”
Additionally, the anaerobic protist has mitochondria, energy
factories that produce adenosine triphosphate, or ATP. Brown said
ATP production typically requires oxygen, but the protist lives in
oxygen depleted envrionments. As a result, Pygsuia biforma raises
questions related to the presence and function of mitochondria in
anaerobic unicellular organisms.
These discoveries and new research questions they raise are
important because they offer new insights into the science of
evolution, Brown explained.
“By tracking the evolutionary history of these particular organisms,
we’re able to look at ancestral states of certain gene suites, and that’s
the really important thing — we need a better understanding of protist
diversity and protist genome evolution to understand how organisms
like animals evolved,” Brown said.
Evidently, the international scientific community agrees: The team’s
research paper detailing these discoveries, “Phylogenomics demonstrates
that breviate flagellates are related to opisthokonts and apusomonads,”
was recently published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, the leading
United Kingdom biological research journal.
Because of Brown’s bioinformatics expertise in genetic and protein
sequencing, as well as his leadership role in documenting the protist’s
morphology, he was the paper’s lead author.
His work continues in the MSU biological sciences’ Evolutionary
Protistology Laboratory, also known on campus as Brown’s Lab. Work
there examines the evolution of eukaryotic lineages with comparative
genomics and developmental transcriptomics.
Learn more about the lab at http://mwb250.biology.msstate.edu.
Mississippi State University’s Matthew Brown, assistant professor of biological sciences, led a team that recently classified this newly discovered protist, Pygsuia biforma.
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MISSISSIPPI STATE AMONG NATION’S TOP CYBER EDUCATORS
Mississippi State is among the nation’s elite institutions that are
preparing students for highly technical cyber security jobs, and the
university has a new designation from the National Security Agency
that will expand these opportunities.
In September, the NSA announced that MSU is one of four new
schools selected for its National Centers of Academic Excellence in
Cyber Operations Program, which was “designed to cultivate more
U.S. cyber professionals in an ever-changing global environment,”
according to the agency.
Steven LaFountain, an NSA technical leader, said legal and ethical
issues in cybersecurity are a required and critical part of the effort.
“In the application process and in all of its work with selected
schools, NSA emphasizes the importance of integrity and compliance,”
he stated in a release. “Cyber skills are increasingly important in national
defense, but it’s even more important to operate as responsible citizens
in the use of such skills.”
The certification comes after a rigorous, two-year application process
by faculty in the departments of computer science and engineering and
electrical and computer engineering.
David A. Dampier, a professor of computer science and engineering
at the land-grant institution, led the effort.
“MSU is among a relatively elite group of schools helping the nation
meet its need for highly-skilled cyber warriors,” he said.
The Air Force Institute of Technology, Carnegie Mellon University
and Auburn University join MSU as CAE-Cyber Operations designees
for the 2013-14 academic year, the NSA said. Designations are for five
years, and schools across the country can compete to join each year.
Of note, Mississippi State also holds national CAE designations in
information assurance education and in information assurance research.
Mississippi State is the only institution of higher education in the state
to attain the three designations.
As a CAE for cyber operations, the university may now issue certificates
to graduates in the computer science master’s degree program who have
completed the necessary cyber operations courses, Dampier explained.
“This certification further enables us to teach skills that are used
by federal agencies engaged in cyber war — giving Mississippi State
students an added edge when competing for these jobs,” he said.
According to Dampier, students who include the cyber ops option
in their coursework will be exposed to a diverse range of cyber security
skills and in-depth study.
“Key skills will be the ability to conduct penetration tests of computer
networks, as well as reverse engineering software, including viruses,
Trojan horses and other forms of malware,” he said.
“These skills are in demand by government agencies, as well as private
contractors working on computer security-related projects,” he added.
In addition to Dampier, the MSU team which worked to attain the
designation were, from computer science and engineering, Cindy Bethel,
Wesley McGrew, Mahalingam Ramkumar, Ed Swan and Byron Williams;
and from electrical and computer engineering, Sherif Abdelwahed, Pan
Li, Tommy Morris and Robert Reese.
The university’s cyber security capabilities include three dedicated
research centers: the Center for Computer Security Research, the
National Forensics Training Center and the Critical Infrastructure
Protection Center.
Additionally, MSU’s cyber security capacity is enhanced by many
faculty holding U.S. government security clearances ranging from
secret to top secret. Many students in the program also maintain
active clearances.
Since 2001, MSU has been funded by both the National Science
Foundation and the NSA to produce security engineers for government
service under Cyber Corps scholarship programs, and has produced
more than 100 students that are destined for government service.
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Allen, Peter J FWRC - Wildlife, Fisheries and Aquaculture Agricultural Research Service $186,362
Allen, Thomas W Delta Research and Extension Center Mississippi Soybean Promotion Board $70,356
Allen, Thomas W Delta Research and Extension Center National Corn Growers Association $5,000
Avery, Jimmy L Aquaculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture $691,138
Baldwin, Brian S Plant and Soil Sciences U.S. Department of Energy $41,000
Barefield, Danny A Agricultural Economics U.S. Environmental Protection Agency $90,000
Barnes, H. Michael FWRC - Forest Products General Memoranda of Agreement* $9,400
Barnes, H. Michael FWRC - Forest Products Architectural Testing, Inc. $5,200
Beck, Mary M Poultry Science Agricultural Research Service $335,179
Belant, Jerrold L FWRC - Wildlife, Fisheries and Aquaculture Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks $72,355
Belant, Jerrold L Center for Resolving Human-Wildlife Conflict National Academy of Sciences $40,000
Berg, Matthew J Physics and Astronomy U.S. Department of Army Research Lab $50,000
Berg, Matthew J Physics and Astronomy U.S. Department of Army Research Lab $19,100
Berman, Mitchell E Psychology National Institutes of Health $47,931
Bethel, Cindy L Computer Science and Engineering U.S. Department of Army $43,821
Bhushan, Shanti Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems University of Iowa $21,250
Bi, Guihong Plant and Soil Sciences Agricultural Research Foundation $18,000
Bond, Jason A Delta Research and Extension Center Dow AgroSciences, LLC $4,500
Breen, Joseph J Stennis Institute of Government and Community Dev. DeSoto County Board of Supervisors $12,400
Bricka, Ray M Chemical Engineering National Institute of Food and Agriculture $130,000
Brown Johnson, Ashli E Mississippi State Chemical Lab U.S. Food and Drug Administration $244,267
Brown, Richard L Biochem, Molecular Bio, Entomology and Plant Pathology Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service $55,220
Brown, Richard L Biochem, Molecular Bio, Entomology and Plant Pathology Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service $90,000
Brown, Richard L Biochem, Molecular Bio, Entomology and Plant Pathology Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service $8,086
Brown, Ronald A ES-ASRED Association of Southern Region Extension Directors $337,000
Buehring, Normie W Northeast Miss. Branch Experiment Station General Memoranda of Agreement* $5,750
Buehring, Normie W Northeast Miss. Branch Experiment Station Dow AgroSciences, LLC $10,000
Buehring, Normie W Northeast Miss. Branch Experiment Station General Memoranda of Agreement* $1,840
Buehring, Normie W Northeast Miss. Branch Experiment Station General Memoranda of Agreement* $345
Buehring, Normie W Northeast Miss. Branch Experiment Station General Memoranda of Agreement* $11,000
Burger, Loren W Geosystems Research Institute Agricultural Research Service $325,298
Burgreen, Greg Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems ALung Technologies $1,983
Burrage, David D Coastal Research and Extension Center National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration $115,000
Burrage, David D Coastal Research and Extension Center National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration $23,987
Butler, James R CVM AHC Administration New Med, LLC $8,559
Byrd, John D Plant and Soil Sciences Mississippi Department of Transportation $806,749
Byrd, John D Plant and Soil Sciences General Memoranda of Agreement* $6,000
Byrd, John D Plant and Soil Sciences Bureau of Plant Industry $1,000
Byrd, John D Plant and Soil Sciences General Memoranda of Agreement* $4,000
Byrd, John D Plant and Soil Sciences General Memoranda of Agreement* $2,000
Capella, Julie L Student Support Services U.S. Department of Education $75,000
Capella, Julie L Student Support Services U.S. Department of Education $233,182
External Funding Awards: July, August & September 2013 Principal Investigator Department/Center/Institute Funding Source Amount
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Carter, Rachael D Stennis Institute of Government and Community Dev. National Institute of Food and Agriculture $46,748
Carter, Rachael D Stennis Institute of Government and Community Dev. City of West Point $3,500
Catchot, Angus L Biochem, Molecular Bio, Entomology and Plant Pathology Monsanto Company $29,845
Catchot, Angus L Biochem, Molecular Bio, Entomology and Plant Pathology Monsanto Company $15,437
Catchot, Angus L Biochem, Molecular Bio, Entomology and Plant Pathology Cotton Incorporated $65,448
Catchot, Angus L Biochem, Molecular Bio, Entomology and Plant Pathology Dow AgroSciences, LLC $5,500
Chambers, Janice E Center for Environmental Health Sciences Defense Threat Reduction Agency $400,000
Chambers, Janice E Center for Environmental Health Sciences Dow AgroSciences, LLC $12,747
Chang, Kow-Ching Food Science, Nutrition and Health Promotion Agricultural Research Service $659,523
Cheng, Yang Aerospace Engineering National Science Foundation $300,000
Cirlot-New, Laura J T.K. Martin Center for Technology and Disability Mississippi Department of Education $10,849
Cirlot-New, Laura J T.K. Martin Center for Technology and Disability U.S. Department of Education $312,000
Cirlot-New, Laura J T.K. Martin Center for Technology and Disability Mississippi State Department of Health $110,977
Cirlot-New, Laura J T.K. Martin Center for Technology and Disability U.S. Department of Education $50,000
Cirlot-New, Laura J T.K. Martin Center for Technology and Disability Mississippi Department of Education $148,153
Cirlot-New, Laura J T.K. Martin Center for Technology and Disability Mississippi State Department of Health $95,138
Claggett, Shalyn R Institute for the Humanities National Endowment for the Humanities $3,000
Clay, Rudolf T Center for Computational Sciences U.S. Department of Energy $150,000
Clevinger, Donna L African American Studies Starkville Area Arts Council $300
Cox, Michael S Plant and Soil Sciences General Memoranda of Agreement* $4,500
Crenshaw, Mark A Animal and Dairy Science University of Georgia $22,000
Cross, Ginger W Social Science Research Center National Institutes of Health $251,722
Cross, Ginger W Social Science Research Center National Institutes of Health $79,709
Cunetto, Stephen H General Library National Endowment for the Arts $3,000
Dampier, David A Computer Science and Engineering U.S. Department of Defense $43,929
Dampier, David A Computer Science and Engineering National Science Foundation $1,071,220
Dampier, David A Computer Science and Engineering National Science Foundation $100,099
Dampier, David A Computer Science and Engineering National Science Foundation $105,343
Davis, Sumner D Southern Rural Development Center National Institute of Food and Agriculture $218,995
Demarais, Stephen FWRC - Wildlife, Fisheries and Aquaculture Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks $62,830
Denny, Geoffrey C Plant and Soil Sciences General Memoranda of Agreement* $3,000
Denny, Geoffrey C Plant and Soil Sciences University of Florida $4,000
Detwiler, Linda A CVM Associate Dean Research Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service $100,000
Doane, Stephanie M Institute for Imaging and Analytics Office of Naval Research $20,000
Dodds, Darrin M Plant and Soil Sciences General Memoranda of Agreement* $11,500
Dodds, Darrin M Plant and Soil Sciences Monsanto Company $18,225
Dodds, Darrin M Plant and Soil Sciences Monsanto Company $30,153
Dodds, Darrin M Plant and Soil Sciences General Memoranda of Agreement* $9,750
Dodds, Darrin M Plant and Soil Sciences General Memoranda of Agreement* $10,500
Dodds, Darrin M Plant and Soil Sciences General Memoranda of Agreement* $4,500
Dodds, Darrin M Plant and Soil Sciences Dow AgroSciences, LLC $5,000
External Funding Awards: July, August & September 2013 Principal Investigator Department/Center/Institute Funding Source Amount
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Dodds, Darrin M Plant and Soil Sciences Monsanto Company $15,732
Dodds, Darrin M Plant and Soil Sciences General Memoranda of Agreement* $20,000
Dodds, Darrin M Plant and Soil Sciences General Memoranda of Agreement* $20,000
Dodds, Darrin M Plant and Soil Sciences General Memoranda of Agreement* $20,000
Dodds, Darrin M Plant and Soil Sciences General Memoranda of Agreement* $19,502
Dodds, Darrin M Plant and Soil Sciences General Memoranda of Agreement* $18,750
Dodds, Darrin Matthew Plant and Soil Sciences General Memoranda of Agreement* $2,500
Doude, Matthew C Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems TNT Motorsports $1,563
Doude, Matthew C Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems TNT Motorsports $2,930
Duncan, Judith G T.K. Martin Center for Technology and Disability Mississippi Arts Commission $3,800
Durst, Betty J Communications - Theatre Mississippi Arts Commission $3,800
Dutta, Dipangkar Physics and Astronomy U.S. Department of Energy $264,000
El Kadiri, Haitham Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems U.S. Department of Army $54,535
El-Adaway, Islam H Civil and Environmental Engineering Golden Pyramids Plaza $271,606
Evans, William B Truck Crops Branch Experiment Station Wal-Mart Foundation $42,901
Evans, William B Truck Crops Branch Experiment Station General Memoranda of Agreement* $3,220
Evans, William B Truck Crops Branch Experiment Station General Memoranda of Agreement* $1,330
Evans, William B Truck Crops Branch Experiment Station General Memoranda of Agreement* $315
Ezell, Andrew W FWRC - Forestry Cooperative Ecosystems Studies Units $10,000
Fratesi, Joseph N Stennis Institute of Government and Community Dev. National Endowment for the Arts $25,000
Frey, Brent R. Forestry Department U.S. Forest Service $5,000
Freyne, Seamus F Civil and Environmental Engineering National Science Foundation $9,987
Gammill, Teresa D Vice President for Research Southeastern Conference $10,000
Goddard, Jerome CVM Mammalian Task Force National Institutes of Health $417,708
Goddard, Jerome CVM Mammalian Task Force National Institutes of Health $7,586
Golden, Bobby R Delta Research and Extension Center Agricultural Research Service $133,167
Golden, Bobby R Delta Research and Extension Center Cotton Incorporated $22,340
Gordon, Jason S FWRC - Forestry Practicing Foresters Institute $1,992
Gore, Jeffrey Delta Research and Extension Center Dow AgroSciences, LLC $5,500
Gore, Jeffrey Delta Research and Extension Center Agricultural Research Service $50,000
Gude, Veera G Civil and Environmental Engineering U.S. Environmental Protection Agency $14,999
Hammi, Youssef Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems The University of Alabama $70,150
Hanna, Heather L Social Science Research Center Cooperative Ecosystems Studies Units $65,000
Hay, William A Institute for the Humanities Apgar Foundation, Inc. $18,000
Hay, William A Institute for the Humanities Earhart Foundation $19,063
Hill, Priscilla J Chemical Engineering National Science Foundation $200,000
Hood, Kristina B Psychology National Institutes of Health $20,000
Hopper, George Martin MAFES Administration National Institute of Food and Agriculture $1,018,248
Hopper, George Martin MAFES Administration National Institute of Food and Agriculture $3,510,984
Hopper, George Martin MAFES Administration National Institute of Food and Agriculture $63,961
External Funding Awards: July, August & September 2013 Principal Investigator Department/Center/Institute Funding Source Amount
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Hopper, George Martin Dean/Director, Forest and Wildlife Research Center National Institute of Food and Agriculture $769,746
Howell, George E Center for Environmental Health Sciences National Institutes of Health $49,468
Jackson, Gary B MSU - Extension Service Administration National Institute of Food and Agriculture $6,496,267
Jackson, Gary B MSU - Extension Service Administration National Institute of Food and Agriculture $73,397
Jackson, Gary B MSU - Extension Service Administration National Institute of Food and Agriculture $9,700
Jackson, Gary B MSU - Extension Service Administration National Institute of Food and Agriculture $9,473
Jones, Ann C Stennis Institute of Government and Community Dev. Tunica County, Mississippi $11,000
Jones, Jeanne C FWRC - Wildlife, Fisheries and Aquaculture St. Catherine’s Island Research Program $800
Jones, Paul D FWRC - Forest Products General Memoranda of Agreement* $2,500
Jordan, Julie B Research Curriculum Unit Mississippi Department of Education $2,150,000
Jordan, Julie B Research Curriculum Unit Mississippi Department of Education $150,000
Jordan, Julie B Research Curriculum Unit Mississippi Department of Education $50,000
Jordan, Julie B Research Curriculum Unit Mississippi Department of Education $98,500
Jordan, Julie B Research Curriculum Unit Mississippi Department of Education $185,900
Jordan, Julie B Research Curriculum Unit Mississippi Department of Education $48,000
Jordan, Julie B Research Curriculum Unit Mississippi Department of Education $18,000
Jordan, Julie B Research Curriculum Unit Mississippi Department of Education $1,500,000
Kaminski, Richard M FWRC - Wildlife, Fisheries and Aquaculture Natural Resources Conservation Service $244,770
Kim, Tae Jo Food Science, Nutrition and Health Promotion National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration $45,508
King, Roger L Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems U.S. Army Tank Automotive and Armaments Command $149,987
Kitchens, Shane C FWRC - Forest Products Architectural Testing, Inc. $2,525
Knight, Patricia R Coastal Research and Extension Center Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service $27,500
Knight, Patricia R Coastal Research and Extension Center Agricultural Research Service $627,756
Koenig, Keith Aerospace Engineering University of Mississippi $55,000
Koger, Clifford H Plant and Soil Sciences General Memoranda of Agreement* $8,000
Koger, Clifford H Plant and Soil Sciences General Memoranda of Agreement* $3,000
Koger, Clifford H Plant and Soil Sciences General Memoranda of Agreement* $3,000
Kroger, Robert FWRC - Wildlife, Fisheries and Aquaculture Natural Resources Conservation Service $50,000
Lacy, Thomas E Aerospace Engineering National Aeronautics and Space Administration $30,000
Lacy, Thomas E Aerospace Engineering National Aeronautics and Space Administration $63,428
Larson, Erick J. Plant and Soil Sciences General Memoranda of Agreement* $4,000
Lawrence, Gary W Biochem, Molecular Bio, Entomology and Plant Pathology Monsanto Company $41,755
Layton, Maurice B Biochem, Molecular Bio, Entomology and Plant Pathology General Memoranda of Agreement* $1,050
Layton, Maurice B Biochem, Molecular Bio, Entomology and Plant Pathology General Memoranda of Agreement* $3,750
Layton, Maurice B Biochem, Molecular Bio, Entomology and Plant Pathology General Memoranda of Agreement* $5,500
Layton, Maurice B Biochem, Molecular Bio, Entomology and Plant Pathology General Memoranda of Agreement* $5,500
Layton, Maurice B Biochem, Molecular Bio, Entomology and Plant Pathology General Memoranda of Agreement* $5,500
Layton, Maurice B Biochem, Molecular Bio, Entomology and Plant Pathology General Memoranda of Agreement* $1,250
Layton, Maurice B Biochem, Molecular Bio, Entomology and Plant Pathology General Memoranda of Agreement* $23,500
Layton, Maurice B Biochem, Molecular Bio, Entomology and Plant Pathology General Memoranda of Agreement* $12,000
External Funding Awards: July, August & September 2013 Principal Investigator Department/Center/Institute Funding Source Amount
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Layton, Maurice B Biochem, Molecular Bio, Entomology and Plant Pathology General Memoranda of Agreement* $2,500
Layton, Maurice B Biochem, Molecular Bio, Entomology and Plant Pathology General Memoranda of Agreement* $1,500
Lee, Sarah B Computer Science and Engineering National Center for Women and Information Technology $3,750
LeJeune, Bonnie J Nat’l Research & Training Center on Blindness & Low Vision U.S. Department of Education $12,975
LeJeune, Bonnie J Nat’l Research & Training Center on Blindness & Low Vision U.S. Department of Education $100,000
Lemus, Rocky W Plant and Soil Sciences General Memoranda of Agreement* $6,005
Leopold, Bruce D Center for Resolving Human-Wildlife Conflict Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service $26,464
Leopold, Bruce D Center for Resolving Human-Wildlife Conflict Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service $44,000
Liao, Jun Ag and Bio Engineering American Heart Association $8,154
Liao, Jun Ag and Bio Engineering American Heart Association $74,346
Lindsey, Gail Early Childhood Institute Mississippi Center for Education Innovation $25,505
Linford, Robert L CVM AHC Administration Morris Animal Foundation $4,000
Loper, James R Extension Center for Tech Outreach Catch-A-Dream Foundation, Inc. $2,696
Lu, Shien Biochem, Molecular Bio, Entomology and Plant Pathology Bureau of Plant Industry $3,088
Luke, Edward A Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems National Aeronautics and Space Administration $20,000
Luke, Edward A Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems National Aeronautics and Space Administration $35,000
Luke, Edward A Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems CFD Research Corp. $20,000
Luke, Edward A Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems CFD Research Corp (CFDRC) $3,600
Ma, Wenchao Physics and Astronomy U.S. Department of Energy $147,000
Macoon, Bisoondat Brown Loam Branch Experiment Station South Dakota State University $17,000
Madsen, John D Geosystems Research Institute Aquatic Ecosystem Restoration Foundation $20,000
Madsen, John D Geosystems Research Institute General Memoranda of Agreement* $5,000
Mago, Pedro J Mechanical Engineering U.S. Department of Energy $27,514
Mago, Pedro J Mechanical Engineering U.S. Department of Energy $39,676
Mahmoud, Barakat S Coastal Research and Extension Center National Institute of Food and Agriculture $38,061
Marcum, David L Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems U.S. Department of Defense $30,329
Marcum, David L Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems Boeing Company $25,000
Mathews, Rahel Social Science Research Center Mississippi State Department of Health $12,164
May, Monica F Early Childhood Institute Mississippi Department of Human Services $2,108,248
McCleon, Tawny E Counseling and Educational Psychology Louisville School District $17,351
McCleon, Tawny E Counseling and Educational Psychology Aberdeen School District $17,878
McCleon, Tawny E Counseling and Educational Psychology Aberdeen School District $17,878
McCleon, Tawny E Counseling and Educational Psychology West Point School District $16,472
McDonnall, Michele E Nat’l Research & Training Center on Blindness & Low Vision Helmsley Charitable Trust $348,576
McDonnall, Michele E Nat’l Research & Training Center on Blindness & Low Vision U.S. Department of Education $850,000
McGee, Glenn M Mississippi Writing and Thinking Institute Mississippi Department of Education $2,000
McGee, Glenn M Mississippi Writing and Thinking Institute Mississippi Department of Education $87,000
McGee, Glenn M Mississippi Writing and Thinking Institute U.S. Department of Education $5,600
McGee, Glenn M Mississippi Writing and Thinking Institute U.S. Department of Education $5,600
External Funding Awards: July, August & September 2013 Principal Investigator Department/Center/Institute Funding Source Amount
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McGee, Glenn M Mississippi Writing and Thinking Institute U.S. Department of Education $1,400
McGee, Glenn M Mississippi Writing and Thinking Institute U.S. Department of Education $12,600
McGee, Glenn M Mississippi Writing and Thinking Institute University of California-Berkeley, National Writing Project $3,000
McGee, Glenn M Mississippi Writing and Thinking Institute U.S. Department of Education $8,400
Miranda, Leandro E Miss. Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service $71,251
Molen, G. Marshall Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems General Motors Research and Development $10,000
Moorhead, Robert J Northern Gulf Institute National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration $275,000
Moorhead, Robert J Northern Gulf Institute Naval Research Laboratory $10,000
Moorhead, Robert J Geosystems Research Institute University of Southern Mississippi $42,467
Moorhead, Robert J Northern Gulf Institute National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration $61,152
Moorhead, Robert J Northern Gulf Institute National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration $50,000
Moorhead, Robert J Northern Gulf Institute National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration $25,000
Moorhead, Robert J Northern Gulf Institute National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration $1,697,747
Moorhead, Robert J Northern Gulf Institute National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration $40,000
Moorhead, Robert J Northern Gulf Institute National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration $3,000
Moorhead, Robert J Northern Gulf Institute National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration $107,701
Moorhead, Robert J Northern Gulf Institute National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration $70,023
Moorhead, Robert J Northern Gulf Institute National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration $65,000
Moorhead, Robert J Northern Gulf Institute National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration $44,851
Moorhead, Robert J Northern Gulf Institute National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration $80,032
Moorhead, Robert J Northern Gulf Institute National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration $467,000
Moorhead, Robert J Northern Gulf Institute National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration $207,475
Moorhead, Robert J Northern Gulf Institute National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration $50,000
Moorhead, Robert J Northern Gulf Institute National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration $275,588
Moorhead, Robert J Northern Gulf Institute National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration $160,000
Moorhead, Robert J Northern Gulf Institute National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration $333,304
Moorhead, Robert J Northern Gulf Institute National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration $41,761
Morgan, George W Poultry Science General Memoranda of Agreement* $16,547
Morgan, Kimberly L Agricultural Economics National Institute of Food and Agriculture $35,170
Morris, Thomas H Electrical and Computer Engineering National Science Foundation $51,360
Morris, Thomas H Electrical and Computer Engineering Purdue University $40,586
Motoyama, Keiichi Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems Simufact-Americas, LLC $9,992
Musser, Fred Biochem, Molecular Bio, Entomology and Plant Pathology Agricultural Research Service $50,000
Novotny, Mark A Physics and Astronomy National Science Foundation $18,200
O’Mally, Jamie L Nat’l Research & Training Center on Blindness & Low Vision University of Illinois at Chicago $24,000
Orr, Alberta L Nat’l Research & Training Center on Blindness & Low Vision Commonwealth of Virginia, Dept. for the Blind and Visually Impaired $9,998
Owen, Sean M Research Curriculum Unit Mississippi Department of Education $489,928.15
Pace, Lanny W CVM MS Veterinary Diagnostic Lab Mississippi Board of Animal Health $99,337.60
Parisi, Domenico nSPARC Mississippi Department of Education $1,800,000
External Funding Awards: July, August & September 2013 Principal Investigator Department/Center/Institute Funding Source Amount
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External Funding Awards: July, August & September 2013 Principal Investigator Department/Center/Institute Funding Source Amount
Parisi, Domenico nSPARC Mississippi Department of Human Services $70,000
Parisi, Domenico nSPARC Bossier Parish Community College $449,970
Peebles, Edgar D Poultry Science Agricultural Research Service $63,393
Perkes, David J Gulf Coast Community Design Center Biloxi Main Street $2,500
Perkes, David J Gulf Coast Community Design Center Moore Community House $10,319
Peterson, Daniel G Institute for Genomics, Biocomputing and Biotechnology U.S. Department of Defense $82,200
Peterson, Daniel G Institute for Genomics, Biocomputing and Biotechnology National Institutes of Health $60,000
Peterson, Daniel G Institute for Genomics, Biocomputing and Biotechnology Agricultural Research Service $202,995
Peterson, Daniel G Institute for Genomics, Biocomputing and Biotechnology Agricultural Research Service $242,995
Petrolia, Daniel R Agricultural Economics National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration $162,394
Petrolia, Daniel R Agricultural Economics National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration $74,999
Petrolia, Daniel R Agricultural Economics Agricultural Research Service $2,360
Petrolia, Daniel R Agricultural Economics Agricultural Research Service $22,640
Phillips, Jerry M Plant and Soil Sciences Agricultural Research Service $94,265
Phillips, Jerry M Plant and Soil Sciences Agricultural Research Service $35,000
Phillips, Judith G Stennis Institute of Government and Community Dev. Equity Plus, LLC. $120,319
Pittman, Sarah E Design Research Informatics Lab Gum Tree Fabrics $4,340
Posadas, Benedict C Coastal Research and Extension Center National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration $14,999
Posadas, Benedict C Coastal Research and Extension Center Mississippi Department of Marine Resources $59,829
Powers, Amanda C General Library Center for Research Libraries $3,125
Ragsdale, Aleta K Social Science Research Center Women’s Fund of Mississippi $30,000
Ray, Melvin C Vice President for Research Threat Systems Management Office (U.S. Army) $147,989
Reddy, Kambham R Plant and Soil Sciences Colorado State University $30,000
Reynolds, Daniel B Plant and Soil Sciences Monsanto Company $12,585
Reynolds, Daniel B Plant and Soil Sciences Monsanto Company $19,665
Reynolds, Daniel B Plant and Soil Sciences Agricultural Research Service $25,000
Reynolds, Daniel B Plant and Soil Sciences Monsanto Company $10,488
Rivera, J. D South Mississippi Branch Experiment Station General Memoranda of Agreement* $2,100
Robertson, Angela A Social Science Research Center National Institutes of Health $413,655
Rousseau, Randall J FWRC - Forestry South Dakota State University $32,841
Rupak, Gautam Physics and Astronomy National Science Foundation $104,399
Sabanadzovic, Sead Biochem, Molecular Bio, Entomology and Plant Pathology United Soybean Board $19,500
Schramm, Harold L Miss. Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit U.S. Geological Survey $9,031
Schramm, Harold L FWRC - Wildlife, Fisheries and Aquaculture U.S. Geological Survey $44,450
Scott, Deborah P Division of Business Research U.S. Small Business Administration $29,378
Scott, Deborah P Division of Business Research U.S. Small Business Administration) $15,846
Seale, Roy D FWRC - Forest Products Drax Biomass International Inc. $60,911
Seale, Roy D FWRC - Forest Products Drax Biomass International Inc. $4,870
Seale, Roy D FWRC - Forest Products Drax Biomass International Inc. $31,640
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External Funding Awards: July, August & September 2013 Principal Investigator Department/Center/Institute Funding Source Amount
Sescu, Adrian Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems National Aeronautics and Space Administration $34,999
Shankle, Mark W Pontotoc Ridge-Flatwoods Branch Experiment Station Monsanto Company $6,292
Shankle, Mark W Pontotoc Ridge-Flatwoods Branch Experiment Station General Memoranda of Agreement* $3,680
Shankle, Mark W Pontotoc Ridge-Flatwoods Branch Experiment Station General Memoranda of Agreement* $1,500
Shankle, Mark W Pontotoc Ridge-Flatwoods Branch Experiment Station General Memoranda of Agreement* $1,000
Shankle, Mark W Pontotoc Ridge-Flatwoods Branch Experiment Station General Memoranda of Agreement* $690
Shankle, Mark W Pontotoc Ridge-Flatwoods Branch Experiment Station General Memoranda of Agreement* $1,500
Sinclair, Hillary C Psychology Center for Open Science $2,000
Sinclair, Hillary C Psychology Psi Chi International Society in Psychology $2,000
Spencer, Barbara A Technology Resource Institute U.S. Economic Development Administration $128,592
Stewart, Barry R Plant and Soil Sciences General Memoranda of Agreement* $1,000
Strawderman, Lesley J Industrial and Systems Engineering National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health $49,215
Strawderman, Lesley J Industrial and Systems Engineering National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health $12,553
Strawderman, Lesley J Industrial and Systems Engineering National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health $5,502
Street, Joe E Delta Research and Extension Center General Memoranda of Agreement* $8,000
Street, Joe E Delta Research and Extension Center General Memoranda of Agreement* $5,000
Street, Joe E Delta Research and Extension Center General Memoranda of Agreement* $5,500
Street, Joe E Delta Research and Extension Center General Memoranda of Agreement* $9,600
Street, Joe E Delta Research and Extension Center General Memoranda of Agreement* $7,000
Street, Joe E Delta Research and Extension Center General Memoranda of Agreement* $10,000
Street, Joe E Delta Research and Extension Center General Memoranda of Agreement* $7,200
Street, Joe E Delta Research and Extension Center General Memoranda of Agreement* $2,000
Street, Joe E Delta Research and Extension Center General Memoranda of Agreement* $4,500
Street, Joe E Delta Research and Extension Center General Memoranda of Agreement* $4,500
Street, Joe E Delta Research and Extension Center General Memoranda of Agreement* $6,000
Street, Joe E Delta Research and Extension Center General Memoranda of Agreement* $13,000
Street, Joe E Delta Research and Extension Center General Memoranda of Agreement* $25,000
Street, Joe E Delta Research and Extension Center General Memoranda of Agreement* $8,500
Street, Joe E Delta Research and Extension Center General Memoranda of Agreement* $4,000
Street, Joe E Delta Research and Extension Center General Memoranda of Agreement* $8,750
Street, Joe E Delta Research and Extension Center General Memoranda of Agreement* $8,000
Street, Joe E Delta Research and Extension Center General Memoranda of Agreement* $8,750
Street, Joe E Delta Research and Extension Center General Memoranda of Agreement* $5,000
Street, Joe E Delta Research and Extension Center General Memoranda of Agreement* $9,800
Street, Joe E Delta Research and Extension Center General Memoranda of Agreement* $7,750
Street, Joe E Delta Research and Extension Center General Memoranda of Agreement* $7,000
Street, Joe E Delta Research and Extension Center General Memoranda of Agreement* $7,000
Street, Joe E Delta Research and Extension Center General Memoranda of Agreement* $28,000
Street, Joe E Delta Research and Extension Center General Memoranda of Agreement* $11,000
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External Funding Awards: July, August & September 2013 Principal Investigator Department/Center/Institute Funding Source Amount
Street, Joe E Delta Research and Extension Center General Memoranda of Agreement* $21,000
Street, Joe E Delta Research and Extension Center General Memoranda of Agreement* $4,900
Swan, John E Computer Science and Engineering National Science Foundation $68,909
Swan, John E Computer Science and Engineering National Science Foundation $101,530
Tagert, Mary L Ag and Bio Engineering Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality $100,000
Threadgill, Paula I Food Science, Nutrition and Health Promotion National Institute of Food and Agriculture $1,659,681
Tschopp, Mark A Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research $119,369
Varner, Julian M FWRC - Forestry U.S. Forest Service $143,158
Vilella, Francisco J Miss. Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit U.S. Geological Survey $28,301.88
Waggoner, Charles A Energy Institute National Aeronautics and Space Administration $24,994
Waggoner, Charles A Institute for Clean Energy Technology Lawrence Livermore National Lab $36,000
Wallace, Teddy P. Plant and Soil Sciences Agricultural Research Service $41,436
Wamsley, Kelley G Poultry Science Merial Select, Inc. $26,609
Wan, Xiufeng CVM Environmental Toxicology National Institutes of Health $425,359
Wang, Chuji Physics and Astronomy U.S. Department of Defense $158,190
Wang, Chuji Physics and Astronomy U.S. Department of Army $44,663
Wang, Guiming Center for Resolving Human-Wildlife Conflict Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service $30,800
Ward, Jason M History University of Pennsylvania $46,500
Willard, Scott T Biochem, Molecular Bio, Entomology and Plant Pathology General Memoranda of Agreement* $6,600
Willard, Scott T Biochem, Molecular Bio, Entomology and Plant Pathology General Memoranda of Agreement* $4,500
Willard, Scott T Biochem, Molecular Bio, Entomology and Plant Pathology General Memoranda of Agreement* $30,000
Willard, Scott T Biochem, Molecular Bio, Entomology and Plant Pathology General Memoranda of Agreement* $12,500
Willard, Scott T Biochem, Molecular Bio, Entomology and Plant Pathology General Memoranda of Agreement* $7,500
Willard, Scott T Biochem, Molecular Bio, Entomology and Plant Pathology General Memoranda of Agreement* $25,500
Willard, Scott T Biochem, Molecular Bio, Entomology and Plant Pathology General Memoranda of Agreement* $3,500
Willard, Scott T Biochem, Molecular Bio, Entomology and Plant Pathology General Memoranda of Agreement* $3,600
Willard, Scott T Biochem, Molecular Bio, Entomology and Plant Pathology General Memoranda of Agreement* $2,500
Wise, David J Thad Cochran Warmwater Aquaculture Agricultural Research Service $1,934,763
Wise, David J Thad Cochran Warmwater Aquaculture Agricultural Research Service $750,488
Woodrey, Mark S Coastal Research and Extension Center National Park Service $12,616
Zhai, Wei Poultry Science Finnsugar $18,294
Zhang, Jilei FWRC - Forest Products General Memoranda of Agreement* $980
Zhang, Jilei FWRC - Forest Products General Memoranda of Agreement* $3,822
Total $48,715,644
* As a result of the recent conversion from a legacy system to the university’s Banner financial system, Mississippi State now categorizes general memoranda of agreement (GMOAs) by like funding sources rather than specific to the sponsor (funding source).
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