Top Sponsored Awards, August 2025

October 7, 2025

Arial view of campus bell tower and library.

The following list of awards from public entities includes grants of $200,000 or more between July 16 and Aug. 15, 2025, as reported through NuRamp, the university’s electronic research administration system. 

Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering 
Vitaly Alexandrov 
$283,480 
NSF 
Collaborative Research: Linking Nanoscale Heterogeneities with Macroscale Reactivity of Electrocatalytic Materials

Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering/Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering 
Siamak Nejati, M. Bavarian, B. Dvorak 
$1,500,000 
NSF-Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research 
Collaborative Research: FEC: Circular Waste Resource Recovery and Water Reuse Systems to Drive Sustainability and Resiliency of the Great Plains Rural Communities 

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering/Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering 
Peter Sutter, Eli Sutter 
$587,083 
NSF 
Tunable Ferroelectricity in Group IV Monochalcogenide van der Waals Semiconductors 

Department of Physics and Astronomy/Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering 
Christian Binek, Kirill Belashchenko, Peter Dowben, Xia Hong, Adelghani Laraoui 
$1,800,000 
NSF 
Collaborative Research: FEC: EPSCoR RII: Harnessing Artificial Magnetic Semiconductors in the Flatland