University of Kansas
AC-9: Academic Research

Akin,Becci SW Social Welfare Alexander,Helen KBS KS Biological Survey Allen,Christopher TRC Transportation Rsch Center Atchley,Paul TRC Transportation Rsch Center Atchley,Paul PSYC Psychology Atchley,Ruth PSYC Psychology Baggett,Kathleen BCR Bureau of Child Research Baker,Debra KBS KS Biological Survey Baker,Debra EEB Ecology & Evol Biology Bergman,Ted Leo ME Mechanical Engineering Bigelow,Kathryn M. BCR Bureau of Child Research Billings,Sharon KBS KS Biological Survey Bobkowski,Piotr Szymon AAI CPPR CEOP Bode,Claudia Janelle CEBC Ctr Enviro Benefical Cata Bohling,Geoffrey C. KGS Data Manager/Wilson Bortolato,Marco BCR Bureau of Child Research Bourque,Katherine Shirley BCR Bureau of Child Research Bowman-James,Kristin RSCH NSF EPSCoR Braaten,David CRESIS Ctr Rem Sens Ice Sheets Brady,Nancy BCR Bureau of Child Research Britton,Hannah IPSR Inst for Policy & Soc Res Brook,Joanna SW Social Welfare Brookfield,Andrea Elizabeth KGS Research & Dev/Brookfield Brown,Rafe KBS KS Biological Survey Brown,Rafe BI Biodiversity Institute Brunsell,Nathaniel KGS Research & Dev/Brookfield Bulgren,Janis Ann BCR Bureau of Child Research Busby,William KBS KS Biological Survey Butler Jr,James Johnson KGS Data Manager/Wilson Butler Jr,James Johnson KGS Research & Develop/Butler Butler Jr,James Johnson KGS Research & Dev/Brookfield Buzhardt Jr,Joseph BCR Bureau of Child Research Byers,Kaela Danielle SW Social Welfare Cai,Hongyi TRC Transportation Rsch Center Campbell,Janet S. KPR KANU Radio Carter Jr,Ray E. TRC Transportation Rsch Center Chakrabarti,Swapan ITTC Chaudhari,Raghunath Vitthal CEBC Ctr Enviro Benefical Cata Cheatham,Gregory SPED Personnel Preparation Chen,Yi Chun JOUR Journalism Coffey,Margaret AEC Applied English Center Collie-Akers,Vicki Lynn ARCH Arch, Design & Planning Collie-Akers,Vicki Lynn BCR Bureau of Child Research Comer,William J. SLAV Slavic Languages & Lit Counts,Jacqueline AAI CPPR CEOP Cregg,Gina CED Continuing Education Admin Criss,Shannon ARCH Arch, Design & Planning Cronin,Katherine Jane IPSR Inst for Policy & Soc Res Daley,Dorothy Marie IPSR Inst for Policy & Soc Res Darby,Derrick IPSR Inst for Policy & Soc Res Delisle,Jennifer Marie KBS KS Biological Survey Denning,G SLAV Slavic Languages & Lit Denoyelles Jr,Frank KBS KS Biological Survey Depcik,Christopher D TRC Transportation Rsch Center Deshler,Donald CRL Demonstration Misc Devlin,John GEOL Geology Dhar,Prajnaparamita ENGR Bioengineering Res Center Dobbs,Kevin KBS KS Biological Survey Dunham,John W. KGS Res & Develop/Ludvigson Durham,Tammara L VPSA Student Affairs Vice Prov Dvorak,Marcia AAI CPPR CEOP Eason,Becky AAI CPPR CEOP Egbert,Stephen KBS KS Biological Survey Egbert,Stephen KBS KS Applied Remote Sensing Farokhi,Saeed TRC Transportation Rsch Center Fitzsimmons,Eric TRC Transportation Rsch Center Foster,Bryan KBS KS Biological Survey Fowle,David Allan KGS Sr Sci Fellow/Whittemore Freeman,Rachel BCR Bureau of Child Research Fry,Mary AAI CPPR CEOP Fu,Xin ITTC Fukui,Sadaaki SW Social Welfare Garcia,Heidi Michelle SHS Student Health Svcs Garstka,Teri AAI CPPR CEOP Gaumer Erickson,Amy CRL Demonstration Misc Gavosto,Estela HBC Higuchi Biosciences Center Geana,Mugur TRC Transportation Rsch Center Geana,Mugur JOUR Journalism Gehrke,Stevin Henry ENGR Bioengineering Res Center Gillispie,William M BCR Bureau of Child Research Ginther,Donna K IPSR Inst for Policy & Soc Res Gogineni,Sivaprasad CRESIS Ctr Rem Sens Ice Sheets Goodyear,Marilu ARCH Arch, Design & Planning Gore,Nils ARCH Arch, Design & Planning Goscha,Rick SW Social Welfare Gracy,Janine Louise AAI CPPR CEOP Graner,Patricia Gail CRL Demonstration Misc Greene,J. HSES Health,Sport,&Exercise Sc Greene,Jacqueline Megan EAS Center for East Asian Std Greene,Jacqueline Megan SLAV Slavic Languages & Lit Gross,Judith M Staudenmaier BCR Bureau of Child Research Hale,Richard CRESIS Ctr Rem Sens Ice Sheets Hale,Richard TRC Transportation Rsch Center Hall II,Arthur BUS Business Hall,Amber BCR Bureau of Child Research Hall,Jean P CRL Demonstration Misc Han,Jie TRC Transportation Rsch Center Hansen,David AAI CPPR CEOP Hanson,Paul HBC Higuchi Biosciences Center Hatfield,Virginia L BI Biodiversity Institute Hileman,Lena Catherine EEB Ecology & Evol Biology Hine,Kathleen M BCR Bureau of Child Research Hirmas,Daniel KBS KS Biological Survey Hirmas,Daniel ARCH Architecture Program Ho,Alfred IPSR Inst for Policy & Soc Res Holmes,Cheryl SW Social Welfare Horn,Eva BCR Bureau of Child Research Horn,Eva SPED Personnel Preparation Houts,Michael Edmund KBS KS Biological Survey Huggins,Donald KBS KS Biological Survey Huggins,Donald EEB Ecology & Evol Biology Hunsinger,Keith L KGS DASC/Iqbal Ilardi,Stephen SW Social Welfare Ingram,Rick SW Social Welfare Iqbal,Asif KGS DASC/Iqbal Iqbal,Asif KGS DASC/Nelson Ivanov,Julian Metodiev KGS Seismic Research/Miller Jackson,Yolanda ARCH Arch, Design & Planning Jakubauskas,Mark KBS KS Biological Survey Johnson,David BCR Bureau of Child Research Johnson,William GEOG Geography Johnson,William KGS Res & Develop/Ludvigson Kamatuka,Ngondi AAI CPPR CEOP Kamps,Debra Maureen Pearce BCR Bureau of Child Research Kandybowicz,Jason T LING Linguistics Kapp,Stephen SW Social Welfare Kastens,Jude H. KBS KS Biological Survey Kastens,Jude H. KBS KS Applied Remote Sensing Kerr,Barbara IPSR Inst for Policy & Soc Res Keshmiri,Shawn Shahriar TRC Transportation Rsch Center Kettle,Dean KBS KS Biological Survey Kim,Changhwan IPSR Inst for Policy & Soc Res Kindscher,Kelly KBS KS Biological Survey Kingston,Neal AAI CETE ATS Knight,Leigh Anne Taylor IPSR Inst for Policy & Soc Res Kowalchuk,Liz ARCH Arch, Design & Planning Kraus,Chad ARCH Architecture Program Kuhnheim,Jill LAA Latin Amer &Caribbean Stds Laird,Brian CEBC Ctr Enviro Benefical Cata Leuschen,Carlton CRESIS Ctr Rem Sens Ice Sheets Levy,Michelle Marie SW Social Welfare Li,Jilu CRESIS Ctr Rem Sens Ice Sheets Lieberman,Alice SW Social Welfare Lindeman,David P. SW Social Welfare Lindeman,David P. BCR Bureau of Child Research Little,Todd BCR Bureau of Child Research Liu,Gaisheng KGS Data Manager/Wilson Ludvigson,Gregory A KGS Res & Develop/Ludvigson MacGonagle,Elizabeth Lee KASC KS African Studies Center Mack,Beverly KASC KS African Studies Center Macpherson,Gwendolyn KGS Sr Sci Fellow/Whittemore Mandel,Rolfe David KGS Res & Develop/Ludvigson Martinko,Edward KBS KS Biological Survey Mason,Rose BCR Bureau of Child Research McCart,Amy BCR Bureau of Child Research McDonald,Thomas P. SW Social Welfare McEnroe,Bruce TRC Transportation Rsch Center Mendenhall,Amy SW Social Welfare Meyer Jr,Wallace TRC Transportation Rsch Center Miller,Richard D. KGS Seismic Research/Miller Moore,Keith BCR Bureau of Child Research Moore,Terry Dale SW Social Welfare Morningstar,Mary CRL Ctr for Research on Learni Morningstar,Mary CRL Demonstration Misc Moyle,Robert BI Biodiversity Institute Nagel,Joane RSCH NSF EPSCoR Nagel,Joane EEB Ecology & Evol Biology Nary,Dorothy E. BCR Bureau of Child Research Nelson,Kenneth A. KGS DASC/Nelson Newell,Kerry D. KGS Res & Develop/Ludvigson Nguyen,Trung Van TRC Transportation Rsch Center Nguyen,Trung Van C&PE Chemical & Petroleum Engr Noonan,Patricia CRL Demonstration Misc OBrien,Megan SW Social Welfare O'Lear,Shannon Renee Maziar IPSR Inst for Policy & Soc Res Omelicheva,Maria Yevgenyevna REES Russian/E Euro/Eurasian Omelicheva,Maria Yevgenyevna IPSR Inst for Policy & Soc Res Orr,James HBC Higuchi Biosciences Center Paden,John Drysdale CRESIS Ctr Rem Sens Ice Sheets Parr,Alfred TRC Transportation Rsch Center Parsons,Robert TRC Transportation Rsch Center Pea Fite,Paula SW Social Welfare Peltier,Edward TRC Transportation Rsch Center Perie,Marianne AAI CETE ATS Peterson,Andrew BI Biodiversity Institute Phillips,Jean Kathryn Gilles LAW School General Phipps,Barbara J. AAI CPPR CEOP Rauscher,Emily IPSR Inst for Policy & Soc Res Rea,Jerry A. BCR Bureau of Child Research Reed,Derek SHS Student Health Svcs Rhine,Kathryn A HALL Center for the Humanities Rice,Mabel BCR Bureau of Child Research Roberts,Jennifer ARCH Architecture Program Rodriguez-Morales,Fernando CRESIS Ctr Rem Sens Ice Sheets Rosenbloom,Joshua IPSR Inst for Policy & Soc Res Rury III,John IPSR Inst for Policy & Soc Res Sack,Sara BCR Bureau of Child Research Saint Onge,Jarron Michael SOC Sociology Saving,Shawn C KGS DASC/Nelson Sawin,Robert S. KGS Res & Develop/Ludvigson Schrock,Steven TRC Transportation Rsch Center Schultz,Jerry A. BCR Bureau of Child Research Scouffas,Anthea LIED Lied Center Severson,Margaret Egenberger SW Social Welfare Shogren,Karrie BCR Bureau of Child Research Short,Andrew EEB Ecology & Evol Biology Smith,Jon KGS Res & Develop/Ludvigson Smith,Val KBS KS Biological Survey Stearns,Leigh GEOL Geology Steele Jr,Ric BCR Bureau of Child Research Stotler,Randy L KGS Res & Develop/Ludvigson Subramaniam,Bala CEBC Ctr Enviro Benefical Cata Summers,Jean BCR Bureau of Child Research Taghavi,Ray Rahmat TRC Transportation Rsch Center Takeyama,Akiko IPSR Inst for Policy & Soc Res Taylor Jr,Orley R. EEB Ecology & Evol Biology Thomas,Gregory TRC Transportation Rsch Center Thompson,Barbara SPED Personnel Preparation Thompson,Jomella BCR Bureau of Child Research Thompson,Ward H CEBC Ctr Enviro Benefical Cata Thorp III,James KBS KS Biological Survey Timmermann,Barbara HBC Higuchi Biosciences Center Torrence,William Harold LING Linguistics Tunge,Jon CEBC Ctr Enviro Benefical Cata Van Leer,Timothy M LIED Lied Center Vernberg,Eric ABSC Applied Behavioral Scienc Walker,Dale BCR Bureau of Child Research Ward,Joy EEB Ecology & Evol Biology Weaver,Patricia TRC Transportation Rsch Center Wehmeyer,Michael BCR Bureau of Child Research West,Dixie Lee BI Biodiversity Institute Whittemore,Donald O. KGS Data Manager/Wilson Whittemore,Donald O. KGS Sr Sci Fellow/Whittemore Williams,Susan CEBC Ctr Enviro Benefical Cata Williams,Susan TRC Transportation Rsch Center Williford,Anne SW Social Welfare Wills,Howard BCR Bureau of Child Research Wilson,Blake B KGS Research & Dev/Brookfield Wilson,Blake B KGS Data Manager/Wilson Witczak,Andrea ARCH Arch, Design & Planning Yan,Jie CRESIS Ctr Rem Sens Ice Sheets Yoon,Jiso POLS Political Science Young,Christopher TRC Transportation Rsch Center

In order to complete the research inventory for faculty and staff participating in sustainability related research, individuals in the Center for Sustainability contacted the KU Office of Research, which provided an inventory of all registered research projects receiving outside funding - this was the best option to inventory current research - that were active during the reporting period of FY14. Center staff reviewed the list of 584 total projects and identified 226 projects that related to sustainability based on their descriptive titles and the Principal Investigator's recorded research areas. The inventory also identified the faculty researchers and departments for each project.

Kansas Biological Survey signs $2M contract to support lesser prairie chicken habitat mitigation plan Physicists at the University of Kansas have fabricated an innovative substance from two different atomic sheets that interlock much like Lego toy bricks. The researchers said the new material — made of a layer of graphene and a layer of tungsten disulfide — could be used in solar cells and flexible electronics. Every minute in the United States, power plants that generate electricity use nearly triple the amount of water that surges over Niagara Falls during that same time, according to the Union of Concerned Scientists. In an era of drought and diminishing aquifers, freshwater sources are an ever-more-precious resource — and power plants’ use of freshwater has become a critical issue. One researcher at the University of Kansas is investigating new ways to cool plants more efficiently with technology used in everyday laptop computers. This fall the Kansas Biological Survey created and launched the online Kansas Lakes and Reservoirs Data Repository Portal — with funding from the Kansas Water Office and the Kansas GIS Policy Board — to bring together data from a variety of sources, making it free and readily available to the public. An environmental and earth science data project, led by a multi-university team including KU’s Biodiversity Institute, has been awarded $15 million by the National Science Foundation to continue to discover and aggregate data for scientists and policymakers alike. Researchers at the Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets based at the University of Kansas have unlocked important new details below the ice in key areas of Greenland and Antarctica that will reshape how scientists forecast changes to sea level. Data collected through radar systems created at KU provide the first-ever detailed maps of the subsurface conditions on prominent and scientifically important glaciers on opposite sides of the Earth. A University of Kansas law professor has authored a study and will argue before the Supreme Court on a water rights case via a method that can be thought of as a more civil version of civil war. The University of Kansas Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies (CREES) has been awarded a major grant from the U.S. Department of State as part of the U.S.-Russia Peer-to-Peer Dialogue Program. The grant calls for CREES, working with the Center for Transboundary Cooperation in St. Petersburg, Russia, to identify, train and connect eco-reps from the Midwest with their counterparts in Russia. These eco-reps will design and enact projects with the goal of raising awareness and educating about sustainability, and creating positive environmental, social and economic effects in their schools, communities and small businesses. The Bioscience & Technology Business Center at the University of Kansas has earned a major federal grant for its role as a business accelerator and economic engine for northeast Kansas. The BTBC at KU has been awarded $50,000 by the U.S. Small Business Administration through the agency’s inaugural Growth Accelerator Fund competition, which is designed to support the development of outstanding business accelerators, incubators and other entrepreneurial ecosystem models that are playing major roles in their region. Four University of Kansas students have been selected for prestigious Fulbright awards for research and study for the 2014-15 academic year. A researcher at the University of Kansas has earned an Army Research Office Young Investigator Award grant to conduct research on cutting-edge photovoltaic technology intended to give American forces tactical advantages in the field. Jilu Li, assistant research professor with the Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets (CReSIS) at the University of Kansas, received a three-year $299,178 grant through NASA’s New Investigator Program to provide a complete subsurface map at the point where the ice meets bedrock for Greenland and the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. Li’s team will utilize ice sheet data collected by CReSIS and KU researchers over the past two decades to piece together the maps. The American Council of Learned Societies has awarded three University of Kansas faculty members fellowships for humanities research to be undertaken in academic year 2014-15. The council, one of the premier humanities-focused granting agencies, is a private, nonprofit federation of 71 national scholarly organizations that supports scholarship in the humanities and related social sciences. Mayor Sly James, Kansas City, Mo., announced last month the new WE Women’s Empowerment initiative to get more women into leadership roles, whether it’s on city boards, task forces and commissions or in business settings. University of Kansas research will play a crucial role in the initiative through a $23,000 research grant awarded from the Women’s Foundation of Greater Kansas City. A section of Antarctica now bears the name of a University of Kansas professor and alumnus. The U.S. Board on Geographic Names announced it has registered the “Gogineni Subglacial Trench,” which acknowledges the contributions of School of Engineering Distinguished Professor Prasad Gogineni. The subglacial trench sits in proximity to landmarks with highly recognized names such as the Darwin Mountains and the Queen Elizabeth Mountain Range. A researcher at the University of Kansas is part of a team to uncover strong evidence of brood-care parenting strategy in 450-million-year-old crustaceans — the oldest verification of ovarian-to-juvenile brood care in the fossil record. The new species of ostracod exhibiting brood care, which the team named Luprisca incuba, are held at Yale’s Peabody Museum of Natural History and were collected in central New York state. inding renewable energy sources to sustain the environment and the economy is one of the major challenges of the 21st century. Wai-Lun Chan, assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, has received a prestigious award from the National Science Foundation to fund research that could help find such viable low-cost renewable energy, while teaching children and adults about the importance of renewable energy. A team of researchers from the Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets (CReSIS) at the University of Kansas has received a grant from the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation to develop technology that better maps and tracks the conditions within glaciers and at the bottom of fast-flowing ice sheets. The Environmental Studies Program at the University of Kansas has entered into a partnership with Instituto Sustentar, a nongovernmental organization based in Brazil headed by KU alumnus Douglas Trent. The arrangement will facilitate travel, study and research in Brazil by investigators and students from KU, and also help to educate local residents and a generation of Brazilian schoolchildren about the significance of the environment of the Pantanal The Kansas Geological Survey at the University of Kansas has been awarded a $650,000 grant from the company XRI Geophysics to improve on technologies used to detect underground voids and faults, to determine the fitness of earthen dams and levees, and in other endeavors. A hidden aquifer the size of Ireland recently discovered within the ice layers of a glacier in Greenland could hold the key to better understanding how annual melting at the ice surface could affect sea level rise. The Dec. 22 issue of the prestigious scientific journal Nature details the existence of a significant amount of melt water stored in old compacted snow, known as firn. Radar technology developed by researchers at the Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets (CReSIS) at the University of Kansas played a key role in identifying and confirming the previously undetected pool of water within the ice sheet. Land use by past generations of humans imprints a legacy on the landscape, even decades after an ecosystem may appear to have recovered. Now, Sharon Billings, associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Kansas, has earned a five-year, $545,520 grant from the National Science Foundation to participate in the establishment of a “Critical Zone Observatory” in Union, S.C., to study how an ecosystem that once was transformed for agricultural production continues to be influenced by that usage long after the activity has ceased. The work will take place at the Calhoun Experimental Forest. Researchers at the Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis (CEBC) at the University of Kansas recently received a four-year, $4.4 million federal grant as part of the Networks for Sustainable Molecular Design and Synthesis program. It is one of only four such awards made this year by the National Science Foundation and the Environmental Protection Agency. The Kansas Geological Survey (KGS) at the University of Kansas has received a $46,000 grant to preserve at-risk drilling records and rock cuttings that hold valuable information about oil and gas deposits in Kansas and clues to the Earth’s geologic history. Funded by the U.S. Geological Survey National Geological and Geophysical Data Preservation Program, the grant will be used to process and electronically archive oil and gas records in the Data Resources Library at the main KGS office in Lawrence and to archive sample cuttings — bits of underground rock broken up during drilling and flushed up to the surface — at the KGS’s Wichita Well Sample Library. University of Kansas geologists have synthesized the mineral dolomite at a low temperature without the aid of microorganisms — a feat that scientists have been trying to accomplish for almost a century. Announced in a paper published today in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), this work will eventually provide researchers with more accurate tools for understanding climate change and give geologists better methods for finding new sources of petroleum, said Jennifer Roberts, associate professor of geology and lead author of the paper. A graduate student at the University of Kansas is the lead author on a recently published description of a new bird species, the Junin Tapaculo, found in the remote Andes Mountains of central Peru. A three-year, $90,000 NASA fellowship will allow a University of Kansas School of Engineering graduate student to design tools that will help more precisely predict future sea level rise based on the impact of climate change on the polar ice sheets.

Research inventory did not include the Med Center, as it was not included in the campus geographical footprint.