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VT-NASA EPSCoR*

The NASA Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research, or EPSCoR, strengthens the research capabilities of jurisdictions that have not in the past participated equably in competitive aerospace and aerospace-related research activities. EPSCoR provides eligible jurisdictions with funding to develop a more competitive research base within their jurisdiction and member academic institutions. Seven federal agencies conduct EPSCoR programs.
 

"Investigation of Critical Aerothermodynamics Phenomena for Hypersonic Vehicles_ F. Sansoz, Phase III Research Group "Improved Modeling of Coupled Ocean/Ice Dynamics in the Marginal Ice Zone_ C. Danforth, Phase III Research Team "Mechanics & Remodeling of the Injured Intervertebral Disc Under Simulated Hyper-and-Hypogravity Environments_ J. Iatrides, CORE Small Grant "Active Surface Technologies for Dust Mitigation in Martian & Lunar Environments_J. Marshall, PhaseIII Research Team NASA EPSCoR Research Phase III "Improved Modeling of Coupled Ocean/Ice Dynamics in the Marginal Ice Zone_J.Yu Phase III Research Team NASA EPSCoR_Experimental Project to Stimulate Competitive Research NASA EPSCoR projects
  Vermont Space Grant Consortium/_NASA EPSCoR

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

VT-NASA EPSCoR  PROJECT AWARDS
 09 Research Funding
Jane Hill
 Engineering, UVM
 Science PI
Phone: (802) 656-9854
 Email:  Jane.Hill@uvm.edu

2010 Milt Silveira Faculty Award
Website:
 “The impact of microgravity-grown Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Haemophilus influenza on human lung cells

Dr. Darren L. Hitt
 Daren.Hitt@cems.uvm.edu
Website:
The University of Vermont
Research on Orbital Propulsion &
Control of “Nanosats”
Dr. William D. Lakin        
 Emeritus Professor
The University of Vermont
Applied Mathematics
 lakin@cems.uvm.edu

Director of VT-NASA Space Grant Consortium
Research Principle Investigator

 “Investigation of Critical Aerothermodynamic Phenomena  for Hypersonic Vehicles

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

Dr. Jun Yu
Associate Dean of Research & Scholarship
Associate Director of VT Space Grant Consortium
University of Vermont
Dept.of Mathematics & Statistics
16 Colchester Ave.
Burlington, VT  05401
802-656-2552
 Jun.Yu@uvm.edu
http://www.cems.uvm.edu/~jun/
 "Sea Ice Dynamics in the Marginal Ice Zone"

Dr. Darren L. Hitt
 Daren.Hitt@cems.uvm.edu
Website:
The University of Vermont
Numerical Simulation of Bleeding in Microgravity
Experimental, theoretical and computational  micro-fluid mechanics;  bubble dynamics; multiphase flows; bio-fluid mechanics

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

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

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

NASA EPSCoR Phase III Research Group
 "Investigation of Critical Aerothermodynamic Phenomena for Hypersonic Vehicles:
 

Douglas Fletcher, PI
College of Engineering/UVM Office: 201 Votey
Phone: 656 9863
 E-Mail: dfletche@cems.uvm.edu
 "Pyrolysis Gas Interaction with Shock-Heated Boundary Layer"

CO2_Sample Run DSC00668 Torch_Plasma

 

 Dr. Darren L. Hitt
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
The University of Vermont
201D Votey Building,
Burlington, VT  05405
802-656-1940
 Daren.Hitt@cems.uvm.edu
Website:
:"Particulate Effects on Species Mixing of Converging Flows in Microchannels"
 
Prof. Dryver Huston
College of Engineering/UVM
Office: 201E Votey
Phone: (802)-656-1922
 E-Mail: huston@cems.uvm.edu
 http://www.cems.uvm.edu/capsel		 Yves Dubief
College of Engineering/UVM
Office: 201D Votey
Phone: 802 656 1930
 E-Mail: ydubief@uvm.edu
 Website
Frederick Sansoz
 Engineering, UVM
Co-Investigator
Office: 201B Votey
Phone: 802-656-3837
 E-Mail: frederic.sansoz@uvm.edu
 Website
Contact plasticity and nanoindentation of nanocrystalline metals
Thermo-mechanical properties of carbon nanofiber composites for extreme thermal environment		 R. Danner Friend
NorwichUniversity,
Student Mech.Engr
Project Coordinator
Phone: (802) 485-2279
 Email: rfriend@norwich.edu

 


Jane Hill
 Engineering, UVM
Science PI
Phone: (802) 656-9854
 Email:  Jane.Hill@uvm.edu

2010 Milt Silveira Faculty Award
Website:
 “The impact of microgravity-grown Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Haemophilus influenza on human lung cells:  integration of virulence, lung cell immune responses, and the volatile metabolome”  See Videos link below
http://www.cems.uvm.edu/~janehill/animation.php#marsbacteria

 

NASA EPSCoR Phase III Research Team
 "Active Surface Technologies for Dust Mitigation in Martian and Lunar Environments"
 
Jeffrey Marshall (Team Leader)
Office: 231A Votey
Phone: (802) 656-3826
Fax Number: (802) 656-3358
 E-Mail: jeffm@cems.uvm.edu3
 Website
 		 Jeff Frolik
Office: 357 Votey
Phone: 656-0732
 E-Mail: jfrolik@uvm.edu
 Website
Dr. Darren L. Hitt
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
The University of Vermont
201D Votey Building,
Burlington, VT  05405
802-656-1940
 Daren.Hitt@cems.uvm.edu
Website:		 Junru Wu, Ph.D.
Professor of Physics
Department of Physics Cook Physical Science Bldg. A526 OR
University of Vermont
Burlington, VT 05405-0125
(802) 656-8357
(802) 656-0817 [Fax]
mailto:Jun-Ru.Wu@uvm.edu
http://www.uvm.edu/~jwu/Wu.html

NASA EPSCoR Phase III Research Team

 "Improved Modeling of Coupled Ocean/Ice Dynamics in the Marginal Ice Zone"
Dr. Jun Yu
 Associate Dean of Research & Scholarship
Associate Director of VT Space Grant Consortium
University of Vermont
Dept.of Mathematics & Statistics
16 Colchester Ave.
Burlington, VT  05401
802-656-2552
 Jun.Yu@uvm.edu
http://www.cems.uvm.edu/~jun/
 "Sea Ice Dynamics in the Marginal Ice Zone"

Chris Danforth
 email: chris.danforth at uvm.edu
office: 16 Colchester Ave, Rm 207B
phone: (802) 656-3062
 Website
 "Estimating and Correcting Systematic Model Errors in Climate Forecasts"
Carl Brandon
Vermont Technical College
"VTC-UVM Sea Ice Buoy Project"
 

CORE RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE
FACULTY MINIGRANTS, SMALL GRANTS
Guiseppe Petrucci
 UVM, Chemistry phone: 802-656-0957
office: Cook Rm A218
 Giuseppe.Petrucci@uvm.edu
 Website
 "Chemical Reactivity of Fatty Acids in Atmospheric Particles"		 Jianke Yang,
Mathematics & Statistics
University of Vermont
New Ultrafast Optical Switching Devices Using Directional Couplers
Light Propagation in Optically-Induced Photonic Lattices (SBIR)
Xindong Wu,
Computer Science

Interactive Programming
(for academic and Industrial applications)

 Dr. Darren L. Hitt,
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
The University of Vermont
 Daren.Hitt@cems.uvm.edu  
 Website:
"Numercial Simulations of 3-D Supersonic Flow in Realistic MEMS Nozzle Geometrics with Heat Loss."
James Iatrides
 SoE, UVM
 "Mechanics and Remodeling of the Injured Intervertebral Disc Under Simulated Hyper-and-Hypogravity Environments"		 Beverly Wemple,  Geography
    and Jeff Frolik,SoE, UVM
,
"Understanding Spatial and Temporal Distribution of Snow and Water Equivalency in Mixed Hardwood-Conifer Forests"
Jeff Frolik
 Office: 357 Votey
Phone: 656-0732
 E-Mail: jfrolik@uvm.edu
 Website
 		 Mandar Dewoolkar
 Office: 213A Votey
Phone: (802) 656 1942
Fax Number: (802) 656 8446
 E-Mail: mandar@cems.uvm.edu
 Website

Kurt Oughstun
Electrical Engineer.
UVM
Principal Investigator
 “Shaped Programmable Ultrawideband Electromagnetic Pulse Applications:  Materials Assessment, Remote Sensing and Communications”

 Chris Danforth
email: chris.danforth@uvm.edu
office: 16 Colchester Ave, Rm 207B
phone: (802) 656-3062
 Website
“Reducing Uncertainty in Weather & Climate Model Forecasts:  Diagnosing and Correcting Model Errors”
Christian Skalka
 Office: 379 Votey
Phone: (802)656-1920
 E-Mail: skalka@cs.uvm.edu
Website
 "An in situ, snow water equivalent monitoring system with improved temporal and spatial resolution"		 Jeffrey Marshall
 Office: 231A Votey
Phone: (802) 656-3826
Fax Number: (802) 656-3358
 E-Mail: jeffm@cems.uvm.edu
Website
"Advanced Dust Suppression Technology for Long-Duration Martian and Lunar Habitation"
Dr. Scott A. Stevens
 Associate Professor / Mathematics
Division of Information Technology & Sciences
Wick 203
(802) 865-6448,
stevens@champlain.edu
 Website
"Improving a Model for Intracranial Pressure Dynamics" 

 

INDUSTRIAL PARTNERS INITIATIVE-IPI
Junru Wu
Physics, UVM
 "Analytical Modeling and Verification of Piezoelectronic Energy Harvester For Wireless Sensor Network Applications"

Jie Yang
 "Developments of Capillary Technologies to use Intensified CCD Camera and Microscopic Imaging for Online Laser Light Scattering"
 

 NEW NASA EPSCOR BIOMEDICAL(FUNDS) GRADUATE RESEARCH ASSISTANTSHIP

Kofi Asante“Micropropulsion and Control Technologies for On-Orbit NanoSat Positioning”

 Di Chen
 “Active Surface Technologies for Dust Mitigation in Martian and Lunar Environments”
Ryan Crocker
“Investigation of Critical Aerothermodynamic Phenomena for Hypersonic Vehicles 		Tingbo Fan
 “Active Surface Technologies for Dust Mitigation in Martian and Lunar Environments”
Jingjun Gu
“Characterization and Computational Modeling of Thermo-Mechanical Properties in Existing and Nano-Enhanced Ablator Composite Materials”		 Kristi Herzer
The Impact of Microgravity-grown Psueudomonas Aeruginosa and Haemophilus influenze on Human Lung Cells:  Integration of Virulence, Lung Cell Immune responses, and the Volatile Metabolome”
David Hurley
"Investigation of Critical Aerothermodynamic Phenomena for Hypersonic Vehicles		 Liu, Guanqing
 “Active Surface Technologies for Dust Mitigation in Martian and Lunar Environments”

Ryan McDevitt
“Micropropulsion and Control Technologies for On-Orbit NanoSat Positioning”

 Sarah C. Miczek
"Experimental Measurement of Mixing Lengths of Converging Particulate Flows in Microchannels
Perez-Quezadas,
"NoraInvestigation of Critical Aerothermodynamic Phenomena for Hypersonic Vehicles		 Qian, Dongmin
 “Active Surface Technologies for Dust Mitigation in Martian and Lunar Environments”
Vachon, Nicholas
 “Active Surface Technologies for Dust Mitigation in Martian and Lunar Environments”		 Veselis, Meaghan
 “Active Surface Technologies for Dust Mitigation in Martian and Lunar Environments
Zhu, Jiangjiang
 "The Impact of Microgravity-grown Psueudomonas Aeruginosa and Haemophilus influenze on Human Lung Cells:  Integration of Virulence, Lung Cell Immune responses, and the Volatile Metabolome”