Proposals-Submitted-and-Funded---2018-19

FISCAL YEAR 2018-19
Proposals Submitted
Principal Investigator
Andrews, Donald

Agency
U.S. Department of
Commerce

Bagayoko, Diola

Tuskegee University

Bagayoko, Diola

LSU

Banadaki, Yaser

LA BOR

Banadaki, Yaser

LA BOR

Banadaki, Yaser

LA BOR

Banadaki, Yaser

University of Alabama

Banadaki, Yaser

LSU

Batra, Sanjay

NIH

Batra, Sanjay

LSU

Batra, Sanjay

LSU

Batra, Sanjay

LSU

Batra, Sanjay

LSU

Batra, Sanjay

NIH

Belu, Radian

LA BOR

Title
SUBR University Center for Entreprenuership and Economic
Development
Consortium for Energy Systems Integration and Optimization
(CESIO) at SUBR
2019 Space and Planetary Science at the Timbuktu Academy (SPSTA)
Automated Intellectual Property Analysis System and Smart
Patent Search Engine Empowered by Machine Learning Algorithm
Smart Additive Manufacturing Empowered by a Closed-loop
Machine Learning Algorithm
Data Collection of Flaws in the Printed Parts/Layers of Additive
Manufacturing for Developing Data-Driven Intelligence
iDMS - Southeast - An Integrated, Data Intensive, Computational
System for Managing Southeastern Droughts
CUE Ethics: Collaborative Research: Louisiana Computing and
Data Education (LA-CODE)
Epigenetic Regulation of Autophagy in Lung Epithelial Cells
Exposed to E-cigarette Vapor Condensate
To Deduce the Role of FOXO Transcription Factors in Regulating
Cigarette Smoke-Induced Autophagy by Chip-Sequencing
Class I HDACs Regulate H3K9 Acetylation in Smoke-Challenged
A549 Cells
Role of Lipid Rafts in ROS Production and Lipid Metabolism in Ecigs Condensate Exposed Human Bronchial Epithelial Cells (PCS300)
Regulation of Cigarette Smoke Extract Induced Macrophage
Polarization by Benzyl-Isothiocyanate and Resveratrol
Role of Lipid Rafts in TLR4/NOD-1 Dependent Responses in eCigarette Vapor Condensate Exposed Lung Epithelial Cells

Enhancement of Electrical Engineering Curriculum with Energy
Related Virtual and Hands-on Laboratory Instrumentation for Onsite and Remote Education and Learning

Amount
$512,950.00
$829,452.00
$40,000.00

$66,114.00
$19,675.00
$5,000.00
$198,168.00
$77,179.00
$410,027.00

$7,500.00
$7,500.00

$7,500.00
$13,956.00
$412,593.00

$199,736.00


Belu, Radian

LA BOR

Belu, Radian

LA BOR

Blevins, Edgar

NSF

Crosby, Karen

NSF

Dawan, Fareed

LA BOR

Dubytska, Lidiya

LSU

Dubytska, Lidiya
Dubytska, Lidiya

NSF
NIH

Gray, Wesley
Gray, Wesley

Harrison, Joycelyn

Hill, Jacqueline

Ibekwe, Samuel
Ismail, Yasser
Ismail, Yasser
Ismail, Yasser

Feasibility of the Design and Implementation of Wireless Sensor
Nodes for Industrial Process Monitoring and Control
A Gateway to Visualization and Learning STEM through PV Cell
Imaging and Modeling
Collaborative Research: AGEP-T: The Black Men Alliance for
Attaining Faculty Positions: Academic Achievement for the
Forgotten Minority in Higher Education
Enhancing Additive Manufacturing Education with Virtual Reality
and Cybersecurity
Additive Manufacturing and Electrical Characterization of a SolarHarvesting Wind Turbine
Role of Legionella Pneumophilia T4SS (Lvh) System in Host Cell
Immune Response
Role of the T3SS Effector EseN of E. ictulari in Virulence and Host
Immune Response
Role of Legionella Pneumophilia Lvh TIVSS in Virulence

The State University of New Improving Student's Interest in Heatlh Disparity Research through
York at Binghamton
International Collaboration and Summer Research Training
Tulane University
Southeast Xlerator Network
Who Moved My Cheese?: The Acceptance of Change, and an
Active Approach to Enhancing the Southern University ad A&M

College School of Education's Department of Counseling and
LA BOR
Educational Leadership Counseling Program Offerings
Gateway to a Bachelor of Science in Nursing [BSN] Degree through
LA BOR
an Online Program Delivery using Open Education Resources
Laboratory Material and Component Level Tests to Obtain
University of Louisiana at General and Mechanical Properties of FRP Specimens form
Lafayette
CARGO Tank Motor Vehicle Manufacturers
Low-Cost and High-Speed Homeland Security Video Surveillance
LA BOR
System over the Internet of Things (IoT)
Targeted Infusion Project: A Computer Engineering Research Lab
NSF
(CERL) at Southern University and A&M College
Automate Pedestrians Bicyclists, Vehicles High-Fidelity Counting
LTRC
Algorithm Development

$5,000.00
$5,000.00

$495,353.00
$1,980,067.00
$196,752.00
$410,093.00
$1,185,222.00
$415,060.00

$321,338.00
$2,800.00

$1,000,000.00

$20,000.00

$74,400.00
$109,570.00
$398,940.00
$30,000.00


Ismail, Yasser

NSF

Johnson, Melanie

NSF

Jones, Nastassia

NSF

Kambiranda, Devaiah

LA BOR

Kandara, Osman

Khosravi, Ebrahim
Khosravi, Ebrahim

NSF
LSU
U.S. Defense Intelligence
Agency

Khosravi, Ebrahim

U.S. DoEd

Khosravi, Ebrahim

NSF

Kourouma, Mathieu

LSU

Li, Guoqiang

LSU

Martinez-Ceballos, Eduardo

NSF

Martinez-Ceballos, Eduardo

NSF

Mellieon Jr., Harold

LA BOR

Mellieon-Williams, Francesca

NSF

Mensah, Patrick

NASA

RII Track-2 FEC: ViSIOT: High Fidelity Video Surveillance System
over the Internet of Things (IoT)
The Z-Generation STEM Pipeline: Innovation to Motivate the
Future Workforce - Strategies to Increase Underrepresented
Minority Female Participation in STEM
Boosting Educational Technology Competence and Leadership
among Educators (Be-Tech)
Anti-inflammatory Role of Enriched Muscadine Berry Extracts in
Human Alveolar Epithelial Cells
CONNECT: A Project Designed to Form a Network of Learning
Communities among Inner-City Computer Science Teachers in
South Louisiana
Louisiana Alliance for Smart Chemical Manufacturing
Southern University System Intelligence Community Center for
Academic Excellence (SUS-IC-CAE)
Computer Science-enabled College-readiness Strategy (CS2)

Program to Close the Performance Gap and Accelerate
Achievement and Attainment of High-need PreK-12 Students
CUE Ethics: Southern University System Center for Computingenabled STEM Education (SU CCSE)
RII Track-2 FEC: Big Data-Centric Framework to Improve
Cybersecurity, Privacy and Infrastructure Resilience
Informatics Enabled Materials Discovery and Additive
Manufacturing
Excellence in Research: Upstream and Downstream Analysis of
Hoxa1 Gene Expression
HBCU-RISE: Enhancing Research and Educational Infrastructure in
Evaluating Plant Secondary Metabolites as Anti-Inflammatory &
Neuroprotective Agents
Evaluation of Average Growth Rate on Broilers Raised on Pasture
Versus Commercial Deep Litter Housing
Broadening Participation Research Project: Constructivism in
STEM: Enhancing the STEM Learning Environment form High
School to College
Center for 4D Printing of Multifunctional Polymer Composite
Structures (C4DP)

$3,623,001.00

$1,199,241.00
$449,814.00
$179,127.00

$272,668.00
$597,324.00
$1,500,000.00

$3,947,639.60
$349,869.00
$520,000.00
$1,207,530.00
$658,879.00

$999,694.00
$5,000.00

$349,999.00
$3,000,000.00


Mensah, Patrick

NSF

Mensah, Patrick

NSF

Mensah, Patrick
Mohamadian, Habib

LSU
LA BOR

Murthy, S.N.
Murthy, S.N.
Noguera, Jose

Okwan, Phyllis

Omonuk, Joseph
Perry, Kristie
Salam, Md Abdus
Shin, Alex Hak-Chul
Smith, Deanna
Washington, Samuel
Yang, Shizhong
Yang, Shizhong
Yang, Shizhong
Yang, Shizhong
Yi, Xiaoping

SU International Research Experience for Students: Synthesis and
Conversion of Zeolites for Environmental Applications (SCoZEA)
CREST Center for Next Generation Multifunctional Composites
(NextGen Composites Phase II) - Supplement

$384,446.00
$99,996.00

Revival of Vivarium Facility in Environmental Toxicology at SUBR
$199,995.00
SUBR/Board of Regents Fellowship Program 2018-2022
$135,000.00
Inflammatory Responses of DPP-4 Inhibitors in Vascular Tissue of
American Heart Association Zucker Diabetic Fatty and SD Rats Fed Atherogenic Diets
$154,000.00
Role of Methionine in Lipopolysaccharide Mediated Inflammation

LSU
in HepG2 Cells
$7,500.00
Establishing a Supply Chain & Enterprise Systems NextGen Lab at
LA BOR
Southern University and A&M College - Baton Rouge
$161,597.00
Targeted Infusion Project: Enhancing Excellence in Mathematics
NSF
and Science (E2MaS)
$391,131.00
Creating an Accounting and Finance Tutorial Lab and Enhancing
Existing Instructional Technologies in the College of Business at
LA BOR
Southern University Baton Rouge
$186,700.00
Administration for Children
& Families
iCAN Sexual Risk Avoidance Education Program
$1,344,419.00
Intellectual Property Data Analysis and Decision Support using
LA BOR
Advanced Text Analytics and Machine Learning
$113,917.00
Acquisition of Universal Testing Machine to Enhance Teaching and
LA BOR
Research
$196,283.00
U.S. Department of
The Southern University Innovative Disaster & Emergency Action

Commerce
Lifeline Model for Small Minority Business Recovery
$499,450.00
U.S. Department of
The P3 Collaborative Model for Engagement: Prepare, Partner and
Commerce
Perform
$549,725.00
Computational Multi-component Alloy Design Experiment
LA BOR
Validation at LBNL
$4,000.00
LA BOR
Texture of Multicomponent Alloys
$5,000.00
U.S. DOE
Consortium of Extreme Environment Materials Design
$3,000,000.00
Computational MoNbTaW Design and Experiment Validation at
LA BOR
ALS
$4,000.00
Life without O2: Deciphering Fe-S Cluster Biosynthesis on Early
LSU
Earth
$173,823.00


Yi, Xiaoping
Zhao, Guang-Lin

LSU
LA BOR

Zhao, Guang-Lin

Department of the Army

Zhao, Guang-Lin
Zhao, Guang-Lin
TOTAL - 71

Department of the Navy
LA BOR

FISCAL YEAR 2018-19
Proposals Funded
Principal Investigator

Agency

Akwaboa, Stephen

U.S. Air Force

Andrews, Donald

U.S. Department of
Commerce

Bagayoko, Diola
Bagayoko, Diola
Banadaki, Yaser
Batra, Sanjay
Batra, Sanjay
Batra, Sanjay
Batra, Sanjay
Belu, Radian
Belu, Radian

The Molecular Pathways Induced by Antioxidant and Anticancer
Drug in 3D Culture of Prostate Cancer Cells
High Pressure Study of High Entropy Alloys
Electric Field Polarization on Heteroatoms Doped Carbon
Nanomaterials and their Electrocatalytic Properties
Exploration of New Multifunctional Polymer Nano-Composites for
Electromagnetic Wave Absorption and Low Density Structural
Materials
Axial Compress of Pure W and MoNbTaVW

Title
Investigation of Hybrid Power-trains for Small Unmanned Aircraft
Systems

Southern University and A&M College Baton Rouge - University
Center for Economic and Entrepreneurial Development
Louisiana Alliance for Minority Participation Senior Alliance
LA BOR
Statewide Office 2015-20 at SUBR
Louisiana Alliance for Minority Participation Senior Alliance

LA BOR
Institutional Agreement 2015-20 with SUBR
Data Collection of Flaws in the Printed Parts/Layers of Additive
LA BOR
Manufacturing for Developing Data-Driven Intelligence
The Role and Regulation of Autophagy during Pentachlorophenol
Grambling State University Exposure
LSU
LBRN Mentor Project Funds - Mentor to Dr. Lidiya Dubytska
LSU
LBRN Mentor Project Funds - Mentor to Dr. Waneene Dorsey
LSU
LBRN MCBRC and BB Core Activities Funds
Northwestern State
An E-learning Platform for Energy Engineering Implemented in a
University
Service Oriented Architecture Paradigm
A Gateway to Visualization and Learning STEM through PV Cell
LA BOR
Imaging and Modeling

$24,935.00
$4,000.00
$583,400.00

$583,400.00
$4,000.00
$37,127,447.60

Amount

$178,200.00

$112,850.00
$200,120.00
$100,000.00
$5,000.00
$28,700.00
$3,002.00
$12,006.00
$2,800.00
$13,107.00
$5,000.00


Borskey, Erma
Brister Jr., Herman
Brister Jr., Herman
Brister Jr., Herman
Brister Jr., Herman
Carriere, Patrick

LA BOR
Northwestern State
University of Louisiana
LA DoEd
LA DoEd
LA DoEd
LA DoEd
U.S. DoEd

Carriere, Patrick
Doucet, Patricia
Doucet, Patricia

LA DOTD
U.S. DoEd
U.S. DoEd

Dubytska, Lidiya
Duncan, Cecil

LSU
LA DHH

Finley, Rachel
Ismail, Yasser

Ohio State University
LA DoT

Belu, Radian

Kundu, Madan
Lawson, Huey
Lawson, Huey
Li, Guoqiang
Mackie, Kenneth
Mackie, Kenneth
Martinez-Ceballos, Eduardo
McGee, Bernestine

Mensah, Patrick
Mensah, Patrick

Feasibility of the Design and Implementation of Wireless Sensor
Nodes for Industrial Process Monitoring and Control
Title IV-E
Title I
Title IIA
Direct Student Services
Title IVA SSAE
Pathways for Advancing Student Success (PASS) in STEM
2019 Southern University Summer Transportation Institute
Program
Talent Search EXCEL
Talent Search CLASSIC
Legionella Pneumophilia T4SS (lvh) System and its Role in
Virulence
Prevention Training in Louisiana
Cybertraining: CIU: Computational and Data Science Library
Curriculum Exchange
Evaluation of Counting Device for Pedestrians and Bicyclists

$5,000.00
$125,433.00
$277,905.00
$32,522.00
$8,750.00
$19,260.00
$249,943.00
$49,861.24

$256,455.00
$504,191.00
$70,000.00
$156,000.00
$54,986.00
$85,792.00

Vocational Rehabilitation Technical Assistance Center for Targeted
Communities: Educate, Empower and Employ (Project E3)
$2,500,000.00
Title III - HBCU
$5,688,641.00
Title III - SAFRA
$1,331,694.00
Louisiana EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement:
LA BOR
Manufacturing and Materials SUBR Subcontract
$346,787.00
Southern University Upward Bound Math and Sciences Program
U.S. DoEd
(Endeavour)
$275,155.00
Southern University Upward Bound Math and Sciences Program
U.S. DoEd
(Endeavour)
$40,000.00
LSU
LBRN MCBRC and BB Core Activities Funds
$2,800.00
Obesity Prevention Research in the Mississippi Delta/South

Baylor College of Medicine Centeral US
$150,000.00
Aligned Boron Nitride Nanotube (BNNT) Polymer Composite
LSU
Films: Fabrication and Characterization
$8,000.00
Southern University and A&M College IDeA Networks of
LSU
Biomedical Research Excellence - LBRN Administrative Core
$36,750.00
U.S. DoEd
U.S. DoEd
U.S. DoEd


Mohamadian, Habib

LA BOR

Murthy, S.N.

LSU

Ning, Zhu
Peoples, VerJanis
Peoples, VerJanis
Peoples, VerJanis

Pitts, Maurice

LSU
LA DoEd
LA DoEd
LA DoEd
Baton Rouge Police
Department
LA Division of Historic
Preservation

Reese, Terrence

LSU

Robinson, Rhonda
Robinson, Rhonda

U.S. DoEd
U.S. DoEd

Robinson, Rhonda
Robinson, Rhonda
Spurlock, Wanda

U.S. DoEd
U.S. DoEd
LA DHH

Stubblefield, Michael

Womack, Ada

Yang, Shizhong

NSF
Northwestern State
University
EBR Early Childhood
Network
LA Delta Community
College
U.S. Army

Yang, Shizhong
Yang, Shizhong

LA BOR
LA BOR

Yang, Shizhong

LA BOR

Perry, Kristie

Taylor, Cheryl
Walker, Retia

The SUBR/Board of Regents Fellowship Program
DPP-4 Inhibitors in Combating the Effects of Homocysteine and
Cholesterol
Quantifying Carbon Export through Vegetation, Biomass and Land

Use Change of Two Contrasting Coastal Sites across Mississippi
River Delta Plain
Formula Transition - IDEA
Formula Transition - 8g
Formula Transition - Title II
Vision 21: Law Enforcement and the Communities They Serve
Supporting Collective Healing in the Wake of Harm Initiative

$15,000.00
$29,400.00

$230,000.00
$15,000.00
$25,000.00
$22,500.00
$104,612.00

Southern University Historic District Expansion.

$19,564.00

Space and Planetary Science at the Timbuktu Academy (SPS-TA)
Southern University Upward Bound Math and Sciences Program
(Discovery)
Enterprise: Upward Bound Project
Southern University Upward Bound Math and Sciences Program
(Discovery)
Enterprise: Upward Bound Project
LA Women, Infants and Children (WIC) Program
Collaborative Research: LIGO Science Education Center

Partnership - Broadening Participation

$40,000.00

All of Us Research Program

$275,155.00
$275,154.00
$40,000.00
$40,000.00
$226,800.00
$500,000.00
$9,000.00

2018-19 Preschool Expansion Grant

$103,700.00

LA Small Business Development Center 2018-19
High Temperature and Pressure Multicomponent Alloy Design
Computational High Entropy Alloy Design Experiment Validation
at LBNL
Texture of Multicomponent Alloys
Computational MoNbTaW Design and Experiment Validation at
ALS

$200,000.00
$599,940.00
$4,000.00
$5,000.00

$4,000.00


Yi, Xiaoping

LSU

Yi, Xiaoping
Zhao, Guang-Lin
Zhao, Guang-Lin
TOTAL - 61

LSU
LA BOR
LA BOR

Apoptosis Pathway Induced by RES and Anticancer Drug in 3D
Culture of Prostate Cancer Cells
Apoptosis Pathway Induced by RES and Anticancer Drug in 3D
Culture of Prostate Cancer Cells
High Pressure Study of High Entropy Alloys
Axial Compress of Pure W and MoNbTaVW

$137,616.00
$136,619.00
$4,000.00
$4,000.00
$16,002,770.24