A partial list of external grants received by CALS faculty during the first quarter of fiscal year 2016 (October 2015 – December 2015) are included here. Only projects with total awards of $100,000 or more are included. We apologize for any omissions.
| Title | Sponsor |
PI and Co-PIs
|
Total Award Amount |
| Virginia Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program – Education (SNAP-Ed) | VA Dept. of Social Services | E. Serrano (HNFE) and J. Midkiff (Extension) | $6,586,559 |
| CNH-L: Linking Land Use Decision-making, Water Quality, and Lake Associations to Understand Human-natural Feedbacks in Lake Catchments | NSF | K. Cobourn and M. Sorice (For. Res. & Envir. Cons.), C. Carey (Biological Sci.), and K. Boyle (AAEC) | $1,799,931 |
| Balanced Living with Diabetes: Impacting Rural Community Health through Evidence-based program implementation by Cooperative Extension | USDA, NIFA | C. Rafie (HNFE), M. Chase (FST), K. Hosig and S. Wenzel (Vet. Med.) and E. Schlenker (Ext.) | $315,747 |
| Coordination of Food Sample Preparation and Analytical Quality Assurance for USDA Contracts | USDA, ARS | K. Phillips (Biochem.) | $300,000 |
| Increasing Yields and Profitability for Mid-Atlantic Double-Crop Soybean | United Soybean Board | D. Holshouser (TAREC) | $101,083 |
| Uncovering the hidden skeleton of environmental flows: advanced Lagrangian methods for hazards prediction, mitigation and response | MIT | S. Ross (Biomed. Eng. & Mech.), D. Schmale (BSE), and C. Wolsey (Aerospace & Ocean Eng.) | $390,507 |
| Evaluating the effectiveness and impact of the partnership for a healthier Americas fruit and vegetable campaign | Robert Wood Johnson Foundation | V. Kraak (HNFE) | $311,792 |
| Cooperative Agreement Between USDA APHIS and Virginia Tech | USDA, APHIS | R. Irwin (Biochem.) | $154,542 |