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Sigal Gottlieb, PhD Professor Mathematics College of Arts & Sciences Mathematics professor Dr. Sigal Gottlieb received a $643, 899 award from the Office of Naval Research for her proposal “A Heterogeneous Terascale Computing Cluster for the Development and Efficient Implementation of High-Order Numerical Methods.” Dr. Gottlieb’s proposal addresses the development of efficient and robust numerical algorithms suitable for high-performance computing (HPC) architectures needed for the simulation of complex multi-scale problems. Dr. Gottlieb proposed the use of a new heterogeneous terascale computing cluster—a shared campus research instrument for computational mathematicians, computational scientists, and computational engineers as well as their undergraduate and graduate students— on four research projects involving the applicationdriven development of numerical methods suitable for HPC simulations. The research projects focus on the development of optimal time-stepping methods for complex multiscale physical problems including gut microbiome dynamics, quantum chemistry problems, oceanographic and multi-phase flows, and black hole simulations; the development of reduced order modeling approaches in the reduced basis family; and the development, analysis, and implementation of superconvergent hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin methods. The computing cluster will help train graduate and undergraduate students and will support UMass Dartmouth’s interdisciplinary PhD program in computational science and engineering.

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Dr. Gottlieb’s research interests include numerical analysis, scientific computing, strong stability preserving methods, and weighted essentially non-oscillatory methods. She is the co-director (and founding director) of the Center for Scientific Computing and Visualization Research (CSCVR), the university’s hub for computational scientific activity. Faculty from Mathematics, Computer Science, Physics, Electrical Engineering, Biology, Fisheries Oceanography, Chemistry, Civil Engineering, Electrical Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering investigate modern research problems spanning algorithms, numerical modeling, data analysis, and optimization.

Dear Colleagues, As the only Tier 1 research university in Massachusetts that is located South of Boston, UMass Dartmouth has a critical role in bringing advanced knowledge, research and evidence based training and practice to our region. In order to fulfill our role, Chancellor Robert Johnson has identified promotion of interdisciplinary research as one of his five strategic priorities. This year UMass Dartmouth undertook a number of new initiatives to increase interdisciplinary research and to expand our research activities into new areas of critical importance to the Commonwealth and the world. In order to highlight and further build upon our international prominence in Marine Technology we began the formation of a new center: The Marine Environmental Research Innovation and Technology Center (MERIT Center). The MERIT Center brings together some of our most prominent researchers from eight different departments and three different schools and colleges to focus on four important areas: Marine Robotics and AI, Sensing, Communication and Simulation, Marine Restoration and Water Resources, and Marine Energy Systems. This newly forming center will support our university’s initiative to make our region a global leader in the Blue Economy.

Dear Colleagues, The Sponsored Projects Administration (SPA) team is committed to providing the highest quality support for research and other sponsored activities of the University community. I am pleased to share the Research & Sponsored Projects Annual Report for the 2018 fiscal year, which highlights our recent accomplishments in providing excellent service and support to UMass faculty. The SPA team initiated and contributed to a number of important projects and policy initiatives in 2018, both within SPA and across the University which led to significant improvements in processes, systems, and customer service. Much of our work required collaboration with administrators in the central University offices, for example, in relation to ProCard policies and procedures as well as the implementation of the Travel Checklist. The first Core Research Facility was established in January 2018. The SPA website was revamped to make it easily accessible on portable devices, new

We are also focusing on challenges to our region that are caused by disparities in the intertwined areas of health, education and socio-economics. A newly formed research group is being led by Professor Shakhnoza Kayumova, a recent winner of the prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER award, to bring together a wide array of nationally prominent researchers from our colleges of Arts and Sciences, Nursing and Business to engage with our community in order to cooperatively understand and promote the use of research evidence in decisions that affect community outcomes and address some of our region’s and nation’s most pressing societal problems. A third interdisciplinary group is focusing on the causes and spread of terrorism throughout the globe. Led by Professor Avery Plaw, whose work mapping drone strikes has led to a greater understanding of the extent and nature of counter-terrorism activities, and Professor Brian Williams, an internationally recognized expert on the war in Afghanistan and the spread of ISIS, this newly formed group is working to broaden and deepen our understanding of why terrorism occurs and how it spreads. These are some of the newest and most exciting research activities at UMass Dartmouth. This report, however, contains examples of

templates and checklists were developed and posted online in close collaboration with the Research Development Office. To enhance the recognition of our research faculty successes, a new channel with screen slides highlighting, acknowledging, celebrating and disseminating the information on new externally funded projects across the whole campus was established. The Effort Certification Reform Team (ECRT) was created to move from effort certification 3 times per year to annual certification. I am extremely proud of the committed SPA staff members who participated in various projects and committees. Their successful collaboration with colleagues across the University will facilitate positive change and increase the effectiveness of research administration. I also would like to acknowledge Alex Fowler, Associate Provost for Research and Economic Development, for his continued support of SPA. His advocacy for our work and his commitment to provide the necessary resources enable our staff to continue

work by outstanding researchers from all areas of scholarly pursuit who are pushing knowledge to its limits, providing tremendous opportunities for our terrific students and helping to improve our nation and the world. I hope you enjoy reading this report and please feel free to contact me if you would like more information about the exciting research activities here at UMass Dartmouth. Sincerely,

Alex Fowler Associate Provost for Research & Economic Development

providing excellent service to the faculty and research community. Sincerely,

Elena Glatman Director Sponsored Projects Administration

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Acknowledgements This report was made possible by collaboration and contributions from the following offices: • Sponsored Projects Administration (SPA) • Office of Research Development (ORD) • Office of Technology Commercialization and Ventures (OTCV) • Office of Undergraduate Research (OUR) • Office of the Associate Provost for Graduate Studies • University Marketing

Contents Awards & Recognitions 5 Excellence in Research Ramprasad Balasubramanian 5

Bo Dong

Gavin Fay 7

Contributing Christine Allen Writers Debra Hazian Marissa Matton Adrienne N. Wartts Jane Smith Layout Kevin DeAquair & Design Photography Levante Anderson Tailyn Clark Deirdre Confar Elizabeth Friar NASA Jennifer White Ed Wonsek

For more information, contact: Elena Glatman, Director Sponsored Projects Administration University of Massachusetts Dartmouth 285 Old Westport Road Dartmouth, MA 02747 Office phone: 508.910.6958 Cell: 508.264.2854 Fax: 508.999.8868 Email: eglatman@umassd.edu Website: www.umassd.edu/spa/

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Lance Fiondella

Sigal Gottlieb*

Lamya Karim

Walaa Mogawer

Mehdi Raessi 11

Amit Tandon

Jefferson Turner

Internal Awards

President’s Office Awards:

Technology Development Award

Mass Tech Transfer Center Award

Life Science Moment Fund

Provost’s Office Awards:

Multidisciplinary Seed Funds Program Awards

2018 Provost Fellows Program Awards

Community-Engaged Research Awards

Student Research 9 & Awards Graduate Fellowships

Undergraduate Student Awards

Metrics 13 Patent Applications & Licenses (OTCV) Proposals Awards Expenditures

*CSCVR faculty members Sigal Gottlieb (PI), Vanni Bucci (co-PI), Yanlai Chen (co-PI), Geoffrey Cowles (co-PI), Bo Dong (co-PI), Scott Field (co-PI), Alfa Heryudono (co-PI), Gaurav Khanna (co-PI), Maricris Mayes (co-PI), Mehdi Raessi (co-PI), Amit Tandon (co-PI), and Mazdak Tootkaboni (co-PI) were recently awarded $643,899 through the Office of Naval Research’s Defense University Research Instrumentation Program, “A Heterogeneous Terascale Computing Cluster for the Development of GPU Optimized High-order Numerical Methods”.

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Professor Gaurav Khanna, Physics, and his colleagues played a supporting role in the discovery leading to a recent Nobel Prize in Physics. The Nobel Prize was awarded to Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish, and Kip S. Thorne for the LIGO/VIRGO Collaboration, which proved the existence of gravitational waves. The Physics Department has had a long relationship with the LIGO project and Professor Khanna has worked on the background science associated with LIGO for two decades. Beth-Anne Guthrie, Assistant Director of Health Services for Health Education & Promotion, was awarded a $10,000 “Seeds of Hope” grant from Transforming Youth Recovery. The “Seeds of Hope” grant program provides funding and three years of technical assistance to colleges to build capacity to better support students in recovery from substance use disorders. Professor Steven Cadrin, Fisheries Oceanography, School for Marine Science & Technology (SMAST), received a Service Award from the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea during the ICES Annual Science Conference in September 2017. Dr. Cadrin led the Strategic Initiative on Stock Assessment Methods working group. Associate Professor Victoria Crayhon, Art and Design, was awarded her second research and teaching Fulbright award. Her work, “Far East, the other Side of Russia,” is an exploration of the adaptation to consumer culture by the Russian Federation and how it is faring within the complex global economic picture of the early 21st century. Professors Arghavan Louhghalam, and Mazdak Tootkaboni, Civil Engineering, who were among the co-chairs of the 2018 Engineering Mechanics Institute of ASCE conference (EMI 2018). The conference was co-hosted by UMass Dartmouth, MIT, and CNRS and was held at MIT from May 29 to June 1. EMI conferences are the premier conference for the engineering mechanics community. This year’s conference has broken the record in size and scope with 1,200 submitted abstracts and 900 presentations. The first Core Research Facility (CRF) at UMass Dartmouth for Microbial Informatics and Statistical Modeling was established in January 2018. Vanni Bucci, PhD, Assistant Professor, Bioengineering , was named Director of the CRF for Microbial Informatics and Statistics Mark Silby, PhD, Associate Professor, Biology, was named Associate Director of the CRF for Microbial Informatics and Statistics, CRF for Microbial Informatics and Statistics provides: • Standard and customized bioinformatic analysis of genomics, transcriptomics, and metagenomics data • Statistical and machine learning analysis and data mining of microbial metagenomics, metatranscriptomics and metabolomics • Experimental design in all areas of microbiome and hostmicrobiome biology • Application of dynamical modeling tools for prediction of hostmicrobial dynamics and optimization of microbial communities.

Ramprasad Balasubramanian, PhD Associate Provost for Decision Support & Strategic Initiatives College of Engineering As a research environment, the undersea domain is harsh for sensing, communications, and navigation due its density and turbulence. For more than a decade, Dr. Ramprasad Balasubramanian, Associate Provost for Decision Support & Strategic Initiatives, and Professor of Computer and Information Science, has been studying the role of sensor fusion in aiding the autonomy of underwater vehicles used for research and naval applications. “There are a great many techniques that work well on aerial and ground vehicles that don’t always work well for underwater vehicles,” Balasubramanian said. “Using newer techniques and adapting them to solve problems in the undersea domain is incredibly rewarding.” A grant from the Office of Naval Research for “Intelligent Distributed Sensing towards MultiVehicle Autonomy with Undersea Applications,” will assist Balasubramanian in developing independent underwater vehicles. The goal of the grant is to develop a framework for a team of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUV) to exhibit situational awareness while executing team missions. The team of AUVs will accomplish this by sensing, communicating, perceiving, and deducing information from a variety of disparate sources. The framework will allow the vehicle to incorporate this information to create a coherent picture of the operational environment so that each vehicle, as well as the team, can operate independently in unknown environments for long periods of time. “Allowing these vehicles to operate independently in harsh, dangerous environments will minimize risks to the operators. In addition to naval applications, the research can help inform and overcome challenges around autonomous operation of robots in general,” said Balasubramanian.

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Internal Awards President’s Office Awards: Technology Development Award: Arghavan Louhghalam, Ph.D., and Mazdak Tootkaboni, PhD, Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering

Bo Dong, PhD Associate Professor Mathematics College of Arts & Sciences Dr. Bo Dong received a $269,185 award from the National Science Foundation for her research project “Multiscale and Hybridizable Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for Dispersive Equations and Systems.” The project concentrates on the development of novel computational methods for efficiently solving dispersive equations and systems, including the time-independent Schrodinger equations, which play a central role in the study of quantum mechanical systems and are widely used in the simulation of quantum transport in nanoscale semiconductor devices, and Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) type equations in multidimensional spaces and systems. Dr. Dong’s research will impact the application of ultrafast, low consumption, and high functionality nanoscale semiconductor devices. KdV type equations and systems are used in a variety of fields including fluid mechanics, nonlinear optics, acoustics, and plasma physics. Dr. Dong’s proposed method for KdV type equations and systems will help understand theoretically unresolved issues and provide accurate and efficient numerical tools for simulation of nonlinear waves in applications. In addition to teaching at UMass Dartmouth, Dong is involved with the Center for Scientific Computing & Visualization Research. Dr. Dong’s research interests include numerical analysis, scientific computing, and discontinuous Galerkin Finite Element Methods. She teaches differential equations, numerical analysis, calculus, and linear algebra.

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“MASSive Road IDEntification (MASS-RIDE): Crowd sourcing and real time Inverse analysis for road roughness characterization and fuel consumption estimation.” The team is developing a system that uses measurements from drivers’ cell phones, crowd sourcing, and mathematical models to estimate road surface conditions, excess fuel consumption, and corresponding environmental impact in real time without the need for instrumentation of vehicles.

Mass Tech Transfer Center Award: Patrick Cappillino, Assistant Professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry, College of Arts & Sciences Project: Bio-inspired Electrolytes for High Performance Non-Aqueous Flow Batteries Amount: $65,000

Life Science Moment Fund: Sivappa Rasapalli, Assistant Professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry, College of Arts & Sciences Project: Developing Novel Approach to CARB: Optimization of a UMD Dual Efflux pump-inhibitor (DEBI) Team Amount: $50,000

Provost’s Office Awards: Multidisciplinary Seed Funds Program Awards: Christina Cipriano (PI: Psychology), Maureen Hall (Co-PI: STEM Education and Teacher Development) Project: “Happy Teachers, Happy Schools: SEL as Intervention for Educators of At-Risk Youth” Amount: $26,659 Jun Li (PI: Mechanical Engineering), Vijaya Chalivendra (Co-PI: Mechanical Engineering), Lamya Karim (Co-PI: Bioengineering), Ming Shao (Co-PI: Computer and Information Science) Project: Optimal Design of 3D Printed Polymers using Multiscale Modeling and Machine Learning for Biomedical Implants Amount: $29,541

Excellence in Research Shakhnoza Kayumova (PI: STEM Education and Teacher Development), Qinguo Fan (Co-PI: Bioengineering), Maoyuan Sun (Co-PI: Computer and Information Science), Walter Stroup (Co-PI: STEM Education and Teacher Development) Project: Girls Power in Making: Understanding of Trajectories of Identification with STEM Disciplines Among Diverse Adolescent Girls in Making, Coding, and Robotics Infused Science Classes Amount: $32,449 Jennifer Koop (PI: Biology), Jamie Jacquart (Co-PI: Campus Sustainability), Tara Rajaniemi (Co-PI: Biology), Michelle Bowers (Co-PI: Art & Design) Project: Reduced Mowing Initiative on University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Campus Amount: $6,045.00 Joohyun Chung (PI: Nursing), Ming Shao (Co-PI: Computer and Information Science), Donghui Yan (Co-PI: Mathematics) Project: Novel Use of Natural Languages Processing (NLP) to Predict Restraint/Seclusion in Psychiatric Nursing Amount: $19,280 Brian Williams (PI: History), Dilshod Archilov (Co-PI: Political Science), Spencer Ladd (Co-PI: Art & Design), Jean-Francois Allaux (Co-PI: Art & Design) Project: Mapping ISIS Terrorism and Warfare. The Rise, Fall and Diffusion of the Caliphate Amount: $35,000

2018 Provost Fellows Program Awards: Anthony Fisher, Fine Arts Project: Short Film/Documentary: Turbulence Drawing Process Amount: $7,000 Margarita Huayhua, Anthropology Project: Quechua is a Cancer: Social Oppression in the Southern Andes Course Release: Spring 2019 Pamela Zahra Karimi, Art History Project: Spaces of Cultural Dissent: Underground (Art) Scenes in Iran since the 1950s Course Release: Spring 2019

Gavin Fay, PhD Assistant Professor Fisheries Oceanography, SMAST Dr. Gavin Fay is principal investigator on projects funded by the Gulf of Maine Research Institute (GMRI), International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council (MAFMC), and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Fay’s research activities include management strategy evaluation to test the performance of ecosystem-based fisheries management strategies, assessing economic effects of fishing scenarios through model coupling, and applying statistical methods for marine population assessment. As part of an award from NOAA’s Climate Program Office, and in collaboration with Professor Steve Cadrin of SMAST and NOAA Fisheries and GMRI scientists, Fay’s GMRI grant is for “Development of Robust Management Strategies for Northeast Groundfish Fisheries in a Changing Climate.” The project will assess how the performance of rules used to manage fisheries in New England will be affected by warming ocean temperature, and develop climate-responsive methods for fisheries assessment and management. Additionally, Fay received an award from NOAA’s National Marine Sanctuaries Program to investigate the productivity and ecology of sand habitats, and from the MAFMC to determine feasibility of fishing mortality-based approaches for managing the recreational summer flounder fishery, which supports the Council’s requirements for annual catch limits. Fay also received an award from ICES for his study “Comparison of IUCN Categories of Conservation Status and Fisheries Reference Points.” His professorial leadership also led to an award from the NOAA Fisheries-Sea Grant Population and Ecosystem Dynamics Fellowship program to PhD candidate Megan Winton for her project “Integrating Telemetry Data to Improve Abundance Estimates and Management Advice for a Highly Migratory Marine Predator.”

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Excellence in Research Eric Larson, Crime and Justice Studies Project: Grounding Anti-Globalization: Race, Class, and Grassroots Globalism in the U.S. and Mexico, 1987-2003 Amount: $7,000 Ziddi Msangi, Graphic Design Project: Contextualizing Kanga Cloth as a Historically Situated Form of Visual Communication Amount: $7,000

Lance Fiondella, PhD Assistant Professor Electrical & Computer Engineering College of Engineering Research in system and software reliability engineering has led to numerous grant awards for Lance Fiondella, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. The highlight is his CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation. The prestigious five-year grant supports early career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and lead advances in the mission of their department or organization. The grant will support Fiondella’s work to advance the science of software reliability and security risk management for large companies and U.S. government organizations. An open source platform is being developed to foster collaboration within the international software reliability research community as well as to communicate research to software practitioners. “Software is critical to many modern technologies,” said Fiondella. “Traditional software engineering tests to ensure that software performs as intended. Software reliability growth models promote more rigorous assessment. These methods can be used to determine if a project will achieve its reliability goals by the end of the original timeline, providing the ability to assess project schedule and cost risks.” In addition to his CAREER Award, Fiondella also worked on the following active grants this year: • $215,112 for “Rotorcraft Tradespace Exploration Incorporating Reliability Engineering,” National Institute of Aerospace, for system reliability • An award for “CSR: SMALL: Robust Algorithms for an Open Source Software Reliability Tool,” National Science Foundation, for software reliability • $58,429 for “Practical Software Reliability Modeling and Application,” NASA, for software reliability • $54,111 for “The Application of Unmanned Aerial Systems in Surface Transportation,” UMass Amherst, for drone cybersecurity.

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Tryon Woods, Crime and Justice Studies Project: Ex Aqua: The Black Mediterranean and the Excavation of Black Power Amount: $7,000

Community-Engaged Research Awards: Andrea Klimt, Professor, Sociology, College of Arts & Sciences Project: Making Things: Trends and Trajectories in the Textile Industry of Southeastern Massachusetts Amount: $7,500 Rayna Letourneau, Assistant Professor, Adult Nursing, College of Nursing Project: Understanding and Supporting Nurses’ Transition to Practice in a Hospital-Based Setting Amount: $7,500 Robin Robinson, Professor, Sociology, College of Arts & Sciences Project: Serving as a Facilitator of the CommunityEngaged Research Amount: $7,500

Student Research & Awards

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Graduate Fellowships: Distinguished Doctoral Fellowship Recipients Gregory Costa, Biomedical Engineering and Biotechnology (Biology based) Jennifer DeBarros, Educational Leadership and Policy Studies Melissa Desroches, Nursing PhD Yasaman Hamedani, Biomedical Engineering and Biotechnology (Chemistry based) Caroline Mallary, Engineering and Applied Science – Computational Science and Engineering Lucy McCully, Biomedical Engineering and Biotechnology (Biology based) Jacob Palmer, Biomedical Engineering and Biotechnology (Biology based) Amber (AJ) Vincelli, Biomedical Engineering and Biotechnology (Chemistry based)

Lamya Karim, PhD Assistant Professor Bioengineering College of Engineering With more than 100 million U.S. adults diagnosed with diabetes or pre-diabetes, increasing numbers of Americans are suffering side affects from the disease. Those serious health issues include damage to the kidneys and eyes, increased risk of heart attack and stroke, and skeletal fragility.

Taylor Maroney, Fine Arts (painting studio)

Patients with Type 2 Diabetes experience three times greater bone fracture risk compared to non-diabetics. The causes of diabetic skeletal fragility are not well established, making it difficult to prevent.

Doctoral Fellowship Recipients:

Assistant Professor of Bioengineering Lamya Karim hopes to help improve diagnostic methods for fracture risk assessment and clinical management of patients at risk for these fractures.

Distinguished Art Fellowship Recipients: Jennifer Halli, Artisanry (ceramics studio)

Anuja Ghising, Electrical Engineering (Computer Engineering option) Caroline Martin, Chemistry and Biochemistry Ryan Nuttall, School for Marine Science and Technology Kelly Staniunas, Educational Leadership and Policy Studies Maggie Felisberto, Luso-Afro-Brazilian Studies and Theory Pari Samani, Chemistry and Biochemistry

Number of Graduate Research Assistants involved in research projects & paid from externally sponsored grants: Semester

Number of Students

Total/semesters

Fall 2017

$493,083.05

Spring 2018

$507,214.35

“I have a research background on molecular processes that involve sugars in blood so studying diabetes was an excellent next step that could be applied to actual patients,” Karim said. “I also have family members who are diabetic, so the disease process is of interest to me.” A $616,170 grant from the National Institutes of Health, “Biomolecular and Cellular Mechanisms of Diabetic Skeletal Fragility,” will focus on understanding the molecular and cellular level mechanisms that lead to bone fractures in diabetic patients. Possible causes of poor bone quality in these patients include non-enzymatic chemical crosslinks or altered bone cell behavior. “We hope to gain a better understanding of why diabetic patients break their bones so easily. If we can understand why it’s happening, then the work can lead to better diagnostic methods or treatments for the people who suffer from these issues,” Karim said.

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Excellence in Research Undergraduate Student Awards: The Office of Undergraduate Research (OUR) Summer Stipends 2018: This year, Colleges have been particularly generous in providing additional support to their students, granting 11 students funding for research. If a student received funding from their College, it is noted below with an asterisk.

Walaa Mogawer, PhD Professor Civil & Environmental Engineering College of Engineering Recycled materials that provide cost savings to municipalities can be found in unexpected products like asphalt. For more than 20 years, Dr. Walaa Mogawer, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, has researched, tested, and evaluated different types of Hot Mix Asphalt to determine the best materials and methods of maximizing their use on our roads. He has served as principal investigator on several research projects funded by MassHighway, the New England Transportation Consortium, and the National Science Foundation. He has been instrumental in establishing a state-of-the-art pavement materials testing laboratory at UMass Dartmouth. A recent grant of nearly $1 million from MassDOT involves developing a Balanced Mixture Design (BMD) procedure that will incorporate elements of the current procedures while introducing performance testing to better control the quality and performance of the mixtures being produced and used. “Using this BMD procedure, the paving mixtures being placed in this state should perform better and last longer,” Mogawer said. Mogawer was also received an award from MassDOT for a research project designed to develop a guideline for using Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement, a material derived from the removal of existing road surfaces. “Finding new ways to reuse and recycle otherwise wasted materials presents a significant challenge in that the end product must perform the same as if it contained only new materials,” Mogawer said. Another grant for $51,825 is being funded by the Town of Wellesley’s Department of Public Works to identify and prioritize roads needing rehabilitation and maintenance using index values. These index values enable the town to better prioritize their road rehabilitation, maintenance, and preservation efforts. “This ultimately leads to significant cost savings,” said Mogawer.

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The overall quality of the applications demonstrated the high level of undergraduate research conducted on our campus. Moreover, the awards show that undergraduate research is flourishing across the disciplines, with four out of the five Colleges represented. Special thanks to Professors Catherine Gardner, Pamela Karimi, and Andrew Revell for their leadership of OUR and faculty colleagues for their support as mentors. Mark Benito Alan, Department of Art and Design Advisor: Professor Suzanne Schireson Project: D efiance of Sidewalk Vendors against the Rise of Industrialization in the Philippines through Paintings and Visual Arts *College of Visual & Performing Arts summer research award Chelsea Cabral, Department of English Advisor: Professor Shari Evans Project: “ Losing my place here in my own time”: Liminality, Trauma, and Sources of Human Potential in the Fiction of Octavia Butler *College of Arts & Sciences summer research award Noelle Dulude, Department of Bioengineering Advisor: Professor Milana Vasudev Project: B iomimetic Polymeric Coatings for Stents to Reduce Biofouling *College of Arts & Sciences summer research award Yasmeen Elayawan, Department of Bioengineering Advisor: Professor Tracie Ferreira Project: C ellular Assays to Test the Efficacy of a Novel Bioelectric Wound Healing Device Dan Everton, Department of History Advisor: Professor Len Travers Project: T o Counterfeit is DEATH: Exploring Benjamin Franklin’s Methods *College of Arts & Sciences summer research award

Excellence in Research Robert Ferreira, Department of Finance and Accounting Advisor: Professor Michael Anderson Project: T he Effect of Central Bank Interest Rate Policy on the Strength of Loan Covenants and Financial Stability Zachary Herrera, Department of Bioengineering Advisor: Professor Lamya Karim Project: O ptimum Design of 3D Printing of Polymeric Composites: Biomedical Implants James Leidhold, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Advisor: Professor Wendell Brown Project: O cean Wave Height – Creating a database through high-frequency radar application Dylan Podesta, Department of Art and Design Advisor: Professor Suzanne Schireson Project: E xamining the Multiplicities of Masculinity in Contemporary American Painting Garrett Sampel and Megan Scribner (joint project), Department of Mechanical Engineering Advisor: Professor Jun Li Project: Simulation Based Optimization of 3D Printed Polymers *College of Visual & Performing Arts summer research award OUR Winter (December) Grant Winners 2017: Lauren Borg, College of Nursing Advisor: Professor Monika Schuler Project: Generational Differences in Nursing Perceptions of Substance Use Disorder Mary Brown, College of Nursing Advisor: Professor Maryellen Brisbois Project: T ype 1 Diabetes Mellitus in Collegiate Athletes: Correlation of Participation and Management

Mehdi Raessi, PhD Associate Professor Mechanical Engineering College of Engineering Liquid fuels such as gasoline, diesel, and kerosene supply more than one third of the energy consumption worldwide. These fuels are projected to remain the leading source of energy for the next 30 years. However, combustion devices running on liquid fuels such as internal combustion engines, typically have low efficiencies. Designing a highly efficient combustion process requires detailed information on fuel-air mixture and its distribution and variation in the combustion chamber. The interaction between liquid fuel spray droplets and the chamber wall is not well understood, especially under realistic engine conditions. Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering Mehdi Raessi’s research project, “Evaporation Sub-Model Development for Volume of Fluid (eVOF) Method Applicable to Spray-Wall Interaction,” aims to understand this interaction and ultimately pave the way for designing more efficient and cleaner combustion engines.

Emily Cerrone, College of Nursing Advisor: Professor Lynn D’Esmond Project: M others’ Satisfaction in Pain Management during Labor

“I am very interested in the topic of clean energy, and I believe parallel to our efforts to continuously improve renewable energy technologies, we should make the conventional energy systems cleaner and reduce their environmental footprint,” said Raessi. By developing a robust, engine-relevant model for fuel spray-wall interaction, the project will vastly improve the predictive capability of computational tools, and will play a major role in the computational efforts to increase the efficiency of internal combustion engines.

Karina deSousa, Department of Psychology Advisor: Professor Mahzad Hojjat Project: P erceptions of Heterosexual Same-Race, Heterosexual Interracial, Homosexual Same-Race, and Homosexual Interracial Relationships

This project represents a collaborative research effort between UMass Dartmouth, Michigan Technological University (project lead), and Argonne National Lab with a grant. This collaboration is supported by the Department of Energy, the Department of Defense, and the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center with a grant of $35,154.

Ashley Cheetham, College of Nursing Advisor: Professor Kristen Sethares Project: C aregiver Burden of Families Caring for Children with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMC)

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Excellence in Research Carolyn Dorr, College of Nursing Advisor: Professor Kristen Sethares Project: S ubstance Use and Stress in University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Nursing Students Thomas Lingo, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Advisor: Professor Donald Boerth Project: E xploration in Photochemical Alkylations of Enones

Amit Tandon, PhD Professor Mechanical Engineering College of Engineering Estuarine & Ocean Sciences, SMAST During the summer monsoon season over the Indian Ocean, 40 inches of rain can fall, providing water for more than one billion people. Yet the rainfall alternates between periods of intense precipitation for 1-2 weeks followed by similar periods of dry, sunny weather due to propagating monsoon intraseasonal oscillations (MISOs). While the rains have a significant impact on the region’s agriculture, economy, tourism, and way of life, the monsoons affect weather from El Nino in South America to the Arctic, according to Amit Tandon, Professor of Mechanical Engineering. Tandon was awarded a Fulbright-Nehru Scholarship last year to study monsoons over the Indian Ocean. He recently received a five-year grant for $753, 841 from the Office of Naval Research to study the interaction between the ocean and the atmosphere during monsoon season in order to better predict weather forecasting across the world. The grant, “Understanding the Ocean-Atmosphere Coupling in the Northern Indian Ocean,” aims to understand varying patterns of MISOs in order to develop longer and more accurate weather predictions. Improved forecasting will enable the region to prepare for the monsoons and provide more accurate forecasts for regions as far away as New England. Last summer, Tandon served as co-chief scientist with a team of researchers from the United States, India, Sri Lanka, and other nations, for a month in the Bay of Bengal on the Thomas G. Thompson. Their research was featured in Nature magazine. “We need to understand how the ocean and atmosphere are talking to teach other,” said Tandon. “It’s fascinating how the ocean can hold the answers to solving these complex problems.”

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Daniela Mahaney, College of Nursing Advisor: Professor Jennifer Vivieros Project: A Study of Nursing Students’ Knowledge Regarding Dementia Cole McGarty, College of Nursing Advisor: Professor Joohyun Chung Project: T he Relationship between E-Cigarette Use and Gastro-Esophageal Reflux Disease Symptoms in College Students Melanie Muzyka, College of Nursing Advisor: Professor Joohyun Chung Project: Perceived Stress and Mindful Self-Care in College Students and ROTC Cadets Raylinda Rodriguez, Department of Psychology Advisor: Professor Brian Ayotte Project: The Relationship between Parenting Styles and Parent-Child Relationships in Emerging Adults Christina Ruiz, College of Nursing Advisor: Professor Mary-Elizabeth Sosa Project: Knowledge Levels and Attitudes Regarding Concussions of Student-Athletes in NCAA Regulated Sports versus Club Sports Megan Scribner, Department of Mechanical Engineering Advisor: Professor Tracie Ferreira Project: An Investigation in the Effects of Inverted Growing on Development and Strength of Basil Connor Seeley, Department of Biology Advisor: Professor Whitney Hable Project: Polarity Establishment in S. Compressa

Metrics

Excellence in Research

Patent Applications & Licenses The Office of Technology Commercialization and Ventures (OTCV) continued to make progress in Fiscal Year 2018 in protecting and commercializing promising results of research at UMass Dartmouth. We received a total of 12 new invention disclosures for the year, from investigators in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Bioengineering, and Chemistry/Biochemistry. UMass Dartmouth filed 14 new U.S. patent applications in the fiscal year. Congratulations to Chancellor Professor Yong Kim and retired faculty member Armand Lewis, both of the Bioengineering Department, for receiving U.S. Patent No. 9,788,589 on October 17, 2017, for their second issued patent covering their breakthrough technology for Flexible Energy Absorbing Materials (FEAM). As of the end of the fiscal year, UMass Dartmouth had 24 issued U.S. patents, with another 18 applications pending. We received almost $90,000 in tech transfer revenue (license fees plus patent cost reimbursement) for the year. Early in the fiscal year, we signed a license agreement to grant an exclusive license to DSM Dyneema of an issued patent of Professor Qinguo Fan, Chair of the Department of Bioengineering, covering an improved method of applying dyes to fabrics. OTCV has continued its liaison to our other licensees, for example, User Friendly Recycling, as the companies continue to make progress in commercializing UMassD inventions. The Office also supports research and teaching missions in several ways that go beyond traditional patent and licensing activities. OTCV negotiates material transfer agreements, confidentiality agreements, and other contracts related to UMassD research, and we assist SPA in negotiating industry-sponsored research agreements. In addition, during FY18, OTCV supported the efforts of several faculty members who were applying for translational research grants for promising technologies, resulting in successful grant awards to Drs. Arghavan Louhghalam and Mazdak Tootkaboni of Civil and Environmental Engineering, who received an OTCV Technology Development Award from the President’s Office for support of their research on novel methods for measuring road roughness and vehicle fuel consumption; and to Dr. Chen-Lu Yang, who received a Mass. Clean Energy Council grant for further development of his invention of an innovative method to remove hydrogen sulfide from biogas.

Jefferson Turner, PhD Chancellor Professor Biology, College of Arts & Sciences Fisheries Oceanography, SMAST Chancellor Professor Jefferson Turner’s research includes long-term monitoring of plankton communities in relation to water quality and environmental factors in Buzzards Bay, Boston Harbor, and Massachusetts and Cape Cod Bays. The National Science Foundation has awarded him $461,615 for the collaborative research project “Shelfbreak Frontal Dynamics: Mechanisms of Upwelling, Net Community Production, and Ecological Implications.” Turner, in collaboration with scientists from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Wellesley College, and Dr. Christian Petitpas of SMAST and the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries, is conducting research on plankton dynamics at the continental shelfbreak. The continental shelfbreak of the Middle Atlantic Bight spans from New England to North Carolina. Research suggests that productivity there is driven by upwelling, which supplies nutrients that stimulate the growth of microscopic plants (phytoplankton). Microscopic animals (zooplankton) graze on the phytoplankton. Turner’s research examines how much phytoplankton is consumed by zooplankton. Additionally, NOAA Sea Grant has awarded Turner $167,991 for the project “Harmful Phytoplankton Blooms in Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts,” investigating algal blooms that may be toxic to marine life and humans. The Massachusetts Water Resources Authority, in a contract through Battelle Memorial Institute, has also awarded Turner $50,100 for an analysis of zooplankton communities in relation to wastewater discharge in Boston Harbor and Massachusetts Bay. Turner earned a BS in Biology in 1969 from Guilford College, an MA in Marine Science in 1972 from the University of South Florida, and a PhD in Oceanography in 1977 f rom Texas A&M University.

Annual Report 2018

Metrics Proposals by College FY 2018

School for Marine Science & Technology 14%

Other 1% College of Engineering 48%

College of Arts & Sciences 37%

Schools

Proposals

College of Engineering

$30,275,592

College of Arts & Sciences

$23,072,427

$8,426,856

$820,010

$62,594,885

216

School for Marine Science & Technology Other Grand Total

Amount

Annual Report 2018

Metrics Proposals: Federal vs Non-Federal Agencies FY 2018

Non-Federal 24%

Federal 76%

Type

Proposals

Requested

Federal

122

$47,521,199

Non-Federal

$15,073,686

Grand Total

216

$62,594,885

Annual Report 2018

Metrics Awards by Unit & Department FY 2018

Other 4%

School for Marine Science & Technology 37%

College of Arts & Sciences 24%

College of Engineering 32%

College of Nursing 4%

Awards

Amount

Unit Name

Awards

Amount

Academic Affairs

$438,379

Civil & Environmental Engineering

$1,667,562

Academic Resource Center

$412,793

Computer Information Science

$222,002

Upward Bound

$25,586

Electrical & Computer Engineering

$1,056,163

College of Arts & Sciences

$3,013,760

Mechanical Engineering

$652,398

Biology

$190,930

College of Nursing

$461,756

Center of Labor Education

$783,624

Adult Nursing

$454,256

Chemistry & Biochemistry

$605,514

Community Nursing

$7,500

English

$133,432

Office of the Chancellor

$14,500

Mathematics

$1,002,225

Political Science

$12,000

Economic Development

$14,500

Public Policy

$285,035

S chool for Marine Science & Technology

$4,647,106

College of Engineering

$4,066,609

Estuarine and Ocean Sciences

$1,812,413

Bioengineering

$413,529

Fisheries Oceanography

$2,813,693

enter for Rehabilitation C Engineering

$54,956

$21,000

Unit Name

School for Marine Science & Technology College Grand Total

Annual Report 2018

143

$12,642,110

Metrics Federal Awards by Agency FY 2018

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Other 4% 4% U.S. Department of Education 5%

U.S. Department of Defense 27%

U.S. Department of Transportation 10%

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services 12% National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 15%

Agency Name

National Science Foundation 23%

Amount

U.S. Department of Defense

$2,551,689

National Science Foundation

$2,167,737

National Oceanic and Atmoshperic Admin.

$1,454,236

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

$1,091,504

U.S. Department of Transportation

$916,210

U.S. Department of Education

$504,367

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

$358,750,

Other

$418,382

Grand Total

$9,462,875

Annual Report 2018

Metrics Number of Awards for FYs 2016, 2017, and 2018

Awards Amounts for FYs 2016, 2017, and 2018

$14,702 16000000

$14,131 $12,642

14000000 12000000 10000000 8000000 6000000 4000000 2000000 0

Annual Report 2018

2016

2017

2018

Metrics Awards by Unit for FYs 2016, 2017, and 2018

Number of Awards by Unit for FYs 2016, 2017, and 2018

Annual Report 2018

Metrics Awards by Purpose FY 2018 Awards by Purpose $12,000,000

$10,000,000

$8,000,000

$6,000,000

$4,000,000

$2,000,000

2017

Year 2016

2017

Purpose Research

Other Sponsored Activities

$1,962,380

Research

$10,509,536 $932,120

Other Sponsored Activities

$2,689,468

Research

$10,521,761

Other Sponsored Activities

Annual Report 2018

$10,631,074 $2,108,895

Instruction/Training

Amount

Instruction/Training

2018

Other Sponsored Activities

Instruction/Training

Research

Instruction/Training

Research

2016

Other Sponsored Activities

2015

Other Sponsored Activities

Instruction/Training

Research

$932,375 $1,187,974

Metrics University of Massachusetts Dartmouth | Research and Other Sponsored Awards By Unit and Department Includes all New Awards, Supplements, and Continuations Fiscal Year 2018 PI; CO-PI

Sponsor

Title

Type

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

Student Support Services at UMass Dartmouth Instruction for Disadvantaged Students

Amount

Academic Affairs Academic Resource Center Koumas, Sokratis

Academic Resource Center Total

$412,793

Upward Bound Hagopian, Kristin A.

ISLAND FOUNDATION INC. Upward Bound Student Leadership & College Tours

Public Service

$10,000

MA DEPT OF ELEMENTARY FY18 Summer Food Service Program & SECONDARY ED

Public Service

$6,168

Summer Food Program FY18

Public Service

$148

Upward Bound Program

Public Service

$9,270

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION Upward Bound Total

$25,586

Academic Affairs Total

$438,379

College of Arts & Sciences Biology Drew, Robert Edward

NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION

Koop, Jennifer

Koop, Jennifer; Inglis Susan Dale

CAREER: Do Anemonefish Exploit Anemone Sensory Mechanisms to Evade Attack by Their Hosts?

Research

$119,864

UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT Parasite Mitigation Strategies in Bay Scallop Aquaculture

Research

$14,575

NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMIN

Research

$4,800

Transmission of Apicomplexan Infection and Development of Gray Meat in Atlantic Sea Scallops

Annual Report 2018

Metrics PI; CO-PI

Sponsor

Title

Type

Moisander, Pia H.

BOSTON ENGINEERING

Influence of UV Light on Marine Biofilms Phase II

Research

$35,146

OHIO Class Hull External Antifouling

Research

$10,028

OHIO Class Hull External Antifouling Phase II

Research

$5,017

Distributions of Potentially Pathogenic Vibrio in Research the Coastal Waters of Massachusetts

$1,500

SOUNDS CONSERVANCY

Biology Total

Amount

$190,930

Center of Labor Education Jochim, Lisa A.

GREATER NB WORKFORCE FY 2018 DOE Adult Pathways Program INVESTMENT AREA

Other

$49,949

Other

($900)

Other

$587,846

Integrated English Literacy and Civics Education

Other

$82,304

Disolated Workers - Gildon Garment

Other

$64,425

WIOA-Dislocated Workers-High Liner Part 2 MA DEPT OF ELEMENTARY Community Adult Learning Center & SECONDARY ED

MASSACHUSETTS DIV OF CAREER SERVICES Center of Labor Education Total

$783,624

Chemistry & Biochemistry Guo, Maolin

NIH-NATIONAL INSTITUTES Developing a Platform for Incorporation of a OF HEALTH Fluorescent Amino Acid into Proteins for Livecell Imaging of Protein Trafficking Events

Research

$446,166

Jia, Xiaofei

VETERANS MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION

Enhancement of Infectivity by HIV-1 Nef via Antagonism of SERINC Proteins

Research

$60,348

UMass Cranberry Health Research Center FY2018 Support

Research

$100,000

Neto, Catherine A.; Vasudev, MA DEPARTMENT OF Milana C; Guo, Maolin; Bucci, Vanni PUBLIC HEALTH Chemistry & Biochemistry Total

$606,514

English Arrigo, Anthony F.

English Total

Annual Report 2018

NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES

Hoover Dam and the Shaping of the American West

Other

$133,432

Metrics PI; CO-PI

Sponsor

Title

Type

Dong, Bo

NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION

Multiscale and Hybridizable Discontinuous Research Galerkin Methods for Dispersive Equations and Systems

Field, Scott E.

NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION

Maximizing Scientific Outcomes of Gravitational Wave Experiments with Rapid, High-Fidelity Numerical Models

NATL INST OF AEROSPACE

High-Order Compact Discontinuous Galerkin for Unstructured Grids

Amount

Mathematics

ottlieb,Sigal; Tandon, Amit; G OFFICE OF NAVAL Cowles, Geoffrey; Khanna, Gaurav; RESEARCH Heryudono, Alfa; Chen, Yaniai; Raessi, Mehdi; Pour A. Tootkaboni, Mazdak; Dong, Bo; Bucci, Vanni; Mayes, Maricris; Field, Scott E.

Research

$269,185

$62,581

$26,560

Development of Superconvergent Hybridizable Research Discontinuous Galerkin Methods and Mixed Methods for Korteweg-de Vries Type Equations

Mathematics Total

$643,899

$1,002,225

Political Science Achilov, Dilshod

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME

Innovation, Creative Thinking, and the Sharia Law: Evidence from the Middle East and Central Asia

Research

Political Science Total

$12,000

Public Policy Borges, David R.

CAPE COD CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

Cape Cod Blue Economy Project Survey

Other

$3,192

NEW BEDFORD HOUSING AUTHORITY

New Bedford Housing Authority “A Better Life” Other

$20,000

STEWARD SAINT ANNE’S HOSPITAL CORP

Steward Community Needs Assessment

Research

$19,908

VINEYARD WIND

Vineyard Wind CT Economic Impact Analysis

Other

$13,105

orges, David R.; Korejwa, Elise; B McCarthy, Michael P.

VINEYARD WIND

Vineyard Wind Economic Impact Analysis

Other

$62,850

Goodman, Michael D.

495/METROWEST PARTNERSHIP, INC.

495/Metro West Suburban Edge Community Commission

Other

$40,000

CITY OF QUINCY

Downtown Quincy Economic Analysis

Research

$88,750

TOWN OF PROVINCETOWN Provincetown Housing Study

Other

$25,000

MASSACHUSETTS HOUSING PARTNERSHIP

Research

$12,500

Korejwa, Elise Marie

Policy Alternatives for Massachusetts Housing

$285,305

Public Policy Total

Annual Report 2018

Metrics PI; CO-PI

Sponsor

Title

Type

College of Arts & Sciences Total

Amount $3,013,760

College of Engineering Bioengineering Ferreira, Tracie L.; Fan, Qinguo

TARGET FOUNDATION

Karim, Lamya

Vasudev, Milana C.; Sengupta, Sukalyan; Chalivendra, Vijaya; Manke, David

Blending of Nanoparticles with Polymers to Make Flame Retardant Fibers

Research

$49,966

NIH-NATIONAL INSTITUTES Biomolecular and Cellular Mechanisms of OF HEALTH Diabetic Skeletal Fragility

Research

$123,234

NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION

Research

$240,329

MRI: Acquisition of a Scanning Electron Microscope

Bioengineering Total

$413,529

enter for Rehabilitation C Engineering Cory, Lester W.

MA REHABILITATION COMMISSION

Center for Rehabilitation Engineering MSA - FY â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;18

Other

$32,256

Center for Rehabilitation Engineering-MSA

Other

$22,700

enter for Rehabilitation C Engineering Total

$54,956

Civil & Environmental Engineering Louhghalam, Arghavan

NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION

Session on Fostering Diversity in Engineering Mechanics Research Community Diversity and Inclusion; 2018 ASCE Engineering Mechanics Institute Conference; Cambridge, Massachusetts; May 31, 2018

Research

$44,950

MacDonald, Daniel G.

MA EXEC OFFICE OF HOUSING & ECONOMIC DEV

Reducing the Cost of Wave Energy with an Innovative Tethered Ballast System

Research

$105,898

NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION

Collaborative Research: Mixing of River Water into the Coastal Ocean and the Role and Structure of the Outer Edge of the Discharge

Research

$567,587

UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

Snow and Soil Interactions

Research

$35,203

Miller, Heather J.

Annual Report 2018

Metrics PI; CO-PI

Sponsor

Title

Type

Amount

Mogawer, Walaa S.

MA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Characterization of Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement (RAP) for HMA Surface Courses in Massachusetts

Research

$603,331

Development of a Balanced Mixture Design Research Procedure for MassDOT with Associated Performance Related Specification, MassDOT Annual Profiler Certification, & Upgrade of the MassDOT Pavement Distress Manual Town of Wellesley

$258,768

Pavement Condition Survey & Preservation Research Treatment Selection for the Town of Wellesley, MA

ivil & Environmental Engineering C Total

$51,825

$1,667,562

Computer Information Science Balasubramanian, Ramprasad

OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH

Intelligent Distributed Sensing towards MultiVehicle Autonomy with Undersea Applcations

Research

Fang, Hua

NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION

SCH: Student Travel Support for IEEE Conference Other on Connected Health (CHASE 2018)4444422

Fang, Hua; Wang, Honggang

NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION

NeTS: EAGER: Exploring 60G HZ Based Wireless Body Area Networks for mHealth Applications

$110,000

$12,000

Research

$100,002

omputer Information Science C Total

$222,002

Electrical & Computer Engineering Brown, David A.

OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH

Acoustic Radiation and Training in Electroacoustics Transducers

Research

$178,000

Buck, John R.

BOSTON UNIVERSITY

Active Sensing in Echolocating Marine Mammals and Humans

Research

$499,952

OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH

Random Matrix Theory Analysis of Adaptive Beamformers

Research

$68,000

NATIONAL AERO AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION

Practical Software Reliability Modeling and Application

Research

$58,429

NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION

CAREER: Software Reliability and Security Assessment: Modeling and Algorithms

Research

$77,865

CSR: SMALL: Robust Algorithms for an Open Source Software Reliability Tool

Research

$12,804

NATL INST OF AEROSPACE

Rotorcraft Tradespace Exploration Incorporating Reliability Engineering

Research

$107,722

UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS - AMHERST

The Application of Unmanned Aerial Systems in Surface Transportation

Research

$54,111

Fiondella, Lance Nicholas

Electrical & Computer Engineering

$1,056,163

Total

Annual Report 2018

Metrics PI; CO-PI

Sponsor

Title

Type

Amount

Chalivendra, Vijaya; Kim, Yong K.

ARMY RESEARCH LAB

Damage Detection in Carbon Nanotubes Embedded and Carbon Fibers Flocked Multifunctional Laminated Composites

Research

$150,000

Meressi, Tesfay

UNIVERSITY OF Urban Massachusetts Lois Stokes Alliance for MASSACHUSETTS - BOSTON Minority Participation Program

Raessi, Mehdi

MASSACHUSETTS CLEAN ENERGY CENTER

Evaporation Sub-Model Development for Research Volume of Fluid (eVOF) Method Applicable to Spray-Wall Interaction Including Film Characteristics with Validation at High Pressure Temperature Conditions

$35,154

MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY

Research Evaporation Sub-Model Development for Volume of Fluid (eVOF) Method Applicable to Spray-Wall Interaction Including Film Thickness Characteristics with Validation at High Pressure/ Temperature Conditions

$86,658

OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH

Understanding the Ocean-Atmosphere Coupling in the Northern Indian Ocean

Mechanical Engineering

Tandon, Amit

Instruction

Research

Mechanical Engineering Total

$65,326

$315,260

$652,398

College of Engineering Total

$4,066,609

College of Nursing Adult Nursing Weatherford, Barbara H.

HEALTH RESOURCES Nursing Workforce Diversity: Moving Forward SERVICE ADMINISTRATION

Instruction

Adult Nursing Total

$454,256

Community Nursing Dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Esmond, Lynn Knapp

Community Nursing Total

College of Nursing Total Office of the Chancellor

Annual Report 2018

UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MED SCHOOL

Development of the Distracted Practice Scale

Research

$7,500

$461,756

Metrics PI; CO-PI

Sponsor

Title

Type

Amount

MA OFFICE OF BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT

Regional Economic Development Program FY18 Other

$14,500

Economic Development Dunn, Hugh Carroll

Economic Development Total

$14,500

Office of the Chancellor Total

$14,500

S chool for Marine Science & Technology Estuarine and Ocean Sciences Altabet, Mark A.

Brown, Wendell S.

Howes, Brian L.

NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION

Collaborative Research: Did the SE Pacific Gyre Research Become a Hotspot for N2 Fixation During Dusty Glacial Conditions?

THE BINATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION

Phytoplankton C:N:P Ratios in the Eastern Mediterranean

Research

$1,000

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON

Profiling Sensor Map N2 Gas Production in OMZs

Research

$40,639

RUTGERS UNIVERSITY

MARACOOS

Research

$62,829

MARACOOS: CODAR (Year 2)

Research

$79,378

Cold Brook System Natural Nitrogen Attenuation Project Harwich, Massachusetts

Research

$10,800

Evaluation of Benthic Communities Improvements Project City of New Bedford, Massachusetts

Research

$26,587

MA DEPT OF CONSERVATION AND RECREATION

WBNERR Nutrient Analyses 2018

Research

$17,400

MA DEPT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

Implementation of Linked WatershedEmbayment Management Approach for Plymouth Harbor Mass DEP ISA

Research

$48,000

MASHPEE WAMPANOAG TRIBE

Popponesset & Waquoit Bays Water Quality Monitoring Program: Baseline Water Quality Monitoring

Research

$8,400

TOWN OF BARNSTABLE

Barnstable Water Quality Monitoring Assistance for Summers 2016-2018

Research

$85,550

TOWN OF DENNIS

Dennis WQM FY 14

Research

$36,000

TOWN OF FALMOUTH

Town of Falmouth PondWatch Water Quality Sampling and Analysis 2017

Research

$50,000

CDM SMITH

Annual Report 2018

$24,804

Metrics PI; CO-PI

Howes, Brian L.; Samimy, Roland

Sponsor

Title

Type

TOWN OF MASHPEE

Mashpee Water Quality Partnership

Research

$8,400

Oyster Bioremediation of Nitrogen in Mashpee Research Estuaries

$39,000

TOWN OF NANTUCKET

Scientific Support Services: Monitoring of Long Research Pond (inclusive of North Head) within the Town of Nantucket for Assessment of Infaunal Health

$7,242

TOWN OF ORLEANS

Technical Support for the Town of Orleans Water Quality and Wastewater Planning Planning Program FY17

Research

$328,000

Town of Orleans 2015 Water Quality Monitoring Program

Research

$24,800

TOWN OF YARMOUTH

Water Quality Monitoring of Lewis Bay, Parkers Research River, and Bass River

$16,800

U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

Quantifying Potential for Oyster Aquaculture

Research

$358,750

WESTPORT WATERSHED ALLIANCE

Scientific Support Services: Ecological Assessment of Cockeast Pond (Phase 1)

Research

$12,000

CITY OF TAUNTON

Taunton River Nutrient Water Quality Monitoring Services

Research

$61,180

MARTHA’S VINEYARD COMMISSION

Martha’s VIneyard Island-wide Nutrient Water Quality Monitoring Services for Estuaries and Salt Ponds

Research

$72,900

Research

$94,707

Howes, Brian L.; Schlezinger, David AIR FORCE CIVIL ENGINEER Monitoring of Ashumet Pond at Joint Base CENTER Cape Cod (JBCC)

Lohrenz, Steven E.

Estuarine and Ocean Sciences Total

Annual Report 2018

Amount

TOWN OF FALMOUTH

Assessment of Bournes Pond Oyster Seeding Effects on Water Quality and Nutrient Cycling

Research

$60,000

NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION

Collaborative Research: A RAPID Response to Hurricane Harvey’s Impacts on Coastal Carbon Cycle, Metabolic Balance and Ocean Acidification

Research

$34,232

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA

The Center for the Integrated Modeling and Analysis of Gulf Ecosystems II

Research

$12,144

WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION

Research and Education in Quantitative Fisheries and Ecosystem Science

Research

$190,871

$1,812,413

Metrics PI; CO-PI

Sponsor

Title

Type

Amount

Bethoney, Naiff David

MA DIVISION OF MARINE FISHERIES

Developing and Testing a Pelagic Species Distribution Model to Forecast River Herring Bycatch Hotspots

Research

$56,156

ethoney, Naiff David; B Stokesbury, Kevin D.E.

CLEARWATER SEAFOODS

School for Marine Science & Technology Drop Camera Survey in Support of Clearwater Seafoods Thinning Experiment

Research

$29,061

NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMIN

High-resolution Drop Camera Surveys to Track Research Scallop Aggregations in Three Potential Access Areas (RSA)

$84,065

CAPE COD COMMERCIAL FISHERMEN’S ALLIANCE

Cape Cod Commercial Fishermen’s Alliance Research Groundfish Electronic Monitoring Data Analysis

$40,000

Fisheries Oceanography

Cadrin, Steven X.

Chen, Changsheng

Cowles, Geoffrey W.

GULF OF MAINE RESEARCH Evaluating Performance of Alternative INSTITUTE Assessment and Management Procedures of Mixed Atlantic Bluefin Tuna Stocks

Research

$58,567

MA DIVISION OF MARINE FISHERIES

FY18 MFI Graduate Education Program Director

Research

$50,000

NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMIN

Scallop Fishery Bycatch Avoidance 2015

Research

$962

MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE Towards a Cost-Effective Monitoring System of OF TECHNOLOGY Ocean Acidification in the U.S. Northeast

Research

$43,944

NE REG ASSOC OF COASTAL NERACOOS: The Integrated Ocean Observing OCEAN OBSERV SYS System for the Northeast Region

Research

$129,999

WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION

Research

$100,000

LTER: Linking Pelagic Community Structure with Research Ecosystem Dynamics and Production Regimes on the Changing Northeast US Shelf

$75,313

Technical Support for NOAA FVCOM Modeling Research Activities

$49,165

MARINE RENEWABLE ENERGY COLLABORATIVE

Phase 1 Feasibility Study for Muskeget Channel Research

$3,876

WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION

Quantification of the Contribution of Wastewater Effluent to Coastal Ocean Acidification

$8,639

Climate-fisheries Dynamics: Individualbased End-to-end Sea Scallop Model with Socioeconomic Feedbacks

Research

Annual Report 2018

Metrics PI; CO-PI

Sponsor

Title

Type

Fay, Gavin

INTNL COUNCIL FOR THE EXPLOR OF THE SEA

Comparison of IUCN Categories of Conservation Status and Fisheries Reference Points

Research

$29,129

MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE NMFS/Sea Grant Population and Ecosystem Research OF TECHNOLOGY Dynamics Graduate Fellowship Megan Winton

$105,419

MID-ATLANTIC FISHERY MANAGEMENT COUNCIL

Evaluation of F-Based Management for the Recreational Summer Flounder Fishery

Research

$57,400

NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMIN

Investigating the Productivity and Ecology of Sand Habitats

Research

$56,250

Fay, Gavin; Cadrin, Steven X.

GULF OF MAINE RESEARCH Development of Robust Management Strategies Research INSTITUTE for Northeast Groundfish Fisheries in a Changing Climate

$172,842

eorgianna, Daniel; Inglis, Susan G Dale; Fay, Gavin

NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMIN

Developing Strategies to Reduce the Effects of Gray Meat Disease on the Atlantic Sea Scallops Fishery

Research

$248,825

Pilskaln, Cynthia

MA DIVISION OF MARINE FISHERIES

DMF Admin Environmental Review FY17-19

Research

$30,000

Stokesbury, Kevin D.E.

MA DIVISION OF MARINE FISHERIES

FY18 Groundfish Video Trawl Survey

Research

$400,000

S tokesbury, Kevin D.E.; Bethoney, Naiff David

CLEARWATER SEAFOODS

School for Marine Science & Technology Drop Research Camera of the Canadian Portion of Georges Bank 2017

$125,825

School for Marine Science & Technology Drop Camera Survey of Patagonian Scallop Management Unit B, 2018 NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMIN

T urner, Jefferson T. *Awards split with Biology Dept.

Fisheries Oceanography Total

Amount

Annual Report 2018

Research

$96,997

High Resolution Drop Camera Survey Examining Research Sea Stars Dynamics in Extremely Dense Scallop Beds of the Nantucket Lightship Closed Area (RSA)

$95,721

High-Resolution Drop Camera Survey Examining Research the Scallop Population and Habitat in the Gulf Maine (RSA)

$122,305

High-resolution Video Survey Examining the Scallop Population and Habitat in the Closed Area I Access Area and Sliver (RSA)

Research

$6,067

BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE

2017-2020 Zooplankton Analysis

Research

$25,800

NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION

Collaborative Research: Shelfbreak Frontal Dynamics: Mechanisms of Upwelling, Net Community Production, and Ecological Implications

Research

$461,615

WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION

R/O-56 Harmful Phytoplankton Blooms in Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts

Research

$49,751

$2,813,693

Metrics PI; CO-PI

Sponsor

Title

Type

BOSTON ENGINEERING

SBIR Phase II, Maritime UltraViolet Antifouling (MUVA) System

Research

Amount

S chool for Marine Science & Technology Marino, Michael C.

$21,000

S chool for Marine Science & Technology Total

$21,000

S chool for Marine Science & Technology Total

$4,647,106

Grand Total

$12,642,110