Lay Nam Chang Dean's Discovery Fund

CO-INVESTIGATORS
DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY, CARILION SCHOOL OF MEDICINE

Title: Implementation Training to Enhance Measurement-Based Care Utilization in Outpatient Mental Health

Amount: $19,240

CO-INVESTIGATORS
DEPARTMENT OF MATHMATICS, DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS

Title: Deep Learning for Nonlinear Common Factor Modeling and Forecasting in Economics

Amount: $20,000

Title: Mechanisms of Salmonella enterica Infection by Bacteriophage Chi and Identification of Targets for Phage Therapy

Amount: $10,000

Title: Using a Nanoscale to Whole-Ecosystem Scale Approach to Examine the Role of Reactive Metal Hydroxide Nanoparticles in Drinking Water Reservoirs

Amount: $13,200

Title: Naive Neighbors: Investigating how Viral Bystander Effects Predispose Uninfected Cells to Infection

Amount: $10,000

Title: When a Good Enzyme Goes Bad: Proton Coupled Electron Transfer and the Mechanism of MAO Catalysis

Amount: $10,000

Title: Pheromone Specific Gene Discovery for Developing Controls of Leishmaniasis Disease Vectors

Amount: $5,000

Title: Naive Neighbors: Pain Relief Drug Design with Electric Field Calculations

Amount: $9,500

Title: Strengthening the Evidence for Crosstalk between Flavonoid Metabolism and the Plant Circadian Clock

Amount: $20,000

Title: Experimentally and Computationally Establishing C. diff. PilB for Antivirulence Drug Discovery

Amount: $20,000

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS

Title: Superconducting Thin Films for Dark Matter and Neutrino Detection

Amount: $18,000

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Title: Molecular Basis of (Ultra-)Low Gene Expression Noise

Amount: $10,000

Title: Li-ion Batteries for Applications at Extreme Temperatures: an Exploratory Story

Amount: $10,000

Title: Next Generation Porous Carbon Fibers by Polymer Synthesis and Molecular Simulations

Amount: $20,000

Title: Solving an Important Enigma: How Do Gram-Positive Pathogenic Bacteria Excrete Toxins Across Their Cell Wall?

Amount: $5,000

Title: Unraveling the Hidden Connection between Dark Matter and the Hubble Scale

Amount: $5,000

Title: Statistical Monitoring of Raman Spectral Data

co-PIs: John Roberston (BEAM), Ryan Senger (BSE)

Amount: $18,250

Title: New Perspectives of the Triassic-Jurassic Mass Extinction Event

Amount: $10,000

Title: Self-Assembling Peptide Nanocoils as Templates to Form Chiral Plasmonic Nanoparticles

Co-PI: Greg Liu (CHEM)

Amount: $18,100

Title: Inventing a Device for Determining Structure-Reactivity Relationships of Nanoparticles Found in Nature and Technology

Amount: $10,000

Title: Spatial Analytics Platform

Co-PI: Marco Ferreira (STAT)

Amount: $20,000

Title: Long-Term Neurobehavioral and Psychosocial Impacts of the Virginia Tech Shootings

Co-PI: Russell Jones (PSYC)

Amount: $20,000

Title: Tetraploidy as a Driver of Tumor Evolution

Amount: $10,000

Title: 3D Engineered Scaffolds to Study Mechanotransduction in Tumor Dormancy

Co-PI: Rafael Davalos (BEAM)

Amount: $20,000

Title: The CHANDLER Reactor Neutrino Detector

Co-PIs: Patrick Huber (PHYS), Camillo Mariani (PHYS), Ali Haghighat (ME)

Amount: $20,000

Title: Stochastic Nonlinear Reduced Order Modeling of the El Nino Southern Oscillation

Co-PI: Traian Iliescu (MATH)

Amount: $11,133

Title: A Tale of Two Networks: Trade and Financial Linkages in the Global Economy

Co-PIs: Shyam Ranganathan (STAT), Sudipta Sarangi (ECON), Byron Tsang (ECON)

Amount: $19,390

Title: Acquisition of a Micromeritics 3Flex Surface Area Analyzer

Co-PIs: Bob Moore (CHEM, John Morris (CHEM), Greg Liu (CHEM), Mike Ellis (ME), Richard Turner (CHEM)

Amount: $20,000

Title: Mechanisms of Innate Immune Responses to Mindfulness Meditation

Co-PI: Coy Allen (CVM)

Amount: $19,682

Title: Desalination of Water via Membrane Separations: Electrodialysis

Amount: $10,000