IREES/LASI Affiliated Faculty Recognized at VPRP RCA Awards and OU Faculty Awards and Honors

IREES and LASI would like to highlight all the affiliated faculty recognized at this year's VPRP Research and Creative Activity Awards and OU Faculty Awards and Honors.

VPRP Research and Creative Activity Awards

IREES

RII Track-2 FEC: Cost-effective Conversion of Natural Gas and Biomass to Hydrogen and Performance Carbons
$4M from National Science Foundation

Lead PI:
Steven Crossley
Professor
School of Chemical, Biological, and Materials Engineering
College of Engineering

Co-PIs: Daniel Resasco, Bin Wang, Ngoc Bui

Steven Crossley (Faculty Fellow and the Associate Director of IREES)
Daniel Resasco (Co-PI on Steven Crossley’s team)

Award for Excellence in Research in Engineering and Applied Science

Steven Crossley
Professor
School of Chemical, Biological, and Materials Engineering
College of Engineering

Steven Crossley (Faculty Fellow and the Associate Director of IREES)

RII Track-2 FEC: Cost-effective Conversion of Natural Gas and Biomass to Hydrogen and Performance Carbons
$4M from National Science Foundation

Lead PI:
Xiangming Xiao
Professor
Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology
College of Arts and Sciences

Co-PIs: Jeffrey Basara, Rafal Jabrzemski, Henry Neeman, Yuanwei Qin, Andrea Contina

Xiangming Xiao

LASI

PERU-Hub project: All of the faculty listed fall under the PERU-Hub grant that is awarded to LASI.

Bradley Illston
David Ebert (also as Co-PI with Bradley Illston)
Tim Filley (Co-PI with Brad Illston)

Establishing an Integrated Soil, Land use, Weather, Climate Monitoring Network in Peru
$1.3M from Universidad National Agraria La Molina

Lead PI:
Bradley Illston
Adjunct Assistant Professor
School of Meterology
College of Atmospheric and Geographic Sciences

Co-PIs: Kirsten de Beurs, Jennifer Koch, David Ebert, Timothy Filley

OU-UNSA and the Global Change and Human Health Institute:

All of the faculty listed are associated with UNSA and GCHHI which fall under LASI as grants that we were awarded.

Patent Award

Roger Harrison
Professor
School of Chemical, Biological, and Materials Engineering

COBRE Award: Oklahoma Center of Medical Imaging for Translational Cancer Research
$11.3M from U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health

Javier Jo
Professor
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
College of Engineering

Integrating Socially Led Co-Design into Consent-based Siting of Interim Storage Facilities
$2.9M from U.S. Department of Energy

Lead PI:
Kuhika Gupta
Associate Director for Energy and Nuclear Projects
Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis
Vice President for Research and Partnerships

Co-PIs: Hank Jenkins-Smith, Joseph Ripberger, Carol Silva

Hank Jenkins-Smith (Co-PI with Kuhika Gupta)

Department of Commerce Build Back Better Regional Challenge Grant - Biotech Core Facility
$7.1M from U.S. Department of Commerce, Economic Development Administration

Lead PI:
John Klier
Dean
College of Engineering

Co-PIs: Dimitrios Papavassiliou, Vassilios Sikavitsas, Zahed Siddique, Michele Galizia, Joyce Burch, Chongle Pan, Talayeh Razzaghi

Dimitrios Papavassiliou (Co-PI with John Klier)
Talayeh Razzaghi (Co-PI with John Klier),

PIPP Phase I: Next Generation Surveillance Incorporating Public Health, One Health, and Data Science to Detect Emerging Pathogens of Pandemic Potential
$1M from National Science Foundation

Lead PI:
David Ebert
Professor
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
College of Engineering

Co-PIs: Dean Hougen, Hank Jenkins-Smith, Bradley Stevenson, Charles Nicholson, Jason Vogel, Michael Wimberly, Talayeh Razzaghi, Chao Lan, Thirumalai Vekatesan, Anni Yang

Talayeh Razzaghi (Co-PI with David Ebert)
Dean Hougen (Co-PI with David Ebert)
Charles Nicholson (Co-PI with David Ebert)

The Horus Digital Polarimetric Phased Array Radar: Weather Observations and Further Enhancements
$2.3M from U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic, and Atmospheric Administration

Lead PI:
Robert Palmer
Professor
School of Meterology
College of Atmospheric and Geographic Sciences

Co-PIs: David Bodine, Boon Leng Cheong, Caleb Fulton, Pierre Emmanuel Kirstetter, Hjalti Sigmarsson, Guifu Zhang, Tian-You Yu, Mark Yeary, David Schvartzman, Jorge Salazar-Correno

Caleb Fulton (Co-PI with Robert Palmer)

Hailstone
$7.8M from U.S. Department of Defense, Air Force

Lead PI:
Mark Yeary
Professor
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
College of Engineering

Co-PIs: Caleb Fulton, Nathan Goodman, Robert Palmer, Jay McDaniel, Justin Metcalf

Caleb Fulton (Co-PI with Mark Yeary)

OU Faculty Awards and Honors 2023

IREES

Award for Excellence in Research in Engineering and Applied Science

Steven Crossley
Professor
School of Chemical, Biological, and Materials Engineering
College of Engineering

Steven is a Faculty Fellow and Associate Director of IREES

Regents’ Award for Superior Research and Creative Activity/Scholarly Activity

Xiangming Xiao
Professor
Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology
College of Arts and Sciences

LASI

Both Roger and Javier are PIs on different OU-UNSA Projects and are related to the UNSA grant.

David Ross Boyd Professorship

Roger Harrison
Professor
School of Chemical, Biological, and Materials Engineering

President’s Associates Presidential Professorship

Javier Jo
Professor
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
College of Engineering

IREES/LASI Affiliated Faculty Recognized at VPRP RCA Awards and OU Faculty Awards and Honors