2010 Major Sponsored Program and Faculty Awards - Office of ...

Harwood, DavidEarth and Atmospheric SciencesANDRILL: Investigating Antarctica’s Rolein Cenozoic Global Environmental Change$12,978,160 NSF6/1/05 – 5/31/10Levy, RichardEarth and Atmospheric SciencesDavid Harwood, professor of earth andatmospheric sciences, leads an internationalteam of scientists drilling beneath theAntarctic ice pack to unearth geologicalstrata that could hold ancient clues tocontemporary global warming trends. TheNational Science Foundation awarded $12.9million to a consortium of five U.S. universities headed by UNL andNorthern Illinois University. Dubbed ANDRILL (ANtarcticgeological DRILLing), the project is administered by the ANDRILLScience Management Office headquartered at UNL. ANDRILL isbacked by more than $30 million in funding, including $9.7 millionin previous and ongoing national agreements to supportoperations and nearly $8 million from the other countries tosupport scientific research. Other members of the U.S. consortiummaking up the American portion of the ANDRILL program areFlorida State University, The Ohio State University and theUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst. The project also includesscientists from Germany, Italy and New Zealand.Hogan, TiffanySpecial Education andCommunication Disorders* Language Bases of Skilled Reading Comprehension$4,344,886 ED-IES through The Ohio State University7/1/10 – 6/30/15Bovaird, JamesEducational Psychology/Nebraska Center for Research onChildren, Youth, Families and SchoolsNelson, J. RonSpecial Education andCommunication DisordersA UNL team led by Tiffany Hogan in theDepartment of Special Education andCommunication Disorders will collaboratewith researchers at The Ohio StateUniversity, University of Kansas and ArizonaState University to study the language basesof skilled reading comprehension in 4- to8-year-old children. The UNL researchers will work with localschool districts to assess reading comprehension in approximately300 children aged 4 to 8. They also will work with other teams todevelop instructional materials and procedures to improve readingcomprehension and will then examine the effectiveness of thosematerials and procedures. The primary goal is to determine thefeasibility and efficacy of instruction focused on basic andhigher-order language skills for improving children’s readingcomprehension in the short- and long-term.8AWARDS OF $3 MILLION OR MORE