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

Chandra, NamasEngineering MechanicsArmy-UNL Center for Trauma Mechanics$3,261,250 DoD-ARO10/1/08 – 9/30/10Namas Chandra, Elmer Koch Professor ofEngineering Mechanics, received a grantfrom the Army Research Office to create theUNL Center for Trauma Mechanics. Thecenter focuses on the effects of blast waveson the head and brain of a fully equippedsoldier in the field. The project studies wavepropagation effects on the skull and brain especially under mildtraumatic brain injury (TBI) pressure loading conditions. The workof the center will be instrumental in improving understanding ofTBI and may lead to design of more effective protection systemsthat shield soldiers from the combined effects of both blast wavesand impact.Cotton, DaneXtensionNational eXtension Project$13,270,000 Association of Public10/1/04 – 12/31/13 and Land-Grant UniversitieseXtension: The Transformation of Cooperative Extension$5,961,221 USDA-CSREES8/15/07 – 8/14/12Dan Cotton directs the eXtension Initiative,an Internet-based Cooperative ExtensionService education and information system.UNL is the lead institution in this multi-yearproject, which partners with the University ofKentucky, North Carolina State Universityand Virginia Tech University. This is acollaborative effort of the nation’s 107 land-grant universities andthe U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Cooperative State Research,Education and Extension Service to develop content andtechnology for the eXtension project. eXtension is a virtualeducational environment that provides science-based, objectiveinformation. Users may take advantage of learning opportunitiesand interact with the expertise available from the land-grantuniversity system by visiting www.extension.org.4AWARDS OF $3 MILLION OR MORE