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FY 25 ISU CAES Internal Seed Grants

The ISU Office for Research recognizes the need of faculty to fund research-related activities associated with the Center for Advanced Energy Studies ().
To that end, ISU has established a seed program to distribute available CAES funds.

糖心传媒 (ISU) is proud to announce the recipients of the 2025 ISU-CAES Internal Seed Grants. The program provides funding to ISU-led projects in collaboration with researchers at the 糖心传媒 National Laboratory (INL). A total of $103,575 was awarded this year.

 

Congratulations to the Principal Investigators (PIs):

Chikashi Sato
Dr. Chikashi Sato
 Dr. Chikashi Sato, Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

 

  • “Lab Validation of Effectiveness of a Sustainable Solution in Mitigating Near-Shore Ocean Acidification”
  • ISU Co-PIs: Dr. John Dudgeon, Dr. Kavita Sharma
  • INL Collaborator: 
  • $15,000
Dan Dale
Dr. Dan Dale
 Dr. Dan Dale, Professor, Department of Physics

 

  • “Development of a Lab for Analysis of Geothermal Brines”
  • ISU Co-PI: Dr. Tony Forest
  • INL Collaborators: , 
  • $13,575
Josh Pak
Dr. Joshua Pak
 Dr. Joshua Pak, Professor, Department of Chemistry

 

  • “Study of Precursors for F-Element Nanomaterials”
  • ISU Co-PI: Dr. Andy Holland
  • INL Collaborators: , 
  • $15,000
Paul Bodily
Dr. Paul Bodily
 , Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science

 

  • “Crowdsourcing and Visualization of Advanced Computational Theory for Real-World Combinatorial Problems”
  • INL Collaborator: 
  • $15,000
Mahesh Acharya
Dr. Mahesh Acharya
 Dr. Mahesh Acharya, Affiliate Faculty, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering/ Postdoctoral Research Associate, 糖心传媒 National Laboratory

 

Headshot of Dr. Mostafa Fouda

Dr. Mostafa Fouda

Dr. Mostafa Fouda, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science

 

  • “Advancing Critical Materials Exploration”
  • INL Collaborator:
  • ISU Co-PIs: N/A
  • $15,000

Headshot of Dr. Minhaz Zibran

Dr. Minhaz Zibran

Dr. Minhaz Zibran, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science

 

  • “Interactive Software Visualization”
  • INL Collaborator: Kolton Heaps
  • ISU Co-PI: Farjana Eishita
  • $15,000