February 10, 2022
The AES funded 12 requests for equipment or infrastructure to advance research and research capacity for for existing Hatch/Multistate Projects.
Selected For Support| Title | Lead PI Dept. | Award Amount | PI and Team | Associated Hatch/Multistate Project(s) |
| <DEFERRED> Research Infrastructure for the Social Sciences: Providing Access to Restricted Federal Government Data | ECON | $10,000.00 | John Crespi, Donghyuk Kim, Katherine Harris-Lagoudakis | IOW04009; IOW03904 |
| Gearing up to enhance beekeeping research | EEOB | $13,704.00 | Amy Toth, Matthew O'Neal, Randall Cass, Nicholas Howell | IOW05601; S1080 |
| Instruments to Observe Crop Water Hydraulics | AGRON | $17,087.00 | Brian Hornbuckle, Darren Drewry (Ohio State), Anton Kruger (UofI), Andy VanLoocke | IOW05566 |
| Enabling plate-based phenotyping of plant microbes | PLPM | $41,190.00 | Gwyn Beattie, Thomas Baum, Mark Gleason, Larry Halverson, Leonor Leandro, W. Allen Miller, Daren Mueller, Nick Peters, Alison Robertson, Justin Walley, Steven Whitham | IOW04308; IOW04108; IOW04208 |
| Enhancing livestock air emissions monitoring | ABE | $43,544.00 | Brett Ramirez, Richard Gates, Daneil Anderson, Laura Greiner |
IOW04100 |
| Irrigation to advance crop health research | PLPM | $50,000.00 | Alison Robertson, Leonor Leandro, Daren Mueller, Gary Munkvold, Greg Tylka, Gwyn Beattie, Larry Halverson | IOW04108; IOW05659; NCERA-137; NC-1183; NC-1197 |
| Fourier-Transform Infrared Spectrometer | AGRON | $50,000.00 | Michael Thompson, Marshall MacDaniel | IOW04514 |
| Breeding high yielding soybean cultivars for farmers using conventional and phenomic approaches | AGRON | $60,000.00 | Asheesh Singh | IOW04714 |
| Particle size and zeta potential analyzer | FSHN | $80,000.00 | Greg Curtzwiler, Kurt Rosentrater, Aude Watrelot, Nicolas Delchier | IOW04202, IOW05545, IOW05516, IOW05558 |
| Multi-Functional Benchtop SEM for Quantitative Phenomics | GDCB | $84,330.00 | Dior Kelley, Marna Yandeau-Nelson, Erik Vollbrecht | IOW03649 |
| Dyno Lab Agricultural Vehicle Emission Measurement | ABE | $100,000.00 | Brian Steward, Stuart Birrell, Ario Kordestani | IOW03712 |
| Enhancing drought tolerance in soybean | AGRON | $190,719 | Madan Bhattacharyya, Liang Dong, Asheesh Singh, Babu Valliyodan | IOW04714 |
Request for Proposals & Selection Process
RFP
| Available Funds | $500,000 |
| Number of Applications | 23 |
| Total Funds Requested | $1,994,795 |
| Lead PI Department, All Applications | 11 |
| Average (mean) Request Amount | $86,730.22 |
| Number of Proposals with Matching Funds | 12 |
| Average Matching Funds (Across All Applications) | $16,837.36 |
Primary Reviewer Selection
- 22 asked to serve across 12 departments, more than 8 agreed. Reviewers selected were the first 8 who agreed to serve.
- Proposals randomly assigned to reviewers with no COI (per COI list submitted by PI and reviewer agreement of no COI - note that one reviewer self-identified as COI on a proposal and was removed)
Review Process
- Proposals were classed into 4 groups based on request amount, with 6 proposals in each group. Because 23 proposals were submitted, one proposal was included in two groups.
- Within each of the four groups, each reviewer got 3 proposals assigned and ranked these based on potential to expand the scope of existing projects, alignment to strategic initiatives, potential to facilitate team-based initiatives, and potential use for developing or enabling future requests for funding.
- Secondary reviewers received all 6 proposals and the primary review rankings from one group. Secondary reviewers reviewed proposals and ranked their group's 6 proposals. Secondary reviewers met to discuss their rankings.
- CALS Associate Deans Lawrence-Dill and MacDonald compared rankings with available funds. Highly ranked proposals were selected for funding. Some proposals were only partially funded to arrive at a figure near the funding figure available.
| Primary Reviewers | 8 |
| Primary Reviewer Departments | 7 |
| Primary Reviewer Colleges | 3 |
| Secondary Reviewers | 4 |
| Secondary Reviewer Units | VPR, CALS |
Selected Applications
| Full Funding | 10 |
| Partial Funding | 2 |
| Lead PI Departments | 7 |
| Included Matching Funds | 7 |
| Average Matching Funds | $23,600 |
| Total Funds Awarded | $740,584 |