2015 Adelaide-NC State Research Starter Grant Recipients Announced
Five projects were selected to receive funding for the inaugural starter grant program in collaboration with the University of Adelaide in Australia. The projects were selected by a team from both institutions out of 29 total proposals.
Awards are designed to provide pump-priming and early contact partner outreach with the expectation that they will lead on to more substantive engagement resulting in high quality outputs, such as international research training for graduate students or early career faculty, publication of joint papers from collaborative research, or follow-on joint research bids.
The strategic partnership between the University of Adelaide and North Carolina State University is a preferred relationship to leverage complementary strengths and trans-disciplinary scholarship to advance research collaboration as well as academic exchanges. Congratulations to the following faculty on their successful proposals:
| Collaborators | Project Title |
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NC State: Prof. Fred Gould Adelaide: Dr. Simon Baxter |
Developing genomic approaches to track the evolution of insecticide resistance in serious agricultural pests |
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NC State: Prof. Rudolf Seracino Adelaide: Prof. Michael Griffith |
International Research Collaboration on the Retrofit of Critical Civil Engineering Infrastructure Subject to Extreme Loading |
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NC State: Assoc. Prof. Paul A. Maggard Adelaide: Assoc. Prof. Tak W. Kee |
Tunable Band-gap Metal Oxides for Solar-Driven Catalysis of Hydrogen Production |
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NC State: Assoc. Prof. Jose Alonso Adelaide: Dr. Matthew Tucker |
The hormonal control of female reproductive development in flowering plants |
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NC State: Dr. Ke Cheng Adelaide: Dr. Hu Zhang |
Cardiac Patches for Heart Diseases by Intelligent Injectable Hydrogels |