Recent Awards/Grants:

2024:

  • Dr. Jay Pantone - NSF Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Division of Undergraduate Education (IUSE: DUE). AI-HELP: Artificial Intelligence for Humanizing and Enhancing the Learning of Proofs. $749,996. August 2024 - July 2026. Joint project with the University of Florida, Education Development Center, and St. Olaf College.

2023:

2022:

  • Dr. Marta Magiera - NSF Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Directorate for STEM Education (IUSE: EDU). Fostering STEM Thinking in Mathematics Courses for Elementary Education Majors. $300.000. October 2022 - September 2025. PI. NSF IUSE #2142646.
  • Dr. Gregory Ongie - NSF, Division of Computing and Communication Foundations, Coordinate-based Neural Networks for Inverse Problems in Computational Imaging. June 2022 - May 2024. Award #: 2153371.
  • Dr. Elaine Spiller - Received 向日葵视频's .

2021:

  • Dr. Sarah Hamilton - Received third year funding from the NIH for Direct 3D Reconstruction Methods for Electrical Impedance Tomography for Stroke Imaging. Year 3 funding: $225,052.
  • Dr. Elaine Spiller - NSF Computational and Data Enabled Science and Engineering, Collaborative Research: Surrogates and Reduced Order Modeling for High Dimensional Coupled System. $100,000. August 2021 - July 2023. PI, NSF-DMS 2053872.
  • Dr. Elaine Spiller - NERC, Ixchel: Building understanding of the physical, cultural and socio-economic drivers of risk for strengthening resilience in the Guatemalan cordillera. $28,800. April 2021 - March 2024. Co-PI, NERC, GCRF Multi-Hazards Risk, NE/T010517.
  • Dr. Cheng-Han Yu - Received two-year AMS-Simons travel grant.

2020:

  • Dr. Sarah Hamilton - Received second year funding from the NIH for Direct 3D Reconstruction Methods for Electrical Impedance Tomography for Stroke Imaging. Year 2 funding: $225,182.
  • Dr. Marta Magiera - Received fifth-year funding from the National Science Foundation for the Priming the PUMP-Preparing Urban Milwaukee for Principles of Computer Science
  • Dr. Jay Pantone - Received five-year Simons Collaboration Grant for Enumerative and Experimental Combinatorics
  • Dr. Elaine Spiller - FEMA (DHS), Coastal Probabilistic Hazard Assessment. $28,000. October 2019-September 2020. Co-PI, DHS 5115356.

2019

  • Dr. Sarah Hamilton - NIH R21 Trailblazer Award, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, Direct 3D Reconstruction Methods for Electrical Impedance Tomography for Stroke Imaging. $602,578 over 3 years (2019-2021). Year 1 funding: $152,344.
  • Dr. Marta Magiera - Received sixth-year funding from the National Science Foundation for the project CAREER: L-MAP: Pre-service Middle School Teachers鈥� Knowledge of Mathematical Argumentation and Proving
  • Dr. Marta Magiera - Received fourth-year funding from the National Science Foundation for the Priming the PUMP -Preparing Urban Milwaukee for Principles of Computer Science
  • Dr. Elaine Spiller - NSF PREEVENTS Track 1, Coupling Uncertain Geophysical Hazards: Bringing together Geoscientists, Computational Mathematicians, and Statisticians to Advance Hazard Forecasting. $39,000. March 2019 PI, NSF-GEO 1850742.

2018

  • Dr. Marta Magiera - Received fifth-year funding from the National Science Foundation for CAREER L-MAP: Pre-service Middle School Teachers' Knowledge of Mathematical Argumentation and Proving
  • Dr. Marta Magiera - Received Funding from the National Security Agency for the project 向日葵视频 GenCyber Combination Camp
  • Dr. Marta Magiera - Received third-year funding from the National Science Foundation for the Priming the PUMP -Preparing Urban Milwaukee for Principles of Computer Science
  • Dr. Elaine Spiller - NSF Computational and Data Enabled Science and Engineering, Collaborative Research: Using Precursor Information to Update Probabilistic Hazard Maps. $80,000. September 2018-August 2020. PI, NSF-DMS 1821338.

2017

  • Dr. Elaine Spiller - Received third-year funding from the National Science Foundation for Hazards SEES: Persistent Volcanic Crises Resilience in the Face of Prolonged and Uncertain Risk
  • Dr. Marta Magiera - Received fourth-year funding from the National Science Foundation for CAREER L-MAP: Pre-service Middle School Teachers' Knowledge of Mathematical Argumentation and Proving
  • Dr. Anne Clough - Received fifth-year funding from the National Institutes of Health for her project entitled Innovative Biomarkers to Predict Radiation Lung Injury
  • Dr. John Engbers - Received a grant from the Simons Foundation for Investigating Graph Colorings

2016

  • Dr. Elaine Spiller - Received second-year funding from the National Science Foundation for Hazards SEES: Persistent Volcanic Crises Resilience in the Face of Prolonged and Uncertain Risk.
  • Dr. Marta Magiera - Received third-year funding from the National Science Foundation for CAREER L-MAP: Pre-service Middle School Teachers' Knowledge of Mathematical Argumentation and Proving.
  • Dr. Daniel Rowe - Received extended third-year funding from the National Institutes of Health for his research project entitled Improving f(c)MRI Accuracy by Accounting for the Implications of Data Processing.
  • Dr. Gary Krenz - Awarded a five-year grant from the National Science Foundation for COSMIC: Change Opportunity - Start Masters in Computing.
  • Dr. Naveen Bansal and Dr. Mehdi Maadooliat - Received funding from the 向日葵视频Strategic Innovation fund for the Statistical Consulting and Training Center.
  • Dr. Mehdi Maadooliat - Is part of a team that was awarded funding from R01 NIH for Fatigability of limb muscle in older adults: Protective effects of exercise.
  • Dr. Mehdi Maadooliat - Received the Way Klingler Young Scholar Award.
  • Dr. Anne Clough - Received fourth-year funding from the National Institutes of Health for her project entitled Innovative Biomarkers to Predict Radiation Lung Injury.

2015

  • Dr. Daniel Rowe - Received funding from the National Science Foundation for his Research Fellow Appointment in the Program on Challenges in Computational Neuroscience.
  • Dr. Daniel Rowe - Received second-year funding from the National Institutes of Health for his research project entitled Improving f(c)MRI Accuracy by Accounting for the Implications of Data Processing.
  • Dr. Elaine Spiller - Received funding from the National Science Foundation for the three year project entitled Hazards SEES: Persistent Volcanic Crises Resilience in the Face of Prolonged and Uncertain Risk.
  • Dr. Anne Clough - Is part of a team that received a National Institutes of Health R15 award entitled SPECT Imaging and Computational Modeling for Assessment of Acute Lung Injury.
  • Dr. John Moyer - Received a $3,000 increase for Contextual-Empirical Research: Longitudinal Investigation of the Effect of Curriculum on Algebra Learning from the Middle Grades Through High School
  • Dr. Samson Kiware - Was awarded a three year Welcome Trust Research Training Fellowship.
  • Dr. Dennis Brylow and Dr. Marta Magiera - Received a grant from the National Science Foundation as a Research Experiences for Undergraduate (REU) supplemental for the project CS10K: Collaborative Research: Priming the PUMP - Preparing the Upper Midwest for Principles of Computer Science.
  • Dr. Kim Factor and Dr. Dennis Brylow - Received a three year grant from the National Science Foundation for "REU Site:  Computation Across the Disciplines." This award will provide funding for an intensive, faculty-mentored, summer research experience for United States undergraduates.
  • Dr. Daniel Rowe - Received Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute (SAMSI) funding totaling $169,000.

2014

  • Dr. Sarah Hamilton - Received a $5,500 向日葵视频Summer Faculty Fellowship for her project entitled Improving Contrast in 3D Electrical Impedance Tomography for Stroke Classification. 
  • Dr. Daniel Rowe - Received a Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) Daniel M. Soref Research Award for a project entitled A Frequency Description of Induced Correlation in FMRI. 
  • Dr. Marta Magiera - Awarded a five-year CAREER grant from NSF to support her research project entitled CAREER: L-MAP: Pre-service Middle School Teachers' Knowledge of Mathematical Argumentation and Proving.
  • Dr. Daniel Rowe - Received a $385,698, two-year, R21 award from the National Institutes of Health for his research project entitled Improving f(c)MRI Accuracy by Accounting for the Implications of Data Processing.
  • Dr. Anne Clough - Received second-year funding from the National Institutes of Health for her project entitled Innovative Biomarkers to Predict Radiation Lung Injury.
  • Dr. Elaine Spiller - Received fifth-year funding from the Office of Naval Research entitled Dynamical Systems Theory and Lagrangian Data Assimilation in 4D Geophysical Fluid Dynamics.

2013

  • Dr. Dennis Brylow and Dr. Marta Magiera - Awarded a three-year grant from NSF with the assistance of Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction and the Wisconsin-Dairyland chapter of the Computer Science Teacher Association to support their collaborative project with UW-La Crosse entitled Collaborative Research: Priming the PUMP - Preparing the Upper Midwest for Principles of Computer Science.
  • Dr. Rong Ge - Received funding from the National Science Foundation for a collaborative project entitled Marcher - A Heterogeneous High Performance Computing Infrastructure for Research and Education in Green Computing.
  • Dr. Elaine Spiller - Received fourth-year funding from the Office of Naval Research entitled Dynamical Systems Theory and Lagrangian Data Assimilation in 4D Geophysical Fluid Dynamics.
  • Dr. Elaine Spiller - Is part of a NSF award totaling $54,790 for the project entitled Hazards SEES Type 1: Persistent Volcanic Crises in the USA: From Precursors to Resilience.

2012

  • Dr. Anne Clough - Received a 2013 Summer Faculty Fellowship and a Regular Research Grant to support her project entitled Understanding Lung Injury Using Mathematical Modeling of Imaging Agents.
  • Dr. Anne Clough - Is part of the Medical College of Wisconsin's five-year, $1.9 million grant from the National Institutes of Health鈥檚 National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to study methods for diagnosing radiation lung injuries before symptoms develop.
  • Dr. Elaine Spiller - Received funding from the National Science Foundation for the two year project entitled Collaborative Research: Statistical and Computational Models and Methods for Extracting Knowledge from Massive Disparate Data for Quantifying Uncertain Hazards. The research team plans to develop new mathematical, statistical, and computational methods to address the problem of making statistical inference on the basis of massive data sets. The new methods are expected to be applied to quantitatively assess risk associated with volcanic activity.
  • Dr. Marta Magiera - Received 3rd year funding from the U.S. Dept. of Education for their program: Raising Achievement in Mathematics through Fostering Algebraic Thinking (RAM t-FAT). The program supports 30 middle and secondary mathematics teachers who learn and collaborate to support their students鈥� mathematics learning with a focus on mathematical thinking and reasoning. Dr. Magiera (MSSC) and Co-Principal Investigator, Dr. Leigh van den Kieboom (EDPL) are conducting their research in collaboration with the West Milwaukee/West Allis school system.
  • Dr. Marta Magiera - In collaboration with the West Milwaukee/West Allis school system received a one-year funding extension from the U.S. Dept. of Education for their program: Raising Achievement in Mathematics through Fostering Algebraic Thinking (RAM t-FAT). Co-Principal Investigator is Dr. Leigh van den Kieboom in the College of Education.
  • Dr. Marta Magiera - Received a Faculty Travel Grant from the National Council of Teachers for Mathematics (NCTM) to attend the International Congress on Mathematical Education 2012 in Seoul, South Korea.
  • Dr. Daniel Rowe - Received a 向日葵视频 Regular Research Grant for his project entitled Quantification of Induced Voxel Correlations by GE and SIEMENS MRI Scanner Algorithms. 

2011

  • Dr. Marta Magiera - Raising Achievement in Mathematics through Fostering. Algebraic Thinking (RAM t-FAT) project. A continuation of funding from the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction  in collaboration with the West Milwaukee/West Allis school system, to further investigate the project goals which include: increasing teachers鈥� mathematics content knowledge, training teachers in employing problem-based collaboration among the students, and basing classroom practice on the latest evidence-based research on the development of students鈥� mathematical thinking and reasoning. Co-Principal Investigator is Dr. Leigh van den Kieboom in the College of Education.
  • Dr. Gary Krenz - Received a sub-award from the National Science Foundation for "Quinone Probes of Pulmonary Endothelial Redox Function".   The research will focus on the mathematical modeling of NAD(P)H:Quinone Oxidoreductase 1 threshold effects.
  • Dr. Anne Clough - Received a Collaborative Clinical and Translational Research (CTSI) Pilot Project Award for her project, "Noninvasive Detection and Assessment of Two Common Lung Injuries." The CTSI Research Grants Program is intended to stimulate inter- and trans-disciplinary translational and clinical research within and among the CTSI partner institutions.
  • Dr. Kim Factor and Dr. Dennis Brylow - Received a three year grant from the National Science Foundation for "REU Site:  Computation Across the Disciplines." This award will provide funding for an intensive, faculty-mentored, summer research experience for United States undergraduates.

2010

  • Dr. Dennis Brylow and Dr. Rong Ge - Their proposal 鈥淟ight as a Cloud: A Lightweight, Power-Aware O/S for the SCC鈥� was selected by Intel Corporation. Brylow and Ge will be part of a collection of academic researchers conducting experiments and deploying technologies on an Intel prototype, the Single-chip Cloud Computing Platform. This platform includes an experimental 48-core Intel processor that has ten to twenty times the processing engines inside today鈥檚 most popular Intel branded processors.
  • Dr. Anne Clough - Is part of a team, which includes faculty from the Medical College of Wisconsin and the University of Chicago, that was awarded an NIH grant entitled 鈥淚nnovative Reconstruction Algorithms for Undersampled SPECT.鈥� June 2010.
  • Dr. Marta Magiera - Is part of the West Allis/West Milwaukee and 向日葵视频 Partnership recently awarded a two-year Math and Science Partnership Grant by the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.
  • Dr. John Moyer - Received a supplemental award for his NSF grant, "A Longitudinal Comparison of the Effects of the Connected Mathematics Program and Other Curricula on Middle School Students' Learning of Algebra." July 2010.
  • Dr. John Moyer - Funding received for the NSF grant, "CONTEXTUAL-EMPIRICAL RESEARCH: Longitudinal Investigation of the Effect of Curriculum on Algebra Learning from the Middle Grades through High School." July 2010.
  • Dr. Daniel Rowe - A member of the CTSI of Southeast Wisconsin team that received a 5 year NIH Clinical and Translational Science Award grant. The focus of research will be to develop a protocol to reduce the time it takes for clinical research to become patient treatment. June 2010.
  • Dr. Sherry Scott - Awarded travel support to attend the 2010 Fourier Talks Conference at the Norbert Wiener Center in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Maryland, College Park, February, 2010. This conference involves research areas that fall under the Harmonic Analysis and Applications umbrella.
  • Dr. Sherry Scott - Awarded funding to attend the workshop in Transport and Mixing in Complex and Turbulent Flows at the Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications at the University of Minnesota, April, 2010. This workshop is concerned with modern mathematical approaches to the study of transport and mixing in turbulence and other complex flows.
  • Dr. Sherry Scott and Dr. Elaine Spiller - Are part of the ONR Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) program award 鈥淒ynamical Systems Theory and Lagrangian Data Assimilation in 4D Geophysical Fluid Dynamics.鈥� The lead organization is Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and this effort involves researchers from Columbia University, University of California - Santa Barbara, 向日葵视频, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, University of California - San Diego, University of Miami, and University of Delaware.