Grants
Externally funded projects of Department of Biology faculty as of July 1, 2017.
| Department | Name of PI or Co-PI | Title | Agency | Funded amount | Begin Date | End Date |
| Biology | Forkner, Rebecca | Insect-driven Changes in Autumn Phenology | National Science Foundation | $150,000.00 | 8/1/2014 | 12/31/2018 |
| Biology | Grant, Geraldine | Fibrotic ECM Investigations | Bristol Myers Squibb | $239,988.00 | 12/15/2015 | 12/14/2018 |
| Biology | Weeks, Andrea | Digitization TCN: Collaborative Research: The Key to the Cabinets: Building and sustaining a research database for a global biodiversity hotspot | National Science Foundation | $95,591.00 | 8/15/2014 | 7/31/2018 |
| Biology | Weeks, Andrea | DISSERTATION RESEARCH: Investigating the evolution of phalangerid marsupials on Sulawesi by incorporating morphology, molecular phylogenomics and biogeographic modeling | National Science Foundation | $16,390.00 | 6/1/2016 | 5/31/2018 |
| Biology | Weeks, Andrea | DISSERTATION RESEARCH: Reassessing the role of the Great American Biotic Interchange in the evolution of the raccoon family: early immigrants, museomics and biogeographic modeling | National Science Foundation | $16,549.00 | 6/1/2015 | 12/31/2017 |
| Biology | Weeks, Andrea | Population genetics of Northern St. John’s-wort (Hypericum boreale (Britton) Bicknell): a rare native plant species in Virginia | Virginia Academy of Science | $1,250.00 | 7/1/2015 | 12/31/2017 |
| Biology | Luther, David A | Coupling remote acoustic recorders and camera traps with crowd sourcing for monitoring (or surveying) vertebrate biodiversity | National Science Foundation | $85,847.00 | 11/1/2014 | 5/31/2017 |
| Biology | Luther, David A | Collaborative Research: Urban-dependent Selection on Bird Song: Proximate and Ultimate Causes, and Evolutionary Consequences | National Science Foundation | $434,457.00 | 3/15/2014 | 2/28/2018 |
| Biology | Gillevet, Patrick Martin/Fatah Kashanchi, PI | HIV neuropatho-genes related to exosomes containing HIV non‐coding RNAs | NIH | $61,595.75 | 4/1/2016 | 3/31/2020 |
| Microbiome Analysis Center | Gillevet, Patrick Martin | Molecular Characterization of Environmental Samples and Sensors; Army/Molecular Samples and Sensors | US Department of the Army | $54,500 | 9/29/2015 | 9/28/2017 |
| Biology/STEM | Schwebach, James Reid | The RADSS program (Rural and Diverse Student Scholars) | National Science Foundation | $643,925.00 | 4/1/2016 | 3/31/2021 |