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| Project Title | Project Code | Principal Investigator | Research Category | Project Type | Project Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reconstructing the Birth Environment of the Solar System | 23-LW-015 | Quinn Shollenberger | Earth and Atmospheric Science | Lab-Wide | Continuing |
| Nuclear Detective Work in the Early Universe: The Mysterious Origin of Protein-Rich Stable Nuclei | 22-LW-029 | Andrew Ratkiewicz | Nuclear, Chemical, and Isotopic Science and Technology | Lab-Wide | Continuing |
| Manipulating the Spin of Nuclei with Nuclear Reactions | 23-LW-016 | Daniel Hoff | Nuclear, Chemical, and Isotopic Science and Technology | Lab-Wide | Continuing |
| Developing a Predictive Catalysis Framework for Upgrading Sustainable Alcohols | 22-LW-033 | Christopher Hahn | Energy and Resource Security | Lab-Wide | Final |
| Understanding Chemical Kinetics by Operando Stimulated Raman Scattering Microscopy | 23-LW-018 | Xiaoxing Xia | Accelerated Materials and Manufacturing | Lab-Wide | Continuing |
| Microbial Recycling of Plastic-Polymer-Bonded Rare Earth Magnets | 22-LW-034 | Nancy Merino | Bioscience and Bioengineering | Lab-Wide | Final |
| Searching for the Edges of the Nuclear Landscape | 23-LW-025 | Wei Jia Ong | Nuclear, Chemical, and Isotopic Science and Technology | Lab-Wide | Continuing |
| Modulating Guanosine Triphosphate Hydrolysis Provides Novel Therapeutic Option to Treat Cancer and Bacterial Infections | 22-LW-041 | Yue Yang | Bioscience and Bioengineering | Lab-Wide | Final |
| Antimicrobials for Multi-Drug Resistant Infections for BioResilience, Advancement | 23-LW-029 | Carolyn Fisher | Biological and Chemical Countermeasures | Lab-Wide | Continuing |
| Fighting Fire with Fire: Can Traditional Native American Burning Practices Help Reduce Devastating Wildfires and Increase Soil Carbon Storage? | 22-LW-053 | Susan Zimmerman | Earth and Atmospheric Science | Lab-Wide | Final |
| Revealing the Mystery Mode: Understanding the Nuclear Decay Mechanism that Governs Formation of the Universe's Heavy Elements | 23-LW-034 | Anthony Paul Ramirez | Nuclear, Chemical, and Isotopic Science and Technology | Lab-Wide | Continuing |
| Solid-State Gamma-Ray Detection Using Quantum Dots | 22-LW-054 | Tom Nakotte | Nuclear Threat Reduction | Lab-Wide | Final |
| Do Tetraquarks Exist? Understanding the Nature of the Mysterious Meson Candidate | 23-LW-036 | Hoi Sing Cheung | Nuclear, Chemical, and Isotopic Science and Technology | Lab-Wide | Continuing |
| Next Generation Dialysis via Exploitation of Novel Fast Diffusion through Nanoscale Pores | 22-LW-058 | Steven Buchsbaum | Bioscience and Bioengineering | Lab-Wide | Final |
| Dark Matter Search with Plutonium-241 Beta Decays | 23-LW-043 | Geonbo Kim | Nuclear, Chemical, and Isotopic Science and Technology | Lab-Wide | Continuing |
| Cure the Incurable: Supercharged Immune Cells to Fight Disease | 22-LW-061 | Aimy Sebastian | Bioscience and Bioengineering | Lab-Wide | Final |
| Putting the Super Back In Supernova | 23-LW-044 | Maria Anastasiou | Nuclear, Chemical, and Isotopic Science and Technology | Lab-Wide | Continuing |
| Laser Amplification with Suppressed Amplified Spontaneous Emission | 22-DR-004 | Stephen Payne | Lasers and Optical Science and Technology | Disruptive Research | Continuing |
| Battling Long Coronavirus Disease 2019 in the Brain: Elucidating Mechanisms of Neural Dysfunction | 22-DR-007 | Heather Enright | Bioscience and Bioengineering | Disruptive Research | Continuing |
| Designing Asynchronous Circuits for Dynamic Machine Learning Adaptation | 22-DR-009 | Maya Gokhale | High-Performance Computing, Simulation, and Data Science | Disruptive Research | Continuing |
