PEAK (Promoting Engagement with ADHD pre-Kindergartners)
To evaluate and disseminate the PEAK (Promoting Engagement with ADHD pre-Kindergartners) Program to early intervention services, community mental health agencies, and integrated behavioral health services in primary care settings
Accelerating MIMO Receivers for Real-Time Underwater Wireless Communications
Unlike traditional modems, her innovation enables short-range, high-data transmissions, allowing real-time sharing of videos and images underwater. After over 100 field tests, her team has developed a prototype using MIMO technology and Turbo equalization algorithms, showing promising results.
From Hyper to Multi: A Low-Cost, Self-Calibrating Water Quality Imager
In 2020, 35% of surveyed rivers across the State of Montana were contaminated by nutrient enrichment, leading to large blooms of nuisance algae. This proposal seeks to address the need for new technology to monitor water quality by translating a prototype low-cost algae imager and optical calibration system from pure research to commercially viable products. […]
Whitefly Resistant Cotton
A collaborative team of USM and UA investigators is developing an RNA interference (RNAi) biopesticide technology, (PCT/US2022/074648), that promises unparalleled specificity and environmental compatibility to protect cotton plants against the sap-feeding pest Bemisia tabaci (Whitefly). The team has developed transgenic cotton plants expressing potent gene-silencing RNA constructs. This project aims to demonstrate the market-ready status […]
Innovations for Civil Engineering Materials
Critical infrastructure near the coastline faces heightened risks from corrosion and water erosion, posing serious threats to the well-being and resilience of coastal communities. Bio-strengthened infrastructure materials can help mitigate these impacts through shoreline hardening, beach nourishment, and wetland restoration. To advance coastal communities’ capacity to address these challenges, this Seed Translational Research Project (STRP) […]
STRP-2: qPCR-based testing for colorectal cancer detection
The key to eliminating the personal and financial costs of cancer lies in the early detection of disease. Early detection is a critical public health strategy because it improves disease outcomes, but efforts to identify biomarkers for colorectal cancer to classify the potential of polyps removed during colonoscopies as either cancer adjacent polyps (CAPs) or […]
STRP-1: Organic Metal Halide Hybrid Scintillators and Dosimeters
Various types of scintillation materials (used in particle detectors, x-ray security, nuclear cameras, CT scanners, computed tomography, gamma camera in medical diagnostics, and dosimeters in radiotherapy) are commercially available, but they are severely limited. Low-cost, eco-friendly materials are needed that can be easily manufactured and processed. Dr. Ma and team demonstrated a new generation eco-friendly […]
Artificial intelligence approaches for development of novel fungicides
This project deals with the development of novel, peptide based fungicides direct toward our beachhead market of leafy green producers in California and Arizona. Funds are used for fungicide design, lab, greenhouse-based, and field testing in CA and AZ, via contractors. Results show our fungicides have broad activity versus key fungal pathogens important to leafy […]
TrialWear: clinical trial care, everywhere.
Clinical trials provide essential treatment options when standard therapies are unavailable for the 15,000 children diagnosed with cancer each year and rural children often travel to specialized centers, requiring effective communication of trial-related safety information between researchers and local providers to ensure safe clinical care. Mishaps in communication, which are unfortunately common, can cost these […]
Biofilm Sensor System in Maple Syrup Production
The maple syrup industry is evolving with increased use of efficient equipment, yet quality control systems are limited for managing microbial growth and biofilms in sap storage and transport. Biofilms degrade syrup quality, reducing market value. This project proposes a novel biofilm sensor system to detect and control biofilm formation in maple syrup production facilities. […]
