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Idaho State University Announces 2025 ISU-CAES Internal Seed Grant Recipients

Idaho State University Announces 2025 ISU-CAES Internal Seed Grant Recipients

Idaho State University (ISU) is proud to announce the recipients of the 2025 ISU-CAES Internal Seed Grants. The program provides funding to ISU-led projects in collaboration with researchers at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL). A total of $73,575 was awarded this year.

Funding was awarded to projects associated with CAES Focus Areas and INL’s Strategic Science and Technology (S&T) Initiatives and that engendered collaboration with INL researchers. Proposals were evaluated in a double-blind peer review process by scientists from the United States Department of Energy’s national laboratories. The main factors considered in proposal evaluation were intellectual merit/quality, relation to CAES Focus Areas and INL’s Strategic S&T Initiatives and potential for external funding.

Congratulations to the Principal Investigators (PIs):

Chikashi Sato
Dr. Chikashi Sato
Dr. Chikashi Sato, Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

  • “Lab Validation of Effectiveness of a Sustainable Solution in Mitigating Near-Shore Ocean Acidification”
  • ISU Co-PIs: Dr. John Dudgeon, Dr. Kavita Sharma
  • INL Collaborator: Dr. Asef Redwan
  • $15,000

Dan Dale
Dr. Dan Dale
Dr. Dan Dale, Professor, Department of Physics

Josh Pak
Dr. Joshua Pak
Dr. Joshua Pak, Professor, Department of Chemistry

Paul Bodily
Dr. Paul Bodily
Dr. Paul Bodily, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science

  • “Crowdsourcing and Visualization of Advanced Computational Theory for Real-World Combinatorial Problems”
  • INL Collaborator: Dr. Rajiv Khadka
  • $15,000

Mahesh Acharya
Dr. Mahesh Acharya
Dr. Mahesh Acharya, Affiliate Faculty, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering/ Postdoctoral Research Associate, Idaho National Laboratory

Mostafa Fouda
Dr. Mostafa Fouda
Dr. Mostafa Fouda, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science

  • “Advancing Critical Materials Exploration”
  • INL Collaborator: Ahmed Hamed
  • ISU Co-PIs: N/A
  • $15,000

Minhaz Zibran
Minhaz Zibran
Dr. Minhaz Zibran, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science

  • “Interactive Software Visualization”
  • INL Collaborator: Kolton Heaps
  • ISU Co-PIs: Farjana Eishita
  • $15,000
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