Recent Awards

UI researchers received $4.57 million in new sponsored project awards in May 2017.

New Faculty Member Draws Health and Human Services Grant

Shirley Luckhart, a professor and co-director of the Center for Health in the Human Ecosystem, received $515,409 from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for “Midgut mitochondria as the key to fit, Plasmodium-resistant Anopheline mosquitoes.” Luckhart is a new faculty member with a dual appointment in the Department of Biological Sciences within the College of Science and the Department of Entomology, Plant Pathology and Nematology within the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences. View Luckhart’s faculty profile.