Seed Grant Recipient

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Last Updated: Mar 05, 2026, 12:49 PM

Meet our Energy Boost Seed Grant Recipients

2026-2027 Recipients

FY27 Energy Boost Seed Grant

Period: July 1, 2026- June 30, 2027

  • TBD

2025-2026 Recipients

FY26 Energy Boost Seed Grant

Period: July 1, 2025- June 30, 2026

  • Grant Project: Characterizing the soils at an agrivoltaics research site

     PI: Dr. Eric Brevik

  • Grant Project: Development of an Improved Inverse Modeling Approach for Weather Normalization in Building Energy Retrofit Savings Calculations

     PI: Dr. Farshad Kheiri

  • Grant Project: Investigating the Efficiency and Cost-effectiveness of Oxidative Hydrothermal Dissolution for Processing Microalgae into Biofuels

     PI: Dr. Scott D. Hamilton-Brehm

2024-2025 Recipients

FY25 Energy Boost Seed Grant

Period: July 1, 2024- June 30, 2025

  • Grant Project: Power Take-Off Mechanism Design and Characterization for Boosting Ocean Wave Energy Harvesting Efficiency

       PI: Dr. Bin Dong/Dr. Xiaofan Li

  • Grant Project: Assessing the potential benefits of solar fields for openland dependent wildlife

       PI: Dr. Mike Eichholz/Dr. Brent Pease

  • Grant Project: Electrochemical Extraction and Purification of Rare Earth Elements from Acid Mine Drainage's

       PI: Dr. Habibollah Fakhraei/Dr. Mary Kinsel

  • Grant Project: Hydrologic, environmental, and soil carbon assessment to support the development of an agrivoltaics research,development, and demonstration facility at Southern Illinois University’s Carterville Campus

       PI: Dr. Jonathan W.F. Remo

  • Grant Project: Developing a Mineral Nutrition Program for Perennial Fruit Crops Suitable to Agro-voltaic Installations Under Lower Midwest USA Conditions

       PI: Dr. Bradley H. Taylor/Dr. Stuart A. Walters

2023-2024 Recipients

FY24 Energy Boost Seed Grant

Period: July 1, 2023- June 30, 2024

  • Grant Project: An augmented framework for urban building energy modeling (UBEM) integrating dynamic local determinants

       PI: Dr. Mehdi Ashayeri

  • Grant Project: Microbially Enhanced Extraction of Rare Earth Elements from Coal Mining Wastes

      PI: Dr. Liliana Lefticariu/Dr. Kelly Bender

  • Grant Project: Energy-efficient system/signal designs and resource allocation algorithms for integrated communications, sensing, and computing

     PI: Dr. Gayan L. Aruma Baduge

  • Grant Project: Genetically Engineered Micro-organisms for Converting Methane into Liquid Feedstocks of Acetic Acid Fuel Cells

     PI: Dr. Divya Prakash/Dr. Yong Gao

  • Grant Project: Genetically Engineered Micro-organisms for Converting Methane into Liquid Feedstocks of Acetic Acid Fuel Cells

     PI: Saikat Talapatra/Dr. Punit Kohli

2022-2023 Recipients

FY23 Energy Boost Seed Grant

Period: July 1, 2022- June 30, 2023

  • Grant Project: Constructing Constructive Dialogs About a sustainable energy Transition

     PI: Dr. Kristin F. Hurst/Dr. Zachary M. Hurst/Dr. Marc J. Stern

  • Grant Project: Experimental-supported In-Silico Engineering of PET-eating Enzymes

     PI: Dr. Thushari Jayasekera/Dr. Lahiru N. Jayakody/Dr. Poopalasingam Sivakumar

  • Grant Project: Magneto-Chiral Optical Spectroscopy of Chiral/Organic/Organometallic Molecular Single Crystal for Clean Energy Conversion

     PI: Dr. Bumsu Lee/Dr. Saikat Talapatra