The following individuals received a 2023 New Innovator Award. The New Innovator Award page includes full summaries of their research projects.
- Dr. Leigh Archer, Rodale Institute
Establishing Viable Organic Orchard Crop Systems for the Northeast U.S.
- Dr. Ahmed Badran, The Scripps Research Institute
Next-Generation Carbon Capture for Agricultural Crop Applications
- Dr. Yifan Cheng, Virginia Tech
Orthogonal Nano-Engineering (ONE) for Rational Design of Food Contact Surfaces
- Dr. Kiran Gadhave, Texas A&M AgriLife Research
Using A Novel RNA Therapy to Tackle the Dual Threat of Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus, a Pandemic Agricultural Pathogen, and its Supervector, Thrips
- Dr. Rachel Hestrin, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Harnessing Mycorrhizal-Microbial Synergies for Agricultural Resilience and Health
- Dr. Michael Kotutwa Johnson, University of Arizona
The Revitalization of Indigenous Crops in the Southwest
- Dr. Margaret Krause, Oregon State University
Big Data to Improve and Sustain Wheat End-Use Quality in the Face of Increasingly Variable Climate Scenarios
- Dr. Zhaoxu Meng, Clemson University
Advancing the Design and Fabrication of Biopolymer-based Nanocomposites for Sustainable Food Packaging
- Dr. Yujin Park, Arizona State University
Developing Circular Urban Food Systems for a Rapidly Growing Desert City
- Dr. Subhashni Raj, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
Food Security in the Anthropocene in Islander Communities
- Dr. Itamar Shabtai, Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station Research Foundation Inc.
Evaluating the Use of Calcium Silicate Amendments to Manage the Bioavailability of Organic Carbon in Agricultural Soil
On average, FFAR garners $1.40 in match for every federal dollar allocated. FFAR uses the overmatch, the funding garnered on top of the 1:1 match, to fully fund the New Innovator Award program. Eliminating the matching requirements opens this award program to a broader pool of applicants. However, some recipients secured $143,032 in additional matching funds for a total $4,961,747 investment.
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