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FY 25 ISU CAES Internal Seed Grants

The ISU Office for Research recognizes the need of faculty to fund research-related activities associated with the Center for Advanced Energy Studies (CAES).
To that end, ISU has established a seed program to distribute available CAES funds.

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 $103,575 was awarded this year.

 

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

 

Headshot of Dr. 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

Headshot of Dr. Minhaz Zibran

Dr. Minhaz Zibran

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

 

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