Grants & Awards

The University Libraries at Virginia Tech is proud to receive the following grants and awards.

Date	Person(s) involved	Grant/Award Title	Dollar amount	Organization
2008 - 2011	Tyler Walters, Martin Halbert, Cathy Hartman, Katherine Skinner	MetaArchive: A Sustainable Digital Preservation Service to State and Local Institutions	$325,000	National Archives and Records Administration
Jan 2011 - Dec 2014	Gail McMillan	ETD Lifecycle Management	$268,458	Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS)
Jan 2011 - Dec 2014	Gail McMillan	Chronicles in Preservation	$300,000	National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
Jan 2012 - June 2014	Ewing E, Hausman B, Pencek B, Ramakrishnan N	An Epidemiology of Information: Data Mining the 1918 Influenza Pandemic	$123,778	National Endowment for the Humanities
Feb 2012 - April 2014	Gail McMillan	Chronicles in Preservation (NEH)	$21,659	MetaArchive Services Group - Educopia
2013 - 2014	Katherine Skinner, Tyler Walters	The Nexus Project: Spanning Boundaries to Transform Library Leadership	$100,000	Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS)
Jan 2013 - Dec 2015	D Hicks, Todd Ogle	Transatlantic Teacher Scholars Program: Change of Time and Place in the Meuse Argonne American Cemetery	$350,000	American Battle and Memorial Commission with a subcontract from Learn NC, University of North Carolina
July 2013 - July 2015	David Hicks, Todd Ogle	Transatlantic Teacher Scholars: Change Over Time and Place in the Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, A proposal to the American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC)	$58,916	University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

Aug 2013 - July 2014	Frimpong E, Zhiwu Xie	Modeling How Traits Mediate Fish Vulnerabilities to Specific Habitat Alterations: Extending the Mapping Capability of Fish Traits to Facilitate Modeling	$61,000	USGS- U.S. Geological Survey
Sep 2013 - Aug 2016	Todd Ogle, David Cline, David Hicks	EXP: Exploring the Potential of Mobile Augmented Reality for Scaffolding Historical Inquiry Learning	$549,039	National Science Foundation
2014 - 2017	Katherine Skinner, Christina Drummond, Tyler Walters	Nexus Lab: Leading Across Boundaries	$399,800	Institute of Museum and Library Services
2014 - 2016	Julie Griffin, Katherine Skinner, Tyler Walters	ETDPlus: Preserving & Curating ETD Research Data & Complex Digital Objects	$126,214	Institute of Museum and Library Services
April 2014 - Sep 2015	Zhiwu Xie, Edward A Fox	Archiving Transactions Towards Uninterruptible Web Service	$25,000	Columbia University
Oct 2014 - Sep 2016	Julie Griffin, Zhiwu Xie	Preserving and Curating ETD Research Data and Complex Digital Objects	$126,214	MetaArchive Services Group - Educopia
2015 - 2017	Elliot Shore, Tyler Walters	SHARE Phase II: Expanding and Enhancing the Value of Open Data on Scholarly Research	$1,200,000	Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the Institute of Museum and Library Services
May 2015 - June 2016	Monena Hall, Anthony Wright de Hernandez	Latino Americans: 500 Years of History	$3,000	ALA Public Programs - Diversity Programming Grant
July 2015 - July 2017	David Hicks, Kurt Luther, Paul Quigley, Andrea Ogier	Mapping the Fourth of July in the American Civil War Era: A Crowdsourced Digital Archive	$74,224	National Historical Publications & Records Commission
Aug 2015 - July 2016	Good, D.J., Gallo, S., Akers, J., Walz, A., Hu, D., and Baab, L.	“Development of an Interactive Human Body Digital Reusable Learning Object (RLO) to Provide Whole Body Systems-based Learning in Vitamins and Minerals”	$22,000	4VA
Aug 2015 - Feb 2017	David Hicks, Todd Ogle	Evaluation and Strategic Visioning for ABMC World War I Online Educational Resources	$125,000	American Battle Monuments Commission
Oct 2015 - July 2016	Robert Leonard, Andrea Ogier	VT ArtWorks	$25,000	Institute of Museum & Library Services
Oct 2015 - Dec 2016	Jim Dubinsky, Bruce Pencek	Veterans in Society Summer Institute for College Teachers	$152,250	National Endowment for the Humanities
Dec 2015 - Nov 2016	Anthony Wright de Hernandez	Native Voices: Native Peoples' Concepts of Health and Illness Exhibition	$200	ALA Public Programs Office -- Diversity Programming Grant
Jan 2016 - Dec 2016	Todd Ogle, Joe Gabbard, Bill Carstensen and Denis Gracanin	Collaborative Analysis of Large-scale Mixed Reality Data	$100,000	Microsoft Research
Jan 2016 - Aug 2016	Samantha Parish, Adrienne Serra, Kira Dietz, Nathan Hall	The People, Places, and Things of Montgomery County, Virginia	$10,213	National Endowment for the Humanities
June 2016 - May 2019	Zhiwu Xie, Edward A Fox, Pablo A Tarazaga, Tyler O Walters	Developing Library Cyberinfrastructure Strategy for Big Data Sharing and Reuse	$308,175	Institute of Museum & Library Services
April 2017 - March 2019	Aaron Purcell, Samantha R Winn	Women of Design: Revealing Women's Hidden Contributions to the Built Environment	$232,356	Council on Library & Information Resources
May 2017 - Aug 2017	Anne M Brown	VTF-Brown-Luther and Alice Hamlett Undergrad Research	$2,999	Virginia Tech Foundation Inc
May 2017 - April 2018	Edward Gitre,Kurt Luther, Marc Brodsky	The American Soldier Collaborative Digital Archive	$50,000	National Endowment for the Humanities
Aug 2017 - July 2018	R Leonard , Andrea Ogier	VTArtWorks	$222,824	Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
Dec 2017 - Nov 2018	Nathan Hall, Andrea Ogier, Zhiwu Xie	Developing Library Strategy for 3D and Virtual Reality Collection Development and Reuse	$95,024	Institute of Museum & Library Services
May 2018 - April 2020	Zhiwu Xie, Edward Fox	Continuing Education to Advance Web Archiving	$248,451	Institute of Museum & Library Services
Oct 2018 - Oct 2019	Aaron Purcell, Laurel Rozema	They’re Closing Down the Textile Mill: Creating Access to the Fries Textile Plant Records at Virginia Tech	$68,722	National Historical Publications and Records Commission, the grants-making arm of the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration
Aug 2019 - July 2022	Bill Ingram	Opening Books and the National Corpus of Graduate Research	$505,214	Institute of Museum & Library Services
Aug 2019 - July 2020	Nathan Hall	Community Development Model for Digital Community Archives	$87,151	Institute of Museum & Library Services