Funding | Tillman Research Lab

National Science Foundation

“EPIIC: Building Institutional Capacity for External Partnerships” $399,965; 2024 – 2027 [Co-PI]
“MRI: Acquisition of Gel Permeation Chromatograph with Multiple Detectors to Expand Capabilities for Macromolecular Characterization” $116,295; ; 2019 [Co-PI with Madalyn Radlauer and Chester Simocko, SJSU]
“RUI: Synthesis of Macrocyclic Polymers Using Radical Trap-Assisted Atom Transfer Radical Coupling” $130,000; 2013-2016
“RUI: Synthesis of Amine-Terminated Polymers Using Lewis Acid-Induced N-methlyeneamines as Cationic Initiators” $135,000; 2008-2011
“MRI: Implementing a Nanofabrication Laboratory for Enhancing Undergraduate Education at Bucknell” $200,000. 2008 [Contributor; authored section entitled “Fabrication of Organic Light Emitting Diodes”]
“MRI: Acquisition of a High Resolution NMR Spectrometer to Advance Faculty and Undergraduate Research” $475,000. 2004 [Contributor; authored section entitled “Characterizing End-labeled Polymers”]

Petroleum Research Fund

UR grant “Stereoregular Vinyl Polymers Prepared by Low Temperature Controlled Radical Polymerization” $70,000; 2016-2019
Type G grant “Synthesis and Characterization of Vinyl-Aromatic Polymers Containing Photochemically Active Groups” $35,000; 2003- 2005

Beckman Foundation

Beckman Scholar Award (as institutional PI) ” $154,000; 2024-2017
Beckman Scholar Award (support for Ella Basler) ” $26,000; 2021-2023
Beckman Scholar Award (support for Kat Xia) ” $26,000; 2019-2020
Beckman Scholar Award (support for Elizabeth Carnicom) ” $26,000; 2014-2015

Research Corporation

Cottrell College Science Award “Anthracene Photodimers in Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization” $41,600; 2005-2007

Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation

Henry Dreyfus Teacher Scholar Award “Synthesis of Cyclic Polymers” $60,000; 2009-2014

Internal SCU Awards