2022 Seed Grant Winners
The 2022 Research & Innovation Seed Grant program resulted in 25 new grants with approximately $1.2M being awarded to ²ÊÃñ±¦µä faculty across disciplines.
2022 Funded Projects
| PI Name | PI Department | Category | Project Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nausica Arnoult | Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology | Grand Challenge | Does microgravity impair the proper repair of DNA double strand breaks? |
| Longji Cui | Mechanical Engineering | Engineering & Applied Sciences | Gapless thermo-photovoltaics: A new paradigm for renewable power generation using waste heat |
| Samantha Fladd | Anthropology/Museum of Natural History | Social Sciences & Professional Schools | Digital ontologies and indigenous materialities |
| Kathryn Goldfarb | Anthropology | Social Sciences & Professional Schools | Mobility and environmental health in wildfire response communities |
| Juliet Gopinath | Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering | Engineering & Applied Sciences | Quantifying membrane fouling dynamics using stimulated Raman scattering and fiber-coupled optical coherence tomography |
| Andras Gyenis | Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering | Engineering & Applied Sciences | Novel error-protected superconducting circuit for next-generation quantum processors |
| Christoffer Heckman | Computer Science | Grand Challenge Our Space. Our Future. | Keeping water on the radar: Using embedded machine learning for sensing of surface water levels in the era of climate change |
| Allison Hilger | Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences | Engineering & Applied Sciences | Mechanisms for aerosol generation from speech production for airborne disease transmission |
| Adam Holewinski | Chemical and Biological Engineering | Engineering & Applied Sciences | Rewiring electrolysis for sustainable plastics |
| Yumi Janairo Roth; Emmanuel David | Art and Art History; Women and Gender Studies | Arts & Humanities | Ang Walong Pinoy (The Filipino Eight) |
| David Jonas | Chemistry | Basic Physical Sciences | Are there quantum resonances across interfaces between photosynthetic proteins? |
| Joel Kaar | Chemical & Biological Engineering | Biomedical Sciences | Inhibition of beta-amyloid peptide toxicity by mixed phospholipid vesicles |
| Nicole Lovenduski | INSTAAR/Atmospheric and Oceanic Studies | Geological & Environmental Sciences | Cloudy chlorophyll: Emulating satellite retrieval in an Earth system model |
| Christopher A. Lowry | Integrative Physiology | Biomedical Sciences | Broad-spectrum Cannabidiol (CBD) as a prevention/treatment of neuroinflammation in a rat model of comorbid autism and epilepsy |
| Elizabeth Meyer | Educational Foundations, Policy, and Practice, School of Education | Social Sciences & Professional Schools | Working towards LGBTQ equality in secondary schools: Learning from teachers who support student activism |
| Beth Osnes | Theatre and Dance | Arts & Humanities | Birds' eye view: Facilitating youth-authored creative solutions for climate change |
| Valerie Otero | STEM Education; School of Education | Social Sciences & Professional Schools | Elementary STEM collaborative |
| Shaily Rahman | Geological Sciences/ INSTAAR | Grand Challenge Our Space. Our Future. | Tracing the fate of reactive Si from mobilization to sequestration across terrestrial analog environments: implications for interpreting the weathering history of Mars |
| Michelle Sauther | Anthropology | Geological & Environmental Sciences | Big data for small nocturnal primates: Development and field testing a new monitoring system to deliver rich real time data to record small primate spatial and social movement |
| Katharine Suding | INSTAAR/Ecology and Evolutionary Biology | Geological & Environmental Sciences | Utilizing diversity to optimize ecosystem service delivery in orchards: Initial characterization to inform a long-term research platform |
| Tiera Tanksley | Educational Foundations, Policy and Practice; School of Education | Engineering & Applied Sciences | Engineering for social justice: How decolonial and anti-racist engineering programs impact the career development and aspirations of humanitarian engineering students |
| Thorsten Trimpop | Critical Media Practices | Arts & Humanities | Stealing paradise |
| Keith Ulmer | Physics | Basic Physical Sciences | FACET: A new detector to search for dark matter particles |
| Gregory Whiting | Mechanical Engineering | Engineering & Applied Sciences | Extremely high power density motor and generators enabled by flow boiling advanced cooling |
| Lei Yuan | Psychology & Neuroscience | Engineering & Applied Sciences | Symbol grounding in humans and machines |