The 2021听Research & Innovation Seed Grant program resulted in 16 new grants with approximately $700,000 being awarded to 彩民宝典 faculty across disciplines.
2021听Funded Projects
| PI Name | PI Department听 | Category | Project Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Allison Anderson | Aerospace Engineering | Grand Challenge | High Performance Spacesuit Glove with Novel Material Layup for Human Space Exploration |
| Chunmei Ban | Mechanical Engineering | Engineering & Applied Sciences | Enabling Safe Solid-State Batteries by Using Gorilla Glass-Inspired Solid Electrolytes |
| Holly Barnard | Geography; INSTAAR | Geological Sciences | The Answer is Blowin' in the Wind: diagnosing forest water stress with videos of tree motion |
| Stephanie Bryant | Chemical and Biological Engineering | Engineering & Applied Sciences | An Interdisciplinary Approach to Engineering Clean Meat |
| Kristen Carpenter | Law | Social Sciences & Professional Schools | Implementing Indigenous Peoples鈥� Rights to Language: Revitalization in the U.S. |
| Laurel Hind | Chemical and Biological Engineering | Biomedical Sciences听 | A 鈥淐RISPR鈥� Understanding of Immune Cell Migration |
| Morteza Karimzadeh | Geography | Social Sciences & Professional Schools | Recovering from a Pandemic: Unraveling Neighborhood Geographic Disparities in Consumer and Business Behavior in 2021 |
| Steve Miller | Environmental Studies | Geological Sciences | Emergent Risks in Telecoupled Fisheries |
| Jorge Poveda | Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering | Engineering & Applied Sciences | Deception and Counter-Deception: A Game Theoretical Framework for Control of Unmanned Vehicles |
| Ivan Smalyukh | Physics; RASEI; Materials Science Engineering | Grand Challenge | Food, energy, climate change & space colonization: metamaterials for better greenhouses & extraterrestrial habitats |
| Anthony Straub | Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering | Engineering & Applied Sciences | Insect-mimicking membranes for robust desalination and industrial separations |
| William Taylor | Museum of Natural History | Social Sciences & Professional Schools | Exploring Pastoral Prehistory and Climate Dynamics in the Mongolian Altai Through Glacial Archaeology |
| Susan Thomas | Musicology | Arts & Humanities | Soundscapes of the People: A Musical Ethnography of Pueblo, Colorado |
| Maciej Walczak | Chemistry | Biomedical Sciences听 | Novel Cyclic Peptides with Antitubercular Activities |
| Helanius Wilkins | Theatre & Dance | Arts & Humanities | The Conversation Series |
| Shaz Zamore | ATLAS | Social Sciences & Professional Schools | Craniate - Superpowered Learning for The Underserved |