Congratulations to the 2019-2020 Provost Research Grant Recipients!
August 21, 2019
Dear Colleagues,
I am delighted to share a summary of the Provost Research Grants that have been awarded for 2019-2020 This year more than 40 faculty requested $1.3M in support of their research and creative activities. The selection committee made eleven awards, totaling nearly $300,000, to support projects in a broad spectrum of disciplines. Projects ranged from anthropology and biology to music and physics, united by a shared commitment to conduct early-stage inquiry on a topic of compelling originality and promise The recipients and the titles of their projects follow below.
The Research Award Evaluation Committee included the following members:
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Ed Hackett, Vice Provost for Research (chair)
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Gannit Ankori, Division Head, Creative Arts
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Linda Bui, Senior Associate Dean, International Business School
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Wendy Cadge, Division Head, Social Sciences
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Fernando Rosenberg, Division Head, Humanities
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Cindy Thomas, Associate Dean for Research, Heller School
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John Wardle, Division Head, Sciences
Congratulations to all those funded!
Lisa M. Lynch, Provost
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- Jonathan Anjaria (Anthropology)
Documenting India’s Invisible Sustainable Transportation Cultures
- Yu-Hui Chang (Music)
Recording Project of Two Orchestral Original Compositions
- Elizabeth Ferry (Anthropology)
Community-based Mining Heritage Tourism in Marmato, Colombia: A South-South Collaboration
- Mike Hagan (Physics) and Pengyu Hong (Computer Science)
Artificial Intelligence Approach to Understand Virus Capsid Assembly and Improve Antiviral Drugs
- Grace Han (Chemistry) and Ben Rogers (Physics)
Control of Thermal Energy Storage for Climate Action
- Albion Lawrence (Physics)
Nonequilbrium Statistical Mechanics of the Ocean and Atmosphere
- Tatjana Meschede (Heller)
Leveraging Mobility in Germany and the US: A Qualitative Comparative Pilot Study of Wealth Inequality in Germany
- Yuko Nakajima and Jim Haber (Biology)
Mechanisms of Immune Evasion in Lyme Disease (Borrelia burgdorferi)
- Suzanne Paradis (Biology)
Rapid Assembly of Inhibitory Synapses in the Brain as a Novel Epilepsy Treatment
- Siri Suh (Sociology)
A New Global Health Panacea? Misoprostol and the Pharmaceuticalization of Reproductive Health in Senegal
- Vedakumar Tatavarty (Biology)
Are Repetitive Behaviors in Autistic Individuals Connected to the Impaired Selfregulation of Their Neuronal Activity?