Engaging a collaborative, open process, I will compose two large-scale multi-form works for renowned soloists, the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, and the Rose Art Museum.The process will be documented and BMOP will release an album of these works together with my Horn Concerto.
This project will use an international panel dataset on HIV to construct a system dynamics model of spending under the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and its impacts on HIV control, population dynamics, employment, education, and gross domestic product in 130 countries around the world.
Our proposal is an interdisciplinary research project with the goal of understanding how natural protein lattices sustain a diversity of unusual cell shapes. We will develop new molecular probes to visualize the lattice organization at unprecedented resolution, combining Han’s expertise in chemical synthesis and Bisson’s expertise in quantitative cell biology.
The Open Corpus Project, modeled off of Ancient Archaeology's Open Context, will be an open-access, centralized hub for standardized manuscript data. It will be an aggregating and interpretive tool, editing and publishing platform that will provide layers of filtering that places traditional data forms in conversation with the material-textual corpus.
There is very little openly accessible text for the world’s less-spoken languages, inhibiting research in natural language processing (NLP) for them. This project consists of the creation and distribution of software and data sets for these languages, enabling research and combating linguistic inequity in language technology development.
COVID-19 spurred innovative partnerships that united new groups and individuals in efforts to address homelessness. Using a contextual framework from PLACE MATTERS, we will conduct a case study of two initiatives with new, diverse partnerships to investigate their impact, initial outcomes, and effect on broad-based community commitment to ending homelessness.
Our proposal aims to initiate a project focused on developing new techniques in creating nanostructural devices.
The proposed project examines the nature of group representation in American politics. I request funding to support a new long-term study that will be the foundation of my book project investigating how race and gender influence the public’s evaluation of political candidates. This project also engages the Brandeis Framework for the Future by building research capacity, providing support for undergraduate and graduate research, and investing in data science.
This grant is a collaborative project researching and then reinventing for audiences today one of the most important art forms in the English Renaissance--the court masque--and the unique role it afforded to women performers. The project involves the fields of music, theater design, literature, dance, and feminist/gender studies.
The visual cortex of higher mammals has a detailed functional architecture that represents properties such as visual field location, orientation selectivity, spatial frequency selectivity, and inputs from the two eyes. The last remaining map to be understood is direction-of-motion/speed selectivity, which we will study here.
Automatically inferring emotions in multilingual social media data is critical for understanding human thoughts towards emergent events (e.g., Covid), thus providing guidance for social policy (e.g., lockdown, vaccination). However, there is no sentiment analysis tool capable of identifying emotional nuance across multiple languages. We propose to apply Artificial Intelligence techniques on a large global dataset of social media to build such a tool for general scientific use.