Funding History

Mike Loranty (Geography) and his collaborators in the US and Namibia received an award in the amount of $26,000 to help in understanding how ecosystems changes will impact large herbivore populations. The results from this project will improve our understanding of giraffe movement ecology at fine spatial scales.

Damhnait McHugh (Biology), and a team of collaborators received $102,000 for a project that focuses on the history, ecological impacts, and adaptions of an introduced soil dweller in the changing climate of Ireland.

Ahmet Ay (Biology and Mathematics), and Krista Ingram (Biology) have received an award for $146,000 for their project using artificial intelligence tools and facial recognition software along with environmental DNA-informed population genomics to estimate critical population parameters for harbor seals.

Bineyam Taye (Biology), and Ken Belanger (Biology), received a $149,000 grant to study microbial communities (microbiomes) present in the gastrointestinal tracts of Ethiopian children.

Jacob Goldberg (Chemistry) and their collaborator received an award for $134,000 to develop and prepare a new generation of small-molecule sensors that will be used to detect and quantitate zinc ions in the brain.

Linda Y. Tseng (Environmental Studies and Physics), and her collaborators have received a $116,00 two-year award for their project exploring the transport and impact of microplastics.

Frank M. Frey (Biology and Environmental Studies), Peter R. Scull (Geography), and their collaborators have received a two-year award for $130,000 for their project studying the prevalence of antibiotic resistance in pathogens causing upper respiratory illness in southwestern Uganda.

Race-based class assumptions and their consequences for increasing racial resentment and race-related health disparities in the United States.

Spencer D. Kelly (Psychology and Brain Sciences), and Yukari Hirata (East Asian Languages and Literatures), have received an award of $26,000 for their project which will investigate whether speakers of a foreign language can use culturally appropriate hand gestures to help make their accents easier to understand for native speakers.

Elodie Fourquet (Computer Science), and her collaborator have received a two-year award of $101,262. This project uses computer graphics algorithms based on the projective geometric calculations of Renaissance artist-mathematicians. Psychophysical methods measure observers’ perception of the 3D scenes as the 2D pictorial information varies, providing critical insight into the human visual system’s interpretation of 3D space.