Funding History

Anzela Niraula, assistant professor of psychological and brain sciences, in collaboration with Jacques Robert, professor in microbiology and immunology at the University of Rochester, has been awarded a Picker ISI grant for a project to enhance understanding of the biological changes in the metamorphic brain.

Beth Parks, Professor of Physics, together with colleagues Silver Onyango of Mbarara University of Science and Technology (Uganda) and Crystal North (MGH/Harvard), have received an award for $7,120 for their project. This project aims to reduce harm caused by high particulate levels from cooking over wood fires.

Cosmin Ilie, assistant professor of physics, in collaboration with Katherine Freese (University of Texas), Andreea Petric (the Space Telescope Science Institute), and Jillian Paulin (University of Pennsylvania), has been awarded $84,500 funding for a project to investigate the nature of the elusive dark matter particle by using observations of the first stars and galaxies in the universe.

Kelly Isham, assistant professor of mathematics, in collaboration with Kartik Lakhotia (Intel) and Laura Monroe (Los Alamos National Laboratory), was awarded $31,250 for a project to investigate large-scale computer networks, with the goal of designing the next generation of HPCs.

Paul Harnik, assistant professor of earth and environmental geosciences, Rebecca Metzler, professor of physics, and Damhnait McHugh, professor of biology, have received a $100,000 award for their project to examine the response of calcifying organisms to anthropogenic climate change.

Wan-chun Liu, associate professor of PBSC and Neuroscience, and Spencer Kelly, Professor of PBSC and Neuroscience, have received an award for $8,344 for their project. The project will use songbirds as animal models to explore the cognitive functions, physiological and brain mechanisms, and molecular underpinnings of co-speech gestures in humans and songbirds.

Professor of Physics Rebecca Metzler, in collaboration with David Gillikin of Union College, was awarded $4,275 for work on the structure and composition of Etheria elliptica adhesive. 

Professors Bruce C. Hansen, Caroline F. Keating, and Sinhaeng Lee received $31,000 for their award to show how music creates a sense of collective identity and community.

Joe Levy (Geology) and Adam Burnett (Geography) received $30,000 to generate a long-term record of climate change in the central New York region in order to better understand the local impacts of global climate change in the form of changes to temperature, precipitation patterns, hydrological systems, and biogeochemical systems.

James “Eddie” Watkins (Biology) and Joshua Finnell (University Librarian) received an award for $25,000 to thoroughly examine, organize, and digitize the Alma Stokey personal papers collection to create a morphological trait matrix to generate a phylogeny of shifts in form gametophyte character states.