Funding History

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.

Enrique Galvez (Physics), and his collaborators have received a two-year award of $82,000 for their project. The project explores the diagnosis of medical tissue using quantum entanglement.

Neil Albert, Lecturer in Psychology and Neuroscience; Krista Ingram (Biology), and Jenn Lutman, Director of the Writing and Speaking Center, have received a two-year award of $24,342 for their project.

Wan-chun Liu (Psychology), and his collaborators have received a two-year award of $155,000. Optogenetics involves genetic manipulation which provides neurons with light sensitive activity. The research will explore the influence of social interaction on learning in songbirds.

Jessica Graybill (Geography and Russian & Eurasian Studies) and her collaborators have received a one-year award of $37,430 for their project. This project will explore how carbon fluxes vary on or near tracks, how the tracks vary in density and distribution and how their presence interacts with nearby human communities.

Ahmet Ay (Biology and Mathematics) and his collaborator have been awarded $107,392 for their project. This project will combine computational methods for modeling large-scale systems with molecular perturbation techniques in the laboratory to pin down the gene regulatory circuit controlling segmentation of the vertebrae disks during embryonic development.

Michael Loranty and Heather Kropp (Geography) and their collaborators have received a two-year award of $136,545 for their project. This project will confront climate model representations with field measurements and satellite observations of boreal forest-snow energy dynamics