06/18/2024
By Anne Maglia
The goal of this program is to support faculty:
• in developing multi-disciplinary and interdisciplinary collaborative efforts leading to sustainable research and scholarship;
• in generating preliminary results and supporting innovative ideas leading to external funding and long term success; and
• in generating high quality scholarship and creative work leading to external recognition and long term success.
If you have any questions about specific projects or ideas for collaboration, please contact the PI directly or email RD@uml.edu.
PI: Hadi Amiri, Assistant Professor, Computer Science, Kennedy College of Sciences
Co-PI: Guixin He, Associate Professor, Biomedical and Nutritional Sciences, Zuckerberg College of Health
Project Title: Toward Bridging Antibiotic Guidelines and Practice in Critical Care with NLP
Award Amount: $15,000
PI: Belleh Fontem, Assistant Professor, Operations and Information Systems, Manning School of Business
Co-PI: Nichalin Summerfield, Assistant Professor, Operations and Information Systems, Manning School of Business
Project Title: Poll Worker Assignment and Voting Machine Allocation across Electoral Precincts
Award Amount: $10,938
PI: Rozhin Hajian, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Francis College of Engineering
Co-PI: Jinxiang Xi, Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Francis College of Engineering
Project Title: Develop a Schlieren-aided speech therapy device for children with speech-hearing impairments
Award Amount: $15,000
PI: Yuerong Liu, Assistant Professor, Marketing, Entrepreneurship & Innovation, Manning School of Business
Co-PI: Jiabin Shen, Assistant Professor, Psychology, College of Fine Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
Project Title: The Bright Side of Power Asymmetry: An Overlooked Role of Power Disparity Acceptance
Award Amount: $15,000
PI: Elizabeth McKay, Assistant Professor, Solomont School of Nursing, Zuckerberg College of Health Sciences
Co-PI: Ainat Koren, Professor, Solomont School of Nursing, Zuckerberg College of Health Sciences
Co-PI: Jason Rydberg, Associate Professor, School of Criminology and Justice Studies, College of Fine Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
Project Title: Understanding Disparities in Sex Education: Measuring LGBQ+ Inclusivity
Award Amount: $8,040
PI: Fanfei Meng, Assistant Professor, Biomedical and Nutritional Sciences, Zuckerberg College of Health Sciences
Co-PI: Soumita Das, Associate Professor, Biomedical and Nutritional Sciences, Zuckerberg College of Health Sciences
Project Title: Nanomedicine Development for Bacterial Sepsis Treatment
Award Amount: $15,000
PI: Sashank Narain, Assistant Professor, Miner School of Computer and Information Sciences, Kennedy College of Sciences
Co-PI: Claire Lee, Associate Professor, School of Criminology and Justice Studies, College of Fine Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences
Project Title: Democratizing AI Education: Designing Inclusive Curriculum for AI Awareness and Education Across Diverse Disciplines
Award Amount: $14,976
PI: Stephanie Ortiz, Assistant Professor, Sociology, College of Fine Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
Co-PI: Elvina Le, Ph.D. Student, Psychology, College of Fine Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
Project Title: (Post)Pandemic Racism and Southeast Asian American College Students
Award Amount: $8,500
PI: Megan Papesh, Associate Professor, Psychology, College of Fine Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
Co-PI: Ivy Ho, Associate Professor, Psychology, College of Fine Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences
Project Title: Exploring Racial Disparities in Medical Image Perception
Award Amount: $14,650
PI: Natalie Steinel, Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences, Kennedy College of Sciences
Co-PI: Frederic Chain, Associate Professor, Biological Sciences, Kennedy College of Sciences
Co-PI: Natalia Palacios, Associate Professor, Public Health, Zuckerberg College of Health Sciences,
Co-PI: Amanda Redlich, Assistant Professor, Mathematics and Statistics, Kennedy College of Sciences
Project Title: Multi-omic network analysis of the gut-brain-immune axis
Award Amount: $15,000
PI: Robai Werunga, Assistant Professor, School of Education, College of Fine Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences
Co-PI: Rocio Rosales, Associate Professor, Psychology, College of Fine Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences
Co-PI: Ya-yu Lo, Professor, UNC Charlotte, Special Education and Child Development, College of Education
Project Title: Examining the Efficacy of Touch Math in Developing and Remediating Basic Computation Skills of Students with or at Risk of Math Disabilities
Award Amount: $15,000