12/11/2024
By Anne Maglia

The Office of Research Development is pleased to announce the award recipients under the Researchers and Scholars Investment (RSI) Fund for Fall 2024. This fund supports faculty in their professional trajectory by investing in their research, scholarship and creative works.

The call for applications for the Spring 2025 cycle will be announced in February 2025.

Congratulations to each of the eight awardees:

Anhar Bhuiyan, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Francis College of Engineering
Project Title: Enhancing Thermal Management in Ga₂O₃ Devices: Direct Epitaxial Growth of Si-Doped β-Ga₂O₃ on Diamond Substrates
Award Amount: $3,000

Urmitapa Dutta, Associate Professor, Psychology
College of Fine Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
Project Title: Citizenship in Crisis: Exploring Bureaucratic Violence and Community Resilience in Miya Communities
Award Amount: $3,000

Jennifer Fish, Associate Professor, Biological Sciences
Kennedy College of Sciences
Project Title: Generation of Breeding Colony of Veiled Chameleons
Award Amount: $3,000

Huiqi Gan, Associate Professor, Accounting
Manning School of Business
Project Title: Supply Chain Risk Disclosure and Banks’ Risk Perception
Award Amount: $3,000

Jose Mauricio Geleilate, Management
Manning School of Business
Project Title: Human-AI Interactions in the Workplace
Award Amount: $3,000

Michael Obal, Associate Professor, Marketing, Entrepreneurship and Innovation (MEI)
Manning School of Business
Co-PI: Ann Kronrod, Associate Professor, Marketing, Entrepreneurship and Innovation (MEI)
Co-PI: Ruqqia Hassan, Ph.D. Student, Marketing, Entrepreneurship and Innovation (MEI)
Project Title: Materialism and Technological Innovation
Award Amount: $3,000

Hieu Phan, Professor, Finance
Manning School of Business
Project Title: Mitigating Climate Risks: The Role of Hedging in Financial Risk Management
Award Amount: $3,000

Kelly Socia, Professor, School of Criminology and Justice Studies
College of Fine Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
Project Title: Political Rhetoric Surrounding Marijuana Policy in New Hampshire
Award Amount: $1,287