We are pleased to announce the projects that received funding through the competitive FY24 Internal Funding Program.
ARTS AND HUMANITIES SUBCOMMITTEE
David Aarons, Pan in the Sanctuary: Steelbands in Jamaican Churches and a Postcolonial Ethics of Instrumentation
Amanda Gale, Design as an Impetus for Building Resiliency Through Student Wellbeing in Higher Education
CREATIVE AND PERFORMING ARTS SUBCOMMITTEE
Kasia Ozga, Blue Collar: Artwork Production and Exhibition Support
Leah Sobsey, This Earthen Door
Kelley O’Brien, How We See AI: Developing Visual Metaphors through Collage Inquiry
Daniel Hale, Book Ending: An Animated Exploration of Optical Toys, Carnival Games, and Human Evolution
Rodgers Dameron, The Waterfall: Animation Project
Derek Toomes, Digital Stone Project
PHYSICAL AND NATURAL SCIENCES COMMITTEE
Kimberly Komatsu, Examining Native Legume Plant Coexistence to Predict Their Beneficial Contributions to Functioning Ecosystems
Minjeong Kim, Machine-Learning Methods for Automated Analysis of Phenotypic Plasticity in Mammals
Jason Reddick, Development of a New Chlorination Enzyme for Organic Synthesis
Dennis LaJeunesse, Developing Bacterial Cellulose Composites Using a Co-Culture-Based System
Suzanne Ahmed, Active Nanoparticle Effects on Surface Wettability and Interfacial Tension
Kerui Wu, Bioengineering a Biological Nanovesicle as an Artificial Antigen-Presenting Cell
Yingcheng Sun, Structured Clinical Evidence Extraction and Synthesis
Gwen Robbin Schug, Variation in Human Compact Bone Ontogeny – Filling in the holes
SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES SUBCOMMITTEE
Salih Rakap, Empowering Preschool Teachers: AI-Enhanced IEP Goal Development with ChatGPT
Michelle Martin Romero, Examining the Physical Embodiment of Resistance and Its Links to the Health and Wellbeing of Black and Brown Women Engaged in Racial Justice Work
Charles Egeland, Reconstructing Early Human Behavior and Ecology at Swartkrans Cave (South Africa)
Andrea Lewis, Enhancing Black Women’s Sexual Health Autonomy Through Culturally Tailored Community Education
Moez Farokhniahamedani, Turnover Troubles: Unmasking Cybersecurity Breaches in a Shifting Workforce
Nir Eilam, Household Behavior in a High-Inflation Era
Ben Dyson, Investigating Social and Emotional Learning using Cooperative Learning as a Pedagogical Practice in Middle College Physical Education and Health Education
Amber Vermeesch, Fostering Engagement & Recognition with Nature
Karen La Paro, Learning to Teach: DAP Observations and Actions
