2020 Research & Innovation Seed Grant Winners
The 2020 Research & Innovation Seed Grant Competition resulted in 25 new grants for a total of over $1.1M being awarded to Boulder faculty across disciplines.
2020 Funded Projects
| PI Name | PI Department | Review Category | Project Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mirela Alistar | Computer Science, ATLAS Institute | Engineering & Applied Sciences | Phago Tag My World: A Platform to Capture and Analyze the Bacteriophages Around Us |
| Angela Bielefeldt | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Engineering & Applied Sciences | Building STEM Identity Among Undergraduate Student Mentors |
| Justin Brumbaugh | Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology (MCDB) | Biomedical Sciences | Discovering Epigenetic Mechanisms that Direct Intestinal Cell Identity |
| Gang Cao | Physics | Basic Physical Sciences | Field-Editing Technology for Quantum Materials Synthesis: Development of a High-Magnetic-Field Laser Instrument |
| Yifu Ding | Mechanical Engineering | Engineering & Applied Sciences | Artificial Snakeskin via Solid Liquid Interfacial Polymerization (SLIP) Process |
| Virginia Ferguson | Mechanical Engineering | Engineering & Applied Sciences | Establishing a New Paradigm: Mechanical Damage and Inflammation Combine to Cause Pelvic Organ Prolapse |
| Gerardo Gutierrez | Anthropology | Social Sciences & Professional Schools | A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Study of Maya Blue Pigment through Material Science, Archaeology, and Art History: Revisiting the Invention and Technological Development of the First Synthetic Organic-Inorganic Nanomaterial of the New World |
| Michael Hermele | Physics | Basic Physical Sciences | Mathematical Physics of Quantum Matter |
| Shu-Wei Huang | Electrical, Computer & Energy Engineering | Engineering & Applied Sciences | Novel Optical Magnetometer for Room-Temperature Magnetoencephalography |
| Mahmoud Hussein | Aerospace Engineering Sciences | Engineering & Applied Sciences | Resonant Inclusions: A New Paradigm in Thermoelectricity |
| Sarah James | Classics | Arts & Humanities | The Brač Island Project |
| Christina Lacerenza | Organizational Leadership and Information Analytics | Social Sciences & Professional Schools | Increasing Diversity and Inclusion in STEM: A Multi-Study Effort Examining the Effects of Intrateam Role Segregation on Team Effectiveness and Career Outcomes of Underrepresented Students in Engineering |
| Mark Meany | Leeds School of Business | Grand Challenge | Space and Sustainability: Norms of Behavior for the Sustainable Development of Commercial Space Activities |
| Daniel Medeiros | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | Biomedical Sciences | A Functional Genomics Approach to Understanding the Evolution of “Endless Forms” |
| Will Medlin | Chemical & Biological Engineering | Engineering & Applied Sciences | An Interdisciplinary Approach to Recycle Polyolefins |
| Corey Neu | Mechanical Engineering | Biomedical Sciences | 3D Printed and Layered Tissue for Articular Cartilage Engineering |
| Orit Peleg | Computer Science | Engineering & Applied Sciences | Bee-Honeycomb Formation under Geometric Frustration |
| Markus Raschke | Physics | Basic Physical Sciences | “Thinning to Nothing” – Control of Decoherence from Microscale to Molecular Quantum Opto-Mechanics by Atomic Layer Etching |
| Sandra Ristovska | Media Studies | Social Sciences & Professional Schools | The Law Through the Lens |
| Karl Rittger | INSTAAR | Geological & Environmental Sciences | Soil Development and Carbon Cycling’s Relation to Snow Persistence |
| David Root | Psychology & Neuroscience | Biomedical Sciences | Imaging Synaptic Neurochemical Dynamics Underlying Stress |
| Sean Shaheen | Electrical, Computer & Energy Engineering | Engineering & Applied Sciences | Organic Reservoir Computing: A Joint Theory-Experiment Study |
| Yaffa Truelove | Geography | Social Sciences & Professional Schools | Adapting to the ‘Waterless’ City: The Production of Extreme Water Scarcity and Gender, Class, and Ethno-Religious Inequalities in Shimla, India |
| Carrie Wall Bell | Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) | Geological & Environmental Sciences | Finding Little Fish in Big Data: Automated Pattern Analysis and Anomaly Detection in the Fisheries Acoustic Archive |
| Ajume Wingo | Philosophy | Arts & Humanities | A Virtual Reality Programming Language Based on African Philosophy |