The Spring 2023 round of the Faculty-Student Challenge Grant applications funded 12 proposals for a total of more than $52,000 awarded among them.
These proposals that were recommended for funding by members of the Scholarly and Creative Activity Committee and ultimately approved for funding by Provost Scott Furlong.
Winners include:
Identification of novel partners of adhesion regulator Kinase Responsive to Stress B (KrsB) in a Mutagenesis Screen in Dictyostelium discoideum
Faculty Member(s): Yulia Artemenko, Biological Sciences
Student Collaborator(s): Quinn Jones
Strands That Unite
Faculty Member(s): Benjamin Entner, Art and Design
Student Collaborator(s): Caitlin Marx
A Comparative Study of PCR-based Assays: Surveying for Ranavirus in Oswego County
Faculty Member(s): Nicholas Sard, Biological Sciences
Student Collaborator(s): Najiyah Williamson
Ultra-Long Period Cepheids and RR Lyraes: Challenges for Pulsation Physics
Faculty Member(s): Shashi Kanbur, Physics
Student Collaborator(s): Selim Kalici/Hugh Riley Randall
Method Development for Genotype Affecting Body's Reaction to Cortisol
Faculty Member(s): Kestutis Bendinskas, Chemistry
Student Collaborator(s): Devon Seale
Development of novel synthetic cationic lipids as gene delivery agents via click chemistry
Faculty Member(s): Arsalan Mirjafari, Chemistry
Student Collaborator(s): John Yeboah
Monitoring wild birds on campus and at Rice Creek using banding and acoustic data
Faculty Member(s): Daniel Baldassarre, Biological Sciences
Student Collaborator(s): Rebecca Connors/Griffin Kutny
Development of High Performance Lithium Ion Battery Anode from Activated Carbon and Silicon Remnants
Faculty Member(s): Mohammad Islam, Physics
Student Collaborator(s): Joel Turallo
Barriers to readiness for the Buffalo Blizzard
Faculty Member(s): Lisa Glidden/Evelyn Benavides, Political Science/Sociology
Student Collaborator(s): Emma Lutz
Templates to Promote Knowing: Mapping Place across Satterly Hill, Hsinchu and Kofu
Faculty Member(s): Richard Metzgar, Art and Design
Student Collaborator(s): Caryn Nabrizny/Catherine Walsh
A multiwavelength study of some of the fastest pulsars known
Faculty Member(s): Natalia Lewandowska, Physics
Student Collaborator(s): TBD
Nature and Us: Understanding the Relationship between Nature, Experience and Humanities Education
Faculty Member(s): Tiffany Deater/Jarrod Hagadorn, Cinema and Screen Studies
Student Collaborator(s): Trevin Ostheller/Wells Liscomb/Lauren Smith
For more information on these and other funding opportunities to support scholarly and creative activities, visit the Office of Research and Sponsored Program's Internal Grants website.