The Spring 2021 round of the Faculty-Student Challenge Grant applications funded seven proposals for a total of nearly $27,000 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:
- Further Analysis of a Photo-degradable Plastic
Faculty Mentor: Matthew Baker, Chemistry
Student Collaborator: Johann Roque - Exploring the Use of Latent Fingerprint Analysis to Differentiate Female Subjects from Male Subjects
Faculty Mentor: Shokouh Haddadi, Chemistry
Student Collaborator: Shelby Barnes
- Effectors of urbanization on singing behavior and nest success in Northern Cardinals
Faculty Mentor: Daniel Baldassarre, Biological Sciences
Student Collaborators: Brooke Goodman and Shyla Luna - Two-Step, Two-Color Absorption Spectroscopy of Rubidium
Faculty Mentor: Priyanka Rupasinghe, Physics
Student Collaborators: Fiona Wee, Mayank Giri and Navya Amaratunga - Complement factor H regulatory interactions
Faculty Mentor: Julia Koeppe, Chemistry
Student Collaborators: Michael Scott and Namrata Pokharel - Idealized Modeling of Lake Effect Precipitation Bands
Faculty Mentor: Steven Skubis, Atmospheric and Geological Sciences
Student Collaborator: Ethan Weisberger - Metallophilic Interactions Supported by N-Heterocyclic Carbene Mimics
Faculty Mentor: Thomas Brown, Chemistry
Student Collaborator: David George
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.