The Spring 2024 round of the Faculty-Student Challenge Grant applications funded 11 proposals for a total of more than $49,000 awarded among them.
These proposals were recommended for funding by members of the Scholarly and Creative Activity Committee and ultimately approved for funding by Provost Scott Furlong.
Winners include:
- Assessing Female Round Goby Behavior to Predict the Spread of Invasive Species
Faculty member(s): Liz Lange, Biological Sciences
Student collaborator(s): Jane Bush - Van Buren Inn and Tavern Historic Preservation Field School (Research Assistant)
Faculty member(s): Alanna Ossa, Anthropology
Student collaborator(s): Molly Metcalf - Monitoring the response of imperiled grassland birds to restored habitat on campus
Faculty member(s): Daniel Baldassarre, Biological Sciences
Student collaborator(s): Nikki Knecht and Griffin Kutny - Protein Interactions that Regulate Complement Activation
Faculty member(s): Julia Koeppe, Chemistry
Student collaborator(s): Dylan Webber - Examination of radio emission changes in pulsar PSR J1713+0747
Faculty member(s): Natalia Lewandowska, Physics and Astronomy
Student collaborator(s): Alex Fiorentino - Pulse delay measurement in cesium using Electromagnetically Induced Transparency (EIT)
Faculty member(s): Priyanka M Rupasinghe, Physics and Astronomy
Student collaborator(s): TBD - Letters from veteran special educators: The motivational contours to starting and staying with the work of SPED
Faculty member(s): Jed Locquiao, Curriculum and Instruction
Student collaborator(s): Tindake Kourouma - History of The Academy of Motion Pictures & Sciences
Faculty member: Amy Shore, Cinema and Screen Studies
Student collaborator(s): Sebastian Tauriello - Data Acquisition in a Low Cost Flow Cytometer
Faculty member(s): David Dunn, Biological Sciences
Student collaborator(s): Layla Sprague - A Novel Approach to Chemically Link Atomically Precise Metal Nanoclusters
Faculty member(s): Mahdi Hesari, Chemistry
Student collaborator(s): Brian Pond - Synthesis and single particle photoluminescence microscopy of semiconductor nanocrystals
Faculty member(s): Mahdi Hesari, Chemistry
Student collaborator(s): Sean McCoy
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.