This past year, CCAS faculty were awarded major grants from top research organizations to propel new discoveries. From measuring greenhouse gasses and looking deep into the sun to improving HIV-prevention among young Black men, scholars are forging pathways of knowledge.
Over the past academic year, Columbian College of Arts and Science faculty received a significant number of grant awards to support innovative research across the disciplines. The grants helped them further groundbreaking projects in green chemistry, astrophysics, speech perception, the treatment of brain disorders and much more. The following are recent major awards of $200,000 and above:
Lynne E. Bernstein (Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences): $494,500 from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for speech perception training on advanced scoring and feedback models.
Lisa Bowleg (Psychology): $449,500 from NIH to address multi-level intersectional stigma and improve HIV-prevention among young black gay bisexual men.
Stephen Boyes (Chemistry): $390,000 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for a Research Experiences for Undergraduates program on advancing chemistry research by integrating green chemistry and science policy; and $287,200 from NSF to study chain growth polycondensation via substituent effects for the synthesis of functional rigid rod polymer brushes.
David Braun (Anthropology): $305,900 from NSF to research the past and present human-environment dynamics in the Turkana Basin, Kenya.
Christopher Brick (History): $546,600 from the National Endowment for the Humanities and $385,460 from the National Archives and Records Administration in support of the Eleanor Roosevelt Papers project.
Dante Chinni (Media & Public Affairs): $400,000 from the Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation for a project on understanding the geography of deaths of despair.
Thomas D. Cook (Public Policy and Public Administration): $1.17 million from NSF to conduct experiments investigating bias in research.
Michael Doering (Physics): $360,000 from NSF to study resonant few-body systems from the lattice.
Sylvain Guiriec (Physics): $236,000 from NASA-Goddard for a project on high-energy space instrumentation for sun observation.
Oleg Kargaltsev (Physics): $266,500 from NASA-Goddard to research the multiwavelength identification of galactic high-energy sources.
Jakub Kostal (Chemistry): $706,800 from NSF to investigate the use of chemical photodegradation in pesticide design.
Arnaud Martin (Biology): $672,800 from NSF to perform precise genome editing procedures on lepidopteran insects, an order that includes butterflies and moths.
J. Houston Miller (Chemistry): $501,800 from Mesa Photonics and the Department of Energy (DoE) for a project on vertical profiling of greenhouse gasses.
Gabriela Rosenblau (Psychological & Brain Sciences): $1.6 million from NIH for modeling social and non-social learning in autism.
Frank Sesno (Media & Public Affairs): $200,000 from the Carnegie Corporation of New York to support the Project for Media and National Security.
Chet Sherwood (Anthropology): $429,100 from NSF to study comparative age-related dynamics of primate brain epigenetics.
Sarah Shomstein (Psychology): $655,000 from NSF to investigate the guidance of attention by task-irrelevant information.
Michael Wagner (Chemistry): $748,800 from DoE for a project on the conversion of coal to li-ion battery grade potato graphite.
Note: Dollar figures are rounded to the nearest thousand.