2023 Seed Grant Winners
The 2023 Research & Innovation Seed Grant program resulted in 25 new grants with approximately $1.4M being awarded to CU ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ faculty across disciplines.
2023 Funded Projects
| PI Name | PI Department | Category | Project Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tanya Alderete | Integrative Physiology | Biomedical & Life Sciences | Human Bioaccumulation of Micro-plastics and Nano-plastics: Implications for Infant Health |
| August Black | Digital Critical Media Practices | Arts & Humanities | The Conduction Series: Radio Camp |
| Jordy Bouwman | Chemistry/LASP | Grand Challenge | Enabling the detection of Nitrogen-bearing molecules on Jupiter’s icy moon Europa |
| Pamela Buckley | Prevention Science Program/Institute for Behavioral Science | Social Sciences & Professional Schools | Fulfilling Mandates for Evidence Based Decision Making: Do Evidence Based Interventions "Work" for Racial and Ethnic Minoritized Youth? |
| Calvin Chan | Center for National Security Initiatives | Grand Challenge | Secure and Authenticated Hardware Accelerators for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning |
| Yueqi Chen | Computer Science | Engineering & Applied Sciences | Securing Low Earth Orbit Satellite Systems from Improving Data Accessibility |
| Xiaoyun Ding | Mechanical Engineering | Biomedical & Life Sciences | Generation of blastocyst-like structures via 3D acoustic tweezers |
| Virginia Ferguson | Mechanical Engineering | Engineering & Applied Sciences | Why does exercise in Type 1 diabetes mellitus fail to protect bone? |
| Anne Gold | Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) | Arts & Humanities | Teaching Climate Across the Curriculum with CLEAN |
| Leila Gomez | Women and Gender Studies | Arts & Humanities | Global Indigeneity and Land Struggle: Documentary Film for Sustainable Futures |
| Ankur Gupta | Chemical and Biological Engineering | Engineering & Applied Sciences | Motion of Ellipsoidal Microparticles in Physiological Flows |
| Julie Lundquist | Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences | Geological & Environmental Sciences | Development and field testing with Argonne National Laboratory of an Uncrewed Aerial System (UAS) simulator for mesoscale-microscale atmospheric modeling |
| Sheldon Masters | Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering | Engineering & Applied Sciences | Transformative Approach to Controlling Lead in Drinking Water informed by Advanced Diagnostics |
| Bob McLeod | Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering | Engineering & Applied Sciences | Holographic labelling to characterize multi-modal 3D micron and millisecond dynamics of soft and biomaterials |
| Andres Montoya Castillo | Chemistry | Basic Physical Sciences | Measuring and taming noise in quantum devices for improved performance |
| Bhuvaneswari Narasimhan | Linguistics | Social Sciences & Professional Schools | Getting the message across: Acoustic realization of information in maternal speech and its effects on autistic and typically developing children |
| Amy Palmer | Biochemistry | Biomedical & Life Sciences | Nutrient sensing using RNA-based biosensors |
| Melanie Peffer | Health Professions Residential Academic Program (HPRAP)/ICS | Social Sciences & Professional Schools | Investigating epistemological beliefs about science in biological inquiry |
| Michael Shirts | Chemical and Biological Engineering | Biomedical & Life Sciences | Understanding the biological role of coiled-coil proteins in liquid-liquid phase separation |
| Joel Swanson | ATLAS Institute | Arts & Humanities | TYPO Lab |
| William Taylor | Anthropology/Museum of Natural History | Social Sciences & Professional Schools | Understanding human-animal dynamics and early prehistory in the Inner Asian Altai - investigations at Khoid Tsenkher Cave |
| Fernando Villanea Guevara | Anthropology | Biomedical & Life Sciences | Optimizing Computer Simulation for Use in Archaic Genomics |
| Linda Watkins | Psychology & Neuroscience | Biomedical & Life Sciences | Novel use of endogenous complement cascade inhibitors to treat chronic pain: a pivotal study to define the creation of a new startup company |
| Tom Yeh | Computer Science | Engineering & Applied Sciences | Toward Ethically Designed, Culturally Diverse, and Developmentally Appropriate AI Systems for Children Globally |
| Nikolay Zabotin | Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering | Grand Challenge | Ionosphere as a Remote Sensor for Moderate Ground-Level Atmospheric Disturbances |