Zhou Chi, Animal & Biomedical Sciences-Res, Role of circulating immune cells in fetal growth restriction-impaired fetal endothelial function
Curiel-Lewandrowski Clara, College of Medicine - Tucson, Deconvolution methods to guide opportunities and timing to intervene with topical immunoprevention strategies
Vedantam Gayatri, College of Agric and Life Sci, A Novel Antimicrobial Technology: Focus on Eradication of Infectious Diarrheas
Snider Ashley, College of Agric and Life Sci, Investigating Acid Ceramidase: A Key to Understanding Microglial Response in Stroke
Pires Paulo, College of Medicine - Tucson, Development of a model of Amyloid-Related Imaging Abnormalities for Pre-clinical screening of putative therapeutic agents
Zhang Lianyang, Civil Arch Engr and Mechanics, Enhancing community sustainability and resilience through integrated monitoring, modeling and mitigation (M3) of land subsidence and earth fissures in southern Arizona
Blankinship Joseph, Environmental Science-Res, Treating Soil Health to Enhance Crop Nutrient Density and Human Wellness
Moore David, Sch of Natural Resources-Ins, Augmenting Arizona Research Sites through Soil Characterization: controls on carbon and water cycling
Baltrus David, School of Plant Sciences-Res, Characterizing the impact of agriculture on co-occurrence of antimicrobial resistance genes
Duhamel Solange, College of Science, Seasonal Dynamics of Contaminants and Microbial Responses in the Santa Cruz River
Meredith Laura, Sch of Natural Resources-Ins, Harnessing microbial adaptation as an innovative solution to H2 leak mitigation for the clean hydrogen economy
2023-2024
Matthew Cordes, Science (and Medicine), Chemistry and Biochemistry, A novel and damaging sphingolipid metabolite produced in human tissue by recluse spider venom
Yong Ge, Eller College of Management, Management Information Systems, Analyzing Circulating Metabolites for Predicting Cardiopulmonary Diseases
Chris Lim, Mel & Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, Community, Environment, and Policy, Modeling air pollution and traffic compositions in Tucson
Ute Lotz-Heumann, Social and Behavioral Sciences, Department of History / Division for Late Medieval and Reformation Studies, Samuel Pepys’s Social Network in 17th-century London
Jeffrey Pyun, Science, Chemistry & Biochemistry, Liquefication of Elemental Chalcogens and Chalcogenide Glasses: A New Route to Highly Transparent Inorganic Polymers for Infrared Optics
John Ruiz, Science, Psychology, Blood collections in Latinx/Hispanic communities.
Jennifer Stern, College of Medicine-Tucson,Medicine - Division of Endocrinology,Exacerbating Liver GABA Production, a Model of Accelerated Aging
Guang Yao, Science, Molecular & Cellular Biology, Epitranscriptomic analysis of a novel quiescence-to-senescence transition in cellular aging
2022-2023
Purnima Madhivanan, Mel & Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, Health Promotion Sciences, Building a UA Research Collaboration around the PISTACHIO BIRTH COHORT
Robert Wilson, Science, Psychology, Personalized force guidance using reinforcement learning with learning optimization in surgical skills training
John Jewett, Science, Chemistry & Biochemistry, New strategies for mosquito larvicides
Pavel Polynkin, James C. Wyant College of Optical Sciences, Optical Sciences, Feasibility assessment for the laser-based remote detection of viruses in human exhaled breath
Frank Duca, Agriculture & Life Sciences, Animal & Comparative Biomedical Science, Utilizing novel techniques to understand gut-brain neural connections that control food intake
Amit Ashok, James C. Wyant College of Optical Sciences, Optical Sciences, Fundamental Limits of Robust Imaging and Sensing
Kaveh Laksari, Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Association of cerebrovascular tortuosity with cerebral amyloid angiopathy and Alzheimer's disease
Brian Enquist, Science, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Using a trait-based approach to understand desert plant resilience to aridity and future climate change
John Streicher, College of Medicine-Tucson, Pharmacology, Development of Clinically Translatable 18F-Radiotracers for In Vivo Detection of TPSO in Age-Related Alzheimer's disease by Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Imaging
2021-2022
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2020-2021
Debra Guinn, College of Medicine-Tucson, OBGYN, Arizona Prenatal Infection with SARS-CoV2, Transmission dynamics, and Childhood Health/Immunity Outcomes (Az-PISTACHIO)
Justin Hyatt, Science, Steward Observatory, A Satellite Command Station for UArizona
Mark Kear, Social & Behavioral Sciences, School of Geography, Development & the Environment, Heat, Housing, and Health: Convergent Exposure and Thermal Insecurity in Mobile and Manufactured Housing
Laura Meredith, Agriculture & Life Sciences, School of Natural Resources & the Environment, Harvesting water in the desert: risks and mitigation of pathogen invasion in soils in water-saving retention and reuse applications
David Moore, Agriculture & Life Sciences, School of Natural Resources & the Environment, Advancing innovative and transformative ecological science
Jarrod Mosier, College of Medicine-Tucson, Emergency Medicine, A Novel Mixed-Reality Simulation System for Improving Patient Safety During Difficult Airway Management
Barry Pryor, Agriculture & Life Sciences, Plant Sciences, Creating Bioregenerative Closed-loop Food Production Systems
Jeffrey Pyun, Science, Chemistry & Biochemistry, Computational Chemistry and Machine Learning for Accelerated Discovery of Long Wave Infrared Transparent Plastics: A Route to Inexpensive IR Thermal Imaging Cameras
Rochelle Rodrigo, Social & Behavioral Sciences, English, Researching the Impacts of an Online Readability Lab in First Year Undergraduate and Graduate Learning
