Internal Funding Recipients

The following provides a list of past recipients of Research, Innovation & Impact Research Development Grants. Year indicates the Academic & Fiscal Year (July 1 to June 30) that the award was received. 

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Accelerate for Success
Challenge Grants
Community Engaged Partnerships Grants
Core Facilities Pilot Project
Equipment Enhancement Fund 
Faculty Seed Grants
International Research Grants (formerly known as the International Research & Program Development Grants)
Production Grant
Publication Grants
Start for Success
Student Team Awards: Interdisciplinary Link and Industry Engagement
UArizona National Labs Partnerships Grants
Workshop Support

Accelerate for Success

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, Promoting inclusion, equity, and engagement with 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

• No competition

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

Challenge Grants

2023-2024

• Dalal Alharthi, College of Applied Science & Technology, Cybersecurity, Well-being for Wildcats (WELLCATS): Asn Intervention Program for Creating a Supportive College Environment 

2022-2023

• Anne (Betsy) Arnold, Agriculture and Life Sciences, School of Plant Sciences, Microbial mediation of plant resilience: harnessing innovation, collaboration, and communication in a changing world

2021-2022

• Aaron Lien, Agriculture & Life Sciences, School of Natural Resources & the Environment, Cyberinfrastructure for Actionable Policy Science to Address Emerging Social and Ecological Shocks

2020-2021

• Bryan Carter, Humanities, Africana Studies, UArizona Anti-Racism Extended Reality Studio (UA-ARXRS—“UA Archers")
• Fabian Fernandez, Science, Psychology (Neuroscience GIDP), From Human to Fly and Back Again: Establishing melatonin's role in the Drosophila circadian and seasonal timekeeping systems 

Community Engaged Partnerships Grants

2022-2023

• Carol Brochin, College of Education, Teaching, Learning, and Sociocultural Studies, Re-envisioning the Southern Arizona Writing Project: Building Multilingual and Diverse Literacy Partnerships in the Borderlands
• Jordan Karp, College of Medicine-Tucson, Medicine - Psychiatry, Building Bridges, Healing Minds
• Teshia Solomon, College of Medicine-Tucson, Family and Community Medicine/Wassaja Center, Building National Partnerships in Native American Research for Competitive Applications in Comparative Effectiveness Research, Behavioral Health, and the All of Us Research Program   
• Beth Tellman, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, School of Geography, Development & Environment, Flood Justice in the Rio Grande Valley 

Core Facilities Pilot Project

May 2023

• Alicja Babst-Kostecka, Agriculture and Life Sciences, Environmental Science, Linking soil and leaf metabolite profiles with plant metal tolerance and accumulation – exploring plant-microbial adaptations to heavy metal contamination at legacy mine sites in Arizona 
• Brett Colson, College of Medicine-Tucson, Cellular & Molecular Medicine, Binding kinetics of cardiac and skeletal muscle proteins   

February 2023

• Shirin Doroudgar, College of Medicine-Phoenix, Internal Medicine, Generation of a Conditional Knockout Mouse Model for ER-Associated Protein Degradation
• Elise Erickson, Nursing, Biobehavioral Health Sciences, Toward precision care during childbirth: genetic vulnerability to postpartum hemorrhage
• Robert Erickson, College of Medicine-Tucson, Surgery, Experimental investigation of focused ultra-sound (FUS) treatment on alpha-synuclein immobilization in preclinical animal model
• Giovanni Melandri, Agriculture & Life Sciences, School of Plant Sciences, Disentangling heat and drought stress tolerance in sorghum and cotton through metabolomics

November 2022

• David Baltrus, Agriculture and Life Sciences, School of Plant Sciences, Exploring Sulphur Use in an Endohyphal Bacteria using RB-TNSeq
• Geoffrey Gurtner, College of Medicine-Tucson,f Surgery, Identifying chromatin states and nuclear transcriptome deviations in physiologic and pathologic aged skin underlying wound healing
• Priyanka Kushwaha, Agriculture and Life Sciences, Environmental Science, Characterizing metabolites that influence rubber and resin production in guayule
• Wendy McCurdy, College of Medicine-Tucson, Medical Imaging, Changes in Goutallier Score and Cross-sectional area of the rotator cuff following surgical repair
• Michael Riehle, Agriculture and Life Sciences, Entomology, Assessing neurohormone expression in the brain and ovary of the human malaria mosquito, Anopheles stephensi
• Koenraad Van Doorslaer, Agriculture and Life Sciences, Animal & Comparative Biomedical Sciences, Spatial Transcriptomics of HPV16 infected 3D tissues

August 2022

• Adam Buntzman, BIO5 Institute, Novel Spatial Immunome and Spliceome Method: Valley Fever Granuloma
• Pascale Charest, Science, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Quantitative Proteomics to Identify the cAMP Receptor’s Interactome
• Jing-Tzyh Chiang, College of Medicine-Tucson, Medical Imaging, Evaluation of quantitative and contrast-free MR pulse sequences for imaging breast cancers and nodal metastases
• Ying-hui Chou, Science, Psychology, Feasibility Study for the Mild Cognitive Impairment with Accelerated Theta Burst Stimulation
• Jared Churko, College of Medicine-Tucson, Cellular & Molecular Medicine, Full-length isoform single-cell RNA-sequencing (Fliss-Seq)
• Joao De Souza, College of Medicine-Tucson, Anesthesiology, Cell-attached gold nanoparticles to rescue photosensitivity in retinas
• Jay Goldberg, Science, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Establishing a pangenome reference for the widespread crop pest, Manduca sexta
• Attila Keresztes, College of Medicine-Tucson, Surgery, Investigation of glymphatic/lymphatic flow in Alzheimers mouse models using novel, non-invasive imaging modalities
• Hongmin Li, Pharmacy, Pharmacology and Toxicology, Characterization of inhibitors against NSP16/10 methyltransferase of SARS-CoV-2
• Brooke Massani, Science, Chemistry and Biochemistry, Water Jet Cutter Training for Machinists
• Paulo Pires, College of Medicine-Tucson, Physiology, Assessment of cerebral vascular structure and blood-brain-barrier stability in a mouse model of cerebral amyloid angiopathy after gene therapy
• Adam Printz, Engineering, Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Fabrication and Characterization of Printable Photovoltaic Devices and Materials for Developing Stable and High-Efficiency Devices
• George Sutphin, Science, Molecular & Cellular Biology, Identification of multi-stress resistant Caenorhabditis elegans mutants
• Frans Tax, Science, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Analysis of filament formation in plant nutrient acquisition
• Craig Weinkauf, College of Medicine-Tucson, Surgery, Evaluation of a stent-robust Arterial Spin Labelling pulse sequence

April 2022

• Martha Bhattacharya, Science, Neuroscience, Optimizing Live Imaging of Acidic Organelles in Acute Mouse Brain Slices
• Jared Churko, College of Medicine-Tucson, Cellular & Molecular Medicine, GATA4 Protein-Protein Binding Interactions Implicated in Bicuspid Aortic Valve Disease
• Zhiyu Dai, College of Medicine-Phoenix, Internal Medicine, Role of Endothelial SOX17 Deficiency in the Pathogenesis of Pulmonary Hypertension
• Philipp Gutruf, Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Conformal pinhole free coatings for advanced water barrier properties in biomedical devices
• Michael Johnson, College of Medicine-Tucson, Immunobiology, An -omics approach to determine different mechanisms bacteria use to sense their environment through metal
• Lalitha Madhavan, College of Medicine-Tucson, Neurology, Establishing immuno EM protocols to assess cultured human patient-derived cells
• Laurent Martin, College of Medicine-Tucson, Anesthesiology, Developing an innovative approach: 3D-modeling of microglial cells to analyze neuroinflammation
• Travis Sawyer, James C. Wyant College of Optical Sciences, Optical Sciences, Combined multiphoton imaging and labeled fluorescence for pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor localization
• Malak Tfaily, Agriculture & Life Sciences, Environmental Sciences, Unraveling the responses of soil bacterial and fungal communities to changes in resource availability in a desert ecosystem
• Jean Wilson, College of Medicine-Tucson, Cellular & Molecular Medicine, Live cell imaging of mitochondrial fission

January 2022

• Zhiyu Dai, College of Medicine-Phoenix, Internal Medicine, Fatty Acid-binding Proteins Control Endothelial Glycolysis and Arterial Programming in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension
• Linran Fan, James C. Wyant College of Optical Sciences, Optical Sciences, Procedure development and material characterization of plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition
• James Galligan, Pharmacy, Pharmacology & Toxicology, Generation of an inducible Glo1 knockout mouse
• Richard Simpson, Agriculture & Life Sciences, Nutritional Sciences & Wellness, Utilizing Systemic Knockout of the Beta-2 Adrenergic Receptor to Elucidate Mechanisms of Tumor Control
• Thomas Tomasiak, Science, Chemistry & Biochemistry, Understanding trafficking of chaperone-regulated Solute Carrier Family (SLC) transporters and their variants by fluorescence microscopy
• Yana Zavros, College of Medicine-Tucson, Cellular & Molecular Medicine, Development and Standardization of a Novel Pituitary Adenoma Organoid Model for the Study and Treatment of Cushing's Disease

October 2021

• Ying-hui Chou, Science, Psychology, Development of MRI-compatible TMS Protocols for Adults with Mild Cognitive Impairment
• Shiri Doroudgar, College of Medicine-Phoenix, Internal Medicine, Generation of a Double Transgenic Mouse Model for Cell-type—specific Inducible Endogenous Gene Activation and Repression
• Philipp Gutruf, Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Conformal pinhole free coatings for advanced water barrier properties in biomedical devices
• Keith Maggert, College of Medicine-Tucson, Cellular & Molecular Medicine, Creation of Specialized Mouse Chromosome – MB-kSH
• Wendy McCurdy, College of Medicine-Tucson, Medical Imaging, Effect of rotator cuff repair on Goutallier Score and cross sectional area of the rotator cuff musculature post-operatively over a one year period.
• Rebecca Mosher, Agriculture & Life Sciences, School of Plant Sciences, Detection of 24-nt small RNAs with Fluorescent In Situ Hybridization
• John Ryniawec, College of Medicine-Tucson, Cellular & Molecular Medicine, HypoxiSwitch: A novel reporter mouse model to understand the effects of hypoxia

July 2021

• Andreia Chignalia, College of Medicine-Tucson, Anesthesiology, Role of the glycocalyx in mechanosome assembly in lung endothelial cells
• Joao De Souza, College of Medicine-Tucson, Anesthesiology, Voltage-gated K+ channels coupling mechanisms: a study focused on heteromeric channels
• Kaveh Laksari, Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Neuroimaging and artificial intelligence analysis of dual-tasking for early-stage Alzheimer's disease detection
• George Sutphin, Science, Molecular & Cellular Biology, Impact of kynurenine pathway interventions on age-associated transcriptional response to pathogens
• Malak Tfaily, Agrilcuture & Life Sciences, Environmental Science, Metabolomics: A Way Forward for Exploring Environmental Adaptation of Microbial Metabolic Pathways in Arid Ecosystems
• Chi Zhou, Agriculture & Life Sciences, School of Animal & Comparative Biomedical Sciences, Mice Uterine-Placental Blood Flow in Normal and Obese pregnancies

April 2021

• Samuel Campos, College of Medicine-Tucson, Immunobiology, Basic studies on HPV entry and subcellular trafficking using inhibitory peptides
• Jared Churko, College of Medicine-Tucson, Cellular & Molecular Medicine, In vivo Pkp2 protein interactomes causing arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy
• Mert Colpan, College of Medicine-Tucson, Cellular & Molecular Medicine, Deciphering the role of CAP2 in dilated cardiomyopathy
• Frank Gonzalez, Social & Behavioral Sciences, School of Government & Public Policy, Neural Bases of Contemporary Race and Class Hierarchy
• Qing Hao, Engineering, Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering, Exploring Effective Topside Cooling of Power Electronics
• Samantha Harris, College of Medicine-Tucson, Cellular & Molecular Medicine, A novel CRISPR SpyC2 mouse model for use of the cut and paste method in fast skeletal muscles
• Michael Johnson, College of Medicine-Tucson, Immunobiology, A metabolomics approach to elucidate different mechanisms bacteria use to sense their environment through metal
• Rajesh Khanna, College of Medicine-Tucson, Pharmacology, A NaV1.7 mouse lacking the CRMP2-binding domain: examining specificity of NaV1.7-CRMP2 coupling and testing if pain resolution requires endogenous opioid signaling
• Aneta Kielar, Science, Speech, Language, & Hearing Sciences, Enhancing Treatment of Language in Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) with Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS).
• Paul Langlais, College of Medicine, Medicine (Endocrinology), Elucidating the Effect of Insulin on Cytoskeletal Elements at the Plasma Membrane Using Structured Illumination Super Resolution Microscopy
• Hongmin Li, Pharmacy, Pharmacology & Toxicology, To identify nanobodies and small molecules as therapeutics against flaviviruses and SARS-CoV-2
• Helena Morrison, Nursing, Biobehavioral Health Sciences Division, The effect of VEGF-B to decrease post-stroke brain injury: an MRI study
• Ritu Pandey, College of Medicine-Tucson, Cellular & Molecular Medicine, Multiplex MS analysis for proteome quantification of colorectal tumors with codon specific mutations in KRAS gene
• Michael Plank, Science, Molecular & Cellular Biology, Development of a targeted mass spectrometry method for the calculation of protein phosphorylation stoichiometry
• Art Riegel, College of Medicine-Tucson, Pharmacology, The role of brain microglia in drug addiction
• Patrick Ronaldson, College of Medicine-Tucson, Pharmacology, Development of a High Throughput Screening Assay to Identify Alzheimer's Disease Therapeutics
• Travis Sawyer, Optical Sciences, Optical Sciences, Multiphoton imaging of gastrinoma and correlation with molecular and genetic markers
• Frans Tax, Science, Molecular & Cellular Biology, Role of Protein Filaments in Environmental Control of Root Growth
• Lisa Viesselmann, ALVSCE, Arizona Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, Validation of flow cytometry for immunophenotyping of canine lymphocytes
• Zheshen Zhang, Engineering, Materials Science & Engineering, Development of low-loss, crack-free, active silicon nitride platforms

January 2021

• Ravi Goyal, Agriculture & Life Sciences, Animal & Comparative Biomedical Sciences, Intrauterine Growth Restriction and Sexually Dimorphic Programming of Obesity.
• Renee Duckworth, Science, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, STRESS-INDUCED MATERNAL EFFECTS AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF PERSONALITY
• Martha Bhattacharya, Science, Neuroscience, Plasma Membrane Proteomics for a Vertically Integrated Project (VIP) Research Course
• Julie Miller, Science, Neuroscience, Immunohistochemical Protein Detection in the Finch Brain: Relevance to Vocal Communication
• Anne Wertheimer, BIO5, Towards a Hydrogel Therapeutic for Diabetic Foot Wounds - a pilot

October 2020

• Martha Bhattacharya, Science, Neuroscience, Flow Cytometry for a Vertically Integrated Project (VIP) Research Course
• Laura Meredith, Agriculture & Life Sciences, School of Natural Resources & the Environment, Soil microbial VOC cycling elucidated by gene expression across drought-rewet dynamics
• Daniela Zarnescu, Science, Molecular & Cellular Biology, Determining activity dependent changes at neuromuscular synapses in ALS

July 2020

• Jessica Barnes, Science, Lunar & Planetary Laboratory, Impact Modification of Indigenous Lunar Materials
• Joao de Souza, Science, Lunar & Planetary Laboratory, Restoring Photosensitivity in Retinas Using Gold-Nanoparticles-assisted optocapacitance
• R. Keating Godfrey, Science, Molecular & Cellular Biology, A method for high resolution imaging method of intact brains using conventional confocal microscopy
• Philipp Gutruf, Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Restoring Photosensitivity in Retinas Using Gold-Nanoparticles-assisted optocapacitance
• Kaveh Laksari, Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Pilot data to determine photoacoustic imaging markers in traumatic brain injury
• Sean Limesand, Agriculture & Life Sciences, Animal & Comparative Biomedical Sciences, Single Cell Transcriptome Profiling of Fetal Pancreatic Islets
• Paulo Pires, College of Medicine-Tucson, Physiology, Pilot studies of cerebral hemodynamics and lymphatic clearance in mouse models of AD
• Daniel Powell, College of Medicine-Tucson, Valley Fever Center for Excellence, Altering splice variants of Dectin-1 to improve fungal recognition and resistance
• Adam Printz, Engineering, Chemical & Environmental Engineering, Using High Resolution Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) to Correlate Perovskite Grain Size to Device Performance and Stability Enhancement
• Jeff Pyun, Science, Chemistry & Biochemistry, Development of Ultra-High Verdet Polymer Nanocomposites for Next Generation Optical Devices

Equipment Enhancement Fund

2022-2023

• Craig Aspinwall, Science, Chemistry and Biochemistry, Acquisition of a dual modality scanning probe microscope
• Patrick Bunn, Science, Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, Cluster Expansion for the University of Arizona’s Weather and Power Forecasting
• Jon Chorover, Agriculture and Life Sciences, Environmental Science, Acquisition of a high-throughput tandem mass spectrometer for high demand PFAS analyses
• Goggy Davidowitz, Agriculture and Life Sciences, Entomology, Improvements to passive solar dryer to repurpose food waste
• Ivan Djordjevic, Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Quantum Networking and Sensing Testbed
• Nancy Horton, Science, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Acquisition of a Mass Photometer for Native Molecular Weight Determination of Macromolecules
• Dante Lauretta, Science, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, Acquisition of Probe for EPMA and Probe Image Software for the CAMECA SX100 Electron Microprobe in the Kuiper Imaging Facility
• Oliver Monti, Science, Chemistry and Biochemistry, Depth Profiling for Chemical Analysis of Buried Interfaces and Stratified Samples for Defense, Health and Energy Sciences
• Helena Morrison, Nursing, Biobehavioral Health Sciences Division, Advanced widefield fluorescence microscope with high-speed scanning and confocal-like image capture capabilities
• Pratik Satam, Engineering, Systems and Industrial Engineering, Future Factory: a cyber-physical testbed environment to address research challenges and workforce development gaps posed by the fourth industrial revolution (4IR)
• Andrew Wessman, Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, E-Beam Evaporator System for Nano Fabrication Center
• Amanda Wilson, Mel & Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, Community, Environment & Policy, The Invisible is Visible: GRIMM Aerosol Think Equipment for Indoor and Outdoor Monitoring Applications
• Russell Witte, College of Medicine-Tucson, Medical Imaging, Ultrasound and Photoacoustic Contrast Imaging: HFUS Core Facility Upgrade

2021-2022

• Christopher Banek, College of Medicine-Tucson, Physiology, High-Throughput Mulvany Wire Myography System to Measure Vascular Function Ex Vivo
• Michael Brown, Science, Chemistry & Biochemistry, Sample Accessory Upgrade for Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopic Analysis in the W.M. Keck Center for Nano-Scale Analysis
• Bryan Carter, Humanities, Africana Studies, Enhancing Volumetric Capture Capability
• Christopher Castro, Science, Hydrology & Atmospheric Sciences, Using GPS to infer impacts on weather extremes, water mobility, and carbon cycling in semi-arid to arid environments
• Amelia Gallitano, College of Medicine-Phoenix, Basic Medical Sciences, Essential Equipment to Advance Neuropsychiatric Research
• Pierre Haenecour, Science, Lunar & Planetary Laboratory, Acquisition of an Environmental Low-voltage Tabletop Secondary Electron Microscope
• Nancy Horton, Science, Molecular & Cellular Biology, Augmenting Research Capability in the Molecular and Cellular Biology Department
• Elizabeth Hutchinson, Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Specialized MRI coils to enhance mouse imaging in the TBIR 7T pre-clinical MRI core
• Oliver Monti, Science, Chemistry & Biochemistry, High Frequency and Precision Electronics Work Station for Electronics Shop
• Jeffrey Pyun, Science, Chemistry & Biochemistry, Acquisition of a High Throughput Size Exclusion Chromatography Instrument (SEC) for Molecular Weight Characterization of Advanced Polymeric Materials
• Erin Ratcliff, Engineering, Chemical & Environmental Engineering, Multimodal mapping of opto-electronic and biological materials for energy and defense at the micron scale
• Scott Saleska, Science, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, A “Local” Remote Sensing capability to enhance the science of Landscape Terraformation at UArizona’s Landscape Evolution Observatory (LEO) at Biosphere 2
• Travis Sawyer, Optical Sciences, Optical Sciences, Polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography for tissue analysis and material assessment.
• Mohammed Shafae, Engineering, Systems & Industrial Engineering, Advanced Sensing and Monitoring System for Metal Additive Manufacturing
• Tyson Swetnam, Agriculture & Life Sciences, BIO5, MILaGRO: Multi-instance Learning and GPU Resources Online
• Thomas Tomasiak, Science, Chemistry & Biochemistry, Acquisition of shared scintillation counting instrumentation for high-throughput protein characterization and drug discovery

2020-2021

• Maria Altbach, College of Medicine-Tucson, Medical Imaging, Magnetic Resonance Elastography Equipment for Quantitative Assessment of Tissue Stiffness in Humans
• Greg Book, RII, Atomic Layer Deposition
• Nathan Cherrington, Pharmacy, Pharmacology & Toxicology, Proteomics Upgrade of the Exploris 480
• Jon Chorover, Agriculture & Life Sciences, Environmental Science, Acquisition of a Total Organic Fluorine Analyzer for UA Researchers
• Ying-hui Chou, Science, Psychology, Request for MRI-Compatible Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) System: Development of a Novel Concurrent TMS-fMRI Method to Reveal Real-Time TMS-Induced Brain Activities
• Barbara Fransway, RII, Genetics Core Equipment Upgrade and Novel Instrumentation
• Christopher Frost, RII, BIO5, A Shared Agilent Gas Chromatograph/Mass Spectrometer to Enable Plant Metabolomics for Ecological, Agricultural, and Biomedical Advances
• Pierre Haenecour, Science, Lunar & Planetary Laboratory, Acquisition of a BSE Detector and In-situ Heating Holder for the Hitachi 4800 SEM in the Kuiper Imaging Facility
• Elizabeth Hutchinson, Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Receiver and coil upgrade from 4 to 8 channels for the TBIR 7T pre-clinical MRI core
• Michael Marty, Science, Chemistry & Biochemistry, Replacing the Autoclave in the Chemical Sciences Building
• Helena Morrison, Nursing, Biobehavioral Health Sciences, Imaging Core Marley: Maintaining a State-of-the-art facility
• Ghassan Mouneimne, College of Medicine-Tucson, Cellular & Molecular Medicine, NIKON Super-resolution Stochastic Optical Reconstruction Microscope (STORM)
• Thaddeus Pace, Nursing, Nursing, Upgrading rtPCR capacity at the Biological Core Lab of the College of Nursing
• Krishna Parsawar, RII, Triple quadrupole (LC-MS/MS) instrument for targeted metabolomics and Drug Discovery research (DMPK)
• Jeanne Pemberton, Science, Chemistry & Biochemistry, Acquisition of a Park NX20 Atomic Force Microscope
• Paulo Pires, College of Medicine-Tucson, Physiology, Purchase of laser speckle contrast imaging for high-resolution, real-time assessment of micro- and macro-hemodynamics
• Jeffrey Pyun, Science, Chemistry & Biochemistry, Acquisition of a Modulated Differential Scanning Calorimeter (DSC) for Thermal Analytical Characterization of Advanced Materials
• Peter Reiners, Science, Geosciences, Acquisition of IR laser heating system for noble gas geochronology
• Benjamin Renquist, Agriculture & Life Sciences, Animal & Comparative Biomedical Science, Electrophysiology and Fiber Photometry Equipment to Assess Peripheral Nervous System Activity in the Non-anesthetized Rodent
• Gregory Rogers, College of Medicine-Tucson, Cellular & Molecular Medicine, Upgrades of the Zeiss Elyra S.1 microscope workstation and post-processing workstation
• John Paul SanGiovanni, Agriculture & Life Sciences, Nutritional Sciences, Ocular Coherence Tomography-Angiography System for Retinal Biomarkers of Age-Related Cognitive Impairment
• Suchol Savagatrup, Engineering, Chemical & Environmental Engineering, UV-Vis-NIR Spectrophotometer: A vital tool to measure optical properties of thin films and bulk materials for sensing and energy applications
• Yana Zavros, College of Medicine-Tucson, Cellular & Molecular Medicine, Leica ASP300 S Automated Tissue Processor for the Tissue Acquisition and Cellular/Molecular Analysis Shared Resource

Faculty Seed Grants

2023-2024

• Ying-hui Chou, Science, Psychology, Exploring the Role of Gut Microbiome in Mild Cognitive Impairment 
• Florian Goeltl, Engineering, Biosystems Engineering, Understanding photocatalytic CO2 hydrogenation over Ni nanoclusters via electronic structure calculations.      
• Elise Gornish, Agriculture and Life Sciences, School of Natural Resources and the Environment, Effects of the bioherbicide radicinin on buffelgrass allelopathy  
• Qing Hao, Engineering, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, Understanding the Water Behavior at the Nanoscale 
• Afrooz Jalilzadeh, Engineering, Systems and Industrial Engineering, Mitigating Adversarial Attacks Using Generalized  Nash Equilibrium  
• Kwang-Sung Jun, Science, Computer Science, Sequential Decision-Making Algorithms for Accelerated Materials Science   
• Jeehey Kim, Fine Arts, Art History, Photography and Death: A History of Funerary Photo-Portraiture in East Asia           
• Anita Koshy, College of Medicine-Tucson, Neurology, Developing single cell RNA-seq for the inflamed brain          
• Elaine Norton, Agriculture and Life Sciences, Animal and Comparative Biomedical Sciences, Prevalence and impact of equine metabolic syndrome in broodmares           
• Kirssa Ryckman, Social and Behavioral Science, School of Government and Public Policy, Civilian Preferences in Times of War: The Goals of War-Related Protests    
• Kuok Ho Daniel Tang, Agriculture and Life Sciences, Environmental Science, Bioaugmentation of Hyper thermophilic Sludge Composting for Microplastics Removal           
• Rocio Zapata Bustos, College of Medicine-Tucson, Medicine, Effect of Electrical Pulse Stimulation on GLUT4 translocation and transcription factor expression in L6  myotubes 
• Chi Zhou, Agriculture and Life Sciences, Animal & Comparative Biomedical Sciences, Effect of Placental Inefficiency Induced Fetal Growth Restriction on Fetal Endothelial-Immune Cell Interaction 

2022-2023

• Pascale Charest, Science, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Uncovering new effectors of eukaryotic chemotaxis
• Won Hee Lee, College of Medicine-Phoenix, Basic Medical Sciences, The role of the integrated stress response activation in ponatinib-induced cardiotoxicity
• Qing Hao, Engineering, Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering, Beating the Planck’s Blackbody Radiation Law: Pursing Record-High Thermal Radiation between Nanostructured Surfaces
• Dawn Coletta, College of Medicine-Tucson, Medicine, Effects of exercise and sildenafil in insulin-resistant C2C12 muscle cells
• Ravi Goyal, Agriculture and Life Sciences, Animal & Comparative Biomedical Sciences, Role of lincRNA in Obesity
• Lei Wang, Pharmacy, Pharmacology and Toxicology, Targeting stress granules for lung cancer therapeutic development
• Jia Hu, Agriculture and Life Sciences, School of Natural Resources and the Environment, Quantifying intra- and inter-annual patterns of carbon accumulation in semi-arid forests during the 21st Century Megadrought
• Michael Barker, Science, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Evolution of extreme chromosome number reduction in Xanthisma gracile (Asteraceae) in Southern Arizona
• Samuel Campos, College of Medicine-Tucson, Immunobiology, Mechanisms of Metaphase-Specific Mitotic Chromatin Binding by the Papillomavirus L2 Protein
• Johanna, Skibsrud, Social and Behavioral Sciences, English, The Poetic Imperative: A Study in Practice
• Yuzuru Takashima, James C. Wyant College of Optical Sciences, Optical Sciences, Turning window glasses into transparent displays
• Matthew Dodson, Pharmacy, Pharmacology and Toxicology, The hexosamine biosynthesis pathway as a key driver of arsenic-promoted type II diabetes

2022-2023

• Qing Hao, Engineering, Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering, Beating the Planck’s Blackbody Radiation Law: Pursing Record-High Thermal Radiation between Nanostructured Surfaces
• Dawn Coletta, College of Medicine-Tucson, Medicine, Effects of exercise and sildenafil in insulin-resistant C2C12 muscle cells
• Ravi Goyal, Agriculture & Life Sciences, Animal & Comparative Biomedical Science, Role of lincRNA in Obesity 
• Lei Wang, Pharmacy, Pharmacology & Toxicology, Targeting stress granules for lung cancer therapeutic development
• Jia Hu, Agriculture & Life Sciences, School of Natural Resources & the Environment, Quantifying intra- and inter-annual patterns of carbon accumulation in semi-arid forests during the 21st Century Megadrought
• Michael Barker, Science, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Evolution of extreme chromosome number reduction in Xanthisma gracile (Asteraceae) in Southern Arizona
• Samuel Campos, College of Medicine-Tucson, Immunobiology, Mechanisms of Metaphase-Specific Mitotic Chromatin Binding by the Papillomavirus L2 Protein
• Johanna Skibsrud, Social & Behavioral Sciences, English, The Poetic Imperative: A Study in Practice
• Yuzuru Takashima, James C. Wyant College of Optical Sciences, Optical Sciences, Turning window glasses into transparent displays
• Matthew Dodson, Pharmacy, Pharmacology & Toxicology, The hexosamine biosynthesis pathway as a key driver of arsenic-promoted type II diabetes

2021-2022

• Jennifer Andrews, College of Medicine-Tucson, Pediatrics, Transitioning adolescents with special health care needs
• Albert Barberán, Agriculture & Life Sciences, Environmental Science, Testing the effects of seed pellets to improve soil health in rangelands
• Jessica Braithwaite, Social & Behavioral Sciences, School of Government & Public Policy, Understanding Non-State Conflicts
• Vanessa Huxter, Science, Chemistry & Biochemistry, Optical Strategies to Increase the Efficiency of Photocatalysis for a Green, Resilient Future
• Lindsay Kohler, Mel & Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, Health Promotion Sciences, Assessing Diabetes Prevention Program Participation, Knowledge, and Interest in El Banco por Salud
• Tai Kong, Science, Physics, Imaging one dimensional nanotubes
• Daniel Menchik, Social & Behavioral Sciences, Sociology, The Social Context of Medical Innovations: Patterns in Adoption and Use of Surgical Robotics from a Comparative and Transnational Perspective
• Laura Meredith, Agriculture & Life Sciences, School of Natural Resources & the Environment, Assessing the direct effects of extended periods of drought on soil microbial diversity and community composition
• William Smith, Agriculture & Life Sciences, School of Natural Resources & the Environment, Addressing substantial unknowns in our understanding of hot-drought extremes and their impact on ecosystem function

2020-2021

• Mahmoud Azaz, Social & Behavioral Sciences, Middle Eastern & North African Studies, Instructed second language acquisition of agreement asymmetries in Arabic
• Stefano Bloch, Social & Behavioral Sciences, School of Geography, Development & Environment, Parsing Policing Data
• Ying-hui Chou, Science, Psychology, Using TMS to Detect Deficits of Cholinergic System in the Aging-MCI-AD Continuum
• Joao Carvalho de Souza, College of Medicine-Tucson, Anesthesiology, Restoring Photosensitivity in Retinas Using Gold-Nanoparticles-assisted optocapacitance
• Anita Huizar Hernández, Humanities, Spanish & Portuguese, Decolonizing The Narrative of Cabeza de Vaca
• Leah Kapa, Science, Speech, Language, & Hearing Sciences, Effects of Martial Arts Intervention on Executive Function among At-risk Youth
• Minkyu Kim, Engineering, Materials Science & Engineering, Determining Design Parameters for Novel Antimicrobial Biomaterials
• Vicky Lai, Science, Psychology, Learning science concepts with metaphor and augmented intelligence
• Sol Lim, Engineering, Systems & Industrial Engineering, YoLoV (Yoga for Low Vision): Wearable Sensor-based Virtual Yoga Learning System for People with Low Vision
• Xiaoxiao Sun, Mel & Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Automatic Quantification of Bone Marrow Lesions From Knee Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Data
• Marc Verhougstraete, Mel & Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, Community, Environment, & Policy, Implications of mixed exposures to arsenic and H. pylori
• Ningning Zhao, Agriculture & Life Sciences, Nutritional Sciences, ZIP14 and manganese metabolism

International Research Grants

(formerly known as the International Research & Program Development Grants)

2022-2023

• Salim Hariri, Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Collaboratory for AI-enabled Resilient Smart Cyber-Physical Systems (AI-RSCPS)
• Jenny Lee, Education, Educational Policy Studies and Practice, Geopolitics and International University Alliances Across the World
• Travis Sawyer, James C. Wyant College of Optical Sciences, Optical Sciences, Development of advanced stomach cancer screening technologies using optical coherence tomography and hyperspectral imaging
• Sylvia Sullivan, Engineering, Chemical & Environmental Engineering, A Transatlantic Collaboration to Link Parameterized Ice Crystal Optical Properties and Simulated Atmospheric Flow
• Adriana Zuniga Teran, Social and Behavioral Sciences, School of Geography, Development & Environment, Assessing environmental and microclimate impacts of green infrastructure according to communities: Lessons from plant preferences in low-income neighborhoods in Tucson to build an international network

2021-2022

• Mette Brogden, Social & Behavioral Sciences, Human Rights Practice, Indigenous Perceptions of Resources for Development in Rural Northern Ghana: Implications for Food Security, Migration, Conflict, and Climate Change
• Sebastiaan Haffert, Science, Steward Observatory, Searching for life on Earth-like planets with the upcoming Giant Magellan Telescope
• Karl Krupp, Mel & Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, Public Health Practice & Translational Research, A MicroRNA Panel for Detection of Early-Stage Cervical Cancer
• Robert Schon, Social & Behavioral Sciences, Anthropology, The Arizona Sicily Project: Excavations at Segesta

2020-2021

• Christopher Castro, Science, Hydrology & Atmospheric Sciences, Development of a Predictive System for Hydroclimate Extreme events in the Tarapacá Region of Chile
• Wilson de Lima Silva, Social & Behavioral Sciences, Linguistics, Documentation and Conservation of Gonja and Lobi Languages of Northern Ghana
• Erin Ratcliff, Engineering, Materials Science & Engineering, Assessing color stability in solar windows and floors 

Production Grants

2023-2024

• Harris Kornstein, Humanities, Public & Applied Humanities, Drag Pedagogy In Practice: Music & Multimedia  

2022-2023

• David Mulcahy, Fine Arts, School of Theatre, Film and Television, Making Arizona
• Marcos Serafim, Fine Arts, School of Art, Membrana Semipermeable - The Ongoing HIV/AIDS Crisis and the US/Mexico Border

2021-2022

• Kevin Bonine, Research, Innovation & Impact, Biosphere 2 and Arizona Institutes for Resilience, Science in Motion: Scaling Broader Impacts of UArizona Resilience Science Through Student-Engaged Filmmaking, Animation, Data Visualization, and Motion Arts-Science Pedagogy
• Molly Gebrian, Fine Arts, Fred Fox School of Music, Late-Romantic Sonatas by Women Composers: A Transcription, Recording, and Performance Initiative
• Yuanyuan (Kay) He, Fine Arts, Fred Fox School of Music, StellarScape - Immersive Multimedia Show
• Lisanne Skyler, Fine Arts, Theatre, Film and Television, Museums of the Night: a feature documentary film
• Michelle Tellez, Social & Behavioral Sciences, Mexican American Studies, Las Mujeres de Manzo Project

2020-2021

• Kevin Black, Fine Arts, School of Theatre, Film & Television, Fine Revolution
• Sara Fraker, Fine Arts, Fred Fox School of Music, Performing Dedrochronology: Tree-Ring Music for Three Woodwinds
• Yuri Makino, Fine Arts, School of Theatre, Film & Television, Funding for America's Health, a documentary film about healthcare
• David Taylor, Fine Arts, School of Art, Complex: A Visual Index of the Migrant Detention Industry

 Publication Grants

2022-2023

• Mahmoud Azaz, Social & Behavioral Sciences, Middle Eastern & North African Studies, Instructed Second Language Acquisition of Agreement Asymmetries in Arabic 
• Luke McGuire, Science, Geosciences, Open access publication for broad dissemination of results related to post-fire hazards in Arizona

Start for Success

Student Team Awards: Interdisciplinary Link and Industry Engagement

UArizona National Labs Partnerships Grants

2022-2023

• David Sand, Science, Astronomy, Understanding Dark Matter & Astrophysics Using Dwarf Satellite Galaxies           
• David Baltrus, Agriculture and Life Sciences, School of Plant Sciences, Developing new computational tools for identifying and exploring viruses in metagenomes
• Eduardo Rozo, Science, Physics, Duster: Dust Extinction using photometric Red galaxies   
• Olesya Zhupanska, Engineering, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, PDE-Constrained Optimization Methods for Multifunctional Design        
• Kavan Hazeli, Engineering, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, Hazeli Group Partnership with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)           

Workshop Support

2022-2023

• Mona Arora, Mel & Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, Community Environment & Policy, COVID, Climate Change, and Preparedness: Lessons Learned Workshop
• Jennifer Carlson, Social & Behavioral Sciences, Sociology, BRIDGS Strategy Workshop
• Sharon Collinge, Arizona Institute for Resilience, Cultural transformation in the geoscience community: Building capacity for Indigenous students, scholars, and communities toward environmental and societal resilience
• Julie Emms, James C. Wyant College of Optical Sciences, Center for Quantum Networks, Arizona Quantum Initiative Inaugural Workshop
• Harris Kornstein, Humanities, Public & Applied Humanities, Queer Play: Politics, Pedagogies, Praxis
• Shu Fen Wung, Nursing, Biobehavioral Health Science Division , Government-Industry-University Partnerships to Advance Digital Health Systems, Bioconvergence and Health Equity (UA DC Center)
• Alicia Allen, College of Medicine – Tucson, Family & Community Medicine, Identifying Priorities for Advancing Research at The University of Arizona on Female Biology and Creation of Scientific Hub for Empowering Research on female health Advancement (SHERA)         
• Daniel Martinez, Social and Behavioral Sciences, Sociology & Mexican American Studies, Working Group Meeting for Mapping Migrant Deaths along US Southwest Border    
• Melanie McKay-Cody, Education, Disability, Psychoeducational Studies, North American Indian Sign Language Conference 

2021-2022

• Jonathan Bean, Architecture, Planning & Landscape Architecture, Architecture, DC Workshop: Transforming Buildings & Energy
• Brian Ellerman, Arizona FORGE, Building the Southern Arizona Coalition for Climate Adaptation and Resilience Workshop Series
• Andrea Gerlak, Udall Center, The Art and Science of Geospatial Tools in Environmental Engagement: Convening an Agency Dialogue
• Lisa Schrenk, Architecture, Planning & Landscape Architecture, Architecture, The Creation of an Institute for the Study of International Expositions

2020-2021

• No competitions