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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Challenge Grants
Community Engaged Partnerships Grants
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Faculty Seed Grants
Equipment Enhancement Fund
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

2019-2020

• Nancy Horton, Science, Structure-Function Studies of the Main Replicative Protein, NS1, from Human Parvovirus B19
• Jennifer McIntosh, Science, NSF Critical Zone Observatory Proposal:  Support for Workshop and Proposal Development
• Philipp Gutruf, ENGR, Battery free wireless osseosurface electronics for chronic and continuous measurement of bone and implant strain
• Brian Silverstein, SBS, Cultural Aspects of Grow-House Technology Acceptance Among Refugees in Southern Arizona
• Nam Lee, Medicine-Tucson, Calcineurin regulation of TAK1 in physiology and disease
• Stephanie Rainie, Public Health, RII, Advancing an International Indigenous Data Sovereignty Research Strategy
• Daniela Zarnescu, Science, Identifying novel small molecules with neuroprotective potential in ALS
• David Margolis, Medicine-Tucson, Next Generation Ceramic Scaffolds for Musculoskeletal Tissue Engineering
• Jean McLain, CALS, Assessing public health risk from sewage spills along the Mexico-Arizona border
• Floyd Chilton, CALS, Accelerate for Success: Precision Wellness Initiative
• Regis Ferriere, Science, Sonoran Soundscapes: Using sound processing and machine learning to capture our sound environment and understand its evolution
• Johnny Ray Runyon, Science, Thinking About Sweat: Sweat biomarker correlates of physical and mental effort
• Pearce Paul Creasman, Science, Paleogenetics and The Kingdom of Kush in Nubia
• Esther Sternberg, Medicine - Tucson, Objective and subjective validation of a self-care app to improve student athlete well-being
• Jon Konhilas, Medicine - Tucson, Menopause induces gut dysbiosis to increase cardiovascular risk
• Hongyue Jin, ENGR, Internet of Things based Pipeline Structural Health Monitoring
• Andrew Cohen, Science, Preliminary subsurface investigations of the Bouse Formation, Western AZ: A unique paleoenvironmental archive of Colorado River history and opportunity for Native American STEM training
• Lalitha Madhavan,Medicine - Tucson, Testing the role of early mitochondrial dysfunction in the development of epilepsy in patient-specific human iPSC and mouse models

2018-2019

• Samuel Campos, Medicine-Tucson, Viral Inhibition of Cellular Senescence and Interferon Responses via Antagonism of the cGAS/STING Pathway
• Eugene Chang, Medicine-Tucson, CLOSE SHAVE: Hybrid-reality Surgical Simulation
• Rongguang Liang, Optical Sciences, IR laser-assisted additive manufacturing of precision glass optics
• Raina Maier, Agriculture & Life Sciences, The Arid Soil Microbiome: Connecting Functional Health to Phylogenetic Diversity
• Joanna Masel, Science, Transforming STEM education by engaging more research-oriented faculty
• Luke McGuire, Science, From source to sink: identifying hot spots for debris flow hazards and soil carbon sequestration following wildfire
• Julie Miller, Science, Identifying Gene Targets for Progressive Speech Deficits in Parkinson's Disease
• Janko Nikolich-Zugich, Medicine-Tucson, UA Older Americans Independence Center (UA-OAIC)
• Jon Njardarson, Science, Rational Design of novel PP1-selective Inhibitors
• Robert Norwood, Optical Sciences, Sustainable Growth of the Cloud
• Joyce Schroeder, Science, Mechanisms of Cancer Drug Resistance and Sensitivity in Breast Cancer Metastasis
• Gayatri Vedantam, Agriculture & Life Sciences, Precision Healthcare: A Novel, Rapid Diagnostic Test for Clostridium difficile Infection that Addresses Unmet Treatment and Infection Control Needs
• Anne Wertheimer, BIO5, Novel Antimicrobial Matrix Development and Validation

2017-2018

• Kobus Barnard, Science, Building capacity for inferring facial communication from video data
• Greg Barron-Gafford, Social & Behavioral Sciences, Dryland Agrivoltaics: A Novel Ecosystems Approach to the Food-Water-Energy Nexus
• Steven Goldman, Medicine, Cardiotoxicity Assay Platform (CTAP)
• Michael Hammer, Science, From Pathophysiology to Therapeutics in Childhood Epilepsy: A translational approach using an SCN8A mouse model and human induced pluripotent stem cells
• Christopher Hulme, Pharmacy, Simultaneous targeting of both major Alzheimer’s pathologies through DYRK1A Inhibition.
• Natalia Ignatenko, Medicine, Kallikrein-6 Activity Probe for Image-Guided Resection of Brain Tumor
• Douglas A. Loy, Engineering, Lithe Integrative Additive Manufacturing (LIAM)
• Laura Meredith, Agriculture & Life Sciences, Soil ecosystem genomics: novel methods to link microbial genes, communities, and function in the face of soil system complexity
• Robert Norwood, Optical Sciences, Magneto-optic Polymer Magnetic Field Sensors
• Linda Powers, Engineering, Real-Time On-Chip Processing and Encryption of Biomedical Images
• Barry Pryor, Agriculture & Life Sciences, Advancing mycoculture for enhanced nutritional and nutraceutical resources
• Magdalene So, Medicine, Model for persistent, asymptomatic colonization by commensal bacteria
• S. Patricia Stock, Agriculture & Life Sciences, Bioprospecting of secondary metabolites from Photorhabdus bacteria and their application in pest management
• Michelle Strout, Science, Bringing Science Up To Par by Automatically Parallelizing Scripting Languages
• Peter Troch, Science, Revisioning landscape evolution: The role of pore-scale microbial life in landscape-scale hydro-bio-geochemical processes
• Rod Wing, Agriculture & Life Sciences, Upgrading the 11-genome Oryza data package and de novo assembly of the O. granulata genome to help solve the 10-billion people question

Start for Success

2018-2019

• Joseph Blankinship, Agriculture & Life Sciences, Using Biochar to Sequester Carbon and Promote Sustainability in Arizona
• Kerry Cooper, Agriculture & Life Sciences, Establishing a Model to Simulate Post-Infectious Irritable Bowel Syndrome
• Bellal Joseph, Medicine-Tucson, A Proposal Development Conference to Establish the First National Geriatric Trauma Research Center 
• John Benjamin (Ben) McMahan, Institute of the Environment, Innovative Visualization & Analysis Tools for the North American Monsoon – Connecting Citizen Science Data and Observations for Research, Policy, and Decision Support
• Martin Reimann, Eller, Cancer Prevention from a New Viewpoint: Why visits to the beach are like monetary losses but visits to the doctor are like monetary gains
• Jekan Thangavelautham, Engineering, Large/Complex Support

2017-2018

• James Field, Engineering, Role of Manganese Oxide in the Halogenation of Natural Organic Matte
• Matthew Mars, Agriculture & Life Sciences, Biological Ecosystem Analysis 
• Barbara Mills, Social & Behavioral Sciences, Deep Time Perspectives on the Dynamics of Coupled Human and Natural Systems
• Janet Roveda, Engineering, Stream Health Service to Growing Up in Place
• Sonia Shiri, Social & Behavioral Sciences, Building a UA-wide Center for Language and Innovation
• Larry Venable, Science, Thirty generations of climate change: adaptation and evolutionary drag in a long-term ecological study

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 

2019-2020

• Mary Alt, Science, One World, Many Words
• Tara Carr, Medicine-Tucson, Supporting BEAMS: Binational Research Infrastructure and Maternal Immune Status
• Edella Schlager, SBS, How Rules and Beliefs Jointly Shape Water Quality Governance
• Carol Brochin, Education, Salas de Libros: Transnational Partnerships for Literacy Communities
• Cac Dao, ENGR, Collaborative Interactive Learning Studio for Micro-Campuses
• Katherine Ellingson, Public Health, Antibiotic Resistance and Use Patterns on Arizona’s Border Region and in Sonora, Mexico
• Greg Barron-Gafford, SBS, Harvesting the sun twice: Co-using land for sustainable food and electricity production in East Africa

2018-2019

• Kevin Anchukaitis, Social & Behavioral Sciences, Stable and Radiogenic isotope approach to paleoclimate dynamics in Central America (Track 1)
• Roman Lysecky, Engineering, Formal Models and Self-Adaptive Techniques to Automatically Mitigate Privacy and Security Threats in Life-Critical Systems (Track 1)
• John Streicher, Medicine-Tucson, Determining the Side Effect Profile and Chronic Pain Efficacy of the MACE Series of Fluorinated Cyclic Biphalin Analogs (Track 1)
• William Simmons, Social & Behavioral Sciences, Curricular and Strategic Litigation Partnerships between the UA Online Graduate Program in Human Rights Practice and Two Russian-Language Universities (Track 2)
• Carol Brochin, Education, Crossing Borders through Books/Cruzando fronteras con Libros (Track 3)
• Christopher Cokinos, Social & Behavioral Sciences, Crafting the Long Tomorrow: Difficult Conversations Across Science and Humanities Boundaries As the Global Emergency Worsens (Track 3)
• Margaret Evans, Tree Ring Laboratory, Jump-starting the continental-scale assimilation of tree-ring and forest inventory data for carbon cycle science (Track 3)
• Katherine Snyder, Social & Behavioral Sciences, Integrating ecosystem services into development planning (IES) (Track 3)

2017-2018

• John Kemeny, Engineering, Transnational and Transdisciplinarity Research: Imaging in Mining Geomechanics
• Henrietta Kralovec, UA South, Digital Border Dialogues: Identity, Interculturality and educational empowerment
• Anna O'Leary, Social & Behavioral Sciences, Shared Populations: A Multi-Sited Research Collaboration with Mexico
• Ramzi Touchan, Science, U.S.-Russia Dendrohydrology of Complex River Systems
• Mary Voyatzis, Social & Behavioral Sciences, Paleomobility in the Late Bronze Age Peloponnese, Greece, as seen through the lens of the Sanctuary of Zeus on Mt. Lykaion
• Albert Welter, Humanities, The Hangzhou Region and the Chinese Creation of an East Asian Buddhism

Student Team Awards: Interdisciplinary Link and Industry Engagement

2019-2020

• B.G. Potter, ENGR, High Efficiency IR Emitter Thin Films for Integrated Spectroscopic Sensing
• R. Jason Jones, Optical Sciences, Advanced laser sources for detection of WMDs
• Walter Betancourt, CALS, Biofiltration for safe reuse in irrigation: A novel approach for zero liquid discharge
• Laird Close, Science, Construction of the Giant Magellan Telescope High Contrast Exoplanet Testbed
• Nasser Peyghambarian, Optical Sciences, Optical and Optoelectronic Computing
• Melanie Culver, CALS, Emerging Viral Diseases in Southwestern Felids 

2018-2019

• Pierre Blanche, Optical Sciences, Volume Hologram for Non-Mechanical Beam Steering (Track 1)
• Laird Close, Science, Developing The Ultimate Protoplanet Discovery Camera (Track 1)
• Lloyd LaComb, Optical Sciences, Development of a portable fiber optic magnetoencephalography system for a use in unshielded environment (Track 1)
• Zheshen Zhang, Engineering, Development of Quantum Covert Sensing Prototype (Track 2)
• Xiushan Zhu, Optical Sciences, GHz Repetition Rate Mode-Locked Fiber Lasers at 2 micron (Track 1)

2017-2018

• Pierre-Alexandre Blanche, Optical Sciences, Track 1 - Interdisciplinary Link, Holographic Switch for Data Center
• Arturo Chavez-Pirson, Optical Sciences, Track 1 - Interdisciplinary Link, Magnetic Gradiometer based on Ultra-high Verdet constant MO polymers
• Andrew Gillette, Science, Track 1 - Interdisciplinary Link, Numerical Methods for Gravitational Wave Science
• Khanh Kieu, Optical Sciences, Track 1 - Interdisciplinary Link, High Power Fiber-based Laser Sources in the Mid-Infrared
• Daniel Kilper, Optical Sciences, Track 1 - Interdisciplinary Link, Optical Networks for 5G Wireless
• Lloyd LaComb, Optical Sciences, Track 1 - Interdisciplinary Link, Development of a portable fiber optic magnetoencephalography system
• Rongguang Liang, Optical Sciences, Track 1 - Interdisciplinary Link, Quantitative polarization and phase techniques for cell and tissue imaging
• Pierre Lucas, Engineering, Track 2 - Industry Engagement, Industry-University Partnership on Infrared Fibers
• Sumit Mazumdar, Science, Track 1 - Interdisciplinary Link, Enhanced Performance of Organic Solar Cells: Singlet Fission
• Robert Norwood, Optical Sciences, Track 1 - Interdisciplinary Link, Magneto-optic Materials and Devices for Sensing
• Michelle Perfect, Education, Track 1 - Interdisciplinary Link, Interdisciplinary Mentorship to Advance Pediatric Sleep Research in Youth with Type 1 Diabetes
• Nasser Peyghambarian, Optical Sciences, Track 1 - Interdisciplinary Link, All-Fiber Compact Multiphoton Endoscope for Early Cancer Diagnosis and Cancer Margin Determination during Surgery
• Jeffrey Pyun, Science, Track 1 - Interdisciplinary Link, Mechanically Reinforced Composites from Chalcogenide Hybrid Inorganic/Organic Polymers (CHIPs) for Infrared Thermal Imaging
• Erin Ratcliff, Engineering, Track 1 - Interdisciplinary Link, Creating High-Conductivity Plastic Electrodes for Ultralight-Weight Electronics
• Janet Roveda, Engineering, Track 1 - Interdisciplinary Link, Subthreshold based VLSI Design for Low Power Iterative Graphical inference application
• Shane Snyder, Engineering, Track 2 - Industry Engagement, Ceramic Membrane and Ozone for Water Reuse: Synergy for Fouling Control and Organic Contaminant Oxidation
• Guang Yao, Science, Track 1 - Interdisciplinary Link, Heterogeneous cell invasion and colonization in metastatic breast cancer microenvironment

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

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

2019-2020

• Stacey Tecot, SBS, Adapting facial recognition software for biodiversity censusing and long-term monitoring of lemurs
• Salma Patel, Medicine - Tucson, Cardiorespiratory Interactions during Noninvasive Ventilation
• Mary Kaitlin Murphy, Humanities, Artistic Activism After Atrocity
• Andrew Capaldi, Science, TORC1 Dependent Regulation of Metabolism
• Bryan Carter, Humanities, Preserving Cultural Heritage
• Qiang Zhou, ENGR, Accelerating Design of Printed Antennas Using Machine Learning Methods
• Alicia Allen, Medicine - Tucson, Development of an Adjunctive Behavioral Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder during the Postpartum Period
• Qing Hao, ENGR, Data-Science-Driven Studies of Interface Formation under Ultra-High-Pressure Hot Press
• Aaron Rosengren, ENGR, Improved Data and Analysis for Modeling Collisions and Predicting Orbit Evolutions
• Catharine Smith, Pharmacy, Mechanistic Studies on the Role of Lysine Deacetylases in Glucocorticoid-Activated Transcription
• Corey Abramson, SBS, The Weight of Inequality: How Bodyweight Stratifies the Lives of Youth in Post-Recession America
• Marcus Lofverstrom, Science, Thermal and topographic control on the midlatitude atmospheric circulation
• Aresta Tsosie-Paddock, SBS, Home-based Native-language Acquisition Motivations
• Jennifer Stern, Medicine - Tucson, Glucagon Signaling as a Mediator of Exercise-Induced Improvements in Aging
• Aubin Moutal, Medicine - Tucson, CRMP5 regulation of NMDA receptor in the development of neuropathic pain
• Anastasiya Pocheptsova Ghosh, Eller, Improving Financial Decision Making
• Melissa Herbst-Kralovetz, Medicine - Phoenix, Deciphering Metabolic Mechanisms of Host Defense to Vaginal Bacteria in the Uterine Microenvironment
• Jennifer Teske, CALS, Determining whether sleep loss reduces ovarian function 

2018-2019

• Craig Aspinwall, Science, Novel tissue graft platforms for in vivo evaluation of parathyroid function (Track 1)
• Sama Alshaibi, Fine Arts, Unlawful Present (Track 2)
• Jennifer Carlson, Social & Behavioral Sciences, Killed but Not Murdered: Negligent Homicide, Justifiable Homicide & the New Politics of Trauma (Track 2)
• Marjorie Elizabeth Plummer, Social & Behavioral Sciences, Religious Diversity and Shared Churches in Early Modern Europe (Track 2)
• Phyllis Taoua, Humanities, Documenting African Freedom: Digital Archive and Film (Track 2)
• Walter Betancourt, Agriculture & Life Sciences, Detection of waterborne adenoviruses by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry based magnetic immunoassay with gold nanoparticles labeling (Track 3)
• Susan Brewer-Osorio, Social & Behavioral Sciences, Sealing the Peace Deal? Assessing the Disarmament and Reintegration of Ex-Combatants in Colombia (Track 3)
• David Christianson, Agriculture & Life Sciences, New Technologies for safe, effective, and informative wildlife surveys (Track 3)
• Yong Ge, Eller, Mining Career, Education and Job Data to Bridge the Gap between Talent Demand and Supply (Track 3)
• Thomas Gianetti, Science, Transition Metal Complexes Stabilized by Carbocation Based Ligands (Track 3)
• Euan McLeod, Optical Sciences, 3D Assembly of Multi-Component Nanophotonic Materials and Devices (Track 3)
• Erin Ratcliff, Engineering, Polymer/Ionic Liquid Interfaces for Energy Storage (Track 3)
• Blaine Smith, Education, Examining Adolescents’ Spatial Thinking through Community-Based Multimodal StoryMaps (Track 3)
• George Sutphin, Science, Pharmaceutical elevation of systemic 3-hydroxyanthranilic acid (3HAA) to treat age-associated disease (Track 3)
• Koenraad Van Doorslaer, Agriculture & Life Sciences, Towards understanding viral dynamics associated with Sonoran Desert fauna (Track 3)

2017-2018

• Richard Amini, Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Track 3: Early Career, Transcranial Ultrasound in Traumatic Brain Injury
• Jessica Braithwaite, Social & Behavioral Sciences, School of Government & Public Policy, Track 1: International, The Anatomy of Resistance Campaigns
• Pearce Paul Creasman, Science, Laboratory of Tree Ring Research, Track 3: Early Career, Archaeological and Contemporary Perspectives on Climate Change, Urbanization, and their Effects on the Genetic Diversity of an Ecologically and Culturally Significant Tree
• Courtney Crosson, Architecture Planning and Landscape Architecture, Architecture, Track 2: Arts Humanities & Culture, Rainwater as Historic Resource for Native Food Systems in Tucson’s Food Desert Communities
• Christina Diaz, Social & Behavioral Sciences, Sociology, Track 3: Early Career, Declining Ethnic Distinction: Immigrants, Natives, and Changes in the American Mainstream
• Katherine Ellingson, Public Health, Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Track 3: Early Career, Results-oriented Antibiotic Stewardship in Long-term Care Facilities
• Rachel Gallery, Science, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Track 1: International, Climate responses of soil microbiomes in high elevation tropical wetlands
• Matthew Grilli, Science, Psychology, Track 3: Early Career, Detecting the Earliest Signs of Alzheimer's Disease: A Novel Cognitive Neuroscience Approach
• Vasiliki Karanikola, Engineering, Chemical & Environmental Engineering, Track 3: Early Career, Uranium and Arsenic removal through solar nanofiltration
• Aneta Kielar, Science, Speech Language & Hearing Science, Track 3: Early Career, Neural Correlates of Grammatical Deficit in Stroke-Related Aphasia: Role of Word Sound and Meaning
• Samy Missoum, Engineering, Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering, Track 1: International, A New Generation of Materials for Shock and Vibration Mitigation based on Nonlinear Energy Sinks
• Rebecca Mosher, Agriculture & Life Sciences, Plant Sciences, Track 1: International, Brassica rapa transformation: building molecular tools for a new model plant
• Yue Niu, Science, Mathematics, Track 3: Early Career, Normalization and Segmentation for Hi-C Data
• Charlotte Pearson, Science, Laboratory of Tree Ring Research, Track 3: Early Career, Time capsules of climatic change: Bristlecone pine tree-ring isotopes and the 4.2 ka event
• John Purdy, Medicine, Immunobiology, Track 3: Early Career, Cytomegalovirus and Zika Virus Hijacking of Host Lipid Metabolism
• Armin Sorooshian, Engineering, Chemical & Environmental Engineering, Track 3: Early Career, Understanding why some particles shrink in the air upon humidification
• Shelley Staples, Social & Behavioral Sciences, English, Track 3: Early Career, Understanding writing development and identifying needs for second language STEM writers: from first year writing to engineering writing
• Russell Toomey, Agriculture & Life Sciences, Family & Consumer Sciences, Track 2: Arts Humanities & Culture, Mapping Q: Examining the Effectiveness of an Arts-Based Suicide Prevention Program for SGM Youth
• Koenraad Van Doorslaer, Agriculture & Life Sciences, Animal & Comparative Biomedical Science, Track 3: Early Career, Determine the role of recombination in Papillomavirus evolution
• Robert Wilson, Science, Psychology, Track 3: Early Career, The Neural Substrates of Exploration and Exploitation
• Junming Yin, Eller, Management Information Systems, Track 3: Early Career, Identifying Topic-specific Influential Users and Likely Adopters in Large Social Networks: A Scalable Machine Learning Approach
• Katharine Zeiders, Agriculture & Life Sciences, Family & Consumer Sciences, Track 3: Early Career, Immigrant Families’ Stress During the 2016 Presidential Election

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

2019-2020

• Larry Acedo, RII, New CNC Lathe for the Machining and Welding Center
• Walter Betancourt, Agriculture & Life Sciences, Environmental Science, Ensuring water, food safety, and public health using the compact Illumina iSeq100 System
• Deepta Bhattacharya, College of Medicine-Tucson, Immunobiology, Laser upgrade for flow cytometry research
• Scott Boitano, College of Medicine-Tucson, Physiology/Asthma & Airway Disease Research Center, CLARIOstar Plus multiplate reader
• Mark Brusseau, Agriculture & Life Sciences, Environmental Science, Advanced Tensiometer System for Characterizing the Environmental Fate of Emerging Contaminants and Surfactant-Enhanced Remediation Processes
• Winslow Burleson, Social & Behavioral Sciences, School of Information, Experiential Supercomputing: Developing a Democratic Holodeck for Convergence Science and Innovation
• Jon Chorover, Agriculture & Life Sciences, Environmental Science, Fluorescence Spectrophotometer for ALEC
• Darren Cusanovich, College of Medicine-Tucson, Cellular & Molecular Medicine, Equipment Enhancement Fund – Request for Single Cell Sequencing Equipment, Cellsee Genesis System.
• Goggy Davidowitz, Agriculture & Life Sciences, Entomology, Passive Solar Dryer to repurpose Food Waste
• Jennifer Duan, Engineering, Civil & Architectural Engineering & Mechanics, Acquire Sontek IQ Plus Flowmeter
• Philipp Gutruf, Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Conformal coating - a vital tool to fuel cross cutting research at the interface of the Medical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
• Nancy Horton, Science, Molecular & Cellular Biology, Light Scattering For Protein Studies
• May Khanna, Pharmacy, Pharmacology & Toxicology, Updating the T100 Surface Plasmon Resonance to a T200
• Oliver Monti, Science, Chemistry & Biochemistry, New Horizons in Chemical and Electronic Surface Analysis
• Anthony Muscat, Engineering, Chemical & Environmental Engineering, Ellipsometer Instrumentation to Develop Energy Efficient Water Purification Membranes and Other Thin Film Materials and Devices
• Kenneth Nebesny, RII, New Delivery Truck for the Cryogenics Core Facility
• Tyson Swetnam, Agriculture & Life Sciences, BIO5, CEREUS: Cyberinfrastructure for Environmental Research & Education with Unoccupied Systems
• Malak Tfaily, Agriculture & Life Sciences, Environmental Science, Enhancing UA-ABMS Core Facility untargeted metabolomics and lipidomics capability
• Yana Zavros, College of Medicine-Tucson, Cellular & Molecular Medicine, Spinning Disk Confocal System as a Resource for Organoid-Based Personalized and Regenerative Medicine
• Thomas Zega, Science, Lunar & Planetary Laboratory, Acquisition of a backscatter electron detector and automated stage software for the Helios Focused-Ion-Beam Scanning-Electron Microscopy in the Kuiper Materials Imaging and Characterization Facility

2018-2019

• Pascale Charest, Science, Total Internal Reflection Fluorescence Illumination Module Upgrade for the Spinning Disk Confocal Microscope to Enable High-Resolution Suface Imaging in the Keck Center
• Nancy Horton, Science, Shared Avestin EmulsiFlex-C3 for Cell Lysis
• Urs Utzinger, Engineering, Refurbishing of Titanium: Sapphire Laser for Advanced Intravital Microscope
• Donata Vercelli, Medicine-Tucson, Enabling lung function measurements in experimental asthma models
• Jean Wilson, Medicine-Tucson, Upgrades of Leica DMI6000 Microscope

2017-2018

• Maryia Fedzechkina, Social & Behavioral Sciences, Eye movement tracking in language processing research
• Nancy Horton, Science, Enhancements to the Life Science North Imaging Core
• Anita Koshy, Medicine-Tucson, Expanding the imaging capabilities of the Marley core multiphoton microscope
• Pierre Lucas, Engineering, Broadening the user base of the confocal Raman spectrometer in the Kuiper Facility
• Ronald Lynch, Medicine-Tucson, Leica Bond RXm: Enhanced Tissue Staining Throughput and Efficiency for TACMASR
• David Moore, Agriculture & Life Sciences, Understanding Global Carbon and Water Cycles: New florescence measurement capability to take advantage of forthcoming NASA missions
• Marc Orbach, Agriculture & Life Sciences, Automated Fluorescence Digital Imaging System for Shared-User, Multi-Agent Keating BSL3 Laboratory
• Wolfgang Peti, Science, Purchase of a shared Nanotemper Monolith.N115Pico Instrument
• Barry Pryor, Agriculture & Life Sciences, Enhancing sterilization capacity for quality assurance in biosystems research
• John Purdy, Medicine-Tucson, Tools to Maximize the Mass Spectrometry Facility's Omics Research
• Protul Shrikant, Medicine-Tucson, Seahorse XFe 96 Analyzer for Developing Human Immune Monitoring Facility at UACC
• Thomas Zega, Science, Enhancement of Sample Preparation and TEM Capabilities for the Kuiper Materials Imaging and Characterization Facility

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

April 2020

• Michael Marty, Science, Chemistry & Biochemistry, Optimization of Protein LC/MS for High Salt and Lipid Conditions
• Ningning Zhao, Agriculture & Life Sciences, Nutritional Sciences, Transcriptomics analysis to identify gene expression changes caused by ZIP14 knockout
• Frans Tax, Science, Molecular & Cellular Biology, Role of Protein Filaments in Environmental Control of Root Growth

January 2020

• Scott Boitano, College of Medicine-Tucson, Physiology, High Capacity Biased Signaling Detection in G-Protein Coupled Receptors (GPCRs)
• Andreia Chignalia, College of Medicine-Tucson, Anesthesiology, Generation of floxed glypican-1 mice: assessing cellular specific role of glypican-1 on the control of the vascular tone
• Jared Churko, College of Medicine-Tucson, Cellular & Molecular Medicine, Bicuspid Aortic Valve Disease Development in a GATA4 Variant Mouse Model
• Darren Cusanovich, College of Medicine-Tucson, Cellular & Molecular Medicine, Development of a Single-cell Massively Parallel Reporter Assay
• Martha Hunter, Agriculture & Life Sciences, Entomology, Transcriptome sequencing and analysis in support of finding manipulator genes in a symbiotic bacterium
• Art Riegel, College of Medicine-Tucson, Pharmacology, The role of brain microglia in drug addiction
• George Sutphin, Science, Molecular & Cellular Biology, Impact of kynurenine pathway interventions on age-associated transcriptional response to pathogens
• Jean Wilson, College of Medicine-Tucson, Cellular & Molecular Medicine, Endosomal regulation of intestinal development
• Jesse Woodson, Agriculture & Life Sciences, Plant Sciences, Monitoring individual chloroplast degradation via confocal microscopy
• Thomas J. Zega, Science, Lunar & Planetary Laboratory, Grain Boundary Characteristics Analyzed by a Multimodal Approach Using Electron Backscatter Diffraction, Transmission Electron Microscopy, and Raman Spectroscopy
• Zheshen Zhang, Engineering, Materials Science & Engineering, Development of Topological Quantum Photonic Devices

October 2019

• Samuel Campos, College of Medicine-Tucson, Immunobiology, Alteration of HPV Binding & Subcellular Trafficking by Peptide Inhibitors
• Brett Colson, College of Medicine, Tucson, Cellular & Molecular Medicine, Orange Fluorescent Protein-Biosensor Mice for High-Throughput Screening
• David Garcia, Mel & Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, Health Promotion Sciences, Assessing Genetic Risk Related to Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in a Community-Based Sample of Mexican-Origin Adults with Overweight or Obesity
• Frank Gonzalez, Social & Behavioral Sciences, School of Government & Public Policy, Neural Bases of Contemporary Race and Class Hierarchy
• Ravi Goyal, Agriculture & Life Sciences, Animal & Comparative Biomedical Sciences, Cancer growth and the role of Long Non-Coding RNA
• Elizabeth Hutchinson, Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Pilot data showing MRI markers in rodent TBI
• Julie Miller, Science, Neuroscience, Immunohistochemical Protein Detection in the Finch Brain: Relevance to Vocal Communication
• Barbara Mills, Social & Behavioral Sciences, School of Anthropology, Capturing Color: Spectroscopic Analyses of Ancient Paint Recipes in the U.S. Southwest
• Ghassan Mouneimne, College of Medicine-Tucson, Cellular & Molecular Medicine, Nanostructure of neuronal dendrites during synapse formation
• Edita Navratilova, College of Medicine-Tucson, Pharmacology, Generation of a genetic mouse model with isoform-selective tags in the prolactin receptor
• Ritu Pandey, College of Medicine-Tucson, Cellular & Molecular Medicine, Whole Proteome Quantification of Colorectal tumors from patients with codon specific mutations in KRAS gene
• Ruslan Rafikov, College of Medicine-Tucson, Medicine, Generation of nitration protected Akt mutant mice model
• Andrew Rouse, RII, Arizona Research Labs, TBIR pilot funding for Vevo photoacoustic research projects
• Bruce Tabashnik, Agriculture & Life Sciences, Entomology, Genetics of Pest Resistance to Bt Toxin Cry1Ac
• Thomas Tomasiak, Science, Chemistry & Biochemistry, Understanding substrate specificity determinants and regulation of transporters using the functional genomics core
• Lisa Viesselmann, ALVSCE, Arizona Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, Validation of flow cytometry for immunophenotyping of canine lymphocytes

July 2019

• Scott Boitano, Medicine, Development of high-capacity cell signaling assays for drug discovery
• Andrew Capaldi, Science, TORC1 Dependent Regulation of Amino Acid Metabolism
• James Galligan, Pharmacy, Lactoylation of Lys Residues is a Novel Modification Regulated by SIRT2
• Nancy Horton, Science, Discovery of Potent Inhibitors of NS1, the Main Replicative Protein of Human Parovirus B19
• Martha Hunter, Agriculture & Life Sciences, Symbiosis visualized: Confocal microscopy training for insight into insect-bacterial symbioses
• Jun Isoe, Science, Proteomic analysis of mosquito eggshell proteins
• Aneta Kielar, Science, Development of Individualized Neuromodulation Protocol for Treatment of Language Deficits in Stroke Aphasia
• Tally Largent-Milnes, Medicine, Optimizing detection of brain endocannabinoids by LC/MS
• Laura Meredith, Agriculture & Life Sciences, Microbial community composition, gene content, and expression of the Biosphere 2 Tropical Rainforest soil and plant microbiomes
• Helena Morrison, Nursing, Investigating the diversity of microglia forms and functions and relevance to brain region, sex and age
• Lisa Nagy, Science, Mechanisms driving tissue elongation: Undergraduate involvement
• Gregory Rogers, Medicine, Visualizing a new intracellular structure: the distal centriole cartwheel
• Magdalene So, Medicine, CLASI-FISH as a tool to evaluate Neisseria community development in the gut
• Malak Tfaily, Agriculture & Life Sciences, Quantifying biotic and abiotic controls on dissolved organic matter dynamics in watersheds
• Thomas Tomasiak, Science, Life Sciences North Imaging Facility Workshop
• Elisa Tomat, Science, Impact of iron sequestration on the toxicity of FDA-approved drugs in cancer cells presenting sustained NRF2 activation
• Daniela Zarnescu, Science, Training new students to use confocal microscopes and SIM

April 2019

• Scott Boitano, Medicine, Development of high-capacity cell signaling assays for drug discovery
• Andrew Capaldi, Science, TORC1 Dependent Regulation of Amino Acid Metabolism
• James Galligan, Pharmacy, Lactoylation of Lys Residues is a Novel Modification Regulated by SIRT2
• Nancy Horton, Science, Discovery of Potent Inhibitors of NS1, the Main Replicative Protein of Human Parovirus B19
• Martha Hunter, Agriculture & Life Sciences, Symbiosis visualized: Confocal microscopy training for insight into insect-bacterial symbioses
• Jun Isoe, Science, Proteomic analysis of mosquito eggshell proteins
• Aneta Kielar, Science, Development of Individualized Neuromodulation Protocol for Treatment of Language Deficits in Stroke Aphasia
• Tally Largent-Milnes, Medicine, Optimizing detection of brain endocannabinoids by LC/MS
• Laura Meredith, Agriculture & Life Sciences, Microbial community composition, gene content, and expression of the Biosphere 2 Tropical Rainforest soil and plant microbiomes
• Helena Morrison, Nursing, Investigating the diversity of microglia forms and functions and relevance to brain region, sex and age
• Lisa Nagy, Science, Mechanisms driving tissue elongation: Undergraduate involvement
• Gregory Rogers, Medicine, Visualizing a new intracellular structure: the distal centriole cartwheel
• Magdalene So, Medicine, CLASI-FISH as a tool to evaluate Neisseria community development in the gut
• Malak Tfaily, Agriculture & Life Sciences, Quantifying biotic and abiotic controls on dissolved organic matter dynamics in watersheds
• Thomas Tomasiak, Science, Life Sciences North Imaging Facility Workshop
• Elisa Tomat, Science, Impact of iron sequestration on the toxicity of FDA-approved drugs in cancer cells presenting sustained NRF2 activation
• Daniela Zarnescu, Science, Training new students to use confocal microscopes and SIM

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

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 

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)           

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

Last updated June 26, 2023