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

2024-2025

• Zhou Chi, Animal&Biomedical Sciences-Res, Role of circulating immune cells in fetal growth restriction-impaired fetal endothelial function
• Curiel-Lewandrowski Clara, College of Medicine - Tucson, Deconvolution methods to guide opportunities and timing to intervene with topical immunoprevention strategies
• Vedantam Gayatri, College of Agric and Life Sci, A Novel Antimicrobial Technology: Focus on Eradication of Infectious Diarrheas
• Snider Ashley, College of Agric and Life Sci, Investigating Acid Ceramidase: A Key to Understanding Microglial Response in Stroke
• Bhattacharya Martha, Neuroscience, Profiling Lipid and Metabolic Disruptions Underlying TMEM184B-associated Neurodevelopmental Disorders
• Pires Paulo, College of Medicine - Tucson, Development of a model of Amyloid-Related Imaging Abnormalities for Pre-clinical screening of putative therapeutic agents
• Zhang Lianyang, Civil Arch Engr and Mechanics, Enhancing community sustainability and resilience through integrated monitoring, modeling and mitigation (M3) of land subsidence and earth fissures in southern Arizona
• Blankinship Joseph, Environmental Science-Res, Treating Soil Health to Enhance Crop Nutrient Density and Human Wellness
• Moore David, Sch of Natural Resources-Ins, Augmenting Arizona Research Sites through Soil Characterization: controls on carbon and water cycling
• Baltrus David, School of Plant Sciences-Res, Characterizing the impact of agriculture on co-occurrence of antimicrobial resistance genes
• Duhamel Solange, College of Science, Seasonal Dynamics of Contaminants and Microbial Responses in the Santa Cruz River
• Meredith Laura, Sch of Natural Resources-Ins, Harnessing microbial adaptation as an innovative solution to H2 leak mitigation for the clean hydrogen economy

2023-2024

• Matthew Cordes, Science (and Medicine), Chemistry and Biochemistry, A novel and damaging sphingolipid metabolite produced in human tissue by recluse spider venom
• Yong Ge, Eller College of Management, Management Information Systems, Analyzing Circulating Metabolites for Predicting Cardiopulmonary Diseases            
• Chris Lim, Mel & Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, Community, Environment, and Policy, Modeling air pollution and traffic compositions in Tucson  
• Ute Lotz-Heumann, Social and Behavioral Sciences, Department of History / Division for Late Medieval and Reformation Studies, Samuel Pepys’s Social Network in 17th-century London           
• Jeffrey Pyun, Science, Chemistry & Biochemistry, Liquefication of Elemental Chalcogens and Chalcogenide Glasses:  A New Route to Highly Transparent Inorganic Polymers for Infrared Optics         
• John Ruiz, Science, Psychology, Blood collections in Latinx/Hispanic communities.     
• Jennifer Stern, College of Medicine-Tucson, Medicine - Division of Endocrinology,Exacerbating Liver GABA Production, a Model of Accelerated Aging    
• Guang Yao, Science, Molecular & Cellular Biology,  Epitranscriptomic analysis of a novel quiescence-to-senescence transition in cellular aging   

2022-2023

• Purnima Madhivanan, Mel & Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, Health Promotion Sciences, Building a UA Research Collaboration around the PISTACHIO BIRTH COHORT
• Robert Wilson, Science, Psychology, Personalized force guidance using reinforcement learning with learning optimization in surgical skills training
• John Jewett, Science, Chemistry & Biochemistry, New strategies for mosquito larvicides
• Pavel Polynkin, James C. Wyant College of Optical Sciences, Optical Sciences, Feasibility assessment for the laser-based remote detection of viruses in human exhaled breath
• Frank Duca, Agriculture & Life Sciences, Animal & Comparative Biomedical Science, Utilizing novel techniques to understand gut-brain neural connections that control food intake
• Amit Ashok, James C. Wyant College of Optical Sciences, Optical Sciences, Fundamental Limits of Robust Imaging and Sensing
• Kaveh Laksari, Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Association of cerebrovascular tortuosity with cerebral amyloid angiopathy and Alzheimer's disease
• Brian Enquist, Science, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Using a trait-based approach to understand desert plant resilience to aridity and future climate change
• John Streicher, College of Medicine-Tucson, Pharmacology, Development of Clinically Translatable 18F-Radiotracers for In Vivo Detection of TPSO in Age-Related Alzheimer's disease by Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Imaging

2021-2022

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2020-2021

• Debra Guinn, College of Medicine-Tucson, OBGYN, Arizona Prenatal Infection with SARS-CoV2, Transmission dynamics, and Childhood Health/Immunity Outcomes (Az-PISTACHIO)
• Justin Hyatt, Science, Steward Observatory, A Satellite Command Station for UArizona
• Mark Kear, Social & Behavioral Sciences, School of Geography, Development & the Environment, Heat, Housing, and Health: Convergent Exposure and Thermal Insecurity in Mobile and Manufactured Housing
• Laura Meredith, Agriculture & Life Sciences, School of Natural Resources & the Environment, Harvesting water in the desert: risks and mitigation of pathogen invasion in soils in water-saving retention and reuse applications
• David Moore, Agriculture & Life Sciences, School of Natural Resources & the Environment, Advancing innovative and transformative ecological science
• Jarrod Mosier, College of Medicine-Tucson, Emergency Medicine, A Novel Mixed-Reality Simulation System for Improving Patient Safety During Difficult Airway Management
• Barry Pryor, Agriculture & Life Sciences, Plant Sciences, Creating Bioregenerative Closed-loop Food Production Systems
• Jeffrey Pyun, Science, Chemistry & Biochemistry, Computational Chemistry and Machine Learning for Accelerated Discovery of Long Wave Infrared Transparent Plastics: A Route to Inexpensive IR Thermal Imaging Cameras
• Rochelle Rodrigo, Social & Behavioral Sciences, English, Researching the Impacts of an Online Readability Lab in First Year Undergraduate and Graduate Learning

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

2024-2025

• Turner, Alexandra, College of Medicine - Tucson, Improving Access to Kidney Transplantation for Tribal Communities in Southern Arizona
• Maltman, Alexis Nell, College of Science, Collaborating with law enforcement to support interactions with autistic individuals
• Barnett, Melissa, School of Human Ecology-RES, Parent Villages in Tucson: Partnering with Families to Activate Connections, Social Capital & Power
• Perez-Brena, Norma, College of Agric and Life Sci, Latinx Youth’s Daily Adjustment During Sociopolitical Uncertainty: A Youth-Centered Daily Diary Study and Research Collaborative with Media News
• Cohen, Zachary, Psychology, Increasing Access to Mental Healthcare in Southern Arizona Communities: Developing Community Partnerships to Deliver Scalable, Evidence-Based Digital Mental Healthcare

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 2024

• Kazui Toshinobu, COM-T, Surgery, Genetic basis of Atrial fibrillation
• Chiang Jing-Tzyh Alan, Medicine, Medical Imaging, Evaluation of quantitative and contrast-free MR pulse sequences for imaging breast cancers and nodal metastases
• Hammer Michael, Bio5, Neurology, Sex Differences of Blood-Brain Barrier Dysfunction in Epilepsy
• Rhodes Katherine, Medicine, Immunobiology, Neisseria community structure and host epithelial interaction
• Anand Tanya, Medicine, Surgery, Metabolomic Markers in Endotheliopathy of Trauma in older versus younger trauma patients
• Combrink Leigh, CALES, SNRE, Avian Microbiomes as Biomarkers for Wildlife and Ecosystem Health
• Lai Tzu yin, College of Science, Psychology, Neural basis of metaphor and embodiment
• Koshy Anita, Medicine, Neurology, Engineering a clonal Dre Reporter cell line
• Warfel Noel, COM, CMM, Synthetic lethal screening to target chronic hypoxia
• Sutphin George, Science, Molecular & Cellular Biology, Automated preparation of custom single-worm culture environments
• Horton Nancy, Science, Molecular and Cellular Biology, (https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2710-8284),
• Funk Janet, Medicine, Medicine, Targeting estrogen receptor signaling to halt ER+ breast cancer progression in bone

February 2024

November 2023

August 2023

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

2023-2024

• Belmecheri Soumaya, Science, Laboratory of Tree Ring Research, Launching new UArizona capacity for high-resolution bioenvironmental research and training
• Craig Stuart, Engineering, Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering, Aero-optical measurement system for the hypersonic wind tunnel complex

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

2024-2025

• Gornish Elise, College of Agric and Life Sci, Exploring the use of silicon for herbivory protection in aridland restoration plants
• Sutphin George, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Mechanisms mediating health benefits of dietary cholesterol
• Roman Palacios Cristian, School of Information, Macroevolution Of Lifespans Across Animals
• Park Arum, Religious Studies and Classics, Exploring the Intersection of Classics and Asia
• Sladojevic Nikola, College of Medicine - Tucson, The Critical Role of RGS5 in Endothelial Disfunction and Coronary Artery Disease
• Zhao Ningning, Nutritional Sci Wellness - RES, ZIP8's function in alveolar epithelial cells
• Wohlgemuth Melville, Neuroscience, Sensing and action across time and space
• Langlais Paul, Medicine, Screening Candidate Proteins for a Role in Insulin-Stimulated Glucose Uptake
• Schuler Paul, College of Social & Behav Sci, In the Eyes of the Founder: Explaining the Rise and Political Impacts of National Founder Leaders in East Asia
• Craig Zelieann, Animal&Biomedical Sciences-Res, Lipidomic profiling of serum and livers from female mice exposed to human relevant phthalate exposures

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)

2024

• Barberan Barberan, College of Agriculture, Life and Environmental Sciences, Department of Environmental Science, EcoEvoDevo forces shaping larval-associated marine microbiomes and their impact on invasive and biofouling species distribution
• Baldwin Baldwin, Social and Behavioral Sciences, School of Government and Public Policy, What does devolution achieve, and why? Kenyan devolution in comparative context
• Reyes Reyes, Education, Teaching Learning and Sociocultural Studies, Expanding the Global Reach of the Borderlands Education Center

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

2024-2025

• Arnett Margie, AZ Health Sci Ctrs & Divisions, Pandemic Emergency Planning: Learning from the Past to Prepare Students for the Future
• Newton Tarnia, Nursing Scholarships, Connections, Communities & Healing in Urgent Times
• Skibsrud Johanna, College of Social & Behav Sci, The Arizona Reading Outreach Program
• Thompson Diane, Geosciences, Climate-change vulnerability in the Marshall Islands: learning from the past & inspiring a new future

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

2023-2024

• Arnett Margie, AZ Health Sci Ctrs & Divisions, Pandemic Emergency Planning: Learning from the Past to Prepare Students for the Future
• Newton Tarnia, Nursing Scholarships, Connections, Communities & Healing in Urgent Times
• Skibsrud Johanna, College of Social & Behav Sci, The Arizona Reading Outreach Program
• Thompson Diane, Geosciences, Climate-change vulnerability in the Marshall Islands: learning from the past & inspiring a new future
• Chou Ying-hui, Science, Psychology, Exploring the Potential of Combining Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation and Electroencephalography to Investigate Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer’s Disease
• Sutphin George, Science, Medical Imaging, On the benefits of the tryptophan metabolite 3-hydroxyanthranilic acid in Caenorhabditis elegans and mouse aging
• Witte Russell, Medicine, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Heavy water coupling gel for short-wave infrared photoacoustic imaging

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

2023-2024

• Duan Jennifer, College of Engineering, Civil and Architectural Engineering and Mechanics, Collaborative Research with ERDC-CHL- Sediment Transport Simulation in Vegetated Wetland
• Gootee Brian, Science, Arizona Geological Survey, Fostering collaboration with Los Alamos National Lab on bedded salt deposits to support H2 and CO2 geologic storage research in Arizona
• Eifler Tim, College of Science, Department of Astronomy, A new science case for Kitt Peak’s Mayall Observatory - Kinematic Lensing with the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument
• Kushwaha Priyanka, Agriculture, Life, and Environmental Sciences, Environmental Science, Evaluation of soil health indices, soil microbiome, and plant-microbial interactions to foster the implementation of agrivoltaics
• McGuire Luke, Science, Geosciences, A UArizona and USACE partnership to synthesize soil infiltration data from burned areas for improved prediction of postfire hazards
• Ryan Alyssa, College of Engineering, Civil & Architectural Engineering & Mechanics Department, Bridging Gaps Towards a Sustainable Energy Future by Applying Human Factors in Transportation-Building Integration
• Wilson Dalziel, Wyant College of Optical Sciences, Wyant College of Optical Sciences, CHIPS: Micro-optomechanical accelerometers for inertial navigation
• Zhang Lianyang, Engineering, Civil and Architectural Engineering and Mechanics, UArizona-INL Partnership on Rock Mechanics Research for Sustainable Energy Applications

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

2023-2024

• Michler Jeffrey, CALS, AREC, Building Capacity for Conducting Geospatial Impact Evaluations
• Zhu Haining, College of Pharmacy, Pharmacology and Toxicology, Support for the 3rd International Research Conference on Neurodegenerative Diseases
• Schilke Oliver, Eller College of Management, Management and Organizations, Workshop on "Trust and Networks"
• Weinstein Beth, CAPLA, School of Architecture, First US Symposium on Remembering Spaces of Internment
• Grandner Michael, Medicine, Psychiatry, Arizona Sleep and Circadian Research
• Schmidt Nicole, N/A, UCATT, Universal Design in Research
• Ellerman Brian, RII, FORGE, Fostering Entrepreneurial Empowerment in Underserved and Underrepresented Communities Workshop
• Carroll Stephanie, Public Health, Community, Environment and Policy, Building Action and Power: Tribal Leaders and Scholars Workshop
• Slinski Stephanie, ALVSCE (Division only), Yuma Center of Excellence for Desert Agriculture, Desert Ag Soil Health Initiative Knowledge Mapping Workshop
• Block Geoffrey, Medicine, Boyer Liver Institute, Current Topics on Fatty Liver Disease: An Opportunity for Innovation on Diagnostics and Treatment
• Mutlu Zafer, CE, MSE, Interdisciplinary Meeting for Planning, Advancing Collaboration, and Teamwork for Semiconductors (IMPACTS)
• Emms Julie, College of Law, Center for Quantum Networks, Quantum Information Privacy and Security (QIPS) Forum
• Bean Jonathan, CAPLA, Architecture, Planning the 2025 Symposium on Building-Energy Research (SymBER)
• Schrenk Lisa, CAPLA, Architecture, Best Practices in International Expositions Workshop
• Roveda Janet, College of Engineering, College of Public Health, College of Nursing and CALS and School of Plant, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Biomedical Engineering, Improving the Quality of Home Health Care and Wellbeing with Interoperable Medical Devices for Bioconvergence
• Guo Bo, College of Science, Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, Application for support to organize and host the 25th Computational Methods in Water Resources (CMWR) Conference at The University of Arizona
• Josephson Anna, College of Agriculture, Life, and Environmental Science, Department of Agriculture and Resource Economics, Equitable Agriculture and Environmental Management Workshop

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