Faculty Seed Grants

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