In alignment with the college merger, the College of Arts and Sciences provided seed funds ($600,000) to promote collaboration among faculty (tenured and tenure-track faculty, APT faculty and ACES Fellows) and research personnel who have PI eligibility.
In total, the college funded forty (40) Type-I proposals and seven (7) Type-II proposals. With additional funds, the college also provided support for a joint symposium to be organized by three departments (Anthropology, Biology, and Geology and Geophysics).
Type I
A team consisting of at least two team members from different colleges of the three merging colleges conducts preliminary research leading toward more significant collaborative research. The preliminary research is expected to result in, for example, a research proposal for submission to an external funding source.
The recipients of the PIs and their departmental affiliations are listed below:
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- Name(s): Rodolfo Aramayo,Heather Thaker
Department(s): Biology and Anthropology
Proposal Title: An Exploration on the Authenticity of the Ancient Tridactyl Peruvian Mummies Using Radiocarbon Dating and Potential Genetic Characterization - Name(s): Alex Keene, Jessica Bernard
Department(s): Biology and Psychological & Brain Sciences
Proposal Title: Defining Shared Properties of Aging in Flies and Humans to Improve Translational Research - Name(s): Alex Keene, Julie Newman, Darryl de Ruiter
Department(s): Anthropology, Biology, Geology & Geophysics
Proposal Title: Life on a Dynamic Planet - Name(s): Sharmistha Guha, Jessica Bernard
Department(s): Statistics and Psychological & Brain Sciences
Proposal Title: Novel Methods for Imaging Data from Multiple Modalities - Name(s): Wanhe Li, Lei Zou
Department(s): Biology and Geography
Proposal Title: The Impact of Social Isolation on Human Emotion and Sleep Disturbances - Evidence from Geospatial Big Data during Covid-19 - Name(s): Isabella Farhy-Tselnicker, Shoshana Eitan
Department(s): Biology and Psychological & Brain Sciences
Proposal Title: Curbing Neuroinflammation and Associated Glia Dysfunction with Selective AhR Modulators as Promising Treatment for Depression - Name(s): Kamran Reihani, Jeffrey Morris, Nader Mirabolfathi
Department(s): Mathematics, Performance Studies and Physics
Proposal Title: A Musical Approach to Making Quantum Physics Relatable - Name(s): Shogo Sato, Naomi Nagaya, Stephen Maren
Department(s): Biology and Psychological & Brain Sciences
Proposal Title: When is the Best Time of Exercise for the Psychiatric Well-Being? - Name(s): Ning (Patricia) Ning, Lei Zou
Department(s): Statistics and Geography
Proposal Title: Statistical Machine Learning Meets High-Dimensional Spactiotemporal Challenges - A Case Study of Covid-19 Modeling and Prediction - Name(s): Huiyan Sang, Jessica Bernard
Department(s): Statistics and Psychological & Brain Sciences
Proposal Title: Scalable Bayesian Brain Image Data Analysis for Studying Cognitive and Motor Aging - Name(s): Kevin Burgess, Cedric Geoffroy
Department(s): Science and Medicine
Proposal Title: Small Molecule Trk Agonists to Treat Spinal Cord Repair - Name(s): Irina Gaynanova, Sherecce Fields, Rachel Smallman
Department(s): Statistics and Psychological & Brain Sciences
Proposal Title: Modifiable Risk Factors and Interventions in Diabetes - Name(s): Raymond Wong, Courtney Schumacher
Department(s): Statistics and Atmospheric Sciences
Proposal Title: Assessing the Stochasticity of Thunderstorms Using Advanced Statistical and Machine Learning Methods - Name(s): Yangyang Xu, Huiyan Sang
Department(s): Atmospheric Sciences and Statistics
Proposal Title: Machine Learning-based Prediction of Surface PM2.5 from Remote Sensing Dataset - Name(s): Shuang Zhang, Prabir Daripa
Department(s): Oceanography and Mathematics
Proposal Title: Data Driven Interrogation of the Biogeochemical Conditions in the Northern Gulf of Mexico - Name(s): Craig Epifanio, Prabir Daripa
Department(s): Atmospheric Sciences and Mathematics
Proposal Title: Resonant Instability in Realistic Mountain Wave Flows - Name(s): Yue Zhang, Simon North
Department(s): Atmospheric Sciences and Chemistry
Proposal Title: Characterizing the Reaction Kinetics and Products of 2-Methyltetrols Resecting with Hydroxyl Radicals in the Atmosphere - Name(s): Renyi Zhang, Alexei Sokolov, Simon North
Department(s): Atmospheric Sciences, Physics and Chemistry
Proposal Title: Detection of Airborne Particulate Matter Using Nano Laser Spectroscopy - Name(s): Nick Perez, John Casellas Connors, Jonathan Sczepanski, Mary Campbell
Department(s): Geology & Geophysics, Geography, Chemistry, and Sociology
Proposal Title: Linking Microplastic Emissions in Rivers with Upstream Human Sources and Downstream Human Health - Name(s): Daniel Goldberg, Catherina Laporte
Department(s): Geography and Anthropology
Proposal Title: Cross-Disciplinary Project-Based Learning Empowered by Geospatial Research and Education - Name(s): John Casellas Connors, Clare Palmer, Kristan Poirot
Department(s): Geography, Philosophy, and Communication
Proposal Title: The Ethics of Urban Wildlife Management - Name(s): Julie Loisel, Kira Delmore
Department(s): Geography and Biology
Proposal Title: Rapid plant colonization by Distichia cushions across the High Andes since the Little Ice Age - Name(s): Burak Guneralp, Anhony Filippi, Cynthia Werner
Department(s): Geography and Anthropology
Proposal Title: Understanding the Role of Urbanization in Bushmeat Hunting, Trade, and Consumption - Name(s): Anthony Filippi, Trevor Harris
Department(s): Geography and Statistics
Proposal Title: Machine-Learning Phenotyping for Unmanned Aircraft System-based Dryland and Irrigated Corn Classification and Yield Estimation - Name(s): Betsy Breyer, Mary Campbell
Department(s): Geography and Sociology
Proposal Title: Building Climate Resilience and Stabilizing Housing Cost Burdens in Texas - Name(s): Lucien Nana Yobo, Michael Waters
Department(s): Geology & Geophysics and Anthropology
Proposal Title: Origin of the Younger Dryas Event - Name(s): Tim Logan, Simon Foucart
Department(s): Atmospheric Science and Mathematics
Proposal Title: Do HLMA Data Contain Evidence of Space Lighting? - Name(s): Zhe Zhang, Mary Campbell
Department(s): Geography and Sociology
Proposal Title: Analyzing Food Insecurity and Accessibility using Multi-Source Data and Spatial Statistics - Name(s): Juan Carlos Laya, Joshua DiCaglio
Department(s): Geology & Geophysics and English
Proposal Title: Learning to Read the Rocks and Oceans: Developing new Pedagogies for Learning to Scale Across the Sciences and Liberal Arts - Name(s): Daniel Conway, Darren DePoy, Ryan Ewing
Department(s): Philosophy & Humanities, Physics, Astronomy, and Geology & Geophysics
Proposal Title: Space Exploration Initiative: Addressing the Threats Posed by Space Debris - Name(s): Jyotsna Vaid, Kathleen O'Reilly
Department(s): Psychological & Brain Sciences, Geography
Proposal Title: Who Counts? A Qualitative Investigation of Gender and Racial Inequity in Representation and Status in the Academic Disciplines of Psychology and Geography - Name(s): James Grau, Richard Gomer
Department(s): Psychological & Brain Sciences, Biology
Proposal Title: Testing a Potential Therapeutic for Spinal Cord Injury - Name(s): Jerome Menet, Stephen Maren
Department(s): Psychological & Brain Sciences, Geography
Proposal Title: Neural Basis and Health Impact of Daily Rhythm in Macronutrient Preference - Name(s): Margaret Ezell, Lawrence Griffing
Department(s): English and Biology
Proposal Title: The Hidden Science of Richard Waller: Artistic Representations of Science in the Early Decades of the Royal Society of London - Name(s): Scott Cook, Raymond Carroll, Samiran Sinha
Department(s): Statistics and Political Science
Proposal Title: - Name(s): Ernesto Amaraol, Suojin Wang, Huen Pham, Raymond Robertson
Department(s): Sociology, Statistics, Law, and Bush School
Proposal Title: Pandemic and Recovery: Covid-19 Work Opportunities and Demand for Low-Wage Workers - Name(s): Shoshana Eitan, Richard Gomer, Darrell Pilling
Department(s): Psychological & Brain Sciences and Biology
Proposal Title: SahRMs as Promising Treatment for Depression by Curbing Peripheral Inflammation - Name(s): Patrick Burkart, Donna James
Department(s): Communication and Biology
Proposal Title: Countermeasures: A Comparative Meta-Analysis Between Two Scandinavian Countries and the US - Name(s): Catharina LaPorte, Sam Shields, Joanna Goodey-Pellois, etc.
Department(s): Anthropology, Center for Teaching Excellence, and Chemistry
Proposal Title: Overcoming Student Disengagement Through Purposefully Engaged Faculty: A Critical Self-Study - Name(s): Sarah Zubairy, Suhail Zubairy
Department(s): Economics, Physics and Astronomy
Proposal Title: Economic Impact of Quantum Technologies
- Name(s): Rodolfo Aramayo,Heather Thaker
Type II
A team for a type-II proposal consists of at least two team members from different colleges among the three merging colleges. This type of support is to help the faculty and research personnel “get to know each other” for brainstorming collaborative research and team building.
The recipients of the PIs and their departmental affiliations are listed below:
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- Name(s): Patricia Alonso Ruiz, Catharina LaPorte
Department(s): Mathematics and Anthropology
Proposal Title: Integration of Ethical and Diversity-Related Components in a Regular Mathematics Course - Name(s): Yang Ni, Mary Campbell
Department(s): Statistics and Sociology
Proposal Title: Pursuing Interdisciplinary Research in Liberal Arts and Science - New Statistical Methods of Addressing Social Inequality - Name(s): Prabir Daripa, R. Saravanan
Department(s): Science and Geosciences
Proposal Title: Climate Change: Issues, Challenges, and Mitigation Strategies - Name(s): Yonghong An, Yangyang Xu
Department(s): Economics and Atmospheric Sciences
Proposal Title: Exploring Possible Applications of Novel Econometric Methods to Detect Tipping Point Behaviors of Climate Change Dataset - Name(s): Jason Parker, Courtney Schumacher, Daniel Schwartz, Ian Seavey
Department(s): History and Atmospheric Sciences
Proposal Title: Digitally Mapping the Hurricane History of the Caribbean: The Storms of Puerto Rico from Colony to Commonwealth - Name(s): Darren Henrichs, Spencer Jones, Andrea Bonito
Department(s): Oceanography and Mathematics
Proposal Title: Ocean Transport of Plankton and Other Particles - Name(s): Marion Nachon, Michael Tice, Raymond Wong, Adam Rosenthal, Jyotsna Vaid
Department(s): Geology & Geophysics, Statistics, International Studies, and Psychological & Brain Sciences
Proposal Title: Optimizing the Analysis and Interpretation of Geobiological Datasets in the Quick-Pace Context of Operating the NASA Perseverance Rover on Mars
- Name(s): Patricia Alonso Ruiz, Catharina LaPorte