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FY21 Awards
| Name | Department | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| Jeremiah Alt | Surgery | Targeted Delivery of Anti-inflammatory Agents for Treatment of Chronic Rhinosinusitis |
| Ryan Bailey | Occupational and Recreational Therapy | Adapting the Diabetes Prevention Program to Accommodate Stroke-Related Disability |
| Matthew Basso | Gender Studies | A Diverse History of the World War II Home Front |
| Katherine Baucom | Psychology | Implementation of the CDC National Diabetes Prevention Program Delivered to Hispanic Americans |
| Shima Baughman | Law | Access to Justice Reform in Arizona: Advancing a New Model for Representation in the Criminal Bail Hearing |
| Sihem Boudina | Nutrition and Integrative Psychology | Characterization and validation of a novel marker of adipogenic progenitors in humans and mice. |
| Brenda Bowen | Geology & Geophysics | The Salt is Breathing: Biotic or abiotic CO2 flux on the Bonneville Salt Flats? |
| Simon Brewer | Geography | Streamflow simulations to couple past climate change with prehistoric agricultural output |
| Jonathan Brogaard | Finance | Security Design in Modern Markets |
| Samuel Cheshier | Neurosurgery | Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Single Neural Rosette and Glioblastoma Chimeric Organoids: A Platform to Simultaneously Assess Tumor cells and Normal Brain Cells at the Single Cell Level |
| Leslie Culver | Law | A Dialogue on Cultural Awareness and Identity Performance: Analysis of Raw Textual Data from Qualitative Research |
| Aniello De Santo | Linguistics | Testing Subregular Constraints on the Learnability of Morphotactic |
| Denise Dearing | Biological Sciences | Determining the extent of the SARS-CoV-2 transmission from mink farms to wildlife |
| Michelle Debbink | Obstetrics and Gynecology | Assessing community resilience and risk in Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander's experiences with maternal and infrant morbidity and mortality |
| Chris Depner | Health and Kinesiology | Role of Circadian Disruption in Metabolic and Cognitive Impairments during Insufficient Sleep |
| Lisa Diamond | Gender Studies | Immune System Functioning as a Pathway from Transgender Stigma to Heightened Transgender Health Disparities |
| Katharine Diehl | Medicinal Chemistry | Development of chemical tools to accelerate discovery of DNA repair-targeting therapies |
| Ramesh Goel | Civil and Environmental Engineering | Biodegradation of plastic PET using an enzymatic cocktail derived from co-cultivating Fungi and Bacteria |
| Valerie Greer | Architecture | From Sheltered in Place to Thriving in Place: Dimensions of Aging in the “Right” Place during the COVID-19 Pandemic |
| David Grunwald | Human Genetics | Application of a new technology to identify RNA Polymerase occupancy and activity in cell subpopulations of the zebrafish embryo. |
| Elizabeth Hendrix | Social Work | Vicarious Trauma and Turnover Intent in Trafficking Services |
| Eric Herschthal | History | Carbon Conscripts: Slavery and the Origins of Climate Change |
| Mei Koh | Pharmacology and Toxicology | Investigating the Role of Complement in Kidney Cancer |
| Evan Lafalce | Physics | Improving Photovoltaic Solar Cell Efficiency by Semiconductor Overlayers |
| Kent Lai | Pediatrics | Unravelling the Pathophysiology of Dilated Cardiomyopathy in Phosphoglucomutase 1 (PGM1) Deficiency |
| Natalie Lecy | Social Work | Exploring the Role of Adverse Childhood Experiences on College Graduation Among First-Generation Students |
| Andrew Linke | Geography | A Geography of Land Use Conflicts in the Western U.S. |
| Ben Lyons | Communication | How Voters React to Implicit and Explicit Political Conspiracy Cues |
| Aparatim Majumder | Electrical and Computer Engineering | Ultra-flat and light-weight tunable focus lenses for consumer eyewear applications |
| Nikola Markovic | Civil and Environmental Engineering | An Automated Video Based Aircraft Tail Number Recognition System for Utah Airport |
| John McLennan | Chemical Engineering | Prediction of Algal Blooms in Utah Lake Using Remote Sensing Data and Machine Learning |
| Himanshu Mishra | Marketing | Deploying Fair Algorithms in Organizations |
| David Okano | Dentistry | COVID-19 Related Effects Upon the Dentition-Do They Occur? |
| Afaf Osman | Hematology | The Role of Microbiome Derived Inflammation in Leukemogenesis |
| Shawn Owen | Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Chemistry | Antibody-drug Conjugates of γ-Secretase Inhibitors to Prevent Graft-Vs-Host Disease in Allogenic Transplantation |
| Elena Patel | Finance | Implications of Gender Composition of Corporate Boards |
| Allison Payne | Radiology | Focused-ultrasound mediated enhancement of checkpoint blockade immunotherapy in breast cancer |
| Miriam Peckham | Radiology | Access to image-guided injections for low back pain in people of color. A study from the Utah Population Database (UPDB). |
| Codrina Rada | Economics | The US labor share in the age of structural change: a spatial analysis of sectoral contributions |
| Lorie Richards | Occupational and Recreational Therapy | Development of a neuroimaging biomarker to identify optimal candidates for prism adaptation treatment |
| John Rolston | Neurosurgery | Noninvasive Fornix Ablation to Treat Epilepsy |
| Paul Rubin | Educational Leadership and Policy | Exploring Underlying State Values Influencing Policy Making |
| Crystal Rudds | English | Invisibility Blues: Space, Housing, and Being in African American Literature and Culture |
| Caroline Saouma | Chemistry | Aminophenol ligands for CO2 reduction |
| Jincheng Shen | Population Health Sciences | Using Covariance Information to Improve Patient Level Causal Treatment Effect Estimation in Systolic Blood Pressure Intervention Trial (SPRINT) Study |
| York Smith | Metallurgical Engineering | A Green Process for Recycling Lithium-Ion Batteries |
| Djin Tay | Nursing | Examining the Palliative, End-of-Life, and Spousal Spillover Effects for Immunotherapy in Advanced Cancer |
| Misty Smith | Dentistry | Gnawing time: A novel behavioral test to assess orofacial pain in rats |
| Bao Wang | Mathematics | Integrating Physics into Recurrent Neural Networks: Algorithm, Theory, and Scientific Applications |
| Wesley Wilson | Special Education | Project Physical Education and Least Restrictive Environment |
| Jaclyn Winter | Medicinal Chemistry | Genomics-Assisted Antibiotic Discovery from Unprecedented Microbes of the Great Salt Lake |
| Ayako Yamaguchi | Biological Sciences | Investigating opioid insensitivity in the amphibian respiratory system |
| Jaehee Yi | Social Work | Image Narrative Intervention with College Students |
FY21 Awards Summary
| Proposals funded | 53 |
|---|---|
| Total Awards: | $1,327,784.45 |