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The Office of Research and Innovation’s seed grant initiatives provides funding for faculty across various disciplines. Congratulations to all recipients,

Award Recipients

2024

AHT/STEM Collaboration

Home-based Immersive Video Environment for Mild Impairment of Neurocognitive Diagnosis (HIVE-MIND)
$25,000

Chandramallika Basak (Assoc Professor, Psychology)
Ravi Prakash (Professor, Computer Science)
Christina Veras (Asst Professor, Arts, Humanities & Technology)

Humanities and Emerging Arts Grant

Bitter Vines: The Untold Story of Wine and Slavery in the United States
$8,000

Whitney Stewart (Asst Prof, Arts, Humanities & Technology)

Comer Collection Creative Research Database Project Launch
$8,000

Diane Durant (Assoc Prof of Instruction, Arts, Humanities & Technology)

Creating A Mobile App For The “I Can Manage Cancer” Research Project
$8,000

Kathryn Evans (Assoc Prof of Instruction, Arts, Humanities & Technology)

JSOM/STEAM Collaboration

Enabling effective flexible manufacturing systems through additively manufactured soft robotic grippers and machine learning
$25,000

Yonas Tadesse (Assoc Professor, Mechanical Engineering)
Kathryn Stecke (Professor, Management)

New Faculty Research Symposium

Next-Generation Lithium Batteries Electrolyte Development via Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
$25,000

Laisuo Su (Asst Professor, Materials Science and Engineering)
Yu Xiang (Asst Professor, Computer Science)

Activated-platelet-targeted nanoparticles for postoperative glioblastoma therapy
$25,000

Yongsheng Gao (Asst Professor, Bioengineering)
Zhenpeng Qin (Assoc Professor, Mechanical Engineering)

The Dynamics of Coherent Phonons in Layered Crystals
$25,000

Kevin Brenner (Asst Professor, Materials Science and Engineering)
Anton Malko (Professor, Physics)

Seed Program for Interdisciplinary Research

Nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide and Nicotinamide Riboside Resorbable Implants: Potential Candidates for Anti-inflammatory Therapy
$60,000

Danieli Rodrigues (Assoc Professor, Bioengineering)
Michael Burton (Assoc Professor, Neuroscience)

AI-Assisted Gaze Target Detection for Autistic Children
$60,000

Pamela Rollins (Professor, Speech, Language and Hearing)
Yapeng Tian (Asst Professor, Computer Science)

A Cross-Domain Framework for Retrofitting Robotic Vehicle Controllers against Sensor Attacks
$60,000

Chung Hwan Kim (Asst Professor, Computer Science)
Tyler Summers (Assoc Professor, Mechanical Engineering)

Bayesian Graphical Models for Distinguishing Cognitive Control Brain Dynamics and the Effects of Pediatric Anxiety
$60,000

Noirrit Chandra (Asst Professor, Mathematics)
Stacie Warren (Assoc Professor, Psychology)

Copper-Based Metal-Organic Polyhedra for Electrocatalytic Reduction of CO2 to Value-Added Fuels
$60,000

Guoping Xiong (Asst Professor, Mechanical Engineering)
John Ferraris (Professor, Chemistry)

Impact of Sea-level Rise and Saltwater Flooding on Arsenic Stability and Soil Ecological Resilience
$60,000

Fatemeh Izaditame (Research Scientist, Sustainable Earth Systems Science)
Kelli Palmer (Professor, Biological Sciences)

Social Sciences

Cultural Differences in Attribution: Implications for Moral Justice
$8,000

BoKyung Park (Asst Professor, Psychology)

Cause and Consequence of Fact-checking and Related Online Security Behavior: A Longitudinal Experimental Study
$8,000

Pengfei Zhang (NEED TITLE, Economic Political and Policy)

SPARK

SEEG Data Analytics for Pre-Surgery Evaluation and Neurostimulation Treatment
$50,000

Mehrdad Nourani (Professor, Electrical Engineering)

Fast Converging Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods for High-Dimensional Inverse Problems
$50,000

Luis Felipe Pereira (Professor, Mathematics)

SPRINT

Toward Domestic Lithium Independence: Tectonic Controls on Critical Emerging Lithium Deposits
$50,000

Kristina Butler (Asst Professor, Sustainable Earth Systems Science)
Zachary Sickmann (Asst Professor, Sustainable Earth Systems Science)

Performance Verification of a Neutral Wind Sensor for the SandPIPIR Mission using a Molecular Beam Apparatus
$50,000

Phillip Anderson (Professor, Space Sciences)

TxACE Collaboration Initiative

Interface and Surface Engineering of Low-Temperature Nitrides for Thermal Management of Analog Devices
$40,000

Kevin Brenner (Asst Professor, Materials Science and Engineering)
Moon Kim (Professor, Materials Science and Engineering)

Energy-efficient power and thermal management for 3D packaged electronics
$40,000

Xianming Dai (Assoc Professor, Mechanical Engineering)
Dongsheng Brian Ma (Professor, Electrical Engineering)

Device-Circuit Co-Design of Ising Machine using CMOS+X Technology
$40,000

Sourav Dutta (Asst Professor, Electrical Engineering)
Yun Chiu (Professor, Electrical Engineering)

2023

Collaborative Biomedical Research Award

Determining the Key Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Pelvic Floor Structural Integrity in Pre and Post Menopausal Women
$125,000

Kristin Miller (Assoc Professor, Bioengineering)

Disrupted Mechanical Homeostasis as a Driver of Early Onset Colorectal Cancer
$125,000

Jacopo Ferruzzi (Asst Professor, Bioengineering)

Digital Diagnostics of Respiratory Syncytial Virus
$125,000

Xianming Dai (Assoc Professor, Mechanical Engineering)
Zhenpeng Qin (Assoc Professor, Mechanical Engineering)

Adipocyte Progenitors in Human Breast Cancer Growth and Therapeutic Resistance
$125,000

Purna Joshi (Asst Professor, Biological Sciences)

Strategic Center Investment Program

UTD Center for Energy Storage Research (ESR)
$700,000

Kyeongjae Cho (Professor, Materials Science and Engineering)

Seed Program for Interdisciplinary Research

Rational Design and Evaluation of New Proteases Targeting Amyloid Beta
$60,000

Polimyr Caesar Dave Dingal (Asst Prof, Bioengineering)
Gabriele Meloni (Assoc Professor, Chemistry)

Thermosalient Molecular Crystals for Novel Soft Actuators
$60,000

Rodrigo Bernal Montoya (Asst Professor, Mechanical Engineering)
Jeremiah Gassensmith (Assoc Professor, Chemistry)

Effect of Age, Hearing Loss, and Cognition on Machine Learning Derived Personalized Amplification
$60,000

Edward Lobarinas (Professor, Speech Language Hearing)
Nasser Kehtarnavaz (Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering)
Kendra Seaman (Asst Professor, Psychology)

The Protective Role of Vagus Nerve Stimulation (VNS) in Alcohol-induced Hypothalamic Inflammation and Insulin Resistance (IR)
$60,000

Lin Jia (Asst Professor, Biological Sciences)
Crystal Engineer (Asst Professor, Neuroscience)

Tangible Data Interaction in Immersive Analytics for Scientific Acceleration
$58,400

Jin Ryong Kim (Asst Professor, Computer Science)
Ill Ryu (Asst Professor, Mechanical Engineering)

Seed Program for Interdisciplinary Research – Sustainability

Transforming Wood Waste into Sustainable Building Materials using Carbon-Negative Binders
$60,000

Shuang Cui (Asst Professor, Mechanical Engineering)
Kenneth Balkus (Professor, Chemistry)

Optimizing Bioconcrete for Sustainable Marine Infrastructure
$60,000

Kelli Palmer (Professor, Biological Sciences)
Sheel Dodani (Assoc Professor, Chemistry)

Impact of Harvesting Energy from the Ocean on the Upper Ocean Circulation and Ecosystem Structures
$60,000

Kianoosh Yousefi (Asst Professor, Mechanical Engineering)
Stefano Leonardi (Professor, Mechanical Engineering)
Meenakshi Maitra (Asst Prof of Instruction, Biological Sciences)

An Integrated Approach for Phytopathogen Antimicrobial Development
$60,000

Duane Winkler (Assoc Professor, Biological Sciences)
Baris Coskunuzer (Professor, Mathematical Sciences)
Mehmet Candas (Asst Prof of Instruction, Biological Sciences)

SPARK

Information Matrix Tests for Assessing Misspecification in Cognitive Diagnostic Models
$50,000

Richard Golden (Professor, Psychology)

Enhancer RNA Therapy for Lung Squamous Cell Carcinoma
$50,000

Tae Hoon Kim (Assoc Professor, Biological Sciences)

The Development of the 1st GPCR-Targeted Biopesticide
$50,000

Duane Winkler (Assoc Professor, Biological Sciences)

Humanities and Emerging Arts Grant

Book and Video of Poems for Broken Screens
$5,500

Dean Terry (Professor, Arts, Humanities & Technology)

Afro-Futurism and Artificial Intelligence
$8,000

Andrew Scott (Assoc Professor, Arts, Humanities & Technology)

The New Painter
$8,000

Elizabeth Trosper (Assoc Prof of Instruction, Arts, Humanities & Technology)

Social Sciences

Evaluating Responses to Illicit Small Arms Trafficking in the Caribbean
$8,000

Lauren Pinson (Asst Professor, Economic Political and Policy)

New Faculty Research Symposium

A Bayesian Interactive Longitudinal Drift-diffusion Model of Cognitive Control in Children using a Stop-signal Task: Distinguishing Effects of Anxiety on Proactive and Reactive Control
$25,000

Stacie Warren (Assoc Professor, Psychology)
Noirrit Chandra (Asst Professor, Mathematical Sciences)

Experimental and Predictive Models to Determine Protease Specificity
$25,000

Polimyr Caesar Dave Dingal (Asst Professor, Bioengineering)
Faruck Morcos (Assoc Professor, Biological Sciences)

Proposal Resubmission Enhancement Program

Neutrophil Dysfunction in Ventricular Assist Device Patients
$25,000

David Schmidtke (Professor, Bioengineering)
Caroline Jones (Asst Professor, Bioengineering)

Enabling High Precision Citizen Science Photometry from Wide Field Color Images
$19,656

Kaloyan Penev (Asst Professor, Physics)

TxACE Collaboration Initiative

Nanodielectric Fluids Using a Multi-Nanoparticle System for Two-Phase Heat Transfer in 3D Heterogeneous Microsystems
$40,000

Mona Ghassemi (Assoc Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering)
Rashaunda Henderson (Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering)

Resilient Intelligent Secured Electromagnetic Spectrum Sensing Systems (RISES3) for the Next-Generation of Electronic Warfare
$40,000

Ifana Mahbub (Asst Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering)
Kanad Basu (Asst Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering)

Germanium Telluride Chalcogenide Switches for RF Applications
$40,000

Manuel Quevedo-Lopez (Professor, Materials Science and Engineering)
Kenneth O (Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering)

DFW Research Data Center Grant

Hospital Mergers and Cybersecurity
$10,000

Daniel Arce (Professor, Economic Political and Policy)

JSOM/STEAM Collaboration

CSWITCH-SIM: Developing Self-Awareness and Understanding Workplace Effects of Code-Switching through Virtual Reality to Enhance STEM Participation of Underserved Communities
$25,000

Margaret Zielke (Research Professor, Modeling and Simulation)
Jason Kautz (Asst Professor, Management)

2022

Seed Program for Interdisciplinary Research (SPIRe)

Development of a Thermo-reversible Synthetic Hydrogel Platform to Investigate the Mechanistic Links between Tissue Mechanics, Metabolic Plasticity, and Invasive Potential in Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma

$50,000

Jacopo Ferruzzi (Asst Professor, Bioengineering)
Ronald Smaldone (Assoc Professor, Chemistry)

Sediment Erosion over Flexible Vegetations: Modeling, Laboratory Test and Fieldwork

$50,000

Yaqing Jin (Asst Professor, Mechanical Engineering)
David Lary (Professor, Physics)

Development of Small-molecule Inhibitors of YAP Activity for Cancer Therapy

$50,000

Jyoti Misra (Asst Professor, Biology)
Kenneth Hoyt (Assoc Professor, Bioengineering)

Cosmological Data Analysis using Machine Learning Techniques: Applications to Cosmic Microwave Background Data

$50,000

Mustapha Ishak-Boushaki (Professor, Physics)
Nicholas Ruozzi (Assoc Professor, Computer Science)

Humanities and Emerging Arts Grant (HEArts)

Absent Mining: Comer Collection Edition

$8,000

Xtine Burrough (Professor, AHT)
Dale Macdonald (Assoc Dean, AHT)

Winsor and Gertie

$6,344

Christine Veras (Asst Professor, AHT)

$8,000

Yeungjeom Lee (Asst Professor, Criminology)

When Our Feelings Leak Out to Influence Others: Cultural Modulation of Affect Contagion

$8,000

Jiyoung Park (Asst Professor, Psychology)
BoKyung Park (Asst Professor, Psychology)

Workshop Grant

The Conference on Special Metrics in Complex Geometry

$3,000

Ronan Conlon (Asst Professor, Mathematical Sciences)

Advances in Statistical and Computational Methods for Analysis of Biomedical, Genetic, and Omics Data

$3,000

Swati Biswas (Professor, Mathematical Sciences)

New Faculty Research Symposium

Harnessing Self-Trapped Excitons for Remote Force Gauging: Strain-Property Relationships in Low-Dimensional ns2-Metal Halides

$25,000

Kyle McCall (Asst Professor, Materials Science and Engineering)
Rodrigo Bernal Montoya (Asst Professor, Mechanical Engineering)

Tunable High Energy Density Solid-State Thermal Energy Storage Using Immobilized Liquids

$25,000

Shuang Cui (Asst Professor, Mechanical Engineering)
William Vandenberghe (Assoc Professor, Materials Science and Engineering)

Proposal Resubmission Enhancement Program (PREP) Grant

Stabilized Whole-Cell Bacterial Vaccination

$25,000

Jeremiah Gassensmith (Assoc Professor, Chemistry)

Collaborative Research: Sweeping Process Framework for Optimization of Multi-functional Composite Materials with Plasticity

$18,790

Oleg Makarenkov (Assoc Professor, Mathematical Sciences)

2021

Seed Program for Interdisciplinary Research (SPIRe)

Fault-tolerant Quantum Bits Based on Novel Superconductivity and Majorana Fermions in Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Heterostructures

$50,000

Xiaoyan Shi (Asst Prof, Physics)
Kyeongjae Cho (Professor, Materials Science and Engineering)

Electrically Driven Single Photon Source Based on NV-Centers in Diamond for Quantum Information Devices

$50,000

Anton Malko (Professor, Physics)
Orlando Auciello (Professor, Materials Science and Engineering)

Development of Novel Recirculating Microfluidic Devices for Cardiovascular Research

$50,000

David Schmidtke (Professor, Bioengineering)
Jeong-Bong Lee (Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering)

Portable EPR-Overhauser DNP Hyperpolarizer for Production and Optimization of Highly – Enhanced NMR and MRI Signals at Room Temperature

$50,000

Lloyd Lumata (Assoc Professor, Physics)
Warren Goux (Assoc Professor, Chemistry)

Inferring Effective Connectivity of Sparsely Sampled Neuronal Networks

$60,000

Justin Ruths (Asst Professor, Mechanical Engineering)
Catherine Thorn (Asst Professor, Neuroscience)

Using Near-term Quantum Computers to Develop Next-generation Quantum Devices

$60,000

Michael Kolodrubetz (Asst Professor, Physics)
Joseph Friedman (Asst Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Neuroimmune Circuits in Pain and Sepsis

$60,000

Michael Burton (Asst Professor, Neuroscience)
Caroline Jones (Asst Professor, Bioengineering)

Center for Emergent Novel Technology at the Innovation Quarter (CENT-IQ) Grant

Center for Imaging and Surgical Innovation

$125,000

Baowei Fei (Professor, Bioengineering)

MINTS: Multi-scale Integrated Interactive Intelligent Sensing Center

$125,000

David Lary (Professor, Physics)
Christopher Simmons (OIT)

CAIQUE: Center for Applied AI at the IQ with UT Dallas Expertise

$125,000

Walter Voit (Associate Professor, Material Science & Engineering)

The Center for Applied AI and Machine Learning

$150,000

Doug DeGroot (Professor, Instruction in Computer Science)
Gopal Gupta (Professor, Computer Science)

Center for Smart and Connected Mobility

$150,000

Rym Zalila-Wenkstern (Associate Professor, Computer Science)

Seed Program for Interdisciplinary Research (SPIRe)

Motion Capture Metric Development for the Study of Vocal Muscle Strain

$60,000

Adrianna Shembel (Assistant Professor, Speech, Language and Hearing)
Xiaohu Guo (Professor, Computer Science)

Engineered Surfaces for the Condensation of Low Surface Tension Fluids

$60,000

Steven Nielsen (Associate Professor, Chemistry)
Xianming Dai (Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering)

$60,000

Heidi Kane (Assistant Professor, Behavioral and Brain Sciences)
May Yuan (Ashbel Smith Professor, Geospatial Information Sciences)
Jackie Nelson (Associate Professor, Behavioral and Brain Sciences)

Proposal Resubmission Enhancement Program (PREP) Grant

Sustainable Inhibition of Biofilm Formation on Quasi-Liquid Modified Catheters

$25,000

Xianming Dai (Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering)

Addressing Dialect Differences in Word Learning from Auditory and Written Contexts

$25,000

Mandy Maguire (Associate Professor, Behavioral and Brain Sciences)
Jackie Nelson (Associate Professor, Behavioral and Brain Sciences)

The Migrant Steps Project

$25,000

Kim Knight (Associate Professor, Critical Media Studies)

TxACE Collaboration Initiative (TCI) Grant

Aging and Error Correction in DNA Storage

$40,000

Leonidas Bleris (Associate Professor, Bioengineering)
Georgios Makris (Professor, Electrical Engineering)

Neuromorphic Computing with Ferroelectric Memory Devices

$40,000

Jiyoung Kim (Profesor, Material Sciences & Engineering)
Joseph Friedman (Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering)

$8,000

Mandy Maguire (Associate Professor, Behavioral and Brains Sciences)
Raul Rojas-Villareal (Associate Professor, Behavioral and Brains Sciences)
Margaret Owen (Professor, Behavioral and Brains Sciences)

$8,000

Evgenia Gorina (Associate Professor, Public and Nonprofit Management)
James Harrington (Associate Professor, Public and Nonprofit Management)

Humanities and Emerging Arts (HEArts) Grant

Feminine Noir?: Rereading American Women’s Crime Fiction of the Cold Ware

$8,000

Erin Smith (Professor, American Studies and Literature)

Screening “Madness”, 1933-2020

$8,000

Olivia Banner (Assistant Professor, Emerging Media and Communication)

New Faculty Research Symposium Grant

The Role of Vagus Nerve Stimulation in Alcoholic Steatohepatitis

$25,000

Jin Lia (Biology)
Christa McIntyre (Associate Professor, Behavioral and Brain Sciences)

Real-Time Analysis Infrastructure for Attack-Resilient Robotic Vehicle Controllers

$25,000

Chung Hwan Kim (Assistant Professor, Computer Science)
Kanad Basu (Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering)

Workshop Grant

Texas Geometry and Topology Conference

$5,000

Baris Coskunuzer (Professor, Mathematical Sciences)

#UnwokeID: Ethical Issues in 21st Century International Development

$3,000

(Asst Professor, Global Health Policy)

Migrant Steps: APIs and Archives Hackathon

$3,000

Juan Llamas Rodriguez (Assistant Professor, Critical Media Studies)
Kim Knight (Assistant Professor, Emerging Media and Communication)

Translation Problems in the International Circulation of Scholarship

$3,000

Sean Cotter (Professor, Literature and Translation Studies)

2020

Major Extramural Grant Award (MEGA)

Development of a UT-Dallas Initiative for Physical Genomics and Inherited-disease Research

$100,000

Stephen Levene (Professor, Bioengineering)

Seed Program for Interdisciplinary Research (SPIRe)

The Marriage of Two-Dimensional Materials and Topological Insulators

$100,000

Bing Lv (Assistant Professor, Physics, UTD)
William Vandenberghe, co-PI (Assistant Professor, Materials Science & Engineering, UTD)

Analyzing Propaganda through Human/Machine Coding

$100,000

Monica Rankin (Associate Professor, Arts and Humanities, UTD)
Vincent Ng, co-PI (Professor, Computer Science, UTD)

Machine Learning Guided Molecular Design for Indoor Light Harvesting

$100,000

Miheala Stefan (Professor, Chemistry, UTD)
Julia Hsu (Professor, Materials Science & Engineering, UTD)
Jessica Ouyang (Assistant Professor, Computer Science, UTD)

Humanities and Emerging Arts Grant (HEArts)

Marie Bonaparte and Feminist Psychoanalysis for the Present

$10,000

Shilyh Warren (Professor, Arts and Humanities, UTD)

Science and Moral Imagination: A New Ideal for Values in Science

$10,000

Matthew Brown (Associate Professor, Arts and Humanities, UTD)

A Cross-Country Survey Experiment on Public Attitudes Toward Abusing Human Rights

$10,000

Rebecca Cordell (Assistant Professor, Political Sciences, UTD)

Shattering the Glass-Ceiling: Does Leadership Style Matter?

$10,000

Sheryl Skaggs (Professor, Sociology, UTD)
Meghna Sabharwal, co-PI (Professor, Public and Nonprofit Management, UTD)
Lynne Vieraitis, co-PI (Professor, Criminology, UTD)

Workshop Grant

Applications of Geometric Methods of Functional Analysis

$5,820

Zalman Balanov (Professor, Mathematical Sciences)

North Texas Working Group on Human Trafficking 2-Day Workshop

$5,000

Timothy Bray (Assoc Professor, Institute of Urban Policy)

Workshop on Future Trends and Opportunities for Power Electronics in an Electrified Transportation Industry

$10,000

Babak Fahimi (Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering)

Biomedical Imaging and Data Science for Surgical Innovation

$9,000

Baowei Fei (Professor, Bioengineering)

Resting-State Brain Connectivity Conference at UT-Dallas in 2020

$29,624

Bart Rypma (Professor, Psychology)

Workshop on Mathematical Billiards

$5,000

Oleg Makarenkov (Professor, Mathematical Sciences, UTD)
Maxim Arnold (Assistant Professor, Mathematical Sciences, UTD)
Vladimir Dragovic (Professor, Mathematical Sciences, UTD)

New Faculty Research Symposium

Defining the Role of the Microbiome in Recurrent UTI: A Bayesian approach

$25,000

Qiwei Li (Professor, Statistics, UTD)
Nicole De Nisco, co-PI (Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences, UTD)

Market Sensing with Cryptocurrency Chainlets: Can We Learn More on the Traditional Economy from Non-Traditional Blockchain Data Sources

$25,000

Irina Panovska (Professor, Economics, UTD)
Yulia Gel, co-PI (Professor, Mathematical Sciences, UTD)
Asim Day (Research Associate, Mathematical Sciences, UTD)
Murat Kantarcioglu (Professor, Computer Science, UTD)
Victor Valcarcel (Professor, Economics, UTD)

2019

Collaborative Biomedical Research Award (CoBRA)

A novel immune-interactive surface coating approach to induce implant osseointegration in diabetic conditions

$250,000

Danieli Rodrigues (Assistant Professor, Department of Bioengineering, UTD)
Javier La Fontaine (Professor, Department of Plastic Surgery and Department of Orthopedic Surgery, UTSW)
Steven Nielsen (Associate Professor, Chemistry, UTD)
George Liu (Associate Professor in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, UTSW)

Non-Invasive In Vivo Imaging of Extracellular Biological Milieu of Cancer Using Hyperpolarized 89Y MRI

$250,000

Lloyd Lumata (Assistant Professor, Physics, UTD)
Jae Mo Park (Assistant Professor, ECE, UTD)
Zoltan Kovacs (Associate Professor, Advanced Imaging Research Center, UTSW)

Urinary Tract Infections and Uropathogenic Bacteria

$250,000

Lawrence Reitzer (Professor, Biological Sciences, UTD)
Philippe Zimmern (Clinical Urologist, UTSW)

Major Extramural Grant Award (MEGA)

Advanced Instrument Development for Future Opportunities in Space Sciences

$200,000

Roderick Heelis (Research Scientist, Space Sciences, UTD)

Development of Calibrated fMRI at the UTD BrainHealth Imaging Center

$200,000

Bart Rypma (Professor, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, UTD)

Strategic Center Investment Program (SCI)

Proposal to establish The Center for Advanced Pain Studies (CAPS)

$700,000 ($200,000 Years 1-3/$100,000 Year 4)

Theodore Price (Professor, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, UTD)
Gregory Dussor (Associate Professor, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, UTD)
Zachary Campbell (Assistant Professor, Biology, UTD)
Tae Hoon Kim (Associate Professor/Department Head, Biology, UTD)
Michael Burton (Assistant Professor, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, UTD)
Zhenpeng Qin (Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, UTD)
Eric Kildebeck (Research Scientist, Engineering Innovation, UTD)
Mario Romero-Ortega (Associate Professor, Bioengineering, UTD)

Center for Atomically Precise Fabrication of Solid-State Quantum Devices

$700,000 ($200,000 Years 1-3/$100,000 Year 4)

Dr. Reza Moheimani (Professor, Systems Engineering, UTD)

Massiomo Fischetti (Professor, Materials Science, UTD)
Moon Kim (Professor, Materials Science, UTD)
John Randall (Staff Guest, Engineering and Computer Science, UTD)

Texas Wind Energy Center

$700,000 ($200,000 Years 1-3/$100,000 Year 4)

Mario Rotea (Professor/Department Head, Mechanical Engineering, UTD)
Todd Griffith (Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering, UTD)
Stefano Leonardi (Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering, UTD)

Seed Program for Interdisciplinary Research (SPIRe)

Developing and Testing Speech-simulation Capabilities for Opti-speech Software

$100,000

William Katz (Professor, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, UTD)
Balakrishnan Prabhakaran (Professor, Computer Science, UTD)

Risk Prediction for Substance Use Disorder

$100,000

Swati Biswas (Professor, Mathematical Sciences, UTD)
Pankaj Choudhary (Professor, Mathematical Sciences, UTD)
Francesca Filbey (Professor, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, UTD)

Antigen-Stabilized and Controlled Delivery of Whole-cell E. coli Vaccine against Urinary Tract Infections

$100,000

Jeremiah Gassensmith (Assistant Professor, Chemistry, UTD)
Nicole De Nisco (Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences, UTD)

STUDS: Secure, Trusted and Unclonable DNA Storage

$100,000

Leonidas Bleris (Associate Professor, Bioengineering, UTD)
Georgios Makris (Professor, Electrical Engineering, UTD)

Loss Hyperbolic Metamaterials: Fundamentals and Applications

$100,000

Qing Gu (Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering, UTD)
Chuanwei Zhang (Professor, Physics, UTD)

The Effect of Chinese Loans on Democracy in Developing Countries

$10,000

Jonas Bunte (Assistant Professor, EPPS, UTD)

Assessing the Core Assumptions of Cognitive Diagnostic Knowledge Tracing

$10,000

Richard Golden (Professor/Program Head, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, UTD)

Mapping Dynamism and Biodiversity Presence within Swidden Landscapes

$10,000

Anthony Cummings (Assistant Professor, EPPS, UTD)

Humanities and Emerging Arts Grant (HEArts)

The Bloodiest Prison in America: Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola

$10,000

Natalie Ring (Associate Professor, Arts and Humanities, UTD)

Patching Default Settings: Radical Feminist Gameplay

$10,000

Josef Nguyen (Assistant Professor, ATEC, UTD)

The Platform to the World: A Portals Symposium

$10,000

Juan Llamas Rodriguez (Assistant Professor, ATEC, UTD)

Workshop Grant

Institutional Complexities and Strategic Responses in the New Global Economy

$5,000

Mike Peng (Professor, Management, UTD)

Recent Developments on Mathematical/Statistical Approaches in Data Science (MSDAS)

$5,000

Yifei Lou (Assistant Professor, Mathematical Sciences, UTD)

Texas Symposium on Computing with Emerging Technologies (ComET)

$7,000

Joseph Friedman (Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering, UTD)

The Plant Microbiome: Leveraging Complementary Expertise at UTD and Texas A&M Agrilife Center in Dallas to Create New Research Opportunities and Fill Important Knowledge Gaps

$5,000

Stephen Spiro (Professor, Biology, UTD)

Polymeric Drug Delivery at the Interface of Chemistry and Manufacturing

$5,000

Ronald Smaldone (Associate Professor, Chemistry, UTD)
Jeremiah Gassensmith (Assistant Professor, Chemistry, UTD)
Mihaela C Stefan (Professor, Chemistry, UTD)