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)

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)

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)

Social Sciences Grant

The Harmful Consequences of Ethnic/Racial Hate Crimes on Psychological and Physical Health: Examining the Buffering Impacts of Social Capital among Victims

$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)

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)

Families, Neighborhoods, and Sleep Among Hispanic/Latinx Parents: A Social-Ecological Approach

$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)

Social Sciences Grant

The Contributions of Language and Social Profiles in Developmental Disparities of Young Hispanic, Spanish-Speaking Children from Households Experiencing Low Income

$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)

Social Security Coverage and Texas Teacher Labor Market Outcomes

$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)

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)

Social Sciences Grant

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)

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)

Social Sciences Grant

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)