The Office of Research’s seed grant initiatives provides funding for faculty across various disciplines. The University’s award from the State of Texas National Research University Fund (NRUF) has helped us afford these internal funding opportunities. Congratulations to this year’s recipients:
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 Brillante Knight (Associate Professor, Critical Media Studies)
- Juan Llamas-Rodriguez (Assistant 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 (Associate Professor, Critical Media Studies)
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
Migrant Steps: APIs and Archives Hackathon
$3,000
- Juan Llamas-Rodriguez (Assistant Professor, Critical Media Studies)
- Kim Brillante Knight (Associate Professor, Critical Media Studies)
Translation Problems in the International Circulation of Scholarship
$3,000
- Sean Cotter (Professor, Literature and Translation Studies)
For previous recipients, visit the Seed Grant Awards page.