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Each year, APA’s Science Directorate presents awards that recognize the achievements and potential of psychological scientists at all career stages. These prestigious programs honor excellence and innovation in research; they celebrate the very best work in the field as well as the fresh ideas shaping its future. We encourage applications and nominations from all areas of psychological science, and we welcome candidates with diverse and non-traditional backgrounds.

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Questions about APA Science Directorate awards should be sent via email . In addition to these programs, we encourage psychological scientists to explore other APA-related honors as well as external funding opportunities .

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• Meritorious Research Service Commendation Deadline: June 1, 2024 Honors outstanding contributions to psychological science by employees of government or nonprofit organizations.
• Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions Deadline: March 15, 2024 Honors outstanding contributions to basic research in psychology. Three (3) awards are offered each year.
• Distinguished Scientific Award for the Application of Psychology Deadline: March 15, 2024 Honors advances in psychology that lead to the understanding or improvement of important practical problems.
• Distinguished Scientific Award for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology Deadline: June 1, 2024 Honors research excellence in the first nine (9) years post-PhD. Five (5) awards are offered each year in specific content areas.

Graduate students: Apply for a student award

• Dissertation Research Award Deadline: March 1, 2024 Research funding for outstanding dissertation proposals. Three (3) awards of $10,000 and seven (7) awards of $5,000 are offered each year.
• APF/COGDOP Graduate Student Scholarships Deadline: June 26, 2024 Recognizes outstanding graduate student research in psychology. Twenty-one (21) awards of $2,000–$5,000 are offered each year.
• Early Graduate Student Research Award Deadline: September 15, 2024 Funding for promising research early in doctoral training. Five (5) awards of $1,000 are offered each year.

Undergraduates: Apply for a summer research fellowship

• Summer Undergraduate Psychology Experience in Research (SUPER) Fellowship Deadline: March 1, 2024 Funding for college students from underserved groups (and their mentors) to work on psychology research during summer. Twenty-five (25) fellowships of $5,000 are offered each year.

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The Fellows Award for Research Excellence (FARE) has a decades-long history that recognizes the outstanding scientific research performed by intramural grad students, postdocs, and fellows.

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FARE is sponsored by the NIH Fellows Committee (FelCom) , the Scientific Directors , and the NIH Office of Intramural Training & Education , and is funded by the Scientific Directors. Fellows submit an abstract of their research, which is peer reviewed in a blind study section competition. Authors of abstracts with the top 25% of scores are recognized as FARE winners. FARE winners receive a $1500 stipend to attend a scientific meeting and have the opportunity to be selected for a talk or presentation. FARE winners also serve as judges for the next year’s competition.

To be eligible, you must belong to one of the following groups:

• Intramural postdoctoral fellows (e.g. IRTA, CRTA, Clinical, Research, and Visiting Fellows) with less than six years total postdoctoral experience in the NIH intramural research program as of March 14, 2024.
• Postdoctoral-level Special Volunteers (e.g. NRC, NRSA, or Jane Coffin Childs fellowships etc.).
• Pre-doctoral IRTAs currently enrolled in a Ph.D. program and conducting their doctoral dissertation research at an NIH lab.
• Graduate students currently registered in the GPP (Graduate Partnerships Program) with the NIH.

Additional eligibility information

Question: I won a FARE travel award already. Can I compete again this year?

Answer: Yes! All previous FARE winners are encouraged to apply again this year. However, your abstract must be significantly different from your previous winning abstract. This means it must be at least 50% different in both content and wording (i.e. it should reflect current data and not simply rehash last year's data).

Question: Can I submit an abstract to FARE if I am leaving NIH before the new fiscal year?

Answer: Yes. However, if you win FARE award and leave NIH before the fiscal year you will not be able to use the $1500 travel award.

Important dates

Abstract submissions open on February 14, 2024. Abstracts are due by noon (12 PM ET) on March 14, 2024. It is your responsibility to ensure that deadlines are met. No extensions will be granted.

Winners will be announced in July 2024.

The award can be used for travel to a scientific meeting during fiscal year (FY) 2025 (October 1, 2024, to September 30, 2025.)

Submit your abstract

All applicants must submit their application and abstract online.

The submitted abstract will be automatically emailed to your mentor, who must approve it.

Common abstract submission questions

The electronic application form shows that my abstract is longer than 2500 characters. but word shows that it is only 2410 characters..

Your abstract must be 2500 characters or less, including spaces and carriage returns.

I want to include special characters in my abstract. How do I do this in the online application?

The electronic application is only able to process simple ASCII characters without formatting. Therefore, many special characters (e.g. Greek letters or subscripts/superscripts) will not appear correctly. If your abstract contains special characters, please spell them out in English (e.g. write "alpha" and "beta" rather than using the special character). In most cases, subscripts and superscripts can be understood if they are in the body of the text.

Why does my mentor have to approve the abstract?

Mentor sign-off is intended to avoid the possibility of authorship disputes. Any application not approved by the deadline will be deleted from the pool. You will receive an email notifying you of whether your mentor has approved or rejected your abstract. Your abstract cannot be modified after it has been approved by your mentor.

What if my mentor rejects my abstract?

If that happens, you have until the mentor approval deadline to revise your abstract, resubmit, and get it approved by your mentor. There will be no grace period beyond the mentor approval deadline to revise a rejected abstract.

How is FARE related to the NIH Research Festival?

Although it is not required, FARE winners are highly encouraged to present their submitted research at the Research Festival poster session. Those that do participate in the Research Festival will be given a ribbon to identify them as FARE winners.

Is there a common registration for FARE and the NIH Research Festival?

No. You must register for the Research Festival separately from your FARE submission.

Can I submit more than one FARE abstract?

No. Each qualifying fellow may submit only one FARE abstract.

Can I submit an abstract that I have already written for another occasion?

Can i re-submit an abstract that did not win last year.

No. You should revise the abstract (i.e. it should reflect current data, not just a rehash of last year's data).

Attend 'Tips for Successful Abstracts'

To help you with writing a FARE abstract, the FARE co-chairs will lead a webinar for NIH fellows.

Topics covered will be:

• What is the FARE competition procedure?
• Am I eligible for FARE?
• How are FARE abstracts different from typical abstracts?
• How are FARE abstracts judged?
• What makes a FARE abstract standout to the judges?
• Can you create a FARE abstract from an abstract you've already written?
• What do FARE winners receive?

The 'Tips for Successful Abstracts' session is offered in the spring. Check the OITE events page for details.

Recommendations for your abstract preparation

Keep in mind that:

• The abstract you submit to FARE should reflect your own current, first-author data, collected while you have been at the NIH. The data must be recent – either unpublished, submitted, accepted, in press, or published after January 1st, 2024.
• There can be only one author listed per FARE abstract. While you may describe data from a larger research project (i.e. one in which multiple scientists participate on specific parts), you should emphasize the contribution you have made, and place your contributions in context to the larger global project.
• FARE abstracts may need to contain more background than would be usual in an abstract for a scientific meeting. Judges come from all scientific disciplines.
• As the entries will be judged anonymously, your abstract should not contain identifying information (e.g. names, bibliographic references etc.). The presence of any potentially identifying information will disqualify the abstract from the competition.

Grounds for disqualification

Abstracts will be deemed not eligible and therefore disqualified from winning a FARE award if found to have any of the following:

• Inclusion of references (including DOI numbers, OMIM numbers or hyperlinks/hyperlinks to websites/datasets/coding tools).
• Inclusion of potential identifiable information (e.g. author name, affiliation, referencing a paper in which the author or their lab members are key authors, patents, clinical trial IDs).
• The author’s data was published before January 1st of this year.
• Data is not significantly different from previous winning abstracts (if you are a previous FARE winner).

Notification of disqualification

If your abstract meets conditions for disqualification, you will receive a courtesy notification email. Note that you will not have an opportunity to re-submit your abstract or have it reconsidered for FARE award once your abstract is deemed disqualified. Therefore, prepare your abstract carefully to avoid grounds for disqualification.

Judges are comprised of FelCom members, faculty, and staff scientists/staff clinicians. Previous FARE winners are also being asked to serve as judges. Since judges are not allowed to evaluate their own abstracts, we ask that previous winners who also are applying to FARE apply to judge a different study section from the one they submitted their abstract to.

How abstracts are placed in study sections

All attempts are made to place each abstract in the author's first-choice of study section. However, at times the number of abstracts submitted to a study section exceeds a reasonable number, and abstracts must be moved to their second- or third-choice study section. In this situation, abstracts are placed in the first-choice study section in the order by which they are submitted. Therefore, the earlier you submit, the more likely your abstract will be placed in your first-choice study section.

The FARE application requires you to choose three study sections. Study sections are filled in the order that abstracts are submitted. Therefore, if you feel there is only one study section appropriate for your abstract, we encourage you to apply early.

The FARE application judging process

Approved abstracts are stripped of identifying information, divided into study sections, and judged by a panel of three trainees and two tenure-track/tenured scientists or staff scientists/clinicians. Winners will be notified by mid-August.

Abstracts are evaluated on four criteria: Scientific Merit, Originality, Experimental Design, and Overall Quality/Presentation.

Question: I applied to FARE but did not win, even though the same work has been accepted by a peer-reviewed journal. How can this be?

Answer: Your abstract may not have been written appropriately for the FARE competition. Remember, FARE abstracts may need to have more background than would be usual in an abstract for a scientific meeting or a journal article. It is also important to remember that your abstract is judged on the basis of other submissions as impartially as possible. Not winning the FARE competition has no bearing on, and has no reflection on, the ability to publish your data.

Award details

Winners of FARE awards will each receive a $1500 stipend to attend a scientific meeting at which they will present their abstract, either as a poster or an oral presentation. FARE winners serve as judges for the following year's FARE competition.

All winners have the potential to be selected for a talk at the NIH research festival or invited to present at a Special Interest Group (SIG) seminar series, provided their research matches the scientific interests of the session or group. If you would prefer not to be considered for a talk, there is an option to opt-out during the abstract submission process.

How to activate and use your FARE awards

Activate your award

The activation process differs between ICs. Winners should contact their Branch Secretary, their Administrative Officer, or the office of their Scientific Director to learn how to activate their FARE award.

Use your award

Your FARE award should be used to cover costs related to attending a scientific meeting within the United States during the upcoming fiscal year. In order for you to use your award, we ask that you present your abstract, either as a poster or a seminar, at the meeting you choose. FARE awards may be used for international scientific meetings only with the approval of your Scientific Director.

How to access past abstracts

Abstract winner are posted each October. In addition, winners will have the option to withhold publication of their abstract.

2024 FARE winners

Question: Can I transfer my FARE award to someone from the same lab/institute/co-author/Principal Investigator/Staff scientist/Staff Clinicians?

Answer: No, you cannot transfer your FARE award. It is specific to the individual FARE winner.

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Applicants for study/research awards design their own projects and will typically work with advisers at foreign universities or other institutes of higher education. The study/research awards are available in approximately 140 countries. Program requirements vary by country, so the applicants' first step is to familiarize themselves with the program summary for the host country.

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Australia : Western Sydney University Award enables American students to undertake research in the following fields of study: Creative and Performing Arts (all fields), Environmental Studies, Social Justice and Public Health.

France : Fulbright-Harriet Hale Woolley Awards in the Arts are offered to students in the visual fine arts (painting, print-making, sculpture, photography) or music (composition, instrumental, or vocal performance). Hungary : Fulbright/Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music Award offers training to students with strong music education backgrounds in one of the following: symphonic orchestral instruments, voice, jazz, music education, music history, composition, choir/orchestral conducting or folk music. Ireland : Fulbright/Hugh Lane Gallery Curatorial Award enables an American student to pursue an exciting education curatorial project for up to 12 months working with the Hugh Lane team. The project will contribute to the gallery's strategy, as well as the Dublin City Council’s strategy, of embedding a culture of continuous engagement between the Hugh Lane Art Gallery and Dublin's communities. The project will involve working with communities in the city as well in the gallery, establishing and developing strong links between the cultural institution and the communities. Fulbright/University College Cork Masters in Creative Writing Award enables students to pursue a taught Masters in Creative Writing. Netherlands : Fulbright/American Friends of the Mauritshuis Award will focus on the study, examination and treatment of works of art in the collection of the Mauritshuis, in combination with a tailor-made study program at the University of Amsterdam. The grantee will gain practical experience and knowledge in in-depth technical study and treatment of paintings in the conservation studio of the Mauritshuis, under the supervision of the conservators of the museum.  

Taiwan : National Cheng Kung University offers a Master’s Degree program award in Creative Industries Design. T his award enables American students to pursue a full-time Master’s degree program. The program is taught in English.

United Kingdom : John Wood LAMDA Award offers a one-year Masters in Classical Acting. Trinity Laban Award in Music & Dance and the University of Roehampton Award in Dance all fund a one-year Master’s degree or the first year of a longer Master’s or PhD program.

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Finland : Fulbright-LUT Graduate Award is available for a student in the fields of business or technology. The award is primarily aimed at students who wish to complete a full Master’s degree at Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology.

Mexico : Binational Internships enhance the knowledge, expertise, and understanding of post-NAFTA Mexico. This award is available for students interested in combining coursework in international business or law with an internship at a Mexico-based company conducting international or legal business.

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Taiwan : National Taiwan Normal University offers a Master’s Degree program award in International Human Resource Development (MBA) . This award enables American students to pursue a full-time Master’s degree program. The program is taught in English.

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Germany : The Young Professional Journalist Program typically begins with the grantees undertaking individual research, followed by one or more internships with German media institutions. Applicants should be beginning professional journalists or recent graduates in journalism or related fields with no more than 7 years of professional experience.

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The Fulbright U.S. Student Program welcomes applicants in the sciences to all eligible countries. Please note some specific grants below:

Austria :  Fulbright-Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation Award for Research in Science and Technology offers support for full-time research in STEM fields.

Australia : Western Sydney University Award enables American students to undertake research in the following fields of study: Creative and Performing Arts (all fields), Environmental Studies, Social Justice and Public Health. The Fulbright Anne Wexler Scholarship in Public Policy award will enable U.S. students with strong academic credentials and leadership potential to undertake a master's degree in Australia in a key area of public policy such as health, sustainability, energy, climate change, regional security, education, political science, history, or government relations.

Chile : Pursuant to the Commission's interest in supporting study at Chile's leading science centers, the Chile Science Initiative Award will be given with preference for students conducting Master's-level or Ph.D. study/research in science and technology fields.

Hungary : Fulbright/Budapest Semesters in Mathematics-Rényi Institute enables an American student to reside one academic year (two semesters) at Budapest Semesters of Mathematics (BSM), take courses, and to take part in the activities of BSM.

Iceland : Fulbright-National Science Foundation Arctic Research Grant is open to students in all social and natural science fields as they relate to the Arctic and the people living there.

Ireland : Fulbright/RCSI PhD Awards enables US citizens to complete a fully funded PhD at the Royal College of Surgeons, an innovative, pioneering international health sciences education and research institution dedicated to breakthroughs in human health.

Netherlands :   Fulbright/Delft University of Technology: Industrial Design Engineering Award offers an opportunity in one of three MSc degree programs in Industrial Design Engineering: Design for Interaction (DfI), Strategic Product Design (SPD), and Integrated Product Design (IPD). Fulbright/NAF Fellowship in Flood Management is limited to research related to flooding. Applicants should have attained their undergraduate core technical skills already but will want to complement these with a graduate multidisciplinary study of water management aspects, such as: assessment of flooding risks, spatial planning in flood-prone areas, and mitigating flood impact and flood risk reduction.

Saudi Arabia:  The Fulbright/KAUST Graduate Award  offers up to five awards to complete a full master’s degree in a STEM discipline at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST).

South Korea: The U.S.-Korea Presidential STEM Initiative Award offers awards for research projects in all STEM fields for applicants of all degree levels.

Spain : Fulbright IE University Master's Award at IE School of Business/IE School of Science and Technology offers one award to pursue a full-time Master's degree in Business Analytics and Big Data Taiwan : National Taiwan University offers a Master’s Degree program award in Global Health or Agricultural Economics . Additionally, National Cheng Kung University offers a Master’s Degree program award in Energy Engineering . These awards enable American students to pursue full-time Master’s degree programs. The programs are taught in English. Master’s Degree Program Awards: Taipei Medical University Awards in Mind, Brain, and Consciousness allows research topics that span across philosophy, cognitive psychology and neuroscience, such as neuro-ethics, attention and memory, sleep, mindfulness, selfhood, circadian rhythms and mood, and social cognition.

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This award recognizes a team of faculty researchers (3 or more individual scholars) who have collectively made unique and significant contributions through their research collaboration. The award also recognizes innovative approaches to the process of research collaborations by a team of researchers.

Number of Awards:   One $5,000 award to support their collective research related activities.

This award recognizes a faculty member for their outstanding contributions to arts and humanities. It is intended for faculty who are creating new knowledge and creative works in their discipline that are acknowledged by their peers as meeting the highest standards in their fields. Often the work and its impact on society will have the potential of becoming a gold standard in the field.

Number of Awards:   Up to three awards $3,000 each to support activities in their field.

Nominated by faculty mentee(s), this award recognizes faculty members for their dedicated and extraordinary efforts to help others succeed in their research careers. This award is intended to recognize mentoring of faculty members, not students or others. 

Number of Awards:   One $3,000 award to support their research related activities.

This award recognizes contributions by faculty from all academic disciplines who help to improve lives and serve society through their work. The award includes individuals who demonstrate public impact either through public outreach or dissemination of their work, or through direct public partnership and engagement with a particular community. The former includes proactively sharing research or viewpoints on research and policy issues with the public via traditional or new media channels, while the latter means working with a particular community on a community research project designed for positive impact. Methods and approaches should be demonstrated within the planning phase of the research. This award acknowledges that both efforts serve the larger mission of creating and disseminating knowledge across all disciplines for the benefit of the community, the region and the world.  For Additional information on Public Impact Research see this  report from the APLU.

Notable characteristics of Public Impact Focused Research include the following:

• Broad participation and engagement, which includes external stakeholders, experts, university  researchers, students, and diverse members of the community—potentially including global  partners. 
• Creation or synthesis of new knowledge or understanding, with benefit to the public the central  purpose of any public impact project —and often responding to the needs of a particular community.
• Involvement of researchers from multiple disciplines. 
• Outcomes of such research may be transitioned to commercial or non-profit organizations or to  communities for actual deployment in the “real world.”

Number of Awards:   One to three awards of $3,000 each to support their research related activities.

The Bhakta Rath Research Award, established in 2022 by a gift from Dr. Bhakta B. Rath and his wife, Sushama Rath, offers an opportunity to promote and reward excellence in Public Impact Research (PIR).

Recipients of this award will be a graduate student or postdoc and their collaborating UVA faculty member. The award recognizes those who conduct exceptional research in anticipation of the future needs of the nation while supporting potential advances in PIR, and will continue to apply this knowledge upon establishing a career within the U.S. or its territories. Must be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident.

Research accomplishments for this award will be judged on the following criteria:

• Does the work have a Public Impact?
• Does the work have a major scientific or technological impact?
• Has it created new knowledge with the potential for transformational capabilities?
• Has it fundamentally improved the scientific and technological knowledge base?
• Does it have the potential for transitioning the findings to an industrial sector?

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All nomination packages for the research awards should include the following:

• Nomination Form:  Download template .  
• Optional one External Letter of Support*  (up to 2 pages)                                                                                     * This letter is optional for all categories except for the Distinguished Researcher Award for which it is required.
• Nominee’s abbreviated curriculum vitae  (2 pages for each CV): For a team nomination a max of three CVs.

Email  completed nomination ideally as a PDF to Sara Chiles  by 5:00 pm, December 4, 2023

Please note:

A committee will review the nominations for all the research awards and will make the final decisions on the winners.

Winners will be announced in January 2024, and the award ceremony will be held on Thursday, February 1, 2024  at The Boar's Head Pavilion.

*All funds will be provided as internal funds for faculty use in their department. These funds will be available for a max of 24 months.

Can you self-nominate for the awards?

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The letter of recommendation should come from someone outside of the University of Virginia. It is only required for the Distinguished Researcher Award.

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FARE is the acronym for the Fellows Award for Research Excellence, begun in 1995 to recognize the outstanding scientific research performed by intramural postdoctoral fellows.

The award is sponsored by the NIH Fellows Committee , the Scientific Directors , and the NIH Office of Intramural Training & Education , and is funded by the Scientific Directors. Fellows submit an abstract of their research, which is peer reviewed in a blind study section competition.

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FARE applications are accepted every year in February and March. For more information on the application process, including eligibility criteria, please see the Rules and Regulations .

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FARE 2024 Winners

Dazhe Chen, Ph.D. “Ingested nitrate and nitrite and end-stage renal disease risk among licensed pesticide applicators and spouses in the Agricultural Health Study” Mentor: Dale Sandler, Ph.D. Lab: Reproductive & Epidemiology Branch

Yu-Ying Chen, Ph.D. “Somatic cell fate specification and separation in the fetal ovary” Mentor: Humphrey Yao, Ph.D. Lab: Reproductive & Developmental Biology

Kathryn Dalton, Ph.D., V.M.D., M.P.H. “Occupational Farm Exposures Associated with Indoor Home Microbiota” Mentor: Stephanie London, M.D., Dr.P.H. Lab: Epidemiology Branch

Jennifer Ish, Ph.D. “Residential proximity to carcinogenic industrial air emissions and breast cancer incidence in a United States-wide prospective cohort” Mentor: Alexandra J White, Ph.D. Lab: Epidemiology Branch

Laura Kammel, Ph.D. “Circadian disruption induces breast cancer-permissive estrogen receptor transcriptional program in hormone sensitive mammary epithelium” Mentor: Joseph Rodriguez, Ph.D. Lab: Epigenetics & Stem Cell Biology Laboratory

Suneet Kaur, Ph.D. “Unraveling the AKAP79-Orai1 Interaction: Implications for Immune Response Regulation” Mentor: Anant Parekh, Ph.D. Lab: Signal Transduction

Ryan M Marquardt, Ph.D. “The Serum Response Factor-Myocardin Pathway is Essential for Female Reproductive Function” Mentor: Francesco DeMayo, Ph.D. Lab: Reproductive & Developmental Biology

Sookjin Moon, Ph.D. “Flotillin-2 ablation in T cells enhances antigen sensitivity and functionality” Mentor: Michael Fessler, M.D. Lab: Immunity, Inflammation, and Disease

Sukanya Saha, Ph.D. “Bioenergetic stress triggers Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis-like symptoms in mice” Mentor: Guohong Cui, M.D., Ph.D. Lab: Neurobiology

Ziyue Wang, Ph.D. “Shotgun metagenomics sequencing reveals novel insights of indoor dust microbiota compared with 16S rRNA technology” Mentor: Alison Motsinger-Reif, Ph.D. Lab: Biostatistics & Computational Biology Branch

Pelin Yasar, Ph.D. “Establishing Estrogen Receptor α Enriched Mouse Mammary Organoids to Investigate Transcriptional Dynamics and Heterogeneity” Mentor: Joseph Rodriguez, Ph.D. Lab: Epigenetics & Stem Cell Biology Laboratory

FARE 2023 Winners

Dana Al-Hasan, Ph.D. “Racial and Economic Residential Segregation and Dementia Incidence” Mentor: Chandra Jackson, Ph.D., M.S. Lab: Epidemiology Branch

Adriana Alexander, Ph.D. “Sex-specific Regulatory Networks Prime Primordial Germ Cell Fate Commitment” Mentor: Humphrey Yao, Ph.D. Lab: Reproductive & Developmental Biology

Ru Pin Chi, Ph.D. “WNK1 Is Indispensable for Spermatogenesis and Male Fertility via Regulating Translation” Mentor: Marcos Morgan, Ph.D. Lab: Reproductive & Developmental Biology

Justin Collier, Pharm.D., Ph.D. “PKM2 Is a Major Contributing Factor in Glis3ko-induced Polycystic Kidney Metabolic Reprogramming” Mentor: Anton Jetten, Ph.D. Lab: Immunity, Inflammation & Disease

Symielle Gaston Harrison, Ph.D., M.P.H. “Racial/Ethnic Differences in Associations of Traumatic Childhood Experiences with Both Metabolic Syndrome Prevalence and Type 2 Diabetes Risk” Mentor: Chandra Jackson, Ph.D., M.S. Lab: Epidemiology Branch

Mandy Goldberg, Ph.D., M.P.H. “Beauty Product Use During Puberty and Breast Cancer Risk in U.S. Women” Mentor: Dale Sandler, Ph.D., M.S. Lab: Epidemiology Branch

Jacob Gordon, B.S. “Cryo-EM Structure of the Human PELP1-WDR18 Complex Reveals Insights into the ER-PELP1 Signaling Axis” Mentor: Robin Stanley, Ph.D. Lab: Signal Transduction

Ankit Gupta, Ph.D. “TUT4 and TUT7 Uridylate the Rna of the Mouse Coronavirus Mhv and Facilitate Its Replication” Mentor: Marcos Morgan, Ph.D. Lab: Reproductive & Developmental Biology

Anand Jaguva Vasudevan, Ph.D. “Biochemical and Structural Analysis of ZATT/ZNF451” Mentor: Scott Williams, Ph.D. Lab: Genomic Integrity & Structural Biology

Laura Kammel, Ph.D. “Whole Organ Immuno-smfish Enables Spatial Gene Expression Analysis in Single Cells Within a Complex 3D Environment” Mentor: Joseph Rodriguez, Ph.D. Lab: Epigenetics & Stem Cell Biology

Christine Langton, Ph.D. “Soy-based Infant Formula Feeding and Uterine Fibroid Development in a Prospective Ultrasound Study of African-american Women” Mentor: Donna Baird, Ph.D. Lab: Epidemiology Branch

Wan-Ning Li, Ph.D. “The Role of Serum Response Factor in Regulating Hormonal Responsiveness in Female Reproduction” Mentor: Francesco DeMayo, Ph.D. Lab: Reproductive & Developmental Biology

Dillon Lloyd, B.S. “Type 2 Diabetes Risk Prediction in a Multi-ethnic Cohort Supports the Potential of Polyexposure Risk Scores” Mentor: Alison Motsinger-Reif, M.D. Lab: Biostatistics & Computational Biology Branch

Jasmine Mack, M.S., M.P.H. “A Multi-ethnic Genome-wide Association Study Identifies Novel Candidate Loci near the RARB and LRP1B Genes Associated with Gestational Hypertension in the Personalized Environment and Genes (PEGS) Cohort” Mentor: Alison Motsinger-Reif, M.D. Lab: Biostatistics & Computational Biology Branch

Tanushree Mukherjee, Ph.D. “Glis3 Protects Against Deregulated Osteogenesis” Mentor: Anton Jetten, Ph.D. Lab: Immunity, Inflammation & Disease

Amanda Riccio, Ph.D. “Structural Insight and Characterization of Human Twinkle Helicase in Mitochondrial Disease” Mentor: William Copeland, Ph.D. Lab: Genomic Integrity & Structural Biology

Virginia Savy, Ph.D. “The Butterfly Effect: Abnormal Calcium Signaling at Fertilization Has a Long-term Impact on Offspring Weight” Mentor: Carmen Williams, Ph.D. Lab: Reproductive & Developmental Biology

Chitrangda Srivastava, Ph.D. “Loss of JAZF1 Mdulates High-Fat Diet-Induced Gut Microbial Dysbiosis and Protect Against Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease” Mentor: Anton Jetten, Ph.D. Lab: Immunity, Inflammation & Disease

Danielle Stevens, Ph.D. “Early Pregnancy Phthalate and Phthalate Alternative Metabolites in Relation to Fetal Cardiac Development” Mentor: Kelly Ferguson, Ph.D. Lab: Epidemiology Branch

Xiukun Wang, Ph.D. “The Histone H3.3 Chaperone Hira Facilitates the Recruitment of the Nurd Complex to Promote the Exit From the Pluripotent State in Mouse Embryonic Stem Cells” Mentor: Guang Hu, Ph.D. Lab: Epigenetics & Stem Cell Biology

Ziyue Wang, Ph.D. “A Novel Normalization Method for Microbiome Sequencing Count Data” Mentor: Alison Motsinger-Reif, M.D. Lab: Biostatistics & Computational Biology Branch

MyeongJin Yi, Ph.D. “Vitamin D Regulates Uterine Stromal Cell Differentiation in Vitro and in Vivo” Mentor: Francesco DeMayo, Ph.D. Lab: Reproductive & Developmental Biology

FARE 2022 Winners

Dana Al-Hasan, Ph.D. “Using INLA-SPDE Spatial Modeling to Examine Associations Between Neighborhood Characteristics and Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementia” Mentor: Chandra Jackson, Ph.D., M.S. Lab: Epidemiology Branch

Ciro Amato, Ph.D. “Our Differences Make Us Complete: The Identification of Novel Cell Populations in Penis Development and their Involvement in Hypospadias” Mentor: Humphrey Yao, Ph.D. Lab: Reproductive & Developmental Biology Branch

Komlan Atitey, Ph.D. “Performance Metrics of High Dimensional Reduction Methods for Better Visualization and Interpretability of Separable Biological Data” Mentor: Benedict Anchang, Ph.D. Lab: Biostatistics & Computational Biology Branch

Yichang Chen, M.D., Ph.D. “A Human Pluripotent Stem Cell-Based High-Throughput Platform with Artificial Intelligence Technology to Screen for Developmental Toxicants” Mentor: Erik Tokar, Ph.D. Lab: Mechanistic Toxicology Branch

Justin Collier, Pharm.D., Ph.D. “GLIS3-Deficiency Leads to Impaired Renal Mitochondrial Metabolism and Polycystic Kidneys” Mentor: Anton Jetten, Ph.D. Lab: Immunity, Inflammation & Disease

David Diaz Jimenez, Ph.D. “Glucocorticoids Rewire Macrophage Metabolism and Inflammation through Transcriptional Reprogramming of the IRG-1 and SUCNR1 expression” Mentor: John Cidlowski, Ph.D. Lab: Signal Transduction

Alexander C. Foo, Ph.D. “Vicilin Buried Peptides (VBP)'s Mediate Cross-Reactivity Between Evolutionary-Distant Species” Mentor: Geoff Mueller, Ph.D. Lab: Genomic Integrity & Structural Biology

Meredith Frazier, Ph.D. “Searching for U: Cryo-EM Structures of the SARS-CoV-2 Endoribonuclease Nsp15 Reveal Insight into Nuclease Specificity and Dynamics” Mentor: John Cidlowski, Ph.D. Lab: Signal Transduction

Matias Grodzielski, Ph.D. “Glucocorticoids Regulate Gene Expression and Stimulate Proplatelet Formation in Murine Megakaryocytes” Mentor: Robin Stanley, M.D. Lab: Signal Transduction

Jicheng Li, Ph.D. “DBS-based Chemogenetic Gene-Therapy Rescues Motor Deficits in Mice with Advanced Parkinson's Disease” Mentor: Guohong Cui, M.D., Ph.D. Lab: Neurobiology

Tapas Pradhan, Ph.D. “GLIS3 Plays a Critical Role in Astrocyte Differentiation and Function” Mentor: Anton Jetten, Ph.D. Lab: Immunity, Inflammation & Disease

Yun-Gil Roh, Ph.D. “Loss of GLIS2 Initiates Nephronophthisis Through Macrophage Infiltration by Direct Regulation of Fibrosis/ECM and Immune/Inflammation Gene Expression” Mentor: Anton Jetten, Ph.D. Lab: Immunity, Inflammation & Disease

Sukanya Saha, Ph.D. “Pathophysiological Study of Fungicide Benomyl in Parkinson's Disease” Mentor: Guohong Cui, M.D., Ph.D. Lab: Neurobiology

Yosuke Sakamachi, Ph.D. “Toll-Like-Receptor 5 Protects Against Pulmonary Fibrosis by Reducing Lung Dysbiosis” Mentor: Stavros Garantziotis, M.D. Lab: Immunity, Inflammation & Disease

Jennifer Woo, Ph.D., M.P.H. “Early Life Trauma and Incident Breast Cancer” Mentor: Dale Sandler, Ph.D. Lab: Epidemiology Branch

Xian Wu, Ph.D. “Mechanisms of Cadmium-Induced Aberrant Differentiation of Human Embryonic Stem Cells to Cardiomyocytes and Cardiac Organoid Formation Mimicking Heart Development” Mentor: Erik Tokar, Ph.D. Lab: Mechanistic Toxicology Branch

Guangning Zong, Ph.D. “Dopamine neuron challenges test for early detection of Parkinson's disease” Mentor: Stephen Shears, Ph.D. Lab: Signal Transduction

FARE 2021 Winners

Alicia Chi, Ph.D. “WNK1 regulates embryo implantation in mice through the phosphatase PP2A” Mentor: Francesco DeMayo, Ph.D. Lab: Reproductive & Developmental Biology

Nicholas Dietrich, Ph.D. “The HSA domain of BRG1 is critical for BRG1-dependent gene expression changes and the interaction of BRG1 with multiple BAF and non-canonical BAF complex members” Mentor: Trevor Archer, Ph.D. Lab: Epigenetics & Stem Cell Biology

Alexander C. Foo, Ph.D. “The mosquito protein AZ1 has both cytolytic and antiviral properties” Mentor: Geoff Mueller, Ph.D. Lab: Genomic Integrity & Structural Biology

Ming Ji, Ph.D. “High-methionine intake inhibits tumor progression in immunocompetent mice” Mentor: Xiaoling Li, Ph.D. Lab: Signal Transduction

Jacob Kresovich, Ph.D. “mBCRM: A methylation-based risk model for breast cancer” Mentor: Jack Taylor, M.D., Ph.D. Lab: Epidemiology Branch

Katelyn Lavrich, Ph.D. “Evaluating the toxicological screening utility of 3D spheroid primary human hepatocyte cultures” Mentor: Stephen Ferguson, Ph.D. Lab: DTT Biomolecular Screening Branch

Kaitlyn G. Lawrence, Ph.D. “Neighborhood deprivation and epigenetic age acceleration” Mentor: Dale Sandler, Ph.D. Lab: Epidemiology Branch

Xingyao Li, Ph.D. “New model cell lines provide insight into the molecular mechanisms underlying ectopic calcification” Mentor: Stephen Shears, Ph.D. Lab: Signal Transduction

Wan-Chi Lin, Ph.D. “The role of epithelial membrane protein 2 in regulation of pulmonary fibrosis and tissue remodeling” Mentor: Michael Fessler, M.D. Lab: Immunity, Inflammation & Disease

Christopher Mazzone, Ph.D. “High fat diets tune hypothalamic and mesolimbic feeding circuits to calorically dense foods” Mentor: Guohong Cui, M.D., Ph.D. Lab: Neurobiology

Prashant Rai, Ph.D. “Chronic type I interferon disrupts tissue macrophage homeostasis and induces bacterial susceptibility” Mentor: Michael Fessler, M.D. Lab: Immunity, Inflammation & Disease

Saniya Rattan, Ph.D. “Somatic cell lineage specification by Notch signaling in fetal mouse ovaries” Mentor: Humphrey Yao, Ph.D. Lab: Reproductive & Developmental Biology

Yosuke Sakamachi, Ph.D. “TLR5 protects against pulmonary fibrosis by preventing dysbiosis” Mentor: Stavros Garantziotis, M.D. Lab: Immunity, Inflammation & Disease

Chitrangda Srivastava, Ph.D. “GLIS3: A critical player in polycystic kidney disease” Mentor: Anton Jetten, Ph.D. Lab: Immunity, Inflammation & Disease

Barrett M. Welch, Ph.D., M.P.H. “Moving toward understanding specific pathways of inflammation in pregnancy: prenatal exposure to consumer product chemicals and changes in plasma eicosanoids” Mentor: Kelly Ferguson, Ph.D., M.P.H. Lab: Epidemiology Branch

Dahea You, Pharm.D., Ph.D. “Population variability in neurotoxicity outcomes modeled in vitro with diversity outbred neural progenitor cells” Mentor: Alison Harrill, Ph.D. Lab: DTT Biomolecular Screening Branch

Jingheng Zhou, Ph.D. “Dopamine neuron challenge test for early detection of Parkinson’s disease” Mentor: Guohong Cui, M.D., Ph.D. Lab: Neurobiology

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The Award for Inclusion Research Program recognizes and supports academic research in computing and technology that addresses the needs of historically marginalized groups globally.

Launched in 2020, the Award for Inclusion Research (AIR) Program is an ongoing effort to support innovative research and professors working to create positive societal impact.

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Accessibility research is critical in its opportunity to advance inclusive technology that can enable and improve access for diverse user populations. Google's mission to "Organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful emphasizes the importance of accessibility at the company-level. Google works on a broad range of topics in accessibility to ensure that our technology is accessible and that it empowers people with disabilities to be socially engaged, productive, and independent. We are committed to research that advances the state-of-the-art in usable, useful, inclusive, and accessible technology.

Google strives for broad inclusion through support for assistive technologies, and research and development that aid people with vision, hearing, speech, motor, and/or cognitive disabilities.

For our program, we call for proposals specifically in the areas of:

• Wearable computing and augmentative technology
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Collaboration is responsible for far-reaching advances in computing. For example, such collaboration can occur in online communities like Wikipedia, open source software development projects, or teams of information workers in companies. Diverse and inclusive collaborations can create technology and products that are more inclusive of all users.

• Collaboration strategies to ensure that technological solutions meet the needs of a diverse set of users
• Scalable and repeatable interventions to help avoid technological solutions that might cause harm to historically marginalized and underserved communities
• Mitigating bias among collaborative teams
• Increasing belonging in collaborative teams

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Collective & society-centered AI research at Google builds upon traditions of multidisciplinary research. A community-collaborative approach actively involves impacted stakeholders throughout the application, system, or service design process to ensure their needs are met and can lead to AI systems that have a higher potential to benefit the community. The hallmark of these projects is that these will involve at least two stakeholder groups collaborating. Stakeholder groups include: researchers, developers, creators, end-users, community organizations, governments, citizens, and others.

• AI innovations for societal needs: transparency, work, education, collaboration, safety, quality, human-machine collaboration. Impact on creative community & regulation.
• AI integration with society: sociotechnical investigations of adoption, data, attitudes, responsible AI, & marginalized communities.
• AI development lifecycle: novel tools, infrastructure, and methods for collaboration, governance, and impact assessment.

Impact of AI on education

As we look towards the future of computing education, artificial intelligence (AI) is set to transform learning, teaching and assessment. At Google, we are committed to ensuring that the benefits of new technologies are universally accessible and useful. Given the current inequities in the computing education ecosystem, it is critical to support academic research on how and to what extent AI will impact computing in primary, secondary and higher education (at a systems-level) and pedagogical innovation.

• Examination of system-level effects of generative AI on K-16 computing education.
• Investigation of the effects of generative AI tools on pedagogy and learning, both opportunities and risks.
• Assessment of scalable models of educator professional development that incorporate generative AI tools.
• Exploration of foundational skills and knowledge students will need in computing education enabled by generative AI tools.

We encourage submissions from professors globally who are teaching at universities and meet the eligibility requirements. The AIR Program funds topics including accessibility, impact of AI on education, collaboration, collective & society-centered AI and gender bias, and many other areas that aim to have a positive impact on underrepresented groups.

• The funds granted will be up to $60,000 USD and are intended to support the advancement of the professor’s research during the academic year in which the award is provided.
• Awards are disbursed as unrestricted gifts to the university and are not intended for overhead or indirect costs.
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• Applicant may only serve as Principal Investigator (PI) or co-PI on one proposal per round. There can be a maximum of 2 PIs per proposal.
• Proposals must be related to computing or technology.
• Proposed research must impact users from historically marginalized groups. The definition of who is historically marginalized is responsive to a specific region, context, and its nuances; the proposal should define the users from historically marginalized groups the research aims to impact, and how the research will address their needs.

Strong proposals demonstrate a clear understanding of the users from historically marginalized groups the research aims to impact, such as direct collaboration with the users in the research process, describing the relationship of the PI(s) to the users/research, and describing the motivation to pursue the research.

Faculty merit

What is your prior research work? Are you qualified through your prior research experience to conduct the proposed research? Have you done preliminary research to show your investment in this space?

Broader impact & research merit

What is the impact of this research work being done successfully? Is it innovative? Could it change the academic landscape if successful? Do you have resources to conduct the research at hand?

Proposal quality

Is the proposal clear, focused and follows guidelines? Is it easy to navigate and how do you plan to approach the research problem? Do you provide further documentation as needed?

I am employed full-time at a university, but I am not a professor. Can I apply?

The program is open to active professors at degree-granting institutions who are advising students and conducting research.

What is the proper format for an Award for Inclusion Research proposal?

Below is an example of what a proposal may look like (though the relative length of each section may differ by proposal). The full proposal should be a maximum of 5 pages:

• [Maximum 3 Pages] The proposal overview, proposal body, and data policy.
• [Maximum 2 Pages] The CV of the primary Principal Investigator, which is required for all applications.

We would prefer proposals to respect a minimum 10pt font size and 1-inch (2.5-cm) margins. Our reviewers value readability.

• Proposal Title
• Principal Investigator full name, contact information (postal address, email address, phone), affiliation (university, school, college and/or department)
• Research goals and problem statement
• Description of the work you'd like to do, and expected outcomes and results.
• How will your research impact an underrepresented group?
• How does your research relate to prior work in the area (including your own, if relevant)? What makes you qualified to do this research work?
• References, where applicable.
• Our goal is to support work where the output will be made available to the broader research community. To that end, we ask that you provide us with a few sentences sharing what you intend to do with the output of your project (e.g. open sourcing code, making data sets public, etc.). Please note that the awards are structured as unrestricted gifts, so there are no legal requirements once a project is selected for funding. This is simply a statement of your current intentions.
• We require a CV for at least the primary Principal Investigator on the proposal. We will accept CVs from each of the Principal Investigators listed on the proposal (up to two are allowed). Each CV must be limited to two pages. Any submitted CV that is longer than 2 pages may be cut off at 2 pages before the proposal review process begins.

Please do not add a budget section on your proposal since it will not be considered.

Can I submit a proposal outside of the featured research areas on the main webpage?

Yes, we have a miscellaneous area in the application. Feel free to submit a proposal in any research area, in computing and technology, that addresses the needs of historically marginalized groups globally.

Does the co-PI need to meet the same eligibility criteria as the primary PI?

Yes, the co-PI must meet the same eligibility criteria as the primary PI. We are providing an exception if the co-PI is a postdoctoral researcher.

Can I submit a proposal around pre college research efforts?

No, proposals should only be focused on higher education.

Can I submit a proposal around funding a larger program?

This is not applicable for the AIR program unless the proposal studies the efficacy and applies research to the larger program.

Open advice to Google Research Awards proposal writers

As a part of the group of engineers that review proposals for this program, we read a lot of proposals. We'd like to read more good proposals. Here's some advice on how you can improve the content of your short proposal and make reviewing it easier.

A good research grant proposal:

Clearly specifies a problem. Good research is driven by a great problem or question, and a good proposal starts with a clearly specified one.

• Describes a specific, credible, relevant outcome. Try to identify a specific and appropriately sized outcome, to give us a clear notion of what the research award would be enabling. What will likely come to be that might otherwise not happen? While this outcome should be a decisive step towards achieving your vision, it generally won't be adequate to completely achieve it. It often helps to describe both the minimum that is likely to be accomplished and a potential best-case. Since picking the right datasets and test cases is often important, tell us which ones you plan to use.
• Crisply differentiates the proposed contribution from prior work. Please apply normal practices (citations, etc.) for documenting how your work will materially advance the state of the art. Make it clear how your work will be changing the state of the art, and not simply trying to match it.
• Tells us how the research challenge(s) will be addressed. Successful research projects combine a great problem with ideas for solutions, too. We recognize that all the answers won't be known yet, but we'd like to feel that the direction has been established, and a plausible path has been identified. (Try to avoid proposals of the form "We want to look at problem X".) It's hard to have a big impact without taking risks, but please identify what the difficulties are likely to be and how you plan to mitigate them. It may help to explain how you succeeded in addressing analogous problems in other projects.
• Puts the proposed work in context. Most projects we fund also have support from other sources. To help us understand the expected impact of Google support, please explain what funding you already have for this area of research and how the proposed work relates to your existing plans. Do you plan to build a capability for other research, provide a tool, reproduce a prior result, collaborate with others to try something out, follow up on a promising idea, or explore a new one? All are potentially of interest; we just want to know.
• Makes the case to a non-expert. While we try to have your proposal reviewed by a Google expert in your field, it will also be read by non-experts, so please make at least the motivation and outcomes broadly accessible.
• Tells us how this research impacts an underserved community and why you are qualified to do this research. It can be through social, cultural, or regional expertise, specifically related to the research to conduct successful work.
• The proposal should show promise that it will benefit society or advance desired societal outcomes.

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Since 1961, the AACR has been proud to recognize scientific excellence across the spectrum of basic, translational, clinical, and epidemiological cancer research through a robust collection of annual awards and lectureships that serve to honor laboratory researchers, physician-scientists, and population scientists who have made significant contributions to our understanding of the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of cancer.

The following award recipients were honored during the AACR Annual Meeting:

• AACR Award for Lifetime Achievement in Cancer Research Recipient: Carl H. June News Release | Award Lecture Summary
• AACR Award for Outstanding Achievement in Basic Cancer Research Recipient: Kathryn E. Wellen News Release
• AACR Award for Outstanding Achievement in Blood Cancer Research Recipient: Riccardo Dalla-Favera News Release
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• AACR-American Cancer Society Award for Research Excellence in Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention Recipient: Patricia A. Ganz News Release
• AACR-Cancer Research Institute Lloyd J. Old Award in Cancer Immunology Recipient: E. John Wherry News Release
• AACR-G.H.A. Clowes Award for Outstanding Basic Cancer Research Recipient: M. Celeste Simon News Release
• AACR-Joseph H. Burchenal Award for Outstanding Achievement in Clinical Cancer Research Recipient: Melissa M. Hudson News Release
• AACR-Minorities in Cancer Research Jane Cooke Wright Lectureship Recipient: Selwyn M. Vickers News Release
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• AACR-St. Baldrick’s Foundation Award for Outstanding Achievement in Pediatric Cancer Research Recipient: Olivier Delattre News Release
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• The U-M Office of the Vice President for Research has established awards to recognize excellence among research staff. Review the full list of awards and submit nominations online.

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The U-M Office of the Vice President for Research has established three awards to recognize excellence among research faculty: the  Collegiate Research Professorship Award , the  Research Faculty Achievement Award  and the  Research Faculty Recognition Award .

2024 Faculty Awardees

The Office of the Vice President for Research will honor six research faculty members from across the University of Michigan for their significant contributions and leadership in fields ranging from firearm injury prevention and multi-scale computation to Earth remote sensing and molecular imaging.

Alauddin Ahmed, Hugo Carreno-Luengo and Hsing-Fang Hsieh will receive the Research Faculty Recognition Award, while Jason Goldstick, Kathryn Luker and John Nees will receive the Research Faculty Achievement Award. All six will be recognized at the President’s Faculty Awards event this fall.

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IJCAI-24 Awards Announcement

The IJCAI-24 Award for Research Excellence, the John McCarthy Award and the Computers and Thought Award are awarded by the IJCAI Board of Trustees, upon recommendation by the IJCAI-24 Awards Selection Committee, which consists this year of

• Christian Bessiere,CNRS, Université Montpellier 2 LIRMM, FRANCE (Chair)
• Diego Calvanese, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, ITALY
• Luc De Raedt, KU Leuven, BELGIUM
• Edith Elkind, University of Oxford, UK
• James Kwok, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, CHINA 
• Zhi-Hua Zhou, Nanjing University, CHINA

The IJCAI Awards Selection Committee receives advice from members of the IJCAI-24 Awards Review Committee, who comment on the accuracy of the nomination material and provide additional information about the nominees. The IJCAI-24 Awards Review Committee is the union of the former Trustees of IJCAI, the IJCAI-24 Advisory Committee, the Program Chairs of the last three IJCAI conferences, and the past recipients of the IJCAI Award for Research Excellence and the IJCAI Distinguished Service Award, with nominees exclu

IJCAI-24 Award for Research Excellence:

The Research Excellence award is given to a scientist who has carried out a program of research of consistently high quality throughout an entire career yielding several substantial results. Past recipients of this honor are the most illustrious group of scientists from the field of Artificial Intelligence. They are: John McCarthy (1985), Allen Newell (1989), Marvin Minsky (1991), Raymond Reiter (1993), Herbert Simon (1995), Aravind Joshi (1997), Judea Pearl (1999), Donald Michie (2001), Nils Nilsson (2003), Geoffrey E. Hinton (2005), Alan Bundy (2007), Victor Lesser (2009), Robert Anthony Kowalski (2011),  Hector Levesque (2013), Barbara Grosz (2015), Michael I. Jordan (2016), Andrew Barto (2017), Jitendra Malik (2018), Yoav Shoham (2019), Eugene Freuder (2020), Richard Sutton (2021), Stuart Russell (2022) and Sarit Kraus (2023).

The winner of the 2024 Award for Research Excellence is Thomas Dietterich , Distinguished Professor (Emeritus) and Director of Intelligent Systems, Institute for Collaborative Robotics and Intelligence Systems (CoRIS), Oregon State University, USA . Professor Dietterich is recognized for his pioneering work in machine learning, sequential decision-making, safe deployment of machine learning systems, applications to real-world problems in ecosystem management, and for his decades of intellectual leadership in machine learning.

IJCAI-24 Computers and Thought Award:

The Computers and Thought Award is presented at IJCAI conferences to outstanding young scientists in artificial intelligence. The award was established with royalties received from the book, Computers and Thought, edited by Edward Feigenbaum and Julian Feldman. It is currently supported by income from IJCAI funds. Past recipients of this honor have been: Terry Winograd (1971), Patrick Winston (1973), Chuck Rieger (1975), Douglas Lenat (1977), David Marr (1979), Gerald Sussman (1981), Tom Mitchell (1983), Hector Levesque (1985), Johan de Kleer (1987), Henry Kautz (1989), Rodney Brooks (1991), Martha Pollack (1991), Hiroaki Kitano (1993), Sarit Kraus (1995), Stuart Russell (1995), Leslie Kaelbling (1997), Nicholas Jennings (1999), Daphne Koller (2001), Tuomas Sandholm (2003), Peter Stone (2007), Carlos Guestrin (2009), Andrew Ng (2009),Vincent Conitzer (2011), Malte Helmert (2011), Kristen Grauman (2013), Ariel Procaccia (2015), Percy Liang (2016), Devi Parikh (2017), Stefano Ermon (2018), Guy Van den Broeck (2019),  Piotr Skowron (2020), Fei Fang (2021), Bo Li (2022) and Pin-Yu Chen (2023).

The winner of the 2024 IJCAI Computers and Thought Award is Nisarg Shah , Associate Professor of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Canada.  Dr. Shah is recognized for his contributions to AI and society, in particular foundational work on the theory of algorithmic fairness using principles from social choice theory.  

IJCAI-24 John McCarthy Award:

The IJCAI John McCarthy Award is intended to recognize established mid-career researchers, typically between fifteen to twenty-five years after obtaining their PhD, that have built up a major track record of research excellence in artificial intelligence. Nominees of the award will have made significant contributions to the research agenda in their area and will have a first-rate profile of influential research results. The award is named for John McCarthy (1927-2011), who is widely recognized as one of the founders of the field of artificial intelligence. As well as giving the discipline its name, McCarthy made fundamental contributions of lasting importance to computer science in general and artificial intelligence in particular, including time-sharing operating systems, the LISP programming languages, knowledge representation, common-sense reasoning, and the logicist paradigm in artificial intelligence. The award was established with the full support and encouragement of the McCarthy family. Past recipients of this honor have been:  Bart Selman (2015), Moshe Tennenholtz (2016), Dan Roth (2017), Milind Tambe (2018), Pedro Domingos (2019), Daniela Rus (2020), Tuomas Sandholm (2021), Michael L. Littman (2022) and Dieter Fox (2023).

The winner of the 2024 John McCarthy Award is David Blei ,  Professor of Statistics and Computer Science, Columbia University, USA.  Professor Blei is recognized for his groundbreaking work in machine learning, in particular his field-defining contributions in the areas of topic models and stochastic variational inference.  

Donald E. Walker Distinguished Service Award:

The IJCAI Distinguished Service Award was established in 1979 by the IJCAI Trustees to honor senior scientists in AI for contributions and service to the field during their careers. Previous recipients have been: Bernard Meltzer (1979), Arthur Samuel (1983), Donald Walker (1989), Woodrow Bledsoe (1991), Daniel G. Bobrow (1993), Wolfgang Bibel (1999), Barbara Grosz (2001), Alan Bundy (2003), Raj Reddy (2005), Ronald J. Brachman (2007), Luigia Carlucci Aiello (2009), Raymond C. Perrault (2011), Wolfgang Wahlster (2013), Anthony G. Cohn (2015), Erik Sandewall (2016), Ramon Lopez de Mantaras (2017), Craig Knoblock (2018), Francesca Rossi (2019), Toby Walsh (2020), Steven Minton (2021),  Bernhard Nebel (2022) and Qiang Yang (2023).

2024 DSA Winner will be announced later in June 2024.

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Johns Hopkins Discovery Awards: 2024 Awardees

In 2024, 44 Discovery Awards were given to interdisciplinary faculty teams across eleven units of Johns Hopkins.

The Discovery Awards encourage faculty from various disciplines to collaborate in addressing multifaceted challenges and pushing the boundaries of understanding. 2024 awarded projects will launch a wide range of inquiry – creating DNA-based hydrogel bioinks with enhanced mechanical properties for advanced 3D bioprinting applications, such as smart bandages, biosensors, and water filtration membranes, gaining a better understanding of how trust in the healthcare system is formed and how it influences patient behavior and outcomes, with the goal of identifying strategies to improve trust and, consequently, public health, and designing a novel influenza vaccine to overcome the challenges of immunosenescence and inflammaging in the elderly, which currently limit the effectiveness of seasonal influenza vaccines.

Altogether, the winning project teams—chosen from 286 proposals—include 148 individuals representing 11 Johns Hopkins entities.

3D-LAMMBS: Data-Driven, Deep Learning Architectures for Multiscale Modeling of Biological Systems – Michael Lapera (Applied Physics Lab), Melissa Yates (Applied Physics Lab), Vicky Nguyen (Engineering) & Somdatta Goswami (Engineering) *Co-Funded with the Data Science and AI Institute *

A Bone Marrow Targeting Vehicle for IL-15 to Enhance NK Cell Anti-leukemic Effect – Maxim Rosario (Medicine), Scott Wilson (Medicine) & Jay Bream (Public Health)

A Long-read-based, Epigenome-first Approach for Molecular Diagnosis – Carolina Montano (Engineering), Nara Sobreira (Medicine), Kasper Hansen (Public Health) & Winston Timp (Engineering)

Advancing Brain Tumor Immunotherapy Informed by Circulating Tumor Cell-Derived Membrane Fragments – Jelani Zarif (Medicine), Claire Hur (Engineering), David Kamson (Medicine) & Stavroula Sofou (Engineering)

Brain-wide Mapping of Astrocyte Activity Using Genetically Encoded Crystal Recorders (GECRs) – Dwight Bergles (Medicine) & Dingchang Lin (Engineering)

Characterizing the Acute Impact of Air Pollution Exposures on Blood Pressure and Implications for Clean Cooking – Kendra Williams (Public Health), Yvonne Commodore-Mensah (Nursing) & William Checkley (Medicine)

Climate Change-Proofing the US Healthcare System – Understanding and Cultivating Resilience to Climate-Driven Compound and Cascading Disasters – Crystal Watson (Public Health), Tara Kirk Sell (Public Health), Christopher Lemon (Medicine), Toner Eric (Public Health), Rob Carter (Medicine) & Jon Links (Public Health)

Cross-species Examination of Supporting Cell-to-progenitor Cell Fate Transitions During Hair Cell Regeneration – Erin Jimenez (Arts & Sciences) & Angelika Doetzlhofer (Medicine) *Co-Funded with the OneNeuro Initiative *

Data Valuation in Distributed and Private Large-Scale Radiology – Jeremias Sulam (Engineering), Harrison Bai (Medicine), Mahyar Fazlyab (Engineering) & Nicolas Loizou (Engineering)

Deep Learning Applications in ECG Analysis for Atrial Fibrillation Patients: A New Horizon in Diagnosis and Monitoring – Eugene Kholmovski (Engineering), Natalia Trayanova (Engineering), David Spragg (Medicine) & Yazan Mohsen (Engineering)

Developing a Framework to Address the Needs of Persons with Cancer Pain and Opioid Guidelines in the Age of the Opioid Epidemic – Sydney Dy (Public Health), Travis Rieder (Berman) & Julie Waldfogel (Medicine)

Developing Innovative Implementation Methods: Coastal Resilience Solutions for the Baltimore Area – Jennifer Boothby (Applied Physics Lab), Benjamin Zaitchik (Arts & Sciences) & Chris Overcash (Engineering)

DNA Bioinks for Next-Generation 3D Bioprinting – Angelo Cangialosi (Applied Physics Lab) & Rebecca Schulman (Engineering)

Eliminating Cataract-related Vision Loss Through a New, Artificial Intelligence-based Screening Modality – Kunal Parikh (Medicine), Nakul Shekhawat (Medicine), Rama Chellappa (Engineering/Medicine), Nathanael Kuo (Applied Physics Lab), Rai Munoz (Applied Physics Lab) & Jordan Shuff (Medicine)

Employing Lung Organoid Models to Test Carcinogenicity Associated with Electronic Cigarette Exposure (ELUCIDATE Study) – Michelle Vaz (Medicine) & Ana Rule (Public Health)

Estrogen Receptor Mutations as a Novel Biomarker in Gynecological Malignancies – Utthara Nayar (Public Health) & Stephanie Gaillard (Medicine)

Exploring the Neural Architecture of Psychedelic Experience with High-density Electrophysiology – Austin Graves (Engineering), Tim Harris (Engineering) & Kellie Tamashiro (Medicine)

Extracellular Vesicle (EV) RNA as Functional Biomarkers of Clinical ASD Heterogeneity – Lena Smirnova (Public Health), Sarven Sabunciyan (Medicine) & Constance Hicks-Smith (Medicine) *Co-Funded with the OneNeuro Initiative *

‘Feels Like Home’: Lived Experiences of Children with Medical Complexity and Their Families – Rebecca Seltzer (Medicine) & Lauren Arora Hutchinson (Berman)

Harnessing Single-Atom Plasmonic Catalysis for High-Efficiency Energy Transformations – Anthony Shoji Hall (Engineering) & Thomas Kempa (Arts & Sciences) *Co-Funded with the  Ralph O’Connor Sustainable Energy Institute *

Health Education and Training (HEAT) Corps: Novel Strategy for Community Health in Schools through Community Health Workers – Panagis Galiatsatos (Medicine), Annette Anderson (Education), Catherine Ling (Nursing), Mindi Levin (Public Health) & Jennifer Ross (University Administration)

High-throughput Identification of Cell-state Induced Changes in Subcellular mRNA Localization in the Brain – Solange Brown (Medicine), Loyal Goff (Medicine), Genevieve Stein-O’Brien (Medicine) & Jean Fan (Engineering)

Identification of Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms Regulating Sleep Need Using Automated, Selective and Non-stressful Sleep Deprivation in larval Zebrafish – Seth Blackshaw (Medicine), Claire Hur (Engineering) & Mark Wu (Medicine) *Co-Funded with the OneNeuro Initiative *

Infrastructure Climate Adaptation/Resiliency in the US (ICARUS) – Marisel Villafane-Delgado (Applied Physics Lab), Yuri Dvorkin (Engineering), Dennice Gayme (Engineering), Enrique Mallada (Engineering), Rebecca Eager (Applied Physics Lab), Krista Rand (Applied Physics Lab), Jared Markowitz (Applied Physics Lab) & Valerie Washington (Applied Physics Lab) *Co-Funded with the  Ralph O’Connor Sustainable Energy Institute *

Investigating Structural Bases for Active and Inactive Condensate Formation by Cyclic-G/AMP (cGAMP) Synthase (cGAS) – Jungsan Sohn (Medicine), Anthony Leung (Public Health) & Edward Twomey (Medicine)

Large Language Models for Knowledge Discovery in the Opioid Industry Documents Archive – Anjalie Field (Engineering), G. Caleb Alexander (Public Health) & Louis Hyman (KSAS) *Co-Funded with the Data Science and AI Institute *

Modeling the Dynamic Nucleocytoskeletal Interface in Cycling Cells – Karen Reddy (Medicine) & Sean Sun (Engineering)

NanoPorous Catalysts and Adsorbents for a Circular, Energy-Efficient, and Sustainable Silicone Economy – Michael Tsapatsis (Engineering), Rebekka Klausen (Arts & Sciences) & Brandon Bukowski (Engineering) *Co-Funded with the  Ralph O’Connor Sustainable Energy Institute *

Non-invasive Imaging for Cardiovascular Evaluation – Austen Lefebvre (Medicine), Sung-Min Cho (Medicine), David Blodgett (Applied Physics Lab) & Nikki Steiner (Applied Physics Lab)

Novel Europium-Based Fluorination for Prostate Imaging – Laurence Carroll (Medicine) & Thomas Lectka (Arts & Sciences)

Novel Materials for Custom-Tuned Earplugs for Musicians: A Multifaceted Approach – Michael Kessler

(Engineering), Kris Chesky (Peabody/Medicine) & Gurumurthy Ramachandran (Public Health)

Pharmaceutical Market Dynamics and Competition: The Impact of New Drug Formulations on Marketing and Spending – Ravi Gupta (Medicine), Joseph Levy (Public Health) & Michael DiStefano (Public Health) *Co-Funded with the  Hopkins Business of Health Initiative *

Plasmonic Probe and Control of Topological Magnetic States – Natalia Drichko (Arts & Sciences) & Susanna Thon (Engineering)

Preventing Blindness Using AI-enabled, Point-of-care Diagnosis of Corneal Infections – Nakul Shekhawat (Medicine), Kunal Parikh (Medicine), Rama Chellappa (Engineering/Medicine), Nathanael Kuo (Applied Physics Lab), Rai Munoz (Applied Physics Lab) & Jordan Shuff (Medicine)

Programmed Regenerative Inflammation for Functional Recovery in Repairing Volumetric Muscle Loss – Laszlo Nagy (Medicine), Hai-Quan Mao (Engineering) & Warren Grayson (Medicine)

Spatial Mapping of the Cortico-striatal-basal Ganglia Circuit Using Flexible Nonlinear Neural Probes – Dingchang Lin (Engineering) & Patricia Janak (Arts & Sciences)

Spatial Transcriptomics for the Clinical Setting: Capturing an Elusive Cell Population in a Rare Disease with Spatial Transcriptomics of Rosai-Dorfman Disease – Eugene Shenderov (Medicine), Ezra Baraban (Medicine) & Hongkai Ji (Public Health)

The Dynamics of Trust: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Improving Health Care Outcomes – Michael Darden (Business), Mario Macis (Business), Christina Yuan (Business), Kathy McDonald (Nursing/Medicine/Public Health/Business) & Mary Catherine Beach (Medicine)

The Impact of Sex-Dependent Glycosylation on Nitros(yl)ation in Myocardial Infarction – Natasha Zachara (Medicine), Brian Foster (Medicine), Mark Kohr (Public Health) & Priya Umapathi (Medicine)

The Neural Basis of Continual Learning in the Face of Early Life Adversity – Kishore Kuchibhotla (Arts & Sciences), Maya Opendak (Medicine), Adam Charles (Engineering) & Chris Honey (Arts & Sciences)

This IS Your Grandma’s Vaccine!: Engineering Immunity in the Elderly – Scott Wilson (Medicine) & Sabra Klein (Public Health)

Using Nanopore Sequencing of TET3-deficient Cells to Understand and Abrogate Disrupted DNA Methylation States in Human Neurons – Jill Fahrner (Medicine), Winston Timp (Engineering) & Kasper Hansen (Public Health)

Using the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit for Assisted Living? Mapping the Current Environment and Charting a Path Forward – Kali Thomas (Nursing) & Craig Pollack (Public Health) *Co-Funded with the  Hopkins Business of Health Initiative *

Virtual Neurology Clinic: A Human-AI Interface for Remote Autonomous Augmented/Virtual Reality Neurologic Screening and Triaging – Kemar Green (Medicine), John Probasco (Medicine), Ayah Zirkly (Engineering), Ziang Xiao (Engineering), Vishal Patel (Engineering), Peter Kazanzides (Engineering) & Youseph Yazdi (Medicine) *Co-Funded with the Institute for Assured Autonomy *

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The V Foundation for Cancer Research Announces 2024 Recipients for A Grant of Her Own: The Women Scientists Innovation Award for Cancer Research

Fifteen women scientists were awarded research grants to advance their innovative work in the cancer field, helping to address the significant funding disparities for women in science.

Cary, NC (June 24, 2024) – The V Foundation for Cancer Research, a top-rated cancer charity, is proud to announce the second annual recipient class of A Grant of Her Own: The Women Scientists Innovation Award for Cancer Research . Fifteen exceptional women scientists were selected for their groundbreaking cancer research studies, with the V Foundation investing $10.2 million this year – and a total of $18.6 million since the program’s start in 2023.

This critical initiative is working to level the playing field for women in science, addressing the longstanding gender disparities in the research field. The breadth of challenges that women researchers face is substantial, including salary gaps and lower research funding than their male counterparts. Additionally, women are often tasked with a heavier distribution of parenting, household roles, caregiving and even workplace administrative duties, taking time away from work in the lab.

The V Foundation for Cancer Research established A Grant of Her Own: The Women Scientists Innovation Award for Cancer Research with the goal of promoting equity within the science community. The organization also serves as a premier supporter of advancing woman-led laboratories, research projects and discoveries in the cancer research field.

“There is no question that game-changing cancer research requires the brightest minds in science and the recipients selected for A Grant of Her Own are exactly that,” said Susanna Greer, Ph.D., Chief Scientific Officer at the V Foundation. “This is such a valuable opportunity to drive forward the innovative research occurring in each of their laboratories while also highlighting the importance of creating an equitable and empowering space for women in science.”

The V Foundation awards grants through a highly-selective review process overseen by its Scientific Advisory Committee, a distinguished group of clinicians and scientists from top cancer centers across North America. Each research proposal is carefully reviewed, and grants are awarded to the most promising research projects and scientists that will lead to breakthrough discoveries and lifesaving treatments.

The grants will be distributed between Translational and V Scholar awards. Of the 15 researchers selected for A Grant of Her Own, six scientists will be awarded a Translational Grant, which funds “bench-to-bedside” research, often culminating in the planning or initiation of a clinical trial. Nine researchers will be awarded the V Scholar Grant, an investment in early career researchers with cutting-edge ideas.

The recipients of the Translational Research Award, each receiving $800,000 over four years, are:

• Gina Ogilvie, M.D., M.Sc., FCFP, Dr.PH., BC Cancer Research Centre: Developing new methods of cervical cancer screening with improved accuracy
• Livia S. Eberlin, Ph.D., Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center: Transforming rectal cancer surgery with new technology to achieve complete cancer removal while preserving patient quality of life
• Josephine A. Taverna, M.D., Mays Cancer Center at UT Health San Antonio: Tailoring individual treatments for lung cancer patients based on the tumor’s unique traits
• Humsa Venkatesh, Ph.D., Brigham and Women’s Hospital: Uncovering how neuronal activity drives growth of brain tumors
• Andrea Cercek, M.D., Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center: Evaluating immunotherapy use in a subset of rectal cancer patients to increase responses and decrease the need for radiation and surgery
• Maria T. Abreu, M.D., Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center: Targeting the gut microbiome for colorectal cancer treatment and prevention

The grantees of the V Scholar Award, each receiving $600,000 over three years, are:

• Melissa Reeves, Ph.D., Huntsman Cancer Institute: Exploring variability in the anti-tumor immune response in order to improve responses to immunotherapy
• Carla Nowosad, Ph.D., Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Cancer Center at NYU Langone Health: Tracking immune cells and antibodies and determining their contribution to colorectal cancer development and progression
• Esther Rheinbay, Ph.D., Massachusetts General Hospital: Defining the consequences of Y or X chromosome loss in uveal melanoma
• Jessica Stark, Ph.D., David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT: Unlocking the potential of targeting sugars for colorectal cancer immunotherapy
• Noam Auslander, Ph.D., Ellen and Ronald Caplan Cancer Center of The Wistar Institute: Identifying biomarkers of immunotherapy benefit and adverse events in melanoma
• Christine Eyler, M.D., Ph.D., Duke Cancer Institute: Deciphering Drivers of Cell Changes in Response to Rectal Cancer Radiation
• Corina Antal, Ph.D., Moores Comprehensive Cancer Center: Uncovering novel vulnerabilities in pancreatic cancer to discover new therapeutic targets
• Caroline Bartman, Ph.D., Abramson Cancer Center: Targeting vitamin B1 metabolism to starve colorectal cancer
• Xueqiu (Chu) Lin, Ph.D., Fred Hutch Cancer Center: Mapping oncogenic gene regulatory networks for colorectal cancer risk prediction

“I am thrilled that my grant was selected for funding. I have admired the V Foundation for many years, and it is such an honor to now be one of the grantees. I am very thankful and looking forward to starting the research we proposed in rectal cancer,” said Livia S. Eberlin, Ph.D., a Translational Grant award recipient. “The research we propose could dramatically improve outcomes for patients undergoing surgery for rectal cancer by providing surgeons with a new molecular-based device that allows them to identify tissues in vivo with certainty before excision, therefore enabling full removal of the cancerous tissues while preserving normal adjacent tissue structures that are unaffected.”

For further information about A Grant of Her Own and other V Foundation grant programs, visit www.v.org .

About the V Foundation for Cancer Research

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NORMAN, OKLA. – Bin Wang , a professor in the School of Sustainable Chemical, Biological and Materials Engineering at the University of Oklahoma, has received a Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Wang was selected for his contributions to computational catalysis and physical chemistry.

The Bessel Award is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research to foster collaborative relationships between international academics and German researchers. The award includes a grant that supports up to 12 months of study in Germany.

In his research, Wang uses simulations to understand materials at the atomic level, providing insights into materials that can be used to accelerate chemical reactions. He will work with the Sustainable Materials Computational Materials Design department of the Max Planck Institute to use a machine learning approach to study solid-liquid interfacial chemistry. Wang says that because simulations of the solid-liquid interface include so much complexity, accurate simulation can be challenging. Machine learning techniques can help improve those simulations.

According to Wang, the collaboration could not come at a better time. Recently, OU’s School of Sustainable Chemical, Biological and Materials Engineering added “sustainable” to its name. “When people think about chemical engineering, the perception is that it’s all about oil and gas chemistry and operation,” he said. “That’s the reason [the school] changed the name, to show that our research and education is very broad and to achieve a sustainable future.”

This April, the Max Planck Institute for Iron Research did something similar, becoming the Max Planck Institute for Sustainable Materials.

“This really reflects what’s happening in the field right now. People are looking to sustainability and the challenges associated with it,” said Wang.

Wang has received numerous accolades during the span of his career, including an Early Career Award from the U.S. Department of Energy. He has been recognized as an Emerging Investigator by the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Catalysis Science & Technology and an Influential Researcher by the American Chemical Society’s Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research .

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Published June 27, 2024

Eight UB researchers — seven from the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and one from the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences (SPPS) — have received National Science Foundation CAREER awards, one of the nation’s most prestigious honors for early-career engineers and scientists.

CAREER grants provide scholars with funding to conduct research and develop educational programming for K-12 students, university students and members of the public.

The SEAS recipients are Courtney Faber, Luis Herrera, Craig Snoeyink, Kang Sun, Yinyin Ye, Zhuoyue Zhao and Shaofeng Zou. The SPPS recipient is Jason Sprowl.

Together, the eight grantees will receive more than $4.7 million for projects that address pressing societal problems such as the need for more reliable artificial intelligence algorithms, preventing deaths from bacterial infections, mapping air pollution and better understanding how glucose moves throughout the human body.

“We take great pride in our eight faculty members who have been honored with this prestigious NSF award,” says Venu Govindaraju, vice president for research and economic development. “Their exceptional research is integral to UB’s mission of fostering a better world for all.”

Among the support that awardees receive is guidance from UB’s Office of Research Advancement, which is overseen by Chitra Rajan, associate vice president for research advancement. The office is managed by three co-directors — Joanna Tate, Maggie Shea and Menna Mbah — and provides a comprehensive suite of services, including proposal management, scientific editing, graphics and help with non-technical parts of the proposal. 

These services, Rajan says, play a critical role in assisting faculty members in submitting high-quality proposals.

UB’s awardees are:

Courtney Faber , assistant professor of engineering education; award amount: $590,963.

When a research team is made up of people with various engineering and education backgrounds, different ideas of what knowledge is and how it is acquired can hinder team members’ ability to work cohesively.

Having firsthand experience with this issue, Faber’s goal is to support engineering education researchers who find themselves in a similar situation. 

She will facilitate interdisciplinary work by identifying barriers that research teams face related to differences in thinking and creating ways to bring them to the surface for discussion before they become a problem.

“It’s important for the field of engineering education to be able to do this type of interdisciplinary work,” Faber says. “The problems we are trying to solve are very complex and require an interdisciplinary approach to make space for diversity of thinking.”

The project will involve observing research teams and conducting interviews to see how they function together, as well as how individual members think independently of the group.

Faber plans to develop trainings that new and established engineering education researchers can freely access.

She also hopes to create a tool that assists research groups in integrating approaches and goals that might otherwise be problematic for a group. The tool could be as simple as a one-page guide that provides questions to be considered throughout the research process to help identify where a team’s ideas might differ across various aspects of their research. 

Luis Herrera , assistant professor of electrical engineering; award amount: $500,000.

Herrera’s research lies at the intersection of power electronics, power systems and control theory.

With this grant, he is developing different control methods to promote the wider adoption of direct current (DC) microgrids, which can run more efficiently than the more commonly used AC (alternating current) microgrids.

“Currently, DC electrical systems are primarily used in applications such as electric aircrafts, including the Boeing 787 Dreamliner; navy ships; and data centers,” Herrera says. “However, most renewable energy sources are interfaced to the AC power grid through an intermediate DC stage.”

More networks operated through DC grids could significantly increase energy efficiency, reduce losses and improve the overall operation of electrical systems, he explains.

This potential creates motivation for DC systems to be implemented in commonly used structures, such as residential and office buildings.

Graduate students will participate in a summer internship at the Air Force Research Laboratory through a partnership with the University of Dayton Research Institute.

Herrera also plans to create demonstrations of the research and present them to elementary, middle school and high school students, aiming to get students excited about STEM early in their academic careers. 

Craig Snoeyink , assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering; award amount: $581,088 .

Water filtration, whiskey distillation and blood-based diagnostics are just a few of the potential applications of dielectrophoretic molecular transport (DMT), a process that uses strong electric fields to push solutes out of water. This even includes those such as sugar and alcohol that do not have an electrical charge.

DMT is not used, however, due to the inaccuracy of current mathematical models.

With his grant, Snoeyink will develop and validate models for DMT for use in these applications. With one of the first accurate models of DMT, the process could be used, for example, to clean water as effectively as a water filter that never needs to be changed.

Snoeyink notes that point-of-care diagnostics are another significant application. 

“Down the line, we could use this technology to separate blood into components we want to test and stuff we don’t, making medical diagnostics cheaper and more sensitive,” he says.

To help with testing and to offer students research opportunities that could propel them into graduate school, Snoeyink will teach a course for students to do research for the project as part of their curriculum. With his guidance, students will run tests and create their own hypothesis. He hopes students will have papers based on their research that will bolster their graduate school applications.

Jason A. Sprowl , assistant professor of pharmaceutical sciences; award amount: $746,886.

Sodium-glucose-linked transporters (SGLT) work like little doors in human cells that help bring in glucose, an important type of sugar that fuels the human body. Without the right amount of glucose, an individual can experience nutrient deficiencies and other health issues.

Unfortunately, cellular events that regulate SGLT activity are poorly understood. This is particularly true for tyrosine phosphorylation, a form of modification that can change protein structure and function.

For his research project, Sprowl will study how tyrosine phosphorylation regulates changes in glucose movement into cells. He’ll use techniques like genetic manipulation and mass spectrometry to see how changing the tyrosine phosphorylation state of SLGTs affects its ability to let glucose into a cell. Finally, he will try to figure out which tyrosine kinases are responsible for phosphorylating SGLTs.

The project also includes several strategies for educational improvements at the middle school, high school and university levels. They include highlighting the biological importance of SGLTs, as well as the training and recruitment of junior scientists who will lead future research efforts. Collectively, the project is expected to impact many scientific disciplines, including molecular, cellular and systems biology.

To improve basic scientific knowledge, generate a passion for research and improve leadership capabilities in the field of biological sciences, Sprowl plans to establish an annual summer research position for underprivileged high school students. He also will work with middle school educators to increase recognition of reproducible and high-quality science, and develop online content that will increase familiarity with transporter proteins. 

Kang Sun , assistant professor of civil, structural and environmental engineering; award amount: $643,562.

Sun has been interested in astronomy since he was a young child. He’s currently fascinated by the idea of pointing a space telescope toward Earth and imaging emission sources like celestial objects.

With the research grant, Sun will map global emission sources of gaseous air pollutants and greenhouse gases. Such gases are invisible to the human eye. While they can be detected by satellites, their images are naturally smeared due to wind dispersion.

“This research removes the smearing effect using a simple and elegant equation that originates from mass balance,” Sun explains. “The results are timely and precise estimates of emissions that can inform policy and scientific studies.”

Currently, the two mainstream, emission-estimating methods are bottom-up, accounting for activities on the ground and how they emit, and top-down, inferring emissions with observations, numerical models and complicated frameworks that are usually region-specific.

Sun’s method will fall within the scope of the latter but will work faster, be globally applicable and provide the high spatial resolutions that are more commonly achieved by the bottom-up method.

The results will resemble a space-telescope image, with significant emission sources standing out like galaxies and smaller sources, such as towns and power plants, sprinkled about like star clusters.

By the end of the five-year study, Sun hopes students and educators may use his open-source algorithms to generate satellite-based concentration and emission maps on their personal computers. 

Yinyin Ye , assistant professor of civil, structural and environmental engineering; award amount: $580,393.

Bacterial infections cause more than 300,000 deaths annually in the United States. Many of these infections are triggered by proteins secreted from bacteria in lipid-containing particles called extracellular vesicles (EV). These harmful materials move from the human body through feces into the sewer systems, where their fate is not fully understood.

With the research grant, Ye will monitor EV persistence and stability in wastewater and throughout the wastewater-treatment process. She will analyze functions of environmental EV and what contents are packed in them, and develop an analysis method that integrates genome sequencing and proteomic analysis.

“If the vesicles preserve the function of virulence proteins in wastewater, we need to better understand the fate of the vesicles when they go through the treatment chain,” Ye says. “How are we able to minimize the health risks of vesicles after the treatment at the wastewater treatment plants? If they escape the treatment process and are still active, that can have certain health impacts.”

Ye’s project will focus on wastewater samples. However, these approaches can be applied to analyzing vesicles and their potential health risks in air dust, drinking water and rainwater, she notes. Ultimately, this work will help determine what harmful materials — if any — are still present after the wastewater-treatment process and how to remove them most effectively through disinfection.

She will also create hands-on activities to engage K-12 and undergraduate students in learning about wastewater microbiome analysis and microbial risk mitigation for public health and potentially build their interest in environmental engineering.

Zhuoyue Zhao , assistant professor of computer science and engineering; award amount: $599,977.

Today’s internet databases hold large volumes of data that are processed at higher speeds than ever before.

A new type of database system, hybrid transactional/analytical processing (HTAP), allows for real-time data analytics on databases that undergo constant updates.

“While real-time data analytics can provide valuable insights for applications such as marketing, fraud detection and supply chain analytics, it is increasingly hard to ensure a sufficiently low response time of query answering in existing HTAP systems,” Zhao says.

Approximate query processing (AQP) is a faster alternative that uses random sampling. However, many AQP prototypes and adopted systems sacrifice query efficiency or the ability to handle rapid updates correctly.

With the research grant, Zhao aims to support real-time data analytics on large and rapidly growing databases by enabling reliable AQP capabilities in HTAP systems, leading to increasingly demanding, real-time analytics applications.

“If this problem is solved, it will potentially make it possible to finally adopt AQP in many existing database systems and create sizable impacts on real-world data analytics applications,” Zhao explains.

Zhao will incorporate new material into existing UB undergraduate- and graduate-level courses, as well as offer tutorials and projects in various K-12 outreach and undergraduate experiential learning programs. 

Shaofeng Zou , assistant professor of electrical engineering; award amount: $520,000.

Reinforcement learning (RL) is a type of machine learning that trains autonomous robots, self-driving cars and other intelligent agents to make sequential decisions while interacting with an environment.

Many RL approaches assume the learned policy will be deployed in the same — or similar — environment as the one it was trained in. In most cases, however, the simulated environment is vastly different from the real world — such as when a real-world environment is mobile while a simulated environment is stationary. These differences often lead to major disruptions in industries using RL, including health care, critical infrastructure, transportation systems, education and more.

Zou’s award will fund his work developing RL algorithms that do not require excessive resources, and that will perform effectively under the most challenging conditions, including those outside of the training environment. According to Zou, the project could have a significant impact on both the theory and practice of sequential decision-making associated with RL in special education, intelligent transportation systems, wireless communication networks, power systems and drone networks.

“The activities in this project will provide concrete principles and design guidelines to achieve robustness in the face of model uncertainty,” Zou says. “Advances in machine learning and data science will transform modern humanity across nearly every industry. They are already the main driver of emerging technologies.

“The overarching goal of my research is to make machine learning and data science provably competent.”