Dr. Nadja Cech, Patricia A. Sullivan Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, has received more than $210,000 in NIH funding for her continued work on “The Center for High Content Functional Annotation of Natural Products,” a project led by the University of California at Santa Cruz (UCSC). Read more about Dr. Cech’s… Continue reading…
Dr. Julia Mendez, Professor in the Department of Psychology, has received continuation funding for her work with the National Research Center on Hispanic Children and Families. The project, led by the research organization Child Trends, is funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Dr. Mendez co-leads the… Continue reading…
Dr. Xiaoli Gao, Professor of Mathematics and Statistics, has received continued funding for the collaborative research project: “Multiparameter persistence: an algebraic topological framework for analyzing microstructure in porous media.” The project is led by the College of William and Mary and funded by the Department of Defense Army Research Office…. Continue reading…
Dr. Ratnasingham Shivaji, the H. Barton Excellence Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, has received an $80,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to continue research on the project: “Collaborative Research: Mathematical and Experimental Analysis of Competitive and Predator-Prey Models: Conditional Dispersal on Patches to Landscapes.” Dr. Shivaji… Continue reading…
Dr. Faye Stewart, Associate Professor of German in the Department of Languages, Literature, and Culture, has received a grant from the German Embassy to support UNCG’s “Germany on Campus 2022” program. Also contributing to the project are LLC German colleagues Dr. Jocelyn Aksin and Dr. Richard Hronek. The abstract below… Continue reading…
Dr. Kaira Wagoner, a research scientist in the Department of Biology, has received a grant from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) in Australia for the project, “Investigation of the efficacy and utility of the UBO Assay in testing for Varroa-resistance in Australian honey bee colonies.”
Dr. Macolm Schug, Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Biology, joins Provost Debbie Storrs as co-PIs on a new $3.4 M grant from the National Science Foundation to support underrepresented students in STEM disciplines. The collaborative grant sees UNCG as the lead institution of an alliance that includes… Continue reading…
Dr. Regis Kopper, Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science, has received a $1.8 M grant from the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for his proposal: “FirstModulAR: Designing and Integrating Augmented Reality User Interface Modules for First Responders.” This research was recently highlighted… Continue reading…
Dr. John Tomkiel Dean, Associate Professor in the Department of Biology, has received a new $436,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health for the proposal: “The role of dTopors in Drosophila male meiosis.” The project abstract below provides more info on this project. This abstract was retrieved from the… Continue reading…
Dr. Dan Yasaki, Professor and Director of Student Success in the Department of Mathematics, has received an $87,000 grant from the National Science Foundation as part of a collaborative proposal: “Building Confidence through Culturally Relevant Co-requisite Mathematics Courses within Math Pathways.” Dr. Monica Goel, a lecturer and graduate student in… Continue reading…
