More information on the Research Incentive Seed Grant Program
| Name | Department | Project Title | Cycle |
|---|---|---|---|
| Timothy Adkunle | Architecture | Building Performance Evaluation and Energy-Efficient Retrofitting Strategies for Institutional Buildings: A Case Study of Research Laboratories at the University of Utah | 2023 |
| Arul Mishra | Marketing | Understanding intertemporal Decisions Using Symbolic Regression | 2023 |
| Josh Feng | Entrepreneurship & Strategy | Innovator Transitions | 2023 |
| Sara Malik | Accounting | Hospital Finance and Patient Outcomes: The Role of Managerial Expertise | 2023 |
| Kathleen Strickland-Cohen | Special Education | Assessing Impacts of Multi-Tiered Systems of Support on Inclusion and Outcomes for Students with Disabilities | 2023 |
| Jeff Bates | Materials Science and Engineering | Development of a Hydrogel Microfluidic, Soft Robotic System | 2023 |
| Jennifer Weidhaas | Civil Engineering | Wastewater micro-RNA and metabolomics as an untapped source for understanding the exposome of environmental justice communities | 2023 |
| Marc Porter | Chemical Engineering | Changing the Measurement Paradigm in High Performance Liquid Chromatography with Reagent-free Fluorescence Detection | 2023 |
| Pai Wang | Mechanical Engineering | Variational Quantum Computing for Instability and Nonlinear Deformation in Mechanics | 2023 |
| Tao Gao | Chemical Engineering | Acid-in-clay proton membrane for novel chemical technologies | 2023 |
| James Shelton | Music | Accessing Old Instruments for New Trumpet Performance | 2023 |
| Lynn Maxfield | Music | Investigating the Mechanisms Governing the Impact of Voiced and Non-Voiced Arts Participation on Biomarkers of Health and Wellbeing | 2023 |
| Heather Hayes | Physical Therapy and Athletic Training | Cycling in Subacute Stroke for Power and Gait Symmetry | 2023 |
| John David Symons | Nutrition & Integrative Physiology | Targeting endothelial cell glucose transporter 1 to influence outcomes of acute ischemic stroke | 2023 |
| Lisa Meerts-Brandsma | Parks, Recreation, & Tourism | Parks and Recreation as a Community Health Resource: Identifying the Master Narratives and Needs of Parks and Recreation Professionals | 2023 |
| Tanya Halliday | Health & Kinesiology | Does the Time of Day Resistance Exercise is Performed Impact Glycemic Control in Older Adults? | 2023 |
| Ruhan Nagra | Law | Managed Retreat in Marginalized Communities: A Pilot Qualitative Study | 2023 |
| Abigail Pulispher | Otolaryngology | Controlled Delivery of Synthetic Glycosaminoglycans as Adjuvant Therapy for Head and Neck Cancer | 2023 |
| Adam Hughes | Biochemistry | Using yeast to identify mechanisms of L-DOPA toxicity | 2023 |
| Carolyn Swenson | Obstetrics & Gynecology | Novel Application of Diffusion-Weighted Imaging to Identify Microstructural Changes in the Levator Ani Muscles Associated with Pelvic Organ Prolapse | 2023 |
| Christine Mullen | Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation | Accelerated aging as a late effect of moderate to severe traumatic brain injury | 2023 |
| Dan Kaufmann | Neurology | Feasibility and Preliminary Efficacy of Emotional Awareness and Expression Therapy (EAET) as a novel migraine treatment | 2023 |
| Demian Cazalla | Biochemistry | Identification and characterization of small nuclear RNAs in neurons | 2023 |
| Edward Di Bella | Radiology & Imaging Sciences | Development of gadolinium-free MRI to evaluate myocardial fibrosis in advanced kidney disease | 2023 |
| Katharine Walter | Epidemiology | Genomic reconstruction of Valley fever fungus emergence in the western United States | 2023 |
| Panagiotis Kassavetis | Neurology | Precision high dose non-invasive neuromodulation for treatment of cervical dystonia: An open label trial of feasibility, safety and tolerability. | 2023 |
| Patrice Nsangou | Pathology | Targeting the receptor tyrosine kinase EphB2 in obesity | 2023 |
| Silke Becker | Ophthalmology and Vision Sciences | The Cellular Origin of Diabetic Retinopathy | 2023 |
| Sixiang Shi | Radiology & Imaging Sciences | Bispecific Antibody Fragment Heterodimer for Targeted Radiotherapy of Immune-Evading Metastatic Ovarian Cancer | 2023 |
| Echo Warner | Nursing | Online Cancer Misinformation (ONCM) Framework Face Validity Testing | 2023 |
| Amy Barrios | Medicinal Chemistry | Illudalic acid-based inhibitors of LAR phosphatase activity as novel anti-diabetic agents | 2023 |
| Jiyuan Yang | Molecular Pharmaceutics | Multivalent DR5 receptor clustering agonists for treatment of colon cancer | 2023 |
| Mingnan Chen | Molecular Pharmaceutics | Programmed death-1 (PD-1), a biomarker for immune cells that contribute to seizures following CNS infection | 2023 |
| Chen Wang | Materials Science and Engineering | Investigation of Thermal Decomposition and Adhesive Strength of Interpolymer Complexes | 2023 |
| Connor Bischak | Chemistry | Light-Controlled Ion Transport through Organic Semiconductors | 2023 |
| Eric Montoya | Physics and Astronomy | Spin-orbit torque control of organic ferrimagnetic insulator vanadium tetracyanoethylene (V(TCNE)) | 2023 |
| Illya Zharov | Chemistry | Hierarchical Superhydrophobic Surfaces from Polymer-Grafted Nanoparticles: A Collaborative Experimental and Computational Investigation | 2023 |
| Xuming Wang | Materials Science and Engineering | Direct Printing of Na-ion Battery with a Nanocomposite PEO/HNT Electrolyte | 2023 |
| Haimanti Battacharya | Economics | Efficacy of Non-Monetary Interventions to Mitigate Corruption: Experimental Evidence from India | 2023 |
| Jennifer Shah | Environmental & Sustainability Studies | Evaluating Climate Crisis Eco-Grief | 2023 |
| Lina Svedin | Political Science | Community Engaged Working Groups for Workforce Development - Advancing Convergence Research Through Training & Education | 2023 |
| Matthew Fry | Geography | Electricity Territories and the Geographies of Utah's Energy Transition | 2023 |
| Pavitra Govindan | Economics | Explaining the Gender Gap in Self Promotion: Labor Market Discrimination and Social Norms | 2023 |
| Polly Wiessner | Anthropology | The Impact of Warfare on Night Activities and Sleep Among the Papua New Guinea | 2023 |
| Jeremiah Jaggers | Social Work | Psychological & Metabolic Health and Atypical Antipsychotic Use among Dual Status Youth | 2023 |
| Meeyoung Min | Social Work | Development of a Sense of Purpose in Adolescents Who Experience Marginalization | 2023 |
| Maile Arvin | Gender Studies | E Mālama Nā Lei Poina ʻOle (Care for the Children Not Forgotten): Building a Digital Database for Accessing and Interpreting Histories of Child Institutionalization in Hawaiʻi | 2023 |
| Marie Sarita Gaytan | Gender Studies | Development, Sustainability, and Indigenous Autonomy in the Andean Altiplano | 2023 |
| Allesandro Rigolon | City and Metropolitan Planning | The cycle of green gentrification: How the green growth machine steers park investments to gentrifying neighborhoods | 2022 |
| Elena Asparouhova | Finance | Financial Market Participation and Delegation to Algorithmic Traders by Human Investors | 2022 |
| Sachin Banker | Marketing | Consumers and Algorithms in the Digital Marketplace | 2022 |
| Promothesh Chatterjee | Marketing | How Big Data and NLP Methods Can Help Understand People’s Job Choices | 2022 |
| Annette Fleckenstein | Dentistry | Fentanyl, Methamphetamine and Dopaminergic Neurons | 2022 |
| Kirsten Lansey | Special Education | Visualizing educational opportunity in Utah: The junction of demographics, location, placement, and outcomes of students with extensive support needs | 2022 |
| David Woo | Educational Leadership and Policy | Examining the Relationship between School Outcomes and Assistant Principals'' Duties | 2022 |
| Aishwaryadev Banerjee | Electrical and Computer Engineering | Miniaturized breath biopsy system using quantum-tunneling sensors...for rapid detection of lung cancer biomarkers | 2022 |
| Mathieu Francoeur | Mechanical Engineering | Engineering the thermal conductivity of dielectric nanostructures via coupled surface phonon-polaritons | 2022 |
| Huiwan Ji | Materials Sciences and Engineering | Lithium-(de)intercalation-induced metal-insulator transitions for brain-inspired computing | 2022 |
| Jan Kubanek | Biomedical Engineering | Diadem: Device for personalized treatments of mental disorders | 2022 |
| Swomitra Mohanty | Chemical Engineering | Modular microreactor for rapid studies in direct sub/ supercritical water liquefaction of municipal sludge | 2022 |
| Genevieve Albouy | Health and Kinesiology | Exercise and inhibition in deep brain regions | 2022 |
| Jesse Christensen | Physical Therapy and Athletic Training | Targeted Strength Training to Improve Physical Inactivity in Adults with Knee Osteoarthritis: Pilot Randomized Clinical Trial | 2022 |
| William Holland | Nutrition and Integrative Physiology | ACSM5 is a Novel Driver of Ceramide-Mediated Metabolic Disease | 2022 |
| Matthew Haber | Philosophy | Biology’s Einstein Moment | 2022 |
| Sara Yeo | Communication | Humor as a Gateway to Attitude-Inconsistent Science Information | 2022 |
| Amos Guiora | Law | Creating Legal Mechanisms to Criminalize Enablers of Pedophilia | 2022 |
| Allison Carey | Pathology | Non-canonical mechanisms of antibiotic resistance in Mycobacterium abscessus | 2022 |
| Timothy Hanley | Pathology | Role of Virus-Induced Inflammation in the Establishment of HIV-1 Latency in Macrophages | 2022 |
| Jarrod Johnson | Pathology | Host Regulation of Immune Cell Maturation during Virus Infection | 2022 |
| Jennifer Kaiser | OBGYN | Improving OBGYN surgical teaching with an Education-Time Out: a pilot study of surgical educators | 2022 |
| Michael Kay | Biochemistry | BOSS - Biotin Orthogonal Streptavidin System | 2022 |
| Guillaume Lamotte | Neurology | Effect of levodopa on cardiovascular autonomic function in patients with Parkinson disease with and without orthostatic hypotension | 2022 |
| Amy Lenz | Orthopaedics | Evaluation of 3D Morphology in Patients with Charcot-Marie-Tooth For Improved Surgical Planning | 2022 |
| Binxing Li | Ophthalmology | Hepatic Lipase (LIPC) Knockdown to Prevent AMD | 2022 |
| Wan-Lin Lo | Pathology | Regulation of the follicular T cell response to viral infection | 2022 |
| Mark Mahan | Neurosurgery | Impact of NETosis on Pathophysiologic Nerve Regeneration | 2022 |
| John Pearson | Anesthesiology | Geospatial Analysis of National Health Registries to Improve Perioperative Equity | 2022 |
| Candace Reno | Internal Medicine | Hypoglycemia and Major Cardiac Events in Diabetes | 2022 |
| Valerie Vaughn | Internal Medicine | A behavioral approach to optimizing antibiotic prescribing for older adults | 2022 |
| Lisa Taylor-Swanson | Nursing | American Indian and Alaskan Native Midlife Women's Symptom Experience and Access to Medical and Integrative Health Care: Developing a Culturally-Informed Integrative Group Medical Visit | 2022 |
| Holly Freedman | Pharmaceutics & Pharmaceutical Chemistry | Application of Computational FTIR Spectroscopy to Elucidate Conformational Ensembles of Non-Canonical RNA Structure and RNA-Ligand Interactions | 2022 |
| Makoto Kondo | Medicinal Chemistry | Dissection of early-stage regenerative transition of juvenile chondrocyte sheets implanted into articular osteochondral defects | 2022 |
| Philip Moos | Pharmaceutics & Pharmaceutical Chemistry | CRISPR dropout screen in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer PDO model | 2022 |
| John Conboy | Chemistry | Improving Photovoltaic Solar Cell Efficiency by Semiconductor Overlayers | 2022 |
| Ryan Looper | Chemistry | Understanding Boron Ionophore Potential for Antimicrobial Therapy | 2022 |
| John Matthews | Physics & Astronomy | Prototyping Cosmic Ray Detectors to Add to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory | 2022 |
| Braxton Osting | Mathematics | Estimating Blood Pressure Using Biophysical-Informed Machine Learning Models | 2022 |
| Leif Anderson | Geology & Geophysics | Establishing a 3He surface exposure dating program at the University of Utah | 2022 |
| Prashant Sarswat | Materials Sciences and Engineering | Microbial and Enzymatic Assisted Recycling of E-waste Plastic Components | 2022 |
| Tonie Van Dam | Geology & Geophysics | Analysis of rates of uplift and gravity changes to constrain Earth rheology in the vicinity of Lake Bonneville | 2022 |
| David Carter | Political Science | State Policy Scorecard Pilot Project: Deciphering Who Gets What, When, and How from State Legislation | 2022 |
| Claudia Geist | Sociology | Steps towards ending gender marginalization in health care: Attitudes and behaviors regarding sex, gender, and sexuality in health care providers | 2022 |
| Josh McCrain | Political Science | Policing Policy, Reforms, and Human Capital | 2022 |
| Guangzhen Wu | Sociology | Effects of Recreational Marijuana Legalization on Drug-Related Offenses and Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Incarceration: A Multi-State Study | 2022 |
| Christopher Cambron | Social Work - Translational Research | School-based mindfulness training to improve psychological well-being and prevent substance use among adolescents | 2022 |
| Eric Garland | Social Work | Just One MORE: Pilot study of a single-session, 2-hour version of Mindfulness Oriented Recovery Enhancement (MORE) for chronic pain patients | 2022 |
| Elizabeth Siantz | Social Work - Translational Research | Culturally responsive peer support in the intermountain west: A case study and multiple stakeholder analysis of one mode | 2022 |
| Lourdes Alberto | Ethnic Studies | Indigenous Latinx Archives: Be’ne urash in California | 2022 |
| Ana Antunes | Gender Studies | Utah Reading Census | 2022 |
| Jeremiah Alt | Surgery | Targeted Delivery of Anti-inflammatory Agents for Treatment of Chronic Rhinosinusitis | 2021 |
| Ryan Bailey | Occupational and Recreational Therapy | Adapting the Diabetes Prevention Program to Accommodate Stroke-Related Disability | 2021 |
| Matthew Basso | Gender Studies | A Diverse History of the World War II Home Front | 2021 |
| Katherine Baucom | Psychology | Implementation of the CDC National Diabetes Prevention Program Delivered to Hispanic Americans | 2021 |
| Shima Baughman | Law | Access to Justice Reform in Arizona: Advancing a New Model for Representation in the Criminal Bail Hearing | 2021 |
| Sihem Boudina | Nutrition and Integrative Psychology | Characterization and validation of a novel marker of adipogenic progenitors in humans and mice. | 2021 |
| Brenda Bowen | Geology & Geophysics | The Salt is Breathing: Biotic or abiotic CO2 flux on the Bonneville Salt Flats? | 2021 |
| Simon Brewer | Geography | Streamflow simulations to couple past climate change with prehistoric agricultural output | 2021 |
| Jonathan Brogaard | Finance | Security Design in Modern Markets | 2021 |
| Samuel Cheshier | Neurosurgery | Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Single Neural Rosette and Glioblastoma Chimeric Organoids: A Platform to Simultaneously Assess Tumor cells and Normal Brain Cells at the Single Cell Level | 2021 |
| Leslie Culver | Law | A Dialogue on Cultural Awareness and Identity Performance: Analysis of Raw Textual Data from Qualitative Research | 2021 |
| Aniello De Santo | Linguistics | Testing Subregular Constraints on the Learnability of Morphotactic | 2021 |
| Denise Dearing | Biological Sciences | Determining the extent of the SARS-CoV-2 transmission from mink farms to wildlife | 2021 |
| Michelle Debbink | Obstetrics and Gynecology | Assessing community resilience and risk in Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander's experiences with maternal and infrant morbidity and mortality | 2021 |
| Chris Depner | Health and Kinesiology | Role of Circadian Disruption in Metabolic and Cognitive Impairments during Insufficient Sleep | 2021 |
| Lisa Diamond | Gender Studies | Immune System Functioning as a Pathway from Transgender Stigma to Heightened Transgender Health Disparities | 2021 |
| Katharine Diehl | Medicinal Chemistry | Development of chemical tools to accelerate discovery of DNA repair-targeting therapies | 2021 |
| Ramesh Goel | Civil and Environmental Engineering | Biodegradation of plastic PET using an enzymatic cocktail derived from co-cultivating Fungi and Bacteria | 2021 |
| Valerie Greer | Architecture | From Sheltered in Place to Thriving in Place: Dimensions of Aging in the “Right” Place during the COVID-19 Pandemic | 2021 |
| David Grunwald | Human Genetics | Application of a new technology to identify RNA Polymerase occupancy and activity in cell subpopulations of the zebrafish embryo. | 2021 |
| Elizabeth Hendrix | Social Work | Vicarious Trauma and Turnover Intent in Trafficking Services | 2021 |
| Eric Herschthal | History | Carbon Conscripts: Slavery and the Origins of Climate Change | 2021 |
| Mei Koh | Pharmacology and Toxicology | Investigating the Role of Complement in Kidney Cancer | 2021 |
| Evan Lafalce | Physics | Improving Photovoltaic Solar Cell Efficiency by Semiconductor Overlayers | 2021 |
| Kent Lai | Pediatrics | Unravelling the Pathophysiology of Dilated Cardiomyopathy in Phosphoglucomutase 1 (PGM1) Deficiency | 2021 |
| Natalie Lecy | Social Work | Exploring the Role of Adverse Childhood Experiences on College Graduation Among First-Generation Students | 2021 |
| Andrew Linke | Geography | A Geography of Land Use Conflicts in the Western U.S. | 2021 |
| Ben Lyons | Communication | How Voters React to Implicit and Explicit Political Conspiracy Cues | 2021 |
| Aparatim Majumder | Electrical and Computer Engineering | Ultra-flat and light-weight tunable focus lenses for consumer eyewear applications | 2021 |
| Nikola Markovic | Civil and Environmental Engineering | An Automated Video Based Aircraft Tail Number Recognition System for Utah Airport | 2021 |
| John McLennan | Chemical Engineering | Prediction of Algal Blooms in Utah Lake Using Remote Sensing Data and Machine Learning | 2021 |
| Himanshu Mishra | Marketing | Deploying Fair Algorithms in Organizations | 2021 |
| David Okano | Dentistry | COVID-19 Related Effects Upon the Dentition-Do They Occur? | 2021 |
| Afaf Osman | Hematology | The Role of Microbiome Derived Inflammation in Leukemogenesis | 2021 |
| Shawn Owen | Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Chemistry | Antibody-drug Conjugates of γ-Secretase Inhibitors to Prevent Graft-Vs-Host Disease in Allogenic Transplantation | 2021 |
| Elena Patel | Finance | Implications of Gender Composition of Corporate Boards | 2021 |
| Allison Payne | Radiology | Focused-ultrasound mediated enhancement of checkpoint blockade immunotherapy in breast cancer | 2021 |
| Miriam Peckham | Radiology | Access to image-guided injections for low back pain in people of color. A study from the Utah Population Database (UPDB). | 2021 |
| Codrina Rada | Economics | The US labor share in the age of structural change: a spatial analysis of sectoral contributions | 2021 |
| Lorie Richards | Occupational and Recreational Therapy | Development of a neuroimaging biomarker to identify optimal candidates for prism adaptation treatment | 2021 |
| John Rolston | Neurosurgery | Noninvasive Fornix Ablation to Treat Epilepsy | 2021 |
| Paul Rubin | Educational Leadership and Policy | Exploring Underlying State Values Influencing Policy Making | 2021 |
| Crystal Rudds | English | Invisibility Blues: Space, Housing, and Being in African American Literature and Culture | 2021 |
| Caroline Saouma | Chemistry | Aminophenol ligands for CO2 reduction | 2021 |
| Jincheng Shen | Population Health Sciences | Using Covariance Information to Improve Patient Level Causal Treatment Effect Estimation in Systolic Blood Pressure Intervention Trial (SPRINT) Study | 2021 |
| York Smith | Metallurgical Engineering | A Green Process for Recycling Lithium-Ion Batteries | 2021 |
| Djin Tay | Nursing | Examining the Palliative, End-of-Life, and Spousal Spillover Effects for Immunotherapy in Advanced Cancer | 2021 |
| Misty Smith | Dentistry | Gnawing time: A novel behavioral test to assess orofacial pain in rats | 2021 |
| Bao Wang | Mathematics | Integrating Physics into Recurrent Neural Networks: Algorithm, Theory, and Scientific Applications | 2021 |
| Wesley Wilson | Special Education | Project Physical Education and Least Restrictive Environment | 2021 |
| Jaclyn Winter | Medicinal Chemistry | Genomics-Assisted Antibiotic Discovery from Unprecedented Microbes of the Great Salt Lake | 2021 |
| Ayako Yamaguchi | Biological Sciences | Investigating opioid insensitivity in the amphibian respiratory system | 2021 |
| Jaehee Yi | Social Work | Image Narrative Intervention with College Students | 2021 |
| Josh Feng | Entrepreneurship and Strategy | Innovating for People Like Me | 2020 |
| Paul Hu | Information Systems | Gamification-Empowered Learning: Effects of Design Features and Learner Characteristics on Learning Outcome, Satisfaction, and Experience | 2020 |
| Matthew Higgins | Entrepreneurship and Strategy | The Impact of Regulation on the Nature of Pharmaceutical Innovation | 2020 |
| Allison Stashko | Finance | Polling Place Locations and the Cost of Voting | 2020 |
| Ravideep Sethi | Finance | The Value of Agenda Setting Power in Legislative Bargaining: An Experiment | 2020 |
| Tracy Dobie | Educational Psychology | Developing and Enacting Case-Based Teaching Scenarios in Elementary STEM Edcuation to Bridge the In-Service and Pre-Service Teacher Divide | 2020 |
| Robert O'Neill | Special Education | Initial Evaluation of the Use of the Prevent-Teach Reinforce (PTR) Model with Young Adults with Developmental Disabilities Exhibiting Challenging Behaviors | 2020 |
| Jose Gutierrez | Education, Culture & Society | Mathematical Reservation: The Colonial Psychology of Math Education and its Role in Federal Assimilation Policies | 2020 |
| Yongmei Ni | Educational Leadership & Policy | Examining Leadership Preparation Programs | 2020 |
| Ravi Chandran | Metallurgical Engineering | New Alloys by Design: Exploration of phase fields, synthesis and experimentation in Ni-Cr-Al alloy systems for durability in extreme environments | 2020 |
| Ashutosh Tiwari | Material Sciences & Engineering | Ultrathin Field Effect Transistors for post-Moore's era Vander Waals Electronics | 2020 |
| Yong Lin Kong | Mechanical Engineering | 3D Printed Electronic Bone Graft | 2020 |
| Hamidreza Ghadnehari | Bioengineering | Bio-inks for Vascular Engineering | 2020 |
| Yang Bai | Health, Kinesiology, and Recreation | Technology-enhanced Eating and Activity Study for Children's Health (TEACH): A Pilot Study | 2020 |
| Mary Playdon | Nutrition & Integrative Physiology | Exploring the Etiology of Diabetes after Enometrial Cancer Diagnosis Using 'Omics Technology' | 2020 |
| Rajeshwary Ghosh | Nutrition & Integrative Physiology | Generation of a Novel Bioluminescent Reporter Mouse System for Assessing Chaperone Mediated Autophagy Pathway in Vivo | 2020 |
| Maryann Christison | Linguistics | Researching Early Childhood Immersion Education and Instructional Practices | 2020 |
| Danielle Endres | Communication | Emergent Engagements with Energy Democracy in Puerto Rico | 2020 |
| Yunwen Su | World Languages & Cultures | Development and Validation of Rating Scales for Pragmatic Performance in Roleplays | 2020 |
| Anna Carpenter | Law | Legal Profession and legal services reform in Utah: A multi-year mixed-method investigation of state access to justice innovations | 2020 |
| Clifford Rosky | Law | Mindful Lawyering: Exploring the Effects of Mindfulness Training on Law Students | 2020 |
| Shami Kanekar | Psychiatry | Sex-based study of cyclocreatine as a potential therapeutic for altitude-related depression and anxiety | 2020 |
| Adam de Havenon | Neurology | Comprehensive Evaluation of Stroke in the Young with MR Imaging (CESYMI) | 2020 |
| Adhish Agarwal | Nephrology | Evaluation of Renal Sodium Excretion After Salt Loading in Heart | 2020 |
| Torri Metz | OBGYN | Impact of Prophylactic low-molecular weight herapin dosing on clotting parameters following cesarean delivery | 2020 |
| Srividya Bhaskara | Radiation Oncology | Epigenetic regulators and cardiac functions | 2020 |
| Nicola Camp | Hematology | Towards Precision Prevention: Transcriptome Dimensions and Mammographic Breast Density | 2020 |
| Henrik Odeen | Radiology | Microbubble-aided focused ultrasound non-thermal ablation in a tumor model | 2020 |
| Randa Tao | Radiation Oncology | Multiparametic Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) as a Biomarker of Response to Chemoradiation Therapy in Esophageal Cancer | 2020 |
| Caroline Stephens | Nursing | Rural ImPacTT: Assessing the Feasibility and Acceptability of the Improving Palliative Care Access Through Technology (ImPAcTT) | 2020 |
| Louis Barrows | Pharmacology & Toxicology | Understanding HIV persistence one cell at a time | 2020 |
| Darrell Davis | Medicinal Chemistry | Translational Control by Anticancer and Antiviral Therapeutic Leads | 2020 |
| Jeffrey Moore | Geology & Geophysics | Resonance Monitoring of Rock Slope Progressive Failure, Part 1: Theory and Numerical Modeling | 2020 |
| Ayako Yamaguchi | Biological Sciences | Investigating opioid insensitiveity in the amphibian respiratory system | 2020 |
| Jennifer Shumaker-Parry | Chemistry | In-situ Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy Analysis of Robust Nanodiamond Supports for Nanoparticle Catalysts | 2020 |
| Shanti Deemyad | Physics & Astronomy | Exploring rapid high pressure cycles as a way to pause and play life and a window to habitable worlds | 2020 |
| Jordan Gerton | Physics & Astronomy | How does grading student work impact the ability of Las to facilitate productive learning? | 2020 |
| David Blair | Biological Sciences | Carco Recognition in Type-III Protein Secretion | 2020 |
| Daniel Wik | Physics & Astronomy | Finding chock waves in the largest objects in the universe | 2020 |
| Gerald Mace | Atmospheric Sciences | The influence of SST Thermal Contrast in the Production of Ice in Supercooled Cumulus over the Southern Ocean: The Winter Cloud Ice Processes Project | 2020 |
| Richard Medina | Geography | Social Media Mining Capability in CSBS and Studies of Conspiracy Theories | 2020 |
| Sharon Mastracci | Political Science | Escalation to Conflict: Workplace Impacts and Effects on Workers and Examining Agents of State Control as Human Analogs of Nation States | 2020 |
| Karen Kramer | Anthropology | Shifting Maya Social Landscapes: Modernizing Influences and Social Network Effects on Health Outcomes | 2020 |
| Monisha Pasupathi | Psychology | Does Integrated Delivery of General Education Promote Student's Abilities, Motivations, and Outcomes? | 2020 |
| Eric Garland | Social Work | Heart Rate Variability-Informed Mobile Health (mHealth) Research to Promote Mindfulness Skills | 2020 |
| Kortnee Prince | Social Work | Desistance | 2020 |
| Alysse Loomis | Social Work | Pathways Between Trauma-Informed Teacher Training and Indicators of Child and Teacher Well-Being in Utah and National Sample | 2020 |
| Hokulani Aikau | Gender Studies | The cultural and climatic impact of taro farming in Belau | 2020 |
| Rima Ajlouni | Architecture | Qualities of Quasi-periodic Geometry for Architectural Acoustics (partially funded) | 2019 |
| Shundan Yusaf | Architecture | Research Center for Global Citizenship in Architecture & Planning | 2019 |
| Arul Mishra | Marketing | Artificial Intelligence and the Opioid Crisis | 2019 |
| Elena Asparouhova | Finance | Security Design in Markets with Risk: Price and Allocation Efficiencies | 2019 |
| Mark Durham | Dentistry | Validating Digitally-Augmented Training | 2019 |
| Melodie Weller | Dentistry | Mechanisms of Salivary Gland Dysfunction in Systemic Sclerosis Patient Population | 2019 |
| R. James Keddington | Dentistry | Directional Light Curing Effect on Composite Contraction and Marginal Integrity | 2019 |
| Shihai Jia | Dentistry | Cure Craniofacial Clefts by Pharmaceutical Treatment Targeting Pax9-Eda/Edar Signaling | 2019 |
| Jennifer Taylor | Educational Psychology | Exploring the Impact of Sleep Deprivation, Stress, and Burnout on Physicians Competence and Medical Errors | 2019 |
| Kirsten Butcher | Educational Psychology | Theoretical directions in adversarial machine learning | 2019 |
| Monika Lohani | Educational Psychology | Psychological flexibility in real-world: Toward an innovative psychophysiological approach | 2019 |
| Aditya Bhaskara | Computing | Theoretical directions in adversarial machine learning | 2019 |
| Claire Acevedo | Mechanical Engineering | Four-dimensional synchrotron micro-tomography to investigate fracture mechanisms in biomaterials | 2019 |
| Michael Scarpulla | Electrical and Computer Engineering | Epitaxial Growth of High Quality Cd3As2 | 2019 |
| Tony Saad | Chemical Engineering | The Effectiveness of Drones in Measuring Particulate Matter | 2019 |
| Cari Johnson | Geology & Geophysics | Sediment flux records in Lake Powell deltas: Broader earth systems perspectives for watershed science | 2019 |
| Peter Fino | Health, Kinesiology and Recreation | Neural activity of balance recovery following concussion | 2019 |
| Ryan Burns | Health, Kinesiology and Recreation | Developing an after-school parent-child physical activity and mindfulness and training intervention | 2019 |
| Sihem Boudina | Nutrition and Integrative Physiology | Reporter cell lines and a mouse model for the assessment of mitophagy in vitro and in vivo | 2019 |
| Benjamin Slade | Linguistics | Auto-Annotation of Focus | 2019 |
| Kent Ono | Communciation | The Rhetoric of Sanctuary Citizenship | 2019 |
| Rory Becker | History | Virtual Heritage Project: Molander Indian Village State Historic Site | 2019 |
| Tae Kyoung Lee | Communication | Dvelopment and Evaluation of Visual Messages Aimed at Increasing HPV Vaccine Coverage Among the Refugee Population in Utah | 2019 |
| Amos Guiora | Law | Bystander legislation research | 2019 |
| Paul Cassell | Law | The content of victim impact statements: The Larry Nassar victims | 2019 |
| Claudio Villanueva | Biochemistry | Transcriptional control of adipocyte subtypes and the impact on energy metabolism | 2019 |
| Dipayan Chaudhuri | Internal Medicine | Screening for modulators of mitochondrial anion transport | 2019 |
| Matthew Alexander | Radiology | Multimodal Evaluation and Optimization of a Rabbit Model of Intracranial Atherosclerotic Disease | 2019 |
| Megan Williams | Neurobiology & Anatomy | A new class of GABA neurons in memory precision | 2019 |
| Nathan Blue | OBGYN | Exploring genetic underpinning of placental insufficiency, fetal growth restriction and stillbirth | 2019 |
| Susanna Cohen | Nursing | Interprofessional Simulation Training to Improve Out-of-Hospital Birth Transfers: A Pilot Study | 2019 |
| Mingnan Chen | Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Chemistry | Development of anti-PD-1 antibody-epirubicin conjugates (aPD-1-EPI ADC) to suppress autoimmunity | 2019 |
| Peter West | Pharmacology and Toxicology | Development of a novel mouse model of hypothalamic harmatoma (HH) | 2019 |
| Bryn Dentinger | Biological Sciences | The Fungus-Farming Ant Symbiome | 2019 |
| Krista Carlson | Metallurgical Engineering | Refractory Metallic Glasses of Binary Alloys | 2019 |
| Markus Babst | Biological Sciences | The 4200 Genomes Project | 2019 |
| Sarah Lambart | Geology & Geophysics | Development of an experimental technique to study magma migration | 2019 |
| Stephan LeBohec | Physics & Astronomy | Launching the University of Utah Gravitational Radiation Research Group with a LIGO Optical Coating Research group | 2019 |
| Yue Zhao | Physics & Astronomy | Using Gravitational Wave Detector to Look for Dark Photon Dark Matter | 2019 |
| John Broughton | Anthropology | Behavior at the Margins of Social Boundaries: A Novel Approach for Evaluating Prehistoric Inter-Tribal Buffer Zone Formation | 2019 |
| Lisbeth Louderback | Anthropology | Plant Resources that Ended the Long Pause: Patterns of Dispersal From West to East Polynesia | 2019 |
| Pavitra Govindan | Economics | Can gender norms explain gender differences in preference for competition? | 2019 |
| Shane Macfarlan | Anthropology | Healing the Warrior’s Soul: Post-Combat Purification Rituals and Cultural Rewards in a Cross-Cultural Perspective | 2019 |
| Subhashish Dugar | Economics | Gender Composition and Prosociality of Teams | 2019 |
| Adam Hanley | Social Work | Optimizing psychosocial pain management: Examining treatment moderators, intervention utilization, and postoperative outcomes | 2019 |
| Charles Hoy-Ellis | Social Work | Social Neuroscience of Depression: Developmental Stage & Sexual and Gender Minority (SGM) Identities | 2019 |
| Kwynn Gonzalez-Pons / Eric Garland |
Social Work | Promoting a Resilient U: A Randomized Control Trial (RCT) to Address Intimate Partner Violence on Campus | 2019 |