Jose L. Bermudez, Ph.D., professor of philosophy, has received a one-year, $28,100 grant from the National Science Foundation to fund a U.S.-China workshop in Beijing on the theme “Memory and Language: Interdisciplinary Perspectives.” …
Christina L. Fales, Ph.D., postdoctoral research associate in psychology in Arts & Sciences, has received a two-year, $60,000 grant from the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression for research titled “Reactive Cognitive Control and Emotion Dysregulation in Generalized Anxiety Disorder.” …
Robert H. Koff, Ph.D., director of the Educational Skills Initiative and the Center for Advanced Learning, and Christine Duden Street, assistant director of Disability Resources, have received an 18-month, $100,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for research titled “RDE-DEI: Developing and Evaluating a Peer Led Team Learning Curriculum in Calculus and Chemistry For Undergraduate Students with Learning and Attention Disabilities.” …
Anna MacKay, graduate student of psychology, has received a $5,000 Elderhostel K. Patricia Cross Doctoral Research Grant from Elderhostel, a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing extraordinary learning adventures for people 55 and over. The grant honors the work of K. Patricia Cross, Ph.D., a former Elderhostel board member, and aids doctoral students researching topics relevant to aging and later-life learning. The grant will be used for research titled “Training Attention Control in Older Adulthood.”…
Rohit Pappu, Ph.D., associate professor of biomedical engineering, has received a two-year, $300,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for research titled “Conformational Equilibria of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins.”…
Joshua S. Reece, graduate assistant in biology in Arts & Sciences, has received a $4,000 Young Explorers Award from the National Geographic Society for research titled “Conserving Biodiversity in Coral-Reef Fish: Moray Eels as Indicator Species.”…
Amy Q. Shen, Ph.D., assistant professor of mechanical engineering, and William F. Pickard, Ph.D., senior professor of electrical and systems engineering, have received a three-year, $240,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for research titled “Interplay of Biosensing and Locomotion in Confined Microfluidic Environments.”