Community Scholars Program Funds 21 Grants for the 2022-23 FY
Helping Faculty Develop Community Partnerships and Grow Grantsmanship
The Division of Research & Innovation has completed the 2023 Communities of Research Scholars (CoRS) Program call for proposals and awarded 21 grants. The CoRS Program is designed to cultivate interdisciplinary discourse and nurture the growth of research affinity groups across campus. Each community is comprised of faculty representing multiple disciplines, academic units, perspectives, and research approaches with a shared interest in exploring a common research theme/topic.
The 2022-23 CoRS continued this by identifying projects that cultivate and nurture research growth. Successful applications included: An interdisciplinary team of faculty; a short budget narrative; a thematic area of inquiry that the group would like to explore; and potential external funding opportunities, if any. These 21 awards ranged from $2,500-$5,000 and all projects will be completed by June 30, 2023.
2023 awards granted to:
- Dr. Alexander Headley, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Identifying Opportunities for Renewables and Energy Storage in the Mid-South
- Dr. Alistair Windsor, Associate Professor and Director, Institute for Intelligent Systems, The Language of Science: Implications for Teaching and Learning
- Dr. Amanda Hasselle, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Psychology, Creating a Culturally Adapted Social-Emotional Learning Curriculum: DBT STEPS-A with Black/African American Adolescents
- Dr. Amir Hadadzadeh, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Establishing an Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration in the Fields of Machine Learning and Additive Manufacturing
- Dr. Ana Doblas, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Investigation of a multiplexed wearable sensor to identify Engineering undergraduate students at risk in their major by means of artificial intelligence
- Dr. Benjamin Keller, Assistant Professor, Physics and Materials Science, Exploring Synergies in Astrophysical and Engineering Simulation
- Dr. Bernadette Ombayo, Assistant Professor, Social Work, Campus Dating Violence Collaborative
- Dr. Chunrong Jia, Associate Professor, Environmental Health, Climate, Environmental, and Energy Justice Research (CEEJR)
- Dr. Crystal White, Assistant Professor, Educational Psychology and Research, Passport to Teach and Learn: UofM Interdisciplinary Training for Graduate Teaching Assistants and New Non-Tenured Faculty
- Dr. Faruk Ahmed, Assistant Professor, Engineering Technology, Identifying the Potential Determinants of Death among Hypertension Patients while Staying at the Hospital using Publicly Available Clinical Datasets
- Dr. Leah Windsor, Associate Professor, English; Research Assistant Professor, Institute for Intelligent Systems, Regional Strategy for Regenerative Agriculture and Innovation
- Dr. Maria Jaramillo, Assistant Professor, Marketing and Supply Chain Management; and Subhash Jha, Assistant Professor, Marketing and Supply Chain Management, Supporting Data Collection Process: Evaluating Communication Strategies to Reduce Distracted Driving Among Adolescents
- Dr. Marika Snider, Assistant Professor, Architecture, Virtual Reality Working Group
- Dr. Nicholas Simon, Associate Professor, Experimental (Behavioral Neuroscience); and Dr. Miriam van Mersbergen, Assistant Professor, School of Communication Sciences and Disorders, The Annual Memphis Neuroscience Symposium
- Dr. Reba Umberger, Associate Professor, Nursing, Exploring the role of social determinants of health on sepsis 90-day sepsis readmissions
- Dr. Reza Molaei, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, An Interdisciplinary Research to Incorporate Machine Learning Techniques in Mechanical and Fatigue Life Predictions of Additive Manufactured Materials
- Dr. Sarah Leat, Assistant Professor, Social Work, Research on Intimate Partner Violence Collaborative
- Dr. William Hunter, Professor, Special Education, The Tiger Blueprint: Building Extended Learning Programs through the Cypher Code Collective
- Dr. Xiaolei Huang, Assistant Professor, Computer Science, Metadata-aware Imbalance-Modeling for Clinical Outcome Assessment
- Dr. Yafang Li, Assistant Professor, Department of Business Information Technology, Designing A Culturally Tailored Diet Management Application for Type 2 Diabetic Patients
- Dr. Yuan Gao, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Aerogel-Based Acoustic Tumor-on-a-Chip Model for Cancer Metastasis Research
Congratulations to all CoRS recipients! For more information on these awards or to learn more about the CoRS program, contact Research Development at reserchdev@memphis.edu.