2024 Research Celebration Recognizes Success
Celebrating and highlighting the continued growth of research at the UofM
On February 22, faculty researchers from across the University gathered at the FedEx Institute of Technology to celebrate research and principal investigators’ (PIs) accomplishments over the last year. In FY23, the University of Memphis received an institutional record of $86 Million in research awards, reflecting the continued growth of the University as a Carnegie R1 research institution. Honored were the Class of 2024 PI Millionaires, FY23 PIs, first-time PIs, Research Book Publications, Co-Investigators, newly award Communities of Research Scholars (CoRS) projects, two NSF CAREER awardees and highly cited faculty. The program also included memoriam to great contributors to the University’s research growth that we lost in the past year.
Among the PIs honored, two faculty were highlighted for receiving the distinguished NSF CAREER award.
Dr. Aaryani Tipirneni-Sajja, assistant professor in Biomedical Engineering in the Herff College of Engineering, received a National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award in the amount of $730,629 for her project titled, “Open-Access, Real-Time High-Throughput Metabolomics for High-Field and Benchtop NMR for Biological Inquiry.” Sajja is a biomedical scientist with expertise in developing quantitative magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) techniques to non-invasively identify disease biomarkers, enable early diagnosis, and guide response to therapy.
The second, Dr. Carl Herickhoff, assistant professor of Biomedical Engineering in the Herff College of Engineering, received a $593,248 National Science Foundation CAREER Award for his project titled, “Super-Resolution 3D Ultrasound Imaging of Brain Activity.” Herickhoff’s research will create a new volumetric neuroimaging paradigm to be widely disseminated among the neuroscience research community.
The NSF CAREER awards also integrate educational and outreach plans to bolster educational activities from the K-12 to graduate level and have broader impacts on increasing society’s interest and engagement with STEM.
The Research Celebration closed by honoring three members of the University of Memphis Community that we lost in 2023: Stanley “Stan” Franklin, Lily Afshar, and Richard “Dick” Irwin. We thank and honor them for their dedication and many contributions to the University of Memphis over the years.
A full review of research and PIs honored at this year's event are available in the 2024 Research Celebration Program.
2024 Research Celebration Program
