AY 2022-2023 Award Recipients
The Rutgers Research Council Awards and Subvention Program offers grant opportunities to support faculty research and especially to encourage scholarship tackling challenging disciplinary problems in the sciences, social sciences, humanities, and creative arts. Below is a list of the awards and winners for AY 2022–2023.
The Individual Fulcrum Awards Program
The Individual Fulcrum Awards Program is tailored to individual researchers and those in the creative arts who are testing out new ideas to accelerate their scientific inquiry, program of research and scholarship, or creative production. Funding to date for the Individual Fulcrum Awards Program totals $30,750.
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Sepehr Assadi
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, School of Arts and Sciences, New Brunswick
Project Title: Streaming Algorithms for Large-Scale Multi-Armed Bandit ProblemsMiriam Bocarsly
Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Physiology and Neuroscience, New Jersey Medical School, New Brunswick
Project Title: Characterizing and validating a mouse model of stress-induced feedingAli Chaudhary
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, School of Arts and Sciences, New Brunswick
Project Title: Short-Term Consequences of COVID-19 Pandemic on Working-Musicians in NJ/NYC Metropolitan Area and the United StatesAshaki Rouff
Associate Professor, Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, School of Arts and Sciences, Newark
Project Title: Thermochemical evaluation of sorbent technology for greenhouse gas captureMara Sidney
Professor, Department of Political Science, School of Arts and Sciences, Newark
Project Title: The Everyday City: How People and Policies Create Neighborhoods Day-to-DayKarthik Srikanta
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, School of Arts and Sciences, New Brunswick
Project Title: Inapproximability of Travelling Salesman ProblemJinjing Wang
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, School of Arts and Sciences, New Brunswick
Project Title: Impacts of perceptual and social cues on infants’ counting recognition
The Research on Social and Racial Justice Awards Program
The Research on Social and Racial Justice Awards Program, inspired by President Holloway’s Equity Report and the University’s commitment to fostering excellence in and as a beloved community, supports academic research on racial and social justice in all domains of intellectual, social, artistic, and environmental life. Funding to date for the Research on Social and Racial Justice Awards Program totals $65,700.
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Nermin Allam
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, School of Arts and Sciences, Newark
Project Title: The Afterlife of Women’s Participation in the 2011 Egyptian UprisingMei Qiu
Professor & Senior Associate Dean for Research, Department of Nursing, School of Nursing, Camden
Project Title: A multi-level and person-centered assessment to understand the cumulative health outcomes exacerbated by climate change-driven environmental stressors in an environmental justice communityAnnette Freytag
Professor, Department of Landscape Architecture, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, New Brunswick
Project Title: Universally Accessible Gardens: Fostering Spatial Justice for People with Disabilities (PWD)David Troutt
Distinguished Professor, Center on Law, Inequality and Metropolitan Equity, School of Law, New Brunswick
Project Title: Reckoning Displacement: Costs and Consequences of Black Upheaval after World War IIAndrew Urban
Associate Professor, Department of American Studies and History, School of Arts and Sciences, New Brunswick
Project Title: New Brunswick / North Brunswick High Schools Public Memory Project
The Collaborative Multidisciplinary Awards Program
The Collaborative Multidisciplinary Awards Program offers the opportunity for a group of faculty members across disciplines to work together on a new, shared problem or line of research. Since complex intellectual and social problems often require multiple perspectives and viewpoints to solve them, the program is designed to foster and reward creative and collaborative interdisciplinary work. Funding to date for the Collaborative Multidisciplinary Awards Program totals $91,128.
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Michelle Chen (PI)
Instructor, Center for Healthy Aging, Center for Healthy Aging, Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research, RBHSJean-Francois Daneault (Co-PI)
Assistant Professor, Department of Rehabilitation and Movement Sciences, Rutgers School of Health Professions, RBHSDimitri Metaxas (Co-PI)
Distinguished Professor, Department of Computer Science, School of Arts and Sciences, New Brunswick -
John Evans (PI)
Associate Professor, Department of Dance, Mason Gross School of the Arts, New BrunswickKaitlin Gannon (collaborator)
Program Coordinator, Marine Outreach, Graduate School of Education, New BrunswickThomas Grothues (collaborator)
Associate Research Professor, Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, New BrunswickChristina Kaunzinger (collaborator)
Assistant Research Professor, Department of Landscape Architecture, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, New BrunswickCarrie Ferraro (collaborator)
Assistant Professor of Professional Practice, Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Institute of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science, New BrunswickAni Javian (collaborator)
Assistant Professor, Department of Dance, Mason Gross School of the Arts, New Brunswick -
Lisa Mikesell (PI)
Associate Professor, Department of Communication, School of Communication, New BrunswickSunanda Gaur (Co-I)
Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, RBHSL. Nandini Moorthy (Co-I)
Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, RBHSUsha Ramachandran (Co-I)
Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, RBHS -
Wenwen Zhang (PI)
Assistant Professor, Department of Public Information, Bloustein School of Public Planning and Policy, New BrunswickJie Gong (Co-I)
Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, School of Engineering, New BrunswickRobert Noland (Co-I)
Distinguished Professor, Department of Urban Planning and Policy Development, Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, New BrunswickClinton Andrews (Co-I)
Professor, Department of Urban Planning and Policy Development, Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, New BrunswickLeigh Ann Von Hagen (Senior Personnel)
Managing Director, Voorhees Transportation Center, Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, New Brunswick
The Subvention Program for the Publication of Scholarly Books
The Subvention Program for the Publication of Scholarly Books provides partial subsidies to university and other highly regarded scholarly presses to cover a portion of the cost of publishing a scholarly book. Funding to date for the Subvention Program for the Publication of Scholarly Books totals $9,000.
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Marie-Pierre Aubry
Distinguished Professor, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, School of Arts and Sciences, New Brunswick
Project Title: Coccolithophores: The Calcifying Haploid Phase in Living Species. Biology, Adaptive Morphology, TaxonomySuzy Kim
Associate Professor of Korean History, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, School of Arts and Sciences, New Brunswick
Project Title: Among Women across Worlds: North Korea in the Global Cold WarElena Lahr-Vivaz
Associate Professor, Department of Spanish & Portuguese Studies, School of Arts and Sciences, Newark
Project Title: Writing Islands: Space and Identity in the Transnational Cuban Archipelago
Manuscript Review Awards
The Manuscript Review Award is designed to help faculty members publish authoritative, thought-provoking, field-changing books. The award reinforces the university’s commitment to research and scholarship. Awards include a formal manuscript review plus a three-hour workshop / seminar led by an external senior scholar. This year, funding for the Manuscript Review Awards totals $12,000.
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Jack Bouchard
Assistant Professor, Department of History, School of Arts and Sciences, New Brunswick
Project Title: Terra Nova: Food, Water, and Work in an Early Atlantic WorldAmir Moosavi
Assistant Professor, Department of English, School of Arts and Sciences, Newark
Project Title: Dust That Never Settled Afterlives of the Iran-Iraq War in Arabic and Persian LiteraturesDiane Wong
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, School of Arts and Sciences, Newark
Project Title: You Can’t Evict A Movement: Intergenerational Activism and Housing Justice in New York City