Internal Funding Opportunities
The College provides funding for CLAS initiatives across UConn's five campuses. Funds support projects that align with goals in the CLAS Strategic Plan, including research, scholarship, teaching, diversity efforts, and outreach. Research funding aligns with the College’s six academic themes:
The Earth and Its Future
Sustainable Systems, Global Resources, and World Cultures
Big Data: Science, Policy, and Ethics
Inequalities, Social Justice, Truth, and Belief
Health, Disease, and Well-Being
Brain, Mind, Language, and Logic
Funding calls are typically sent using the CLAS faculty and staff listservs. Please contact clas@uconn.edu with questions about funding opportunities.
Funding Opportunities for Academic Year 2024-2025
Active Funding Opportunities
There are no active funding opportunities at this time.
Support for Individuals
| Opportunity | Who may apply? | Anticipated Announcement Date | Anticipated Deadline |
|---|---|---|---|
| Summer Fellowships for Existing Graduate Students | No application necessary (resources provided proportional to number of Ph.D. students; departments allocate) | 2/3/2025 | 5/9/2025 |
Support for Research
| Opportunity | Who may apply? | Anticipated Announcement Date | Anticipated Deadline |
|---|---|---|---|
| Research in Academic Themes | Full-time tenure-system faculty and non tenure-track faculty on multiyear contracts from any/all CLAS units, across all divisions; other non tenure-track faculty may participate as Co-Is. Faculty with research appointments should contact clas@uconn.edu to determine their eligibility to serve as PI | 9/18/2024 | 11/6/2024 |
| Strategic Initiative for Multidisciplinary Research | Full-time tenure-system faculty from any/all CLAS units, across all divisions; non tenure-track faculty may participate as Co-I | 9/18/2024 | 12/1/2024 |
Support for Teaching
| Opportunity | Who may apply? | Anticipated Announcement Date | Anticipated Deadline |
|---|---|---|---|
| Teaching Enhancement Grants | Tenure system, clinical, and in-residence faculty, and adjunct professors on multi-year contracts | 1/27/2025 | 3/25/2025 |
Professional Development and Climate
| Opportunity | Who may apply? | Anticipated Announcement Date | Anticipated Deadline |
|---|---|---|---|
| Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Initiatives | Full-time faculty and staff | 9/4/2024 | 10/23/2024 |
Past Recipients
Academic Year 2024-2025
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Initiatives
Total awarded: $76,125.00
Projects Awarded:
- “UConn STARs (Science, Technology, and Astronomy Recruits) Supplemental Funding”
- “Fostering Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Staff Education for Lasting Change”
- “Bridge to Regional Campuses: The Urban Scholars Peer-Mentoring Program”
- “Proposal for Expanding High School STEM Outreach Program to Underserved Communities”
- “Forum Theatre/Theatre of the Oppressed at UConn”
- “Promoting Equity in Education: Enhancing the Teaching Matters Lab to Foster Student Success and Engagement”
- “Making Marine Sciences a More Diverse and Welcoming Workplace: Advancing the Bridge Program, Developing a Code of Conduct, and Supporting DEI Travel”
- “Queer Collaborative @ UConn-Stamford”
- “Mathematics Department Proposal Re Funding for Field of Dreams Conference/Graduate School Fair”
- “Advancing Mathematics Teaching Through Equity-Minded Inquiry and Transformative Teaching (EMITT)”
- “A Student-Centered Approach to Fostering the Inclusive Classroom: Gathering Perspectives Across the Liberal Arts and Sciences”
Research in Academic Themes
Total Awarded: $99,614.00
Projects Awarded:
- “Linking Upper Thermal Limits to Fitness Proxies in Arctic Zooplankton”
- “How Does an Animal-Microbe Symbiosis Respond to Forest Fires?”
- “Afro-Indigenous Nicaragua in Exile: Thinking and Resisting the Diasporic Condition”
- “Early Blood Test for Bone Metastasis in Breast Cancer Patients”
Strategic Initiative for Multidisciplinary Research
Total Awarded: $305,906.00
Projects Awarded:
- “An Interdisciplinary Coalition for the Study of Social Cohesion and Fracturing”
- “UCHI’s Human-Centered AI Team”
Academic Year 2023-2024
Alan R. Bennett College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Public Health Policy Research Funding Opportunity
Total awarded: $111,557.00
Projects Awarded:
- “Coupling Risk Screening and Predictive Algorithms to Improve the Identification of Patients at Risk for Suicidal Behavior”
- “Effects of Mental Health and Substance Use Treatment Services on Neighborhood Safety and Health”
- “Parent Education to Address Early Intervention Enrollment: A Pilot with Public Health Implications”
- “Immigration Enforcement and Quality of Care Provided by Home Health Agencies”
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Initiatives
Total Awarded: $89,832.00
Projects Awarded:
- “UConn Stars (Science, Technology, and Astronomy Recruits) Supplemental Funding”
- “The Enduring Impacts of Structural Discrimination on Neighborhood Deterioration”
- “The History and Legacies of Disability Institutionalization in the U.S.”
- “The Use of Computer Algorithms in the Policing and Criminal Justice System: Exploring Cognitive and Emotional Responses Among Members of the Black Community”
- “Fostering Diversity Through a Competitive Multidimensional Diversity Ranking Website”
- “'I Left So I Could Fee Whole Again'; Investigating Anti-Black Racism and Misogynoir Through Black Women’s Expatriation and the Implications on Economic Well Being, Physical Health, and Mental Health”
- “Transgender Identity: Policy Implications for Lived Experiences”
- “An SLHS JEDI Workshop for Faculty, Staff, Students, and Clinical Educators on Managing Microaggressions”
- “MCB DEI Event: Dr. B Chad Starks, ‘Be the Messenger’”
- “Birthing Black Women’s HIV Stories on the Colombian Pacific Coast Though the Craft of Ancestral Afro-Midwifery”
- “Edmundo Desnoes: In and Out of the Cuban Revolution”
- “Africana Studies Summer Institute to Advance Equity through Research on Women and Girls of Color”
- “Reading in Talking Books: Theories of Race and Reading from Nineteenth-Century America”
- “The UConn/Spelman Early Identification Mentorship Program”
Research Equipment
Total Awarded: $950,593.00
Projects Awarded:
- “Collecting Physiological Measures within Virtual Reality to Treat Addictions, Treat Anxiety Disorders and to Optimize Teamwork”
- “Building Blocks in Developmental Science: Upgrading EEG Equipment (UConn Waterbury)”
- “A New Digital Camera to Enhance Digitization and Global Dissemination of UConn Biodiversity Research Collections”
- “Replacing Gas and Liquid Chromatography in Chemistry”
- “Acquisition of Cryogen-free DynaCool PPMS System to Replace Existing Evercool PPMS System”
- “Collaborative Research Project: Designing Experience and Exploring the Future of VR Research”
- “Acquisition of a Gamma Spectroscopy System to Advance Research at UConn in Earth and Marine Sciences using Fallout and Naturally Occurring Radionuclides ”
- “Upgrade for Millikelvin Quantum Measurements System”
- “QPatch Compact: Enhancing Drug Discovery and Charactering Pathological Ion Channel Variants in Genetic Disorders”
- “Unlocking Next-Generation Quantum Information Science Through Cryo-Circularly Polarized Luminescence”
Research in Academic Themes
Total Awarded: $377,077.00
Projects Awarded:
- “Reconciling Violence, Indigenous Heritage Futures”
Academic Themes: Inequalities, Social Justice, Truth, and Belief; Sustainable Systems, Global Resources, and World Cultures - “The Blessing of Dimensionality – Theory of Convex Geometry and Concentration of Measure with Applications in Machine Learning, Finance, and Genomics”
Academic Themes: Big Data: Science, Policy, and Ethics; Health, Disease, and Well-Being - “Understanding the Impact of Increased Limb Progenitor Cell Number on Limb Development”
Academic Theme: Health, Disease, and Well-Being - “The Fudeko Project: An Email and Letter-Writing Program for Japanese Americans Incarcerated in World War II”
Academic Themes: Inequalities, Social Justice, Truth, and Belief; Brain, Mind, Language, and Logic; Health, Disease, and Well-Being; Sustainable Systems, Global Resources, and World Cultures - “A Novel, in Situ Approach for Testing Effects of Environmental Variability on Oyster Larvae and Their Prey”
Academic Themes: The Earth and Its Future; Sustainable Systems, Global Resources, and World Cultures; Big Data: Science, Policy, and Ethics - “Development of Anti-Infectives for Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia Coli, a Global Diarrhea-Causing Pathogen Without Effective Treatments”
Academic Themes: Health, Disease, and Well-Being - “Environmental and Racial Justice in Early Modernity”
Academic Themes: The Earth and Its Future; Sustainable Systems, Global Resources, and World Cultures; Inequalities, Social Justice, Truth, and Belief - “Symposium on Just Transitions, Spring/Summer 2024”
Academic Themes: The Earth and Its Future; Sustainable Systems, Global Resources, and World Cultures; Inequalities, Social Justice, Truth, and Belief - “The Demographic Revolution in the Austrian Empire, 1760-1800”
Academic Theme: Sustainable Systems, Global Resources, and World Cultures - “Humble Inquiry (HI) in the Practices of Truth and Reconciliation Commissions in Rwanda and Mexico: Measurement and Evaluation”
Academic Themes: Inequalities, Social Justice, Truth, and Belief - “The Hidden War: Indigenous Warriors and the Fight for the Amazon”
Academic Themes: Earth and Its Future; Sustainable Systems, Global Resources, and World Cultures; Inequalities, Social Justice, Truth, and Belief - “Development of a Novel Immunosensor for Biomarker Detection via Competitive Binding of Antigen and Gold Nanoparticles to Antibodies and Silver Enhancement”
Academic Theme: Health, Disease, and Well-Being
Academic Year 2022-2023
Alan R. Bennett College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Public Health Policy Research Funding Opportunity
Total awarded: $82,083.00
Projects Awarded:
- “Integrating Health Policy Into Undergraduate Life Science Curriculum”
- “Evaluating the Impact of Food Policy Environment on Retail Food Shopping: A Data-Driven Approach”
- “Understanding Community-Based Health Policy-Making: A Collaborative, Qualitative Study of Great Hartford Interfaith Action Alliance”
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Initiatives
Total awarded: $80,580.00
Projects Awarded:
- “The Trans and Non-binary School-based Discrimination Scale – Validating a Community-derived Measure To Understand Academic Social Injustices of Gender Expressive Youth”
- “Supporting Underrepresented Groups in Geographic Information Science”
- “Inclusive Histories of Slavery, Freedom, and Healing”
- “Investigating Experiences of Marginalized Physics Students in Group Work Settings”
- “Educators’ Perceptions of Challenges and Competence in Working With Students of Color”
- “Resilience: A Workshop for Women Doing Philosophy”
- “Making Marine Sciences a More Diverse and Welcoming Workplace: Advancing the Bridge Program and Improving Departmental Climate Through ADVANCEGeo Workshops”
- “Chemical Bonds: Building Partnerships To Foster Diversity in the Grad Community in Chemistry”
- “Mental Health and Wellness Workshop for Women of Color (WOC) Faculty in CLAS”
- “Research and Academic Experiences for Women’s College Students in Physics and Quantum Sciences”
- “Research MASTER (Mentoring and Scholarship Training for Emerging Researchers) Program: A Pilot”
Research in Academic Themes
Total awarded: $379,799.00
Projects Awarded:
- “Bright Futures: Antonia Pantoja and the Practice of Ethnic Studies in U.S. History”
Academic Theme: Inequalities, Social Justice, Truth, and Belief; Sustainable Systems, Global Resources, and World Cultures - “A Novel Statistical Approach To Uncover the Hidden Language of Long Non-Coding RNAs”
Academic Themes: Big Data: Science, Policy, and Ethics; Health, Disease, and Well-Being - “Out With Cancer: Understanding LGBTQI+ People With Cancer’s Sexual and Relational Well-being”
Academic Themes: Inequalities, Social Justice, Truth, and Belief; Health, Disease, and Well-Being - “Sustaining the People: Food and the Science of Agriculture in Late Qing China and the World”
Academic Themes: Sustainable Systems, Global Resources, and World Cultures; The Earth and Its Future - “Anomalous Mid-Ocean Ridge Volcanism During Glacial Terminations: Exploring New Archives From the East Pacific Rise”
Academic Theme: The Earth and Its Future - “Smart Nanocontainer Platform for Targeted Drug Delivery and Sustainable Manufacturing”
Academic Themes: Health, Disease, and Well-Being; The Earth and Its Future; Sustainable Systems, Global Resources, and World Cultures - “Promoting Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging: Examining Women in STEM on TikTok”
Academic Theme: Inequalities, Social Justice, Truth, and Belief - “Adverse Childhood Experiences, Social Roles, and Cardiovascular Health among Black Men and Women”
Academic Theme: Inequalities, Social Justice, Truth, and Belief - “Subsampling and Analysis of Big Data for Better Eye Care Delivery”
Academic Themes: Big Data: Science, Policy, and Ethics; Health, Disease, and Well-Being
Research Equipment
Total awarded: $2,053,219.66
Projects Awarded:
- “UV Longwave Mineral Lamp”
- “CLAS’s Marine Particle Imaging System To Support Novel Research and Teaching in the Era of Big Data”
- “CLAS Shared Equipment Proposal: MRI Display System”
- “Capacity Building in the Earth Sciences Stable Isotope and Organic Molecular Biogeochemistry Laboratory”
- “The Nikon Point Scanning Confocal Microscope for the Advanced Light Microscopy Facility”
- “Upgrading and Future-Proofing CSSERL, the Cognitive Science Shared Electrophysiology Resources Laboratory”
- “Nanosecond Tunable Laser System for Time-Resolved Spectroscopies”
- “Equipment Replacement Request - Department of Marine Sciences”
- “Acquisition of Hydrogen-Deuterium Exchange Mass Spectrometry (HDX-MS) Instrumentation for Protein Structure Analysis at UConn”
- “Wirewalker Autonomous System for Interdisciplinary Research”
- “Miniature Microscopes in Behaving Rodents for Animal Vivarium and Behavioral Spaces”
- “Nanoindenter for Superelastic Tuning of Quantum Materials”
Summer Research Funding
Total awarded: $732,372.00
Projects Awarded:
- “Fast Famous Women: 75 Essays of Flash NonFiction”
- “Still Lives: The Contemporary U.S. Bildungsroman and the Case Against Progress”
- “30 Years of Post-Soviet Russia: a Story Cycle”
- “Between Blackness and the Body Politic: Race, Politics, and Metaphor in Cuba, 1920-1959”
- “The Dark Cycle of Lies and Death in America”
- “In the Crosshairs: Central America on the Road From Vietnam to Baghdad”
- “The UConn-Japan Project: An International Resource for Child Language Research”
- “Man/Woman, Machine/Nature: Modern Chinese Poetry at the Intersection of Industrialism and Feminism (1915-1980)”
- “Revolutionary Publishing, Censorship, and the Racial Politics of Translating in Cuba”
- “A Novel Axis of Immunological Variation in the Study of Host-Microbiota Interactions”
- “Developing Genetic Tools in a Model System to Study Microbiomes”
- “Applying Flow Chemistry to Accelerate the Evolution of Synthetic Polypeptides for Biomedical Applications”
- “Enhancing Catalytic Performance by Controlling the Microenvironment of Nanoreactors”
- “Using New Approaches to Paleoenvironmental Analysis in the Carboniferous Continental Sedimentary Succession of Atlantic Canada”
- “Lasso Regularization for High-Dimensional Censored Linear Mixed Models”
- “Health Inequalities and Conflicting Perspectives on Health Care in Complex Childhood Conditions”
- “(Re)Sacralizing Nature. The Role of Spiritual Practices in Ecological Stewardship”
- “Disclosing Sexual Dysfunction in New Romantic Relationships”
- “Women STEM Role Models on Instagram: Examining Displays of Authenticity, Expertise, and Connection”
- “Gender Composition of Inventor Teams and Patent Outcomes”
- “Social Determinants of Health and Accelerated Aging in Adults with Cancer: Leveraging the All of Us Research Program”
- “Adolescent Well-Being and Social Justice”
- “The Politics of Unveiling in Contemporary Egypt”
- “Choosing Federal Judges: The Implications of Ethical Considerations in Support for Judicial Nominees”
- “Supervising UConn Students to Collect New Data on Terrorist Recruitment Patterns”
- “Libraries Are for Everyone: Censorship, Professional Identity and the Public Librarian”
- “Mapping the Pluralist Resistance: The Front Lines of the Battle Against Christian Nationalism”
- “Troubled Sites and the Challenge of Sustainable Urban Development”
- “Ultracold Quantum Gases by and for Underrepresented Minorities in Physics”
Teaching Enhancement Grants
Total awarded: $85,650.00
Projects Awarded:
- “Increasing Engagement in Organic Chemistry”
- “Inquiry-Based Projects in a UDL Classroom for MATH 1020Q”
- “Inquiry-based Hands-on Learning Activities in Physics for Engineers II Course Incorporating Concepts of Universal Deisgn for Learning”
- “Astronomy Lab Course for Stamford”
- “Knowledge Transfer of Calculus Concepts to Physics”
- “Revising JOUR 2000W Newswriting 1”
- “Asynchronous Active Learning Approach for Algebra Skills within Calculus”
- “Enhancing Physics Education at UConn Hartford Campus Through Guided Open-Ended Lab Activities”
- “Integrating NACE Career Competencies Into HDFS 3530”
- “Student Engagement and Universal Design for HIST 1201”
- “Experimental Activities in Advanced Language Courses in Spanish”
- “Learning Software: Venn Diagrams for Categorical Syllogisms”
- “MATH 1131Q: Online Mastery-Based Supplementary Course Modules”
- “Action and Community-Based Learning Beyond the Classroom”
Academic Year 2021-2022
Climate, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Total awarded: $85,453.00
Projects Awarded:
- “UConnSTARs (Science, Technology, and Astronomy Recruits)”
- “PNB Undergraduate Intersectional Peer Mentoring Program (PUMP)”
- “When Black Lives Really Do Matter: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Race, Gender, and Health Disparities”
- “Developing Anti-Racist Policies and Strategies to Support Accessibility, Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in the Geosciences"
- “Supporting Minorities in Physics Through Seminars, Peer Groups, and Outreach”
- “Broadening the Participation of Underrepresented Minorities in Physics”
- “Addressing the Degree Gap for Under-Represented Minorities in Connecticut: A Proposal to Partner with the AGU Bridge Program”
- “Building a CLAS BIPoC Graduate Recruitment/Retention Knowledge Base”
- “Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Education and Research at UConn”
- “Avery Point STEM Faculty Learning Community about Disability”
- “Anti-Racism Committee”
- “Equity and Social Justice in Secondary English Education Reading Group: Connecticut Writing Project Grant Proposal”
- “Training of Physics Undergraduate Students from Underrepresented Minority Groups”
Research in Academic Themes
Total awarded: $539,083.66
Projects Awarded:
- “Résumé Overload’ and Heuristic Racism”
Academic Theme: Brain, Mind, and Logic - “Social Stigma Impacts on Mental Health and Academic Outcomes in Children and Adolescents with Specific Learning Disabilities”
Academic Theme: Brain, Mind, and Logic - “My Spanish is Rusty. Grammar Processing in Fluent Bilinguals and Biliterate Bilinguals of Spanish and English”
Academic Theme: Brain, Mind, and Logic - “Conditional Thought and Talk”
Academic Theme: Brain, Mind, and Logic - “A Multi-Level Method for Assessing Individual Differences in Spoken Language Processing”
Academic Theme: Brain, Mind, and Logic - “Music as a Tool for Resilience”
Academic Theme: Brain, Mind, and Logic - “On Infectious Diseases and Climate Change: Evidence from the Lyme Disease”
Academic Theme: The Earth and Its Future - “Climate Change in Regions with High Vulnerability: An Examination of the National and Subnational Policy and Feedback Effects in Ghana and India”
Academic Theme: The Earth and Its Future - “Conservation and Biodiversity Genomics in a Changing Climate”
Academic Theme: The Earth and Its Future - “DISASTER (Designing Interdisciplinary Science And Strategies To Enhance Resilience) Research at UConn”
Academic Themes: Sustainable Systems, Global Resources and World Cultures; The Earth and Its Future - "Interactions between Human Health, Behavior, and the Environment: A Case Study on the Communities Surrounding the Magdalena and Caquetá Rivers in Colombia"
Academic Theme: The Earth and Its Future
Summer Research Support
Total awarded: $728,381.00
Projects Awarded:
- “Explaining the Intergenerational Transmission of Substance Use Behaviors between Parents and Adolescent Children”
- “The Neanderthal Revolution: 48,000 Year Old DNA Overturns 150 Years of Human Evolutionary Orthodoxy and Archaeological Assumptions”
- “Drivers of Wind Attitudes in Texas and Their Electoral Consequences”
- “Fast Fallen Women: 75 Essays of Flash Nonfiction edited by BOT Professor of English Regina Barreca”
- “Towards a Fully Annotated Reference Genome of Northern Sand Lance Ammodytes dubius”
- “All That’s Left: A Cross-Institutional, Interconnected Archeology of the Relationship and History between the University of Connecticut and the Mansfield Training School”
- “Measuring Brain Correlates of Emotional and Cognitive Empathy: The CARAT Scale”
- “Research Proposal Preparation: A Data-Driven Approach to Measuring Community Food Environments”
- "Love Beyond Aristotle and Avicenna"
- “Virginia Woolf's The Waves: A Love Story (Bloomsbury vs the Public Schools)”
- “Misinformation and High-Profile Crimes”
- “Digital Humanities Open-Access Exhibitions on Ernestina G. Fleischman and Antifascist Political Cartoons in the Newspaper La Voz (New York, 1937-1939)”
- “The Opening and Closing of Japan, 1850-2020”
- “Seminar 1975”
- “Summer Salary for Work on Book Project, Word Count: Literature and Data Analysis, 1875-1965”
- “Characterizing Microbiomes and New Antifungal Agents from a Model Host-Microbe Symbiosis”
- “Linear Mixed Models for Complex Longitudinal Data”
- “German Nazi Hunters: the Search for Justice After the Holocaust”
- “Developing an NSF-RCN Grant and a Path to Lead Aquatic Symbiosis Research”
- “Developing Synthetic Polypeptides on a Large Scale for Biocompatible, Sustainable Polymeric Materials”
- “Knowledge Production in the Social Sciences”
- “Transgenerational Epigenetics and Autism: Linking Meiotic Dysfunction and Cognitive Impairment”
- “Immersive Reading in Contemporary Poetry and Ecopoetics”
- “Brain and Behavioral Biomarkers for Discriminating Speech in Noise in Dyslexia”
- “Insurgent Murals: Women’s Art Activism in Buenos Aires, Khartoum and Belfast”
- “How Children See: Child Artists and Modernism”
- “Brain Activity in Adults May Reflect Childhood Stages of Language Development: Collection of Pilot Data for a Federal Grant Proposal”
- “Land, Wealth and Native Americans: UConn's Forgotten Land-Grant Legacy”
- “Unpacking the Dynamics of Gender Justice Discourses Across Borders and Platforms”
- “Legal Contact, Psychosocial Resources, and Mental Health among Black and Latinx Adults”
- “Print Time (Chapter 4: The Activist Press in the UK and UK)”
- “Ice Age Human-Environmental Dynamics During the Initial Colonization of Sicily”
- “Monograph: America Firsts: Fascism, Male Violence, and U.S. Empire, 1920 to the Present”
- "Picturing the Pandemic: An Exhibition of Images from the Pandemic Journaling Project (PJP)"
- “Effects of Naturally Occurring Changes in Sensory Experience on Conceptual Knowledge”
Teaching Enhancement Grants
Total awarded: $111,228.00
Projects Awarded:
- “Developing New Course Inquiries for FYW”
- “Foregrounding Inclusivity: Implementing Engagement-Based Grading in a General Education Course”
- “WGSS 1104: Feminisms and the Arts”
- “SOCI: Introduction to Sociology”
- “MATH 1020Q: The Problem Solving Course”
- “Biblical Art at the Wadsworth Atheneum”
- “Creating a Modular, Inquiry-Based Modeling Course”
- “Collaborative, Introspective, and Inclusive Pedagogy for Psychological Science”
- “ASLN 2700 Interpreting in Various Settings Course Improvement Grant”
- “Implementation of Specifications Grading for Avery Point’s CHEM 2443”
- “Integrating Inclusive Teaching Practices in the Physics Labs at Avery Point”
- “Fostering Inclusive Classroom Environment with Learning Assistants”
- “ENGL 1201: Introduction to American Studies”
- “Proposed Revision of Sociology 2275: Social Well-Being”
- “The Cloud-Based Notebook to Promote Accessibility and Inclusivity of Problem-Solving Group Discussion”
- “WGSS 1105 - Gender & Sexuality in Everyday Life”
- “A Hands-On Approach to Human Evolution”
- “A Telescope for the Stamford Astronomy Classroom”
Academic Year 2020-2021
Anti-Racist Scholarship, Pedagogy, and Workplace Climate
Total awarded: $34,100.00
Projects Awarded:
- “Racism in the Margins”
- “Language and Racism, A collaboration between the Africana Studies and the Cognitive Sciences Program”
- “Decolonizing Area Studies: Towards Intercultural Citizenship and Social Justice”
- “Activist in Residence”
Research in Academic Themes
Total awarded: $216,403.56
Projects Awarded:
- “Blood Biopsy Diagnostic for Aggressive Cancers”
Academic Theme: Health, Disease, and Well-Being - “The Influence of mental health and socio-economic disparities on children with learning disabilities - a math intervention study”
Academic Theme: Inequalities, Social Justice, Truth; Belief and Health, Disease, and Well-Being - “Risk and protective factors for LGBTQ+ college students’ health and well-being during semesters and academic break”
Academic Theme: Inequalities, Social Justice, Truth; Belief and Health, Disease, and Well-Being - “Analogies of Slavery, Definitions of Freedom and Narratives of Public Health”
Academic Theme: Inequalities, Social Justice: Truth - “Disaster and the Carceral Landscape: A History of Incarceration on a Dying Planet”
Academic Theme: Inequalities, Social Justice, Truth - “Fatal Police Encounters and Race-Gender Variation in Health across Time”
Academic Theme: Inequalities, Social Justice, Truth; Belief, and Health, Disease, and Well-Being - “Misinformation Clusters and COVID Outbreaks”
Academic Theme: Big Data - Science, Policy, and Ethics
Research Equipment
Total awarded: $1,228,210.00
Projects Awarded:
- “Near-infrared circulatory polarized luminescence spectrometer”
- “CCU-010 HV (high vacuum) coating unit that prepares samples for imaging in the scanning electron microscope”
- “Veggie Meter, a device that uses reflection spectroscopy to objectively measure skin carotenoid levels in a non-invasive, rapid fashion as a biomarker for fruit and vegetable intake.”
- “EEg Bundle; includes a combination of critical new equipment (Cedrus Stim Tracker), and replacement of peripherals (EEG caps to position the 256 channels accurately in time-effective manner)”
- “Servicing Physical Property Measurement System (PPMS), liquid helium, Large bor VSM kit and pressure-dependent cell, and a heat capacity probe”
- “Gel imaging system: The system allows researchers using molecular techniques to take, store, and analyze images of electrophoretic gels of DNA, RNA, and proteins (including western blot), the basic molecular biology works”
- “High-resolution cell sorting flow cytometer: used routinely in diagnostic medical sciences. It has also been used by oceanographers to survey the vast diversity of phytoplankton, protists, and bacteria in different realms of the ocean”
- “Light sheet microscope: creates a thin plane of illumination from two lenses in an orientation perpendicular to the plane of the imaging lens. This is a recent innovation in which rapid scanning of the sample through a thin sheet of light reduces phototoxicity and allows ultrafast acquisition of fluorescence signals over large volumes, up to 2 cm, using high speed cameras”
- “Novel class light source: This laser will provide both high peak intensity and high repetition rates, delivering almost a single cycle of the electric field”
- “The development of a time-resolved photoelectron spectrometer. Funds purchased a XUV System and timePIX camera v3”
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Total awarded: $21,430.00
Projects Awarded:
- “UConn FIRST in Biology: Fostering Ideal Regional Student Transitions in Biology”
- “Organic Chemistry Boot Camp: Foundational Concepts and Strategies for Student Success”
- “Supporting Inclusive Group Work in Studio-Style Physics Courses”
- “New Approaches to Metacognition through Defamiliarizing Processes”
Summer Research Support
Total awarded: $216,445.00
Projects Awarded:
- “Cultivating the Field of Archaeobotany: Integrating Art and Archaeology to explore Akkadian and Post-Akkadian Food, Fuel, Farming, and Adaptation to Climate Change at Tell Leilan, Syria”
- “Well-being and Consciousness For Teens (We-Act): A Pilot Study of a Multimodal Intervention to Prevent Anxiety in BIPOC Youth”
- “The Moral Meanings of Taxpaying”
- “Motivating Disadvantaged Students during the COVID-19 Pandemic. The Role of Information, Aspirations, and Perceptions
- “Health Inequality over the Life Cycle and Its Implications for Economic Well-Being”
- “Exploring Communication About Cancer in LGBTIQ+ and Heterosexual Relationships”
- “Can “Guilt” Change Police Attitude towards Gender-Based Violence?”
- “Integrative Approach to Address Increases in Children’s Chronic Conditions and Mental Health Problems: The Case of Anxiety”
- “New development on PDE models for materials science”
- “The use of Zebrafish transgenics to study the role of mechanosensing in the regulation cell movement”
- “Chinese Language curriculum redesigning to meet demands of Gen-Z learner”