December 2, 2019
Grants awarded: Speeding the engineering life cycle with data science; developing literacy interventions for students with intellectual disabilities; preventing depression among young women
University of Washington faculty members have received grants for research to be conducted over the next few years.
Magdalena Balazinska
Magdalena Balazinska, professor in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, has been awarded a grant of $2 million for two years from the National Science Foundation as part of the NSF’s Harnessing the Data Revolution Frameworks program.
The manufacturing life cycle starts with discovering new molecules and materials, often through computer simulations, and identifying promising candidates that can later be tested in laboratories. The grant, starting in September, will support development of new data science approaches to accelerate the engineering life cycle of design, characterization, manufacturing and operation.
Balazinska is principal investigator; co-principal investigators are chemical engineering professor Jim Pfaendtner, research associate professor David Beck; and Ariel Rokem, senior data scientist with the UW’s eScience Institute.
For more information, contact Balazinska at magda@cs.washington.edu.
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Roxanne Hudson
Roxanne Hudson, professor in the College of Education, has been awarded a grant of $1,400,000 across four years from the National Center for Special Education Research for a study to identify “malleable” reading factors — such as phonological awareness and letter sounds — among elementary students with intellectual disabilities, with the long-term aim of developing effective literacy interventions.
Hudson is principal investigator; co-principal investigators, also in education, are assistant professor Carly Roberts and associate professor Elizabeth Sanders. The National Center for Special Education Research is one of four research centers of Institute of Education Sciences. The grant was awarded in August.
Listen to a spring 2019 podcast with Hudson about the effectiveness of interventions designed to help young readers on the autism spectrum.
For more information, contact Hudson at rhudson@uw.edu
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Keshet Ronen
Keshet Ronen, clinical assistant professor of in the Department of Global Health — which bridges the UW schools of public health and medicine — has received a $200,000 grant from the Social Media and Adolescent Health Research Team at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She will develop and pilot a program that uses social media to prevent depression in young pregnant women or women who have recently given birth.
Read the story on the School of Public Health website.
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