List of Awardees

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January 2025 Awardees

• Aguayo, Fred
  Construction Management
  Developing a Reliable, Rapid, and Robust (R3) Performance Test Method for Carbonation Induced Corrosion of Cement-Based Mixtures
  $40,000
• Akamatsu, Matthew
  Biology
  The role of endocytosis in human stem cell lumen formation
  $40,000
• Bahrawi, Nazry
  Asian Languages and Literature
  How to Kin an Animal: Malayophone Folklores and Race in Southeast Asia
  $39,554
• Baughman, Hannah
  Tacoma – Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences
  Comparative analysis of NF-kappaB transcription factors
  $40,000
• Cohen, Isabelle
  Public Policy and Governance
  Understanding Equity and Efficiency in the Disbursement of Identity Cards for Social Protection
  $40,000
• Forsyth, Jennifer
  Psychology
  Optimizing Gene-Set Analysis of Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
  $40,000
• Inanici, Fatma
  Rehabilitation Medicine
  Restoring Hand and Arm Function after Stroke Using Noninvasive Neuromodulation
  $40,000
• Kaplan, David
  Physics
  Extending the Range of Effective Field Theory for Nuclear Physics
  $34,861
• Kong, Jennifer
  Biochemistry
  Harnessing cortical spheroids to unravel the pathogenesis of human hydrocephalus
  $39,999
• Kover, Sara
  Speech and Hearing Sciences
  Centering Lived Experience in Language Development Supports for Children with Developmental Disabilities: A Participatory Approach
  $39,999
• Lin, Kevin
  Biostatistics
  Quantifying population-wide genomic markers of Alzheimer’s resiliency from cohort-wide single-cell RNA-sequencing data
  $40,000
• Matula, Thomas
  Applied Physics Laboratory
  Epoxy bonding with focused ultrasound energy
  $40,000
• Neuhaus, Emily
  Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
  Longitudinal phenotyping in rare neurodevelopmental conditions: Feasibility and family priorities
  $39,974
• Nourmohammad, Armita
  Physics
  Co-PI Wiggins, Paul
  Physics
  The limits of learning without neurons: Modeling and measurement of emergent complexity in slime mold learned behavior
  $40,000
• Pan, Yixuan
  Tacoma – Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences
  From Scratch: Tasting the Tenderness in Food Production
  $40,000
• Ravichandran, Ila
  Tacoma – Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences
  The Post-Genomic Prison: DNA Bio/Surveillance and the Molecular Inscription of Carcerality onto Racialized Communities
  $33,187
• Rayner, Sam
  Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine
  Engineered microvascular patches to improve peripheral nerve repair
  $40,000
• Riley, Nick
  Chemistry
  Chemical Tools to Interrogate the Cell Surface Glycocode
  $40,000
• Rounthwaite, Adair
  Art, Art History, and Design
  Revisiting the Culture Wars: Jesse Helms and Contemporary American Art
  $29,491
• Sanchez-Martin, Cristina
  English
  Critical Transnational English Pedagogies (CTEP): (Un)learning Gendered Colonialities through Teachers’ Storying
  $27,156
• Shih, Han-Wei
  Bothell – Biological Sciences
  Deciphering nuclear cAMP Dynamics and Cell Differentiation in Giardia Using Innovative Genetic Tools: Integrating Research and Education in Molecular Biology
  $39,956
• Smith, Jen Rose
  American Indian Studies
  Indigenous Weather: Atmospheric Expertise in Science and Story
  $38,162
• Sun, Shijing
  Mechanical Engineering
  Data-Driven Intergrowth Design for Stabilizing Perovskite Semiconductors
  $40,000
• Wang, Z Yan
  Psychology
  Investigating the behavioral and neural consequences of heat stress in a eusocial model
  $40,000
• Yang, Clair
  International Studies
  A Great Political Divergence: A Quantitative Study of Historical Political Development in China
  $28,463
• Zeiden, Kristin
  Applied Physics Laboratory
  High Resolution Imaging of Turbulent Processes at the Ocean Surface
  $38,729