2017 Seed Grant Winners
The 2017 Innovative Seed Grant Competition included a record 112 applications and resulted in 23 new grants for a total of $1.1 million being awarded to CU Boulder faculty across all disciplines, including $240,000 for five projects supporting work directly connected to the CU Boulder .
2017 Funded Projects
| Torin Clark | Aerospace Engineering Sciences | Identifying Biomarkers of Sensorimotor Adaptation to a Spaceflight Analog Environment |
| John Farnsworth | Aerospace Engineering Sciences | Unsteady Wind Tunnel Modifications for the Study of Convective Longitudinal Gusts (Grand Challenge) |
| William Kleiber | Applied Mathematics | Inferring Earth Dynamics from Drones |
| Stephen Becker | Applied Mathematics | Blind Structured Illumination Photoacoustic Microscopy with Compressed Sensing |
| Maciej Walczak | Chemistry and Biochemistry | Synthetic Peptide Assemblies for Biomedical Applications |
| Amy Javernick-Will | Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering | Post Disaster Housing Reconstruction: Participation, Performance, and Resilience |
| Tara Knight | Critical Media Practices | Sound Planetarium: Sonifying a Universe of Data |
| Katharine Suding | Ecology and Evolutionary Biology | The Boulder Apple Tree Project |
| Nichole Barger | Ecology and Evolutionary Biology | Monitoring landscape scale biocrust restoration on degraded drylands: Deploying remote sensing technologies from unmanned aerial systems (Grand Challenge) |
| Dimitra Psychogiou | Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering | Microfluidically-tuned 3D-printed waveguides (M3W) for dynamic RF spectrum access |
| Jae-Woong Jeong | Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering | Transformative Electronics: A Future of Electronics |
| Peter Newton | Environmental Studies Program | Reducing deforestation and improving livelihoods through innovative subnational governance: learning lessons from the state of Acre, Brazil (Grand Challenge) |
| Brian Hynek | Geological Sciences/LASP | Understanding Mars’ Astrobiological Potential with a Hyperspectral Imager on a UAS (Grand Challenge) |
| Vilja Hulden | History / Linguistics | Computing support for Digital Humanities at CU (Grand Challenge) |
| Brian Keegan | Information Science | Prosopographical Data Mining for Analyzing Multiplex Networks among Members of U.S. Congress since 1789 |
| Yifu Ding | Mechanical Engineering | Sequential Laser Ablation and AFM (SLAA) for Imaging 3D Porous Structures |
| Sara Sawyer | Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology | A machine learning approach for predicting cellular targets of the dengue virus protease |
| Jingshi Shen | Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology | Identify new therapeutic targets of cancer immunotherapy using CRISPR genetic screens |
| Robert Spencer | Psychology & Neuroscience | Circadian salivary cortisol hormone profile as an innovative biomarker and treatment target for improving recovery from mild traumatic brain injury |
| Serge Campeau | Psychology & Neuroscience | Exploratory determination of molecular modifications associated with stress habituation |
| Amanda Stevenson | Sociology | Assessing life course impacts of expanded access to highly effective contraception in Colorado |
| Jason Boardman | Sociology | Denver Study of the Built and Social Environment |
| Rachael Baiduc | Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences | Hearing Loss and Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factor Burden |