The College of Humanities and Sciences is pleased to announce the winners of the 2023 CHS Seed and Catalyst Awards. The awards provide funding of up to $5,000 to encourage faculty to broaden the scope of their scholarly endeavors and/or bring projects to completion. The College is impressed by the high impact, innovative scholarship being conducted across disciplines. The proposal titles, which are listed below, illustrate the incredible range of scholarship in the CHS.
Congratulations to our award winners!
Seed Awards
| Awardee(s) | Proposal Title |
|---|---|
| Dace Svikis (Psychology) | Advancing precision medicine in alcohol use disorder treatment: Integration of neurofunctional phenotyping into a preliminary investigation of stand-alone web-based cognitive behavioral therapy |
| Vivian Dzokoto (Psychology) | Library and Archives Visit for Research on Money, Technology and Financial Inclusion |
| Brent Cody (Mathematics and Applied Mathematics) | The mathematics and music of maximally even sets |
| Kamilia Rahmouni (World Studies) | Artificial Intelligence vs. Human Tutors: An Exploration of the Effectiveness of ChatGPT in Teaching Arabic |
| Soma Dhakal (Chemistry) | Two-way dynamics of DNA Holliday junctions: Watching one molecule at a time |
| Stephanie Walcott (Forensic Science) | The Creation of a Gun Shot Residue (GSR) Databank for the Reliable Identification of Ammunition in Shooting Cases |
| Kristina Hood (Psychology) | S.O.S! (Snapshot of Support): A mixed methods photovoice study of the lived experiences of Black women experiencing infertility |
| Ka Un Lao (Chemistry) | First-Principles Quantum-Crystallographic X-Ray Structure Refinement |
| Jessica Trisko Darden (Political Science) | Unequal Justice: Women’s Accountability for Nazi-Era War Crimes |
| Julian Glover (Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies) | Black Boundlessness: Performance, Aesthetics and Ethics Under Duress |