The 2014 Innovative Seed Grant Competition resulted in 18 new grants for a total of $850,000 being awarded to Boulder faculty across all disciplines. There were 86 submissions and 18 projects were funded.
2014 Funded Projects
| Carol Cogswell | Electrical and Computer Engineering | Advancing next-generation 3D biological microscopy through PSF scanning and development of detection and classification algorithms |
| Eliana Colunga | Psychology | An adaptive vocabulary tutor for toddlers and preschoolers |
| John Crimaldi | Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering | Turbulent production of microscale patchiness in motile and non-motile phytoplankton |
| Niels Harley Damrauer | Chemistry and Biochemistry | Driving ordered chromophore aggregation on nanoparticle oxides: Developing new strategies for next-generation solar cells |
| Douglas Duncan | Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences | The "Star power series" - A theatrical, planetarium collaborative |
| Loren Hough | Physics | Tubulin-drug interactions revealed by nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy |
| Karen S Jacobs | English | Relaunching GENDERS, a journal on gender and sexuality in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. |
| Joel L. Kaar | Chemical Engineering | Novel coatings to inhibit quorum sensing in surface associated bacteria |
| Minhyea Lee | Physics | Synthesis of Crystalline Quantum Materials |
| Abbie B. Liel | Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering | Risks of damage to buildings and infrastructure due to human-induced earthquakes |
| John Scott McCartney | Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering | Soil-borehole thermal energy systems for site remediation |
| Greg Rieker | Mechanical Engineering | Multi-species trace gas analyzer for atmospheric, energy, and medical applications |
| Subhadeep Roy | Chemistry and Biochemistry | Electron microscopy in situ hybridization probes |
| Rebecca J Safran | Ecology and Evolutionary Biology | Integrating behavior, engineering and mathematics: Applying modern network theory to social transmission of parasites |
| Matthew James Sponheimer | Anthropology | New directions in primate nutritional ecology and conservation |
| Mark P. Stoykovich | Chemical Engineering | A new paradigm in polymer flocculants: Smart materials enabling more efficient and cheaper separations |
| Wei Tan | Mechanical Engineering | Novel toolset using dynamic nano-featured substrata for cell mechanotransduction study |
| Darin W Toohey | Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences | Development of an aircraft instrument for measurements of isotopologues of water |