The 2018 Research & Innovation Seed Grant Competition included 56 applications and resulted in 16 new grants for a total of $800,000 being awarded to CU Boulder faculty across all disciplines, including $150,000 for three projects supporting work directly connected to the CU Boulder Grand Challenge.
2018 Funded Projects
| John Evans | Aerospace Engineering Sciences | Automated Storm Surge Modeling from Geospatial Data Sources (Grand Challenge) |
| Jan Lenaerts | Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences | Exploring the fate of meltwater on Antarctic ice shelves: an interdisciplinary approach |
| Stephanie Bryant | Chemical and Biological Engineering | Uncovering A New Paradign in the Host Respond to Implanted Biomaterials |
| Aaron Clauset | Computer Science | Leveraging machine learning to improve biological protocol accuracy |
| Scott Taylor | Ecology and Evolutionary Biology | Big data for a big problem: understanding how urbanization alters contemporary evolution using high-throughput sequencing and high-resolution animal tracking |
| Kendi Davies | Ecology and Evolutionary Biology | Linking remote sensing, ground sensors, and biodiversity data in rapidly changing environments (Grand Challenge) |
| Wounjhang Park | Electrical, Computer & Energy Engineering | Chip-scale mid-infrared entangled photon source based on chalcogenide |
| Sherri Cook | Environmental Engineering | Resilient and Sustainable Sanitation Systems: Characteristics, Links, and Barriers |
| Irina Overeem | Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research | Fertilizing the North Atlantic Ocean; how Greenland's Icebergs Raft Sediments into the Ocean |
| Christopher Lowry | Integrative Physiology | Global survey of environmental mycobacteria for prevention and treatment of inflammatory disease |
| Celine Vetter | Integrative Physiology | A Toolbox for Circadian Epidemiology: From Complex Environmental Signals to Personalized Medicine |
| Stephen Billings; Asaf Bernstein | Leeds School of Business | Inequality in the Costs to Society of Sea Level Rise |
| Greg Rieker | Mechanical Engineering | Single-beam laser diagnostics to measure flow vorticity in real-world environments |
| Heather Lewandowski | Physics | High Resolution Spectroscopy of Catalytic Clusters |
| Lori Hunter | Sociology | Socio-Environmental Data Integration for Population-Environment-Health Research: A South African Illustration (Grand Challenge) |
| Gesel Mason | Theatre & Dance | No Boundaries: Dancing the Visions of Contemporary Black Choreographers |