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Sarah Kavassalis<\/strong>, Chemistry\/Hixon<\/p>\n\n\n\n Seaver Institute, $70,000 for “Understanding Biogenic VOC Emissions and Air Quality Impacts in Los Angeles’ Coastal Sage Scrub Ecosystems”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Brian Shuve<\/strong> (Physics)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Research Corporation for Scientific Advancement Bridge Award, $27,785 “Low-Energy Hidden Sector Signals at Colliders” Research Corporation for Scientific Advancement Cottrell Scholar, $120,000 for “Understanding the Dynamics and Fates of Chaotic Planetary Systems”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Andr\u00e9s Vindas-Melendez<\/strong>, Math<\/p>\n\n\n\n National Science Foundation $24,700 for “Conference: Escuela Costarricense de Combinatoria\u00a0 \u00a0 Center for Chinese Studies, Taiwan National Library, $6000 for “Shaping Global Perceptions of Taiwan through Sound and Light”<\/p>\n\n\n\n National Science Foundation, $45,000 for “Student Travel Grant for the 2025 to 2027 ACM SIGPLAN Conferences on Systems, Programming, Languages and Applications: Software for Humanity (SPLASH)”<\/p>\n\n\n\n American Chemical Society-PRF Undergraduate New Investigator, $55,000 for “Impact of stereocontrolled polymer synthesis on degradation”<\/p>\n\n\n\n AAPI Mellon Grant, $7,250 for “Marshallese Oral History Archive of California”<\/p>\n\n\n\n National Science Foundation, $60,302 for “ASCENT: Atmospheric Science and Chemistry mEasurement NeTwork (ASCENT): Operation, Management, and Scientific Studies”<\/p>\n\n\n\n American Chemical Society-PRF Undergraduate Researcher, $70,000 for “Computational investigation of CO2 reductive functionalization catalyzed by zerovalent carbon compounds”<\/p>\n\n\n\n National Science Foundation $223,656 for “LEAPS: Unlocking the Potential of Carbones as Metal-Free Catalysts”<\/p>\n\n\n\n National Science Foundation, $249,250 for “LEAPS: Ventures in Geometric Combinatorics”<\/p>\n\n\n\n American Chemical Society, $17,000 for “Teaching Green Fellowship”<\/p>\n\n\n\n National Science Foundation, $4,999,700 for “RAMTD-UP-LA: Regional Alliance for Mathematics Teacher Development, Uplift, and Professionalization in Los Angeles”<\/p>\n\n\n\n National Science Foundation, $402,235 for “CAREER: Randomized Iterative Methods for Corrupted Data, Constrained Problems, and Compressed Updates”<\/p>\n\n\n\n American Chemical Society-PRF Undergraduate New Investigator, $55,000 for “Understanding the structure of succinimide and its derivatives”<\/p>\n\n\n\n USDA, $239,064 for “Valuing natural capital – the role of uncertainty and partial observability”<\/p>\n\n\n\n National Science Foundation, $349,410 for “NLI: Design and Development: RUI: Prototyping environmental sustainability framework modules to foster sociotechnical thinking across an interdisciplinary engineering curriculum”<\/p>\n\n\n\n National Science Foundation, $197,407 for “ERI: Free surface and flexibility effects in partially-submerged bioinspired propulsion”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Duke University, Sallie Bingham Center for Women\u2019s History and Culture, $1.500 for “\u2018No Less Realistic\u2019 but with \u2018Different Ambitions\u2019: Reparative Reading, Human Geography, and a Return to Sedgwick\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n OutHistory Fellowship, $1,500 for “\u201cEnough is Enough\u201d: The Politics, Passion, and Poetry of Pei-Hsien Lim (1953-1992) “<\/p>\n\n\n\n Inkklings Project Fellowship, $1,500 for “Tolkien, Lewis, King, Jemisin: Good and evil, right and wrong?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Organic Syntheses, $16,000 PUI Grant<\/p>\n\n\n\n National Science Foundation, $617,410 for “CAREER: Developing a Hybrid Adaptive Particle-Field Simulation Method for Solvation of Charged Macromolecules and a New Computational-Chemistry Course for Lower-Division Undergraduates”<\/p>\n\n\n\n National Science Foundation, $560,428 for “CAREER: Monitoring the Rhizosphere with Optics”<\/p>\n\n\n\n National Science Foundation, $173,904 for “ERI: RUI: Wavefront shaping through flexible multicore fiber bundles for coherent light focusing and imaging in neurophotonics”<\/p>\n\n\n\n National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipend, $6000 for “Transoceanic Micronesians: Chamoru and Marshallese Diaspora in Southern California”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Department of Energy\/Lawrence Berkeley Labs, $78,831.00 for “Reduced Cost Heat Pump Space- and Water-Heating in Cold Climates\u201d”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Research Corporation for Scientific Advancement, Cottrell Award, $100,000 for “The Physical Principles Governing High-Rate and Large Deformation Elastic Recoil”<\/p>\n\n\n\n National Science Foundation, $100,000 for “Prototyping, Developing and Exploring Collaborative Relationships Among Germination Researchers”<\/p>\n\n\n\n National Science Foundation, $393,470 for “REU Site: Exploring The Limits of Intelligent Systems”<\/p>\n\n\n\n National Science Foundation, $503,000 for “BRC-BIO: Interrogating Extracellular Vesicle Biogenesis Through Substrate-Associated Signals”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sloan Foundation, $10,000 for “Deciphering the Material Factors that Inspire Extracellular Vesicle Production”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Research Corporation for Scientific Advancement and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, $55,700 for \u201copenIVIS: Democratizing Access to Macroscopic Bioimaging\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n National Science Foundation, $500,270 for “CAREER: Ordered Alignment Methods for Complex, High-Dimensional Data”<\/p>\n\n\n\n National Science Foundation, $544,284 for “Exploring A New Computing Curriculum: Computing-As-Literacy”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Office of Naval Research, $69,000 for “Survey, geolocation, and precision transmission with airborne software-defined radio”<\/p>\n\n\n\n National Science Foundation, $201,193 for “<\/span>Collaborative Research: RUI: IRES – Track I: US-Australia collaboration on a new class of lead-free copper alloys to meet international health demands”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Office of Naval Research, $99,975 for “<\/span>Survey, geolocation, and precision transmission with airborne software defined radio”<\/p>\n\n\n\n National Science Foundation, $232,568 for “Tensor Models, Methods, and Medicine”<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n National Science Foundation\/Georgia Tech, $113,010 for “Mid-Scale RI-1 (M1:IP): Atmospheric Science and Chemistry Measurement NeTwork (ASCENT)”<\/p>\n\n\n\n National Science Foundation, $160,175 for “LEAPS-MPS: Singularities, Rigidity, and Trace Modules”<\/p>\n\n\n\n National Science Foundation<\/span><\/span>, $46,840 for “Open-Source Renewables: Coupling Resilience to Natural Disasters with Environmental Justice”<\/p>\n\n\n\n National Science Foundation, $382,668 for “Harvey Mudd REU Site in Computer Systems”<\/p>\n\n\n\n National Science Foundation, $135,000 for “RUI: Weaving space with quantum entanglement, and black holes in stochastic Matrix theory”<\/p>\n\n\n\n National Science Foundation, $629,999 for “<\/span><\/span>CAREER: Characterizing molecular mechanisms that drive life cycle transitions in the African trypanosome<\/p>\n\n\n\n Organic Syntheses, $8000 for “One-pot, Multicomponent Syntheses of Triazolodiazepinones and Related Heterocycles”<\/p>\n\n\n\n National Science Foundation, $208,864 for “Advances in bounded-confidence models on networks” <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n National Science Foundation, $300,000 for “RUI: Monitoring of Marine Life Coastal Habitats via Autonomous Robot Systems”<\/p>\n\n\n\n National Science Foundation, $500,000 for “CAREER: Understanding the Process-Structure-Property Relationships in Polymer Nanocomposites Reinforced with Gas-Phase-Synthesized Graphene”<\/p>\n\n\n\n National Science Foundation, $495,589 for “CAREER: Using Astronomy to Improve Tests of Quantum Mechanics”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Huntington Library, $3500 for “Mechanical Womb and Artificial Mother: Designing the Infant Incubator, 1900- 1940”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lemelson Center at the Smithsonian, $750 Travel Grant for “Mechanical Womb and Artificial Mother: Designing the Infant Incubator, 1900- 1940”<\/p>\n\n\n\n National Science Foundation, $118,971 for “Collaborative Research: Moving with muscles vs. springs: evolutionary biomechanics of extremely fast, small systems”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Friends of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries, $2,000 Grants to Scholars<\/em> award for “Radical Geographies of Milwaukee”<\/p>\n\n\n\n National Science Foundation, $174,109 for “CRII: SaTC: RUI: A Cross-Verification Approach for Identifying Tampered Audio”<\/p>\n\n\n\n National Science Foundation, $45,900 for “A Consortium for Cultivating Future Artificial Intelligence Researchers”<\/p>\n\n\n\n National Science Foundation, $7,998 for “CI-SUSTAIN: National File System Trace Repository”<\/p>\n\n\n\n National Science Foundation, $264,878 for “Large Parameter Spaces”<\/p>\n\n\n\n National Science Foundation, $498,458 for “RUI: Finding Best Representative Phylogenetic Tree Reconciliations”<\/p>\n\n\n\n National Science Foundation, $839,060 for “Zooxanthellate Octocorals”<\/p>\n\n\n\n National Science Foundation, $33,964 for “PurSUiT: Diversity and endemism across a steep biogeographic cline: marine invertebrates of Oman”<\/p>\n\n\n\n National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, $10,000 for “Climate Adaptation and Mitigation Program (CAMP) Continuation”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Discovery Institute, $25,000 for “Formalizing the Limits of Machine Learning (Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence at Discovery Institute)”<\/p>\n\n\n\n National Science Foundation, $301,255.00 for “CAREER: Using Imperfect Predictions to Make Good Decisions”<\/p>\n\n\n\n National Science Foundation, $442,960 for “MRI: Acquisition of a Standardized Integrated Toolset for Photovoltaics Fabrication and Characterization”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE), $5,000 for “Interactive resources for training CS TAs”<\/p>\n\n\n\n National Science Foundation, $120,000 for “RUI: Uncovering the Particle Nature of Hidden Sectors”<\/p>\n\n\n\n National Science Foundation, $418,537 for “Developing Evidence-based Best Practices for Broadening Participation in Computing Education (CRA subaward)”<\/p>\n\n\n\n National Science Foundation, $426,629 for “Math for America Los Angeles: Elevating Mathematics and Computer Science Instruction through Teacher Leadership”<\/p>\n\n\n\n National Science Foundation, $143,328 for “Collaborative Research: RUI: IRES – Track I: Brown Carbon Aerosol Formation by Photooxidation of Phenolic Compounds”<\/p>\n\n\n\n National Science Foundation, $364,920 for \u201cDynamic ant networks: How environmental constraints and ecological context shape resource transport systems\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Tides Foundation, $20,000 for a Google Computer Science Educator Award<\/p>\n\n\n\n National Science Foundation, $349,101 for \u201cREU Site: Data Science in the Life Sciences, Environmental Science and Engineering\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n National Science Foundation, $505,522 for \u201cCAREER: Algorithms for Gene Family Evolution with Gene Duplication, Loss and Coalescence\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n National Science 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Dan Tamayo<\/strong>, Physics<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(Costa Rican Combinatorics School)”
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David Wilson<\/strong>, HSA<\/p>\n\n\n\n2025<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Lucas Bang (Computer Science)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Spencer Brucks (Chemistry)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Alfred Flores (HSA)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Lelia Hawkins (Hixon\/Chemistry)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Maduka Ogba (Chemistry)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Maduka Ogba (Chemistry)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Andr\u00e9s Vindas-Melendez (Mathematics)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
David Vosburg (Chemistry)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Darryl Yong (Mathematics)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
2024<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Jamie Haddock (Mathematics)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Alicia Hernandez-Castillo (Chemistry)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Dede Long (HSA)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Leah Mendelson, Sofia Bahena, Whitney Fowler, Dre Helms (Engineering)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Leah Mendelson (Engineering)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
David Seitz (HSA)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
David Seitz (HSA)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
David Vosburg (Chemistry)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
David Vosburg (Chemistry)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Bilin Zhuang (Chemistry)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
2023<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Josh Brake (Engineering)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Josh Brake (Engineering)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Alfred Flores (Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Arts)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Dre Helmns (Engineering)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Mark Ilton (Engineering)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Patrick Little (Engineering)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Xanda Schofield and George Monta\u00f1ez (Computer Science)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Steven Santana (Engineering)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Steven Santana (Engineering)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
2022<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Josh Brake (Engineering)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
TJ Tsai (Engineering)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Zach Dodds and Lucas Bang (Computer Science)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Jason Gallicchio (Physics)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
2021<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Lori Bassman (Engineering)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Jason Gallicchio (Physics)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Jamie Haddock (Mathematics)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Lelia Hawkins (Chemistry)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Haydee Lindo (Mathematics)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Julie Medero (Computer Science)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
George Monta\u00f1ez and Lucas Bang (Computer Science)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Vatche Sahakian (Physics)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Danae Schulz (Biology)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
David Vosburg (Chemistry)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Heather Zinn-Brooks (Mathematics)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
2020<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Christopher Clark (Engineering)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Albert Dato (Engineering)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Jason Gallicchio (Physics)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Vivien Hamilton (Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Arts)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Vivien Hamilton (Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Arts)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Mark Ilton (Physics)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
David K. Seitz (Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Arts)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Timothy Tsai (Engineering)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
2019<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
James C. Boerkoel Jr. (Computer Science)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Geoff Kuenning (Computer Science)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Geoff Kuenning (Computer Science)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Ran Libeskind-Hadas (Computer Science)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Catherine S. McFadden (Biology)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Catherine S. McFadden (Biology)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Catherine S. McFadden (Biology)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
George Monta\u00f1ez (Computer Science)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Erin Talvite (Computer Science)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Hal Van Ryswyk (Chemistry)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
2018<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Colleen M. Lewis (Computer Science)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Brian Shuve (Physics)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Colleen M. Lewis (Computer Science)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Darryl H. Yong (Mathematics), Colleen M. Lewis (Computer Science), and Zachary Dodds (Computer Science)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Lelia Hawkins (Chemistry)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Matina Donaldson-Matasci (Biology)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Zach Dodds (Computer Science)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Lisette de Pillis (Mathematics) and Tanja Srebotnjak (Hixon Center)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Yi-Chieh Wu (Computer Science)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
2017<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Gerald Van Hecke (Chemistry), James Eckert (Physics) and Lelia Hawkins (Chemistry)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Andrea Quattrini (Biology)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Vatche Sahakian (Physics)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Patrick Little (Engineering)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Mike Erlinger and Zach Dodds (Computer Science)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
David Vosburg, Adam Johnson and Kathy Van Heuvelen (Chemistry)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Dan Stoebel (Biology)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n