Research Momentum Funds
Award Recipients List
Announcing the 2022-2023 Recipients
- Paulo Almeida (Chemistry & Biochemistry, CAS) “Interactions and Assembly of β-Hairpin Peptides on Membranes”
- Xuemei Chen (Mathematics & Statistics, CAS) “Structured Signal Recovery and Its Applications”
- Indranil Ghosh (Mathematics & Statistics, CAS) “Application of heavy-tailed probability distributions in analyzing health and financial data breaches: a statistical study”
- Michael Gordon (World Languages & Cultures, CAS) “A Way Back Home: The Return of Jews to the Heart of the Spanish Empire”
- Michel Heijnen, Alexander McDaniel, and Tseh Wayland, (School of Health & Applied Human Sciences, CHHS) “Efficacy of Army Combat Fitness Test (ACFT) 12-Week Virtual Exercise Program”
- Michaela Howells (Anthropology, CAS) “Does social status impact maternal stress among pregnant people following a natural disaster? An assessment of intergenerational risk.”
- Christina Lord (World Languages & Cultures, CAS) “From French Comics to "Star Wars": Transvisual Culture in Science Fiction and Fantasy”
- Ralph Mead (Chemistry & Biochemistry, CAS) and Jennifer McCall (School of Nursing, CHHS) “Discovering the Role Replacement Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances Play in Chronic and Acute Inflammation”
- Lorian Schweikert (Biology & Marine Biology, CAS) “Developing proposals for the AFOSR Young Investigator Program and the NSF DBI BRC-BIO Program #22-500 to investigate the role of dermal photoreception in dynamic color change of animal skin” Mentor Request: Stephen Kinsey
Spring 2021 Recipients
- Catharina Alves de Souza, Center for Marine Science (CMS) “Scaling-up culturing of omega-3 PUFA-producing cyanobacteria as a supplement for poultry and aquaculture feed”
- Brian Arbogast and Stephanie Kamel, Co-PI, Biology & Marine Biology (CAS) “Conservation Genetics and Development of a Genetic Management Plan for the Federally Threatened Cheat Mountain Salamander
- Danielle Daidone, World Languages & Cultures (CAS) “Documenting instructor input in the Spanish language classroom” Mentor Request: Jess Boersma
- Gene Felice II, Art and Art History (CAS) “The Algae Society Presents: “Speculative Futures Lab””
- Lee Soon Goo, Chemistry & Biochemistry (CAS) “Structural and Functional Studies of Phosphoethanolamine Methyltransferase (PMT) from Eimeria tenella: Anti-Parasitic Drug Targets”
Mentor Request: Antje Almeida - Robert Mark Spaulding, History (CAS) “Research Center in International Trade and Exchange"
Fall 2020 Recipients
Funded Momentum proposals consisted of 14 traditional and 5 collaborative applications. This year 22 Momentum applications were received. There were 17 traditional individual applications, 5 collaborative applications and 6 Mentor Requests.
- Antje Almeida, Chemistry & Biochemistry (CAS) “Fishing for calcium ions: exploring antibiotic design principles”
- Philip Bresnahan, Earth & Ocean Sciences (CAS) “Exploring Spatiotemporal Variability in Carbon Dioxide Fluxes in Wilmington’s Estuaries Via Novel Sensor/Drone/Satellite Integrations”
- Katherine Bruce (Psychology, CAS) and Mark Galizio, Co-PI (Psychology, CAS) “Drug Effects on Rodent Models of Working and Episodic Memory”
- Jeeyae Choi and Charlotte Thompson, Co-PI (School of Nursing, CHHS) “Development and Evaluation of a Virtual Reality Nursing Educational Program for Undergraduate Nursing Students”
- Elham Ebrahimi, Computer Science (CAS) “Bridging the Diversity Gap: Changing the Narrative Surrounding Minorities in STEM Fields” Mentor Request: Karl Ricanek
- Peng Gao, Earth & Ocean Sciences (CAS) “Assessing Wildfire Risk in the Southeast U. S. Using a Fire Behavior Model”
- Eman M. Ghoneim, Earth & Ocean Sciences (CAS) “Detecting sandy buried archaeological sites in Upper Egypt using machine-learning classification of multisensor and multitemporal space-borne satellite data”
- Dana El Hajj, School of Nursing (CHHS) “Reducing Risk for Adverse Outcomes of COVID-19 with a Virtual Reality/Motivational Interviewing approach as a Smoking Cessation Intervention”
- Peter Haproff, Earth & Ocean Sciences (CAS) “Geomorphic and Thermochronologic Responses to the Uplift of the Santa Monica Mountains, CA and Implications for Regional Seismic Hazard”
- Daniel Johnson, Music (CAS) “The Effects of Music Therapy on Sleep: A Meta-Analysis of the Literature in Preparation for an NIH/NEA Grant on Music Therapy among People with Mild Alzheimer’s” Mentor Request: TBD
- Stephen Kinsey and Sarah Fausett, Co-PI (Biology & Marine Biology, CAS) “Proof-of-concept studies on energetics and life history in body size mutants of C. elegans”
- Hikmet Kocamaner, Anthropology (CAS) “From Zoom Prayers to Televised Sermons: How Media Technologies Help Mediate Religious Practices and Congregational Belonging during the COVID-19 Pandemic among the Practitioners of Abrahamic Religions in the United States”
- Athena R. Kolbe, School of Social Work (CHHS) “Prevalence and impacts of institutional child abuse”
- Jennifer R. McCall, School of Nursing (CHHS) “Creation of a screening library for bioactivity in the Algal Resource Collection”
- Sudip Mittal, Computer Science (CAS) “Center for AI and Security Technologies in Finance (UNCW FinCAST)” Mentor Request: Karl Ricanek
- Ginger Rhodes, (Mathematics and Statistics, ETEAL/Applied Learning, CAS) and Kerry Robinson, Co-PI (Educational Leadership, WEC) “Formative Assessment and Responsive Teaching: Transforming Schools through Synergistic Leadership in STEM” Mentor Request: TBD
- Jacob F. Warner, Biology & Marine Biology (CAS) “Analysis of gene expression during coral embryogenesis to support grant submissions to the NSF IOS Developmental Systems program and NIH NIGMS MIRA”
- Zhangping Wei, Physics & Physical Oceanography (CAS) “Development of an artificial intelligence-based approach to identify/classify hurricane damage from post-disaster images and videos”
- Yiyi C. Yang (Communication Studies, CAS) and Song Yang, Co-PI (Computer Science, CAS) “An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Sigma in the Context of Young Adults Suicide Prevention Drawing on Stigma Communication, Deep Learning, and Text Mining” Mentor Request: Karl Ricanek