2025-2026
Major Grants:
- Investigating the Role of Zinc in Heroin Addiction (co-funded with º¬Ð߲ݴ«Ã½'s Picker ISI)
Ewa Galaj (Psychological and Brain Sciences, Neuroscience) and Jacob Goldberg (Chemistry) - Connecting Environmental Cues to Circadian Clock Genes and Development in C. elegans
Priscilla Van Wynsberghe (Biology) - Investigation of Metabolic Shifts during Sensory Organ Regeneration in Zebrafish
Jason R. Meyers (Biology, Neuroscience)
Discretionary Grants:
- Mapping Individual Differences in Experiences with Visual Art: Development of a New Measure to Link Art Perception and Brain Activity
Rebecca Shiner (Psychological and Brain Sciences) and Bruce Hansen (Psychological and Brain Sciences, Neuroscience) - Threading the Next Bead: A Brief Intervention Addressing Uncertain Futures in Young Adults
Rebecca Shiner (Psychological and Brain Sciences) - Governing Behavior and Opioid Use Disorder
Milica Milic-Kolarevic (Global Public and Environmental Health)
2024-2025
New Connections, New Perspectives Grants:
- Support for three months working with Prof. H. Andrew Schwartz at SUNY Stony Brook to gain skills related to Natural Language Processing and Deep Learning, and as co-investigators on the project, Decoding Mood Disorders: Connecting Genetics and Language through NLP and Machine/Deep Learning
Ahmet Ay (Biology, Mathematics)
Major Grants:
- Investigating the Relationship between Head Impacts and Changes in the Gut Microbiome in Collegiate Women’s Ice Hockey Players
Ken Belanger (Biology) - The Role of Epithelial-to-Mesenchymal Transitions in Controlling Sensory Progenitor Fates in the Zebrafish Lateral Line
Jason Meyers (Biology, Neuroscience) - Evaluating the Reliability of Web-based Experiments for Testing Quantitative Psycholinguistic Predictions
Grusha Prasad (Computer Science)
Discretionary Grants:
- Bridging Barriers: Understanding and Supporting First-Generation College Student Success
Jessica Murray (Psychological and Brain Sciences) - The Effect of Women Starting a Job on Intra-household Bargaining in Different Contexts
Carolina Castilla (Economics) - Breaking Bad: Factors Affecting Military Personnel's Risky Decision Making
Jessica Murray (Psychological and Brain Sciences) - Learning Implicit Causality with Neural Language Models
Forrest Davis (Computer Science) - Brains, bodies & behavior: Building global health case studies across institutions
Rebecca Upton (Global Public and Environmental Health)
2023-2024
Major Grants:
- DNA sequencing to investigate links between head impacts and changes in the gut microbiome in football players
Ken Belanger (Biology) - Quantifying cultures of discrimination to address health disparities among LGBTQ+ individuals
Erin Cooley (Psychological and Brain Sciences), Will Cipolli (Mathematics) - Song-entangled beat gesture in songbirds: a window to the mind and brain
Wan-chun Liu (Psychological and Brain Sciences, Neuroscience) and Spencer Kelly (Psychological and Brain Sciences, Neuroscience) - The immune system as the brain’s sculptor during metamorphosis
Anzela Niraula (Psychological and Brain Sciences) - Children’s sleep, stress, and learning study - II
Lauren Philbrook (Psychological and Brain Sciences)
Discretionary Grants:
- The effects of popular culture on attitudes about politics and the economy
Danielle Lupton (Political Science) - Aspirations, Beliefs, and Behavior: Results from a Randomized Religious Intervention in Kenya
David Murphy (Economics) - Investigating the border-associated macrophages in the stressed brain
Anzela Niraula (Psychological and Brain Sciences, Neuroscience) - Changing identity salient beliefs
Allison Zengilowski (Psychological and Brain Sciences) and Karen Harpp (Geology, Peace and Conflict Studies)
2022-2023
Major Grants:
- A transcriptomics approach to connecting circadian misalignment to Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
Krista Ingram (Biology), Ahmet Ay (Biology, Mathematics) - EEG headsets and project to examine brain waves of group in response to leaders
Carrie Keating (Psychological and Brain Sciences), Bruce Hansen (Psychological and Brain Sciences, Neuroscience), Sinhaeng Lee (Music) - Learning and memory in zebra finches during long-term light exposure
Wan-chun Liu (Psychological and Brain Sciences, Neuroscience) - Shared activities and partner responsiveness in sleep and health
Jennifer Tomlinson (Psychological and Brain Sciences), Lauren Philbrook (Psychological and Brain Sciences)
Discretionary Grant:
- RNA sequencing experiment examining differences in gene expression during sensory neuron development in cavefish
Jason Meyers (Biology, Neuroscience)
2021-2022
Major Grants:
- An exploration of virtual reality, augmented reality, and mixed reality immersive technologies for research and teaching at º¬Ð߲ݴ«Ã½ University's Mind, Brain, and Behavior Center
Carrie Keating (Psychological and Brain Sciences), Bruce Hansen (Psychological and Brain Sciences, Neuroscience), Niranjan Davray (Information Technology), Ahmad Khazee (Information Technology) - MBBI Scholars Student/Faculty Research Program (Pilot)
Krista Ingram (Biology), Spencer Kelly (Psychological and Brain Sciences, Neuroscience), Ahmet Ay (Biology, Mathematics) - Investigation of gut microbiome composition and changes during recovery from concussion in college-aged student-athletes
Chuck Monteith (Physical Education, Recreation, and Athletics), Paul Klawitter (Physical Education, Recreation, and Athletics), Ken Belanger (Biology), Ahmet Ay (Biology, Mathematics) - Long-run effects of an alcohol mitigation program on aggression between spouses in rural Kenya
David Murphy (Economics), Carolina Castilla (Economics)