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Recent Awards

American University faculty members receive externally sponsored awards to conduct impactful and exciting research. Below is a list of awards received for FY24 by unit.

PI: Sara Nawaz
Project Title: Assessing efficacy of electrochemical ocean alkalinity enhancement at an existing outfall using tracer release experiments and oceanographic models
Sponsor: Climate Works Foundation
Amount: $46,637

PI: Sara Nawaz
Project Title: Building best practices for public and community engagement on carbon removal
Sponsor: Climate Works Foundation
Amount: $109,272

PI: Ernesto Castadena
Project Title: Overcoming the Latino Wealth Gap: Access to Capital for Latino Small Businesses and the Role of Community Financial Intermediaries
Sponsor: Wells Fargo
Amount: $25,000

Center on Health, Risk and Society

Center for Teaching, Research and Learning (CTRL)

Center for University Excellence

PI: Elizabeth Root
Project Title: DC Child Care Stabilization Targeted Grant
Sponsor: Low Income Investment Fund (LIIF)
Amount: $9,808

PI: Vladimir Airapetian
Project Title: An X-ray through Radio Exo-Space Weather Campaign to Study the INfant Sun DS Tuc
Sponsor: Space Telescope Science Institute
Amount: $17,821

PI: Micheal Alonzo
Project Title: ARTIS analysis of DWF and FMFO
Sponsor: Oceana
Amount: $52,543

PI: Micheal Alonzo
Project Title: When, where, and by how much do urban trees reduce temperatures in the city? A review of the literature
Sponsor: International Society of Arboriculture
Amount: $10,000

PI: Valentina Aquila
Project Title: The Impact of Airport Acitivity on Local Air Quality
Sponsor: National Academies
Amount: $12,000

PI: Barbara Balestra
Project Title: Microplastic and microbead spatial distributions, concentrations, and characterizations, in sediment samples from the Potomac and Anacostia River in the District of Columbia
Sponsor: University of the District of Columbia
Amount: $3,750

PI: Will Barnes
Project Title: How are Active Region Properties and Heating Connected?
Sponsor: National Aeronautics and Space Administration - NASA
Amount: $60,000

PI: Laurie Bayet
Project Title: Algorithms for social communication in the developing human brain
Sponsor: Brain & Behavior Research Foundation
Amount: $70,000

PI: Laurie Bayet
Project Title: Uncovering algorithms for social communication in the developing human brain
Sponsor: Karen Toffler Charitable Trust
Amount: $25,000

PI: Frederick Bruhweiler
Project Title: High Resolution Spectroscopic Mapping of Mass Loss in Luminous Blue Variables
Sponsor: Space Telescope Science Institute
Amount: $22,408

PI: Nicole Caporino
Project Title: Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Youth Intolerance of Uncertainty - Parent Report (YIU-PR) Measure
Sponsor: Psi Chi, International Honor Society in Psychology
Amount: $1,500

PI: Julia Chifman
Project Title: Collaborative Research: Advancing Inference of Phylogenetic Trees and Networks Under Multispecies Coalescent with Hybridization and Gene
Sponsor: National Science Foundation - NSF
Amount: $196,861

PI: Victoria Connaughton
Project Title: Impact of Anacostia River water on Fish Reproductive Success
Sponsor: University of the District of Columbia
Amount: $3,750

PI: David Culver
Project Title: The Amphipod Fauna of Seepage Springs in National Capital Parks East
Sponsor: National Park Service
Amount: $29,917

PI: Laura Cutler
Project Title: Teaching Expansion Grant AY23-24
Sponsor: The Israel Institute
Amount: $40,000

PI: Thomas Fauchez
Project Title: Detectability of water in the atmosphere of terrestrial habitable zone exoplanets due to eco-volcanism: a false positive for habitability
Sponsor: National Aeronautics and Space
Amount: $112,413

PI: Thomas Fauchez
Project Title: TRAPPIST-1 Planets: Atmosphere Or Not? 
Sponsor: Thomas Fauchez
Amount: $24,613

PI: Gregory Harry
Project Title: Collaborative Research: Center for Coatings Research - reroute
Sponsor: National Science Foundation - NSF
Amount: $66,519

PI: Taisuke Izumi
Project Title: Role of canonical and non-canonical beta-catenin signaling in HIV-1 latency
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health - NIH
Amount: $289,015

PI: Philip Johnson
Project Title: JWST Observations of Solar System Objects
Sponsor: National Aeronautics and Space Administration - NASA
Amount: $146,874

PI: Daniel Kerr
Project Title: Phase II - Humanities Truck Project
Sponsor: Mellon Foundation
Amount: $750,000

PI: Caroline Kuo
Project Title: Testing the Efficacy of Safe South Africa: An Intervention to Prevent HIV Risk and Interpersonal Vioelnce Among Adolescent Boys
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health - NIH
Amount: $684,756

PI: Christoper Parker
Project Title: Data Driven Streets
Sponsor: District Department of Transportation
Amount: $400,000

PI: Christopher Parker
Project Title: Parker - UVA Darden 2023-2024 IPA Promoting Equity Funding for Schools Facing Adverse Health Circumstances
Sponsor: University of Virginia
Amount: $311,561

PI: Anastasia Snelling
Project Title: Food Matters: Nourishing the Body and Soul (SNAP-Ed) - Year 2 (31735)
Sponsor: DC Department of Health
Amount: $125,000

PI: Anastasia Snelling
Project Title: Health Equity & Advancing Health Literacy - DC (HEAL-DC) - Year 2
Sponsor: DC Department of Health
Amount: $200,000

PI: Anastasia Snelling
Project Title: Mobilize. Activate. Prosper: Cultivating an Equitable Food System in Washington, DC
Sponsor: Novo Nordisk
Amount: $2,800,000

PI: Nancy Snider
Project Title: Koster Foundation Summer 2024 Study Grants for Music Majors - reroute
Sponsor: Marinus And Minna B Koster Foundation Inc
Amount: $8,000

PI: Tracy Weitz
Project Title: Extending Gestation Beyond the Mythical Point of Viability
Sponsor: Society of Family Planning
Amount: $49,726


PI: Tracy Weitz
Project Title: What are the prices of abortions later in pregnancy?
Sponsor: Society of Family Planning
Amount: $6,018

Kogod School of Business

PI: Brian Hughes
Project Title: Developing and Using Critical Comprehension (DUCC): A Social-Emotional Learning Approach to Media Literacy to Combat Radicalization to Violent
Sponsor: US Department of Homeland Security
Amount: $784,276

PI: Brian Hughes
Project Title: Testing the Efficacy of Attitudinal Inoculation Against Extremist Pro-Gun Naratives in Youth
Sponsor: Everytown
Amount: $100,000

PI: Diana Burley
Project Title: Translating Research into Action: Fostering the Use of Research in Evidence-Based Decision Making
Sponsor: National Science Foundation - NSF
Amount: $5,220,577

PI: Welsey Lowery
Project Title: General operating support of the Investigative Reporting Workshop
Sponsor: Heising-Simons Foundation
Amount: $100,000

PI: Wesley Lowery
Project Title: Scripps Howard Diversity & Inclusion in Journalism
Sponsor: Scripps Howard Foundation
Amount: $25,000

PI: Emily Grossnickle-Peterson
Project Title: CAREER: Investigating Curiosity-Driven Visual Processing during Science 
Sponsor: National Science Foundation - NSF
Amount: $486,160

PI: Emily Grossnickle-Peterson
Project Title: The Connection Between Opportunity and the Brain: Neurocognitive Strategies in Science Education and the Role of Socioeconomic Status
Sponsor: Psi Chi, International Honor Society in Psychology
Amount: $1,500

PI: Cheryl Holcom-McCoy
Project Title: 2023-2024 Ed Prep GYO Continuation
Sponsor: DC Office of State Superintendent
Amount: $275,000

PI: Rodney Hopson
Project Title: Co-Editorship of The American Journal of Evaluation
Sponsor: American Evaluation Association (AEA)
Amount: $116,010

PI: Rodney Hopson
Project Title: Scholarship
Sponsor: Northrop Grumman Foundation
Amount: $262,000

PI: Sarah Irvine Belson
Project Title: DCPS Partnership for Evidence-Based Reading Instruction Support
Sponsor: District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS)
Amount: $306,000

PI: Sarah Irvine Belson
Project Title: ELI Leads (Early Literacy Intervention Leads)
Sponsor: US Department of Education
Amount: $187,898

PI: Reuben Jacobson
Project Title: Prince George's County's Community School Network - District Implementation Study
Sponsor: United Way of the National Capital Area
Amount: $88,535

PI: Ocheze Joseph
Project Title: High Impact Tutoring (HIT) Scaling Grant
Sponsor: DC Office of State Superintendent of Education - OSSE
Amount: $134,900

PI: Ocheze Joseph
Project Title: High Impact Tutoring (HIT) Scaling Grant
Sponsor: DC Office of State Superintendent of Education - OSSE
Amount: $134,900

PI: Carolyn Parker
Project Title: Residency for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (RETL)
Sponsor: US Department of Education
Amount: $215,169

PI: Robert Shand
Project Title: Curriculum Implementation Change Framework (CICF)
Sponsor: Columbia University (NY)
Amount: $21,590

PI: Robert Shand
Project Title: Investigating the Costs and Effects of School Nursing Communities of Practice on Student Outcomes
Sponsor: Jefferson County Public School District
Amount: $17,369

PI: Susanna Campbell
Project Title: LPI-RIPIL POST DOCS
Sponsor: Cargenie Corporation of New York
Amount: $350,000

PI: Dana Fisher
Project Title: Developing Research Strategies to Assess the Expanding Work on Climate Adaptation, Resilience, and Mitigation at AmeriCorps
Sponsor: Corporation for National and Community Service, AmeriCorps
Amount: $278,112

PI: Judith Gearhart
Project Title: Seafood Worker Solutions: Connecting Local Perspectives to Global Policy Advocacy
Sponsor: David and Lucile Packard Foundation
Amount: $850,000

PI: James Goldgeier
Project Title: Brookings Institution Visiting Fellowship
Sponsor: Brookings Institution
Amount: $52,931

PI: Ji Young Lee
Project Title: AU Korea Economics Security Forum
Sponsor: Korea Foundation
Amount: $17,000

PI: Simon Nicholson
Project Title: Institute of Carbon Removal Law & Policy
Sponsor: Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
Amount: $200,000

PI: Thespina Yamanis
Project Title: All of Us/Todos Juntos Research
Sponsor: National Alliance for Hispanic Health
Amount: $20,000

PI: Julie Baldwin
Project Title: Arkansas Statewide VTC Strategic Planning Initiative
Sponsor: Center for Court Innovation
Amount: $108,510

PI: Julie Baldwin
Project Title: NIJ Multisite Impact and Cost-Efficiency Evaluation of Veterans Treatment Courts
Sponsor: Center for Court Innovation
Amount: $1,500,00
 
PI:
David Barker
Project Title: New Perspectives in Studies of American Governance Phase II
Sponsor: Hewlett Foundation
Amount: $150,000

PI: Andrew Flores
Project Title: LGBTQ Policy Research Collaboration with UCLA's Williams Institute
Sponsor: University of California, Lost Angeles (UCLA) School of Law
Amount: $64,500

PI: Subhiya Idilbi 
Project Title: Intensive leadership development
Sponsor: Logistics Management Institute
Amount: $231,750

PI: Subhiya Idilbi 
Project Title: TSALI-SF182_M0237670M00000260
Sponsor: Transportation Security Administration (TSA)
Amount: $170,100

PI: Subhiya Idilbi 
Project Title: TSALI-SF182_M0237670M00000260 AU-Cohort-K17-2301-B
Sponsor: Transportation Security Administration (TSA)
Amount: $170,100

PI: Subhiya Idilbi 
Project Title: TSALI-SF182_M0237670M00000262 AU-Cohort-K18-2302-A
Sponsor: Transportation Security Administration (TSA)
Amount: $170,100

PI: Subhiya Idilbi 
Project Title: TSALI-SF182_M0237670M00000263 AU-Cohort-K18-2302-B
Sponsor: Transportation Security Administration (TSA)
Amount: $170,100

PI: Alan Levine
Project Title: PTI Lecture Series
Sponsor: Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation
Amount: $27,500

PI: Alan Levine
Project Title: PTI's Annual Constitution Day Lecture
Sponsor: Jack Miller Center
Amount: $2,500

PI: Ryan Moore
Project Title: IPA
Sponsor: General Services Administration
Amount: $21,271

PI: Taryn Morrissey
Project Title: Child Care Subsidy Policies and Workforce Outcome
Sponsor: US Department of Health and Human Services - HHS
Amount: $24,999

PI: Taryn Morrissey
Project Title: IPA
Sponsor: US Department of Health and Human Services - HHS
Amount: $99,540

 PI: Claudia Persico
Project Title: Promoting Equity Funding for Schools Facing Adverse Health Circumstances
Sponsor: American Institutes for Research
Amount: $102,239
 
PI: David Schwegman
Project Title: IPA
Sponsor: General Services Administration
Amount: $0.00

PI: Andrea Vilan
Project Title: Resisting the Prohibition of Child Marriage in Latin America
Sponsor: American Political Science Association
Amount: $2,000

PI: Joseph Young
Project Title: Vicarious Trauma
Sponsor: National Counterterrorism Innovation, Technology, and Education Center
Amount: $350,00

PI: Padideh Ala'i
Project Title: Humphrey Fellowship Program 2023/24
Sponsor: Institute of Inernational Education
Amount: $278,400

PI: Leslye Orloff
Project Title: National Judicial Network: Forum on Human Trafficking and Immigration in State Courts
Sponsor: State Justice Institute
Amount: $75,000

PI: Leslye Orloff
Project Title: Purpose Area #7
Sponsor: US Department of Justice - DOJ
Amount: $1,100,000

PI: Susana SaCouto
Project Title: Future Frontlines Consultancy
Sponsor: New America
Amount: $22,500

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FY23 Awards

American University faculty received numerous awards in FY23. Click on the link below to review the list.

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FY22 Awards

American University faculty received numerous awards in FY22. Click on the link below to review the list.

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FY21 Awards

American University faculty received numerous awards in FY21. Click on the link below to review the list.

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