56³Ô¹ÏÍø Bothell SRCP Seed Grant Recipients Spring 2021

Congratulations to the following faculty who have received funding! The 56³Ô¹ÏÍø Bothell SRCP Seed Grant Program is intended to competitively support 56³Ô¹ÏÍø Bothell faculty in all disciplines who are starting new projects or relaunching current projects in new directions that have the potential for internal 56³Ô¹ÏÍø and/or external funding. We hope to continue building the research capacity and extramural support for faculty across all Schools.

A total of $260,000 was awarded to faculty and some funding was given specifically to support undergraduate researchers assisting with their mentor’s research. More funding may become available by July 1 as the 2020 SRCP award period comes to a close.

  1. Dr. Yang Peng
    Project Title: Delivery of Mobile Computing Resources for Pervasive AI Services on Edge
  2. Drs. Rachel E Scherr, Blakely Tsurusaki, and Rejoice Akapame
    Project Title: Video lessons to support equity education for university instructional assistants in STEM
  3. Dr. Afra Mashhadi
    Project Title: A Crowdsensing Platform for Ubiquitous Taste Recognition
  4. Dr. Dong Si
    Project Title: Intelligent RNA and Ligand Involved SARS-CoV-2 Supramolecular Assembly Modeling from Cryo-EM
  5. Dr. Xiahua Wei
    Project Title: The Value of Crowdfunding to Microfinance
  6. Dr. Geethapriya Thamilarasu
    Project Title: A Deep Learning Approach for ECG Authentication on Implantable Medical Devices
  7. Dr. Camelia Bejan
    Project Title: The stakeholder-corporation: a theoretical analysis
  8. Dr. Sophie Leroy
    Project Title: Reducing the performance costs of interruptions: an intervention study
  9. Dr. Jody Early
    Project Title: Creating Safer and More Equitable Workplaces for Latinx Farmworkers: Developing and Validating the First Spanish Sexual Harassment and Workplace Climate Survey for Agriculture
  10. Dr. W. Jong Yoon
    Project Title: Gizmo 2.0 – a cross-disciplinary robot for enhancing recovery after stroke-induced hemispatial neglect
  11. Dr. Kari Lerum
    Project Title: Trans & Non-Binary Sex Workers: Assessing impacts of FOSTA-SESTA & COVID-19
  12. Dr. Pietro Paparella
    Project Title: Complex Perron similarities and polynomials that preserve nonnegative matrices
  13. Dr. Jennifer Atkinson
    Project Title: An Existential Toolkit for Climate Justice Educators
  14. Dr. Jeffrey Scott Jensen
    Project Title: A newly recognized population of kokanee salmon at 56³Ô¹ÏÍøB – Origins, life history, and opportunities for student research and community engagement

Carry-over funding from the 2020 SCRP Award Period:

  1. Dr. Shima Abadi
    Project Title: Effects of sub-seabed geology on seismic sound propagation in the ocean
  2. Dr. Sara Maxwell
    Project Title: Seabirds and Tropical Ecosystems: Links Under Climate Change

To learn more about the SRCP grant, or track upcoming changes for future submissions, visit SRCP Solicitation page.