Over $550,000 of seed funding grants was provided to 12 research projects on campus by the Office of Research. The money is primarily intended to fund graduate students developing new ideas and to help these projects generate preliminary data in order to pursue external funding.
The projects were chosen from 53 applications and represent more than 30 faculty members from four academic schools and nine departments. Their topics cover a wide spectrum, from nanofabrication to mammalian cells and human cognition.
Projects are selected based on their innovativeness and the probability of their securing major funding from outside the campus. The Research Seed Funding Program, which provided the funds, reviewed last year’s seed funding mid-term and found that the program is accomplishing its stated goals, with the recipients making significant progress and authoring proposals to major funding agencies.
