Multidisciplinary SEED Funding Awardees 2018

Christina Cipriano (PI: PSY), Maureen Hall (Co-PI: STEM ED) 
Award: $26,659.00
Project: “Happy Teachers, Happy Schools: SEL as Intervention for Educators of At-Risk Youth” 

Jun Li (PI:MNE), Vijaya Chalivendra (Co-PI: MNE), Lamya Karim (Co-PI: BNG), Ming Shao (Co-PI: CIS)
Award: $29,541.00
Project: “Optimal Design of 3D Printed Polymers using Multiscale Modeling and Machine Learning for Biomedical Implants” 

Shakhnoza Kayumova (PI: STEM ED), Qinguo Fan (Co-PI: BNG), Maoyuan Sun (Co-PI: CIS)
Award: $ 32,449.00
Project: “Girls Power in Making: Understanding of Trajectories of Identification with STEM Disciplines Among Diverse Adolescent Girls in Making, Coding, and Robotics Infused Science Classes”

Jennifer Koop (PI: BIO), Jamie Jacquart (Co-PI: Campus Sustainability), Tara Rajaniemi (Co-PI: BIO), Michelle Bowers (Co-PI: DES)
Award: $6,045.00
Project: “Reduced Mowing Initiative on University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Campus” 

Joohyun Chung (PI: NUR), Ming Shao (Co-PI: CIS), Donghui Yan (Co-PI: MTH) Project:
Award: $19,280.00
Project:“Novel use of Natural Languages Processing (NLP) to Predict Restraint/Seclusion in Psychiatric Nursing Documentation In this era of big data, biomedical research is rapidly becoming more data-intensive as every day the variety and volume of data within” 

Brian Williams (PI: HIS), Dilshod Archilov (Co-PI: POL), Spencer Ladd (Co-PI: DES), Jean-Francois Allaux (Co-PI: DES)
Award: $35,000.00
Project: “Mapping ISIS Terrorism and Warfare. The Rise, Fall and Diffusion of the Caliphate”