Please direct program inquiries to:
Effie MacLachlan, Ph.D.
Director of Grants & Research Programs
effie.maclachlan@cuny.edu
The 2023 Interdisciplinary Research Grant Program Winners (Abstracts and PI’s)
Twenty-eight interdisciplinary teams from across the University submitted applications to the 2023 Interdisciplinary Research Grant program. Ten collaborative research projects have been selected to receive $400,000 in seed funding. A combined total of 28 faculty members representing eleven colleges and schools and multiple disciplines ranging from engineering to social work, to psychology and neuroscience are on the winning teams.
Lead PI: Jennifer Cherrier (Brooklyn College)
Additional PI(s): Meghan Ference (Brooklyn College) & Dianne Greenfeild (ASRC)
Project Title: Linking Public Perceptions of Prospect Park with Cyanobacteria Bloom Mitigation: Interdisciplinary Solutions for Urban Water Resource Management
Lead PI: Joanna Coleman (Queens College)
Additional PI(s): Alicia Melèndez (Queens College)
Project Title: Skunk Cabbage on an Urbanising Planet
Lead PI: Lili Ma (New York City College of Technology)
Additional PI(s): Benito Mendoza & Jeremy Seto (New York City College of Technology) and M. Umit Uyar (City College)
Project Title: Multi-Robot Cooperative Target Tracking with Bio-Inspired Task Assignment and Formation Control
Lead PI: Anna Ortega-Williams (Hunter College)
Additional PI(s): Regina Bernard-Carreno (CUNY School of Professional Studies)
Project Title: NYC Land-Based Historical Trauma Healing Project
Lead PI: Zachary Shahn (SPH)
Additional PI(s): Mustaf Hussein (SPH) and Dahlia Remler (Baruch College)
Project Title: Reaching Across the Disciplinary Aisle: a New Biostatistical Difference-in-Differences Approach for Health and Social Policy Research
Lead PI: Jessica Hardie (Hunter College)
Additional PI(s): Frank Heiland (Baruch College)
Project Title: How Workplace Matters for Health: New Evidence on Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Mortality in Urban and Rural America
Lead PI: Alexis Jemal (Hunter College)
Additional PI(s): Sasha Rudenstine (City College) and Amy Green (John Jay)
Project Title: Acceptability and Preliminary Effectiveness of the AT EASE Initiative for Psychosocial Support for PROVE’s Student Veterans and Socio-Cultural Training for PROVE’s MSW Student-Interns
Lead PI: Susanna Mingote (ASRC)
Additional PI(s): Dan McCloskey (CSI) and Pinar Ayata, Peter Groffman & Jia Liu (ASRC)
Project Title: Mouse city: A Naturalistic Approach to Investigate the Effects of Urban Ecosystems on the Brain and Behavior
Lead PI: Chloe Teasdale (SPH)
Additional PI(s): Geetha Gopalan (Hunter)
Project Title: Missed Medical Care and Delayed Diagnoses in Children and Adolescents in and Around New York City During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Lead PI: Krishnaswami Raja (CSI)
Additional PI(s): Zaghloul Ahmed (CSI)
Project Title: Portable airbrush-based technology to treat hemorrhage and promote accelerated healing of traumatic wounds (Bleed Extinguisher -Turmeric Golden Gauze ™)