Seed Grants

Committee on Research and Creative Works (CRCW)
2020 AWARDEES

The CRCW is thrilled to announce the 2020 winners:

Gia Barboza & Diep Dao

Assistant Professors, Criminal Justice & Geography and Environmental Studies

Project Title: Making Communities Safer Places to Grow Old

Melissa Benton

Professor, Nursing

Project Title: Metabolism, Body Composition, Sleep, and Quality of Life in Women

Dmytro Bozhko

Assistant Professor, Physics

Project Title: Creation and Investigation of Hybrid Reconfigurable Magnonic Crystals

Benjamin Kinsley

Assistant Professor, VAPA

Project Title: Tree Talks: Populus tremuloides

Yongjei Lee

Assistant Professor, Criminal Justice

Project Title: Flag and Boost Theories for Hot Spot Forecasting: A Replication of NIJ's Real-Time Crime Forecasting Algorithm using Colorado Springs Crime Data

Phillip Morris

Assistant Professor, Leadership, Research & Foundations

Project Title: National Study of Veteran Wellness Characteristics

Oluwatosin Oluwasdare

Assistant Professor, Computer Science

Project Title: Development of Algorithms and Computational Tools to Study the Spatial Organization of Bacteria Chromosomes and Genome Function Discovery

Rachel Thayer

Assistant Professor, Psychology

Project Title: Improving Measurement of Cannabis Use among Older Adults

Xin Yee

Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Project Title: Regression Principal Component Analysis: A Supervised Dimension Reduction Method

Kay Yoon

Associate Professor, Communication

Project Title: Boundary-crossing Interactions and Virtual Knowledge Sharing in Multi-team Environment: An Exploratory Study

Yanyan Zhuang

Assistant Professor, Computer Science

Project Tile: Do Developer Perceptions Have Borders? Comparing C Code Responses across Continents