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Recent Awards

American University faculty members receive externally sponsored awards to conduct impactful and exciting research. Below is a list of awards received for FY24 by unit.

PI: Sara Nawaz
Project Title: Assessing efficacy of electrochemical ocean alkalinity enhancement at an existing outfall using tracer release experiments and oceanographic models
Sponsor: Climate Works Foundation
Amount: $46,637

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PI: Michael Alonzo
Project Title: ARTIS analysis of DWF and FMFO
Sponsor: Oceana
Amount: $52,543

PI: Valentina Aquila
Project Title: The Impact of Airport Activity on Local Air Quality
Sponsor: National Academies
Amount: $12,000

PI: David Barker
Project Title: New Perspectives in Studies of American Governance Phase II
Sponsor: Hewlett Foundation
Amount: $150,000

PI: Nicole Caporino
Project Title: Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Youth Intolerance of Uncertainty - Parent Report (YIU-PR) Measure
Sponsor: Psi Chi, International Honor Society in Psychology
Amount: $1,500

PI: David Culver
Project Title: The Amphipod Fauna of Seepage Springs in National Capital Parks East
Sponsor: National Park Service
Amount: $29,917

PI: Laura Cutler
Project Title: Teaching Expansion Grant AY23-24
Sponsor: The Israel Institute
Amount: $40,000

PI: Gregory Harry
Project Title: Collaborative Research: Center for Coatings Research - reroute
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $66,519

PI: Taisuke Izumi
Project Title: Role of canonical and non-canonical beta-catenin signaling in HIV-1 latency
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Amount: $289,015

PI: Philip Johnson
Project Title: WST Observations of Solar System Objects
Sponsor: National Aeronautics and Space Administration-NASA
Amount: $146,874

PI: Daniel Kerr
Project Title: Phase II- Humanities Truck Project
Sponsor: Mellon Foundation
Amount: $750,000

PI: Caroline Kuo
Project Title: Testing the Efficacy of Safe South Africa: An Intervention to Prevent HIV Risk and Interpersonal Violence Among Adolescent Boys
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Amount: $684,756

PI: Alan Levine
Project Title: PTI's Annual Constitution Day Lecture
Sponsor: Jack Miller Center
Amount: $2,500

PI: Ryan Moore
Project Title: IPA
Sponsor: General Services Administration
Amount: $21,271

PI: Christopher Parker
Project Title: Parker- UVA Darden 2023-2024- IPA
Sponsor: University of Virginia
Amount: $311,561

PI: Anastasia Snelling
Project Title: Health Equity & Advancing Health Literacy - DC (HEAL-DC) - Year 2
Sponsor: DC Department of Health
Amount: $200,000

 

PI: Monica Jackson
Project Title: ADVANCE AU: Creating Gender and Racial Equity Among STEM Faculty
Sponsor: National Science Foundation-NSF
Amount: $1,000,000

PI: Monica Jackson
Project Title: NSF REU-Sites: Summer Program Advancing Techniques in the Applied Learning of Statistics (SPATIAL-Stats) at Georgetown University
Sponsor: Georgetown University
Amount: $2,310

PI: Julie Drizin
Project Title: Current: News for People in Public Media
Sponsor: Wyncote Foundation
Amount: $375,000

PI: Brigid Maher
Project Title: Anacostia Youth Film and Media Festival
Sponsor: Humanities Council of Washington, DC
Amount: $25,000

PI: Caty Borum Chattoo
Project Title: Comedy for Social Justice and Civic Power
Sponsor: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Amount: $957,719

PI: Caty Borum Chattoo
Project Title: Support for the Yes, And Laughter Lab (part of the Center for Media and Social Impact)
Sponsor: Open Society Foundation
Amount: $400,000

PI: Margaret Stogner
Project Title: Clean Water Act Awareness Project (Upstream, Downriver film)
Sponsor’s Name: Walton Family Foundation
Amount Awarded: $100,000

PI: Caty Borum Chattoo
Project Title: Yes, And Laughter Lab Project (2023-2026)
Sponsor: Open Society Foundation
Amount: $375,000

PI: Wendy Melillo-Farrill
Project Title: From Overt to Covert: The Evolving Face of America's Antisemitism
Sponsor: Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication
Amount: $1,250

PI: Margaret Stogner
Project Title: 21st Century Environmental Media, Policy, and Grassroots Action: Upstream, Downriver
Sponsor: Park Foundation
Amount: $50,000

PI: Caty Borum Chattoo
Project Title: Yes And Laughter Lab Project: 2023-2026
Sponsor: Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
Amount: $375,000

PI: Brigid Maher
Project Title: DC on the Go-Go: Anacostia Youth Media Festival
Sponsor: DC Office of Cable Television, Film, Music, and Entertainment (OCTFME)
Amount: $25,000

PI: Drizin, Julie
Project Title: NewsMatch 2022, annual matching award challenge program through Wyncote Foundation
Sponsor: Wyncote Foundation
Amount: $10,000

PI: Emily Grossnickle-Peterson
Project Title: CAREER: Investigating Curiosity-Driven Visual Processing during Science Learning
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $486,160

 

PI: Dana Fisher
Project Title: Developing Research Strategies to Assess the Expanding Work on Climate Adaptation, Resilience, and Mitigation at AmeriCorps
Sponsor: Corporation for National and Community Service, AmeriCorps
Amount: $278,112

PI: James Goldgeier
Project Title: Brookings Institution Visiting Fellowship
Sponsor: Brookings Institution

PI: Susanna Campbell
Project Title: LPI-RIPIL Post-Doctoral Fellows
Sponsor: Carnegie
Amount: $350,000

PI: Judith Gearhart    
Project Title: Seafood Worker Solutions: Connecting Local Perspectives to Global Policy Advocacy
Sponsor: David and Lucile Packard Foundation        
Amount: $850,000

PI: Sara Nawaz
Project Title: Building best practices for public and community engagement on carbon removal    
Sponsor: Climate Works Foundation 
Amount: $109,272

PI: Thespina Yamanis    
Project Title: All of Us / Todos Juntos Research Program        
Sponsor: National Alliance for Hispanic Health   
Amount: $20,000

PI: Subhiya Idilbi
Project Title: TSALI-SF182_M0237670M00000260 AU-Cohort-K17-2301-A_AU Budget
Sponsor: Transportation Security Administration (TSA)
Amount: $170,100

PI: Subhiya Idilbi
Project Title: TSALI-SF182_M0237670M00000260 AU-Cohort-K17-2301-B
Sponsor: Transportation Security Administration (TSA)
Amount: $170,100

PI: Subhiya Idilbi
Project Title: TSALI-SF182_M0237670M00000262 AU-Cohort-K18-2302-A
Sponsor: Transportation Security Administration (TSA)
Amount: $170,100

PI: Subhiya Idilbi
Project Title: TSALI-SF182_M0237670M00000263 AU-Cohort-K18-2302-B
Sponsor: Transportation Security Administration (TSA)
Amount: $170,100

PI: Claudia Persico
Project Title: Promoting Equity Funding for Schools Facing Adverse Health Circumstances
Sponsor: American Institutes for Research
Amount: $102,239

PI: Andrea Vilan
Project Title: Resisting the Prohibition of Child Marriage in Latin America
Sponsor: American Political Science Association
Amount: $2,000

PI: Padideh Ala'i
Project Title: Humphrey Fellowship Program 2023/24
Sponsor: Institute of International Education

PI: Leslye Orloff
Project Title: National Judicial Network: Forum on Human Trafficking and Immigration in State Courts
Sponsor: State Justice Institute 
Amount: $75,000

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FY23 Awards

American University faculty received numerous awards in FY23. Click on the link below to review the list.

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FY22 Awards

American University faculty received numerous awards in FY22. Click on the link below to review the list.

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FY21 Awards

American University faculty received numerous awards in FY21. Click on the link below to review the list.

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