FY23 Awards
American University faculty received numerous awards in FY23. Click on the link below to review the list.
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
Center on Health, Risk and Society
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
Kogod
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
WAMU
American University faculty received numerous awards in FY23. Click on the link below to review the list.
American University faculty received numerous awards in FY22. Click on the link below to review the list.
American University faculty received numerous awards in FY21. Click on the link below to review the list.