UVM Awards Six REACH Grants Supporting Faculty Research and Scholarship

The Office of the Vice President for Research has announced the 2018-19 winners of the REACH Grant Program.

This year’s winning grants and award winners are:

  • Flight and Concealment: Surviving the Holocaust Underground in Munich and Beyond. PI: Susanna Schrafstetter. Department of History, College of Arts and Sciences. $12,000
  • Monastic Attitudes to Islamophobia in Northern Thailand — Islamophobia or Not? PI: Thomas Borchert. Department of Religion, College of Arts and Sciences. $10,700
  • Biomechanical Factors Six Months Post-ACLR with Meniscal Resection. PI: Niccolo Fiorentino. Department of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences. $29,664
  • Data Privacy for Deep Learning via Language Design. PI David Darais, Co-PI Joseph Near. Department of Computer Science, College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences. $29,409
  • What happens next? Predictive abilities during linguistic and visual narrative comprehension in individuals with autism spectrum disorders. PI Emily Coderre, Co-PI Neil Trevor.  Department of Communication Science and Disorders, College of Nursing and Health Sciences.  $29,485
  • DNA Damage Response to PARP and PARG inhibitors in Glioblastoma. PI: Delphine Quenet.  Department of Biochemistry, Larner College of Medicine. $25,000

REACH grants are designed to promote innovative research, scholarship and creative projects that enhance UVM’s reputation as an incubator for cutting-edge ideas; encourage faculty members to reach the next level of achievement in their scholarly trajectory; and leverage institutional investment by providing the building blocks to support applications for competitive extramural funding.

Source: UVM News