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