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2024 Founders Endowment Recipient Presentations April 2025
Each research project was awarded $10,000 to further proposed scholarly pursuits. Funding is provided through the Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and the Founders Endowment. The application and review process was conducted by the Research Advisory Committee (RAC). A special thank you to EVCAA Andy Harris for making $70,000 available for distribution this year, which allowed for the distribution of seven awards. Humanities:
Emma Rose, SIAS and Maria-Tania Bandes Becerra Weingarden, SIAS; Cassie Miura, SIAS. Social Justice Theme:
Jingyi Li, School of Nursing and Healthcare Leadership; Alison Cardinal, SIAS. Social Science Theme:
Bara Safarova, School of Urban Studies and Nara Almeida, SET; Amanda Sesko, SIAS; STEM Theme:
Martine De Cock, SET, Ling-Hong Hung, SET and Weichao Yuwen, School of Nursing and Healthcare Leadership.
2023 Founders Endowment Recipient Presentations May 2024
This year, the EVCAA provided $40,000 worth of funds from the Founders Endowment to support faculty scholarship needs to start a project, continue a project, or complete a project. One grant of $4,000 to the Humanities theme, 3 grants of $4,000 to the Social Justice theme and 2 grants each to the Social Science and STEM theme. Interdisciplinary: A team consisting of Alison Gardell, SIAS, Sarah Alaei, SIAS and Jim Gawel, SAIS; and a team consisting of Weichao Yuwen, School of Nursing & Healthcare Leadership, Martine De Cock, SET and Anderson Nascimento, SET. Social Justice: Julia Dancis, SIAS; Vanessa de Veritch Woodside, SIAS and Davon Woodard, School of Urban Studies. Social Science: Ji-Hyun Ahn, SIAS; Alireza Boloori, Milgard School of Business. STEM: Anna M. Groat Carmona, SIAS and Julie Masura, SIAS.
2022 Catalyst Fund Recipient Presentations May 2023
Five grants of $20,000 each were awarded for the 2022-2023 academic year in support of the scholarship of five tenure-track assistant professors, one in each of the following themes: Social Justice, Social Science, Humanities, STEM, and Interdisciplinary. Sonia De La Cruz, SIAS; Angela Kitali, SET and Matthew Ford, SET; Anaid Yerena, Urban Studies; Jinlan Ni, Milgard School of Business; and Zaher Kamil, SIAS and Gordon Brobbey, School of Education.
2021 Founders Endowment Recipient Presentations May 2022
Seven faculty researchers were awarded small Founders Endowment grants last year through a competitive process run by the Research Advisory Committee of Faculty Assembly in collaboration with the Office of Research to pursue their research, many of which involved students. Kelly Kim - Assistant Professor of Organic Chemistry Division of Science and Mathematics, SIAS; Sarah Alaei - Assistant Professor of Microbiology Division of Science and Mathematics, SIAS; Chieh (Sunny) Cheng - Assistant Professor School of Nursing & Healthcare Leadership; Jane Compson - Associate Professor Division of Politics, Philosophy and Public Affairs, SIAS; Martine De Cock – Professor School of Engineering & Technology; Barb Toews - Associate Professor School of Social Work & Criminal Justice; and Jenny Xiao - Assistant Professor Division of Social, Behavioral & Human Sciences, SIAS presented their funded research and recent findings.
Social Justice Scholarship Presentation - Dr. Billye Sankofa Waters: Toward a Radical Identity Praxis: Researching with folx who look like me May 2022
In late 2021, Sankofa Waters began interviewing 12 folx born within the critical influence of Hip Hop across the Deep South, NY and the Midwest, addressing the question: How do Black folx cultivate everyday practices of liberation? As Black storytellers, they pivot away from DuBois’ musings regarding the white gaze in 1903, “what does it feel like to be a problem,” and pivot toward #BlackFolxAreRich. This talk focuses on home. Because from their vantage point, home nurtures strong Black identities. These strong Black identities always trouble Eurocentric curriculum and foster urgency to decolonize institutional spaces steeped in anti-Black racism. Telling the story of home means privileging Nana, Paw Paw and nem over Columbus. It means journeying from survival toward healing and wonderment.
