Internal Grants
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The Office of Research and Innovation offers internal grant programs to fund faculty and student research and scholarship. Open solicitations for these opportunities will be posted in InfoReady. There are currently no internal grants available.
Past Recipients
- Testing how circadian rhythms can predict organismal and population responses to climate warming (Alycia Lackey, College of Arts & Sciences)
- Barriers to Housing Access for Individuals with Criminal Records: An Audit Study of the Louisville Private Rental Market (Alex Widdowson, College of Arts & Sciences)
- Archaeological timbers as a novel proxy data source to address ongoing debates in forest-human relationships in Kentucky and the southeastern US (Maegen Rochner, College of Arts & Sciences)
- FloorPlan2Vid: A Deep Generative Approach for Video Synthesis from Floor Plans (Rui Yu, J.B. SPEED School of Engineering)
- Using Molecular Modeling and State-of-the-Art Virological Techniques to Develop Inhibitors of the Alphaviral CP/IRAK1 Interaction (Kevin Sokoloski, School of Medicine)
- Metal Exposures in Early Life: Impacts on Infant Health and Gut Barrier Integrity (Katharina Robertson, School of Medicine)
- Exploring Parental Views on Sexuality Education in School-Aged Children in Kentucky (Sara Choate, School of Public Health and Information Sciences)
- The role of lipids in stem cell maintenance (Rafael Demarco, College of Arts & Sciences)
- From Structural to interpersonal: The effect of sexual and gender minority stress on alcohol use and suicidality (Konrad W Bresin, College of Arts & Sciences)
- Inflammasome Signaling in Microplastics-Induced Cardiovascular Toxicity (Timothy O'Toole, School of Medicine)
- Bi-Directional Arterial Cannula for Enhanced Peripheral Perfusion (Mark Slaughter, School of Medicine)
- Advanced Cardiovascular Diagnostics with Thermodilution Data (R. Eric Berson, J.B. SPEED School of Engineering)
- Community-engaged research in Louisville’s historic cemeteries: An interdisciplinary approach to addressing histories of necroviolence and futures of care (Thomas Jennings, College of Arts & Sciences)
- Development of a Novel Integrated Digital Health System Designed to Support Opioid Recovery by Combining Wearable Sensors, Mobile Applications, and Persuasive Techniques. (John Naber, J.B. SPEED School of Engineering)
- Portable Ultrasonic System for Rapid, Patient-Friendly Orthodontic Adjustments (Thomas Roussel, J.B. SPEED School of Engineering)
- Developing analytical methods to assess oxidative stress markers in wildlife bioindicator species (Mikus Abolins-Abols, College of Arts & Sciences)
- Wastewater analysis to detect affective and anxiety disorders in Africa (Patrick Pössel, College of Education & Human Development)
- Brainrot or not?: How digital information search affects children’s learning (Judith Danovitch, College of Arts & Sciences)
- Building Trauma-Informed Resilience with Vietnamese Families (Andrew Winters, Kent School of Social Work and Family Science)
- Acoustic Interactive Sand Tray Therapy System: Interactive Sound, Therapy, and Community Engagement (Yunze Mu, School of Music)
- Late Antique Global Commerce and the Church in Türkiye and Cyprus (Rebecca Devlin, College of Arts & Sciences)
- How Do the Wounds of Childhood Shape Adult Family Life: Evidence from a Longitudinal Chinese Cohort (Lixia Zhang Kent, School of Social Work and Family Science)
- Taking the fall? Comparing risk of mortality in urban Syedra (Türkiye) between Roman (2nd-3rd c.) and Middle Byzantine (11th-12th c.) periods (Kathryn E Marklein, College of Arts & Sciences)
- Community Resilience and Integration: Community-Based Research with Kentucky Refugee Ministries (M. Ruth Dike, College of Arts & Sciences)
- 1200 and Chance Designs Album (John T Ritz, School of Music)
- Cookbook CD/Vinyl release (Krzysztof Wolek, School of Music)
- The Sound + Sand Therapy Studio: Composing Identity and Belonging to Enhance Student Well-Being, Retention, and Campus Culture (Lorna Segall, School of Music)
- The Curious Case(s) of the “Tiger Kid” Shaik: A Life of a Black Boxing Promoter under Apartheid (Tyler Fleming, College of Arts & Sciences)
- Beyond the Addendum: Race, Sexuality, and Body Politics in Adorno’s Critical Theory (Angermann Asaf, College of Arts and Sciences)
- Reading Lessons from the Caribbean (Simona Bertacco, College of Arts and Sciences)
- Child and Parent Emotion and Sleep Study (Sara Bufferd, College of Arts and Sciences)
- Interracial Couples’ Representations in Advertising (Lindsay Della and Siobhan E. Smith-Jones, College of Arts and Sciences)
- Artificial Intelligence Based Computer-Aided Diagnostic (AI-Based CAD) Software for Early and Precise Assessment of Renal Transplant Status (Ayman El-Baz, J.B. Speed School of Engineering)
- Our World, Our Say: Leveraging Arts to Promote Health Equity in Partnership with Youth Impacted by HIV/AIDS in Hai Phong, Vietnam (Lesley Harris, Andrew Winters and Kyoungmee Byun, Kent School of Social Work)
- Quantification of Metabolism Changes in Alcohol-Associated Liver Disease Using Stable Isotope Resolved Metabolomics (He Liqing, College of Arts and Sciences)
- Remaking Indigenous Books: Cultural Translation and Native Literatures, 1833-1973 (Frank Kelderman, College of Arts and Sciences)
- Mass Incarceration, HIV, & Masculinity (Jelani Kerr and Adrienne Smith, School of Public Health and Information Sciences)
- Positively Leading Immigrant West African Athletes and Families in the Global Sport Arena (Sheron Mark, College of Education and Human Development)
- Contributions of leaf-cutting ant nests to tropical forest methane budgets (Andrew Mehring, College of Arts and Sciences)
- Border Capital: Economic Investment and Regional Transformation in Texas’ Operation Lone Star (Margath Walker, College of Arts and Sciences)
- Understanding fungal microbiome networks supporting imperiled orchid population growth (Konrad Bresin, College of Arts & Sciences)
- Development of inverted glancing angle deposition (I-GLAD) process for antibacterial surfaces (Xiaoyu Chen, J.B. Speed School of Engineering)
- Effect of aging conditions on the bond strength to zirconia (Yash Chitalia, J.B. Speed School of Engineering)
- Overcoming resistance to antiracism: navigating group-level emotions (ORANGE) (Rafael Demarco, College of Arts and Sciences)
- Drinking in Dyads: Understanding the Rewarding Effects of Alcohol in LGBTQ+ Individuals (Derica Goncalves Tavares, College of Arts and Sciences)
- The Gen Z teacher project: Gen Z teacher circles (Austin Hubner, College of Arts and Sciences)
- Lipid profiling in young vs old stem cells (Mahsa Javid, School of Medicine)
- Women’s empowerment through community-based participatory research in Morocco (Katherine Marin, College of Education and Human Development)
- Pop-up Origami-inspired Soft Robotic Surgical Tools for Emergency Surgery (Yara Mekawi, College of Arts and Sciences)
- Minimizing backlash: Examining female scientist’s public engagement efforts (Connor Morozumi and Natalie Christian, College of Arts and Sciences)
- Investigating factors influencing science student retention using peer-led focus groups (Chuang Qu and Kevin Walsh, J.B. Speed School of Engineering)
- Self efficacy and burnout (Pamela Thomas, J.B. Speed School of Engineering)
- Human mate-copying and the popularity of Halo in an online venue (Michael Cunningham, College of Arts and Sciences)
- Development of a gastric reflux simulator for the analysis of teeth and dental materials (Grace DeSouza, School of Dentistry)
- Youth/young adults of color responding to racial inequities and COVID-19 in listening sessions (Melanie Gast, College of Arts and Sciences)
- Validating techniques for collecting vocal and listening effort during remote and in-person speech-language intervention (Maria Kondaurova, College of Arts and Sciences)
- On the border, between empires: A bioarchaeological examination of health, diet, and biological relatedness in individuals from the cemetery of Oymaağaç during the Roman to Byzantine transition (Kathryn Marklein, College of Arts and Sciences)
- Chance designs recording (John Ritz, School of Music)
- Development of expertise in perception of speech and music (Christian Stilp, College of Arts and Sciences)
- Automating emotional safety and post-traumatic growth: An exploratory study to investigate gender-based violence survivors’ user experiences on social media (Heather Storer, Kent School of Social Work)
- Campus sustainability, community context (Angela Storey, College of Arts and Sciences)
- Antibiotic bone cement intramedullary nails for treating orthopedic infections (Michael Voor, School of Medicine)
- Exploring the relationships between student behaviors and special education teachers’ physical well-being and instruction: a pilot study (Jeremy Whitney, College of Education and Human Development)
- Effect of powder feedstock on the material characteristics of small-size Ti6Al4V geometries fabricated by laser powder bed fusion additive manufacturing (Li Yang, J.B. Speed School of Engineering)
- Translation of the Chinese fashion industry: an ethnographic approach (Jianhua Zhao, College of Arts and Sciences)
- Collaborative multimodal sensor fusion with edge intelligence for connected and autonomous vehicles (Sabur Hassan Baidya, J.B. Speed School of Engineering)
- Assessing and responding to psychosocial and health equity needs of immigrant and refugee communities through library partnerships (Rebecka Bloomer, Kent School of Social Work)
- Evaluation of the physicochemical properties of a new bioceramic endodontic sealer: an initial approach (Eduardo Antunes Bortoluzzi, School of Dentistry)
- Emotions, context and alcohol use (Konrad Bresin, College of Education and Human Development)
- Developing 3D-printed lattice nasopharyngeal swabs for COVID-19 tests (Yanyu Chen, J.B. Speed School of Engineering)
- The impacts of drought on hemp physiology, chemistry, and the microbiome (Natalie Christian, College of Arts and Sciences)
- Multi-pathogen wastewater surveillance system to improve health and stop pathogenic outbreaks within low- and middle-income country communities (Rochelle Holm, School of Medicine)
- Reactions to experiencing discrimination (RED) study (Yara Mekawi, College of Arts and Sciences)
- Quantifying the controls of streamflow permanence and sediment connectivity in urban headwater streams (Tyler Mahoney, J.B. Speed School of Engineering)
- A physics-based machine learning framework for smart self-adaptable multi-stage manufacturing systems (Luis Segura Sangucho, J.B. Speed School of Engineering)
- Homing in: community engaged research on LGBTQ+ youth houselessness in Louisville, Kentucky (Cara Snyder, College of Arts and Sciences)
- Eliciting expert knowledge in empirical selection of machine learning methods (Xiaomei Wang, J.B. Speed School of Engineering)