Twelve faculty received seed money for 11 unique projects in the 2020 Committee on Research and Creative Works grant awards. The investments are open to tenure and tenure-track faculty to promote research excellence, help young faculty members establish research programs and assistant faculty in becoming nationally competitive when seeking external funding.
- Making Communities Safer Places to Grow Old – submitted by Gia Barboza, assistant professor of criminal justice; and Diep Dao, assistant professor of geography and environmental studies
- Metabolism, Body Composition, Sleep, and Quality of Life in Women – submitted by Melissa Benton, professor of nursing
- Creation and Investigation of Hybrid Reconfigurable Magnonic Crystals – submitted by Dmytro Bozhko, assistant professor of physics
- Tree Talks: Populus tremuloides – submitted by Benjamin Kinsley, assistant professor of visual arts
- Flag and Boost Theories for Hot Spot Forecasting: A Replication of NIJ’s Real-Time Crime Forecasting Algorithm using Colorado Springs Crime Data – submitted by Yongjei Lee, assistant professor of criminal justice
- National Study of Veteran Wellness Characteristics – submitted by Phillip Morris, assistant professor of leadership, research and foundations
- Development of Algorithms and Computational Tools to Study the Spatial Organization of Bacteria Chromosomes and Genome Function Discovery – submitted by Oluwatosin Oluwadare, assistant professor of computer science
- Improving Measurement of Cannabis Use among Older Adults – submitted by Rachel Thayer, assistant professor of psychology
- Regression Principal Component Analysis: A Supervised Dimension Reduction Method – submitted by Xin Yee, assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering
- Boundary-crossing Interactions and Virtual Knowledge Sharing in Multi-team Environment: An Exploratory Study – submitted by Kay Yoon, assistant professor of communication
- Do Developer Perceptions Have Borders? Comparing C Code Responses across Continents – submitted by Yanyan Zhuang, assistant professor of computer science