Our researchers brought in $531.2 million in sponsored awards this year. Below are a few notable grants:
With the help of a five-year $2.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, Cara Stepp, a professor of speech, language, and hearing sciences, will research how testosterone treatment impacts speech production in transgender men.
Thomas Perls, a professor of medicine, and Stacy Andersen, an assistant professor of medicine, along with colleagues, received a $20 million grant from the National Institute on Aging and the McKnight Brain Research Foundation to study why some centenarians never develop Alzheimer’s disease.
The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute awarded a $2.5 million grant to Jaimie Gradus, an associate professor of epidemiology, to explore how posttraumatic mental health conditions affect cardiovascular disease risk.
Rachel Nolan, an assistant professor of international relations, was awarded $46,377 by the Russell Sage Foundation to support work on her book about the effects of deportations from the US to Latin America from 1954 to the present.
Marcia Pescador Jimenez, an assistant professor of epidemiology, received a $738,310 grant from the National Institutes of Health and National Institute on Aging to investigate the direct and indirect effects of green space on neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s.