Grant Awards
BU Sargent College’s faculty received $11,877,499 in research funding in 2013-2014. Here is a list of our projects and the agencies and foundations supporting them.
| Principal Investigator | Title of Project | Agency/Foundation | Funds Awarded 2013-2014 | Year of Award | Total Award |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sudha Arunachalam, assistant professor of speech, language & hearing sciences | A Non-Interactive Method for Teaching Noun and Verb Meanings to Young Children with ASD | Autism Speaks | $58,900 | 2 of 2 | $118,886 |
| Sudha Arunachalam | Toddlers’ Representations of Verbs: Effects of Delay and Sleep on Verb Meaning | Northwestern University | $57,706 | 2 of 2 | $119,847 |
| Sudha Arunachalam | Mechanisms Underlying Word Learning in Children with ASD: Non-social Learning and Memory Consolidation | NIH/NIDCD | $171,433 | 1 of 4 | $688,018 |
| Sudha Arunachalam | Individual Differences in Toddlers’ Abilities to Learn New Verbs From Their Linguistic Context | Language Learning | $10,000 | 1 of 1 | $10,000 |
| Helen Barbas, professor of health sciences | Organization of Prefrontal Feedback Circuits | NIH/NIMH | $438,124 | 5 of 5 | $2,260,464 |
| Helen Barbas | Prefrontal Anatomic Pathways in Executive Control | NIH/NINDS | $374,799 | 5 of 5 | $1,990,887 |
| Helen Barbas and Claire Timbie, predoctoral student | Circuitry of Emotion: Integration in Orbitofrontal Cortex | NIH/NIMH | $47,232 | 4 of 5 | $178,140 |
| Shelley Brown, clinical assistant professor of health sciences | Boston University Health Science Program: Developing Global Citizens through Civic Engagement in Public Health | Association of American Colleges and Universities | $10,000 | 1 of 1 | $10,000 |
| Kee Chan, assistant professor of health sciences | Medical Decision Analysis Models for the Millions Veterans Program | Dept. of Veterans Affairs (VA) | $16,867 | 1 of 1 | $16,867 |
| Kee Chan | Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Genomic Medicine | VA Boston Healthcare System | $32,657 | 1 of 1 | $32,657 |
| L. Clarke Cox, clinical associate professor of speech, language & hearing sciences | Hearing Acuity, Cognitive Aging and Memory for Speech | Brandeis University | $13,096 | 2 of 5 | $81,850 |
| Terry Ellis, assistant professor of physical therapy & athletic training | Telemedicine Intervention to Improve Physical Function in Persons with Parkinson Disease | VA | $54,773 | 1 of 1 | $54,773 |
| Terry Ellis | Mobile Health Technology to Promote Physical Activity in Persons with PD | American Parkinson Disease Association, Inc. | $50,000 | 1 of 1 | $50,000 |
| Terry Ellis | Pilot Study: Feasibility and Usability of the Theracycle in People with Parkinson Disease | RSS Industries, Inc. | $11,682 | 1 of 1 | $11,682 |
| Terry Ellis and Katy Hendron, physical therapist | IPA – VA Agreement | VA | $12,162 | 1 of 1 | $12,162 |
| Marianne Farkas, director of training & international services, BU Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation, and E. Sally Rogers, director of research, BU Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation | Improved Employment Outcomes for Individuals with Psychiatric Disabilities | Dept. of Education (ED) | $848,218 | 5 of 5 | $4,245,042 |
| Marianne Farkas | Bringing Recovery Supports to Scale Technical Assistance Center Strategy | SAMHSA | $64,460 | 3 of 5 | $708,521 |
| Marianne Farkas | Toolkit of Recovery Promoting Competencies for Mental Health Rehabilitation Providers | NIDRR | $199,921 | 2 of 3 | $599,504 |
| Simone V. Gill, assistant professor of occupational therapy | Multicenter Career Development Program for Physical and Occupational Therapy | CORRT | $135,000 | 1 of 1 | $135,000 |
| Mahasweta Girgenrath, assistant professor of health sciences | Modulation of Inflammation and Fibrosis in the Context of Regeneration in MDC1A | MDA | $119,149 | 3 of 3 | $357,465 |
| Mahasweta Girgenrath | Inhibition of Angiotensin II Signaling in Congenital Muscular Dystrophy Type 1A (MDC1A) | Cure CMD | $50,000 | 1 of 2 | $100,000 |
| Jennifer Gottlieb, research assistant professor, BU Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation | Improving Quality and Reducing Cost in Schizophrenia Care and New Technologies and New Personnel | CMMI | $83,368 | 2 of 3 | $409,022 |
| Frank Guenther, professor of speech, language & hearing sciences | Neural Modeling and Imaging of Speech | NIH/NIDCD | $333,155 | 3 of 5 | $1,777,490 |
| Frank Guenther | Sequencing and Initiation in Speech Production | NIH/NIDCD | $347,863 | 4 of 5 | $1,838,207 |
| Frank Guenther | Minimally Verbal ASD: From Basic Mechanisms to Innovative Interventions | NIH/NIDCD | $347,133 | 2 of 4 | $1,982,833 |
| Frank Guenther and Emily Stephens, predoctoral student | Decoding Imagined Vowel Productions Using Electroencephalography | NIH/NIDCD | $29,545 | 3 of 3 | $101,984 |
| Kenneth G. Holt, associate professor of physical therapy & athletic training | Smart Exoskeleton Suit—Biomechanically Synergistic Body Support and Protection System | Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering—Subcontract | $116,140 | 2 of 2 | $116,140 |
| Kenneth G. Holt | Smart Exoskeleton Suit—Biomechanically Synergistic Body Support and Protection System | Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering—Subcontract | $54,856 | 1 of 1 | $54,856 |
| Kenneth G. Holt | Biologically Inspired Soft Smart Exosuit for Injury Prevention and Performance Augmentation | Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering—Subcontract | $67,800 | 1 of 1 | $67,800 |
| Norman Hursh, research associate professor of occupational therapy | The City Connects Model of Student Support: Building a K-12 Student Support Practice and Process | Boston College | $47,333 | 1 of 1 | $139,180 |
| Karen Jacobs, clinical professor of occupational therapy | Project Career: Development of a Multidisciplinary Demonstration to Support the Transition of Students with Traumatic Brain Injuries from Postsecondary Education to Employment | Kent State University/ED | $81,325 | 1 of 5 | $405,000 |
| Susan Kandarian, professor of health sciences | The Molecular Basis of Muscle Wasting in Cancer Cachexia | NIH/NIAMS | $349,909 | 3 of 5 | $1,841,213 |
| Julie J. Keysor, associate professor of physical therapy & athletic training | ENACT: Enhancing Activity & Participation among Persons with Arthritis | ED | $799,988 | 4 of 5 | $3,999,924 |
| Julie J. Keysor | Walkability Audit: OA Action, Phase I Critical Review of Existing Assessments | Arthritis Foundation | $9,999 | 1 of 1 | $9,999 |
| Julie J. Keysor | New Investigator Workshop on Advancing Arthritis Research | NIH/NIAMS | $18,000 | 1 of 1 | $18,000 |
| Gerald D. Kidd, professor of speech, language & hearing sciences | Spatial Hearing, Attention, and Informational Masking in Speech Identification | Air Force | $233,739 | 2 of 3 | $685,945 |
| Gerald D. Kidd | Central Factors in Auditory Masking | NIH/NIDCD | $506,542 | 3 of 5 | $2,745,301 |
| Gerald D. Kidd | Top Down Control | NIH/NIDCD | $589,661 | 1 of 5 | $2,756,185 |
| Gerald D. Kidd and H. Steven Colburn, professor of biomedical engineering | Core Center Grant—Sound Field Laboratory (Core 1) | NIH/NIDCD | $207,229 | 4 of 5 | $1,208,700 |
| Swathi Kiran, professor of speech, language & hearing sciences | Theoretically Based Treatment for Sentence Comprehension Deficits in Aphasia | NIH/NIDCD | $576,853 | 4 of 4 | $2,399,432 |
| Swathi Kiran | The Neurobiology of Recovery in Aphasia: Natural History and Treatment-Induced Recovery | Subaward-Northwestern University | $241,073 | 1 of 5 | $1,299,597 |
| Swathi Kiran and Chaleece Sandberg, predoctoral student | Changes in Neural Patterns in Persons with Aphasia Following Theory-Based Generative Naming Treatment (NRSA) | NIH | $29,672 | 2 of 2 | $83,600 |
| Jessica Kramer, assistant professor of occupational therapy | Multicenter Career Development Program for Physical and Occupational Therapy | CORRT | $135,000 | 1 of 1 | $135,000 |
| Jessica Kramer | Evaluation of Project TEAM (Teens Making Environmental and Activity Modifications)—Effectiveness, Social Validity and Feasibility | ED | $198,156 | 2 of 3 | $597,509 |
| Susan E. Langmore, clinical professor of speech, language & hearing sciences | Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation for Swallowing Recovery After Dysphagic Stroke | Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center | $115,990 | 1 of 5 | $476,591 |
| Cara L. Lewis, assistant professor of physical therapy & athletic training | Effect of Femoroacetabular Impingement (FAI) on Hip Motion in Young Adults | NIH/NIAMS | $130,680 | 1 of 5 | $646,596 |
| Cara L. Lewis | Sex-Specific Movement Pattern Differences in Young Adults with and without Hip Pain | NIH/NIAMS | $209,945 | 1 of 2 | $405,158 |
| Cara L. Lewis | SBIR Phase II: Compliant Nonlinear Quasi-Passive Orthotic Joint | Adicep Technologies | $42,768 | 2 of 2 | $70,000 |
| Jessica Maxwell, clinical assistant professor of physical therapy & athletic training | Limitations in Participation Following Knee Replacement | Rheumatology Research Foundation (RRF) | $48,191 | 3 of 3 | $173,052 |
| Susan McGurk, associate professor of occupational therapy and senior researcher, BU Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation | A Dismantling Study of Cognitive Remediation for Supported Employment | NIH/NIMH | $540,851 | 3 of 5 | $2,771,031 |
| Kathleen Morgan, professor of health sciences | Dynamics of the Vascular Smooth Muscle Cytoskeleton | NIH/NHLBI | $987,822 | 5 of 5 | $8,786,466 |
| Kim Mueser, executive director, BU Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation, and professor of occupational therapy | Integrating Illness Management & Recovery with Assertive Community Treatment | NIH/NIMH | $19,356 | 3 of 3 | $58,246 |
| Kim Mueser | Integrating Illness Management & Recovery with Assertive Community Treatment | NIH/NIMH | $20,162 | 3 of 3 | $52,419 |
| Kim Mueser | Recovery After an Initial Schizophrenia Episode (RAISE) | NIH/NIMH | $57,536 | 5 of 5 | $143,267 |
| Kim Mueser | Illness Management and Recovery Treatment | NIH/NIMH | $12,981 | 2 of 4 | $62,053 |
| Kim Mueser | Enhancing Assertive Community Treatment with CBT and SST for Schizophrenia | NIH/NIMH | $42,532 | 4 of 5 | $192,913 |
| Kim Mueser | Effectiveness of Psychosocial Treatment for Inpatients with Psychosis | NIH | $18,827 | 1 of 3 | $56,481 |
| Kim Mueser | Development and Randomized Controlled Trial of a Mobile System for Self Management of Schizophrenia | NIH | $14,814 | 2 of 3 | $37,035 |
| Paula A. Quatromoni, associate professor of health sciences | KickinKitchen.TV—An Innovative Digital Learning Interactive Educational Program on Nutrition, Cooking and Active Lifestyles to Prevent Childhood Obesity | USDA Subaward—KidsCOOK, LLC | $45,816 | 2 of 2 | $75,000 |
| Zlatka Russinova, research associate professor of occupational therapy and senior research specialist, BU Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation | Advanced Research Training Program in Psychiatric Rehabilitation | ED | $149,980 | 5 of 5 | $749,946 |
| Zlatka Russinova | Advanced Research Training Program in Employment and Vocational Rehab | ED | $149,978 | 1 of 5 | $749,806 |
| Elliot Lee Saltzman, associate professor of physical therapy & athletic training | RI: Medium: Collaborative Research: Multilingual Gestural Models for Robust Language-Independent Speech Recognition | NSF | $52,627 | 2 of 4 | $52,627 |
| Elliot Lee Saltzman | Modeling the Behavioral Dynamics of Social Coordination and Joint Action | NIH/NIGMS Subaward—University of Cincinnati | $24,900 | 1 of 5 | $124,500 |
| Joshua Stefanik, research assistant professor of physical therapy & athletic training | Effect of Massive Weight Loss on Patellofemoral Joint Structure and Pain | Arthritis Foundation | $50,000 | 3 of 3 | $150,000 |
| Joshua Stefanik | Identifying Patellofemoral OA by Pain Site & Activities | RRF/ACR | $59,688 | 2 of 2 | $109,688 |
| Cara E. Stepp, assistant professor of speech, language & hearing sciences | Automation of Relative Fundamental Frequency Estimation | NIH/NIDCD | $163,700 | 2 of 3 | $480,927 |
| Cara E. Stepp | Development of an Electromyographically Controlled Electrolarynx (EMG-EL) Voice Prosthesis | Griffin Laboratories, Inc. (NIH/NIDCD) | $26,110 | 2 of 2 | $49,615 |
| Cara E. Stepp | Videogame-Based Speech Rehabilitation for Children with Hearing Loss | Deborah Munroe Noonan Memorial Fund | $80,000 | 1 of 1 | $80,000 |
| Gloria S. Waters, professor of speech, language & hearing sciences, and William Evans, predoctoral student | Attention and Executive Control During Lexical Processing in Aphasia (NRSA) | NIH/NIDCD | $36,490 | 1 of 2 | $70,032 |
| Daniel K. White, research assistant professor of physical therapy & athletic training | Factors for Change in Day-to-Day Walking in Knee OA | ACR | $125,000 | 3 of 3 | $250,000 |
| Daniel K. White | Prevention of Pain and Functional Limitation in People at High Risk of Knee OA through Physical Activity | RRF | $75,000 | 1 of 2 | $75,000 |
| Basilis Zikopoulos, research assistant professor of health sciences | Organization of Excitatory and Inhibitory Prefrontal Circuits in Children with Autism | NIH/NIMH | $395,236 | 1 of 5 | $2,018,222 |
| Total | $11,877,499 | $55,501,354 |