CAS Grant Awards
CAS faculty are pushing the limits of knowledge and creativity through their original research and artistic endeavors. Grant-funded projects, such as those showcased here, underscore the impactful contributions our college is making to the world.
* Information is updated monthly by the GFS team with information provided by the Office of Research Support and Operations (ORSO).
| Date Awarded | Principal Investigator | Unit | Campus | Sponsor | Program | Project Title | FY Award |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8/29/2024 | Fales, Jessica | Psychology | Vancouver | National Institutes of Health, Eunice Kenndey Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development | Research on Biopsychosocial Factors of Social Connectedness and Isolation on Health, Wellbeing, Illness, and Recovery | Risk, Resilience, and Recovery: A Longitudinal Mixed-Method Study Examining the Role of Peer Relationships in Pediatric Pain | $581,156 |
| 8/16/2024 | Fremier, Alexander | SoE | Pullman | US Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service | Ecological Services | Transition of the CTS Mitigation Tool to ArcPro | $17,059 |
| 8/15/2024 | Skinner, Michael | SBS | Pullman | Stanford University | Epigenetic Inheritance and Conservation in Giraffes, A Preliminary Study | $32,092 | |
| 8/13/2024 | Singh, Deepti | SoE | Vancouver | National Science Foundation | Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences | Conference: Compounding and cascading climate risks to US frontline communities | $85,377 |
| 8/9/2024 | Liu, Shengchi | Math & Stats | Pullman | Simons Foundation | Travel Support for Mathematicians | Subconvexity bounds for L-functions and related problems | $42,000 |
| 8/8/2024 | Blong, John | Anthropology | Pullman | US Department of the Interior, National Park Service | Cultural Resource Management | IRA Cultural Resources at Risk Project, Snow, Ice Patch, and Alpine Project | $300,000 |
| 8/7/2024 | Graham, Emily and Tanya Cheeke | SBS | Tri-Cities | National Science Foundation | Biology Integration Institutes | BII: EMBER: Embedding Molecular Biology in Ecosystem Research in an era of increasing fire and drought | $146,954 |
| 8/2/2024 | Thornton, Daniel | SoE | Pullman | Woodland Park Zoo/Seattle City Light | Wildlife Research Program/Skagit River Hydroelectric Project | The Cascades Carnivore Monitoring Program: A 20-Year Vision for the Collaborative Monitoring of Wolverines and Canada Lynx | $8,056 |
| 7/31/2024 | Steen-Adams, Michelle | SoE | Vancouver | National Science Foundation | Archaeology Program Senior Research Awards (Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences) | Collaborative Research: Long-term human fire management and environmental change in high-elevation socialecological systems | $69,437 |
| 7/29/2024 | Horowitz, Rachel | Anthropology | Pullman | National Science Foundation | Archaeology Program Senior Research Awards (Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences) | Correlation of Political and Economic Power | $252,253 |
| 7/26/2024 | Fremier, Alex | SoE | Pullman | National Science Foundation | Hydrologic Sciences (Division of Earth Sciences) | Are Beaver Dam Analogs All They're Stacked Up to be for Hydrologic and Ecosystem Improvement? | $466,599 |
| 7/24/2024 | Berkman, Cliff | Chemistry | Pullman | National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute | Notice of Special Interest: Advancing the development of tumor site-activated small molecules | Tumor-Activated Dual Payload-Drug Conjugates | $393,401 |
| 7/23/2024 | Piovia-Scott, Jonah | SBS | Vancouver | National Science Foundation | Opportunities for Promoting Understanding through Synthesis (Division of Environmental Biology) | Collaborative Research: OPUS: Synthesizing long-term data to understand the ecological and evolutionary consequences of hurricanes | $59,636 |
| 7/19/2024 | Dowd, William Wesley | SBS | Pullman | National Science Foundation | Core Programs (Division of Integrative Organismal Systems) | Environmental stress and the physiological architecture of inter-individual variation | $290,422 |
| 7/12/2024 | Sharma, Anjali | Chemistry | Pullman | Washington Research Foundation | Technology Commercialization | Dendrimer Nanotherapy for Targeted Treatment of Prostate Cancer | $100,000 |
| 7/5/2024 | Guan, Qingze | Physics | Pullman | National Science Foundation | Investigator-Initiated Research Projects (Division of Physics) | Beyond mean-field physics in dynamical Bose-Einstein Condensates | $298,494 |
| 6/26/2024 | Thornton, Daniel | SoE | Pullman | US Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service | Candidate Species Conservation | Improving Canada lynx population redundancy in Washington: assessing the status of a lynx augmentation in Colville National Forest | $76,115 |
| 6/25/2024 | Rodriguez Furlan, Cecilia | SBS | Pullman | National Science Foundation | Core Programs (Division of Molecular and Cellular Biology) | EAGER: Tools4Cells: Bimolecular proximity tagging | $299,772 |
| 6/21/2024 | Franklin, Robert | History | TC | US Department of the Interior, National Park Service | Cooperative Research and Training Programs of the National Park System | Documenting Undertold Narratives of the Manhattan Project at Hanford | $67,941 |
| 6/3/2024 | Schultz, Cheryl | SBS | Vancouver | US Department of Defense, Office of Naval Research | Legacy Resource Management Program | Monarch and Pollinator Strategic Conservation Research Program | $500,000 |
| 6/3/2024 | Sharma, Anjali | Chemistry | Pullman | National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute | Clinical and Translational Exploratory/Developmental Studies | Targeted nanotherapies for the treatment of prostate cancer | $406,520 |