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UFF Recipients (FY24)
Recipients of the University Facilitating Fund Awards in FY24
| PI Name | Proposal Title | Department Name |
|---|---|---|
| Elise Friedland | Untold Narratives of Classical Washington: Native Americans, Blacks, and ‘Others’ in the Federal Art and Architecture of DC | Classical and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations |
| Lynn Westwater | Rebel Nun: Arcangela Tarabotti, Feminist Heretic in Counter-Reformation Italy | Romance, German and Slavic Languages & Literatures |
| Chet'la Sebree | turn (w)here: a Black woman's route to rootedness in America | English |
| Melani McAlister | The Art of Solidarity: The US Market for Third World Culture in the Late Cold War | American Studies |
| Heather Stebbins | Sound With[out] Place: A New Immersive Performance and Interactive Installation for Piano and Spatial Audio | Music |
| Yonatan Lupu | Information Technology, Repression, and Dissent | Political Science |
| Daniel Hayes | Local News and Democratic Accountability | Political Science |
| Douglas Boyce | Perfidia / Sonata for violin and piano | Music |
| Liana Chen | Amateur Theatre-Making Beyond Leisure: The Reshaping of a Chinese Operatic Tradition in Taiwan | East Asian Languages and Literatures |
| David Mitchell | "Disposable Humanity" Post-Production Proposal | English |
| Kavita Daiya | Race, Caste, and Freedom in South Asian America | English |
| Manuel Cuellar | Border Masculinities, Queer Migrancy, and the Bad Hombre Latinx | Romance, German and Slavic Languages & Literatures |
| Cayo Gamber | Memorializing the Persecution of Homosexuals and Queer Activism Today in Germany | University Writing Program |
| Luyao Lu | Wireless stretchable and multimodal microelectrode arrays for neurochemistry and electrophysiology | Biomedical Engineering |
| Alicia Cooperman | Urban Politics and Local Accountability: Legislative Behavior in the Global South | Political Science |
| Payman Dehghanian | Enhancing Resilience of the National Power Grid against EMP Attacks | Electrical and Computer Engineering |
| Leon Grayfer | Empowering an amphibian model of tuberculosis | Biological Sciences |
| Michael Hankinson | Persuading Veto Players to Cede Control: Evidence from a Housing Referendum | Political Science |
| Zhengtian Xu | Modeling and Analysis of On-Street Parking Systems with Urban Delivery | Civil and Environmental Engineering |
| TIffany Bisbey | Uncovering the Consequences of Low Voice Receptivity for Underrepresented Groups at Work | Organizational Sciences and Communication |
| Olivia Bullock | Legal jargon, misattribution, and judgments of blame: Evidence from a mixed-methods, multi-part study | Organizational Sciences and Communication |
| Kylie Quave | Past for the Future: How Anthropologists Construct Disciplinary Norms in the Introductory Course | University Writing Program |