UFF Recipients (FY26)

Recipients of the University Facilitating Fund Awards in FY26

PI Name	Proposal Title	Department Name
Clement Akpang	Afropoligardism: Role of Junk in Critiquing Colonial and Neo-Colonial Legacies in Modern African Art	Art History
Elisabeth Anker	Make Sovereignty Great Again	American Studies
Sarah Calabrese	Developing a Culturally Responsive Digital Intervention to Promote Equitable Access to HIV Resources	Psychological and Brain Sciences
Ioannis Eleftherianos	Using the Drosophila Model to Dissect the Functional Basis of Shared Immunity	Biological Sciences
Leon Grayfer	The Contribution of Amphibian Immune Cells to Scarless Skin Wound Repair	Biological Sciences
Michelle Kelso	Changing Girls’ Lives in Rural Africa: Impact of Empowerment Programming on Extreme Poverty, Gender-Based Violence and Climate Change Resiliency	Sociology
Miguel Lejeune	Disaster Management Decision Support for Search and Rescue Operations with Drones	Decision Sciences
Luyao Lu	A Soft Implantable System for Long-term Wireless Investigation of Cardiac Arrhythmias	Biomedical Engineering
James Mahshie	Parent coaching/counseling for reducing failed newborn hearing screenings loss to follow-up in underserved urban communities	Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences
Sarah Shomstein	Cross Modal Semantic Influence on Attention	Psychological and Brain Sciences
David Szakonyi	Assessing the Effectiveness of International Sanctions	Political Science
Lynne Westwater	Rebel Nun: Arcangela Tarabotti, Feminist Heretic in Counter- Reformation Italy	Romance, German and Slavic Languages and Literatures