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Faculty Research Spotlight

An important department goal is to generate new knowledge that could inform meaningful solutions to societal challenges. In this regard, the past year was another outstanding one for our faculty and research scientists as they secured new or continuing multiyear funding to support a range of research and related scholarly activity. Areas of support include: clinical science and mental health, equity in research, biological and cognitive systems, computational and high-dimensional data systems, and professional development for next generation scientists.

CLINICAL SCIENCE AND MENTAL HEALTH

Kim, Eun Joo

University of Washington Royalty Research Fund

Corticolimbic dynamics of naturalistic risky decision-making in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease

 

King, Kevin and Wright, Aidan (Univ of Michigan)

National Institutes of Health

A multiverse analysis of the affect-alcohol use association

 

Lengua, Lili

University of Washington Institute of Translational Health Sciences

A Task-sharing Approach to Supporting Parents Re-entering the Community after Incarceration

 

Lui, Priscilla

National Institutes of Health

Effects of Direct and Vicarious Discrimination on Alcohol and Cannabis Cravings: Virtual Reality Experiment

 

Magis-Weinberg, Lucia and Foster, Kate

National Institutes of Health

Heterogeneity in joint real-time and developmental influences of positive and negative social media experiences on socioemotional vulnerability and psychopathology across adolescence

 

Murray, Scott and Webb, Sara

National Institutes of Health

Attention allocation as a computational mechanism for altered sensory processing in autism

 

EQUITY IN RESEARCH

Cheryan, Sapna

National Science Foundation

Promoting Intraminority Solidarity by Manipulating Framings of Racism

 

Shoda, Yuichi

National Science Foundation

De-essentializing race: Towards a more ethical and responsible research practice for assessing and reporting participant demographics

 

BIOLOGICAL AND COGNITIVE SYSTEMS

Faegre, Sarah

Fish & Wildlife Services

Aga Genomics and Disease

 

Faegre, Sarah

Fish & Wildlife Services and San Diego Zoo

Rear and Release Population Augmentation of the Åga or Mariana Crow

 

Prat, Chantel

Office of Naval Research

Training Self-Knowledge to Improve Learning and Problem Solving

 

Sisneros, Joe

National Institutes of Health and Case Western University

Understanding the role of Tmc proteins in hair cell mechanotransduction of zebrafish

 

COMPUTATIONAL AND HIGH-DIMENSIONAL DATA SYSTEMS

Rokem, Ariel

National Institutes of Health/Indiana University

Community-supported open-source software for computational neuroanatomy

 

Rokem, Ariel

Tanenbaum Open Science Institute at McGill University

BIDS: Brain Imaging Data Structure

 

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND CONTINUING EDUCATION FOR NEXT GENERATION SCIENTISTS

Jacques, Debrielle

University of Washington Black Opportunity Fund

Demystifying the Process of Applying to Clinical Psychology Doctoral Programs: A declassified guide to inform and empower applicants

 

Levine, Cynthia and Guzman, Jose

National Science Foundation

GP-GO: IBIS: A near-peer mentoring ecosystem revealing new pathways into the Geosciences

 

Mizumori, Sheri

Burroughs Wellcome Fund

Support for the BRAINS (Broadening Representation of Academic Investigators in NeuroScience) Program CrossCohort Symposium in Fall 2023

 

Mizumori, Sheri and Yen, Joyce

Dana Foundation

Elevating the connection between neuroscience and society in the BRAINS (Broadening Representation of Academic Investigators in NeuroScience) Program

 

Murray, Scott

Simons Foundation

2023-2024 Simons Undergraduate Research Fellowship in Neuroscience

 

Rokem, Ariel (and Connolly, Cristea & Mandava)

National Science Foundation

Conference: Towards an Open Source Model for Data and Metadata Standards