Research at Brandeis

Awards

The following is a list of recent awards received by Brandeis University scholars.
Asymptotic and Uniform Diophantine Approximation Via Flows on Homogeneous Spaces

Total Anticipated Award: $395,545

Principal Investigator: Dmitry Kleinbock, Mathematics

Sponsor: National Science Foundation

The Brain-Peripheral Interface in Physiology and Disease

Total Anticipated Award: $999,998

Principal Investigator: Susan Birren and Sacha Nelson, Biology

Sponsor: W. M. Keck Foundation

Tough Talk: Embodied Language and Military Necropolitics in the USA

Total Anticipated Award: $30,000

Principal Investigator: Janet McIntosh, Anthropology

Sponsor: National Endowment for the Humanities Faculty Fellowship

Scaling Children’s Savings Accounts

Total Anticipated Award: $445,271

Principal Investigator: Thomas Shapiro and Rebecca Loya, Heller School for Social Policy and Management

Sponsor: Charles Stewart Mott Foundation

Trusting Black Women: Exploring Identity, Decision-Making, and History

Total Anticipated Award: $259,713

Principal Investigator: Wangui Muigai, African and Afro-American Studies

Sponsor: Greenwall Foundation

Evaluate the Impact of the Maccabiah Experience and Israel Connect on US Jewish Athletes

Total Anticipated Award: $94,903

Principal Investigator: Leonard Saxe, Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies

Sponsor: Maccabi USA

Re-Envisioning the Role of the Humanities Center in the 21st-Century University

Total Anticipated Award: $150,000

Principal Investigator: Ulka Anjaria, English and American Literature

Sponsor: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

PACES Center Analytic Support

Total Anticipated Award: $89,159

Principal Investigator: John Chapman and Jennifer Perloff, Heller School for Social Policy and Management

Sponsor: PACES Center for Value in Healthcare

Building on the Hampton-Brandeis Partnership: A New Pathway into STEM-intensive Master’s Program

Total Anticipated Award: $60,000

Principal Investigator: Irving Epstein, Anahita Zare, Provost’s Office

Sponsor: Hampton University

Fostering Global Research Networks among Junior International Political Economy and International Economics Scholars

Total Anticipated Award: $10,000

Principal Investigator: Oriana Montti, International Business School

Sponsor: American Political Science Association

Graph-Learning-Assisted State and Event Tracking for Solar-Penetrated Power Grids with Heterogeneous Data Sources

Total Anticipated Award: $12,896

Principal Investigator: Hongfu Liu, Computer Science

Sponsor: Northeastern University

Timing Biomolecular Interactions in Massively High Throughput via a Polymerase Stopwatch

Total Anticipated Award: $183,000

Principal Investigator: Hannah Wayment-Steele, Biochemistry

Sponsor: Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for Medical Research

Polyphony and Practices of Music Writing in Worcester Cathedral Priory, c. 1150–1350

Total Anticipated Award: $60,000

Principal Investigator: Karen Desmond, Music

Sponsor: National Endowment for the Humanities

Light-Molecule Interaction in Condensed Phases

Total Anticipated Award: $75,000

Principal Investigator: Grace Han, Chemistry

Sponsor: Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Lachman & Brandeis participating in multi-site Center for AI-technology to support aging in place

The National Institute on Aging has funded a new Center, the Massachusetts AI and Technology Center for Connected Care in Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease (MassAITC). Based at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, it the center includes investigators from Brigham and Women’s and Massachusetts General Hospitals, Northeastern University, and Brandeis University. Margie E. Lachman, the Minnie and Harold Fierman Professor of Psychology, is the PI of the Center’s Aging Pilot Core. This pilot core will fund several pilot grants each year. Lachman is also director of the Lifespan Lab and the Boston Roybal Center at Brandeis.