Pilot Grant 2020 Awardees

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Blue Awards ($20,000)

Jianxin Bao, Ph.D. (Anatomy and Neurobiology, NEOMED) and Tsung-Heng Tsai, Ph.D. (Mathematical Sciences, Kent State University)

• A new method based on machine learning for diagnosis of cochlear synaptopathy

Min-Ho Kim, Ph.D. (Biological Sciences, Kent State University) and Woo-Yang Kim, Ph.D. (Biological Sciences, Kent State University)

• A feasibility study for the application of magnetic hyperthermia towards the clearance of beta-amyloids in mouse model of Alzheimer’s Disease

Jennifer McDonough, Ph.D. (Biological Sciences, Kent State University) and Jessica Williams, Ph.D. (Neuroscience, Cleveland Clinic)

• Betaine as a neuroprotective therapy for multiple sclerosis

Angela Neal-Barnett, Ph.D. (Psychological Sciences, Kent State University), Carla Goar, Ph.D. (Sociology, Kent State University), Na’Tasha Evans, Ph.D. (School of Health Sciences, Kent State University) and Starr Solomon, Ph.D. (Sociology, Kent State University)

• Examining the impact of systemic racism and COVID-19 on the well-being of Black college students at Kent State University

Gold Awards ($5,000)

Joshua Albrecht, Ph.D. (College of Music, Kent State University)

• Interdisciplinary Music Cognition Lab infrastructure funding request

Heather Caldwell, Ph.D. (Biological Sciences, Kent State University)

• The impact of embryonic oxytocin receptor signaling on the transcriptome

Karin Coifman, Ph.D. (Psychological Sciences, Kent State University) and David Disabato, Ph.D. (Psychological Sciences, Kent State University)

• Emotion dynamics as a psychotherapy process in community adults

Phillip Hamrick, Ph.D. (English, Kent State University)

• Toward an exemplar-based context-sensitive distributional model of semantic memory

Louise Steele, Ph.D. (Biological Sciences, Kent State University, Salem Campus)

• Effects of Ultrasound on Nervous System Development in the Nematode Roundworm, C. elegans

Rafaela Takeshita, Ph.D. (Anthropology, Kent State University) and Wilson Chung, Ph.D. (Biological Sciences, Kent State University)

• The role of adrenarche in the evolution of the human brain