2024-2025 Awardees

  • Institute for strong foundations of policy analysis; Brendan Juba (McKelvey), Jacob Montgomery (A&S), Eugene Vorobeychik (McKelvey), Hannah Szlyk (Medicine), Eunhye Ahn (Brown); Proposal Development Track, Digital Transformation
  • “In St. Louis for St. Louis” with the Collective Thread; Julia Walker (A&S) and Mitra Naseh (Brown); Proposal Development Track, Research Impacting the St. Louis Community

2023-2024 Awardees

Proposal Development Track

  • Environmental Humanities Working Group
    Environmental Research: Stephanie Kirk, Arts & Sciences; Bret Gustafson, Arts & Sciences; Derek Hoeferlin, Sam Fox School; Diana Montano, Arts & Sciences; Patricia Olynyk, Sam Fox School; Ila Sheren, Arts & Sciences
  • Developing a Measure of Trust in Crisis Mental Healthcare Services
    Public Health: Morgan Shields, Brown School; Chih-Hung Chang, School of Medicine; Karen Joynt Maddox, WUSM
  • Refugee Success: Developing a refugee-grounded measure and understanding determinants
    Public Health: Ilana Seff, Brown School; Margot Moinester, Arts & Sciences
  • Building partnerships to support LGBTQ+ asylum in Mexico
    Public Health and Global Health: Lindsay Stark, Brown School; Jeremy Goldbach, Brown School; Julia Lopez, WUSM
  • Strengthening community partnerships to improve mental health in South Africa and globally
    Public Health and Global Health: Lindsey Filiatreau, WUSM; Byron Powell, Brown School
  • Engineering targeted Soil Microbiota Transplants for restoring health of depleted agricultural soils
    Environmental Research: Arpita Bose, Arts & Sciences; Joshua Blodgett, Arts & Sciences; Fangqiong Ling, McKelvey School of Engineering; Christopher Topp, Arts & Science
  • Addressing Substance Use Disorder Among Survivors of Human Trafficking
    Public Health and Global Health: Theresa Anasti, Brown School; Nathaniel Dell, WUSM
  • Race, Education, and Place: Mapping the Non-Profit Landscape in St. Louis
    Public Health and Research Impacting the St. Louis Community: Michelle Purdy, Arts & Sciences; Kia Davis, School of Medicine; Kelly Harris, School of Medicine; Nadirah Farah Foley (Arts & Sciences); Seanna Leath (Arts & Sciences); and Bronwyn Nichols Lodato (Arts & Sciences)
  • Federated Casual Inference for Reliable Real-world Evidence Generation in Medicine
    Digital Transformation and Public Health: Linying Zhang, School of Medicine; Xuming He, Arts & Sciences; David Liss, School of Medicine; and Adam Wilcox, School of Medicine

Pop-Up Initiative Grant

  • From Consultation to Empowerment: A Pop-Up Initiative to Economic Development
    Global Health, Public Health, & Environmental Research: Mitra Naseh, Brown School; Rachel Brown, Arts & Sciences; Nhial Tutlam, Brown School; Proscovia Nabunya, Brown School
  • Mainstreaming Climate Content into Traditional Curriculums: Using Group Model Building to Identify priorities and pathways
    Environmental Research & Public Health: Duana Russell-Thomas, WUSM; Ellis Ballard, Brown School
  • Global Adolescent Health and Economic Strengthening Conference
    Global Health & Public Health: Fred Ssewamala, Brown; Juliet Iwelunmor, WUSM; Chenyang Lu, McKelvey School of Engineering                 
  • The Autonomous Future of Mobility: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Trustworthy AI Systems for Sustainable and Equitable Urban Futures
    Digital Transformation, Public Health, & Environmental Research: Constance Vale, Sam Fox; Eugene Vorobeychik, McKelvey School of Engineering