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2010 Interdisciplinary Seed Grant Recipients
The
purpose of the 2010 Interdisciplinary Seed Grants is
to foster cooperation and collaboration among disciplines by building
upon unique UIC strengths and promoting the creation of new knowledge.
Fostering academic inquiry that draws on the expertise and innovations
of multiple disciplines is essential for the future of UIC.
"Strategic Translational Research (STAR) Intercollege Program at UIC"
Craig Beam, Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Jay Goldstein, Medicine
William Beck, Biopharmaceutical Sciences
This initiative will seek to accelerate and strengthen the clinical and translational research process by working to establish an integrated infrastructure for strategic personalized clinical trials that will better serve the evolving field of scientific discovery.
Other Collaborators include: Jerry Bauman, Pharmacy Practice; Frank Chaloupka, Economics; Zarema Arbieva, Research Resources Center; Andre Balla, Pathology; Nina Clark, Medicine; Dai Yang, Bioengineering; Joel Epstein, Dentistry; Robert Grossman, Math, Statistics & Computer Science; Theodore Mazzone, Medicine; Dilip Pandey, Medicine; Kristen Rankin, Center for the Advancement of Distance Education (CADE); Glen Schumock, Pharmacy Practice; Sivalingam Sivananthan, Physics; Leslie Stayner, Epidemiology & Biostatistics; Keith Thulborn, Radiology; Annette Valenta, Biomedical and Health Information Sciences; JoEllen Wilbur, Public Health, Mental Health, and Administrative Nursing; Peter Williamson, Infectious Diseases
"UIC Interdisciplinary Violence Prevention Research Center: Changing Systems to Prevent Violence in Chicago and Beyond"
Sarah Ullman, Criminal Justice
Larry Bennett, Social Work
Christine Helfrich, Occupational Therapy
This center will create an infrastructure dedicated to promoting the kinds of multi-disciplinary investigations needed to address the causes, consequences and prevention of violence in society.
Other Co-PIs and Collaborators include: Carl C. Bell, Psychiatry; Paul A. Schewe, Psychology; Lisa Frohman, Criminal Justice; Paul J. Goldstein, Epidemiology and Biostatistics; Rebecca Gordon, Office of Women's Affairs; Candice Kane, Chicago Project for Violence Prevention; Mark Mattaini, Social Work; Patricia O'Brien, Social Work; Beth Richie, African American Studies; Amie Schuck, Criminal Justice; Stephanie Riger, Psychology and Gender & Women's Studies; Dennis Rosenbaum, Criminal Justice; Tonda Hughes, Nursing
2007 IDR Report - Interdisciplinary Research at the University of Illinois at Chicago: A Campus-wide Survey of Climate, Obstacles and Opportunities.
"Center for Supply Chain Management and Logistics"
Anthony Pagano, Management
Abolfazl Mohammadian, Civil and Materials Engineering
Houshang Darabi, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Kazuya Kawamura, Urban Transportation Center
This initiative will develop an interdisciplinary center for the study of supply chain management and logistics, which is vital to the long-term sustainability of the Chicago metropolitan area. Supply chain management concerns the management of all activities and processes involved in movement and storage of goods from raw material source to final consumers.
Other Co-PIs and Collaborators include: Siddhartha Bhattacharyya, Information and Decision Sciences; Joseph Cherian, Managerial Studies; P.S. Sriraj, Urban Transportation Center, College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs; Ugo Buy, Computer Science; Jane Lin, Civil and Materials Engineering; Thomas Murta, Managerial Studies; Paul Metaxatos, Urban Transportation Center.
"The UIC 2010 Blueprint for Dental Tissue Regeneration"
Thomas Diekwisch, Oral Biology/Brodie Laboratory/Orthodontics
Richard Gemeinhart, Biopharmaceutical Sciences
Anne George, Oral Biology
This interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary project will develop and implement novel approaches towards biological dentin repair and devise new concepts toward periodontal regeneration.
Other Collaborators include: Richard van Breemen, Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy; Bradley Merrill, Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics; Xianghong Luan, Oral Biology
"Center on Biocultures"
Lennard Davis, English/Medical Education/Disability
Studies
Toby Tate, Applied Health Sciences
Walter Benn Michaels, English
This grant provides further funding towards the establishment of a Biocultures Center, which merges the fields of humanities, medicine, biotechnology and science to promulgate biocultural knowledge to create a biocultural public sphere for discourse and learning.
Other Collaborators include: Inder Batra, Physics; Nicholas Brown, English and African American Studies; Sharon Patricia Holland, English; Kirk Arden Hoppe, History; Robert D. Johnston, History; Helen Heran Jun, English, African American Studies; Lon S. Kaufman, Biology; Matthew Lippman, Criminal Justice; David Mitchell, Disability and Human Development; Gayatri Reddy, Gender and Women's Studies; Anthropology; Laurie Schaffner, Criminal Justice and Sociology; Katrin Schultheiss, Gender and Women's Studies; Sharon Snyder, Disability and Human Development; Sandra M. Sufian, Medical Education; Joseph Tabbi, English, Astrida Orle Tantillo, Germanic Studies, History
Researchers Christine Helfich, Occupational Therapy, Larry Bennett, Social Work, and Sarah Ullman, Criminal Justice, will study responses to violence in the community.
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