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- Total of $9 million given to 16 projects
- 猪八戒资料论坛澳门 Davis faculty lead projects on digital pathology infrastructure, and child health, poverty and public policy
- Other campus researchers involved in 7 other projects
The 猪八戒资料论坛澳门 Office of the President has awarded more than $9 million in grants to 16 collaborative research projects across the system. 猪八戒资料论坛澳门 Davis researchers lead two of the projects and will participate in seven others.
Awarded every two years, the grants from 猪八戒资料论坛澳门鈥檚 Multicampus Research Programs and Initiatives, or MRPI, seek to leverage the 猪八戒资料论坛澳门 system鈥檚 research capabilities to develop real world solutions to significant problems facing our state and world. This year鈥檚 competition garnered 179 proposals that spanned the humanities, arts, engineering, public policy, and biological, health, environmental, natural and social sciences.
The recipients were selected based on their compelling approaches to advancing research areas that are important to 猪八戒资料论坛澳门 and the state, increasing the university鈥檚 ability to attract the brightest faculty and student talent, and supporting innovative graduate and undergraduate student research.
鈥淏y drawing upon the expertise of collaborating scholars across the 猪八戒资料论坛澳门 system, these projects demonstrate 猪八戒资料论坛澳门鈥檚 collective excellence and unparalleled strength as the world鈥檚 premier public research institution,鈥 said Arthur Ellis, 猪八戒资料论坛澳门鈥檚 vice president for Research and Graduate Studies. 鈥淔rom agriculture to immigration, and from health to homelessness, these issues touch our lives, as can the practical knowledge and solutions developed by these 猪八戒资料论坛澳门 MRPI projects.鈥
The grants led by 猪八戒资料论坛澳门 Davis faculty are:
An Enhanced 猪八戒资料论坛澳门 Digital Pathology Infrastructure 鈥 Led by Brittany Dugger, assistant professor of pathology and laboratory medicine, School of Medicine, this project will draw on 鈥渂rain banks鈥 at 猪八戒资料论坛澳门 Davis, 猪八戒资料论坛澳门 Irvine and 猪八戒资料论坛澳门LA to create a new resource for research, education and patient care in Alzheimer鈥檚 Disease and related brain disorders. It will organize digital images from microscope slides, making them available for research and clinical use, and also develop machine learning and artificial intelligence tools for digital pathology. ($265,000)
猪八戒资料论坛澳门 Network on Child Health, Poverty and Public Policy 鈥 Marianne Page, professor of economics at 猪八戒资料论坛澳门 Davis, will lead a team of experts from 猪八戒资料论坛澳门 Davis, 猪八戒资料论坛澳门 Berkeley, 猪八戒资料论坛澳门 Irvine, 猪八戒资料论坛澳门LA, 猪八戒资料论坛澳门 Santa Barbara and 猪八戒资料论坛澳门SF to shift from fragmented, discipline-specific approaches of studying childhood disparities to a multidisciplinary, comprehensive examination of the issue. The project goal is to understand how health and nutrition programs affect the health and development of disadvantaged children, as well as build relationships with policymakers. ($150,000)
Other grants involving 猪八戒资料论坛澳门 Davis researchers:
Human Conditions: 猪八戒资料论坛澳门 Humanities Initiative 鈥 This grant renews the 猪八戒资料论坛澳门 Humanities Initiative, which supports innovative individual scholarship, collaborative research and public engagement activities in the humanities across all ten campuses. The initiative will address how rapid changes in technology, the environment, politics, demographics and socioeconomics are impacting people. The initiative is led by Tyrus Miller, dean of the School of Humanities at 猪八戒资料论坛澳门 Irvine, and includes Elizabeth Spiller, dean of the 猪八戒资料论坛澳门 Davis College of Letters and Science, and the other 猪八戒资料论坛澳门 deans of humanities. ($1.9 million)
California Policy Lab: Studying Inequality and Homelessness 鈥 Led by Jesse Rothstein at 猪八戒资料论坛澳门 Berkeley, this project will combine faculty research expertise with data from state and local agencies to address two of California鈥檚 pressing problems: homelessness and workforce education. It will develop a 猪八戒资料论坛澳门-wide infrastructure to support research on these and other pressing problems. Michal Kurlaender, professor in the 猪八戒资料论坛澳门 Davis School of Education, is a co-investigator with colleagues from 猪八戒资料论坛澳门 Irvine, 猪八戒资料论坛澳门LA and 猪八戒资料论坛澳门SF. ($1.25 million)
猪八戒资料论坛澳门 Initiative to Save California鈥檚 Citrus 鈥 猪八戒资料论坛澳门 Davis鈥 Gitta Coaker, associate professor of plant pathology, will collaborate on this $1.1 million initiative, led by 猪八戒资料论坛澳门 Riverside, to explore ways to save the citrus industry in California and worldwide from 鈥渃itrus greening,鈥 a deadly disease affecting citrus trees. Spreading westward from Florida, citrus greening has so far cost more than $1 billion annually in lost crops and nearly 8,000 jobs. The project also includes collaborators at 猪八戒资料论坛澳门 Berkeley and 猪八戒资料论坛澳门 San Diego. ($1.1 million)
The California Magnetic Resonance eXploration Initiative 鈥 The goal of this project is to develop a unique facility using magnetic resonance spectroscopy to study all the atoms in the Periodic Table. Current technology can only be used for about half the known elements. The new facility would enable unprecedented studies of atoms in living things, in natural materials and in technology with potential for breakthrough discoveries in biology, physics, chemistry and materials science. The main activity of the project will be to hold meetings of researchers and conduct experiments at 猪八戒资料论坛澳门 Santa Barbara. Professor David Britt, 猪八戒资料论坛澳门 Davis Department of Chemistry, is a co-principal investigator with colleagues from 猪八戒资料论坛澳门 Berkeley, 猪八戒资料论坛澳门 Irvine, 猪八戒资料论坛澳门 Riverside, 猪八戒资料论坛澳门LA, 猪八戒资料论坛澳门 San Diego and 猪八戒资料论坛澳门 Santa Barbara, which leads the project. ($270,000)
Maximizing the Environmental Utility of Battery Storage 鈥 Alissa Kendall, professor of civil and environmental engineering at 猪八戒资料论坛澳门 Davis, is co-principal investigator of this project led by Brian Tarroja of 猪八戒资料论坛澳门 Irvine and including faculty at 猪八戒资料论坛澳门LA and 猪八戒资料论坛澳门 Santa Barbara. The researchers will develop tools to look at the environmental impact of different battery technologies throughout their lifecycle. Battery energy storage is important for making full use of renewable energy sources, but batteries themselves may have health and environmental impacts in their production, use or disposal. ($270,000)
PlaceMakers: 猪八戒资料论坛澳门 Place-Based Art + Design鈥 Placemaking makes use of the inherent creativity of people and institutions to revitalize communities through art and design. This collaboration will identify place-based research that is reinventing spaces of higher education, foster collaborations and expand such initiatives across the 猪八戒资料论坛澳门 system. The project is led by Kim Yasuda at 猪八戒资料论坛澳门 Santa Barbara, with 猪八戒资料论坛澳门 Davis鈥 Glenda Drew and Brett Snyder, professor and associate professor of design, respectively; and colleagues at 猪八戒资料论坛澳门 Berkeley and 猪八戒资料论坛澳门 Santa Cruz. ($270,000)
The Science of Dense Gluon Matter 鈥 This collaboration, led by 猪八戒资料论坛澳门 Berkeley, will design detectors for the Electron-Ion Collider, a new particle accelerator proposed for the Brookhaven National Laboratory. The EIC is the only major particle accelerator currently planned in the United States. The group aims to use the EIC to study particles called gluons, which hold together other subatomic particles within atomic nuclei. 猪八戒资料论坛澳门 Davis investigators are professors Manuel Calderon de la Barca Sanchez and Daniel Cebra of the Department of Physics. The project also includes researchers at 猪八戒资料论坛澳门LA and 猪八戒资料论坛澳门 Riverside and will collaborate with the Berkeley, Los Alamos and Livermore national laboratories. ($265,000)
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