Awardees of Internal Faculty Research Grants 2024-2025

October 11, 2024
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Dear Colleagues,

The PNW Faculty Research Board has completed the reviews for the Internal Faculty Research Grants in four categories.

The Board was impressed with the quality of applications in each category, and we would like to congratulate the awardees, as shown below. We want to thank all faculty who applied and those who served as reviewers.

We also want to acknowledge the funds provided by the PNW Office of Commercialization and Research and matching funds provided through the Dean of each College of the awardees.


Research Initiation

  • Chun Liu
    • Substance Abuse Service Utilization Among Individuals After Contact with the Child Welfare System
  • Matthew Bauman
    • Advancing Restaurant Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (RDEI) Inventory: Cross-Cultural and Longitudinal Validation

Research Instrumentation

  • Manghui Tu
    • AI-Driven Cybersecurity Solution for Cyber Physical Systems of Advanced Manufacturing
  • Yun Li
    • Building a high-speed wind tunnel laboratory for student and faculty research at PNW

Seed Funding for Academic Books

  • Xiuling Wang
    • Finite Element Method for Momentum, Heat and Mass Transfer with Environmental and Engineering Applications
  • Hubert Izienicki
    • Beyond Policies and Procedures:  Innovation in Syllabus Construction and Use

Bridge Funding

  • Ying Luo
    • PRivacy-Optimized Behavioral Evaluation and Retrieval (PROBER)
  • David J. Feikes
    • Bridge Program for Thinking With Algebra

Congratulations!

John J. Durocher, PhD, ACSM-EP, CSCS

Nils K. Nelson Professor of Integrative Human Health
Coordinator, Integrative Human Health Bachelor of Science Degree
Director, Integrative Physiology and Health Sciences Center
Chair, Purdue University Northwest Faculty Research Board