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51¶ÌÊÓƵ Distributes 11 New Internal Grants

April 22, 2026

The Faculty Awards and Grants Committee at 51¶ÌÊÓƵ has approved 11 new grants through three new programs â€“ the Seed Grants program, Supplemental Grants program, and the Collaborative/Innovative Grants program. These new programs were launched as part of the additional funding the College provided in an effort to increase support for faculty research, and in part due to a decrease in federal government funding for faculty research.  

The 11 approved grantees and research topics are listed below.  

Grantees and Research Topics

  • Assistant Professor of Psychology Ariana Orvell, "Parenting with the Science of Emotion Regulation: A Daily Diary Intervention for Parents of Young Children"
  • Associate Professor of Anthropology Melissa Pashigian, "A Preliminary Investigation of Cultures of Care around Vestibular Migraine" 
  • Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science Elizabeth Corredor, "Gender as a Design Principle: Democratic Backsliding and Illiberal Governance in the United States"
  • Assistant Professor of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology Rocco Palermo, "Subaltern Landscapes of Mesopotamia A Long-Term Archaeology of Rural Communities and Daily Practices (Prehistory to early 1st Millennium CE)"
  • Assistant Professor of Social Work and Social Research Rachel Speer, "Advancing the Measurement of Dignified Design: From Feasibility to Conceptual Integration"
  • Associate Professor of Anthropology Susanna Fioratta, "Taste in the making: experimentation and social change through sensory education in Colombian specialty coffee"
  • Associate Professor of Biology Greg Davis, "Revealing the secrets of switching: ReMOT interrogation of the pea aphid reproductive polyphenism"
  • Assistant Professor of Psychology Cora Mukerji, "Bi-Co Developmental Science: Supporting Interdisciplinary Collaboration and Community Engagement"
  • Associate Professor of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology Jennie Bradbury, "Vibrant Mountains: upland communities from prehistory to the present"
  • Associate Professor of Sociology and Co-Director of Latin American, Iberian, and Latina/o Studies Veronica Montes, "Self-Deportation: Challenges, opportunities, contradictions, and a new start"
  • Assistant Professor of Physics Don Fahey, "Bridging scales: using Quantum Diamond Microscopy (QDM) to enhance interpretation of magnetic fabrics in deformed rocks"

     

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