Provost's Research Awards

 

Provost's Research Awards 2015

 
Internal funding programs are designed to foster excellence in research and creative scholarship at the University of Miami. The Provost’s Research Awards provide both salary support and support for direct research costs.
Internal Awards for Coral Gables and RSMAS Faculty

The awards are classified into three categories based on discipline: the Max Orovitz Research Awards in the Arts and Humanities, the James W. McLamore Research Awards in Business and the Social Sciences, and the Research Awards in the Natural Sciences and Engineering.

2024 Highlights

Provost Resarch Awards Graphic with statistics from 2024
School Awards
College of Arts & Sciences 17
FROST School of Music  5
Miami Herbert Business School 5
College of Engineering 1
School of Communication 1
School of Law 1
Rosenstiel School of Earth, Atmospheric & Earth Sciences 4

2024 Awardees

Investigator Department School Project Title Co-Investigator(s)
Abril, Carlos Music Education & Music Therapy FROST School of Music Navigating Professional Lives: A Grounded Meta-Analysis of Underrepresented Music Educators Nicole Yarling, Music Media & Industry
Mason, Charles Music Theory and Composition FROST School of Music The Sound Of One Fork

Investigator Department School Proposal Title Co-Investigator(s)
Chakraborty, Indraneel Finance Miami Herbert Business School The Consequences of Fund-level Liquidity Requirements
Hong, Yili (Kevin) Business Technology Miami Herbert Business School The Efficacy of Need-based Attentional Interventions in Educational Crowdfunding
Korniotis, George Finance Miami Herbert Business School Discrimination and Preference Primitives Bazley, Will (external)
Cuculiza, Carina
Rantala, Ville Finance Miami Herbert Business School Security Analysts and Bayesian Thinking
Williams, Noah Economics Miami Herbert Business School State Level Economic Dynamics

Investigator Department School Proposal Title
Abaka, Edmund History College of Arts & Sciences History, Architecture, Site of Historical Memory: Sao Jorge da Mina, The Atlantic Slave Trade, and the Euro-African Encounter on the Guinea Coast, 1482-1957
Bernath, Michael History College of Arts & Sciences In a Land of Strangers: Northern Teachers in the Slave South, 1790-1865
Chattah, Juan Theory & Composition Frost School of Music “Sound, Sign, and Cinema: How Film Music Shapes Cinematic Signification”
Dinka, Etana History College of Arts & Sciences Balagär, Balabbat, and Ba'id: A History of Local Conflicts, Bargains and State Construction in Imperial Ethiopia (ca. 1880s–1974)
Goff, Krista History College of Arts & Sciences Deportees and settlers: ethnic cleansing and its aftermath in the Soviet Union
Manzor, Lillian Modern Languages & Literatures College of Arts & Sciences INTAR Theatre: Sixty Years of Latine Theatre Without Borders
Martin, Alfred Cinematic Arts School of Communication Ease on Down the Road? A Cultural History of The Wiz
Quevedo, Marysol Musicology Frost School of Music Sounds of the ICAIC: Music and Sound in Cuban Revolutionary Cinema
Reill, Dominique History College of Arts & Sciences Living in an Immigrant Empire: Nineteenth-Century Central Europe

Investigator Department School Proposal Title Co-Investigator(s)
Aguiar, Vanessa Computer Science College of Arts & Sciences Devising interpretable biologically-inspired AI techniques for medical imaging Schwartz, Odelia (College of Arts & Sciences)
Cappelluti, Nico Physics College of Arts & Sciences First Black Holes With the James Webb Space Telescope
Chen, Cheng-Bang Industrial Engineering College of Engineering Developing novel metrics that quantitate complex microstructures to stage prostate cancer
Coleman, Richard Marine Biology and Ecology Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric & Earth Sciences Characterizing patterns of relatedness and connectivity to inform juvenile settlement of an artisanal fishery on Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi
Collins, Tom Music Media & Industry Frost School of Music SAMPA: Synchronized action in music-ensemble playing and athletics
Feeley, Kenneth Biology College of Arts & Sciences An Ecological Assessment of Big Cypress National Preserve's Eponymous Cypress Forests Mader, Christopher (Institute for Data Science and Computing (IDSC)
Norris, Timothy (Richter Library)
Kamenkovich, Igor Ocean Sciences Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric & Earth Sciences Clustering of floating tracers in the ocean
Lin, Guoqing Marine Geosciences Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric & Earth Sciences Climate Change Seismology
Sikkel, Paul Marine Biology and Ecology Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric & Earth Sciences Effects of Cleanerfish on Microbial Recovery and Diversity on Coral Reefs
Walls, Jamie Chemistry College of Arts & Sciences Determining Mutual Diffusion Coefficients in Multicomponent Systems Using NMR

Investigator Department School Proposal Title Co-Investigator(s)
Blankenship, Brian Political Science College of Arts & Sciences Nuclear Nonproliferation and Defense Burden-Sharing in U.S. Alliances
Britton, Jennifer Psychology College of Arts & Sciences Enhancing Empathy Using Fear-Inducing Virtual Reality
Geller, Pamela Anthropology College of Arts & Sciences Crafting plastic artifact biographies: developing an interactive methodology for engaging primary school students
Howard, Simon Psychology College of Arts & Sciences The Relationship Between Vicarious Racism and Black Americans' Race-Based Traumatic Stress
Touchton, Michael Political Science College of Arts & Sciences Do Water Security Projects Provide Greater Benefits When They Are Participatory? Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Kenya Stoler, Justin (College of Arts & Sciences)
Truong-Vu, Kim-Phuong Sociology College of Arts & Sciences Using Restricted Data to Examine Racial and Ethnic Differences in Parental Reasons for Non-Intent in Vaccinating Adolescent Daughters Against HPV
Weisman de Mamani, Amy Psychology College of Arts & Sciences The effect of language dominance on the expression of emotions and mood symptoms in bilingual (Spanish-English) individuals
Widen, William Law School of Law Responsible Regulation of Automated Vehicles & Corporate Governance

Criteria for Evaluation
  • Scholarly, scientific, and/or creative merit
  • Likelihood the work will lead to major publications or externally reviewed scholarly or creative activity
  • Prospect the work will result in successful applications for extramural funding
  • Qualifications, experience, productivity, and promise of the applicant
Awardees
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