Provost's Research Award Recipients

2026 Highlights

School Awards
College of Arts & Sciences 17
FROST School of Music  3
Miami Herbert Business School 5
Rosenstiel School of Earth, Atmospheric & Earth Sciences 4
School of Architecture 1
School of Communication 4
School of Education & Human Development 3
School of Nursing and Health Studies 1

2026 Awardees

Investigator Department School Project Title
Daversa, John  Studio Music & Jazz FROST School of Music  Eighteen Echoes in Cherokee (Phase 2)
Lomanno, Mark Musicology  FROST School of Music  The Soul and Science of Global Jazz
Reyes, Kimberly  English  College of Arts & Sciences Everyday Gothic: Diasporic Poetics Between America and Ireland
Sokolowski, Rafal  Cinematic Arts School of Communication  Mall Rats

Investigator Department School  Project Title Co-Investigator(s)
Chhaochharia, Vidhi Finance Miami Herbert Business School  Recession Resilience: Forecasting Behavior of    Female Analysts in Gender Supportive Environment  
Kamalahmadi, Masoud Management Science Miami Herbert Business School  Racial and Gender Biases in Customer Satisfaction Surveys in the Restaurant Industry  
Shi, Cong (Alex) Management Miami Herbert Business School  Smarter Admission Control for Reusable Resources: The STARR Policy  
Shi, Wei Management Miami Herbert Business School  Shareholder and strategy alignment and firm competitiveness  
Tsouderou, Athena Finance Miami Herbert Business School  Weathering the Storm: The Impact of Florida's  Insurance Crisis on Household Financial Behavior Stefanos Delikouras
Susan M. Wachter (External)

Investigator Department School  Project Title
Cabas-Mijares, Ayleen  Journalism and Media Management School of Communication  Out of the Shadows: Undocuqueer Lives in Media and Movement
Chudnoff, Elijah Philosophy College of Arts & Sciences The Force of Reason: Seven Puzzles About Inference
Connors, Logan  Modern Languages & Literatures College of Arts & Sciences Theater and Sociability in the Duchy of Luxembourg (1600-1815)
Lane, Christina Cinematic Arts School of Communication  The Women v. Warner Bros.: How Bette Davis and Company Upended Hollywood
Pivo, Vyta Architecture Schoolof Architecture Re/Claimed: Dredging for New American Lands
Quevedo, Marysol Musicology FROST School of Music  Music: Context, Sound, Meaning

Investigator Department School  Project Title Co-Investigator(s)
Afkhami, Michelle Biology College of Arts & Sciences Past meets present: Unraveling stress legacies in microbiomes to enhance plant resilience  
Arcodia, Marybeth Atmospheric Sciences Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric & Earth Science AI Climate Emulator Dataset Generation for Subseasonal Forecast of Opportunity Analysis  
Barskiy, Danila Chemistry  College of Arts & Sciences Development of a Generalized Theoretical Framework for Analyzing Nuclear Spin Hyperpolarization Experiments  
Calvin, Jason  Chemistry  College of Arts & Sciences Rational Design Principles of the Surfaces of Single-Photon Quantum Emitters  
Cappelluti, Nico  Physics College of Arts & Sciences Unlocking the Cosmic Origins of the First Black Holes  
Captain, Burjor  Chemistry  College of Arts & Sciences Heterometallic Cluster Complexes as Precursors to Nanoparticle Heterogeneous Catalysts   
Clarke, Nat Biology College of Arts & Sciences A cross-species platform for injection-free delivery of genome engineering tools  
Li, Hebin Physics College of Arts & Sciences Ultrafast Operation of Quantum Gates for Faster Quantum Computing  
Meier, Katlyn Chemistry  College of Arts & Sciences Defining Copper-Dependent Alterations in Pathological Huntingtin Protein Dynamics via Bioinorganic Spectroscopy  
Moniruzzaman, Mohammad Marine Biology and Ecology Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric & Earth Science “Jumbo” Viruses: Resolving the Host Range and Life-Strategy Biases of Large Viruses Infecting Marine Bacteria  
Nagendra Prakash, Vivek  Physics College of Arts & Sciences Improving Coral Larval Recruitment using Biophysics and Engineering Prannoy Suraneni 
Schwartz, Odelia  Computer Science College of Arts & Sciences When AI Sees and Says: Making Multimodal AI Understandable and Aligned with Humans Vanessa Aguiar-Pulido
Villasenor-Derbez, Juan Carlos Environmental Science and Policy Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric & Earth Science Big Protections for Big Fish: Do Large-scale Marine Protected Areas Benefit Highly Migratory Fish?  
Wang, Siyuan  Atmospheric Sciences Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric & Earth Science Pilot Study: Improve the Representation of New Particle Formation in the Community Earth System Model (CESM)  

Investigator Department School  Project Title Co-Investigator(s)
Chirinos-Downie, Diana  Psychology  College of Arts & Sciences Sleep and Stress Reactivity in Spousal Bereavement: A Pilot Study  
Chriswell, Kaitlyn Political Science College of Arts & Sciences Everyday life in contexts of persistent insecurity: An evaluation of situational victimization in Mexico  
Kahn, Jennifer Teaching and Learning School of Education & Human Development  “Making Data Come Alive”: Building Relationships to Data Through AI-Powered Characters   
Kara, Yusuf Educational and Psychological Studies School of Education & Human Development  Validation of a Novel Modeling Approach to Estimate Carryover Classroom Effects in Multiyear Educational Data  
Ortiz, Kasim  Sociology & Criminology College of Arts & Sciences Racial Boundaries in Place: Neighborhood Contexts and the Classification of Black Latinos in U.S. Census Data  
Park, Youngho Kinesiology and Sport Sciences School of Education & Human Development  Unveiling Public Attitudes Towards Social Justice Activism in Sport: A Study on Measuring and Analyzing Social Disability Bias through Novel Multivariate Methods  
Petersen, Nick  Sociology & Criminology College of Arts & Sciences What Explains Immigrant-Native Differences in Punishment?:  An Experimental Pilot Study of Theoretical Mechanisms  
Reis Mourao, Rachel Journalism and Media Management School of Communication  Satire and journalism: How YouTube influencers blend humor and information as a gateway to news  
Williams, Renessa Nursing and Health Studies School of Nursing and Health Sciences CAnnabis Nurse-led Development and Outreach (CAN-DO) in Adults who use Medical Cannabis for Chronic Pain Denise Vidot 

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