天美影视传媒 faculty members have received grants for research to be conducted over the next few years.
, professor in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, has been awarded a of $2 million for two years from the National Science Foundation as part of the NSF’s program.
The manufacturing life cycle starts with discovering new molecules and materials, often through computer simulations, and identifying promising candidates that can later be tested in laboratories. The grant, starting in September, will support development of new data science approaches to accelerate the engineering life cycle of design, characterization, manufacturing and operation.
Balazinska is principal investigator; co-principal investigators are chemical engineering professor , research associate professor ; and , senior data scientist with the UW’s eScience Institute.
For more information, contact Balazinska at magda@cs.washington.edu.
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, professor in the College of Education, has been awarded a of $1,400,000 across four years from the for a study to identify “malleable” reading factors 鈥� such as awareness and letter sounds 鈥� among elementary students with intellectual disabilities, with the long-term aim of developing effective literacy interventions.
Hudson is principal investigator; co-principal investigators, also in education, are assistant professor and associate professor . The National Center for Special Education Research is one of four research centers of . The grant was awarded in August.
Listen to a spring 2019 with Hudson about the effectiveness of interventions designed to help young readers on the autism spectrum.
For more information, contact Hudson at rhudson@uw.edu
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, clinical assistant professor of in the Department of Global Health 鈥� which bridges the UW schools of public health and medicine 鈥� has received a $200,000 grant from the Social Media and Adolescent Health Research Team at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She will develop and pilot a program that uses social media to prevent depression in young pregnant women or women who have recently given birth.
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