For the third year, the Office of the Provost has awarded seed grants to faculty teams in the sciences for multi-disciplinary and clinical translational research, and in the arts and humanities for multi-disciplinary research and creative collaborations.
This year, 21 grants were awarded, each totaling as much as $50,000, representing 59 scholars from 12 schools and colleges at Temple, and three campuses, including Temple University Japan.
The seed grants continue to encourage new university collaborations and expand the depth and breadth of our interdisciplinary research and creative works, helping us advance Temple s goal of Research Excellence that benefits society, said Senior Vice Provost for Research and Graduate Education Ken Blank. These grants are important vehicles for helping faculty bring additional grant funding and recognition to Temple.
One of the recipients, Associate Professor of Physiology Laurie Kilpatrick, is pleased to have received an award not only because it it enables her group to obtain data they need for a research grant proposal, but also because of the opportunity it presents her as a new faculty member. It got me started collaborating with my colleagues, she said.
Kilpatrick, whose expertise is immunology, is working with Professor of Radiology Linda Knight and Professor of Pulmonary Medicine Steven Kelsen to find a solution for a major health problem acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) a leading cause of death in intensive care units.
Another 2010 seed grant project that addresses an issue with far-reaching implications is a film about Ahmedabad, India, All the World is Urban, produced and directed by Professor of Film and Media Arts Warren Bass and Associate Professor of History Howard Spodek. Documenting change in this dynamic, large city could benefit cities worldwide facing pollution, gridlocked transportation, overcrowding, poverty and more. The project directly fulfills Temple s Academic Compass goals of Metro Engagement and Global Commitment.
We are interested in the human dimensions of this story, particularly what happens to millions of poor people, said Bass. Who gets to be heard, who gets to decide, and will confrontation or collaboration win out?
A look at one of last year s seed grant projects, under the direction of Chemistry Professor Stephanie Wunder and Pharmaceutical Sciences Professor Marc Ilies, further demonstrates the power of the awards. Since receiving the grant in 2009-10, along with furthering their research to develop nanoparticles as a delivery vehicle for gene therapy, Ilies and Wunder have advanced another primary Compass goal, Opportunities for Success, by creating research opportunities for graduate and undergraduate students.
Students got the chance to learn something new and benefit from the collaboration between the two schools, said Wunder.
As to the progress of the overall project, Ilies said, When you apply for a grant, you need to be precise and know what is most likely to work for promising research strategies. The seed grant has helped us do that.
Ilies and Wunder have submitted one NIH grant based on work completed as the result of the seed award and are working on a second. As for all recipients, their seed grant was just the beginning.
2010 Seed Grant Recipients
All the World is Urban: Planning in the Developing World
Warren Bass, SCT
Howard Spodek, CLA
The Art of Salvation in Upper Egypt: The Red and White Monasteries, Past, Present and Future
Elizabeth Bolman, Tyler
Susan Moore, Tyler
Nicholas W. Kripal, Tyler
Gerald D. Silk, Tyler
Assessing Informality: Understanding Informal Settlements Using Participation Post-Occupancy Evaluation Techniques
Scott Shall, Tyler
Nancy E. Morris, SCT
Characterization of the Effects of Hypertension on Adult Brain Neurogenesis
Tinatin Chabrashvili, Medicine
Servio Ramirez, Medicine
Community Collaborations: Temple University and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania s PhilaPlace Project
Christopher Harper, SCT
Christine Woyshner, Education
Edward Trayes, SCT
Curricular and Faculty Development for the Center for Urban Bioethics and Humanities
Kathleen Reeves, Medicine
Keith Gumery, CLA
DEAR: Dance and Engineering in Augmented Reality
Li Bai, Engineering
Luke Kahlich, Boyer
The Effects of Music Therapy on Entrainment on Reported Pain, and Bowel Function of Cancer Outpatients Experiencing Chronic Pain
Cheryl Dileo, Boyer
Joke A. Bradt, Boyer
Robert B. Raffa, Pharmacy
Rachel Clark-Vetri, Pharmacy
Genetic Variations in Inflammation-Related Genes in Patients with Pelvic Pain Syndrome
Michel A. Pontari, Medicine
Evgeny Krynetskiy, Pharmacy
GRID + Flow: Philadelphia and Beyond Mapping and Reimagining Urban Ecologies through the Arts and Humanities
Alan C. Braddock, Tyler
Peter P. d Agostino, SCT
Andrew Isenberg, CLA
An Innovative Strategy for the Fabrication of Nano-Based Multijunction Solar Cells
Svetlana Neretina, Engineering
Bradford Wayland, CST
Inside-Out: A Sustainable Growth
Lori Pompa, CLA
TL Hill, Fox
International Law and International Relations: Taking Stock, an Interdisciplinary Research Group Proposal
Jeffrey L. Dunoff, Law
Mark Pollack, CLA
Language Contact, Maintenance and Revitalization in the Guatemalan Highlands, an Interdisciplinary Approach
Jonathan Holmquist, CLA
Hana Muzika Kahn, CLA
Multimedia Reporting on Urban Centers in Asia and Africa
Ron Carr, SCT
Irene Herrera, SCT
Jean-Julien Aucouturier, CST
Nanoconjugates for Targeted Treatment of Acute Lung Injury
Laurie Kilpatrick, Medicine
Linda Knight, Medicine
Steven Kelsen, Medicine
Neural Effects of Acute Traumatic Brain Injury
Iyad Obeid, Engineering
Darvish Kurosh, Engineering
Mary F. Barbe, Medicine
Joseph Picone, Engineering
Place-Based Interventions for Public Health: A Cross Disciplinary Approach to the Study of Policing in Philadelphia
Jennifer Wood, CLA
Jerry Ratcliffe, CLA
Jennifer Ibrahim, CHPSW
Elizabeth Groff, CLA
Nina Gentile, Medicine
Queer, Get Used to It
Peter Reynolds, SCT
Scott Gratson, SCT
Relationships of Histochemistry to Muscle Activity in the Child with Cerebral Palsy
Richard T. Lauer, CHPSW
Mary F. Barbe, Medicine
Role of Dorsotriatal Glutamatergic Signaling in the Regulation of Cocaine Induced Synaptic and Behavioral Plasticity
Vinay Parikh, CLA
Ellen Unterwald, Medicine
Scott Rawls, Pharmacy
Targeted Multidrug Delivery System to Overcome Chemoresistance in Breast Cancer
Bin Wang, Engineering
Mohan P. Achary, Medicine
