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ATLANTA — Georgia State University has announced the first round of grant recipients under its new, restructured Faculty Internal Grants Program.
This program was created to deliver university-based funding for innovative research, scholarship and creative activities across all disciplines. Previously offered as three separate opportunities — the Research Initiation Grant, the Scholarly Support Grant and the Arts & Humanities Grant — the program’s updated format offers flexible, twice-yearly funding options that better align with diverse research needs.
Fourteen faculty members will receive funding for projects spanning fields from music to computer science to biology. The Cycle 1 winners are:
- Mohammed Alser, Computer Science — MetaGo: AI-Driven Reproducible Context and Sample-Aware Metagenomics Analyses
- Page Anderson, Psychology — Evaluating Generative AI Responses to College Student Mental Health Queries: A Participatory Research Approach
- Misty Bentz, Physics & Astronomy — What Goes Bump in the Night?
- Xiaojun Cao, Computer Science — Improvisation Large Al Model
- Carrie Freeman, Communication — Coexisting with Bears, Bison, Birds & Beyond: Lessons Sharing Space with Wild Animals in Five of America’s UNESCO World Heritage Park Regions
- Eric Gaucher, Biology — Evolutionary History of Ancient XOR Enzymes
- Stuart Gerber, School of Music — Hazy Moonlight: New Works for Saxophone and Percussion
- Audrey Goodman, English — Uncurated: Envisioning Vernacular Wests
- Chun-Hao Huang, Kinesiology & Health — The Impact of Disease-Related Muscle Coordination Strategies on Energy Expenditure, Fall Risk, and Physical Activity in Older Adults with Knee Osteoarthritis
- Jongwoo Jeong, Political Science — Beyond Demographics: Investigating the Influence of Minority-Owned Businesses on Minority Political Participation
- Andrea Scarantino, Philosophy — Emotions Are Tools for Doing
- Allison Schifani, School of Film, Media & Theatre — Bloodlines: Murder, Family, Ecology, and Imaginations of Violence in the American Southwest
- Ping Song, Institute for Biomedical Sciences — Inhibition of Indoleamine-2,3-dioxygenase 1 Attenuates Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm and Dissection
- Frank Williams, Anthropology — Preparing for the Next Ice Age Using Dietary Indicators From Neandertal and Early Modern Human Teeth
To learn more about the Faculty Internal Grants Program, and submit applications for future funding cycles, visit Georgia State's Internal Grants Program website. For more information about Georgia State University research and its impact, visit research.gsu.edu.