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Rutgers Global Grants

Rutgers Global Grants are intended to support faculty international engagement by helping initiate engagement and collaborative research, international partnerships, and new educational initiatives.

The 2026-2027 Application Cycle will open at the end of October. Please stay tuned for important changes and updates to Rutgers Global Grants.

Inquiries:

Questions about Rutgers Global Grants may be directed to Afia Asamoah, Program Coordinator, Rutgers Global, at grants@global.rutgers.edu.

Submission Process & Conditions for Seed Grants

  • Completed applications for all grant proposals must be submitted on or before the deadline. Proposals may be individual—submitted by a faculty member—or institutional—submitted by programs, institutes, centers, departments, or schools. However, each proposal may only have a single Principal Investigator.  

    Stay tuned for more information about the submission process.

    Please be aware that the awarded amount may be less than requested. Applications requesting more than the maximum allowable amount, excluding cost share, will not be reviewed. A faculty member may submit only one application for a global grant. 

  • All proposals, with the exception of Faculty-Led Study Abroad proposals, must be submitted through RAPSS. This can be done before or after award notification. Funds will be released in two stages: 

    * 75 percent at the start of the grant cycle  
    * 25 percent after the final report is received 

    A final report will be due within 30 days after the end of the grant cycle. 

    The applicant agrees to comply with the Institutional Review Board (IRB), IACUC, and conflict of interest (COI) requirements as a condition of receiving awards. If the research project involves human or animal subjects, the recipient must provide proof that they have complied with IRB/IACUC requirements. The recipient must also have entered the appropriate information into the COI website. Funds must be spent in accordance with the proposed budget and follow all University policies on the use of funds. Requests to modify one’s budget or plan should be emailed to grants@global.rutgers.edu along with a justification. 

    Note that all travel must be booked using the Rutgers online booking tool found here. 

Grant Recipients & Projects

  • Global Health   

    Sarah McMahon-Cannizzo, School of Social Work, New Brunswick   
    Preparing Frontline Workers to Address Intimate Partner Violence in Global Contexts through Serious Games Learning    

    Silvia Perez-Cortes, Camden College of Arts and Sciences, Camden   
    Building Linguistic and Cultural Competence in Spanish for Medical Purposes    

    Joachim Sackey, School of Health Professions, RBHS   
    Produce Prescriptions and Veggie-Meter Scores: A Feasibility and Pilot Study of an 8-Week Produce Box Intervention to Improve Fruit and Vegetable Intake and Food Security in College Students   

    Udele Tagoe, New Jersey Medical School Obstetrics/Gynecology, RBHS   
    Molecular Profiling in Endometrial Cancer in Ghana    

    Joe Vella, RWJ Otolaryngology, RBHS   
    Strengthening Otolaryngology–Head & Neck Surgery (OHNS) Training Capacity at KCMC, Tanzania      

    International Collaborative Research   

    Nathan Wages, Rehabilitation and Movement Sciences, School of Health Professions, RBHS   
    Development of a muscle aging index for early detection of muscular health      

    Maria Kouneli, Linguistics, School of Arts and Sciences, New Brunswick   
    The Terik Verb: Documentation of an Endangered Kalenjin Language in Kenya      

    Corday Selden, Marine and Coastal Sciences, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, New Brunswick   
    Will changes in circulation affect the ocean’s capacity to take up carbon?      

    Benjamin Bates, Medicine (Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research), Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences, RBHS   
    Rutgers–Sungkyunkwan University Partnership to Catalyze Oncology Treatment      

    Federico Sesti, Neuroscience & Cell Biology, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, RBHS   
    A class of synthetic peptides with antiepileptic activity      

    Ashutosh Goel, Materials Science and Engineering, School of Engineering, New Brunswick   
    Design, Discovery, and Translation of Antibacterial-Resistant Glasses      

    Omar Vasquez Duque, Law School, Camden   
    Anti-Steering Rules and Regressive Transfers      

    Ricardo Andres Bello Gomez, Public Affairs and Administration, School of Public Affairs and Administration, Newark   
    Conceptualizing and Measuring Regional Government Capacity in Latin America      

    Ulla Berg, Latino and Caribbean Studies and Anthropology, School of Arts and Sciences, New Brunswick   
    AI and Migration Governance in South America      

    Faculty-Led Study Abroad   

    Anna Haley, Social Work, School of Social Work, New Brunswick   
    Close Neighbors, Different Systems: Canada’s Social Welfare Framework, Program Implementation      

    Carla Katz, Labor Studies, School of Management and Labor Relations, New Brunswick   
    Labor Relations in Sweden, Site Exploration      

    Ethan Schoolman, Human Ecology, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, New Brunswick
    Environmental Solutions in Ireland, Site Exploration      

    Keisha April, Criminal Justice, School of Criminal Justice, Newark   
    Understanding Cross-Cultural Correlates of Delinquency: Tokyo, Japan, Site Exploration      

    Laura Napolitano, Sociology, Anthropology & Criminal Justice, Camden College of Arts and Sciences, Camden
    Families, Children and the Criminal Justice System in Scotland and the US, Site Exploration      

    Laura Ramirez Polo, Spanish and Portuguese, School of Arts and Sciences, New Brunswick   
    Spanish Intercultural and Linguistic Competence: Latin America Program, Site Exploration      

    Maria Montenegro, Spanish and Portuguese, School of Arts and Sciences, New Brunswick   
    Spanish for Health Professions in Oaxaca, Site Exploration      

    Korea University-Rutgers University co-funded Collaborative Research   

    Aziz Ezzat, Industrial and Systems Engineering, School of Engineering, New Brunswick   
    AI4AI: AI-Powered Energy Forecasting in the Era of Large AI Loads      

    Hyung Jin Ahn, Department of Pharmacology, New Jersey Medical School, RBHS   
    Investigating the impact of irisin on cerebrovascular impairment in AD      

    Jingang Yi, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, School of Engineering, New Brunswick   
    Wearable Exoskeletons for Awkward Gait Assistance in Construction

  • International Collaborative Research:

    Abigail Williams-Butler, Social Work, New Brunswick
    Understanding Barriers to Well-Being: The Trokosi System in Ghana

    Shriram Ramanathan, Electrical and Computer Engineering, School of Engineering, New Brunswick
    Novel semiconductors for low power electronics

    Charles Senteio, Library and Information Science, School of Communication and Information, New Brunswick
    Addressing barriers to mental health care for young adults in Africa

    John C. Lore, Rutgers Law School, Camden
    Advancing the Right to Legal Counsel for the Poor and Indigent in Ghana

    Miguel Jimenez, Spanish and Portuguese, School of Arts and Sciences, New Brunswick
    Language technologies for global social justice: mapping translation digital literacy in multilingual heritage communities

    Jody Miller, School of Criminal Justice, Newark
    The Sri Lanka Ethogram: A Citizen-Science Conservation Education Project

    Karen Bishop, Spanish and Portuguese, School of Arts and Sciences, New Brunswick
    The Elegy Project International

    Yong Kim, Neurosurgery, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Rutgers Health
    Genetic variants associated with resilience to Alzheimer's disease

    Saul Rubenstein, Labor Studies and Employment Relations, School of Management and Labor Relations, New Brunswick
    Rutgers-South Africa Research Partnership on Collaborative School Reform

    Ioannis Androulakis, Biomedical Engineering, School of Engineering, New Brunswick
    SEPSIS – Smart Ecosystem for Precision in Sepsis Intervention and Solutions

    Global Health Seed Grants:

    Christina Bergey, Genetics, School of Arts and Sciences, New Brunswick
    Determinants of malaria infection in rural Uganda

    Edward Lee, Surgery, New Jersey Medical School, Newark
    Enhancing Perioperative Care in Ghana: A Collaborative Capacity-Building Initiative

    Zorimar Rivera-Nunez, Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Rutgers Health
    A mixed method approach to evaluate toxic metals exposure among agricultural communities

    Diana Roopchand, Food Science, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, New Brunswick
    Andean Shilajit may alter gut-brain axis in Alzheimer’s Disease

    Stanley Weiss, Medicine, New Jersey Medical School, Rutgers Health
    Cancer Education and Screening Deficiencies in NJ Drug Treatment Programs

    Faculty-led Study Abroad:

    Ann Bagchi, Supply Chain Management, Rutgers Business School, New Brunswick
    Digital Transformation and Health Equity in the United States and Ireland/Northern Ireland

    Brigitte Cypress, School of Nursing, Camden
    Establishing our First Study Abroad Course in the Philippines

    Jennifer Oberle, Biology, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Camden
    Ecosystem Ecology of Belize (with Mayan Archeology) Site Exploration

    Lynnette Mawhinney, Urban Education, School of Arts and Sciences, Newark
    Education in the Global World Kenya

    Ryan Greenbaum, Human Resource Management, School of Management and Labor Relations, New Brunswick
    HRM in London

    Paul Meers, Plant Biology, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, New Brunswick
    AgriTech Japan: The Crossroads of Agriculture and Biotechnology

    Pengju Zhang, School of Public Affairs and Administration, Newark
    Comparative Urban Governance: E-commerce, E-government, and Emerging NPOs

    Alex Seggerman, Arts, Culture and Media, School of Arts and Sciences, Newark
    Fall 2025 Embedded Study Abroad: Egypt

  • International Collaborative Research 

    Kimberlee Moran, Chemistry, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Camden 
    Finding Children in the Archaeological Record 

    Rahul Mittal, Health Informatics, School of Health Professions, RBHS 
    Taxonomy of the Voluntary Sector in Cornwall, UK 

    Hadi El Farr, Human Resources and Management, School of Management and Labor Relations, New Brunswick 
    Investigating Job Desperation as a New Managerial Concept: A Cross-Cultural Analysis in the US and France 

    Sarah Gallo, Learning and Teaching, Graduate School of Education, New Brunswick 
    Intersections of Documentation and Dis/ability Education for U.S.-Born Students in Mexico 

    Sylvie Rangan, Physics and Astronomy, School of Arts and Sciences, New Brunswick 
    The Interaction of Low Energy Electrons with Matter: An Emerging Concern 

    Jonathan Gingerich, Rutgers Law School, Newark 
    Humanistic Ethics Network 

    Simiao Niu, Biomedical Engineering, School of Engineering, New Brunswick 
    Stretchable Textile with Functional Liquid-Metal for BodyNET 

    Krystal Strong, Education Theory, Policy and Administration, Graduate School of Education, New Brunswick 
    Political Education in Global Black Social Movements 

    Rajiv Malhotra, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, School of Engineering,  
    Scalable Resilience of Critical Manufacturing Systems to Cyberattacks 

    Salim El Rouayheb, Electrical and Computer Engineering, School of Engineering 
    Resilient AI/ML Algorithms in Decentralized Networks 

    Global Environmental Change 

    Kristina Keating, Earth and Environmental Sciences, School of Arts and Sciences, Newark 
    The role of bofedales on water storage and availability in Phinaya, Peru 

    Andrea Restrepo-Mieth, Ralph Voorhees Center for Civic Engagement, Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy 
    Environmental planning under a changing climate in Galápagos, Ecuador 

    Fiorella Prada, Marine and Coastal Sciences, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, New Brunswick 
    Upwelling systems: thermal refugia for reef-building corals in the Eastern Tropical Pacific 

    Global Health Seed Grants 

    Selvakumar Subbian, Public Health Research Center, RBHS 
    Evaluation of a novel candidate drug against latent tuberculosis 

    Maria Gloria Dominguez-Bello, Biochemistry and Microbiology, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, New Brunswick 
    Wellness through Wisdom: Indigenous Women's cervical health Test Training 

    Hari Iyer, Cancer Institute of New Jersey, RBHS 
    Rutgers-University of Ibadan partnership for climate and health research 

    Ubydul Haque, Epidemiology, RBHS 
    Innovative approaches to overcome vaccine hesitancy and increase coverage in Ukraine 

    Lisa Lewis, School of Nursing, Camden 
    Cardiovascular Social Determinants of Health in the Caribbean Symposium 

    Faculty-led Study Abroad 

    Jack Harris, Human Ecology, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, New Brunswick 
    Scottish Sustainability 

    Tracy Chang, School of Management and Labor Relations, New Brunswick 
    SMLR Global Education: Conscious Leadership and Social Innovations 

    Mary D’Ambrosio, Journalism and Media Studies, School of Communication and Information, New Brunswick 
    Establishing our first study abroad course in Turkey 

    Janice Gallagher, Political Science, School of Arts and Sciences, Newark 
    Decolonizing Translation in US/Mexico Diaspora 

    Frederick Curry, Dance, Mason Gross School of the Arts, New Brunswick 
    Samba in Salvador, Brazil