Rutgers Global is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2023 Rutgers Global Grants. These modest seed grants are offered yearly to all Rutgers faculty, including tenured, tenure-track, clinical, and NTT faculty.
This year, there were four categories of grants: (1) International Collaborative Research, (2) Global Health, (3) Global Environmental Change, and (4) Faculty Innovation in Global Learning.
Johanna Bernstein, Assistant Dean for Global Programs at Rutgers Global, who administered this year’s program noted, “As we’ve started to emerge from the lockdowns, our faculty have been able to conceive of projects that include travel and scholarship with our global partners—some existing and some new. This year resulted in one of our largest submission pools; we saw an increase of more than 30% in the number of submissions. The proposals that we were able to fund were impressive and we are thrilled to be able to support our faculty in their innovative work.”
Vice President for Global Affairs Dr. Eric Garfunkel added: “Rutgers University continues in its strong commitment to internationalization and expanding our global engagement. These annual Rutgers Global Grants represent our continued belief in the power of research and education to help transform lives all around the world.”
Congratulations to this year’s Rutgers Global Grants recipients!
International Collaborative Research
Benedetto Piccoli, Department of Mathematics, College of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers–Camden, Innovative models for pandemics with mutating viruses
Hunter King, Department of Physics, College of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers–Camden, Physics of structure and material choice in bird nest construction
Chie Ikeya, Department of History, School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers–New Brunswick, Remapping Asia’s Great Migrations and Mobility Revolution, 1840–1940
Siobain Duffy, Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources, School of Environment and Biological Sciences, Rutgers–New Brunswick, Early detection of cassava brown streak ipomoviruses by ML-trained spectroscopy
Stephan Schwander, Department of Urban-Global Public Health, School of Public Health, Rutgers Biomedical Health Sciences, Air quality and food preparation in a low-income community in Kampala/Uganda
Kent Harber, Department of Psychology, School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers–Newark, Emotional Disclosure and Listening to Opposing Views: An Arab-Israeli Model
Hao Wang, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, School of Engineering, Rutgers–New Brunswick, Sustainable Concrete Materials for Coastal Infrastructure and Marine Habitats
Esther Ohito, Department of Learning and Teaching, Graduate School of Education, Rutgers–New Brunswick, African Indigenous Knowledge of Social Justice Education
Preetha Mani, Department of Comparative Literature, School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers–New Brunswick, Tamil New Poetry, Indian Literature, Poetic Modernism
Alisa Belzer, Department of Teaching and Learning, Graduate School of Education, Rutgers–New Brunswick, Critical educational life history study of low literate adults in six countries
Global Health Seed Grants (offered in partnership between Rutgers Global and the Rutgers Global Health Institute)
Alfred Lardizabal, New Jersey Medical School, Rutgers Biomedical Health Sciences, Latent Tuberculosis Infection (LTBI) ECHO Pilot
Takashi Amano, Department of Social Work, School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers–Newark, Understanding underdiagnosis of dementia in the context of indigenous older
Karen D’Alonzo, School of Nursing, Rutgers Biomedical Health Sciences, Expansion of the Buen Vecino program to improve the health of Mexican immigrants
Jamille Nagtalon-Ramos, School of Nursing, Rutgers Biomedical Health Sciences, Sexual and Reproductive Health Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behaviors Among Urban Young Adult Women in the Philippines
Matthew Matsaganis, School of Communication and Information, Rutgers–New Brunswick, Developing a Rutgers Model for Training Global Health Communication Experts
Global Environmental Change (offered in partnership between Rutgers Global, the Rutgers Institute of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, and the Rutgers Climate Institute)
Jose Guillermo Cedeno Laurent, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health and Justice, School of Public Health, Rutgers Biomedical Health Sciences, Addiction and climate change: opioids effect on mortality during heatwaves
Richard Alomar, Department of Landscape Architecture, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, Rutgers–New Brunswick, Green infrastructure: Stormwater Management as a Health Strategy
Ning Zhang, Department of Plant Biology, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, Rutgers–New Brunswick, Climate monitoring to study the impact of climate change on biodiversity
Laura Schneider, Department of Geography, School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers–New Brunswick, Intersection of land use and climate in Costa Rica
Benjamin Black, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers–New Brunswick, Miocene carbon cycle disruption as an analog for Anthropocene climate
Faculty Innovation in Global Learning
Isadora Grevan De Carvalho, Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies, School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers–Newark, Study Abroad in Brazil in Portuguese Language and Brazilian Culture
Yonaira Rivera, School of Communication and Information, Rutgers–New Brunswick, Health Inequities and Health Communication Across the Health Professions in the Caribbean: Summer School in Puerto Rico
Nrupali Patel, Department of Plant Biology, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, Rutgers– New Brunswick, Medicinal Plants and Foods in India
Hyacinth Miller, Department of Africana Studies, School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers–Newark, The Caribbean and the 21st Century: Challenges and Opportunities
For more information on the project descriptions visit our Global Grants Recipients page here.