Fifty proposals were submitted and reviewed by the Associate Deans for Research of the participating colleges or their designee. Eighteen proposals (36% of those submitted) were selected for funding, awarding $590,812 for these pilot awards. These proposals involve 49 UK faculty and 15 colleges: 9 Pigman College of Engineering, 8 College of Medicine, 5 Martin-Gatton College of Agriculture, Food and Environment, 4 College of Communication & Information, 4 College of Arts and Sciences, 4 Libraries, 3 College of Design, 3 College of Public Health, 2 College of Health Sciences, 2 College of Pharmacy, 1 College of Dentistry, 1 College of Fine Arts, 1 College of Social Work, 1 Gatton Business & Economics and 1 Graduate School.
The projects selected were:
| Title | Investigators |
|---|---|
| Tackling the antimicrobial-resistant Salmonella infections in food animals, humans, and the environment in Central Kentucky, a one health perspective | Yosra Helmy (CAFE), Vaneet Arora (Medicine), Melissa Morgan (CAFE), Scott Berry (Engineering) |
| Analyzing synaptic structure and Tau pathology interactions via DiOlistic labeling in a new humanized Alzheimer's mouse model | Adam Bachstetter (Medicine), Kristen McLaurin (Pharmacy) |
| Longitudinal tracking of mutations in the blood as a biomarker of Alzheimer’s disease risk | Yasminka Jakubek Swartzlander (Medicine), David Fardo (Public Health) |
| The Curious Case of Energy Transition and Climate Action Policy Design in Kentucky: Policy Mixes, Framing, and Public Support | Jeongyoon Lee (Graduate School), Jihye Kim (Communication and Information) |
| A multidisciplinary approach to environmental change and bee conservation | Clare Rittschof, Beryl Jones (CAFE), Catherine Linnen (A&S) |
| Developing a novel moisture sensing fabric for biomedical and sports applications using 3D machine-knitting | Kristi Bartlett, Jennifer Meakins (Design), Zhi Chen (Engineering) |
| Prediction Models to Inform Empiric Antibiotic Therapy Selection for Pseudomonas aeruginosa | Ashlan Kunz Coyne (Pharmacy), Yosra Helmy (CAFE), Hana Khamfroush (Engineering) |
| Improving Archival Discovery Using a Natural Language Query Interface for Finding Aids | Muhammad Siddique (Engineering), Andrew McDonnell, Cindi Blyberg, Megan Mummey, Neal Powers (Libraries), |
| The silica empire: An invisible invasion | Pedram Roghanchi (Engineering), Paul Rodgers (Fine Arts) |
| Finding networks in large volumes of text: An AI approach to relationship extraction | Andrew Pilny (Communication and Information), Daniel Halgin (B&E) |
| Development of Novel Screening Protocols to Distinguish Limbic-Predominant Age-Related TDP-43 Encephalopathy (LATE) from Alzheimer's Disease in Living Older Adults | Valentinos Zachariou (Medicine), Thomas Adams (A&S), Jennifer Stevenson (Medicine), Siva Gandhapudi (Medicine) |
| Transformer-based temporal action localization for functional motion classification and localization for stroke rehabilitation | Justin Philip Huber (Medicine), Sen-ching Samson Cheung, Jihye Bae (Engineering) |
| Large Language Models for Understanding Medieval Manuscripts | Muhammad Siddique (Engineering), Abigail Firey (A&S) |
| Young Adult Females Responses to Image-Based Sexual Harassment (IBSH) | Jennifer Scarduzio (Communication and Information), Christal Badour (A&S), Kimberly Parker (Communication and Information) |
| Air pollution exposures and cognitive function among older Americans | Yeon Jin Choi (Social Work), Yisi Liu, Tianjun Lu (Public Health) |
| Integrating design, manufacturing, and sustainability in undergraduate education | Kristi Bartlett (Design), David Parsley (Engineering) |
| Understanding Mechanisms of Oral Mucosa Wound Healing in Diabetic Patients: A Step Toward Preventing Complications and Enhancing Clinical Outcomes | Mauro Santamaria (Dentistry), Travis Thomas (Health Sciences) |
| Unraveling Asprosin's influence on skeletal muscle metabolism: Insights for metabolic health | Jean Fry (Health Sciences), Ila Mishra (Medicine) |