AdvanceRIT Connect Grant Awards for 2021AY | Late Spring 2022
As part of RIT’s continued commitment to faculty success and career development, we are pleased to announce the recipients of the 2021 Academic Year AdvanceRIT Connect Grants. Connect Grants are available to individuals, faculty groups (formal or ad hoc), and academic units. They are designed to broaden faculty opportunities and enhance plans of work associated with tenure, promotion preparation, and overall career advancement. Connect Grants are offered through AdvanceRIT within the Office of Academic Affairs with advisory support from the Council for the Representation & Engagement of Women Faculty, Faculty Career Development, the Division of Diversity and Inclusion, and Sponsored Research Services.
The 2021AY recipients are:
Clarissa Street Augmented Reality Project
- PI - Tamar Carroll, College of Liberal Arts
- Co-PI – Susan Lakin, College of Art and Design
Deaf Hub: Empowering Deaf Women and BIPOC in Health Care and Biomedical Science
- PI – Jess Cuculick, National Technical Institute for the Deaf
- Co-PI – Tiffany Panko, National Technical Institute for the Deaf
- Co-PI -- Mariam Paracha, National Technical Institute for the Deaf
- Co-PI -- Wendy Dannels, National Technical Institute for the Deaf
- Co-PI – Jordan Wright, National Technical Institute for the Deaf
- Co-PI – Jessica Contreras, National Technical Institute for the Deaf
Advancing Skin Tone Color Perception Research
- PI – Susan Farnand, College of Science
- Co-PI – Michael Murdoch, College of Science
Design Imagination: Making Medical and Access Technology from Pedagogy to Profession
- PI – Jessica Hardin, College of Liberal Arts
Building the RIT Soft Matter Core: a new arena with significant presence of female researchers
- PI – Shima Parsa, College of Science
- Co-PI – Lishibanya Mohapatra, College of Science
- Co-PI – Poornima Padmanabhan, Kate Gleason College of Engineering
- Co-PI – Moumita Das, College of Science
Amplifying Feedback Loop: Animated Advocacy of the Climate Crisis
- PI – Vanessa Sweet, College of Art and Design
- Co-PI – Dave Sluberski, College of Art and Design
Congratulations to all of the awardees!