UMass Boston

FY24-28 GoMN! Subminimum Wage to Competitive Integrated Employment Model Demonstration Project
PI: Kelly Ann Haines
Department: Institute Community Inclusion
Sponsor: MN Dept of Employment and Economic Development (Sub from U.S. Department of Education)
Award: $2,233,401

Project PEP: Preparing Early Intervention Providers to Promote High-Expectations and Provide Effective Evidence-Based Interventions and Services 
PI: Serra Acar  
Department: Curriculum & Instruction  
Sponsor: U.S. Department of Education  
Award: $1,246,480  

Partnership for Research and Training in QUantum, Artificial intelligence, Non-equilibirum physics Theory, and Applications (QUANTA)
PI: Rahul Kulkarni
Department: Physics
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Award: $900,000

CAREER: Interfacial behavior of motile bacteria at structured liquid crystal interfaces  
PI: Mohamed Amine Gharbi  
Department: Physics  
Sponsor: National Science Foundation  
Award: $601,481  

Community Catalyst Caregiving Evaluation Project  
PI: Marc Aaron Cohen  
Department: Gerontology Institute  
Sponsor: Community Catalyst, Inc. (Sub from Administration for Community Living)  
Award: $536,935  

Developing a New Research and Teaching Laboratory for Networked AI at UMass Boston
PI: Bo Sheng
Department: Computer Science
Sponsor: U.S. Department of Defense
Award: $439,695

LGBT Aging in Massachusetts Training  
PI: Cynthia Thomas  
Department: Institute for Community Inclusion  
Sponsor: MA Executive Office of Elder Affairs  
Award: $344,403  

Building evidence about pathways for a diverse and thriving ECE workforce 
PI: Anne Douglass 
Department: Institute for Early Education 
Sponsor: Stranahan Foundation 
Award: $250,000 

Nurses Connect - A Peer Mentoring Program to Enhance Nursing Student Success   
PI: Jessica Whiteley   
Department: Nursing   
Sponsor: Linde Family Foundation 
Award: $200,000 

Continuous Quality Improvement Planning 
PI: Anne Douglass 
Department: Institute for Early Education 
Sponsor: MA Department Of Early Education & Care 
Award: $200,000 

ERI: Integration of Offshore Wind Energy and Marine Energy for Efficient Use of the Marine Space 
PI: Rafael Valotta Rodrigues 
Department: Engineering 
Sponsor: National Science Foundation 
Award: $199,355 

ERI: SDR Beyond Radio: Enabling Experimental Research in Multi-Node Optical Wireless Networks via Software Defined Radio Tools and Techniques 
PI: Michael Rahaim 
Department: Engineering  
Sponsor: National Science Foundation 
Award: $199,952 

AI, BCIs and Cognition Postdoctoral Fellowship 
PI: Nir Eisikovits 
Department: Ethics Center 
Sponsor: Institute for Ethics & Emerging Tech 
Award: $162,400 

Training to Diverse Practitioners in the Field of Visual Impairments and Deafblindness  
PI: Callie Brusegaard Zube  
Department: School for Global Inclusion & Social Development  
Sponsor: Gibney Family Foundation 
Award: $103,269 

Charting Paths: The MB-Health WEAVE Framework  
PI: Souha Ballout  
Department: Nursing  
Sponsor: MA Department of Higher Education  
Award: $100,000   

STEM Workforce Alignment for the Urban Scholars Program Serving Striving Boston Public School Teens  
PI: Liya Escalera  
Department: Urban Scholars  
Sponsor: Liberty Mutual  
Award: $100,00  

Planning: CRISES: Climate Inequality and Integrative Resilience Center  
PI: Rosalyn Negron  
Department: Sustainable Solutions Lab  
Sponsor: National Science Foundation  
Award: $100,000  

Swansea Harbor Management Plan  
PI: Kristin Uiterwyk  
Department: Urban Harbors Institute  
Sponsor: Town of Swansea  
Award: $100,000  

Springfield Works Cliff Pilot Program Evaluation  
PI: Susan Crandall  
Department: Center for Social Policy  
Sponsor: Economic Developmental Council of Western MA  
Award: $89,200  

Policy Advisor  
PI: Michelle Jurkovich  
Department: Political Science  
Sponsor: U.S. Department of State  
Award: $79,604  

MA Age Friendly Impact Plan 
PI: Caitlin Coyle  
Department: Gerontology Institute  
Sponsor: MA Executive Office of Elder Affairs  
Award: $75,000   

Vision Studies Lavelle Fund for Tuitions Summer 2024  
PI: Callie Brusegaard Zube  
Department: School for Global Inclusion & Social Development  
Sponsor: Lavelle Fund for the Blind Inc  
Award: $75,000  

Coastal Resilience & Vulnerability Preparedness: Effects and Effectiveness of Two Grant Programs  
PI: John Duff  
Department: School for the Enviorment  
Sponsor: University of Mississippi (Sub from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)  
Award: $74,858 

UMass Boston Early College Initiative Serving BPS Partner High Schools  
PI: Jeanmarie Spinetti  
Department: Early College Initiative  
Sponsor: MA Dept of Elementary & Secondary Education  
Award: $60,000  

Novel electrically small wideband time-varying antennas (NEW VAN)  
PI: Kiersten Kerby-Patel  
Department: Engineering  
Sponsor: University of Oklahoma (sub from Boeing Company)  
Award: $54,438  

Hunger Free Campus Initiative
PI: Steven Neville  
Department: Student Affairs  
Sponsor: MA Department of Higher Education  
Award: $47,809  

State Auditor HR Work  
PI: Michael Ward  
Department: Edward J. Collins, Jr. Center for Public Management  
Sponsor: MA Office of the State Auditor  
Award: $38,000  

Witnessing the Emplacement of Whiteness: Gentrification through the Perspective of Latine and African Americans  
PI: Miguel Montalva Barba  
Department: Sociology  
Sponsor: Russell Sage Foundation  
Award: $35,000  

Planning Office for Urban Affairs Housing and Health Initiative 
PI: Edward Miller 
Department: Gerontology Institute 
Sponsor: Planning Office for Urban Affairs Inc. 
Award: $33,352 

Embrace Boston Senior Advisor for Research 
PI: Katalin Szelenyi 
Department: Institute Community Inclusion 
Sponsor: Embrace Boston Inc 
Award: $30,000 

Grant to promote, encourage and disseminate literary, artistic and cultural expression of the subjects of war and social consequences, political violence and social justice  
PI: Antonio Raciti  
Department: School for the Environment  
Sponsor: Town of Manchester-By-The-Sea (Sub from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)  
Award: $20,000  

Engaging Environmental Justice Communities to Foster Capacity-Building Processes  
PI: Thomas Miller  
Department: William Joiner Institute  
Sponsor: Massachusetts Cultural Council  
Award: $7,000  

Examining Retention of School Psychologists in School and Non-School Settings  
PI: Stacy Bender  
Department: Counseling & School Psychology  
Sponsor: National Association of School Psychologists  
Award: $3,000 

The Role of Host Competence in Avian Influenza Transmission Using a Multi-Scale - Omics Approach  PI: Nichola Hill  
Department: Biology  
Sponsor: American Ornithological Society  
Award: $2,100  

DICK's Sporting Goods - Camp Shriver  
PI: Barbara Gildea  
Department: Center for Social Development & Education  
Sponsor: University of Massachusetts Foundation (Sub from Dick's Sporting Goods Foundation)
Award: $2,000 

FY2024 Top Sponsors (~>$1M)

• $11,813,633 - U.S. Department of Education 
• $4,803,610 - National Science Foundation 
• $3,188,778 - MA Department of Early Education & Care 
• $2,487,608 - University of Massachusetts Foundation 
• $2,377,030 - NIH-National Cancer Institute 
• $2,343,921 - Administration for Community Living 
• $1,686,275 - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency  
• $1,491,610 - NIH-National Institutes of Health 
• $1,284,583 - MA Executive Office of Elder Affairs 
• $1,232,607 - MA Department of Developmental Services 
• $1,169,884 - James & Cathleen Stone Family Foundation 
• $1,116,892 - City of Boston 
• $1,063,848 - Wipro Limited 

FY2024 Top Units with Research Expenditures (~>$1M)

• $18,532,974 - Institute for Community Inclusion  
• $5,073,822 - Institute for Early Education  
• $4,986,967 - School for the Environment - Dean's Office  
• $3,918,657 - Biology 
• $3,134,665 - Gerontology Institute  
• $2,912,366 - Counseling & School Psychology  
• $2,872,445 - Collins Center for Public Management 
• $1,623,202 - Center for Personalized Cancer Therapy  
• $1,411,369 - Engineering  
• $1,344,191 - Physics  
• $1,327,371 - Exercise & Health Sciences  
• $1,198,643 - Psychology  
• $1,188,908 – Manning College of Nursing & Health Sciences - Dean's Office  
• $1,116,388 - Institute for New England Native American Studies 
• $1,102,258 - Chemistry 

MassGeneralBrigham Clinical Leadership Collaborative for Diversity in Nursing Expansion
PI: Jessica Whiteley
Department: Manning College of Nursing and Health Sciences
Sponsor: University Of Massachusetts Foundation (Sub From Massachusetts General Hospital)
Award: $10,000,000

Center on Scaling Up Progressive Employment (PE): Promoting Competitive Integrated Employment for Jobseekers with Disabilities and Meeting Needs of Businesses in the Community
PI: Kelly Ann Haines
Department: Institute for Community Inclusion
Sponsor: Administration For Community Living
Award: $4,499,998

State of California Project
PI: Marc Cohen
Department: Gerontology Institute
Sponsor: Community Catalyst, Inc.
Award: $4,367,065

Autistic Children: A Randomized Controlled Trial
PI: Abbey Eisenhower 
Department: Psychology
Sponsor: U.S. Department of Education (ED)
Award: $3,600,000 

Project CIRCLE: Cultivating Interdisciplinary and Responsive Cultural research, practice, and policy Leaders in Early Childhood Profession 
PI: Serra Acar 
Department: Curriculum & Instruction
Sponsor: U.S. Department Of Education 
Award: $3,523,849

Home Care Digital and Simulation Lab 
PI: Joseph Berger 
Department: Office of the Provost 
Sponsor: Community Project Funding/ Congressionally Directed Spending - Construction, Health Resources Service Administration 
Award: $3,000,000 

Louis Stokes New STEM Pathways and Research Alliance: Urban Massachusetts LSAMP
PI: Joseph Berger
Department: College of Sciences & Mathematics
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Award: $3,000,000

Diverse Personnel Preparation for Related Services in Orientation and Mobility 
PI: Callie Brusegaard 
Department: Global Inclusion & Social Development 
Sponsor: Department of Education 
Award: $1,249,995 

Center for Environmental Justice Media
PI: Robert Chen
Department: School for the Environment 
Sponsor: University of Massachusetts Foundation 
Awards: $982,800

Missouri Vocational Rehabilitation Customized Employment 
PI: David Hoff 
Department: Institute for Community Inclusion 
Sponsor: Missouri Dept Elementary Secondary Education 
Award: $923,646 

Data-driven learning of dissipation from microscopy of chemically active materials 
PI: Jason Green 
Department: Chemistry 
Sponsor: U.S. Department Of Energy 
Award: $749,999 

Statewide Professional Development Academy
PI: Anne Douglass
Department: Institute for Early Education Leadership and Innovation
Sponsor: MA Department of Early Education and Care
Awards: $650,000

Overcoming the Barriers to Effective Transcranial Temporal Interference Stimulation in Human
PI: Sumientra Rampersad
Department: Physics
Sponsor: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
Award: $624,795

FY23 Professional Fellows Program 
PI: Heike Boeltzig-Brown 
Department: Institute Community Inclusion
Sponsor: U.S. Department of State 
Award: $618,928 

A comprehensive platform for low-cost screening and image-guided photodynamic therapy (PDT) of pre-malignant and malignant oral lesions in low resource settings 
PI: Jonathan Celli 
Department: Physics 
Sponsor: The General Hospital Corporation (Sub From NIH - National Cancer Institute) 
Award: $608,236 

Employment First Expansion and Employment Data
PI: John Butterworth Jr.
Department: Institute for Community Inclusion
Sponsor: Maryland Dept of Health & Mental Hygiene
Award: $499,702

UMass Asian American Leadership, Education, Access, and Data (AA LEAD)
PI: Liya Escalera
Department: Student Equity Access & Success
Sponsor: University Of Massachusetts - Lowell (Sub from U.S. Department of Education)
Award: $495,984

Mitochondria-targeting Novel Cationic Hydrazone Antioxidants for the Treatment of Preeclampsia 
PI: Marianna Torok 
Department: Chemistry 
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health 
Award: $485,925 

REU Site: Research Experience in Integrative & Evolutionary Biology
PI: Rachel Skvirsky
Department: Biology
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Award: $464,935

The development of the trade-off between sampling and remembering the visual world
PI: Zsuzsa Kaldy
Department: Psychology
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Award: $457,294

Translating Findings on Supports for Community Life Engagement
PI: Jaimie Timmons
Department: Global Inclusion & Social Development
Sponsor: University of New Hampshire (Sub from Administration for Community Living)
Award: $400,000 

A Community-Based Early Warning and Early Response Mechanism to Prevent and Address Hate in Boston
PI: Darren Kew
Department: Conflict Resolution
Sponsor: U.S. Department of Justice
Award: $399,432

Climate Resilient Newburyport: Community Action Project - Community Forums for Action
PI: Allison Novelly
Department: Urban Harbors Institute
Sponsor: City of Newburyport
Award: $ 393,470

Metro Boston Professional Development Centers (PDCs)
PI: Anne Douglass
Department: Institute for Early Education Leadership and Innovation
Sponsor: MA Department of Early Education & Care
Award: $350,000

COLLAB: Deciphering the Subantarctic South Pacific Ocean's Role in Pleistocene Climate Evolution with IODP Expedition 383 Sediments 
PI: Jesse Farmer 
Unit: School for the Environment 
Sponsor: National Science Foundation 
Award: $342,538  

From Climate Crisis to Climate Resilience
PI: Marcelo Suarez-Orozco
Department: Chancellor's Office
Sponsor: University of Massachusetts Foundation
Award: $300,000 

Toward Racial Equity and Justice in Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Vaccination: An Exploratory Study with Cape Verdean Parents
PI: Ana Cristina Lindsay
Department: Exercise & Health Sciences
Sponsor: National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities 
Award: $228,750

Feminist Roadmap for Sustainable Peace 
PI: Carol Cohn 
Unit: Liberal Arts 
Sponsor: University Of Massachusetts Foundation (Sub From Rockefeller Brothers Fund) 
Award: $210,000 

Collaborative Research: SWIFT: Data Driven Learning and Optimization in Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Enabled Industrial Wireless Network for Advanced Manufacturing
PI: Abdullah Eroglu
Department: Engineering
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Award: $200,000

Vanadium speciation in sulfidic environments: Inferring the origin of metalliferous source rocks and petroleum
PI: Karen Johannesson
Department: School for the Environment
Sponsor: American Chemical Society
Award: $110,000

Leading by Example Clean Energy Feasibility Study Grant
PI: James O'Day 
Department: Facilities
Sponsor: MA Department of Energy Resources
Award: $100,000 

Y10 Cellular and molecular mediators of fibrosis in the development of urinary tract dysfunction
PI: Jill Macoska 
Department: Biology
Sponsor: University of Wisconsin Madison (Sub from NIH - National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)
Award: $100,000 

Expanding Boston's Pipeline for Youth of Color in Resiliency Planning
PI: Kenneth Reardon
Department: Urban Planning and Community Development 
Sponsor: University of North Texas
Award: $100,000

Manchester by the Sea Harbor Plan
PI: Kristin Uiterwyk
Department: Urban Harbors Institute
Sponsor: Town of Manchester-By-The-Sea
Award: $100,000

National Environmental Information Exchange Network Grant Program
PI: Pamela DiBona
Department: MassBays
Sponsor: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Award: $94,984

SBIR Phase I: Development of an Adjustable Gene Therapy Platform Technology
PI: Kai Zou
Department: Exercise & Health Science
Sponsor: Remedium Bio (Sub from National Science Foundation)
Award: $90,709

Leading for Change Pennsylvania
PI: Anne Douglass
Unit: Education & Human Development
Sponsor: Berks County Intermediate Unit Education
Award: $76,260  

Exploration of the Equity of Access Gap in Stem Research and Education Opportunities Funded By the National Science Foundation 
PI: Hannah Sevian 
Department: Chemistry 
Sponsor: National Science Foundation 
Award: $75,000

Leading for Change New York
PI: Anne Douglass
Department: Curriculum & Instruction
Sponsor: Early Childhood Associates, Inc. (Sub from United Way of Central New York)
Award: $71,970

Deep Reinforcement Learning for Collaborative Multi-Robot Systems with Low-Latency Wireless Networking
PI: Michael Rahaim
Department: Engineering
Sponsor: Tiami LLC (Sub From U.S. Department of Defense
Award: $67,289

Convening on Elder Fraud, Scam Prevention, and Financial Educational Advocacy for the Aging Population and Those Who Serve Them
PI: Tyler Compton
Department: Gerontology Institute
Sponsor: Investor Protection Trust
Award: $65,000

Education for Healthcare Workers
PI: Tyler Compton
Department: Gerontology Institute
Sponsor: Investor Protection Trust
Award: $65,000

Disentangling Sources of Bias: Evidence from Advanced Placement Course Recommendations
PI: Dania Francis
Department: Economics
Sponsor: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Award: $55,273

Mooring Study - Town of Marshfield, MA 
PI: Kristin Uiterwyk 
Unit: School for the Environment 
Sponsor: Town of Marshfield 
Award: $53,856 

Drug Response Signatures in Rare Adrenocortical Carcinoma & Patient-Patient Similarity Networks 
PI: Ozgun Babur 
Department: Computer Science 
Sponsor: Fidelity Foundations 
Award: $50,000 

Muni Listening Tour
PI: Michael Ward
Department: Collins Center for Public Management
Sponsor: MA Executive Office of Administration and Finance
Award: $46,600

The Circadian time of food intake and its effect on reproductive health
PI: Jin Ho Park
Department: Psychology
Sponsor: Oregon Health And Science University (Sub from NIH - National Institute of Child Health & Human Development)
Award: $46,340 

Student Loan Repayment Research and Curriculum Development
PI: Monnica Chan
Department: Leadership in Education
Sponsor: uAspire Inc (Sub from ECMC Foundation)
Award: $43,321

Justice in Aging Data for Equity Research Fellowship at the LeadingAge LTSS Center at UMASS Boston
PI: Jeffrey Stokes
Department: Gerontology Institute
Sponsor: Justice In Aging
Award: $42,000

SCS 8th Workshop on Harvest Control Rules in a Changing Environment
PI: Kristin Uiterwyk
Department: School for the Environment
Sponsor: New England Fishery Management Council
Award: $41,619

Distributed Consensus for Coherent Spectrum Sensing
PI: Michael Rahaim
Department: Engineering
Sponsor: Tiami LLC (Sub From Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division)
Award: $39,252

San Antonio One Call One Click Transportation Planning System
PI: Sowmya Balachandran
Department: Urban Planning & Community Development
Sponsor: University of North Texas
Award: $33,465

Planning Office for Urban Affairs Gerontology Assistantship 
PI: Edward Miller 
Department: Gerontology 
Sponsor: Planning Office For Urban Affairs Inc 
Award: $33,352 

Global Ecology Education Initiative
PI: Jean Rhodes
Department: Psychology
Sponsor: Step Up Womens Network
Award: $30,000

Gateway-In Project Graduate Student Assistantship 
PI: Edward Miller 
Department: Gerontology 
Sponsor: LeadingAge 
Award: $29,974 

Imaging the Microbiome and Nanoparticle Vaccines in Live Amphibians Toward Regeneration, Vaccination, and Probiotic Treatments Targeting Drug Resistant Pathogens
PI: Douglas Woodhams
Department: Biology
Sponsor: Eppley Foundation for Research Inc
Award: $28,000

Evaluating the effects of virtual support groups for intersectional autistic individuals: A community engaged study
PI: Meredith Maroney
Department: Counseling & School Psychology
Sponsor: Organization for Autism Research
Award: $25,257

Continuing to Unravel the Nantucket Plastic Story 
PI: Juanita Urban-Rich 
Unit: School for the Environment 
Sponsor: University Of Massachusetts Foundation (Sub From Community Foundation for Nantucket Inc.) 
Award: $20,000 

Multi-Parameter Aerosol Scattering Sensor (LEW-TOPS-19)
PI: Tomas Materdey
Department: Engineering
Sponsor: NASA
Award: $15,000

Play Sports Coalition - Camp Shriver
PI: Barbara Gildea
Department: Center for Social Development & Education
Sponsor: UMass Foundation
Award: $15,000

Fisheries Science Work within the Fisheries Science and Emerging Technologies Program
PI: Robert Chen
Department: School for the Environment
Sponsor: New England Aquarium
Award: $12,821

Promoting Seasonal and Migrant Head Start Children's Development: Program Practices That Matter
PI: Serra Acar
Department: Curriculum & Instruction
Sponsor: University of North Carolina (Sub from Administration for Children & Families)
Award: $12,500

Global Ecology Education Initiative
PI: Robert Chen
Department: School for the Environment
Sponsor: University of Massachusetts Foundation (Sub from Samueli Foundation)
Award: $12,500

Non-Standard Work Arrangements and Occupational Requirements on the Risk of Ambulatory Disability: Examining Population-Level Heterogeneity by Age, Race/Ethnicity, and Nativity
PI: Sung Park
Department: Gerontology
Sponsor: University Of California Regents (Sub From National Institute for Occupational Safety & Health)
Award: $10,000 

Customization of SELN course and addition of E1MN training
PI: Amy Huppi
Department: Institute Community Inclusion
Sponsor: SE Minnesota Center Independent Living
Award: $6,874

Greater Boston Migrant Service Providers: Challenges and Connections 
PI: Darren Kew 
Unit: Liberal Arts
Sponsor: Northeastern University (Sub From Herman and Frieda L Miller Foundation) 
Award: $5,000

Health Policy Research Scholars Dissertation Award 
PI: Elliot Marrow (Advisor: David Pantalone) 
Department: Psychology 
Sponsor: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation 
Award: $4,000 

Identification of conserved factors that protect the eye in response to environmental stresses
PI: Jens Rister
Department: Biology
Sponsor: Sigma Xi
Award: $2,500

FY2023 Top Sponsors (~>$1M)

• $11,369,577 - U.S. Department of Education
• $6,278,555 - NIH-National Institutes of Health
• $5,192,779 - NSF-National Science Foundation
• $3,791,144 - Massachusetts Department of Early Education & Care
• $2,339,571 - Administration for Community Living
• $1,485,165 - Massachusetts Life Sciences Center
• $1,234,843 - James & Cathleen Stone Family Foundation
• $1,220,887 - Massachusetts Department of Developmental Services
• $1,143,018 - Wipro Limited
• $1,077,200 - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
• $992,976 - U.S. Department of State
• $991,671 - Massachusetts Technology Collaborative

FY2023 Top Units with Research Expenditures (~>$1M)

• $17,075,610 - Institute for Community Inclusion
• $4,820,633 - School for the Environment Dean's Office
• $4,532,235 - Institute for Early Education
• $4,016,919 - Biology
• $2,817,855 - Chemistry
• $1,988,979 - Collins Center for Public Management
• $1,832,105 - Psychology
• $1,795,245 - Gerontology Institute
• $1,751,897 - Counseling & School Psychology
• $1,374,664 - Vice Provost for Research
• $1,313,120 - Engineering
• $1,309,203 - College of Sciences & Mathematics Dean's Office
• $1,053,551 - Exercise & Health Sciences
• $973,191 - Physics

2021 UMass Boston Research Magazine

2019 UMass Boston Research Magazine