As director of the Minority Stress and Trauma (MST) Lab, Jillian Scheer’s research focuses on bettering the mental and behavioral health of diverse and underserved sexual and gender minority people who have experienced trauma. In support of that work, Scheer, an assistant professor and Cobb-Jones Professor of Clinical Psychology in the College of Arts and Sciences, has received several highly competitive grants through agencies including the National Institutes of Health. Scheer is most recently one of five recipients of a 2022 Walter Katkovsky Research Grant from the American Psychological Foundation. The national award provides $10,000 in funding support for research on the general topic of psychotherapy. Read more.
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Bioinspired research draws from the natural world to develop solutions for global challenges. But it can be difficult to turn these research ideas into actual materials and methods that can be applied to real world problems in areas like construction, energy and health care. That’s why Lisa Manning, the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Physics and director of the BioInspired Institute at Syracuse University, led a workshop in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in October to explore new paths to transform this research into industry applications. Manning helped organize a workshop sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) as part of its Convergence Accelerator program, which funds interdisciplinary collaboration–or convergence–to advance innovative solutions for the most pressing issues. Read more.
Can Kelp Help? Research Examines Dairy Farmer, Dairy Nutritionist Attitudes on Adding Feed Additive to Cut Methane Emissions
While the majority of climate change research focuses on reducing and capturing carbon dioxide, less attention has been paid to methane emissions, despite the gas having 30 times the warming effect. Over a quarter of the United States’ total methane emissions are derived from enteric fermentation (cow burps) alone. Emerging research finds that feeding certain species of algae (seaweed, kelp or microalgae) to cattle can reduce their methane emissions by 80 to 99%. Unfortunately, most farmers and bovine nutritionists are unfamiliar with algae-based feed supplements, and the supplements are not always available and can be expensive. A faculty member and graduate student in the Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics are among a multidisciplinary team of over 50 researchers tackling this issue. Falk Family Endowed Professor of Food Studies Rick Welsh and graduate research assistant Michelle Tynan are part of the $10 million Coast-Cow-Consumer project, funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture’s (NIFA) Sustainable Agriculture Systems Program. Read more.
5 Faculty Awarded New York State Council on the Arts Grants
Five Syracuse University faculty members have won highly competitive awards from the New York State Council on the Arts—a record in the number of awards in a single year for Syracuse University in its 20 years of participation with the council’s grant program. Read more.
Registration Open for Spring 2023 NEH Fellowship Writing Circle
Considering submitting a fellowship application in Spring or Fall 2023? Faculty of all academic ranks are invited to sign up for the second annual Spring 2023 NEH Fellowship Writing Circle.
The writing circle is primarily designed to support faculty planning to submit proposals for the 2023 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowship or Summer Stipend programs, though faculty interested comparable fellowship programs such as American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) are invited to participate. (More humanities fellowships are organized by deadline on the humanities research development news site.) Early and mid-career faculty are especially encouraged to attend. We anticipate that through workshop, discussion, and revision, participants in the spring writing circle will strengthen their proposals and increase their competitiveness for fellowships. Additional goals of the group include helping you to hone your writing, present your projects to a broader audience, write sharper book proposals, and win fellowships beyond the NEH. You will also have the opportunity to make connections with, and get professional advice from, colleagues outside of your department.
The group will meet via Zoom, usually for 60 min per session to workshop a proposal. There will be a brief planning meeting in early February, with regular meetings that will run through early April. Writing circle members will be asked to (1) attend all meetings, (2) share a full project proposal with the group at least once, and (3) provide feedback on colleagues’ drafts, including serving as lead discussant at least once.
This year’s group will be led by Yüksel Sezgin, Associate Professor, Political Science, Director, Middle Eastern Studies Program, and Senior Research Associate, South Asia Center, who has successfully applied for both the NEH Fellowship and ACLS Fellowship. Dr. Sarah Workman, Assistant Director, Research Development (Humanities) will provide additional support to the group.
The group is generously supported by the Syracuse University Office of Research, the College of Arts and Sciences, and the Syracuse University Humanities Center.
The deadline to register is Tuesday, January 31, 2023. To register, fill out our brief application questionnaire online. Please be aware that space is limited, though we will do our best to support as many participants as possible.