University Research Council Awardees
2025-26 URC Awardees
Shajina Anand
College of Arts and Sciences
"Next-Gen Cybersecurity: AI-Based Threat Detection and Live Monitoring"
Amanda Bergold
College of Ars and Sciences
"Human Bias In Facial Recognition"
Jared Best
College of Arts and Sciences
"Experiences of Social Work Faculty Teaching Sex, Sexualities and Sexual Health-Related
Content”
Meghan Caulfield
College of Arts and Sciences
"Mapping Neural Network Disruptions in College-Aged Students Following Concussion"
Lorene Cobb
School of Health and Medical Sciences Interprofessional Health
"Virtual Worlds and IHS campus"
James Daniel
College of Arts and Sciences
"The Big Fix: How Entrepreneurship Captured the American University"
Joseph Laracy
Immaculate Conception Seminary School of Theology
"AI and the Human Person: A Thomistic Inquiry into Dignity, Agency, and Moral Responsibility"
Luye Li
College of Arts and Sciences
"Enhancing Police Legitimacy and Public Trust through Geographic Information Systems
(GIS) and Crime Mapping Technology in China and the United States”
Bradley Martin
College of Arts and Sciences
"Harnessing AI for genetic data analysis"
Golbarg Rekabtalaei
College of Arts and Sciences
"Ruins, Relics, and Resorts: Politics of Heritage Tourism in Twentieth Century Iran"
Courtney Sender
College of Arts and Sciences
"Ex Machina, a novel"
Aleksy Tarasenko-Struc
College of Arts and Sciences
"The Limits of the Inhuman: Infantilization & Demonization"
Ruth Tsuria
College of Human Development, Culture, and Media
"Jewish Uses of Artificial Intelligence: Understanding religious Jewish users’ attitudes
and uses of Generative AI"
Danielle Zanzalari
Stillman School of Business
"Private Enterprise and Public Oversight: Comparative Approaches to Food Safety Regulations
and Market Accountability"