Office of International Affairs Announces Winners of the 2024 IIMF

Posted on April 9, 2024

The Office of International Affairs has officially announced the winners of this year’s International Initiatives Micro-Fund.

The selected projects are as follows:

Faculty	Name	Title
Humanities	Ronald Cummings	Austin Clarke at 90
Humanities	Melike Yilmaz	The Voices of Refugees and Displaced Persons
Humanities	Carmela Laganse	The Sari-Sari Xchange: Building Asian Diasporic Community Through Emergent Media
Humanities	Lucy El-Sherif	Looking for Palestine: Edward Said and Arab Youth Subjectivity
Science	Patrick Clancy	Building an International Network of University Neutron Beam Research Facilities
Science	Baraa Al-Khazraji	Understanding human brain microvascular control
Science	Antonio Paez	Active sustainable transportation: barriers to cycling among university students
Science	Bartosz Protas	Pushing Boundaries in Theoretical Fluid Mechanics
Science	Juliet Daniel	Cancer Disparities in Caribbean People of African Ancestry
Health Sciences	Susan Jack	Establishing a Global Nurse-Family Partnership Community of Practice
Health Sciences	Cynthia Lokker	Automation in Biomedical Information Extraction and Retrieval Augmented Generation with LLMs
Health Sciences	Ally Prebtani	Uganda Hypertension Education Assessment and Treatment (UHEAT) Program
Social Sciences	Basit Kareem Iqbal	Recursivity in Syrian Prison Narratives: A Berlin Archive
Social Sciences	Nathan Andrews	Decolonizing African Higher Education: A Partnership for Transformation
Social Sciences	Andrew Roddick	The Stones in the Center: 3D Imaging ancient stone heads at a UNESCO World Heritage Site
Social Sciences	Adrianne Lickers Xavier	Conversations with the Sami
Social Sciences	Cal Biruk	Staging anticolonial portraits at a colonial mission station: Telling the story of Malawi’s first African photographer
Engineering	Tohid Didar & Kristen Dellinger	Lubricant-inflused Surfaces for Enhanced Detection Using Raman Spectroscopy and Surface Plasmon Resonance Imaging
Engineering	Raja Ghosh	Design and synthesis of reinforced graphene oxide – acrylamide based hydrogel membrane for efficient removal of organic dyes from waster water
Engineering	Drew Higgins	Development of Next Generation MSC Catalysts for CO2 Reduction
Engineering	Saiedeh Razavi	Green and Resilient Maritime Corridors through Synchromodality and Disruption Management
Engineering	Hatem Zurob	Unraveling the Work-Hardening Mechanism in FE-Al Alloys
Business	Catherine Connelly	Work engagement and envy as mediators of the relation between abusive supervision and knowledge hiding
Business	Addisu Lashitew	Organizing for Grand Challenges: Creating Social Impact on African Value Chains
Business	Justin Yipiang Jin	Low-Carbon City Pilot Policy and firm’s cost of debt finance
Business	Yair Berson	The Effects of Hostile Sexism on Women Team Performance

The Office of International Affairs extends its congratulations to all of this year’s winners. We look forward to these new partnerships and projects!

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