Research, Funding, and Awards

  • STEAM Innovation Grant Awards

    STEAM Innovation Grant 2019-2020: Award Recipients

    December 23, 2019

    The School of Fine Arts is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2019-2020 STEAM Innovation Grant awards. We received a very strong pool of proposals and are grateful to all who applied. Funding support totaling $80,000 will be granted to three exciting faculty projects:

     

    Jasna Jankovic - Materials Science and Engineering

    Christopher Sancomb – Art & Art History

    UConn STEAM Tree                                                                                              $40,000          

                                                                                                                                                                           

    Robert Astur – Psychological Sciences

    Kenneth Thomson – Digital Media & Design

    A Virtual Reality Intervention for Decreasing Vaping in College Undergraduates       $20,000

     

     

    Daniel Goldberg – Music

    Insoo Kim – Medicine and Biomedical Engineering

    Synchronizing Movement and Sound: A Wearable Sensor System to Track Coordination between Dance and Music                                                                                                                                    $20,000

     

    Alain Frogley (Associate Dean, School of Fine Arts)

    Cathy Schlund-Vials (Associate Dean, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences)

    Leslie Shor (Associate Dean, School of Engineering)

    Kumar Venkitanarayanan (Associate Dean, College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources)

     

    For more information, contact: Alain Frogley at alain.frogley@uconn.edu