{"id":335722,"date":"2018-08-30T12:24:25","date_gmt":"2018-08-30T16:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/?p=335722"},"modified":"2018-08-31T13:06:37","modified_gmt":"2018-08-31T17:06:37","slug":"record-breaking-year-for-faculty-career-awards-335722","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/record-breaking-year-for-faculty-career-awards-335722\/","title":{"rendered":"Record-breaking year for faculty CAREER awards"},"content":{"rendered":"
Eight 糖心传媒 researchers are among the latest recipients of the National Science Foundation\u2019s most prestigious recognition for junior faculty members: the Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award.<\/p>\n
This is the largest number of CAREER awards in one year for the University.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a measure of quality with respect to the young faculty we are recruiting here at the University of Rochester,\u201d says Rob Clark, University provost and senior vice president for research. \u201cThis highly competitive program serves to launch the careers of young researchers, and with eight awards this year, we are at an all-time high.\u201d<\/p>\n
The recipients are:<\/p>\n Jennifer Brisson,<\/strong> associate professor of biology, who will use genetic mapping, genomics, gene knockdown, pharmaceutical manipulations, and development observations to study the molecular mechanisms and genes that regulate how environmental cues influence the way that organisms develop. She will focus specifically on pea aphids, which include winged and wing-less variants. Read more about Brisson’s NSF CAREER award here.<\/a><\/p>\n Samantha Daley,<\/strong> assistant professor of education, who will analyze national data, conduct a mixed-methods study of 80 middle school students, and work with experienced science educators to better understand how the motivational beliefs of middle and high school students with learning disabilities influence whether they will pursue degrees and careers in STEM fields. Read more about Daley’s NSF CAREER award here.<\/a><\/p>\n Ehsan Hoque,<\/strong> assistant professor of computer science and the Asaro Biggar Family Fellow in Data Science, who will explore developing a virtual assistant to help groups conduct meetings, providing live or post-meeting feedback that helps participants stay on topic, take part equally, and listen closely to one another, while also generating analytics about the process. Read more about Hoque’s NSF CAREER award here.<\/a><\/p>\n Gonzalo Mateos,<\/strong> assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, who will investigate how to use information available from graph signals that represent measurements from distributed network processes, to learn the underlying graph topology. This would advance our understanding of the inherent complexities of strongly coupled systems such as the brain. Read more about Mateos’s NSF CAREER award here.<\/a><\/p>\n Patrick Oakes,<\/strong> assistant professor of physics and biology, who will investigate the mechanisms behind the ways cells manipulate their own material properties. This multi-disciplinary work in physics, biology, and engineering would help unearth novel design principles that could be used to develop new engineering materials and to understand how some diseases affect cell behavior. Read more about Oakes’s NF CAREER award here.<\/a><\/p>\n Krishnan Padmanabhan,<\/strong> assistant professor of neuroscience, who will use neural tracers, ontogenetic technology, and electrical recordings in the brain to understand how internal state, learning, and memory influence the neurons that shape the perception of smell. \u201cThe same cookie may smell and taste differently, depending on our emotional state, our experiences, and our memories,\u201d he says. By interrogating a recently characterized connection between the hippocampus and the olfactory bulb, he aims to understand how perception is reshaped by experience. Read more\u00a0 about Padmanabhan’s NSF CAREER award here.<\/a><\/p>\n Dustin Trail,<\/strong> assistant professor of earth and environmental sciences, who will study how changes in oxygen pressure affect the chemistry of minerals found in the magmas and fluids inside earth. This would advance our understanding about the conditions and environments that may have prevailed on early earth, including how natural minerals form and why volcanoes erupt. Read more about Trail’s NSF CAREER award here.<\/a><\/p>\n
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