Ten Receive First Annual Mini-Grant Awards

The LEADER Consortium is pleased to announce the recipients of its first Annual Mini-Grant Program designed to support the advancement of tenure-track women faculty in science and engineering:

Dr. Kimberly Bigelow, Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Dayton
Project: “Furthering Skill Development in Statistical Analysis of Biological Data to Strengthen Research and Teaching Performance”
Award: $5,000

Dr. Adrian Corbett, Associate Professor, Neuroscience, Cell Biology, and Physiology, Wright State University
Project: “Enhancement of Neurogenesis as a Potential Stroke Treatment”
Award: $5,000

Dr. Madhuri Kango-Singh, Assistant Professor, and Dr. Amit Singh, Assistant Professor, Biology, University of Dayton
Project: “ADVANCE WORKSHOP: Success in the Tenure Track and Work-Life Balance”
Award: $5,000

Dr. Margaret Pinnell, Associate Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering; Dr. Wiebke Diestelkamp, Associate Professor, Mathematics; and Dr. Carissa Krane, Associate Professor, Biology, University of Dayton
Project: “Assessing the Viscoelastic Properties of Porcine Arteries: An Integrated Approach”
Award: $5,000

Dr. Shirley Wright, Associate Professor, Biology, University of Dayton
Project: “Effects of Nanomaterials on Mouse Preimplantation Development”
Award: $5,000

Dr. Xiaofang Wei, Assistant Professor, Water Resources Management, Central State University
Project: “Real Time Kinetic Mapping at Central State University”
Award: $4995.50

Dr. Hong Huang, Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Wright State University
Project: “Fabricating and Understanding Graphene-based Nanostructural Composites for High Energy Density Lithium-Ion Batteries”
Award: $3,600

Dr. Xiaoyu Liu, Assistant Professor, Mathematics and Statistics, Wright State University
Project: “Error-Correcting Codes over Groups and Rings”
Award: $3,000

Dr. Julie Jackson, Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering, Air Force Institute of Technology
Project: “Modeling and Estimation of Scene Geometry using Synthetic Aperture Radar”
Award: $3,472

Dr. Todd Smith, Professor, Physics, University of Dayton
Project: “Women in Physics and Engineering Dinner”
Award: $1,000