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ODU Hosted Multi-institutional Research Presentations
Multidisciplinary and multi-institutional research teams that were given seed funding grants last year by the Old Dominion University Office of Research presented reports on their work August 16th.
Five research teams made up predominantly of ODU and Eastern Virginia Medical School faculty members received grants totaling nearly $500,000. The six-month projects funded by the grants have been completed, and four of the teams will present their results and future research plans, as well as answer questions about their work.The Office of Research invited faculty and administrators from EVMS to join colleagues from ODU at the report session.
Karim said the five successful applications came from a pool of 28 proposals involving 113 ODU faculty investigators. "Our faculty researchers have responded to our solicitation of white papers by presenting us with many fine ideas. I wish we could have funded more of these projects," Karim said last December.
This seed funding initiative reflects a major effort to cultivate research programs at ODU. The goal is to support projects that are relevant to instructional research priorities, are multidisciplinary and multi-institutional, can produce immediate impact, and can build thematic teams with prospects to attract additional and new research dollars.
"We hope that the teams will now gather enough momentum, collect enough seed data, and then aggressively go after federal agencies to bring in additional research support," Karim said.
The funded teams included 18 ODU faculty members, seven from Eastern Virginia Medical School (EVMS), and one Navy researcher.
The presentations were as follows:
- "Virtual Operating Room" by investigators Mark W. Scerbo, professor of psychology; Lee A. Belfore, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering; Hector M. Garcia, visualization lab manager, Virginia Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Center East; Michael Jackson, director, nurse anesthesia program, School of Nursing; and Leonard, J. Weireter, Jr. (EVMS)
- "A Prototype of the Human Virus Interactome Resource (HVIR)" by investigators Alex Pothen and Mohammad Zubair, professors of computer science, and Kurt Maly, chair, professor and eminent scholar of computer science; Chris Osgood, associate professor of biological sciences; and Oliver John Semmes (EVMS)
- "Health Matters: Determinants of Health Disparities in Hampton Roads" by investigators Joshua G. Behr, assistant professor of political science and geography; Cmdr. John B. Baccus (Navy); Aaron I. Vinik (EVMS); Margaret Camarena, director, Social Science Research Center; Stacey Plichta, associate professor of community and environmental health; James Alan Neff, associate dean of research and professor, College of Health Sciences; and Harry J. Tillman, assistant professor of nursing
- "Effective Sensor Technology and Development for Biodefense" by investigators Ariel Pinto, assistant professor of engineering management and systems engineering; and Gavin Welch, Richard Drake and Michael Bono (EVMS)
- "Establishment of Environmental Public Health Tracking System in Virginia" by H. Anna Jeng, assistant professor of community and environmental health; Tom Allen, associate professor of political science and geography; Ling Li, associate professor of information technology and decision sciences; Dayanand Naik, professor of mathematics and statistics; and Maria Frontini (EVMS)
Karim said the selection of teams was based on the qualifications of the principal investigators, problem uniqueness, multidisciplinary breadth, infrastructure availability, funding homework, budget reasonability and future funding prospects.
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