List of Awardees

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June 2025 Awardees

• Ailion, Michael
  Biochemistry
  The role of the CCDC186 protein in paracrine signaling by beta cells
  $40,000
• Assaturian, Sosseh
  Philosophy
  Indexicals in Ancient Philosophy of Language
  $13,725
• Bian, Yue
  Bothell – Education
  Short Stories about a Long Story: Learning to Teach as Transnational Teachers
  $37,620
• Bush, Matt
  Chemistry
  New Technology for Rapid Protein Stability Profiling
  $40,000
• Chan, Karen
  Oceanography
  Carapace of Dungeness Crab megalopae as a bioindicator of acidification
  $39,975
• Foy, Brody
  Laboratory Medicine & Pathology
  Bayesian inference for construction of personalized reference intervals
  $40,000
• Hegermiller, Christie
  Civil and Environmental Engineering
  Ocean waves in tidal estuaries: Infragravity wave dynamics from channels to mudflats
  $37,661
• Kerschbaum, Stephanie
  English
  Co-PI Bawarshi, Anis
  English
  Co-PI Bou Ayash, Nancy
  English
  Learning from Student Writing to Understand the Impacts of Antiracist and Equity-Oriented Writing Program Transformation
  $39,327
• Long, Arianna
  Astronomy
  Fueling Fossils: Cold Gas Content in Early Quiescent Galaxies
  $40,000
• Luo, Yiyue
  Electrical and Computer Engineering
  Multifunctional Magnetoactive Textiles for Co-located Sensing and Haptics
  $40,000
• Mashhadi, Afra
  Bothell – Computing and Software Systems
  Advancing Scalable Content Moderation on Streaming Platforms with Theory of Mind-Enhanced Language Models
  $39,814
• Motha, Suhanthie
  English
  A Collective Care Approach by and for BIPOC English Teachers
  $27,156
• Naghavi, Hossein
  Electrical and Computer Engineering
  Next-Generation On-Chip Terahertz Inertial Navigation Systems
  $40,000
• Nicholson, Tristan
  Urology
  Co-PI Karr, Catherine
  Pediatrics
  Co-PI Muller, Charles
  Urology
  Co-PI Walsh, Thomas
  Urology
  Impact of wildfire smoke on sperm quality and reproductive outcomes
  $39,996
• Nisser, Martin
  Aeronautics and Astronautics
  Generative Design for Long Tail Manufacturing
  $39,821
• Oloukoi, Chrystel
  Geography
  Black Nocturnal: Ecologies of the Night in Lagos
  $39,715
• Rocha Beardall, Theresa
  Sociology
  Indian Boarding Schools and the Native American Fight for Education Justice in Washington State
  $39,972
• Romero, Adam
  Bothell – Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences
  Industrial Chemicals and the Problem of Too Much Food (1945-1985)
  $40,000
• Santana, Francisca
  Environmental and Forest Sciences
  The Role of Social Learning in Transforming Prescribed Fire Practices
  $39,552
• Schiffman, Corey
  Orthopedics & Sports Medicine
  Co-PI Telfer, Scott
  Orthopedics & Sports Medicine
  Sternoclavicular joint reconstruction: Is bicortical fixation necessary?
  $40,000
• Shah, Sameer
  Environmental and Forest Sciences
  Climate maladaptation: Unpacking intersectional injustices in rural western India
  $40,000
• Sheppard, David
  Rehabilitation Medicine
  Co-PI Hunter, Hanna
  Rehabilitation Medicine
  Improving Characterization and Detection of Neurocognitive Sequelae Associated with Immune Effector Cell-Associated Neurotoxicity Syndrome (ICANS) After CAR T-Cell Therapy
  $40,000
• Smith, Jason
  Microbiology
  Role of HMGB1 in Viral Pathogenesis
  $40,000
• Starr, Ariel
  Psychology
  The neural development of perspective taking
  $40,000
• Steinmetz, Nick
  Neurobiology & Biophysics
  Anatomical basis for the role of the Midbrain Reticular Formation in decision-making
  $39,181
• Van Cise, Amy
  Aquatic and Fishery Sciences
  Advancing methods for sequencing nuclear genomes from mixture samples: A case study using southern resident killer whale fecal samples
  $39,494
• Zhang, Bo
  Chemistry
  Water Electrolysis in an Attoliter Electrolytic Cell
  $40,000