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Misty McIntyre Goodsell and Dr. Mary Beth Vogel-Ferguson
Informed Program Development to Better Meet the Needs of Low-Income Families
Katharine S. Walter
Burroughs Wellcome Climate and Health Interdisciplinary Award
Lisa J. Taylor-Swanson
Awarded a Department of Defense, Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs Grant to study Acupuncture Therapy
Jane Hatter
Musical Women in Visual Culture of Early Sixteenth-Century Italy: Gender, Sexuality, and Knowledge
Ying Li
Awarded S10 Instrumentation Grant from the National Institutes of Health to purchase new Promethion system
Zhaoxia Pu
Improving Weather Forecasting Through Enhanced Data Assimilation Methods
Jorie M. Butler
AHRQ grant for An Age-Friendly Learning Healthcare System: A Transformative Digital Solution for Geriatrics Clinics
Manish Parashar
2024 CRA Distinguished Service Award
Jaclyn Wright
International exhibition opening at Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam and book release of High Visibility (Blaze Orange)
Jolie Haun
Multi-Principal Investigator on the Department of Defense Focused Program Award, Improving Healthcare Engagement and Access to Optimize Long-Term Outcomes: Supporting Veteran and Service Members with TBI Morbidity (I-HEAL)
Joshua McCrain
Research and Evaluation on Policing Practices, Accountability Mechanisms, and Alternatives – National Institute of Justice
WIRED Global Center
WIRED Global Center Secures Nearly $9 Million in Grants to Fortify Western Interconnected Grid Against Weather-Related Disturbances 
Eric Herschthal
2023-2024 Huntington Fellow for Carbon Conscripts: Slavery and the Origins of Climate Change
Valerie Vaughn
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Grant (R01) for Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Julia Szymczak
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Grant (R01) for Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Ellen Altermatt
Utah Education Policy Center – National Science Foundation AISL Program
Andrea Rorrer
Utah Education Policy Center – National Science Foundation AISL Program
Yong Lin Kong
Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Program
Torri Metz
Maternal Health Research Centers of Excellence – National Institutes of Heath
Steven Lobell
Minerva Research Initiative and Office of Naval Research White Paper
William Anderegg
Alan T. Waterman Award
Kelly Glazer Baron
R01 Grant from the National Institute on Aging to study dyadic mechanisms of health
Eric Hutton
Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Program in Buddhist Studies New Professorship Grant