IAS Funds Two Additional Research Interest Groups for 2016-17

Two additional Research Interest Groups (RIGs) have received I-DISCO seed funding for interdisciplinary research and development projects over the 2016-2017 academic year:

Project title: Investigating Racial Disparities in Health
Name of Contact: Shauna Carlisle
Other RIG members: Andrea Stone (Assistant Professor, NHS), Geetha Thamalirasu (Assistant Professor, STEM/CSS)

Project title: Urban Gardens
Name of Contact: Martha Groom
Other RIG members: Christian Anderson, Jennifer Atkinson, Jin-Kyu Jung, Amy Lambert, Lauren Lichty, Santiago Lopez, Rebeca Rivera, Adam Romero

Project summaries for all I-DISCO funded Research Interest Groups can be found here.

Added to the first round of awards for that year, a total of 29 IAS faculty member have received I-DISCO funding for 2016-2017.