Previous PumpPrimer II Recipients
| Name | Title of Project | Date Awarded |
|---|---|---|
| Stephen Wu | Strain Engineering 2D Ferroelectric Materials and Devices | December 2023 |
| Niaz Abdolrahim Shuai Zhang (LLE) | Dynamic Compression Simulations of Materials: Advancing with High-Quality Machine Learning Potentials | December 2023 |
| Mark Buckley | Tuning Scaffold Permeability to Optimize Tissue Engineeried Cartilage | December 2023 |
| Mitchell Anthamatten Stavros Damos (LLE) | Mesomorphic Ceramics from Amorphous Silica Nanoparticlesoton Polymerization | December 2023 |
| Ignacio Franco | Toward the development of a general package to simulate open quantum systems based on tensor network hierarchical equations of motion (TN-HEOM) | December 2023 |
| Gregory Heyworth Michael Jarvis | History From Above: 3D Multispectral Drone Imaging of Cultural Heritage Sites in Africa and the Americas | December 2023 |
| Nick Vamivakas | RoQNET: A Rochester NY local area Quantum NETwork | December 2023 |
| Hesam Askari Rachel Glade | Towards remote rheological testing of non-terrestrial surfaces using low-velocity oblique impacts | December 2022 |
| Stewart Weaver Tatyana Bakhmetyeva | Fedchenko: A Cultural and Natural History of the World's Longest Glacier | December 2022 |
| John Nichol Ignacio Franco | Analog quantum simulation with variable particle number | December 2022 |
| James McGrath Steven Gill | Biophysical Mechanisms of Staphylococcus Invasion of Cortical Bone | December 2022 |
| Chigusa Kurumada Zhen Bai Wyatte Hall | A novel dataset of multimodal interaction between parents and deaf children | December 2022 |
| Jennifer Brisson Lauren Gregory (PhD Student) | Investigating the intergenerational stress responsesin the pea aphid | December 2022 |
| Michael Jarvis | The Archaeology of Earliest Bermuda, 1610-c.1630 | December 2021 |
| Scott Grimm | Accelerating Language Description and Technology | December 2021 |
| Xi_Chang Zhang Dustin Froula (LLE) | Experimental Demonstration of THz Photonics using Laser Flying Focus | December 2021 |
| Wyatt Tenhaeff | Thin Film Composite Separators to Enable Li Metal Anodes | December 2021 |
| David Mccamant Ignacio Franco | Mapping Quantum Decohernce Pathways in Molecules | December 2021 |
| Joe Eberly | Pursuing UR Discovery of Measures for Multipartite Entanglement | December 2021 |
| Jaime Cardenas | 3D Waveguide TIRF for Single Bacteria Resolution Imaging of Thick Bioengineered Biofilms | December 2019 |
| Alison Frontier | Study of a Photochemical Rearrangement for the Synthesis of Bioactive Molecule | December 2019 |
| Dragony Fu | Deciphering the Biological Rols for RNA Modification in Neurodevelopment | December 2019 |
| Greg Heyworth | Teaching a Renaissance Curriculum: Plautus's Fabulae and Textual Science at Milan's Bibloteca Ambrosiana | December 2019 |
| Zeljko Ignjatovic | Chaotic Annealer: Harvesting Chaos to Solve Combinatorial and NP-Complete Problems | December 2019 |
| Todd Krauss | Advanced Chemistry via Quantum Electrodynamics | December 2019 |
| Michael Neidig | Iron-Alkylidenes for Olefin Metathesis | December 2019 |
| Lawrence Rothenberg | Scholarly Discrimination? | December 2019 |
| Alexander Shestopalov | Photochemical Doping of Si(100) via Pulsed Photon Energy Transfer | December 2019 |
| Mark Buckley | Recurring Rupture and Repair as a Potential Mechanism of Osteoarthritis Progression | May 2019 |
| Thomas Hahn | Middle English Text Series: New Directions in Digital Editions | May 2019 |
| Michael Welte | Developmental regulation by lipid droplets | May 2019 |
| Peter Christensen | Architectural Biometrics | January 2019 |
| Ignacio Franco | Toward an Experimental Simulator of Quantum Molecular Dynamics | January 2019 |
| Matthew Yates | Functional Polymers to Enhance the Selectivity and Sensitivity of Optical Sensors | January 2019 |
| Andrew Berger | Holographic dark-field imaging | May 2018 |
| Gregory Heyworth | Recovering Gaius's "Institutes" and the Earliest Latin "Elements" of Euclid: First Steps Toward an Institute of Textual Science in Northern Italy | May 2018 |
| Andrew Jordan | High precision gravitational sensing and imaging using optical sensing | May 2018 |
| Mitchell Anthamatten | Highly Stable and Robust Ion-Conducting ABA Triblock Copolymers | December 2017 |
| John Covach | Pop Music Corpus Study | December 2017 |
| Kara Bren | Biomolecular Catalysts for Ammonia Production from Nitrogen Oxides | December 2017 |
| Todd Krauss | Chemical Energy Storage via Artificial Photosynthesis with Colloidal Semiconductor Quantum Dots | December 2017 |
| Jannick Rolland | Single-shot, adaptive metrology of freeform optics using a spatial light modulator | December 2017 |
| Miguel Alonso | Compact tailored shearing interferometers based on spin-orbit coupling | July 2017 |
| Margarita Guillory | Digitizing Rochester Religions | July 2017 |
| Ronald Rogge | The Mindflex Assessment Project | July 2017 |
| Mark Bocko | Development of a quantitative framework for spatial sound characterization | July 2017 |
| Jaeger, Florian (Tim) | Assessing and developing web-based pronunciation training for second language learners | September 2016 |
| Lerner, Amy | Corneal Biomechanics and Optics: Model Refinement and Validation for Translational Applications | September 2016 |
| Lin, Qiang | Undefined Lithium niobate nanophotonics for ultra-high-speed beam ranging, wavefront engineering, and photonic signal processing | September 2016 |
| McGrath, James | Desalinization with Ultrathin Nafion Membranes | September 2016 |
| Presgraves, Daven | Evolution of sex chromosome regulation in the Drosophila male germline | September 2016 |
| Zavislan, James | Second-Generation Multimodal Ocular Surface Metrology | September 2016 |
| Helmke, Gretchen | In The Field | April 2016 |
| Kessler, John | Characterizing Methane Dynamics in Lake Ontario | April 2016 |
| Sia, Elaine | Mitochondrial Dynamics and Genome Inheritance | April 2016 |
| Sobolewski, Roman | Time-resolved terahertz imaging of novel materials and nanocomposites | May 2016 |
| Werren, Jack | Identifying small molecule activators of the sorbitol pathway-relevance to | May 2016 |
| Bigelow, Nicholas | Interdisciplinary NanoTechnique Development for Science and Humanities | November 2015 |
| Bren, Kara | Engineered Biomolecular CO2 Reduction Catalysts | November 2015 |
| Krauss, Todd | A Novel, Non-Classical Light Source: Syntheses and Characterization of Optically Active Defects in Glass | November 2015 |
| Lin, Qiang | Ultrasensitive Silicon Carbide Nano-optomechanical Inertial Sensors for Harsh Environment Applications | November 2015 |
| McCamant, David | Ultrafast Laser Spectroscopy of Molecular Exciton Dynamics | November 2015 |
| Welte, Michael | The Role of Lipid-droplet Bound Histones in Drosophila Innate Immunity | November 2015 |
| Wicks, Gary | Mid-infared Semiconductor Lasers: Defects and Performance | November 2015 |
| Zhang, Xi Cheng | Terahertz Air Photonics using Ultrafast Laser Oscillators | November 2015 |
| Jarvis, Michael | Virtual St. George's: Digital History Simulations and 3D Modeling in the Humanities | July 2015 |
| Mc Aleavey, Steve | Towards Diagnostic Ultrasonic Imaging of Tissue Non-Linearity: Strain Dependence of Shear Wave Velocity in Liver and Breast Tissue | July 2015 |
| Rolland-Thompson, Jannick | Translation of the Tear Film Imager to Clinical Studies | July 2015 |
| Shestopalov, Alex | Monomolecular organic layer deposition via carbenylation of hard and soft material interfaces | July 2015 |
| Smetana, Judith | Emergence of Moral and Conventional Understanding in Toddlers | July 2015 |
| Tadin, Duje | Visual processing in Autism Spectrum Disorders | July 2015 |
| Guo, Chunlei | Superwicking Materials for Efficient M-cycle Cooling Technology | August 2014 |
| Jaenike, John | The Genomic Basis of Nematode Resistance Conferred by Endosymbiotic Spiroplasma | August 2014 |
| Peppermint, Cary | Edible Ecologies | August 2014 |
| Rothberg, Lewis | Absorption Spectra of Single Nanoparticles | August 2014 |
| Weix, Daniel | Teaching an Old Dot New Tricks: Photoredox Catalysis with Quantum Dots | August 2014 |
| Anthamatten, Mitch | Two-way Shape Actuators | April 2014 |
| Bernard, Joanne | Re-envisioning Japan as Destination in 20th Century Visual and Material Culture | April 2014 |
| Culver, Gloria | Exploring the interface of bacterial ribosome biogenesis and pathogenicity | April 2014 |
| Doyley, Marvin | Ultrasound CT | April 2014 |
| Huang, Michael | Exploring the interface of bacterial ribosome biogenesis and pathogenicity | April 2014 |
| Ignjatovic, Zeljko | Ultrasound CT | April 2014 |
| Jacobs, Robert | Visual, Haptic, and Visual-Haptic Object Perception | April 2014 |
| Mahon, Brad | Visual, Haptic, and Visual-Haptic Object Perception | April 2014 |
| Smith, Brian | Exploring the interface of bacterial ribosome biogenesis and pathogenicity | April 2014 |
| Bi, Xin | Functions of Linker Histone in Gene Regulation and DNA Replication | August 2013 |
| Carney, Laurel | Development & Feasibility Testing of a Speech Enhancement Algorithm | August 2013 |
| Dalecki, Diane | Engineering Lymphatic Vessel Networks | August 2013 |
| Fry, James | The Genetic Battle of the Sexes in Drosophila | August 2013 |
| Saab, Joan | Animating Architectural Archives | August 2013 |