Fw: Outcomes of the Fall 2021 Provost's Investment Fund Competitive Applications

[Agriculture, Life and Veterinary Sciences, and Cooperative Extension Weekly Bulletin]

Congratulations, well done and thank you to everyone below who will receive one of the Fall 2021 Provost's Investment Fund (PIF) grants. ALVSCE employees together with their colleagues across campus will receive 4/13 (31%) of the awards. This is exceptional.

Laura Meredith and Vanessa Buzzard; Karletta Chief and Kathy Jacobs; Ashlee Linares-Gaffer and Sabrina Benedict-Monteverde; Michele Walsh.

I also want to thank everyone who submitted a proposal, but who will not be funded. I appreciate all of your work very much.

Regards,

Shane





Shane C. Burgess
Vice President for the Division of Agriculture, Life & Veterinary Sciences, and
Cooperative Extension

Charles-Sander Dean of the College of Agriculture & Life Sciences
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From: prov-provost <provost at email.arizona.edu>
Sent: Thursday, December 9, 2021 2:09 PM
To: prov-provost <provost at email.arizona.edu>
Subject: Outcomes of the Fall 2021 Provost's Investment Fund Competitive Applications


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Dear Colleagues,



I am writing to share the outcomes for the Fall 2021 Provost's Investment Fund (PIF) competitive round.



On September 8th, 2021, I solicited proposals that focus on increasing students' success, including graduation and retention rates, especially for groups underrepresented within the relevant disciplines, promoting growth and opportunities to generate new revenue for the institution, expanding student experiential learning, enhancing research capacity, or promoting diversity and inclusion.



We received 75 great proposals, for a total of approximately $10.7M in funds. The proposals were evaluated by 5 peer review committees comprising diverse faculty and staff.



I am pleased to announce that the following 18 proposals are approved for funding, based on the recommendations of the committees and alignment with our institutional strategic and funding priorities.



Proposal Title

Unit Name

Applicant/Team Leader/PI

Team Members

Approved Amount

Integrative Hematology Oncology Training Program

Medicine, College of Medicine-Tucson

Krisstina Gowin





$156,000

Campus Living Lab: Designing, Building, and Monitoring Green Stormwater Infrastructure to Create a more Sustainable Campus and Inspire the Next Generation of Leaders

School of Natural Resources & Environment, College of Agriculture & Life Sciences

Laura Meredith

Vanessa Buzzard, Bo Yang, Grant Mccormick, Andrea Gerlak, Kirk Dimond & Thomas Meixner

$191,000

Enriching Wildcat Second Language and Culture Experiential Learning

School of Middle Eastern & North African Studies, College of Social & Behavioral Sciences

Mahmoud Azaz



$70,000

Developing a Faculty Analytics Certificate for Course Equity and Student Success (Faculty ACCESS Fellows Program)

Student Success & Retention Innovation

Sarah Kyte

Lisa Elfring & Rebecca Perez

$62,000

Indigenous Resilience Innovations Program: Addressing Pressing Environmental Challenges Facing Indigenous Communities

Environmental Science, College of Agriculture & Life Sciences

Karletta Chief

Kathy Jacobs

$200,000

Extended Reality and Game Development Lab

School of Information, College of Social & Behavioral Sciences

Catherine Brooks

Win Burleson, Ren Bozgeyikli, Lila Bozgeyikli & Zachariah Lischer-Katz

$100,000

>From Natural Language Contracts to Smart Contracts

Computer Science, College of Science

Saumya Debray

Derek Bambauer, Clayton Morrison & Mihai Surdeanu

$55,000

Quality Matters in Teacher Training: Designing Online Courses for Student Success

Office of Digital Learning

Nicole Schmidt

Janet Smith & Libby Merchant

$15,000

Community Research Laboratory in the Alfie Norville Gem & Mineral Museum

Research, Innovation & Impact

Selena Valencia

Joaquin Ruiz, Eric Fritz & Susan Leib

$93,000

Vertically Integrated Projects (VIP): A Scalable, Cost-Effective, Equitable Approach to Undergraduate Research and Creative Inquiry

Arizona Health Sciences



Kasi Kiehlbaugh

Win Burleson, Kevin Bonine & Matt Peters

$138,000

Medical Device Training Program for Undergraduate and Graduate Education

Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering

Jeong-Yeol Yoon

Ali Bilgin, Nan-Kuei Chen, Jared Churko, Philipp Gutruf, Minkyu Kim, Kaveh Laksari, Janet Roveda, Marvin Slepian, Judith Su, Urs Utzinger & Frederic Zenhausern

$176,000

Phoenix Biomedical Campus-Non-Sterile and Sterile Compounding Instruction

College of Pharmacy

Nancy Alvarez

Rick Schnellmann

$200,000

FLOURISH: Fostering Leadership for Online Undergraduate Recruitment and retention, Inclusivity, and Student Enrichment

Nutritional Sciences & Wellness, College of Agriculture & Life Sciences

Ashlee Linares-Gaffer

Sabrina Benedict-Monteverde

$56,000

TOTAL

$1,512,000



Additional funding was provided from the Federal CARES Act allocation set aside for Hispanic Serving Institution<https://hsi.arizona.edu/> (HSI), for the proposals below:



Proposal Title

Unit Name

Applicant/Team Leader/PI

Team Members

Approved Amount

A Portal for Prospective Transfer Students

Academic Administration

Kian Alavy

Greg Heileman & Shelley McGrath

$168,568

Family Medicine CARES (Community Access, Referral, Education and Services) for Health Project

Family and Community Medicine, College of Medicine-Tucson

Ronald Sorensen

Alicia Dinsmore & Viridiana Johnson

$181,749

The Research Impact Project: Enhancing UArizona’s Capacity to Move Research into Action

Research, Innovation & Impact

Jennifer Fields

Alison M. Meadow, Janet Cooley, Emily Kotay & Michele Walsh

$189,950

Streamlining Forms to Enhance Student Experience

Office of the Registrar

Alex Underwood

Cori Cashen, Kat Salthouse, Mark Felix & Chris Corral

$200,000

Project Highly Qualified: Collaboration between Early Academic Outreach, Mathematics Teacher Preparation, and Local Tucson Area High Schools

Early Academic Outreach

Rudy McCormick

Cynthia Anhalt & Jennifer A. Wolfe

$80,000

TOTAL

$820,267



My team is working on sending individual emails to all applicants that contain the committees’ feedback. I ask for your patience while my team is working on this process. We aim to send the feedback before the holiday closure.



I would like to express my sincere gratitude to Marla Franco, Assistant Vice Provost, Hispanic Serving Institution<https://hsi.arizona.edu/> (HSI) Initiatives, and to the committee members who reviewed the proposals, provided their expertise and insights into this important process and provided constructive feedback to the applicants.



Barbara Vandervelde, Manager, Faculty Support, College of Law

Borbala Gaspar, Lecturer, French and Italian, College of Humanities

Brian Erstad, Department Head, Pharmacy Practice-Science, College of Pharmacy

Christine Gronowski, Academic Advisor, College of Science

Christine Melton, Director, Human Services Privacy Program, RII

Courtney Olson, Manager, Process Improvement, Reliance, & Education, RII

Darcy Van Patten, Chief Technology Officer, UITS

Fiona Grugan, Advisor, International Students, Arizona Global

Gustavo De Oliveira Almeida, Laboratory Coordinator, UAHS Research

Hope Dang, Assistant Staff Scientist, Molecular and Cellular Biology

Jamie Boehmer, Executive Director, Biomedical Clinical Health Sciences Research & Business Development, RII

Jane Zavisca, Associate Dean, Research and Graduate Studies, College of Social & Behavioral Sciences

Jill Hewins, Project Manager, Arizona Online

Joel McGuire, Communications Network Analyst, Principal, UITS

Manja Zec, Postdoctoral Research Associate, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

Marla Franco, Assistant Vice Provost, Hispanic Serving Institution Initiatives, HSI

Michelle Moraila, Accountant, University Animal Care, RII

Molly Stothert-Maurer, Arizona State Museum, RII

Rachel Beth Abraham, Project Manager, Data and Policy Compliance, Arizona Online

Roberto Guzman, Professor, Chemical & Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering

Shujuan Li, Associate In Extension, Public Health Integrated Pest Management, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences



Please visit the PIF website<https://provost.arizona.edu/content/fall-2021-pif-report> for the full report on the Fall 2021 round. We will announce the Spring 2022 cycle in early January.



Many thanks,



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