Seed Grant Initiative
The Watts College of Public Service and Community Solutions Seed Grant Initiative is available to faculty members within the college for the purpose of strengthening and expanding community-based, solution-driven discoveries to solve the most pressing social, environmental and economic issues through externally funded research. Funding is provided to encourage and support early- and mid-career faculty to write large, competitive proposals.
2023 Seed Grant Recipients:
Karin Wachter, assistant professor in the School of Social Work
Title: Modeling social support as a multidimensional protective factor for refugee women in resettlement: scale development and longitudinal assessment of Health and wellbeing
Tina Jiwatram-Negron, assistant professor in the School of Social Work
Title: A syndemic approach to addressing co-occurring intimate partner violence, trauma outcomes, and substance use risk among low-income, food-insecure women: Development and adaptation of a low threshold intervention
Nicholas Wise, assistant professor in the School of Community Resources & Development
Title: Art, Access, and Reflective Mobility: Place Meaning and Making in Residential Settings
Ivan Lee, assistant professor in the School of Public Affairs
Title: Idea Incubator at HAITC: Discovery and Innovation through Experiments in Public Policy and Tourism
Shiyou Wu, assistant professor in the School of Social Work
Title: Identifying Seasonal Variations in Determinants of Health Among Homeless Young Adults