The Office of Research and Economic Development is supporting 30 research projects in 2021-22 through its Layman Awards program, which funds work that enhances a researcher's ability to obtain external funding to support prominent scholarship.
There are two tracks:
- The Layman Seed Program, which funds new projects by early-career faculty who are nontenured at the time of submission
- The New Directions Program, which funds tenured faculty who are branching into new research directions or need funding to support pilot or developmental work toward the next step in a funded research program
Awards of up to $10,000 per application for each program are made possible by support from the University of Nebraska Foundation.
Layman Seed Program recipients
- Peisi Huang, physics and astronomy
- Nganga Muchiri, English
- Robert Schub, political science
- Robert Streubel, physics and astronomy
New Directions Program recipients
- Shireen Adenwalla, physics and astronomy
- Elizabeth Enkin, modern languages and literatures
- James Garza, history and ethnic studies
- Carolyn Heitman, anthropology (School of Global Integrative Studies)
- Ari Kohen, political science
- Kristi Montooth, biological sciences
