Above: Clay Cressler, John DeLong, Irina Filina, Emily Kazyak, and Etsuko Moriyama
The Office of Research and Economic Development is supporting 5 research projects in the College of Arts and Sciences in 2022-23 through its Layman Awards program, which funds work that enhances a researcher's ability to obtain external funding to support prominent scholarship.
The program offers two tracks — the Layman Seed Program, which funds new projects by early-career faculty who are nontenured at the time of submission; and 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.
2022 Layman Seed Program
- Irina Filina, earth and atmospheric sciences
"Structures and crustal variations of the mid-Norwegian margin from integrated geophysical analysis."
2022 Layman New Directions Program
- Clay Cressler, biological sciences
"The role of the Daphnia microbiome in controlling harmful algal blooms in Nebraska." - John DeLong, biological sciences
"Understanding the ecological implications of virology." - Emily Kazyak, sociology
"Intergenerational support, health, and wellbeing in minority families." - Etsuko Moriyama, biological sciences
"Interaction potential between non-human SARS-CoV-2 proteins and human cell proteins using co-evolution frameworks."
