Huijing Du, Eileen Hebets, and Alena Moon are among 17 faculty members at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln whose research projects are being supported by the Office of Research and Economic Development (ORED).
The Layman Awards program 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 Layman 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.
The projects being supported:
* Du, mathematics: New Directions Grant for "Multiphase field modeling of hepatic microcirculation and red blood cell deformation"
* Hebets, biological sciences: New Directions Grant for "Developing tools for quantifying paternity in Dolomedes fishing spiders"
* Moon, chemistry: Seed Program Grant for "Research-practice partnership to support innovative chemistry teaching".
- College of Arts and Sciences