Here are projects from the second round of 3Cavaliers 2.0.
T. Brent Gunnoe, College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
Sen Zhang, College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
Tao Sun, School of Engineering and Applied Science
This project will leverage expertise in molecular design, materials and additive manufacturing to develop novel electrochemical reactors for conversion of renewable energy to fuels and chemicals
Robert J. Gilliard, College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
Gaurav Giri, School of Engineering and Applied Science
Mool C. Gupta, School of Engineering and Applied Science
This project will explore the synthesis and optical properties of aluminum-doped 5-membered ring heterocycles as new materials. The studies will impact next-gen electronics and display technologies.
Jack Van Horn, School of Data Science/College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
George S. Bloom, College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
Ishan C. Williams, School of Nursing
A project to develop, design, and create an original movie, animating the underlying neurobiological origins of Alzheimer's Disease, illustrating the effects of this devastating syndrome on the brain.
Hannah Wunsch Ryan, UVA's College at Wise
Michael C. Rasbury, College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
Peter D. Ryan, UVA's College at Wise
This project will provide quality, low-cost or free music instruction in SWVA, while creating real-world, research teaching opportunities for UVA Wise music majors and minors.
William T. Scherer, School of Engineering and Applied Science
Yael Grushka-Cockayne, Darden School of Business
Jared D. Harris, Darden School of Business
The goal of the study is to use machine learning/AI to quantify more accurate algorithms for scoring interviews, the goal is to develop predictive algorithms for scoring interviews for future success.
Eileen Y. Chou, Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy
Roshni Raveendhran, Darden School of Business
Jazmin Brown-Iannuzzi, College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
When and why do minorities prefer advice from AI versus human mentors in workplace settings?
Jessie Gibson, School of Nursing
Bethany A. Teachman, College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
Madaline B. Harrison, School of Medicine
We aim to assess mechanisms (e.g., cognitive biases) contributing to maintenance of anxiety symptoms in persons with neurodegenerative movement disorders, offering insights for symptom management.
Ghazal Jafari, School of Architecture
Tessa Farmer, College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
Chris Gratien, College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
This project involves community-based mapping in collaboration with local peoples & nomadic tribal nations who live along the cross-border rivers & watersheds of the Middle East & North Africa.
Ashon Thomas Crawley, College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
Meredith D. Clark, College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
Claudrena N. Harold, College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
This project explores the deep loss of black church musicians to HIV/AIDS between 1980 and 2005, considering the intersection of media representation, religious doctrine and performance practices.
Michael Luegering, School of Architecture
Patricia L. Wiberg, College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
Brian L. Smith, School of Engineering and Applied Science
Developing an NTRIP Caster System for UVA's field research stations and surrounding regions to lower cost and raise consistency in field research data and instrumentation.
Teresa B. Culver, School of Engineering and Applied Science
Lawrence Band, College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
Bev Wilson, School of Architecture
This project will integrate engineering, environmental, and social equity goals and perspectives to jointly and resiliently improve environmental and social equity conditions in urban regions.
Phoebe Crisman, School of Architecture
Noel James Lobley, College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
Rupa S. Valdez, School of Medicine
Co-design with indigenous Xhosa arts activists-academics to create a sustainable public venue promoting inter-generational arts curricula, health equity, and inclusive community thriving.
Jessica Ellen Sewell, School of Architecture
Mary P. Kuhn, College and Graduate School or Arts & Sciences
Melissa Jordan Love, The Fralin Museum of Art
We recover the translation of elements of the cultural landscapes of 18th-century France to the US to explore the nature of the archive and produce a digital repository and museum exhibit.
Katie MacDonald, School of Architecture
Deborah Lawerence, College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
Marek Pindera, School of Engineering and Applied Science
Expanding on the success of the mass timber industry, this project aims to pilot the development of biocomposite building panels made of grass species and bio-based adhesives.
Jamie Jirout, EDU
Elizabeth Opila, School of Engineering and Applied Science
Caitlin D. Wylie, School of Engineering and Applied Science
This project will study the influence of hands-on, lab-based research experience on undergraduate students' curiosity and motivation, exploring what characteristics of experiences matter the most.
Yixin Sun, School of Engineering and Applied Science
Natasha Zhang Foutz, McIntire School of Commerce
Shan Yu, College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
The project proposes a new solution to customer acquisition by identifying potential customers through spatio-temporal analytics and trajectory pattern mining using population-scale location data.
Glen L. Bull, School of Education and Human Development
Luke S. Dahl, College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
N. Rich Nguyen, School of Engineering and Applied Science
This initiative will employ machine learning to create an automated feedback system that facilitates development of programming skills through art and music.
Heman Shakeri, School of Data Science
Sepideh Dolatshahi, School of Medicine
Mohammad Fallahi Sichani, School of Medicine
We propose to integrate multiplexed single-cell measurements with novel computational methods to identify the dynamics of heterogeneous subpopulations and predict their phenotypic response to drugs.
Kurtis R. Schaeffer, College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
Kelsey E. Johnson, College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
Martien A. Halvorson-Taylor, College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
We propose to examine awe and its effects as a component of science and human flourishing in the intersecting contexts of are astrophysics, the history of religion, and place-based learning.
Ehsan Baharlou, School of Architecture
Ji Ma, School of Engineering and Applied Science
Tomonari Furukawa, School of Engineering and Applied Science
This research will explore sustainable manufacturing in building industry. The project will investigate Additive Manufacturing of cellulose-based materials using a distributed mobile robotic system.
Elgin L. Cleckley, School of Architecture
Alison Booth, College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
Lisa Reilly, School of Architecture
An architectural, landscape, and literary digital project to enhance access to and knowledge of the Anne Spencer House and Garden.
Gabrielle S. Adams, Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy
Kisha Lashley, McIntire School of Commerce
Peter Ronald Belmi, Darden School of Business
Who is "permitted" to bring their authentic self to work? How do calls for authenticity affect ethical behavior?
Sid Angadi, EDU
Susan C. Modesitt, School of Medicine
Bethany Horton, School of Medicine
The proposed project will examine the effects of a novel exercise training paradigm during ovarian cancer chemotherapy to reduce or mitigate the adverse cardiovascular effects of chemotherapy.
William M Shobe, Office of the Provost
Peter Troyan, College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
Henning Mortveit, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
We will explore some of the key impediments to the low-carbon energy transition. A key area of focus must be on planning for grid infrastructure to support distributed and intermittent energy sources.
Jill Howie Esquivel, School of Nursing
Maureen J. Metzger, School of Nursing
Karen Rheuban, School of Medicine
A mixed-methods home-based, telehealth, pilot study to determine feasibility of a physical activity intervention focused on symptom burden palliation in patients with ESRD.
Ali Fard, School of Architecture
Mona El Khafif, School of Architecture
Majid Shafiee-Jood, School of Engineering and Applied Science
This project aims to catalyze a regional urban design and qualitative decision analysis framework for socio-environmental resiliency in the Hampton Roads region of Virginia.
Sibylle Kranz, School of Education and Human Development
Jenny Roe, School of Architecture
Julia Scialla, School of Medicine
We propose a mixed method study to explore the effect of the food environment on choosing to consume a ketogenic diet and the clinical consequences of eating a ketogenic diet on kidney injury markers
Adam Leive, Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy
Leora Friedberg, College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
Eric R. Young, College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
This research studies whether Health Savings Accounts may help individuals improve their financial security by building a dynamic optimization model of saving decisions over the life cycle.
Robert E. Davis, College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
Pamela B. DeGuzman, School of Nursing
Bill Basener, School of Data Science
The timing of SARS CoV-2 and summer, 2020 heat waves provides a rare opportunity to examine heat related mortality, as heat waves and the SARS CoV-2 virus impact similar segments of the population.
Erin Putalik, School of Architecture
Jeana D'Agostino Ripple, School of Architecture
Sally Ellen Pusede, College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
This project collects examples of how toxicity and health risks in the air, water, soil, and building materials have been graphically communicated to the affected publics.
Don Griffin, School of Engineering and Applied Science
Chris Campbell, School of Medicine
Roseanne Ford, School of Engineering and Applied Science
The focus of this project is to interrogate the mechanism and impact of our existing material treatment in large wounds (~100x volume of small animal study) in a clinic relevant large animal model.
Nomi Dave, College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
Bonnie Susan Gordon, College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
Anne M. Coughlin, School of Law
This project explores voice, activism and gender justice through a series of creative works, applied research & teaching. We connect gender and racial justice to amplify diverse voices & experiences.
Arthur Small, Office of the Provost
Ellen Marie Bassett, College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
Venkataraman Lakshmi, School of Engineering and Applied Science
Nature-based carbon sequestration involve risks that projects will not generate genuine, permanent emissions offsets. The team will examine options for managing these risks.
Kazlin Mason, School of Education
Toby Grossmann, College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
Rebecca J. Scharf, School of Medicine
The goal of this project is to understand how listeners perceive cleft palate speech errors across varying degrees of intelligibility and the implications this may have for intervention.
Hezekiah O Babatunde, School of Engineering and Applied Science
Haiying Shine, UVA's College at Wise
Jan Fiala, UVA's College at Wise
This project entails application of hybrid intelligent system, combining techniques from artificial intelligence and mathematical modeling to study the spread patterns and dynamics of COVID-19 virus.
Bellave S. Shivaram, College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
Kevin K. Lehmann, College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
Peter Schauss, College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
Bose Einstein Condensates (BEC) carry all particles in the same quantum state, an effect known for nearly a century. In this project we propose to create and study novel micro and nano hybrid BECs.
Gaurab Aryal, College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
Christopher A. Yung, McIntire School of Commerce
Zhaohui Chen, McIntire School of Commerce
We study timing decisions of firms to file for IPOs, and of institutional investors’ to participate in such IPOs. We model this "book-building" process as a dynamic game with asymmetric information.
Nathan Sheffield, School of Medicine
Gustavo Kunde Rohde, School of Engineering and Applied Science
Matthew M. Miller, School of Medicine
We seek to develop novel predictors of breast cancer outcomes using new imaging technology and molecular data
Gia-Wei Chern, College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
Sergei Egorov, College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
Chris Paolucci, School of Engineering and Applied Science
We aim at developing phase field models for metal-insulator transitions in several canonical Mott insulators, and implementing state-of-the-art methods to solve the coupled dynamical equations.
Robert F. Bruner, Darden School of Business
Sidney Milkis, College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
Melody Barnes, Office of the President
This project will explore the institutional intersection between democracy and capitalism. Our aim is to produce new curricula, faculty workshops, and policy research and proposals.
Allison M. Bigelow, College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
Lucie W. Stylianopoulos, Library
Rafael C Alvarado, School of Data Science
This project builds digital texts in endangered languages to promote language learning and cultural connection among Maya youth in Mexico, Guatemala, and the US.
Juan C. Garibay, School of Data Science
Rosalyn W. Berne, School of Engineering and Applied Science
Lindsay Wheeler, Office of the Provost
The project explores how S&E courses integrating racial issues in the curricular content impact students’ S&E identities, racial attitudinal development, career interest, and educational experiences.
Tara Hofkens, School of Education and Human Development
Richard Stevenson, School of Medicine
Brian Wright, School of Data Science
We will partner with Albemarle County Public Schools to examine how remote schooling relates to income-based disparities in mental health treatment among adolescents throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.
John Edwin Mason, College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
Jalane Dawn Schmidt, College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
Louis Nelson, School of Architecture and Office of the Provost
This project explores and maps the family, social, and economic relationships between a cohort of 600 African Americans and their Black and White fellow citizens, at the height of the Jim Crow era.
Andrew Mondschein, School of Architecture
Luca Cian, Darden School of Business
Tong Donna Chen, School of Engineering and Applied Science
Urban environments are comprised of arrays of stimuli that people sense, process, and react to. Using mobile eye tracking, this study investigates how people engage with visual stimuli during travel.
Kateri Hayashi DuBay, College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
Geoff Geise, School of Engineering and Applied Science
Rachel A. Letteri, School of Engineering and Applied Science
An integrated computational, synthetic, and characterization approach to designing polymer membrane surfaces with desired solvation properties for applications in advanced water desalination.
Kwon-Sik Park, School of Medicine
Matthew J. Lazzara, School of Engineering and Applied Science
John H. Bushweller, School of Medicine
We propose to develop small molecules inhibitors of the pro-tumorigenic actions of EP300 KIX domain and assess them for potential targeted therapeutics for lung cancer.
Hudson Fernandes Golino, College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
Malinda Whitlow, School of Nursing
Reza Mousavi, McIntire School of Commerce
The current project will combine psychology and data science to investigate if and how psychological traits and political identity can be used to predict susceptibility to COVID-19 misinformation.
Sheisha Kulkarni, McIntire School of Commerce
Zachary Clint Irving, College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
David Carl Smith, McIntire School of Commerce
We hope to provide debtors with low-cost insolvency options and assess how the price of these options relates to mental health and well-being around financial security.
John McNeil, School of Medicine
Jamie DeCoster, EDU
Darrin Clouse, School of Medicine
Fasting before surgery is important, yet no one has studied how truthful patients are about their NPO status. We will use a randomized response technique to assess honesty while maintaining privacy.
Andy Cox, UVA's College at Wise
Frackson Mumba, School of Education and Human Development
Josephine J. Rodriguez, UVA's College at Wise
COVID-19 has disrupted science instruction in schools. We propose to design, implement, and study virtual K-6 science instruction model to improve teacher training, instruction, and student learning.
Jundong Li, School of Engineering and Applied Science
Tianxi Li, College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
Haifeng Xu, School of Engineering and Applied Science
This project will develop a novel network guided causal inference framework to uncover causal relations among entities in complex systems, with applications to various physical and human-made systems.
Suzanne Morse Moomaw, School of Architecure
Lis Goff, College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
Sarah Wells, Office of the Provost
This project documents 50 vanished Black “ freedom communities” through data, digital visualizations, archival research, and oral histories to create public-facing access tools for the communities.
Petr Tvrdik, School of Medicine
Brian P. Helmke, School of Engineering and Applied Science
Swapnil K Sonkusare, School of Medicine
We will study calcium signaling in endothelial cells derived from cerebral cavernous malformations under various shear stress conditions to instigate the development of new therapeutic strategies.
Tariq Iqbal, School of Engineering and Applied Science
Jessica E. Whittaker, School of Education and Human Development
Raymond S Pettit, School of Engineering and Applied Science
This project will develop a novel machine learning-based system that provides real-time, automated feedback to teachers on the interaction patterns in their classroom to inform instructions.
Sheetal Sekhri, College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
Sarah Jane Ratcliffe, School of Medicine
Gaurav Chiplunkar, Darden School of Business
Domestic Violence (DV) is a global public health epidemic, with high physical, emotional, and economic costs. This project will develop, deploy, and test mobile-based applications to address DV.
Kyle Schumann, School of Architecture
Manual T. Lerdau, College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
Gavin T. Garner, School of Engineering and Applied Science
This project will develop techniques for milling raw logs into specialized non-standard components. A custom CNC sawmill will be designed, constructed, and applied to demonstrate its capabilities.