Samantha Friedman was awarded $452,409 from the National Institute of Health for a project mapping historical mortgage disinvesment in the 1930s and the connection to individuals' years of life. Co-PIs on the two-year project are Rui Li and Shiguo Jiang.

Haoyu Wang and Zheng Wu were awarded $677,967 from the National Science Foundation for a project that will develop physics-informed AI tools capable of representing how the stratosphere influences surface weather, with the goal of extending advance warning for extreme events like winter cold snaps and heavy snowfall.

Ben Boivin was awarded $430,375 by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences for his project, “Development of Small Molecules that Activate PTP1B and OtherPhosphatases,” over the course of August 2026 through July 2028.