Awardees:

  2025 - Pilot Awards for Faculty
Applicant
Company/Institution
Project Title
Dr. Emily Coderre Ph.D.   University of Vermont   The Comic Difficulty Rating (CoDiR) Scale: Developing a ranking system of comic complexity  
Mikaela Irene Fudolig   University of Vermont   Understanding the trajectory from awareness to action in intimate partner violence using large-scale data from online spaces  
Dr. Alex Garlick   University of Vermont   Behind closed doors: Tracking American lobbyists and their effects  
Prof. Ellen Kozelka   University of Vermont   Reimagining Recovery: Examining Mental Illness Storytelling on Social Media  
Dr. Joseph Near   University of Vermont   Communicating Uncertainty in Privacy-Preserving Data Releases  
Dr. Safwan Wshah   University of Vermont   AI-Driven Road Quality and Safety Assessment using Vision-Language Models (VLMs)  
Prof. Jean-Gabriel Young   University of Vermont   From Crowd to Clarity: A Data-Driven Framework for Prediction Market Aggregation  
Dr. Sam Zhang   University of Vermont   Parsing university course catalogs to map temporal changes in American higher education