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