Funded Research by SC&I Investigators

Department of Energy

M. Weber (Co-PI), DOE, “Moving Toward Consent-Based Siting of a Federal CISF: Improving Strategies for Community-Led Decision-Making During Stakeholder and Tribal Engagements,” 08/15/2023-08/14/2025, $285,100.

Department of Homeland Security

V. Singh (Co-PI), DHS, “Streamlining USCIS Document Validation Using Artificial Intelligence,” 10/01/2024-06/30/2025, $250,000.

Institute of Museum and Library Services

J. Cheng (PI), IMLS, “Storytelling Across Time: Building a Community Around Provenance,” 08/01/2024-07/31/2026, $150,000.

National Endowment for the Humanities 

C. Petre (Co-PI), NEH, “Imagining AI in Organized Labor: Struggles Over the Value of Cultural Work,” 06/01/2024-05/31/2025, $44,323.

Department of Transportation

J. Cheng (Co-PI), DOT, Rutgers Center for Advanced Infrastructure and Transportation’s "Advanced Bridge Technology Clearinghouse," 07/01/2024-06/30/2029, $97,337.

National Institutes of Health

E. Broadbridge (PI), NIH Fellowship, “Comparing Post-Test Genetic Counseling with and without Pre-Test Counseling: The Evolving Landscape for Optimizing Cancer Care,” 09/01/24-08/31/26, $38,154.

S. Hull (PI), NIH, “Informing Sisters About Topics on AIDS and Prevention (SISTA-P): Adaptation of the SISTA Intervention To Include Prep Information and Skills Building for Black Women Who Are Risk For HIV,” 09/01/2020-08/31/2025, $696,480.

S. Hull (Co-PI), “Establishing the science behind Alzheimer’s recruitment registries: Opportunities for increasing diversity and accelerating enrollment into trials,” 7/1/2022- 6/30/2025, $98,097.

L. Mikesell (Co-PI), NIH/National Cancer Institute to Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, “Adapting and Implementing Evidence-Based Breast Cancer Follow-Up in Primary Care,” 07/01/2021-06/30/2026, $99,937.

National Science Foundation

K. Garimella (PI), NSF, SaTC: Collaborative Research: Core: Small, “Towards a Privacy-Preserving Framework for the Study of Misinformation on Private, Encrypted Social Networks,” 10/01/2023-09/30/2026, $231,700.

S. Jhaver (PI), NSF, Human-Centered Computing (HCC), Small: “Incorporating Procedural Fairness in Flagging Mechanisms on Social Media Sites,” 09/15/2023-05/31/2026, $581,680.

K. Ognyanova (PI), NSF, Accountable Institutions and Behavior (AIB), “Collaborative Research-State Health, Institutions, and Politics Survey (SHIPS),” 06/01/2023- 05/31/2026, $288,712.

Weber (Co-PI), NSF, Secure & Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC), “Socio-Technical Approaches for Securing Cyber-Physical Systems from False Claim Attacks,” 08/01/2023-07/31/2025, $171,417.

M. Aronczyk (PI), Brown University, “E. Bruce Harrison and the Legacy of ‘Green’ Public Relations,” 06/01/2024-02/28/2026, $17,500.

C. Senteio (PI), Social Science Research Council, Mercury Project, “Combatting Health Misinformation with Community-Crafted Messaging: Developing A Scalable Community-Driven Approach in Latin America and The United States,” 08/01/2022-05/30/2025, $481,500.

M. Weber (PI), NJ Civic Information Consortium, “Monitoring New Jersey Local News Content and Coverage,” 07/01/2023- 06/30/2025, $91,512.

T. Wolfson (PI), Geraldine Dodge Foundation, “Journalism for Democracy,” 07/01/2015-06/30/2025, $345,000.

I. Yanovitzky (PI), Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, “Advancing Theory, Research, and in Designing Public Health Data Dashboards To Better Communicate Complex Information To A Diverse Audience,” 01/15/2025-01/14/2027, $499,303.

J. Lane (PI), New Jersey Department of Education, “NJDOE Partnership to Study Effects of Social Media Usage on Adolescents,” 01/13/2025-10/30/2025, $98,636.

L. Stewart (PI), New Jersey Department of Human Services, Division of Mental Health and Addiction Services, “Recovery @ Rutgers: Sustaining an Environment that Supports Recovery and Promotes Responsible Choices,” (25-715-ADA-0), 07/01/2024-06/30/2025, $245,100.

L. Stewart (PI), New Jersey Department of Human Services, Division of Mental Health and Addiction Services “Recovery @ Rutgers: Sustaining an Environment that Supports Recovery and Promotes Responsible Choices,” (21/22/23/24-715-ADA-0), 2021-2024, $980,400.

L. Stewart (PI), New Jersey Department of Human Services, Division of Mental Health and Addiction Services, “Supporting Students in Recovery @ Rutgers-New Brunswick,” (23-991-ADA-0, Block Grant COVID Supplement), 2022-2025, $450,000.

J. Valenza (PI), New Jersey Center for the Book/Thomas Edison State College, 07/01/2023-06/30/2025, $10,800

T. Ammari (PI), Chancellor, New Brunswick, “Sociotechnical Contexts for Optimizing the Future of Age-Friendly Community Work,” 01/1/2024-01/01/2026, $46,992.

M. Kwestel (PI), Colgate-Palmolive Co., “Rutgers-Colgate Experiential Learning Opportunity Program: Science Communications,” 09/02/2024-05/02/2025, $37,500.

Grants for Individual Faculty Research (GIFR)

S. Fu, “Building Resilient Nonprofit Organizations to Serve Refugees, 2024-2025 (FY25), $5,000.

K. Garimella, “Quantitative Study of AI Surveillance and Algorithmic Wage Bias in Gig Work,” 2024-2025 (FY25), $5,000.

M. Venetis, “Modeling Resilience among Survivors of Heart Disease and Their Partners,” 2024-2025 (FY25), $5,000.

S. Jhaver, “Effects of Warning and Information Labels on Attraction to Offensive Online Communities,” FY2023-24 (FY24), $4,000.

Team and Group-based Faculty Research and Scholarly Activity (GTFR)

Collaborative Research Awards
S. Fu & S. Jhaver, “Toward Decent Communication and Fair Work among Digital Pieceworkers,” 07/01/2024 -06/30/2026, $25,000.

V. Singh & Y. Rivera, “Multilingual Health Equity in Large Language Models: Enhancing Accuracy and Reliability for Diverse User Interactions,” 07/01/2024 -06/30/2026, $16,876.

A. Jordan, J. Lane, J. Valenza, & N. Natarajan, “U.S. Parents’ Beliefs about the Opportunities and Risks of Artificial Intelligence in the Lives of Their Teens,” 07/2023-06/2025, $24,688.50.

Basic Collaborative Scholarship Development Activity Award
K. Ognyanova, T. Ammari, S. Fu, K. Garimella, S. Jhaver, S. Shugars, V. Singh, & M. Weber. “Rutgers Computational Social Science Lab,” 07/2023-06/2025, $14,000.

Scholarly Futures Award
M. Matsaganis, L. Mikesell, V. Singh, R. Touger-Decker (SHP), & R. White (SHP),
“Can Digital Health Technologies and Data Science Transform Health Professional Practice and Communication, and Ensure Health Equity?” 01/01/2022-06/30/2024, $49,964.