Funded Research by SC&I Investigators

Grants by Sponsor

Federal

Department of Energy

M. Weber (PI), DOE, “Informing Consent-Based Siting of a Consolidated Interim Storage Facility (CISF): Examining Public Engagement Through History and Evaluation of Prior & Current Outreach Results,” budget pending, 06/01/2024-05/31/2026

M. Weber (PI), DOE, “A National Framework for Effective and Sustainable Stakeholder Engagement in Complex Environments,” budget pending, 08/01/24-07/31/2025.

M. Weber (PI), DOE, “Ecological Health & Risk,” 09/30/2006-02/28/2025, $84,130.

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.

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.

Library of Congress

M. Radford (PI), LOC, “Celebrating Children’s Authors and Illustrators of New Jersey,” 04/24/2024-02/15/2025, $2,415.

National Endowment for the Humanities 

C. Petre (Co-PI), Digital Humanities: Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities (Collaborative), “Imagining AI in organized labor: Struggles over the value of cultural work,” 06/01/2024-5/31/2026, $44,323.

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,” 09/01/24-8/31/25, $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,” 07/01/2022- 06/30/2025, $98,097.

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

S. Kim (Co-PI), Civic Innovation Challenge (CIVIC), “Track A: Smart Kids and Cool Seniors, Phase 2,” 10/01/2023-12/32/2024, $114,672.

K. Ognyanova (PI), Accountable Institutions and Behavior (AIB), “Collaborative Research-State Health, Institutions, and Politics Survey (SHIPS),” 06/01/2023- 05/31/2025, $288,712.

M. Weber (Co-PI), Secure & Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) and Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) co-funding, “Socio-Technical Approaches for Securing Cyber-Physical Systems from False Claim Attacks,” 08/01/2023-07/31/2025, $171,417.

Academic, Associations, and Foundations

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

M. Aronson (PI), Carnegie-Whitney Grant, American Library Association, “Building a Global Youth Literature Collection 101,” 02/20/2023-02/15/2025, $5,000.

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, “Addressing the Sustainability and Continued Development of Health-Related National Dashboards through A Descriptive Analysis of the Ecosystem,” 02/15/2023-01/14/2025, $268,088.

State of New Jersey

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

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

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

Rutgers Internal

M. Matsaganis (PI), Global Health Seed Grants, “Developing a Rutgers Model for Training Global Health Communication Experts,” 04/01/2023-03/31/2025, $9,920.

T. Ammari (PI), Office of the Vice Provost for Research, Seed Grant, “Sociotechnical Contexts for Optimizing the Future of Age-Friendly Community Work,” 01/01/2024-01/01/2026, $46,992.

School of Communication and Information

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.