A new Seed Grant program designed to increase multidisciplinary research activity is being offered by the Office of the VP for Research.  The Multidisciplinary research Initiation Grant (MIG) awards are specifically designed to support NEW collaborations among faculty from the various Stony Brook University (SBU) Departments/Schools as well as Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL)/Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL).  Research activity can include projects dealing with basic science studies all the way to applied, translational, and clinical ones.  Awardees will utilize these funds to establish NEW collaborative research projects with the potential to advance multidisciplinary research.

2008 MIG Awards Announced

1. The Development and Feasibility Test of an Innovative, Tailored Intervention to Promote Mammography Screening in Chinese American Women
PI: Anne Moyer (Psychology)
Co-PI: Yiyuan Sun (School of Nursing), Catherine Messina (Preventive Medicine)
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2. Statistical Analysis and Modeling of Heterogeneous Climate Data to Advance Severe Weather Forecasting and Abrupt Climate Change Prediction
PI: Haipeng Xing (Applied Math and Stats)
Co-PIs: Minghua Zhang (Institute for Terrestrial and Planetary Atmospheres (SoMAS), Wei Zhu (Applied Math and Stats) Abstract

3. Nanoparticle labeled Neural Stem Cell Tracking In Vivo by Magnetic Resonance Microscopy
PI: Stanislaus Wong (Chemistry)
Co-PIs: Meigan Aronson (Physics), Helene Benveniste (Anesthesiology), Mirjana Maletic-Savatic (Neurology)
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4. Neural and cognitive control of emotional content
PI: John Lutterbie (Theater Arts)
Co-PIs: Hoi-Chung Leung (Psychology), Suparna Rajaram (Psychology)
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