席勒综合科学与社会电子游戏正规平台所已经授予了12项资助，总计42万美元—作为第二年席勒电子游戏正规平台所探索性合作奖学金(SIGECS)项目的一部分，来自全校的教师和电子游戏正规平台人员提出的电子游戏正规平台项目.
Five “Type 1” grants of up to $15,000 and seven “Type 2” grants of up to $50,000 were awarded following a review of 18 proposals, said Schiller Institute Seidner Family Executive Director Laura J. Steinberg. The awards fund a range of research costs, 第二类资助涵盖电子游戏正规平台生最多一年的工资.
Laura J. Steinberg
“今年的项目再次显示了跨学科解决问题方法的价值, 无论是将物理和化学方法整合到新材料开发中，还是在神经科学最新进展的背景下质疑亚里士多德工作的意义,” said Steinberg. “我们对今年能够资助的项目的质量感到非常兴奋, as well as the breadth of the questions they are addressing.”
SIGECS项目支持席勒电子游戏正规平台所能源主要电子游戏正规平台重点领域的合作电子游戏正规平台项目和创造性活动, the natural environment, and health. 该资助计划认可具有不同知识的教师和电子游戏正规平台人员的合作努力, perspectives, 专业知识可以为解决这些固有的跨学科社会问题做出重大贡献.
该项目旨在支持具有探索性质的项目:在特定项目的背景下促进协作对话, or helping faculty identify shared interests, 或者提供一种检验假设的机制，或者推动合作学术.
“教师对寻找支持他们合作兴趣的途径的兴趣仍然很强, interdisciplinary research,” Steinberg said. “我们很高兴能够为学生提供与其他学科的教师和学生合作的机会, 反映他们毕业后可能找到的工作环境，为他们提供团队经验和更全面地看待问题的机会, holistic ways.”
In addition to spurring cross-disciplinary collaboration and applied, problem-focused research, 有些项目旨在奠定基础，以便利用外部来源的额外资金, Steinberg said.
Faculty participated in a kickoff event on June 23. Additional presentations on the projects have taken place. This semester, 将举行四场专题讨论会，讨论2021年SIGECS项目在环境领域的主题, climate change, clean energy, and health.
Proposals addressed issues of critical concern in the areas of energy, the natural environment, or health through research or creative expression. The projects were expected to be new to the proposing teams, but could also take prior research in a new direction.
Among Type 1 awards, the institute funded the work of the Virtue Ethics Working Group, which will investigate the role of the virtues in students’ well-being, the whole-person approach to teaching, and civic engagement. 这八名团队成员来自哲学、心理学、神经科学和教学学科.
“Our goal is to develop and implement a longitudinal study to measure, analyze, and implement how the deliberate cultivation of virtuous habits, in conjunction with relevant study and classroom education, can develop moral, intellectual, and civic virtues among students, with applications to societal health beyond higher education,” the team wrote in its proposal.
另一个项目将评估绿色氢作为“2050年前零碳经济所需的重要储能组成部分”.” Proposed by Margaret A. and Thomas A. 1953年范德切化学讲座主席王敦伟和政治学教授大卫·迪斯, 该项目将评价被视为有用的、备受期待的技术方法, 特别是在工业能源消费者和运输部门, in achieving net zero economies in the next three decades.
The researchers “will jointly identify the key social, economic, 以及建立在迄今为止最有前途的技术和项目基础上的全经济绿色氢基础设施相关的政治障碍和风险,” according to the proposal.
另一个团队将探索使用机器学习来分析基于可穿戴传感器的心力衰竭患者再入院情况. Faculty from the department of Computer Science and Connell School of Nursing 将探讨可穿戴设备是否可以提高护理的及时性并减少再入院事件.
“我们迫切需要确定那些面临不良后果风险最高的人群,” the team wrote in their proposal. “我们将通过结合最先进的可穿戴传感器和生理数据分析的机器学习算法，以及该领域最新的临床理解，来满足这一需求.”
Among Type 2 awards, 其中一个项目的重点是为大约65人提供服务,000 Afghan evacuees now living in the U.S. Faculty from the School of Social Work, Computer Science, and the Department of Engineering are working on the project, which is titled 数字心理健康创新支持扩大阿富汗难民家庭的家庭强化干预:跨学科合作.
In particular, 该小组将与难民家庭加强干预(FSI-R)合作。, 一项以证据为基础的方案，旨在促进难民社区的心理健康，该方案是根据塞勒姆社会工作学院全球实践教授特里萨·贝当古的电子游戏正规平台，由"难民为难民"制定的.
“为了应对在美国重新安置阿富汗人口的大量和更高的服务需求.S., 我们的团队建议采用一种数字工具，以促进家访者在美国各地的阿富汗难民社区大规模提供FSI-R.S.,” the proposal said.
A collaboration between faculty from the departments of Engineering and Computer Science and the Connell School of Nursing will explore developing a new, more accurate, and easier way for people to measure their body mass composition, such as fat and muscle mass.
“Given the rise of low-cost mobile ultrasound systems, 超声波被证实有能力评估脂肪组织和骨骼肌, 我们的团队将开发一种新的超声工具，可以指导用户收集高质量的数据，并自动确定身体成分的措施，以进行营养评估,” the team proposed.
去年第一轮SIGECS资助的三个项目获得了额外支持, including the Multidisciplinary Faculty Research Seminar on Climate Change, a project involving dozens of faculty from across the university; the Chelsea Wellbeing Initiative, which examines a post-pandemic citywide mental health campaign; and a collaboration by Lynch School and Morrissey College faculty to develop a multi-player video game to address environmental racism.
For the full list of 2022 SIGECS projects, please visit the Schiller website.
Ed Hayward | University Communications | September 2022