Grant Category: NINI Grant

Hitomi Tonomura, History | 2022-2023 This project is a first-year seminar taught on the team-based learning module and introduces the nineteenth-century articulation of global race hierarchy during the era when the United States, using military and diplomatic means, forced Japan to recognize unequal trade relations. Students’ final projects will use available innovative technologies to represent…

Qiong Yang and Sarah Keane, Biophysics | 2020-2021 The goal of this project is to transform a core laboratory course in Biophysics (BIOPHYS 450) into a digital format. The course instructors will work with graduate student instructors (GSIs) to produce video demonstrations of major experiments and make them available online to all students taking this…

Cindy Lustig, Psychology | 2022-2023 Under-represented students, including those from historically marginalized groups, first-generation immigrants or college students, and/or low-income backgrounds, face barriers to participating in research activities that are crucial for advancing towards graduate school and developing transferable skills for non-academic careers. The STAR (Scholarship, Transferrable skills, Academics, & Research) program addresses this issue…

Corinna S. Schindler, Chemistry | 2020-2021 An integral component of undergraduate teaching at the University of Michigan relies on graduate student-led discussion sections and laboratory courses. In most cases, the instructors are highly motivated first-year graduate students who are inexperienced as teachers and often have not been subjected to modern teaching practices centered on equity…

Svitlana Rogovyk, Slavic Languages and Literatures | 2022-2023 Ukrainian is the state language of Ukraine, one of the largest countries in Europe. It is also spoken in the Ukrainian Diaspora in Canada, Kazakhstan, Russia, the U.S., and other countries. In 2014, Ukrainian language was included into the Pentagon language priority list. Currently, Ukrainian is also…

Ziwei Zhu, Statistics | 2020-2021 Recent years have witnessed an unprecedented surge of demand in data mining, i.e., analyzing massive datasets to generate new information for business decision making or scientific research. As a result, rigorous and fair assessment of data analytical skills are vital to educating our next generation of data scientists. This proposal…

Cindy Lustig, Psychology | 2020-2021 Students from historically-marginalized groups, those who are first-generation immigrants or college students, and those from low-income backgrounds (hereafter, under-represented students; URS) are less likely to participate in the research activities that are an important step towards graduate school and obtaining transferable skills for non-academic careers. The Students Tackling Advanced Research…

Sara Blair, English Language and Literature | 2022-2023 We propose to: 1. create 3 new small seminar, experimental undergraduate LSA courses that use extended and virtual reality (XR/VR) to represent, analyze, and critique current and historical experiences of racial, gender, and social inequality; 2. create new XR/VR technical support, course development, and XR/VR reserve resources…

Cindy Lustig, Psychology | 2022-2023 Students from historically-marginalized groups, those who are first-generation immigrants or college students, and those from low-income backgrounds (hereafter, under-represented students; URS) are less likely to participate in the research activities that are an important step towards graduate school and obtaining transferable skills for non-academic careers. The Students Tackling Advanced Research…

Tim Chupp, Physics | 2022-2023 A new elective lab course “Instrumentation for the Physical Sciences” will be taught beginning Winter 2023. This course will teach about instrumentation essential to 21st century R&D to students across the sciences in LSA and COE. Students will learn about the basic instrumentation used in state-of the art research labs…