Six projects have been granted UConn\u2019s first-ever seed funding dedicated to research and collaborations the address societal issues such as equity and inclusion.<\/p>\n
UConn Research recently announced the recipients of the JEDI Research initiative. The awards advance innovative research, scholarship, and creative work on topics contained in the acronym \u2013 Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion.<\/p>\n
Selected interdisciplinary projects include investigations into traffic safety inequities in environmental justice communities and alternative approaches for school safety. Other awarded submissions explore discrimination experienced by transgender and non-binary youth, establishing a memorial and museum at the former Mansfield Training School, and researching the practice of ethnic studies across the United States.<\/p>\n
\u201cCongratulations to our first cohort of researchers to earn these prestigious awards, which reflect so much of what UConn represents as an institution,\u201d says Pamir Alpay, interim Vice President for Research, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship. \u201cThese projects break down disciplinary silos to embrace critical research topics of growing relevance to our state, nation, and the world.\u201d<\/p>\n
Three projects received $20,000 in funding for scholarly or creative expansion, designed to support JEDI-themed projects in the fine arts, the development of scholarly book projects focusing on equity and diversity, and the establishment of innovative partnerships among disciplines. Two projects received $60,000 in funding, reserved for larger scale research projects so they can be better positioned to seek greater funding in the near future.<\/p>\n
UConn Research announced the JEDI Research Initiative last May \u2013 coincidentally just after Star Wars Day. Research Development Services Manager Matthew Mroz said the initiative was successful in its mission to generate creative interdisciplinary proposals from faculty, as evidenced by the quality of the awarded submissions and the number of disciplines that participated in the program.<\/p>\n
The 2021-2022 JEDI awardees are:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Emma<\/strong>\u00a0Amador<\/strong>, History – $19,638 Alaina<\/strong>\u00a0Brenick<\/strong>, Human Development and Family Sciences – $19,997.19 Brenda<\/strong>\u00a0Brueggemann<\/strong>, English – $20,000 Kiel<\/strong>\u00a0Brennan-Marquez<\/strong>, Law Instruction and Research – $20,000 Sukhmani<\/strong>\u00a0Singh<\/strong>, Social Work Instruction and Research – $59,998.64 Davis<\/strong>\u00a0Chacon Hurtado<\/strong>, Civil and Environmental Engineering – $60,000 JEDI \u2013 Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion \u2013 rewards projects that support interdisciplinary research, scholarship, and creative work<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":166,"featured_media":164326,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2275,1866,2226,2076,1857,1870,2235,92,2306,2227],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[2381],"class_list":["post-196879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-affairs","category-engr","category-clas","category-research","category-law","category-ssw","category-today-homepage","category-uconn-hartford","category-uconn-voices","category-uconn-edu-homepage"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-29 07:14:30","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/166"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196879"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197227,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196879\/revisions\/197227"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/164326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196879"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=196879"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=196879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nBright Futures: Antonia Pantoja and the Practice of Ethnic Studies in US History<\/em><\/p>\n
\nValidating a measure of school-based interpersonal and institutional discrimination experienced by transgender and gender non-binary youth<\/em><\/p>\n
\nThe UConn – “Mansfield Training School” Cross-Institutional History:\u00a0 A Memorial and Museum<\/em><\/p>\n
\nReimagining School Safety\u2014in Connecticut and Beyond<\/em>
\nCo-PIs:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>Sukhmani Singh,\u00a0<\/em>School of Social Work;\u00a0<\/em>Miguel de Figueiredo,\u00a0<\/em>School of Law;\u00a0<\/em>Ken Barone,\u00a0<\/em>Institute for Municipal and Regional Policy;\u00a0<\/em>Andrew Clark,\u00a0<\/em>Institute for Municipal and Regional Policy;\u00a0<\/em>Casey Cobb, <\/em>Neag School of Education<\/p>\n
\nAn Intersectional Examination of the Educational Trajectories of Youth Sentenced to Probation<\/em><\/p>\n
\nEquity in livability: An exploratory analysis of spatial equity in roadway safety and driver behavior using naturalistic driving data<\/em>
\nCo-PIs:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>Alexandra Paxton,\u00a0<\/em>Psychological Sciences;\u00a0<\/em>John Ivan,\u00a0<\/em>Civil and Environmental Engineering;\u00a0<\/em>Kerry Marsh,\u00a0<\/em>Psychological Sciences<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"