Findings Staff Report | Sept. 9, 2021
Success from day one—that’s what the Office of Research wants for all first-year faculty researchers at the University of Cincinnati.
So, in order to provide the support which draws out success, the Office of Research began issuing the Research Launch Award in 2018, a program which rewards researchers in their first year at UC with $2,500 in research or professional development funding for attending at least ten Office of Research Professional Development Series events in their first academic year. Since its inception, 87 individuals have completed the Research Launch program requirements.
Last year was a record year for the program. We had more awardees than ever, and more from almost every college.
“Attending the events tremendously helped me acclimate to the wide array of resources UC has to support early-career investigators, in addition to widening my UC network,” says Samantha J. Boch, who has a doctorate in nursing science and is a registered nurse that finished her first year as an assistant professor in the College of Nursing last year.
Boch wants to become a leading nurse scientist in areas that improve the health and healthcare delivery of children of incarcerated parents and other populations that have been impacted by justice issues.
Each of the 32 awardees is doing fascinating work. Meet them all, below, and check out a full list of winners since 2018—with links to their profiles.
Research Launch Awardees 2021
Daniel Arendt
Assistant Professor
Department of Pharmacy Practice and Administrative Sciences
College of Pharmacy
Ishita Basu
Assistant Professor-Research
Neurosurgery
College of Medicine
Randi A. Bates
Assistant Professor
College of Nursing
Samantha J. Boch
Assistant Professor
College of Nursing
Joe Brackman
Assistant Professor
Media Production Division
College-Conservatory of Music
Michelle Burbage
Assistant Professor
Public Health Sciences Division
Department of Environmental and Public Health Sciences
College of Medicine
Gi Woong Choi
Assistant Professor
Instructional Design and Technology
School of Education
College of Education, Criminal Justice and Human Services
Nate Ela
Assistant Professor
Political Science and Law
College of Arts & Sciences and College of Law
Greg Eldridge
Associate Professor
Opera Directing
College-Conservatory of Music
Jerome A. Graham
Assistant Professor
Educational Leadership
College of Education, Criminal Justice, and Human Services
Xiaoqin Guo
Assistant Professor
Department of Mathematical Sciences
College of Arts & Sciences
Brittany E. Hayes
Assistant Professor
School of Criminal Justice
College of Education, Criminal Justice, and Human Services
Melissa Jacquart
Assistant Professor
Philosophy Department
Associate Director of the Center for Public Engagement with Science
Emily Jobe
Assistant Professor of Biology
Blue Ash College
Zobaida Laota
Assistant Professor-Educator
Counseling
College of Education, Criminal Justice, and Human Services
Seokki Lee
Assistant Professor
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
College of Engineering and Applied Science
Youn Seon Lim
Assistant Professor
Quantitative and Mixed Methods Research Methods, Educational Studies
College of Education, Criminal Justice, and Human Services
Anne Lingwall Odio
Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures
College of Arts & Sciences
Aditi Machado
Assistant Professor
Department of English and Comparative Literature
College of Arts & Sciences
John R. Martin
Assistant Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
College of Engineering and Applied Science
Eduardo J. Martinez
Assistant Professor
Department of Philosophy
College of Arts & Sciences
Kara Moranski
Assistant Professor
Romance & Arabic Languages & Literatures
College of Arts & Sciences
James L. Pease
Assistant Professor
School of Social Work
College of Allied Health Sciences
Rachel Saunders
Assistant Professor
Counseling
College of Education, Criminal Justice, and Human Services
Jill Shirokawa
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Department of Science and Health
Clermont College
Inne Singgih
Assistant Professor Educator
Department of Mathematical Sciences
College of Arts & Sciences
Pietro Strobbia
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemistry
College of Arts & Sciences
Kristy Swift
Assistant Professor of Musicology Educator
Division of Composition, Musicology, and Music Theory
College-Conservatory of Music
Colleen Uscianowski
Assistant Professor
Early Childhood Education Program
College of Education, Criminal Justice, and Human Services
Lori Vincent
Assistant Professor
School Psychology Programs/School of Human Services
College of Education, Criminal Justice, and Human Services
Danielle M. Winget
Assistant Professor
Department of Science & Health
Clermont College
Felicia Zamora
Assistant Professor
Department of English
College of Arts & Sciences