BSOS Receives Over $1M in UMD Research Resilience Funding

Thirteen of the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences' faculty members, students, and research centers received a total of $1,016,387 from the University of Maryland Division of Research’s Research Resilience Initiatives: the Preserve, Pivot & Grow Program, and the MPower Early Scholars Investment Fund.

The Research Resilience Initiatives were created to provide support to those impacted by the evolving federal funding landscape.

Preserve, Pivot & Grow Program

Install a New Helium Recycling System to Support More Cost Effective Magnetoencephalography (MEG) scanning with Lower Environmental Impact ($129,500)
Brain and Behavior Institute

Sustaining the Terrorism and Targeted Violence Project Through a Transition to Commercialization ($500,000)
The National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START)

Place and Policy: The Transformative American Politics (TrAP) Lab 2.0 ($25,000)
Periloux Peay, Assistant Professor, Department of African American and Africana Studies

Sustaining International Science: the Global Land Programme at UMD ($50,000)
Ariane de Bremond, Associate Research Professor, Department of Geographical Sciences

Preserving and Sustaining Research on Global Remote Sensing of Fires ($50,000)
Louis Giglio, Research Professor, Department of Geographical Sciences

Investigating the Economic Exploitation and National Exclusion of Racial and Ethnic Groups in the United States ($42,700)
Linda Zou, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology

MPower Early Scholars Investment Fund

Evaluating the Utilization and Efficacy of Nonpolicing Services as Crisis Responders in U.S. cities ($50,000)
Demar Lewis, Assistant Professor, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice

Using Satellite Technology and AI to Develop Climate Adaptation Solutions with Cacao Farmers in Madagascar ($50,000)
Catherine Nakalembe, Assistant Professor, Department of Geographical Sciences

Analyzing Relationships Between Community Insights and Official Crime Data to Understand Incongruities Between Perceptions of Crime and 911 Calls ($5,300)
Sarah Silberman, Doctoral Candidate, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice

Examining the Role of Mitochondrial Dynamics in Opioid Addiction Using a Rat Model of Drug Relapse ($20,525)
Chloe Matheson, Graduate Student, Program in Neuroscience and Cognitive Science

Looking at Whether and Why Individuals with Different Social-Economic Status React Differently to Partner’s Regard and Partner’s Social Worth ($29,664)
Huixian Yu, Graduate Student, Department of Psychology

Comparing and Identifying Geographies and Demographic Subgroups Where Unaccompanied Youth Experiencing Homelessness Population are Under-Represented in Terms of Accessing State-Funded Services and Benefits ($26,198)
Ujjayini Das, Doctoral Candidate, Joint Program in Survey Methodology

Ongoing Research on Forest LiDAR Point-Cloud Analysis, Including the Development of Reproducible Tools and Workflows for Automated Single-Tree Extraction from Terrestrial Laser Scanning Data ($37,500)
Xin Xu, Post-Doctoral Associate, Department of Geographical Sciences

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Published on Fri, May 1, 2026 - 1:13PM