Seed grant funding

Spring 2025 Awarded Proposals

(Spring 2025 call for proposals)

  • Visualizations of Energy Critical Materials Supply Chain Vulnerabilities for Policy Guidance and Public Awareness ($33,000)
    - PI: Kate Whitefoot
    - Co-PI: Jason O’Connor

Fall 2025 Awarded Proposals

(Fall 2025 call for proposals)

  • Materials Recovery Strategies for Critical Mineral Energy Storage Supply Chain Security and Economic Competitiveness ($151,584)
    - PI: Jeremy Michalek
    - Co-PIs: Nicholas Muller, Jay Whitacre, Valarie Karplus
    - Collaborators: Katrina Ramirez-Meyers
    - Students: Anna Cobb
  • Survey Evidence to Support Wage Insurance Policy Design ($54,000)
    - PI: Brian Kovak
    - Co-PI: Christophe Combemale
    - Collaborators: Adam Leive (University of California, Berkeley)
    - Students: Sarah Giordano
  • Tracking the Flow of Elite AI Talent in the U.S. and Beyond ($130,000)
    - PI: Lee Branstetter
    - Co-PIs: Lei Li, Ed Hovy, Prasanna Tambe (Wharton School)
    - Collaborators: Sagar Baviskar (Boston University)
    - Students: Cameron Drayton, Liujie Wu, Lin Park, Devan Rajendran, Jerry Wu

Fall 2025 seed funds for further proposal development