Interdisciplinary Junior Faculty Initiative

Proposals Approved for Funding
May 2009

Digital Environments
School of Information
College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
Four faculty positions
Faculty Lead: Gregory Dowd

Environment, Information, and Sustainable Development: The Asia-Africa Nexus
School of Information
College of Literature, Science and the Arts
School of Natural Resources and Environment
Four faculty positions
Faculty Lead: Paul N. Edwards

Financial Markets
Ross School of Business
Law School
College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
Ford School of Public Policy
Four faculty positions
Faculty Lead: Susan Collins

Multiscale Cell Mechanics
College of Engineering
Medical School
Five faculty positions
Faculty Lead: Krishna Garikipati

Petascale Computing
College of Engineering
College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
Four faculty positions
Faculty Lead: Sharon Glotzer

Sustainable Built Environments
Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
College of Engineering
School of Natural Resources and Environment
Three faculty positions
Faculty Lead: Nancy G. Love

Proposals Approved for Funding
April 16, 2008

Data Mining, Learning, and Discovery with Massive Datasets
College of Engineering
College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
Five faculty positions
Faculty Lead: Douglas Richstone

Energy Storage
College of Engineering
College of Literature, Science and the Arts
School of Natural Resources and Environment
Five faculty positions
Faculty Lead: Gary Was

Global Change: Cryosphere and Sea-Level Impacts
College of Engineering
College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
Three faculty positions
Faculty Lead: Christopher Poulsen

Global HIV/AIDS
College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
Medical School
School of Nursing
Five faculty positions
Faculty Lead: Valerie Traub

Microbial Ecology: Relationships to Human and Environmental Health
College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
Medical School
School of Public Health
Four faculty positions
Faculty Lead: Deborah Goldberg

Social Science and Energy
College of Literature, Science and the Arts
Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
Three faculty positions
Faculty Lead: Carl Simon