Career Development Awards are designed to help faculty increase their exposure to colleagues at other institutions who can be collaborators and role models while introducing outside scholars to faculty at Drexel. Social networks are increasingly important and funding agencies are increasingly interested in projects that demonstrate multi-investigator, interdisciplinary endeavors. Building such a team, and developing a history of working together, can be invaluable for junior faculty or mid-career faculty moving in a more collaborative direction or beginning a new research area. This program provides funding for Drexel faculty to develop networks, nationally or internationally, with colleagues whose work complements activities at Drexel. For more information please visit the Career Development Awards Overview page.

The awardees for Academic Year 2018-2019 are:

• Ayana Allen-Handy, PhD
  Department of Policy, Organization, and Leadership
  "Community Capacity Building for a Better Tomorrow: A Cross Disciplinary Critical Participatory Action Research Think Tank"
• Nancy Raitano Lee, PhD
  Department of Psychology
  "Executive Function and Intellectual Disability - Developing Interventions to Foster Success"
• Maureen Tang, PhD
  Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
  "Understanding Charge Transport at Battery Interfaces: Collaboration with Oak Ridge National Laboratory"
• Ryan Petrie, PhD
  Department of Biology
  "Philly Motility"
• Dionicio Solorio Martinez, PhD
  Department of Chemistry
  "The Development of Sustainable Synthetic Organic Chemistry for the Construction of Chiral Compounds with Medicinal Potential"
• Jasreen Sekhon, PhD, CFS
  Center for Food and Hospitality Management
  "Recycling Food Waste: The Route of Functional Component Recovery"