Not Pictured: Ezra Wood, PhD

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 2017-2018 are:

• Phillip Ayoub, PhD
  Department of Politics
  "Teaching Democracies New Tricks: Same-sex Unions and the Power of Social Learning"
• Debjani Bhattacharyya, PhD | Alden Young, PhD | Gabriel Rocha, PhD
  Department of History
  "Political Ecologies of Capitalism: A Research Summit"
• Margaret Finley, PT, PhD
  Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Sciences
  "Biopsychosocial Approach to Musculoskeletal Pain with Applications to Spinal Cord Injury"
• Jordan Hyatt, JD, PhD
  Department of Criminology and Justice Studies
  "A Comparative Examination of Corrections in the United States and Norway"
• Catherine von Reyn, PhD
  School of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems
  "Neural-Circuit Engineering"
• Fengqing Zhang, PhD
  Department of Psychology
  "Multimodal Neuroimaging, Wearable Computing, and Big Data Intergration"
• Ezra Wood, PhD
  Department of Chemistry
  "Measuring Atmospheric Radicals in the Laboratory and the Atmosphere: Collaboration with the University of Maryland Aircraft Program"