05/19/2025
By Anne Maglia

The Office of Research Development is pleased to announce the recipients of the Spring 2025 Researchers and Scholars Investment (RSI) Fund. This semester, they are awarding more than $27,000.

The RSI Fund supports faculty in their professional trajectory, providing opportunities to test new ideas, implement initiatives, and strengthen their skills and craft. These funds are meant to provide immediate assistance for short-term projects and goals that will provide great benefit to the scholar, their team, and the university.

If you have any questions about specific projects or ideas for collaboration, please contact the PI directly or email RD@uml.edu.

Congratulations to each of the 10 awardees:

  • PI: Rodrigo Castro Cornejo, Assistant Professor, Political Science, College of Fine Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
    Project Title: Criminal Clientelism by Drug Cartels in Mexico
    Award Amount: $3,000
  • PI: Marie Frank, Associate Professor, Art and Design, College of Fine Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
    Project Title: Book Production Costs
    Award Amount: $2,500
  • PI: Ingrid Hess, Associate Professor, Art and Design, College of Fine Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
    Project Title: Notes on Nature
    Award Amount: $2,475
  • PI: Ann Kronrod, Associate Professor, Marketing, Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Manning School of Business
    Project Title: How Language Can Boost or Threat Privacy and Trust
    Award Amount: $3,000
  • PI: Michael Wallace Millner, Associate Professor, English, College of Fine Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
    Project Title: From Lowell to Legend: The Visions of Kerouac Finding Aid
    Award Amount: $2,960
  • PI: Tamara Montag-Smit, Assistant Professor, Management, Manning School of Business
    Project Title: Literature Review of the Effects of Remote Work
    Award Amount: $3,000
  • PI: Yuko Oda, Associate Professor, Art and Design, College of Fine Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
    Project Title: Shipping of Artworks in Person, and Travel to Exhibit Artwork in Sala 1, Contemporary Art Gallery in Rome, Italy, Fall 2025
    $3,000
  • PI: Kirsten Swenson, Associate Professor, Art and Design, College of Fine Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
    Project Title: Reclamations: Earthworks, Public Works, Environments
    Award Amount: $2,000
  • PI: Ellen Wetmore, Professor, Art and Design, College of Fine Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
    Project Title: A Letter From Ohrdruf
    Award Amount: $2,800
  • PI: Elizabeth Williams, Associate Professor, History, College of Fine Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
    Project Title: The Developmentalist State on the Desert's Edge: Sovereignty and the Political Economy of ‘Empty Lands’ in Ottoman and French Mandate Syria
    Award Amount: $3,000